Many have speculated on who we will be fighting in Diablo III. It has already been said that a large part of the story revolves around two demons and their impending invasion on Sanctuary. We later found out that these two demons are in fact Belial and Azmodan. We even got news that Belial will be in Act II of the game. However, this left a lot of room of who exactly are the end Act bosses and who we will be fighting throughout the game.
On G4TV's X-Play today, Adam Sessler had an interview with Rob Pardo, Executive Vice-President at Blizzard, who gave some information out about Diablo III. Most of the information he talked about was stuff that we learned about at the press event that Sixen and Force went to. While most of the information is stuff that we already knew, including no release date for beta yet, he did add one little extra bit that gives us a clue on this game.
Official Blizzard Quote:
We do have a full playable Alpha state. So, everyone inside the company can play all the way through and kill Diablo.
That's right. Whether he meant to or not, Rob Pardo told us that Big D himself, Diablo, will be the climax of the game. So, it is more than likely that we will be battling Azmodan and Belial before hand and finishing our journey with yet one more epic battle against the Lord of Terror. Just what shape he comes in and how they explain his return is still up in the air, but Diablo III will not be without Diablo.
On a side note of this information, we also know that Blizzard is planning at least a couple expansions for Diablo III so where will the story go from here if Diablo is once again destroyed?
Special thanks to chemedeiros for the source and direct word for word quote.
Official Blizzard Quote:
We do have a full running Alpha right now. Everyone in the office can play through to Diablo.
Seeing as he says we can play through to Diablo and not necessarily that we get to fight Diablo, any chance that while we will see Diablo in the game,we do not actually fight him until a possible expansion. It may be a stretch but I am just thinking along the lines of D2 where we see Baal in a bunch of cinematics, and his presence definitely plays a large role in the story line, but we don't fight him until the LOD expansion.
Maybe Mephisto and Baal will make a comeback also?
And now we can kill the 3 prime demons, again, but this time really really for real. Again.
Great write-up Scyber~ I bet you Jay facepalmed when he heard Rob slip that tidbit :lol:.
Assuming he did indeed mean Diablo will be the last fight, I'm honestly glad we get him out of the way in the original release. With Diablo presumably out of the way, there are numerous possibilities for who will show up as bosses in future expansions. I have no doubt the fight with Diablo will be amazing, and I'm so freakin' excited to see how he looks in game :d3d:. The Siege Breaker blew my mind.. and he's not even an Act boss..
And yea I can only imagine how amazing the Diablo battle is going to be when the Siege Breaker crescendo (elephant moving through the shadows) and climax were so amazing.
Even though I mentioned that we may not fight Diablo in the original release, I agree completely with you Winged. I hope we fight him in the original release, because it allows them to open up the expansions more(or so I think), and also cannot wait to finally see what they have planned for us against him.
Edit: Also, to reinforce this, again, it says "To Diablo", so if you can play TO diablo, but we know the game isn't complete yet, then what's after diablo, to specifically state that you can only play "To Diablo"?
Just pointing out, the time in which he slips is at 2:50.
Also, I can't tell if he said, "and kill" or, "until".. Both have two syllables, and "k" - "t" sound very alike..