It’s too bad that it looks like a lot of the story/lore of diablo 3 had either been ignored or retconned. From what I was able to see they completely omitted nephalem (Johanna is in a side quest), Lyndon is somehow still alive and active (he was round 30-ish if not older in diablo 3) despite fifty years passing between both games. Deckard was something like 60-70 by the time he checked out, so humanity on Sanctuary has about the same aging qualities as us. Except for the nephalem anyways.
What annoyed me about diablo 3 was we never got to see what happend to the three followers. In particular Lyndon whose story I really wanted to see to its conclusion.
That is however me looking from the outside as I have not nor will buy Diablo 4. If I am correct than it is just Blizzard acting like a scatter brained fanfiction writer–again–in squiggling out the previous parts of the story for something else. Which…they have done a lot over the years.
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I purchased D4, and I think they really did a great job with the campaign, but it really doesn’t feel magical to me like D3 did. End-game is meh, side quests were okay but like, too similar. Had some interesting features with those world dungeons you could permanently phase by completing them. The graphics are also super bleak and un-saturated (I guess this is what Diablo fans wanted) and it’s fully open world (with other players like WoW), so when you go to a place like Hidden Camp from Act 2 it looks… really bad.
Wasn’t worth the $100 imo. Maybe it’s worth it now with the expansion and all the changes they’ve made since I uninstalled (early season 1), but I don’t feel like reinstalling it.
Made a backup of it back when it was possible. Really like most of it.
Similar shoes with WoW. I enjoyed the old ones, then gradually less and less. Most of it is too cinematic. Although Talador / Auchindoun (new) stuff is among my loves.
According to the legend, BC music by Jeremy Soule was supposed to be for D3. It was a demonic expansion nevertheless. Also big fan of Skyrim and GW2 core music. Sometimes on the edge of too much, but there was one I ended up silent-singing for weeks.
For me, ambient is the best music. More than just ambience but absolutely not intrusive.
By the way, one of my oldest games, Total Annihilation, is of the same Jeremy Soule. Battle music tends to play in the wrong moments but nevertheless.
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Fully agree, and it’s something WoW really did well for Vanilla and TBC (and about half of Wrath’s zones). Then they moved to full grand orchestra epic battle music for everything and it’s just very loud and inappropriate. There’s some good tracks here and there in newer expansions but… they really missed the point about in-game music fitting the vibe.
Also it’s sad how most raids don’t even get original scores anymore. Naxxramas score was peak.
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10 years never leave, 10 years never be on the blizzard forums.
Blizzard universe must be great
I’m all for HotS making it onto Steam just to proliferate more Orphea and Qhira if nothing else. 
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