Did you preorder Diablo 4?

[Mr Jt (Gog is king)]

If yes are you excited for the beta?

[Sharkster_00]

No cause I saw the beta access for Xbox will be public on the 17th so I should able to play it I am hopimg dumb blizzard doesn’t ruin the 4th installment since I used to play the 3rd game and reaper of souls back in 2014 to 2016

[weganime]

no that battle pass and beta key buy seems a bit too greedy to me

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Masque:

Is a fascinating comment by Shizune, stuff I'd never really known about the series.

And come to think of it, there is no YHWH God or Christianity present in the Diablo games, that I can recall.

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Chaos Engineer:

I can dig the idea of angels not being that good to begin with. I mean it's already low-key implied with Tyrael being pretty much one of the only ones that cared to start with.

But, trying to flip the demons as the good guy with everything that happened in this franchise would take a level of mental gymnastic that would most likely be hilariously bad.

Angels are bad guys, not in the way however that its anything to do with the demons but in a different twist. You see the Archangels and angels have more impact on earth then demons do, however they can not directly interfer with demon lord of any kind nor their plans. Archangel Inarius went against that code of respect and created Sancturary in Diablo 3, his actions alone had him imprisoned by the demon lord Mephisto who now is his torturer and prison guard.

But his actions was not that alone, he also gave birth to a Nephalem, which from the story understand is the offspring of both a demon and angel, this was during the entire situation of the Great War: https://diablo.fandom.com/wiki/Eternal_Conflict

Both were seeking the World Stone, basically a LITERAL mountain sized artifact to win, only to learn that Inarius used it to create Sanctuary.

Want to know what happened the Nephalem? So do I, because depending on what you pick is who they become, you, the player, are the unequal balance to the universe, to them your player is the unequal unbalancing force that will undo everything, yet ironically that has yet to happen, the player (if you have all DLC's) even breaks at one point, into the fortress of the Angels and process to deck Diablo on the doorstep mat inside the Heavenstone throne and later goes and roflstomps the Grim Reaper, which yes sounds silly but when you accept that by lore that were both the offspring of both Angel and Demon, then we are effectively immune to any diseases or viruses or attacks they throw at us to.

[Masque]

Thanks, Shizune.

Your knowledge of Diablo lore is impressive.

It's kind of amazing there are more people like me who've played thousands of hours of 2 and 3, and could tell you Jack or squat about the story, and Jack left town.

[Thermal Lance]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Masque:

Thanks, Shizune.

Your knowledge of Diablo lore is impressive.

It's kind of amazing there are more people like me who've played thousands of hours of 2 and 3, and could tell you Jack or squat about the story, and Jack left town.

I only know the surface level things myself and I played an ungodly amount of Diablo 2 and I still do.

It's really one of the things that is gated to giga-nerds at this point. For me the Lore always played second fiddle to the loot table. XD

Still an interesting story but no you wont see me reading books and pestering the devs about which color are the undergarments of every characters.

[Masque]

I do enjoy reading game lore written by people who are extremely into it, even for games I have hundreds of hours in.

Elder Scrolls comes to mind -- I've read every book in the SP games since Morrowind -- and I still know 1/1000th of what these lore-hounds know, so it's cool sometimes to watch the videos they make, and the essays they write, and even their heated arguments with other lore-meisters. It can be a fun thing to read about even if you're not so into it.

Never played EVE Online, but I sure love reading the epic stores it produces.

I'm with you on the loot table versus the lore, though. Although you won't see me breaking out a spreadsheet to get the best build.

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

There's a reason why everyone seems to distrust the player as you can tell now heh, their literally aware how were both an angel-demon hybrid and their worry about what legends say ( https://diablo.fandom.com/wiki/Nephalem ) Which ya, sadly this was told in a book and not in game.

Basically the civilization of Neph's were more or less immortal, impervious to damage outside of the demon lords and angels, due to this Lilith in fear that Inc would slaughter their kid, attacked the Angels and demons first.: https://diablo-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Purge Leading to the Purge

The Purge basically if you wish to think of it is mroe akin to a total all out war, both the first Nephs were largely killed with few surviving, this is also what sparked the war between Demons and Angels, basically the forbidden love story, turned to mommy being scared of daddy and going on a town shooting spree.

Want a fun fact? Inc and Lilith are bad guys to the player: But their also their mother and father respectfully :P

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Masque:

I do enjoy reading game lore written by people who are extremely into it, even for games I have hundreds of hours in.

Elder Scrolls comes to mind -- I've read every book in the SP games since Morrowind -- and I still know 1/1000th of what these lore-hounds know, so it's cool sometimes to watch the videos they make, and the essays they write, and even their heated arguments with other lore-meisters. It can be a fun thing to read about even if you're not so into it.

Never played EVE Online, but I sure love reading the epic stores it produces. :amadeus_happy:

I'm with you on the loot table versus the lore, though. Although you won't see me breaking out a spreadsheet to get the best build.

If you go to their forums, EVE has their story book online for people, I love reading especially the lore on EVE Sleepers/Awoken, The Mad Amarr Queen and Her Clone, The Sudden Assassination of the Mad Queen while she was onboard a titan ship (She got attacked by like I think 50 to 60 Sleeper battleships) and that lore xD

[Masque]

I'll have to check that out sometime, Shizune. All my exposure to the stories I've read have been via blog links or game sites. I don't think there's a game that can be compared to it, for pure story-generating potential.

There's a company trying to make a fantasy game with the qualities of EVE but we'll see if they can capture that magic. I have doubts.

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Masque:

I'll have to check that out sometime, Shizune. All my exposure to the stories I've read have been via blog links or game sites. I don't think there's a game that can be compared to it, for pure story-generating potential.

There's a company trying to make a fantasy game with the qualities of EVE but we'll see if they can capture that magic. I have doubts.

https://universe.eveonline.com/lore Here you go, 34 Pages each with 24 Story Books/Page Each :D

[Masque]

Definitely bookmarked. Thanks!

[skOsH♥]

Activision/Blizzard, Microsoft, ZeniMax Studios, Bethesda, Ubisoft....um....anyone got a trash bin? I need to just drag and drop all of it into the trash. I can't use the recycle bin because that's Microsoft, and I need to throw it in the trash. It cannot be recycled or saved....neither can these other companies.

Other companies in hot water--- Bungie/343. What are you going to do? You kinda screwed up Halo Infinite and now Sony owns you. You gonna release a Halo game on PS6 that no one will care about?

Rockstar. Stop with the microtransactions. Stop making games once a decade with multiplayer plagued with cheaters.

EA. I get that you won game of the year for 2022, and you have some neat new indie projects and titles coming out. But...you're a publisher. You bought those game studios....with the blood money from endless microtransactions. You have "The Sims 5" that you could redeem yourself with, by not having *any* expansion packs, just everything that's in the entirety of all the DLC in The Sims 4, and I'll pay $80 for it. Not a cent more. Also, stop releasing sports games every year. It's a sports game. Release them as often as you release new "The Sims" games, because they're sports sims.

There's more, but I'm exhausted from typing. I got blistahs on mah fingahs

[丂卩ㄖㄖ几ㄚ 丂卂ㄩㄥ]

It is preloading I cannot wait!

[Lora Grim]

I pre-ordered a ticket for the first row seats for the drama when it releases.
You know it will be a disaster. Diablo 3 was a HUGE disaster when it launched.

It "only" has a battlepass and "just cosmetics" right now, but i am fully expecting it to go fully pay to win 1 year after release if not just a few months.
The battlepass and "just cosmetics" is lube, getting all the paypiggies oiled up for more.

[Grimmz]

nope. diablo 2 still has plenty of content after 3k hours