If D5 is ever made, I have one request for the writers:
Please do NOT make a precociously plucky late-teens/early 20s know-it-all female one of your main characters.
Nobody liked Leah in D3, yet you wrote Neyrelle for D4. Why? I’d already had way more than enough of her from the main D4 campaign (which was way better than the listless, aimless VoH campaign), but you doubled down and make EVERYTHING about her.
I was so tired of hearing her yammering that I turned off sound for the last 25% of the campain… just clicking through dialogue without even reading it. At that point I just didn’t care anymore and wanted to get it over with.
I have no problem with “strong female characters”, but I do have a problem with poorly written ones.
Neyrelle sucks because of the writing. The entire campaign is bad overall. IT had nothing to do with her being female, younger, or anthing. Bad writing is bad writing.
Except that the main D4 campaign was way better than VoH and Neyrelle was still a little annoying… just that she was featured less in it. Maybe I had PTSD from Leah and felt that Neyrelle was too much like her.
I can’t disagree with your point overall though. I’ll watch any show/movie and play any game with any gender/whatever and if the writing is good, I’m good. However I do think that teens-to-early-twenties demographic (male or female) has a higher bar to clear as far as writing and character development goes. Too often they’re just plain dumb and annoying.
I felt bad for Leah. She was cute and likable, instead of annoying and bossy like Neyrelle. They should bring her back as a sexy, cute, mentally unstable Demon.
LOL at all the people flagging my post, all butthurt for expressing an opinion that is widely held in the Diablo community. Sad that people can’t handle opinions that differ from theirs, and like petulant children, try to silence people.
If you weren’t hiding under a rock during the D3 years, Leah was a deeply unpopular character… and then they doubled down on that in D4 “casting” someone from the same demographic, along with much of the same annoying personality.
imo if D3 or D4 were good nobody even cared about Leah or Neyrelle, imo nobody really care about plot in ARPG. Could be annoying yeah, but if the game is good who cares.
Their personalities, powers, and skills are vastly different, though. Leah was kind, selfless, and cared about others outside of her social group, had trouble understanding Deckard’s writings, and was murdered by her evil ***** of a mother. Her magic came from birth and was trained in it by an actual witch.
Neyrelle endangered the world for her own ego, was a know-it-all little snot who magically knew everything about the Horadrim without being an official member or tutored by one, resisted Mephisto for some reason (he likely let her do so, but still), and mastered Horadric magic in about 10 seconds.
There are times when I feel like just a traveler. Wow, we are the hero of the game, bathed in Lilith’s blood. We were supposed to be admired and not ignored by people. No one recognizes our struggle.
The more they make for D4 the more I feel like its D3.5 and we havent even seen a good D4 yet. Too early to talk about D5 with D4 being a burning dumpers fire. WE still have dupes going on a month into season 6…
I liked Leah. I was disappointed that the spirit realm that was introduced in VOH didn’t let us interact with past heroes of Sanctuary. Would have loved a quest line with Deckard Cain and us redeeming Leah’s spirit after becoming Diablo. Leah was a victim, she had no knowledge of her being The Wander’s daughter, or being manipulated by her mother to become the new host for Diablo. I felt sorry for what happened to her in D3.
Neyrelle and bald guy/Prava storylines feel very disjointed. Perhaps the past seasons revamp took resources from the expansion development team. seems like they cut short the expansion than initially planned. Bald guy narrative is supermeh, bring too little to the Prava storyline.