How to Enjoy the Story of Diablo 3

1. Select the "demon hunter" class.
2. Congratulations! You're a member of the Ordo Hereticus!
3. Your advanced equipment is provided by the Adeptus Mechanicus, blessed by their techpriests to destroy the enemies of Man.
4. You have been deployed to Sanctuary, a backwater Imperial planet rife with heresy.
5. Instill the fear of the Inquisition and silence all who would distract you from your holy mission (by pressing the "X" button on all dialogue windows).
6. Purge the alien, the mutant, and the heretic.

I came into this thread with the opinion "The Diablo III story is too terrible to be enjoyed!"

However, as a big fan of Warhammer 40K, you've proven me wrong. Bravo!

I have no idea what you just said.

Thanks, you made me laugh.

FOR THE EMPEROR!!!

Word.

funny how Diablo 3's lead designer was the lead designer for Dawn of War 2.

I believe it's faster if you press Spacebar to silence.

Ordo Malleus, anyone?

Hahahah. Nice. I might do that if I ever decide to play the game.

P.S. - 40k is awesome!

@Shirogane: I think escape is fastest for the dialog windows, then spacebar for the random chatter

@Mr_Skeleton said:

I have no idea what you just said.

Me neither.

Also, I'm probably risking of people coming with pitchforks after me here, but... I think Diablo III has a good story.

Man. Now I just wish Relic would release an ARPG with The Last Stand mechanics.

...what?

But... WH40k's lore is just as bad, if not worse?

@Mercanis:

This is the best thread I've seen all year!

@GunslingerPanda said:

But... WH40k's lore is just as bad, if not worse?

Maybe. But there's more of it so it wins.

@GunslingerPanda said:

But... WH40k's lore is just as bad, if not worse?

What...?

Chris Metzen has lifted so many ideas whole cloth from Games Workshop it's embarrassing, but that still doesn't keep the Diablo story from being about as interesting as the instruction manual for a refrigerator.

@Mr_Skeleton said:

I have no idea what you just said.

Me neither.

Also, I'm probably risking of people coming with pitchforks after me here, but... I think Diablo III has a good story.

@niamahai said:

funny how Diablo 3's lead designer was the lead designer for Dawn of War 2.

Small nitpick: I'm pretty sure he was only the lead designer for the original Dawn of War. Jay Wilson joined Blizzard in 2007; Dawn of War 2 was released in 2009:

http://www.diablowiki.net/Jay_Wilson

I have no idea what the Warhammer story is but I thought the story in Diablo 3 is that the world is fully of people with "!" over their heads that you must remove.

@EXTomar:

funny how everything they do is top notch but when it comes to storytelling and writing, their games are absolute ass!

less is more would've been more appropriate :)

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD.

@DeF Part of the reason seems to come from the games they are focusing on. Blizzard is currently focusing on highly replayable systems. As we've seen in some RPGs, a sin is to take away control from the player for the Xth time to make them listen to a speech they've seen and heard for the Yth time through. If someone is replaying a section, keep the explanation short, sweet, and easy to understand because chances are when they are back to that point they'll be even less interested.

@EXTomar said:

@DeF Part of the reason seems to come from the games they are focusing on. Blizzard is currently focusing on highly replayable systems. As we've seen in some RPGs, a sin is to take away control from the player for the Xth time to make them listen to a speech they've seen and heard for the Yth time through. If someone is replaying a section, keep the explanation short, sweet, and easy to understand because chances are when they are back to that point they'll be even less interested.

but that's just the thing: the characters in D3 keep on talking and talking as opposed to the very short and easily digestible dialog in D2 (even more so in D1), for example. I used to love Deckard Cain, for instance, but Diablo 3 made me actively dislike him because he just wouldn't shut up (and I didn't wanna miss anything crucial the first time through). They somehow half assed the story aspects. They put more of it in there without bringing the writing, voice actors and presentation of it up to modern standards.

@Shirogane said:

I believe it's faster if you press Spacebar to silence.

Pressing escape is even faster

Lol

@Shirogane said:

I believe it's faster if you press Spacebar to silence.

Pressing escape is even faster

Goddamn how much I would love a Dark Millennium RPG complete with psykers rolling failures and popping the heads of everone nearby..

So I gather the 40k MMO is definitely dead?

I just love how alot of people dont' get it.

This made me laugh, AND I feel like playing dawn of war now, ints a win-win!!

@phrosnite said:

@GunslingerPanda said:

But... WH40k's lore is just as bad, if not worse?

this

@Mercanis: Oh man, yeah that would have made the game's story soooo much better.

"Primarch-Progenitor, to your glory and the glory of him on earth!"

@EXTomar said:

I have no idea what the Warhammer story is....

There is no one story it's a bunch of stories and you just pick the ones you like. Some authors are ass and don't bring any good style twist while other are totally awesome and worth reading regardless if you like 40k like Dan Abnett.

....I think the point is that for games like this the story doesn't matter as much as keeping the player moving forward.