I never really saw how Diablo 3 wasn't particularly dark just because, what, a couple of levels weren't set in dark bloody dungeons?Diablo 3 was plenty dark. I'm worried if they lean too hard into grim dark and hopeless you get what Warhammer 40,000 has become because people leaned into the grimdark and forgot it started as a satire; dark and bloody for the sake of being dark and bloody, not as a side effect of the story. I'm reminded of supposedly "adult" comics that are just swearing and gore rather than having mature themes and storytelling. It's a fantastic cinematic, but I don't know if I want to spend the thousand plus hours I put into D3 before I hung it up in a game that's just that cinematic over and over.
It seems unlikely to me that Inarius would refer to Lilith as "Blessed Mother."
Why is there so much news about D4 sounding surprised that it's dark? Hasn't that been the franchise in a nutshell from the very beginning? Am I missing something here?
Blessed Mother <3
If that guy is Rathma, then Necromancers might be one of the 2 Classes left then?Also, I NEED TO RE-READ the SIN WAR TRILOGY, I remember bits of it with Uldyssian and Lilith and Inarius and all other super-powerful Nephalem that came to learn their birthright, then Uldyssian destroying the Worldstone to seal Hell and Heaven off Sanctuary, and `resetting` the Nephalem to 'regular humans' over ages. Uldyssian might have been the most powerful Nephalem to ever exist, even kicked some prime evils' ass alone, Lilith too.
"Why would diablo be so dark?"Well, D1 ended with all three of the heroes being driven insane and one of them becoming the new host for Diablo, who's previous host was either a little boy or an infant depending on the writer. D2 ended with an ambiguously happy ending that D3 overrode. D3 killed Cairne, introduced his granddaughter only to kill her too and once again told everyone "Sanctuary is a horrible place where 'winning' means surviving to be eaten/possessed/driven insane by something else tomorrow".
The cinematic was perfect.
I wonder how many "MmmmMMMmmmm's'" Jeff got after Age of Resistance came out?On topic, this looks great. The perfect atmosphere for a game series about fighting the demons of hell. WoW Legion really needed to take notes from this franchise but that expac was a boring AP grind fest that had no sense of who to make demons scary.
As some already said, that necromancer in the video has to me Rahtma.Not only is the phrase "Blessed Mother" very literal for him (as Lilith is his Mother) his visual alsomatches the descriptions:"Rathma was described as a tall male, looking like a person in his forties. His skin was pale white with tall black hair in his head. He wore a rather special cloak. It shifted and moved in response to his emotional state and covered his head with a hood."The cloak shifting part is not very vissible in the video but his pale skin and covering of his head do match.Also his characteristics match "He was a very calm and rational man, was not cold or uncaring" you can hear in his voice that he is calm and even shows empathy towards the scholar.He also posseses shapeshifting and telekinetic abbilities as seen in the trailer."it is unclear whether Rathma is capable of shapeshifting or teleporting into an undead body under his contro", this has amde clear in the video that he actually can (when the barbarian hacks him in the face).So yeah, Rathma is very very likely to be the necromancer in the trailer.
I freakin' loved it. KEEP IT UP!