My god the story is awful.

[kameltoes]

So. I liked D2 and D3 was okay, but D4 seems really boring. So after giving the game a chance to update and fleshout, I decided to give the game another go. I feel like the voice acting is painful to listen to. Just flat, monotone snoozefest. Does it improve or what?

[Dr.Acula]

Indeed, the story is pretty bad. Various characters are wasted and just randomly killed off for the sake of getting rid of them after they did their "job". Look at Donan as a prime example. He gets mortally injured by a random zombie in a column. It's not even a meaningful death. He just looks at something and then gets grabbed and mortally wounded. It's so silly. People always laugh about Magdha's butterfly kill on Deckard Cain but no one talks about Donan getting an even sillier death.

Neyrelle was a complete waste of space within the story. She is prominent in act 1 and then randomly returns for some useless voice lines in between and then just walks off with mephisto at the end to likely reappear in the expansion. Everything involving her could've been used instead to flesh out Donan's son instead so we actually give a crap when he gets possessed. Maybe it could've been Donan's wife taking the spot in act one instead of Neyrelle's mother.

Donan could've send his son to look for the wife/mother and end up deeply depressed when she gets enticed by Lilith creating some potential drama between father and son as a result where the son then in act 2 wants to prove that he can live up to his fathers expecations just to then get posessed by the demon due to drive for power and success.

Inarius was wasted as a character as well. There were various implications how corrupted he had become due being tortured in hell. It could've been one of those cases where he starts leading a charge against hell with his followers only for them to fail the attack and him turning to a fallen angel in his frustration (could've also involved Lilith with the heaven stying silent and not helping Inarius). Inarious then should've been a final act boss (act 4 or 5) instead of just being randomly killed off by Lilith.

[kharille]

Yeah, finished the storyline recently. Somehow it doesn't engage me at all. Didn't like the characters enough to care about their sorrow. I'm sure the voice actors did a good job but the script was mediocre.

Could've done with more engaging characers like Leah. At least I care about what happened to her.

[FhqwhTODD]

Originally posted by kharille:

Could've done with more engaging characers like Leah.

You know, there are times when trolling is going too far. THIS is one of those times. Try to be less obvious.

[Cyax]

On the same boat, struggling to stay engaged for more than 30-50 minute intervals tops. Very slow paced compared to D3 and the game seems a little odd for some reason. I'm always alone, its rare to see other players

[Dr.Acula]

Originally posted by Cyax:

I'm always alone, its rare to see other players

You're only seeing players playing on your difficulty level. So if you are on World Tier 1 you will see those also on World Tier 1.

Most players that are still active will be on WT3 or WT4 although even there the numbers are low.

[Casual Amateur]

You know. I remember some fan claiming that D4 story was better on being more darker then D3. This just hearing from some Diablo fans from Youtube.

[Dr.Acula]

Originally posted by Mossy Mushroom:

You know. I remember some fan claiming that D4 story was better on being more darker then D3. This just hearing from some Diablo fans from Youtube.

It's somewhat darker but not really in a way that I could even call it remotely on the same level as Diablo 2.

Diablo 3 may have been the self-conscious goofy type of edgy and dark
Diablo 4 feels more like the wannabe type of edgy and dark.

The option that knows that it's goofy is more fun to me. The other is just sad and can't even get to give a s*** about the characters.

[Kitty]

Diablo 3 story was worst, nothing come close to it, it is worst game in history too.
Like you cant even get gear/skill w/o paying real money and that took them few year to remove that lmao.
Even Diablo Imortal is less pay to win they D3 was on release.
And like bonus D3 have horrible story, map, character, skill everything.

Meanwhile Diablo 4 is one of best arpg on market.

[The Former]

Always has been, if you ask me. The story was an obstacle in Diablo 3, the real reason to play was always the loot. It's just your typical edgy "GOOD VERSUS EVIL" story that draws on lies and misconceptions twisted by the Christian religion over the centuries.

[Jarsonne]

+1 Main story isn't as good than for D2&3. Most secondary quests are a lot worse but a few I felt fairly good.

But for me the major weak point is repetitiveness:
- Repetitive look: that mostly systematic grey/dark/brown look to feel "serious" is rather lame, the undergrounds are so similar for most.
- Too many similar combats fillers, probably from having a too big world to fill.

Equipment building is complicate but the only obvious great point over D3, one more clear example where hypes and anti hypes have excess of influence, at least if memory serves me well, as it seems D3 can't be played anymore, lame.

[`KokoJacK_^]

D3 is totally still playable, and tbh build diversity in D3 is better than D4. Each class has access to 6 different set and it is also possible to play end game without any set.

Story wise: D4 was very, very disapointing. Yes, D3 story felt like it was written by kids but atleast it wasn't boring. D4 story was very linear and predictable, good thing Mephisto was there to raise the bar, though.

[ImpactHound]

There's a lot of bad logical loopholes that aren't well thought out. Act 2 Lillith goes to a lot of trouble to find Astaroth's soul stone in Scosglen, to make a bargain with him so that he doesn't prevent her from crossing his territory when she eventually gets to Hell, meanwhile she could have just left him in his prison, gone to Hell and gotten to the Cathedral of Hate anyways, and the players wouldn't have had an empty soul stone to steal Mephisto's essence with and spirit him away. It's running around for nothing. Lillith claims she wants to protect Sanctuary from the Prime Evils but she wastes her time tormenting the champions of it and fumbling the ball. And as much as I like the Cerberus enemy it's a waste of her time to make a mount for Astaroth in some elaborate druid torture ritual.

The Sightless Eye is another contrivance I didn't like. It's featured prominently twice and I like the small mindscape dungeon at the end of the campaign, but it's written so poorly and the dialogue really calls into question just what Lillith is actually trying to accomplish. It makes very little sense. The SIDE QUESTS are often better written in the campaign, like the little aftermath chain you can do with Taissa still feeling like Andariel can come back and take her over.

[JRS]

lol it's blizzard you really expect good story when you bought the game ? last good thing they did was 15 years ago it's pretty much same level than ubisoft or bethesda

[⎝⧹Za Furan⧸⎠]

The story is mediocre at best, yes, the only redeeming quality it have is Lilith being a cool and charismatic mommy, the rest is forgettable.
Secondary characters you don't care at all.
Lorath is just a new Deckard Cain.
Doran and his son, I couldn't care less about their deaths.
Neyrelle appears at the start of the story, disappears and appears again in the final stretch just for fullfilling a role and connect the story with the future expansion.

Other thing which doesn't help is most of the cutscenes/dialogues being from isometric view, they started using in-engine cutscenes for first time in this game because the graphics are already good enough for this but they wasted its potential. When the game start and you see the first in-engine cutscene you expect to presence a good amount of cutscenes in that way, but there are very few, I prefered the pre rendered high quality cutscenes of D2 and D3. In fact the best cutscene in D4 is the only pre rendered one when Inarius army is attacking.

[Jarsonne]

Well I finished a campaign, and found last parts better done, and even good. But overall, the story telling, the lore filling, the main story, are less good than in D2&3. But it's also another level of amplitude, that is a lot more stuff, from many more optional content and more towns, and areas available all along a play.