Traceedrago
30-06-2008, 07:59
First of all I'd like to start with saying that when I saw that there was going to be a Diablo 3 (The day after the anouncment, ironicly I saw it as I was cancelling my subscription to wow. Lol I think it was a sign).
Anyway...after watching the vids, reading all the articles on the site, and doing alot forum searching and diablo sites, I can found a few things that aren't really well known.
I. I believe that the main (or at least one of the main) antoganists in the story.
Here are my reasons:
a). It shows a very large demon in the teaser. Who looks quite abit like Diablo, though a tad skeletal. I have a couple of theories of his return.
1. Diablo could have been resurected as in necromancy or maybe more of a true resurection by a great magical means.
2. Baal (who's soulstone was never shown destroyed, there fore was never really killed) absorbed the essences of his fallen brothers and either gained more of a Diablo like visage, or perhaps his younger brother overcame hisw will and became dominant (similar to what he did to the wanderer).
3. The destruction of the world stone may have had some effect on the rules of how the world goes round...who knows it's blizzard.
b). Also during the teaser while The woman (who will from now on be reffered to as Leah, will go more in on that later) narrates "But as the shadow once again crawls across our world". If you all remeber from the Act II cintematic from Diablo II, Marius narrated "And always, a dark cloud seemed to follow us...just over the horizon". Sounds similar doesn't it? Well there's more. Leah goes on to say "And a stench of terror drifts on a bitter wind."
If I remember corectly, let's see...Diablo is the lord of....darn I can't remember what...Oh wait, TERROR. I don't think Blizzard is trying to hide the fact that it is Diablo. Cintimatic trailers (especially high quality ones like the teaser) take hundreds of hours to make and there is little room for mistakes. Though then again when mistakes are made and over looked at first they're nearly impossible to fix (For example, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children took years to make, it was carefully planned and closely watched for mistakes, though when the finished product shipped there were still a handfull of mistakes, for example: during the fight with Loz Kaj and the other guy(can never remember the guy with the guns name) Cloud pulls out the main sword and the the front blade and gets knocked off the bike. when he lands he's holding the main and back blade but when the back blade gets knocked out of his hand he goes to retrieve it and finds the front blade. Theres a web site that shows the all of the glitches which is where I found that example. I can't find it but I give all credit to that site.)
c.) And my final reason....THE NAME OF THE NAME IS DIABLO I mean come on people...that should be reason enough. It's like having a Zelda game without having that stupid b!*% bossing you around (for the record I love Zelda games, it's just that you think Link would get some for wasting his life saving her from Ganon). Nuff said. I'm pretty sure Diablo will be in Diablo 3.
II. Next to clarify on the whole Leah/Narrator deal. Three official pieces of media lead me to this.
a. At the end of the dungeon in the gameplay trailer the Barbarian tells Cain "Get yourself back to town Cain, Leah worries after you". This is the source of the name.
b. In the concept art there are two pictures of Cain with a young woman who looks an awful lot like the girl from the teaser. I believe it's safe to assume they are one and the same.
Also I'd like to query, Just how old is Cain? He was an old man in Diablo 1, There's around a couple of years difference between 1 and 2 and Diablo 3 is 20 years later than 2. I'd have to say in his 90s or up.
III. Diablo 3 should have more than just 5 classes, my guess would be 7+. I'm not going to source anything and a fore warning the quotes in this sub-topic will just be what I remember reading from various sites. First off with the current "5" roster of classes would most likely be as follows:
1.Barbarian(announced)
2.Witch Doctor(announced)
3.Archer(A bow drops in the trailer, there has to be a class for it, possibly a combination of multiple classes.)
4.Magic class(sorc type, I did read somthing interesting online, saying that some one who's cousin worked for blizzard and told him that Necro and Sorc would be combined, don't know if it's true but I hope not.)
5.This one is kinda open could be a palidon type(the whole thing is heaven vs. hell) or druid(theres a picture of a woman wearing a wolf helm and a snake wrapped around her arm in the concept art.)
Though acording to interviews and q&as there will be "several new classes" and several that will be revamped.
Several: 2 b: more than two but fewer than many
there fore with that said we can expect 6+ classes
I just hope they come up with a fast attacker class kinda like the assassin except less stealth/trap oriented, more of just a pure damage dealer, oh well we can only trust blizzard.
Also I read some where that Diablo 3's current status is the core game, all classes, and act 1. Not confirmed though.
IV. I've heard alot of people complain about the inventory, saying it's to "Wowish"...I sadly say that I think I have found evidence of this being true. In the game trailer when the barbarian fights all the sheild-bearing skeles on the bridge "Small bag" drops from one of the skeles. this could mean that you increase your inventory size via bags, though more unlikely it could be similar to the random lock boxes, clam shells ect that drop in wow that contain items in them. Personally I think it would be cool if they kept the tetris like inventory and used bags to increase the amount of boxes and allowed you to turn items to fit better. Oh well...
V. This is just a kind of theory, as most of us know(I use most lightly) There are 7 Great Evils of Hell
Duriel, the Lord/Prince of Pain
Boss of Act II, Dead.
Andariel, the Maiden of Anguish
Boss of Act I, Dead.
Belial, the Lord of Lies
Along with Azmodan, they through over the Prime Evils as they were trying to turn man to their side. After suceeding they had a disagreement on who would be dominant and are now both locked in a civil war in Hell.
Azmodan, the Lord of Sin
Same as Belial.
Diablo, the Lord of Terror
Final Boss of Diablo I, Boss of Act IV of Diable II. Soul Stone destroyed. Dead?
Mephisto, the Lord of Hatred
Boss of Act III, Dead. Soul stone destroyed
Baal, the Lord of Destruction
Boss of Act V, Dead. Soul stone never destroyed.
Well as we see here, only 2 of the great evils are still alive and both are at each others throats. Also only one of the Prime Evils Soul stone remains.
I think it's safe to say that Azmodan and Belial will be major bosses in Diablo 3 and it's possible that Baal will also play a major part in the game.
Anyway...after watching the vids, reading all the articles on the site, and doing alot forum searching and diablo sites, I can found a few things that aren't really well known.
I. I believe that the main (or at least one of the main) antoganists in the story.
Here are my reasons:
a). It shows a very large demon in the teaser. Who looks quite abit like Diablo, though a tad skeletal. I have a couple of theories of his return.
1. Diablo could have been resurected as in necromancy or maybe more of a true resurection by a great magical means.
2. Baal (who's soulstone was never shown destroyed, there fore was never really killed) absorbed the essences of his fallen brothers and either gained more of a Diablo like visage, or perhaps his younger brother overcame hisw will and became dominant (similar to what he did to the wanderer).
3. The destruction of the world stone may have had some effect on the rules of how the world goes round...who knows it's blizzard.
b). Also during the teaser while The woman (who will from now on be reffered to as Leah, will go more in on that later) narrates "But as the shadow once again crawls across our world". If you all remeber from the Act II cintematic from Diablo II, Marius narrated "And always, a dark cloud seemed to follow us...just over the horizon". Sounds similar doesn't it? Well there's more. Leah goes on to say "And a stench of terror drifts on a bitter wind."
If I remember corectly, let's see...Diablo is the lord of....darn I can't remember what...Oh wait, TERROR. I don't think Blizzard is trying to hide the fact that it is Diablo. Cintimatic trailers (especially high quality ones like the teaser) take hundreds of hours to make and there is little room for mistakes. Though then again when mistakes are made and over looked at first they're nearly impossible to fix (For example, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children took years to make, it was carefully planned and closely watched for mistakes, though when the finished product shipped there were still a handfull of mistakes, for example: during the fight with Loz Kaj and the other guy(can never remember the guy with the guns name) Cloud pulls out the main sword and the the front blade and gets knocked off the bike. when he lands he's holding the main and back blade but when the back blade gets knocked out of his hand he goes to retrieve it and finds the front blade. Theres a web site that shows the all of the glitches which is where I found that example. I can't find it but I give all credit to that site.)
c.) And my final reason....THE NAME OF THE NAME IS DIABLO I mean come on people...that should be reason enough. It's like having a Zelda game without having that stupid b!*% bossing you around (for the record I love Zelda games, it's just that you think Link would get some for wasting his life saving her from Ganon). Nuff said. I'm pretty sure Diablo will be in Diablo 3.
II. Next to clarify on the whole Leah/Narrator deal. Three official pieces of media lead me to this.
a. At the end of the dungeon in the gameplay trailer the Barbarian tells Cain "Get yourself back to town Cain, Leah worries after you". This is the source of the name.
b. In the concept art there are two pictures of Cain with a young woman who looks an awful lot like the girl from the teaser. I believe it's safe to assume they are one and the same.
Also I'd like to query, Just how old is Cain? He was an old man in Diablo 1, There's around a couple of years difference between 1 and 2 and Diablo 3 is 20 years later than 2. I'd have to say in his 90s or up.
III. Diablo 3 should have more than just 5 classes, my guess would be 7+. I'm not going to source anything and a fore warning the quotes in this sub-topic will just be what I remember reading from various sites. First off with the current "5" roster of classes would most likely be as follows:
1.Barbarian(announced)
2.Witch Doctor(announced)
3.Archer(A bow drops in the trailer, there has to be a class for it, possibly a combination of multiple classes.)
4.Magic class(sorc type, I did read somthing interesting online, saying that some one who's cousin worked for blizzard and told him that Necro and Sorc would be combined, don't know if it's true but I hope not.)
5.This one is kinda open could be a palidon type(the whole thing is heaven vs. hell) or druid(theres a picture of a woman wearing a wolf helm and a snake wrapped around her arm in the concept art.)
Though acording to interviews and q&as there will be "several new classes" and several that will be revamped.
Several: 2 b: more than two but fewer than many
there fore with that said we can expect 6+ classes
I just hope they come up with a fast attacker class kinda like the assassin except less stealth/trap oriented, more of just a pure damage dealer, oh well we can only trust blizzard.
Also I read some where that Diablo 3's current status is the core game, all classes, and act 1. Not confirmed though.
IV. I've heard alot of people complain about the inventory, saying it's to "Wowish"...I sadly say that I think I have found evidence of this being true. In the game trailer when the barbarian fights all the sheild-bearing skeles on the bridge "Small bag" drops from one of the skeles. this could mean that you increase your inventory size via bags, though more unlikely it could be similar to the random lock boxes, clam shells ect that drop in wow that contain items in them. Personally I think it would be cool if they kept the tetris like inventory and used bags to increase the amount of boxes and allowed you to turn items to fit better. Oh well...
V. This is just a kind of theory, as most of us know(I use most lightly) There are 7 Great Evils of Hell
Duriel, the Lord/Prince of Pain
Boss of Act II, Dead.
Andariel, the Maiden of Anguish
Boss of Act I, Dead.
Belial, the Lord of Lies
Along with Azmodan, they through over the Prime Evils as they were trying to turn man to their side. After suceeding they had a disagreement on who would be dominant and are now both locked in a civil war in Hell.
Azmodan, the Lord of Sin
Same as Belial.
Diablo, the Lord of Terror
Final Boss of Diablo I, Boss of Act IV of Diable II. Soul Stone destroyed. Dead?
Mephisto, the Lord of Hatred
Boss of Act III, Dead. Soul stone destroyed
Baal, the Lord of Destruction
Boss of Act V, Dead. Soul stone never destroyed.
Well as we see here, only 2 of the great evils are still alive and both are at each others throats. Also only one of the Prime Evils Soul stone remains.
I think it's safe to say that Azmodan and Belial will be major bosses in Diablo 3 and it's possible that Baal will also play a major part in the game.