Hey guys, just wanted to share what I've been hoping D3 will have. Almost like a Christmas present, I've been hoping and wishing D3 will be filled with this. Its small and simple but important nonetheless... I'm talking about Cameos.
As in, previously seen characters, items and areas that return again.
Like in D2 when you go back to Tristram.. only to see the city you once saved, burned and pillaged. Meeting an old friend again, a dead Griswold, that you gotta beat the shit out of!. Then finding Wirt's leg, which at first you don't know why the hell you'd keep, discovering later on that its needed to create a portal to a secret cow level!
Now aside from the cow level part everything makes sense. It helps the player immerse himself into the game by making a story with a past, making the present all the more interesting. Thats why I love that part of D2, the way they bring stuff back from D1, is just awesome imo. This is what I am hoping D3 will have, a bunch of moments that make you think and remember stuff in previous Diablo games.
Personally what I'd like to see are the classes from D2 make a return as NPCs or something. Going back to Lut Golein or Kurast. The return of the chat-gem and having it be useful for something! Having items like the Hellforge Hammer or the Horadric Staff as a unique(and powerful) items would also be wicked.
So guys tell me, what stuff from D1 & D2 would you like to see return ?
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I think it'd be cool when you go into the first dungeon (the original dungeon from Diablo 1) and you see the Butcher's room and stuff like that, maybe his corpse on the ground.
I'd like to see Wirt's leg as an item again. I want to see the Stone of Jordan return (not necessarily with the same stats), hmmm and well..I don't know about items really...
I'd like to see a few of the old chars, that would be pretty cool. I want to see Gheed again, and Charsi, ooo Charsi :wub:....They can be dead or alive, friend or foe, hehe.
hmmmm i think it would be neat to see some NPC's wearing some of the special sets from D2 like mavs, tals or ik with minimal art updating, just simple glow
i like your idea of the hammer and staff
And even though she wont be handling durability it would be neat to see charsi selling weapons or gheed with some way to gamble some gold out of you i like that decard cains still gonna be around somewhat too
I'd like to see the dark wanderer make a comeback, either as an broken-shell-of-former-self NPC, or a fully given-in-to-evil badassified boss.
The Dark Wanderer is Diablo, and we killed him, remember? ^^
I haven't played DII for so long that I forgot the deets.. I seem to remember he left the wanderer's body and took full form, and that maybe there's a chance the dark wanderer lived. I mean, he was a serious badass in D1 and if anyone could live through that mess then he can.
Your valid (if a bit pedantic) point aside.. I WANT TO SEE THE GODDAMN DARK WANDERER AGAIN AND I'M WILLING TO VIOLATE LORE IN ORDER TO DO SO.
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I would like to see the Cow King return, maybe as a Zombie Cow along with all his zombie cow minions. What I mean by this is they all retain their names like Hell Bovine and Cow King and their forms with rotting flesh. They came back for vengeance to udderly kill you.
*Hears Dolaiim, an image forms in mind of him raping the book of lore.*
Oh God, make him stop, MAKE HIM STOP!!
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• Demonic Priests that summons souls into a pile of blood and goo, transforming into a walking undead legion of undead, hearing wispers and screams from Wirt and other NPC's from D1+D2
• The assassin waited in the D2 game and hinting the Assassin would be a playable character in the expansion, how about something like this? Hinting from an NPC, new or old doesnt matter. They said that they might take some of the old D2 characters if they made an expansion.. Scene: Magician envy the rumours about the young wizard. "I will show her what true magic is as soon as I am ready with my writing on the new spells!"
• Monument of the Three Brothers as soon as we arrive a place that they might called "home" in the past.
• A piece of useless stones in a quest that spells "Ral Ort Tal" if you put them together. Giving you 10 goldcoins and a +1 skill from a random questgiver.
• A potion of health that you might drink and spit out " Yuuk! This is some old shit!" - No effect on you what so ever!
• Hear a drunk in a bar, speaking of his grandfather, who lived in tristham, who altso was a drunk.. Stories about a butcher, and a warrior that slayed him in his own dungeon.
• Finding out that Leah used a portal to find you within the game. Asking how she did that she could just reply: "I used the last portal scroll ever made!"
• Talking to a cow.. "Yes.. It is STILL a cow", "Yepp im thirsty, but that cow might be related to the fameous dirty cow king."
• Reading something about Lysander and the elixir that made into the shampoo-industry..
It's kinda hard to see who could come back after twenty years. Old man Cain is definitely making a comeback, but apart from that, nobody else seems to make logical sense (in terms of "who would be important to the story, not just an NPC who you buy shit from).
I'd be stoked if old D2 classes came back and made cameos, kind of like "experienced warriors" who guide you along the way. Cliche as shit, I know, but I think it could bring things together really nicely if they're put in correctly, not awkwardly, and you get to have a conversation with them.
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I hate the way you cling to ignorance and pass it off as innocence
I think it'd be cool when you go into the first dungeon (the original dungeon from Diablo 1) and you see the Butcher's room and stuff like that, maybe his corpse on the ground.
Yeah man, thats a great idea. Maybe even encountering the Butcher again that would be sweet.
hmmmm i think it would be neat to see some NPC's wearing some of the special sets from D2 like mavs, tals or ik with minimal art updating, just simple glow
Sets! Yeah hope they don't forgot to bring back a few of those too. Like you said, Tals would be cool for the wizard, maybe Trang Oul's for the WD(:D) or even a revamped Immortal King set for the Barb.. would be epic as hell!
I'd like to see the dark wanderer make a comeback, either as an broken-shell-of-former-self NPC, or a fully given-in-to-evil badassified boss.
Sadly, I think the DarkWanderer is dead :(. I admit he was a pretty creepy and interesting character. I myself wish he could return.. well we never know, there might be a new DarkWanderer... (Tyreal maybe? :P)
I would like to see the Cow King return, maybe as a Zombie Cow along with all his zombie cow minions. What I mean by this is they all retain their names like Hell Bovine and Cow King and their forms with rotting flesh. They came back for vengeance to udderly kill you.
Haha! I admit that d'be a fucking awesome cameo! D3 better have cows in it.. i'd be pissed if there wasnt.
• A piece of useless stones in a quest that spells "Ral Ort Tal" if you put them together. Giving you 10 goldcoins and a +1 skill from a random questgiver.
I too hope the 'old runes' will be atleast talked about and not fully forgotten. (Cuz of the new skill rune system..)
I knew you guys would come up with cool ideas! Keep em coming
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He never left the body, he transformed it, and then we destroyed it.
And if he would have survived, somehow - which is impossible, then we wouldn't be dealing with the Dark Wanderer, it would be the D1 Warrior.
Good points sir, I concede. I just re-purchased DII and the expansion so I can play through, cause the amount of lore-leakage that's befallen me is not even remotely acceptable. Plus what the hell else am I gonna play, Black Ops? yeah RIGHT.
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"Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions."
-Thomas Jefferson
I'd like to see Jordan as a super powerful quest-mage-escort npc quest as a throwback to the stone of jordan
I'd also like to see adria the witch back somehow, if cain can survive that long, then she can, and she's far to crafty to get killed in the wholesale slaughter of tristram.
Possibly meet the Real (Slim) Summoner
I think that they could mimic Fable and have a graveyard in New Tristram, and each headstone has something witty written on it, for characters that they couldn't fit in to the game to make a cameo appearance. Especially for long dead but much beloved characters like wirt, griswold, Arkaine (from Arkaine's valour D1), Lachdanan could make a showing, being one of Leorics knights.
Anyways, Diablo 2 already had many many cameos, and D3 will probably have more. I look forward to blizzard because they've always been good with easter eggs.
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"A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B."
What the fuck is up with this ridiculously ridiculous idea of people coming back as zombies...?
And I'll be pissed if they pursue that idea of everybody in D2 having gone mad. It's just horribly lame and nonsensical.
Guys capable of throwing magical hammers around their heads/reviving demons/summoning lightning going mad because Baal vomited his guts on their boots? Traumatic yes but not that much.
Back on topic-
We could meet Butcher's girlfriend and kill her. That would be nice.
Cameos are pretty cool. And I think Bashiok should get a Fallen Shaman named after him. Just saying. Its a perfectly good name for a Fallen Shaman anyways.
And on a related note, in Borderlands theres a monster named Rakanishu. Just saying.
As in, previously seen characters, items and areas that return again.
Like in D2 when you go back to Tristram.. only to see the city you once saved, burned and pillaged. Meeting an old friend again, a dead Griswold, that you gotta beat the shit out of!. Then finding Wirt's leg, which at first you don't know why the hell you'd keep, discovering later on that its needed to create a portal to a secret cow level!
Now aside from the cow level part everything makes sense. It helps the player immerse himself into the game by making a story with a past, making the present all the more interesting. Thats why I love that part of D2, the way they bring stuff back from D1, is just awesome imo. This is what I am hoping D3 will have, a bunch of moments that make you think and remember stuff in previous Diablo games.
Personally what I'd like to see are the classes from D2 make a return as NPCs or something. Going back to Lut Golein or Kurast. The return of the chat-gem and having it be useful for something! Having items like the Hellforge Hammer or the Horadric Staff as a unique(and powerful) items would also be wicked.
So guys tell me, what stuff from D1 & D2 would you like to see return ?
Embrace this moment. Remember...
We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion.
It appears as if King Leoric is back for sure.
Secondly, yes cameos pwn!!
I'd like to see Wirt's leg as an item again. I want to see the Stone of Jordan return (not necessarily with the same stats), hmmm and well..I don't know about items really...
I'd like to see a few of the old chars, that would be pretty cool. I want to see Gheed again, and Charsi, ooo Charsi :wub:....They can be dead or alive, friend or foe, hehe.
i like your idea of the hammer and staff
And even though she wont be handling durability it would be neat to see charsi selling weapons or gheed with some way to gamble some gold out of you i like that decard cains still gonna be around somewhat too
-Thomas Jefferson
I haven't played DII for so long that I forgot the deets.. I seem to remember he left the wanderer's body and took full form, and that maybe there's a chance the dark wanderer lived. I mean, he was a serious badass in D1 and if anyone could live through that mess then he can.
Your valid (if a bit pedantic) point aside.. I WANT TO SEE THE GODDAMN DARK WANDERER AGAIN AND I'M WILLING TO VIOLATE LORE IN ORDER TO DO SO.
-Thomas Jefferson
*Hears Dolaiim, an image forms in mind of him raping the book of lore.*
Oh God, make him stop, MAKE HIM STOP!!
hahahahaaaaaa
• The assassin waited in the D2 game and hinting the Assassin would be a playable character in the expansion, how about something like this? Hinting from an NPC, new or old doesnt matter. They said that they might take some of the old D2 characters if they made an expansion.. Scene: Magician envy the rumours about the young wizard. "I will show her what true magic is as soon as I am ready with my writing on the new spells!"
• Monument of the Three Brothers as soon as we arrive a place that they might called "home" in the past.
• A piece of useless stones in a quest that spells "Ral Ort Tal" if you put them together. Giving you 10 goldcoins and a +1 skill from a random questgiver.
• A potion of health that you might drink and spit out " Yuuk! This is some old shit!" - No effect on you what so ever!
• Hear a drunk in a bar, speaking of his grandfather, who lived in tristham, who altso was a drunk.. Stories about a butcher, and a warrior that slayed him in his own dungeon.
• Finding out that Leah used a portal to find you within the game. Asking how she did that she could just reply: "I used the last portal scroll ever made!"
• Talking to a cow.. "Yes.. It is STILL a cow", "Yepp im thirsty, but that cow might be related to the fameous dirty cow king."
• Reading something about Lysander and the elixir that made into the shampoo-industry..
....
Wait, what?
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I'd be stoked if old D2 classes came back and made cameos, kind of like "experienced warriors" who guide you along the way. Cliche as shit, I know, but I think it could bring things together really nicely if they're put in correctly, not awkwardly, and you get to have a conversation with them.
I hate the way you cling to ignorance and pass it off as innocence
I agree. Wirt's Leg and the Soj definitely need to return somehow. Those items were just too awesome to be forgotten.
Sets! Yeah hope they don't forgot to bring back a few of those too. Like you said, Tals would be cool for the wizard, maybe Trang Oul's for the WD(:D) or even a revamped Immortal King set for the Barb.. would be epic as hell!
Sadly, I think the DarkWanderer is dead :(. I admit he was a pretty creepy and interesting character. I myself wish he could return.. well we never know, there might be a new DarkWanderer... (Tyreal maybe? :P)
Haha! I admit that d'be a fucking awesome cameo! D3 better have cows in it.. i'd be pissed if there wasnt.
I too hope the 'old runes' will be atleast talked about and not fully forgotten. (Cuz of the new skill rune system..)
I knew you guys would come up with cool ideas! Keep em coming
Embrace this moment. Remember...
We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion.
Good points sir, I concede. I just re-purchased DII and the expansion so I can play through, cause the amount of lore-leakage that's befallen me is not even remotely acceptable. Plus what the hell else am I gonna play, Black Ops? yeah RIGHT.
-Thomas Jefferson
Man every time I come across that I get the shivers again, especially Meph's epic speech.
I'd also like to see adria the witch back somehow, if cain can survive that long, then she can, and she's far to crafty to get killed in the wholesale slaughter of tristram.
Possibly meet the Real (Slim) Summoner
I think that they could mimic Fable and have a graveyard in New Tristram, and each headstone has something witty written on it, for characters that they couldn't fit in to the game to make a cameo appearance. Especially for long dead but much beloved characters like wirt, griswold, Arkaine (from Arkaine's valour D1), Lachdanan could make a showing, being one of Leorics knights.
Anyways, Diablo 2 already had many many cameos, and D3 will probably have more. I look forward to blizzard because they've always been good with easter eggs.
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Well, fighting the paladin, sorc, amazon and the necromancer would be enough
Don't make me smack you upside the head, Jamoose.
What the fuck is up with this ridiculously ridiculous idea of people coming back as zombies...?
And I'll be pissed if they pursue that idea of everybody in D2 having gone mad. It's just horribly lame and nonsensical.
Guys capable of throwing magical hammers around their heads/reviving demons/summoning lightning going mad because Baal vomited his guts on their boots? Traumatic yes but not that much.
Back on topic-
We could meet Butcher's girlfriend and kill her. That would be nice.
And on a related note, in Borderlands theres a monster named Rakanishu. Just saying.
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