On reddit people discussing Lilith in D4 agree D3 is terrible. Reasons why

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It’s interesting to see what people discussing Diablo have to say outside of this forum. Diablo 3 seems to be considered a massive let down to almost everyone who played it. To such an extent that people wish they would just pretend that D3 never happened and start from there.

Most mentioned issues:

Terrible story
To cartoony/not scary/bosses are like cartoon villians with bad dialogue

Some quotes:

Diablo 1 and 2 had heavy themes of Christianity whereas Diablo 3 went to high fantasy a la WoW. I don’t like D3 and was disappointed.

The story in D3 was so bad that anyone who had a part in writing it should be banned from the industry.

The one advantage of having a new game, they’ll have to go quite a distance to [Edited by Blizzard] things up even worse than the D3 story team did. I got tired of the taunting before I even got to A4 with Azmodan’s dumbassery.

The dialogue and actions of the bosses in D3 destroyed the threat of Hell by showing them as absolute idiots.

Let’s hope they embrace the darkness.
They better do it… I cannot stand another Wow CARTOON [Edited by Blizzard]… IM really getting tired of it.

“You intend to destroy the hell Rift? You will not succeed!”

5 seconds later…

Bring back Deckard Cain!
Seriously. Just hit the undo button and we’ll act like it never happened.
Just hit undo on D3 story.

DARK GOTHIC STYLE !!!

i hope diablo 4 is nothing like diablo 3
we all do.

I’d be completely okay with D4 blatantly retconning D3 entirely.

Also this new article on pcgamer

PCgamer article: blizzcon-2019-predictions/

Diablo 4 will return to the freaky-deaky look of Diablo 2

Because if it doesn’t, I’m out. Diablo 3 was hell by way of Disneyland—only without all the singing. The more distance I get from it, the more retroactively disappointed I am. I want Diablo 4, which I’m fully expecting to be announced at BlizzCon, to look like isometric puke and guts and blood, a nasty glass compression of dark, chunky fluids and damage numbers. Blizzard won’t go that far, no doubt, but I hope we’ll inch closer to something fun to look at again. Diablo 3 was Sunday school fanfic slathered in petroleum jelly and lit by a fun uncle’s industrial maglite while he goes “oooh” and "lights off at eight, everyone . " We need to go back. — James Davenport

Forum Mod Edit: This post has been edited by a moderator due to masked language as it is in violation of the Code of Conduct.

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They can say whatever they want… nothing change the fact that D3 is the pc action game most sold in history, rest is internet diarrhea, included your post about something that don`t even exist.

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I love you Iron :wink: .

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What? I’ve agreed with all of this for years. Why would I argue against something I agree with? Almost everyone outside of this forum agrees with it.

It’s only a small number of fanboys left who still play who try to argue with those who come here talking sense about how bad D3 is.

D3 only obtained that status because everyone expected it to be another Diablo 2 smash hit. It wasn’t, but people can’t unbuy their copies. If you can’t see that D3 is considered a massive let down to most of the gaming community you have to be deluding yourself. Doesn’t matter how many boxes it sold. People think it sucks. Don’t believe it? Just read what people say about it outside this forum. And often on this forum.

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A pretty big small number of fanboys sure do play the game still and if they hate it, must be a gluten for punishment.

I don’t see why “other people” go to this forum to state what’s already been posted 1000 times and each post gets the same responses from the fan boys. “Y’all” must be those other people who also tweet stupidity and always claim to know more than other people.

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I don’t blame you

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The US all classes ladder only tracks the top 7000 players for Season 18. Number 7000 is a GR100 Barb.

Yes I hope D4 is an awesome game, but there are still a hella lotta people playing D3.

This is, you know, kinda the D3 fan site so you should expect fans to post. Granted, it attracts a lot of trolls, but hey it gives you a voice :slight_smile:

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D3 story is pretty bad.

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I hate Diablo 3 with a passion, but I gotta admit that as much as I think the story sucked, the basic outline and the idea for it wasn’t that bad. It’s just the terribly bad writing and cringey dialogue and aspects of certain characters that made it awful. Horrible, horrible execution overall.

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Seriously, compare the quality of the dialogue and atmosphere in these two to anything in Diablo 3 and tell me Diablo 3 didn’t seem like it was made for a PG 13 Pixar movie.

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D4 begins with Deckard Cain waking from the nightmare of D3.

That’s never been done.

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I dont want a d4 i dont want to lose my paragons just fix this game, make more builds more divertisity and more balance, also make more things to do and we are fine

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They had to make Diablo Immortal to try and recover from the messy story gap between D2 LoD and D3.

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by the time the D2 ladder season is finished, there will be no less than 10,000 clvl 99s across the realms.

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Just wanted to quote this and say “so true”. Story got Metzen’d and that’s sorta okay but dialogues and the plot in D3 oh man

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Oi, I hope I don’t sound salty, but, to be honest - I agree that D3 wasn’t amazing. The cutscenes on this website look dark, brutal, and ready to kick my ***. Then it goes to the in game graphics and it’s more like Mario bro’s than D3. (I fear Doom Eternal is making the same mistake…) Personally I feel like I agree with many of the reddit comments the OP quoted. I agree that many were disappointed, myself included. Seemed Barbs ended up “useless” (to quote others) in MP. I haven’t kept up with it much to be honest.

I hope I don’t get too much hate, cuz I semi like the Diablo series (I liked 1, but I rage quit D2 after Duriel thwacked my apparently badly built Necro with his pinky toe…). I liked the atmosphere, I liked the concept art in the art books, and I absolutely loved my D3 Collectors Edition loot… But man… dat RNG loot system = yikes.

I’ll be keeping an eye out for D4 though :smiley:

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Please no…

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I’m sorry, but… what?

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When the Necro xpac released there were at minimum 3.5 Million (IIRC it was a bit over 3.8M) players logged in to the US region alone. D3 is hardly dead. The Public chat room display # has since been frozen so you can’t see the fluctuations any more though.

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If a psychiatrist analysed anyone that kept doing something they did not like; and assessing by some comments, it is apparently painful, there is a term they use.

It’s called ‘A Masochist.’

Crapping on anyone that provided you with entertainment that you apparently hate because you choose to stay is what? Normal?
I have no idea, but it’s not a good look.

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