Vessel Of Hatred Story Suxxxx

[NOD Flamer]

Literally nothing happens, we are just a tool to forward reynelle's story. some teenage girl who doesn't fit the setting in the slightest.

we didn't even have a choice of saving her or killing her.

The "good guys" of the church are so annoyiing and cringe, that bad guy with the mask was cool in his second cutscene tho when he killed us. but that was it. and that was the only noteworthy thing that happened. besides that nothing happy, sad or enthousiastic happens. Eru seems to be really chill about us talking to demon princess of hell and stuff, bro doesn't care at all.
and than all of a sudden he starts to cry when al bahal dies, like out of the blue like a little kid.

the dialogue also sucks, the voice acting is really bad. you can tell it's just a bunch of american trying to act tribal with gibberish speech. it's like a 12 year old wrote this story and dialogue.

they should hire better writers, it's as if the story and dialogue don't fit the setting at all. it feels so disneyesque.

[Shield]

i dont think its as "good" as the base story of d4 but im not so hard on it. neyrelle (or more specifically the stone) is really what drives the story rather than an active role in it, but i've always liked how they took the plucky overwatch character we meet early in d4 and emotionally traumatize her (killing her mother, etc) and literally maim (losing an arm, etc) her into a diablo character lol. her torture certainly continues in vessel of hatred, to say the least

but yeah, we dont really have an active role apart from leading characters to where they need to be and having heartburn over lilith's blood.

i would be harder on that if i didnt like esu so much. i like the crisis of faith he goes through as his god tells him to find this stupid child with one of the most dangerous artifacts ever, only to find that child is very stupid and everything that he loves that gets close to her (ah belu, maya, nahantu itself) dies horribly and he just straight says ♥♥♥♥ off to her in his grief and rage, but finally comes to that there's things more important happening than his turmoil. i think it's a little campy they split the red sea with the power of friendship, but hey.

ive never heard a mayan or aztec speak so i cant say what is or isnt a good mayan/aztec dialogue but i didnt really find it offensive. the ominous latin chants in the base game didnt perturb me so neither does ominous aztec chants in the dlc

i dont think its a hard L, but I also dont think its a resounding W. i wouldnt buy voh for the campaign alone but i had a good time going through it.

[ImpactHound]

Originally posted by Azrakh The Annihilator:

they should hire better writers, it's as if the story and dialogue don't fit the setting at all. it feels so disneyesque.

I will say the one piece of dialogue I really took issue with was Eru saying something along the lines of "let's lay all our cards on the table" in regards to coming clean about Mephisto being imprisoned and his soulstone being in Nahantu, I don't believe for a second that the jungle people play any card games or would use that turn-of-phrase, even if they had a passing association with bandits from Backwater or Kejistan. It's just completely out of his frame of reference and out of character.

[TyresTyco]

I don't play D4 for the story so I don't care about the writing. I play the game for good fights and I finally wanted to fight hatred as advertised.

And yet we only fight his fking dog. The worst, most boring endboss I've ever seen in an arpg.

[Shield]

Originally posted by Shield:

i dont think its as "good" as the base story of d4 but im not so hard on it. neyrelle (or more specifically the stone) is really what drives the story rather than an active role in it, but i've always liked how they took the plucky overwatch character we meet early in d4 and emotionally traumatize her (killing her mother, etc) and literally maim (losing an arm, etc) her into a diablo character lol. her torture certainly continues in vessel of hatred, to say the least

but yeah, we dont really have an active role apart from leading characters to where they need to be and having heartburn over lilith's blood.

i would be harder on that if i didnt like esu so much. i like the crisis of faith he goes through as his god tells him to find this stupid child with one of the most dangerous artifacts ever, only to find that child is very stupid and everything that he loves that gets close to her (ah belu, maya, nahantu itself) dies horribly and he just straight says ♥♥♥♥ off to her in his grief and rage, but finally comes to that there's things more important happening than his turmoil. i think it's a little campy they split the red sea with the power of friendship, but hey.

ive never heard a mayan or aztec speak so i cant say what is or isnt a good mayan/aztec dialogue but i didnt really find it offensive. the ominous latin chants in the base game didnt perturb me so neither does ominous aztec chants in the dlc

i dont think its a hard L, but I also dont think its a resounding W. i wouldnt buy voh for the campaign alone but i had a good time going through it.

oh yeah and the burned knights thing was a complete whiff, i almost find it bizarre they included that at all lol. great cutscenes but apart from stabbing you so hard you wind up in nahantu i cant think of a single thing they did for the story apart from suggest some turmoil in the church and... um... giving you another reason to find neyrelle fast, as if her being sweet-talked by mephisto wasnt enough reason

[crzyfsh123]

Heh. Now you see why we all skip the campaign once done.

[NOD Flamer]

Originally posted by crzyfsh123:

Heh. Now you see why we all skip the campaign once done.

yes because it's dog sheeeiteee. i do too because seasoning is more fun.

but i hoped that atleast a 40bucks dlc would have a little bit better story than this....

[ElokoMs]

Problem is, why a girl as vessel of a prime evil again? In D3 it is Leah, and now Neyrelle.

[Bimjee]

Dont worry rest will come in 2-3 another dlcs. Atleast we can play op class

[Salmanz]

this is the most waste of time i felt in a grinding game, playing the dlc story omg i didnt even skip the story and felt so bored :x after all that the boss just doesnt die or get captured .....

[JUMP'NSHOOTMAN]

Originally posted by Azrakh The Annihilator:

This is a bummer to read since D4's base campaign felt like a bloated nothing. It wasn't terrible, in fact I'd say it was well produced outside of the constant cliches. Yet if I want to watch TV drama, I'd watch TV. I'm sick of thinking the thought, "We get it, you liked Game of Thrones." while drifting away during another confusingly long arbitrary scene trying to jackhammer the point home.

That final point is more an issue I've been running into lately with recently released "cinematic" titles in general, not just D4.

[Morkonan]

Originally posted by Azrakh The Annihilator:

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they should hire better writers, it's as if the story and dialogue don't fit the setting at all. it feels so disneyesque.

Disney can actually write good stories that hit home with their target audience. Well, at least they used to be able to.

The Vessel of Hatred story is... very bad. It is not much of a proper story nor is it a story worthy of being the foundation narrative of a role-playing video-game.

It is a story, if one can actually call it that, which is not focused on providing gameplay value at all. It has none. It does little more than set up rambling nonsensical exposition paired with a few dungeon-crawls, fetch missions, and mini-boss fights.

That it has no "conclusion" is fitting, since it does not deserve one. It deserves to suffer, in perpetuity, as a malformed rude thing that never asked to be born.


A professional writer writes for they paycheck, not their ego. A professional writer fulfills the requirements of their task. They achieve the objectives laid out before them in their contract. They not only get feedback from those that they work for, they provide feedback and suggestions as well - ALL members of a creative cast can have valid input.

Someone wrote a blank check with the only performance requirements being "do the thing" and that's exactly what the writer followed. So, i guess whoever was writing and creatively directing this "story" did exactly what was asked of them.

It is not a story for a role-playing video game. It's someone talking to themselves in the shower, coming up with "awesome cool ideas" that nobody should have ever paid them for.

IMO

PS: My opinion is worth exactly what the person who is now reading this has paid for it. :)