Because Diablo tasked her to do it as a back-up plan in Diablo Immortal.
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I like D3 but the story would be the last thing I’d point at for a reason why. That said, I didn’t think it was possible for game narratives to get worse than D3 when I originally played the campaign a decade ago but then I played D4.
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D4’s story isn’t bad. Objectively speaking it’s a better “Diablo” story than 3’s, 1’s, and even Immortal’s, and that’s in spite of not even having the titular character present even a year after releasing.
The problem is it’s episodic and dragged out with filler. THAT’s the problem. They’re using it to carrot-string us into buying annual expansions. Launch campaign basically boiled down to “what if at the end of the third LotR movie, Frodo and Sam were told by Toad ‘sorry, your princess is in another castle’ and their sacrifice was for naught?”
VoH’s campaign was just chasing the PRINCESS. Not even catching the big bad. We have to secure the important female lead first. Priorities, ya know?
Maybe next year we’ll finally actually find AND fight Mephisto, two years in! I mean ACTUALLY fight, instead of just “surviving” or “delaying” him. But who’s taking bets his final cinematic cutscene will have him taunting us with “you’re too late… my brothers are returning!”
That’s like 6 more years’ worth of content and that’s assuming they don’t step on the package to stretch it more. THIS is the problem. The story itself, while predictable as all hell, is still decent. It’s just suffering from “episodic anime filler arcs.”
And this is coming from someone who LIKES anime. I’m excited to see DB Super come back.
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I’m not really a fan of the gnostic influence. I’m also done with the moral relativism and edgy anti hero trend. The edgy emo teenager vibe is long overdone at this point.
I think the future is a return to traditional heroism or the brutal honor and ethics of something like OG Conan.
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You’re probably right. The upcoming Superman movie is supposedly a return-to-form, and I hear there’s someone working on a new live-action film adaptation of the Odyssey. As in, the actual Epic penned by Homer.
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