I know it’s probably far too late to adjust D4’s story but something I’d like to see…
Deckard Cain revived, or faked his death but it took him out of the picture for the rest of D3. (trying to save Leah’s soul or something)
Leah revived with the power of the primes that you & Deckard have to help manifest to defeat Lilith, daughter of Hatred. Deckard could become some sort of elevated Horadrim, like Medivh. I would love to see a final epic battle with Leah and my character vs. Lilith. I feel Deckard and Leah were rather cheated in D3.
Leah could have some sort of immobilizing debilitating mechanic on the boss while your character did the damage. Some ending where Leah becomes the guardian of Sanctuary, and your character ends up kind of like Heimdall, a watcher and guardian of the gates. (Like the Nephalem at the summit in D2)
Obviously this is just a precursory wish list. but it would be neat and D3 would feel less poo.
How about: Deckard Cain wakes up in an asylum, the events of Diablo III were just the nightmares of a traumatised mind. No lame black soulstones with super mega big bad super big monster, there are cartoons with better writing
Diablo has never really been about the story. It’s mainly the mood and gameplay. So I don’t really expect the story to be some grandiose plot twisting mind bender.
Still, D3 was lacking. If they can’t write a decent story it may be better for them to go the Miyazaki route and just make it incredibly obscure instead.
I figured an undead Cain would work, his soul is found and brought back to help unlock something only Cain knew.
It’s cliche but can be done right. Maybe at some point the necromancer gets Cains soul and forcefully injects it into some young guy and it doesn’t go quite right.
Plus you can always retcon whatever you want storywise and say the truth wasn’t known. Fables and legends spoke of one thing but the truth was much darker. Or some nonsense. It doesn’t truly matter as long as it doesn’t counter itself or just being done because there are no ideas.
Right? As far we know, in Diablo lore, souls can be captured, tortured, lost, detained, enslaved blah blah, but they never say anything about destroying. So Leah is out there somewhere.
I played D3 last year, and still don’t quite remember the story. Unfortunately, Diablo stories in general are quite forgettable, and that is okay because I’m fine with the gameplay coming first in these kind of games.
I do have higher hopes though for D4, as a 35 hour campaign will be painful with a garbage story. I’m just wondering how that will affect playing the other classes once you go through the campaign once, since it won’t be quick as D2, or skippable as in D3 straight to Adventure Mode.
As for the forum issue, I don’t think D4 will get a forum, so it’ll end up being open season on all Diablo forums one way or another, even if the CMs tend to prefer posting updates on D4 to the D3 forums. Not like anything else happening now anyways besides the ban wave stuff.
Other than the issues others have brought forward with D3, the way the areas and levels played out, it really felt like I was just playing a lesser D2.
Act 1 felt like D2 act 1 … the moors… monastery … Leoric etc.
Act 2 felt like D2 act 2 … the desert, market places, palace.
and so on.
It felt like Episode 7 of Star Wars, where they just tell you there’s a bigger death star, and you’re just thinking, “Wow they haven’t come up with any new stuff?”
I’ll be honest, I really enjoyed the game the first 1.5 years, probably more than I did D2 the last couple of times I played it before D3 launch. If they just had tweaked drop rates slightly better, and only gave a small nerf to original Inferno, tweaked the Legendaries like they did, it would have been good for what it was. I think I enjoyed the game best though in the time before the RoS pre-patch, but I never was a fan of the Monster Power system that kept being increased, thus splitting the playerbase further.
I only really quit playing it when my old WKC guild got me into FF14 a month after ARR launched and got hooked. Played the RoS pre-patch a bit, and thought it was neat, but never dived deep into RoS at launch due to FF14 which had a major new patch, and FFX/X-2 remaster dropping all same week as RoS did.
I think the biggest things I enjoyed with D3 were the personal loot aspect, the gold auction house made trading super easy, and the more play any build you want mentality (until sets and GRs broke that) due to no immune monsters. I’ve come to a greater appreciation with the immunities since D2R released, especially now with a dev team that I feel is working in the right direction with balance changes.
Let’s just all pretend D3 was just a hallucination caused by eating some bad shrooms, and just pick up where LoD left off.
Actually lets just forget about D4 entirely, as well as Immortal… and just make a better D2R. This time keep it closer to D2 and not add a character limit, or remove play modes.
No , this is one of my pet peeves, stop recycling characters. Just get a decent writer who can make new interesting characters. Its all right for characters to have an ending even badly written ones.
I liked Leah, and I hated the way they handled Cain’s death.
No offense to Magda, but it would have been a better story if Cain had been killed by Diablo, after witnessing Leah’s transformation.
Much more pathos than dying to an off-handed attack by a barely-known minor boss.