Has a Thread been made on what kind of bosses we want to fight (I'm not just talking end game, but rather all the bosses)? I don't know if one has, but I don't see one up and I think it's important (if I'm wrong, some admin please delete this thread quickly and cleanly).
So what kind of bosses would be cool to fight?
I was thinking that for a random quest-chain, you could end up fighting the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4_Horsemen). That would include the horseman of War, Conquest, Famine, and Death. The Horseman of War could be just out for wanton carnage, the Horseman of Conquest could have sacked some city or town that you have to liberate from him, The Horseman of Famine would be out burning fields or bringing down swarms of locusts, and the Horseman of Death is well, Death. They could even be servants of Imperius and/or Malthael (the two angels who want humanity out of the way). In some versions of the legend, conquest is replaced by Pestilence, which could work too. Any other ideas?
That would be pretty cool, we already have Gluttony as a boss, so the knights could fit in... certainly on their horses... it could be a big fat side quest.
I fail to see a point in any other crying on the account of something being similar to WoW yet I put up with it.
You make it sound like people are complaining just because things are similar to WoW. I haven't seen any of that. Believe me, nobody gives a flying crap if the game contains features similar to WoW or anything else...we simply want an enjoyable game.
It has nothing to do with WoW because those people would be just as irked if they were copying bad features from any other game. The reason WoW is constantly being brought up is simply because so many of us did not think WoW was a good game, and so many of the features are being copied over.
If WoW had any aspects we really liked, we'd be happy to see them brought over.
yeah, they had 4 horsemen in WoW, but did they have themes for them. After looking at it and looking it up, I don't think so.
Anyway, anyone else have ideas for bosses. Come on, let's not just talk about my lame ideas, lets hear your good ones.
Yours wasn't a lame idea..the 4 horseman of the apocalypse sound pretty cool, and reminds me a lot of the Ancients we fought in D2. My only concern is that I think they should be trying to build their own mythology for the Diablo universe rather than simply juxtaposing various fragments from different sources.
Of course, they have been happy to do that so far...mixing Diablo from Christian culture with Mephisto, the demon-spawn from Faust, to Baal...an ambiguous term for a high demon in christian mythology related to many other religions as well...Duriel and Andarial I think are completely made up.
Anyway, they could just continue on that trend..picking various evil demons from other cultures, theres a huge list of them here:
Yours wasn't a lame idea..the 4 horseman of the apocalypse sound pretty cool, and reminds me a lot of the Ancients we fought in D2. My only concern is that I think they should be trying to build their own mythology for the Diablo universe rather than simply juxtaposing various fragments from different sources.
Of course, they have been happy to do that so far...mixing Diablo from Christian culture with Mephisto, the demon-spawn from Faust, to Baal...an ambiguous term for a high demon in christian mythology related to many other religions as well...Duriel and Andarial I think are completely made up.
Anyway, they could just continue on that trend..picking various evil demons from other cultures, theres a huge list of them here:
Just hope they dont touch the greco-roman mythology side of it...
I'd be worried about the Greco-Roman part, they did say that they use God of War as a model. Of course that might refer more to gameplay than bosses.
Good list you found. It would take a lot of time to look at it in depth. Would you say Djinn and Ifrits are appropriate? They may be outside Diablo's darkness, but they could tie in to Aronoch well enough, especially if they were Nephalem/Edeyrem.
Now that someone mentioned the Ancients. I need to stress that it was the only REAL boss encounter in the ENTIRE game. I definitely want to see boss encounters where you fight 3-5 completely different 'bosses' with different tactics at the same time. That's one of the rare ways to incorporate tactical and challenging encounters in a P&C hack and slash game.
There were four horsemen of Apocalypse in heXen II The Beginning of the End.
heXen II The Beginning of the End came out in 1998.
WoW came out in 2004...
So shut up about it being stolen from WoW, please. 4 horsemen is a mythical thing, never been tied to any particular game. Now lets stop putting demons into games because WoW has a few.
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I fail to see a point in any other crying on the account of something being similar to WoW yet I put up with it.
You're the one doing the crying...? You're saying "It's been done in WoW"?
So shut up about it being stolen from WoW, please. 4 horsemen is a mythical thing, never been tied to any particular game. Now lets stop putting demons into games because WoW has a few.You're the one doing the crying...? You're saying "It's been done in WoW"?
Don't be an idiot mate. The fact is that people cried about the purple colour of the item names seen in D3. Geddit? Geddit? Let's put something that remotely resembles something that we saw in WoW and fans will be happy?
I responded to your flame. Get a grip. To stop flaming I would need to start. You started flaming by acting like an idiot.
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First of all, don't talk to me like that. Second of all, yes, people cried about the purple color. And you just joined them by crying about wow.
I didn't complain. Just pointed out that it's out of the question to bring about another thing that may be vaguely connected with a WoW feature. Crybabies cry, I try to be nice to them. See how I'm nice to you?
I responded to your flame. Get a grip. To stop flaming I would need to start. You started flaming by acting like an idiot.
I didn't complain. Just pointed out that it's out of the question to bring about another thing that may be vaguely connected with a WoW feature. Crybabies cry, I try to be nice to them. See how I'm nice to you?
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I responded to your flame. Get a grip. To stop flaming I would need to start. You started flaming by acting like an idiot.
I didn't complain. Just pointed out that it's out of the question to bring about another thing that may be vaguely connected with a WoW feature. Crybabies cry, I try to be nice to them. See how I'm nice to you?
I did not flame you ANYWHERE in this thread.
This is what I said about this idea: "That would be pretty cool, we already have Gluttony as a boss, so the knights could fit in... certainly on their horses... it could be a big fat side quest."
But, you said "Been done. In WoW."
So, I asked you what do you mean by that. OK, it's done in WoW, now what? You started talking about people who complain about WoW and graphics and it had nothing to do with you comment at all.
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So what kind of bosses would be cool to fight?
I was thinking that for a random quest-chain, you could end up fighting the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4_Horsemen). That would include the horseman of War, Conquest, Famine, and Death. The Horseman of War could be just out for wanton carnage, the Horseman of Conquest could have sacked some city or town that you have to liberate from him, The Horseman of Famine would be out burning fields or bringing down swarms of locusts, and the Horseman of Death is well, Death. They could even be servants of Imperius and/or Malthael (the two angels who want humanity out of the way). In some versions of the legend, conquest is replaced by Pestilence, which could work too. Any other ideas?
It might be fun to fight them all at the same time...maybe that's what you had in mind.
Sounds gay then.
I fail to see a point here.
You make it sound like people are complaining just because things are similar to WoW. I haven't seen any of that. Believe me, nobody gives a flying crap if the game contains features similar to WoW or anything else...we simply want an enjoyable game.
It has nothing to do with WoW because those people would be just as irked if they were copying bad features from any other game. The reason WoW is constantly being brought up is simply because so many of us did not think WoW was a good game, and so many of the features are being copied over.
If WoW had any aspects we really liked, we'd be happy to see them brought over.
yeah, they had 4 horsemen in WoW, but did they have themes for them. After looking at it and looking it up, I don't think so.
Anyway, anyone else have ideas for bosses. Come on, let's not just talk about my lame ideas, lets hear your good ones.
Yours wasn't a lame idea..the 4 horseman of the apocalypse sound pretty cool, and reminds me a lot of the Ancients we fought in D2. My only concern is that I think they should be trying to build their own mythology for the Diablo universe rather than simply juxtaposing various fragments from different sources.
Of course, they have been happy to do that so far...mixing Diablo from Christian culture with Mephisto, the demon-spawn from Faust, to Baal...an ambiguous term for a high demon in christian mythology related to many other religions as well...Duriel and Andarial I think are completely made up.
Anyway, they could just continue on that trend..picking various evil demons from other cultures, theres a huge list of them here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_demons
Just hope they dont touch the greco-roman mythology side of it...
I'd be worried about the Greco-Roman part, they did say that they use God of War as a model. Of course that might refer more to gameplay than bosses.
Good list you found. It would take a lot of time to look at it in depth. Would you say Djinn and Ifrits are appropriate? They may be outside Diablo's darkness, but they could tie in to Aronoch well enough, especially if they were Nephalem/Edeyrem.
heXen II The Beginning of the End came out in 1998.
WoW came out in 2004...
So shut up about it being stolen from WoW, please. 4 horsemen is a mythical thing, never been tied to any particular game. Now lets stop putting demons into games because WoW has a few. You're the one doing the crying...? You're saying "It's been done in WoW"?
First of all, don't talk to me like that. Second of all, yes, people cried about the purple color. And you just joined them by crying about wow.
I didn't complain. Just pointed out that it's out of the question to bring about another thing that may be vaguely connected with a WoW feature. Crybabies cry, I try to be nice to them. See how I'm nice to you?
Want a cookie?
If you want to arrange it
This world you can change it
If we could somehow make this
Christmas thing last
By helping a neighbor
Or even a stranger
And to know who needs help
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This is what I said about this idea: "That would be pretty cool, we already have Gluttony as a boss, so the knights could fit in... certainly on their horses... it could be a big fat side quest."
But, you said "Been done. In WoW."
So, I asked you what do you mean by that. OK, it's done in WoW, now what? You started talking about people who complain about WoW and graphics and it had nothing to do with you comment at all.