Quote (thesnipa @ Oct 31 2019 01:23pm)
until Winnie the Pooh calls blizzard to tell them blood soaked streets in the game are giving people too many ideas. then the whole game will be like the hidden unicorn level from Diablo 3.
No problem, they'll just make a chinese version like they always do. China loves ARPGs, both on PC and Mobile. I am more concerned about the story in the immediate future, I don't know who's the writing team.
Diablo 3 was a fiasco, born at a time where the key word for storytelling at Blizzard was "Make everything EPIIIIC!" I mean Starcraft 2 had Amon who was going to kill all life in the universe, where do you even go from there? Sc2 and Diablo 3 followed the formula set forth by the popularity of WoW in terms of ridiculous scopes.
Your character being a Nephalem was a terrible idea. Why come back to some sort of chosen one type thing that fantasy has tried to get away for decades? The worse storytelling wise in D3 was the stupid bosses taunting you through the acts, like Azmodan. This isn't Diablo, the Great Evils should not be acting as comic book supervillains. Where's the feeling of dread as you walk around for the first time, not knowing what's next? There's this thing called show, don't tell. I heard it's a great tool in visual media especially.
When your art style is heavily influenced by Joe Mad and everything is big and cartoony, might be hard to convey it I guess?
Hey At least Chris 'I am older now and I have kids, I want good vibes and redemption arcs in all the games" Metzen is not there anymore. Silver lining in all things.