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Aw, Heck yeah!

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They told us the same last year.

Nevalistis said for Blizzcon 2017:

"This year, we want to give you a heads-up that while Diablo will be on the show floor, we won’t be making any new Diablo announcements. There will be a time for that at some point in the future, but that time is not now."

So what do we get now? We know they work on Diablo4, but they are not ready to announce it. So hopefully we'll get an Diablo2 Remaster for the time we have to wait. That would be my last hope.

Last year they said they had no new announcements, this year they are saying they're not gonna announce everything they're working on. Those two statements seem pretty different imo.

They'll announce something other than switch, but who knows what it will be at this point. I'm just hoping that D3 will at least be "completed."

I like the story and characters, and I don't think the story was bad, however, the way it was handled in game left much to be desired: many characters were used as quest exposition vehicles, rather than given more character development (cough, Leah) and Belial was.....not clever at all? Despite being a mastermind and the lord of lies? Most of the dialogue was achingly bad, especially from the demon lords. There were a lot of great characters and a lot of fun lore exploration, fun items with flavor text, and interesting references to other pivotal characters, but they ruined an interesting story with VERY BAD cheesy-ass dialogue that still hurts me to listen to. Worse than World of Warcraft dungeon bosses, like...come on lol.

I actually didn't even care about Leah until after I read the book 'The Order' as it does a much better job making you love and feel for that character, and consequently, her fate becomes more painful.

D2 had a story of similar caliber, I wouldn't call it better, and I'd say that a lot of people have rose-tinted glasses for D2 (myself included but I digress lol) but because of how the story was handled in game, and how it was presented to us, it is much creepier because you aren't beaten over the head with bad dialogue. It was usually delivered in story chunks from characters, and then you'd go there and see the horror for yourself.

That said, the writing and direction/character development improved 3 fold in the D3 expansion, as Malthael was a much more scary villain than Diablo, Act V more interesting and better handled overall. I can only hope they have some great writers for their next project.

Also wasn't the netflix series dis-proven? Or is there new information?

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I've been kind of wondering if Diablo really was the Prime Evil lately, to tell the truth,--

--mostly because of the whole episode with Belial.

I mean, by the time we get to Azmodan, he very clearly knows what Diablo's plan is and is fully aware of what's at stake. He tries to stop us but ultimately fails before the full power of a handful of Nephalem who he simply cannot stop. Belial, meanwhile, obviously knows... more than most... knowing about the Black Soulstone and having at least some inkling of what is going on. The fact that Azmodan knows so much suggests that, if nothing else, Belial should have been able to guess what was going on.

...so how come the Lord of Lies deceptions were so horribly bad..?

Most tellingly at all, at the end of the fight with Belial, the "illusion" vanishes and reveals that there was never a battle in the first place. The throne room is completely untouched, there's no signs of any struggle or conflict at all, and the entire battle might as well have not happened at all. Instead, there's a conveniently placed little soul for us to suck up with the Black Soulstone and some loot. We "defeat" Belial and move on.

It simply MAKES MORE SENSE if we never actually defeated Belial and his soul never actually made up the Prime Evil. Instead, we 'defeated' a Fake-Belial and gave Diablo a Fake-Belial-Soul which resulted in a Fake-Prime-Evil. Which'd explain why first Diablo and then Malthael were surprised that their power-up wasn't quite as impressive as they'd hoped it would be.

Anyway.

Probably not what actually happened but it lines up perfectly as far as I'm concerned. :-)

This is actually a pretty neat theory which would be cool if carried out correctly.

Unfortunately, it very much feels as though bad writing and implementation was ultimately responsible for Belial being such a lackluster villain (despite being kind of a cool fight). There was so much more that could have been done to convince us that the child emperor was telling the truth, but they even had the same voice actor, and we never get to flesh out our time there or even go inside the palace other than a single "throne room" with lazy design. We don't even really go into the city. In the book The Order, Belial is the puppetmaster to the book's villain, and at the end they make mention of the child that is to be crowned emperor of caldeum. So it seems like this was in Belial's future plan.

I'm hoping the writing will really improve for the new game, even more than it improved for Reaper of Souls.

That said, Mephisto is my favorite Lord of Hell, and I really hop we get another chance to fight him, and I very much enjoy these little lore write-ups :>

VERY excited! Would have been more comforting if this vid had come out a year ago lol, but still VERY excited! Looking forward to Blizzcon and Gamescon!

Most looking forward to? Pretty much gonna need some kind of Diablo announcement or I'm gonna be mad for another year lol. But I'll probably be buying a virtual ticket as there's always some fun to be had. :>

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So close to Blizzcon and it still has D3 logo

That's a placeholder cover lol.

Slice me off a piece of that LORE!

Welcome to the fold! I'll probably be playing either Demon Hunter or Necromancer again because I'm grimdark trash.

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When I replayed this and could have sworn the guard said Westmarch Prisoners transfer TO Kingsport. My derp. I have failed you ;-;

Very nice!

A minor correction though: we do NOT visit Kingsport during the events of Reaper of Souls, it is stated by a guard in the square that Kingsport's prisoners had been transferred to Westmarch due to current events. We only visit the Westmarch prison to find Lyndon's brother unfortunately already dead. However there was some patch notes that spoke of a yet-to-be-implemented follower quest where we DO visit Kingsport and confront Rhea about her supposed crimes.

Great write-up! And I hope to God we get to see some of these places someday...

It would have been great to be a real event but since it's fake it feels more like a middle finger lol. What was the point.

If this ever pops over to Europe and the US PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE keep it cosmetic only.

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Somewhat disappointed to hear that the so-called "exclusive" transmogrification appearances are actually not exclusive at all, but will be handed out again at some point in the future.

Not a massive deal.. but a little disappointing.

Can you imagine the outrage from players who knew all about seasonal transmogs and refused to play seasons and don't even like the transmogs? Psych 101. People want what they can't have, even if they'll never make use of it. Blizz knows this. People STILL rage over the Blizzcon transmogs, despite knowing that people paid for them.