Diablo needed a vessel to carry out his wickedness. Upon conception, Leah was already a witch, inheriting the traits of her parents. This was nothing Leah could have foreseen or planned herself, so why all the fan hatred?
As a young child, she came to be under the care of “Uncle” Deckard Cain, from whom she learned to be a scholar of all things demonic. She had her own powers, too, but not yet fully developed. She was seen as someone trustworthy and very intelligent, hopefully being groomed to fight against the Prime Evils. Alas, she was further corrupted by Diablo and Lilith (her cousin), supposedly being killed and banished to the underworld. However, nothing physical remained of Leah – only her ethereal spirit remained in limbo (where, no one knows).
How could Leah be reintroduced to the continuing story of Diablo 4?
She could be a choice (her likeness) or (resurrected, not an uncommon event in the story of Diablo), for the player to select during Character Creation.
When Cain found her in a forest, she already had a bow, so it begs to reason she would make an excellent Rogue. Further, she has the scholarly demonic knowledge to aid her in the fight against demons. She is quick and nimble, with a slim build, able to strike within concealing shadows. Her magic allows her to imbue her weapons for deadly accuracy. Yes, the “new” Leah should be a Rogue of choice!
“Diablo III remains the fastest-selling PC game to date, and also one of the best-selling PC video games of all time with 30 million copies sold worldwide”
Ah yes; because a character is strong and female, it must be a case of the devs doing it to cater to people, and not at all because they…made a character that was strong and female?
Hmm…Something a bout your logic does not really add up. But that has not stopped the ‘Ree! Diversity!’ crowd before, I guess.
Leah was swallowed by Diablo with all the other evils, except she is not a demon so she has no possible way of coming back. Best you’ll get is her fusing with Diablo and slightly changing Diablo’s personality, but that’s the best case scenario for her coming back.
Uhg… I hate repeating myself but the amount of copies sold is not indicative of the game’s success as a title. It is indicative however of its commercial success. Diablo 3 is a failure as a Diablo 3 title.
Furthermore…
The hatred isn’t for Leah herself. The hatred is because Jay Wilson gave the thumps up to a ludicrous narrative in that Diablo takes the form of its vessel - the overly curvy Diablo of Diablo 3 is poor lore and art direction and the idea that Diablo takes the form of his vessel is poor story direction. If Diablo took an overweight person’s body as a vessel, would Diablo be a fat version of themself? This was all an excuse for Jay Wilson to project his disgusting misogynistic fantasies into a physical space.
Anyway…
Diablo 3 is a poor Diablo title. It is a commercial success.
Leah’s dead. Once a body has been consumed by Diablo, it is effectively removed from existence as Diablo destroys the host in which Diablo is released from. She cannot come back.
Aside from the narrative revolving around Diablo being absolutely horrible and veiling a misogynistic motive, Cain being killed by butterflies, Malthael being a stereotypical “I am mad at everyone, I must destroy all creation” angyboy.png? Nothing really. Diablo 3 is fine in regards to the storytelling. It’s just not fit as a Diablo title. It stomps all over what D1 and D2 set in motion.
Personally i don’t have any problem, but i was one of those who waited 10+ years from D2 to D3, in those years i watched all the HYPE that blizzard made out of D3, from its website to the blizzcon, at blizzcon, they showed us many things that we never saw in the actual game, like arena pvp or rune system… At the end when the game was release you felt like it was not enough, dissapointed, i tell you, i finished the campaign after just one night of playing in normal mode. At the beginning there was nothing else to do. After years the game become much more acceptable but the damage was done, the game made its own reputation. At the very beginning and a couple of years more the game was completly BS.
Also, there were rumours that said the same creators from D1,D2 (Blizzard North), were fired because Activision didn’t liked what they were doing ($$$), so they sent all the original project into the trash to make a new one with an entire new team. People from the original team (Blizzard North) worked on PoE and Torchlight.
Use better wording and you won’t have to repeat yourself. Calling it a failure when what you mean is ‘I personally didn’t like it, and I stay entirely in echo chambers so i know everyone else hated it too’ just results in this tedium
Part of me wanted to simply refer to Diablo as “he” “him” but such pronouns might trigger some pretty sensitive people that patrol these forums, so I take the easier approach… but clearly I can trigger people repeating words too, lol.
That’s a negative sir. https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/diablo-iii
Metacritic user ratings don’t lie. Nor does the easily accessible google searches for the massive amounts of hate Diablo 3 has received over the last decade that you will find in various outlets across the interwebz.
I won’t repeat this again. It seems people prefer to be sorely misinformed and lead astray by confirmation bias. I’ll leave it up to you guys to do some googlefu to learn why Diablo 3 was a terrible Diablo title but a massively successful commercial product. I’ve done my fair share elsewhere learning people.
I liked some parts of 3, but the whole Leah was gonna be a demon vessle all along felt lame sauce. Like at least with the wanderer it was from the first game as a last ditch effort and then paid for it by eventually being taken over.
Deckard cain should be resurrected LONG before any of the other garbo in that.
Heck Tyreal should make a comeback WAY before lame sauce Leah.
Wow, ignorance really stinks with this guy. You mean, you WISH Diablo 3 failed miserably. In the real world, D3 was a major success (sold more than D2/D2R combined) and a fun game to play, even now.
