Do you remember the video above?
Clearly: Blizzard's render video team is theredid a great job back then. When *BEEP* became *BEEP* and fought with *BEEP* at the gates of *BEEP*, so yeah,that was fantastic.
What's the beeping about?I don't want to spoil anything because there are proven people who. Even if Diablo 3 is already twelve years old.
But why dig up such an old video again? Because in my opinion it illustrates excellently,which Diablo 4 has been suffering from since Vessel of Hatred at the latest.
A new evil for Diablo
I love Lilith.So not love-love. But as a big new opponent, she was in for mealmost perfect. She was cruel, but had good reasons for her actions that I as a player could almost understand - in my opinion, this is a characteristic of really well-written villains like Irenicus from Baldur's Gate 2.
The design of the half-demon was bothas well asoutstanding and theexcellent English dubbingby Caroline Faber gave the character enormous depth and ambivalence. Sensual, determined, mystical and like from another world, Lilith walked through the plot of Diablo 4 and pulled me through the story campaign with ease.
No question:The change to a new villain has been good for Diablo 4.As is well known, its predecessor Diablo was doing rather semi-well at the end of Diablo 3 and due to the destruction of the black soul stone after defeating Angel Malthael, its essence crumbled back to hell along with its brothers.
I therefore found it understandable that in the main game Lilith and her campaign against Father Mephisto were at the center of the story. Because:When a villain is taken out of the mothballs too often, he eventually loses his dangerous aura and the players become more and more indifferent towards him.
However, at least given the long wait between new Diablo games, I was always excited to see the new incarnation of Diablo for the first time. That's what I've been wishing for since at leastand the certainty that itwill go, a return of the antagonist who made the series great.
Devil ohne Devil?
Withand especially Season 6 and Patch 2.0. But as a solo player I have one or two problems with the story in the addon.
Because Blizzard has now killed off pretty much all of the exciting characters. What remains is the figure that large parts of the community are least familiar with:
Warning: the following paragraph contains spoilers
Let's briefly recap who was left after Diablo 4 and Vessel of Hatred:
- Lorath: disappeared
- They give: everything
- Elias: tot
- Inarius: until
- Lilith: tot
- Urivar: tot
- Are: tot?
- Akarat: dead and resurrected with Mephisto's Soulstone
- Deckard Cain: long dead
Meanwhile, Neyrelle spends half of the add-on playing time muttering incantations to keep Mephisto in the Soul Stone. In the end it is clear: the young woman with a talent for Horadrim magic will accompany us in the fight against Mephisto for a long time. Yay.
So there is now a lack of sympathetic figures. And slowly the opposite is happening: Diablo, the lord of terror, has to contend once again in Vessel of Hatreda casual mentioncome to terms with. The namesake of Blizzard's second largest gaming universe has still not appeared in Diablo 4 - strange.
As a fan of the series, I have to honestly say:I was hoping for more.I don't play Mephisto 4, but Diablo 4. Of course: The fact that expansions introduce new villains was already the case in Lord of Destruction (Baal) and Reaper of Souls (Malthael).
But the prospect of competing against Mephisto in 2025 while Diablo is twiddling my thumbs currently makes me groan in annoyance rather than looking forward to the future of Diablo 4.How do you see that?
