Soooooo do you think THE BUTCHER will be back?

[yalthar]

I sincerely hope so ...man I just love that butcher fellow showing adventurers early in the game what it's all about!

From http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/world/dungeons/tristramcathedral.xml


"And then we heard this...this horrid voice that I can only describe as the sound of a saw ripping through bone.

"I can't even recollect what he was saying. I was so terrified I don't think I could understand it, but he kept repeating it, over and over." The adventurer shuddered at the remembrance.

"He was this bloated thing...and ...and there was blood, and bodies – everywhere I turned, some new horror confronted me. And suddenly he was on us; we couldn't shake him. Jeremy fell first, and then I ran. I admit it: I ran, left my fellows to die. I couldn't face that thing; it was all just too horrible. He hit me with a glancing blow as I fled, but even that was enough to take my arm almost clean off. I had to have a healer finish the job...."

I'm pretty sure that he is saying "AHHH! FRESH MEAT!"

[Swiffer]

Yeah, that is exactly what i thought of when i read that page.

With the game starting us off in New Tristram, and Cain having gone back to the original Tristram Cathedral (and, tieing that to the gameplay we saw) likely needing rescue from the levels below, i immediately thought "I wonder what the Butchers room will look like".

That particular passage you quote is said by an adventurer recalling his parties venture into the Cathedral back in the original Diablo 1 setting, so the butcher is long dead, but surely the big bloodstained room will still be there :D

[yalthar]

Yeah you're right - I reread the article and I agree it's about the old butcher.
I do think there is a reason for including this though.

[mouseman]

Yeah definitely there's a reason for that article. I love how they include stuff from D1 even more so than from D2.

Even if the original Butcher is not there, someone like him will be. I really miss the "AAHH! FRESH MEAT" voice :) It made me wet my pants when I was just about ten and playing the original Diablo. Well not really, but close.

[cfeldt]

I wonder if it was just because I was a lot younger when playing that D1 seemed so much scarier than D2. I gave me the creeps taking the stairs further and further down under the cathedral in D1 =)
D1 also had more sinister feel to me; the Buchers room, Lazarus...
Hopefully this feel will return in D3.

[Manovan]

I´d love to see the Butcher again. From the very first time I heard the "Please, listen to me..." quote about 9-10 years ago, I memorized it and I know it by heart still to this day. That's how much I loved the Butcher when I was a kid.

[Reanimator]

Lol the Butcher was awesome - I guess it's possible he'll be back if we're heading back to Tristram in D3 :) Although, by now you would think Deckard would realise Tristram is not a safe place for him! ;)

[Cheeseflys]

Didn't you guys notice somthing so easy to spot? The one guy that you get the Butcher quest from, he injured his arm and I belive he said he needed a healer. So, The Butcher should be back in some form, unless Cain's Journal is just to read for fun. :P

[Swiffer]

Didn't you guys notice somthing so easy to spot? The one guy that you get the Butcher quest from, he injured his arm and I belive he said he needed a healer. So, The Butcher should be back in some form, unless Cain's Journal is just to read for fun. :P

Considering you kill the butcher dead as dead in Diablo 1, i doubt the butcher will be back.

As i said in my first post:

That particular passage you quote is said by an adventurer recalling his parties venture into the Cathedral back in the original Diablo 1 setting, so the butcher is long dead, but surely the big bloodstained room will still be there :D

[Burst Cancel]

The Butcher scared the **** out of me the first time I played the game, and I wasn't even that young then. I loved it. That monster and his room pretty much defined the Diablo experience for me.

I hope they pull something similar for this game. In fact, I hope the whole game is downright terrifying. Looking at the screenshots and trailers though, I doubt that's going to happen.

The Butcher's room should still be there, and it would be interesting to see if it's newly inhabited. The encounter won't have the same feeling though, unless we get a backstory for it similar to the one in D1, with some dying townsperson talking about how everyone got slaughtered down there by some horrific demon, and the survivors having their minds unhinged from the experience.

[prion]

you'll go in there and think "eh big deal" and the door will suddenly slam shut and lock and the corpse chunks will reanimate!

[Wurmer]

References to Diablo mythology is certainly something I'd like to see. For me, as for many of you, the butcher certainly remains one of the character the left an ever lasting impression on me even though it's been a very long time since I have played the original. I'd would also like to see somewhere good Ole Hephasto brought back to its former glory. Back in the early days of D2, this boss was so terrfying that many people would just ignore him and not face that nasty bastard. He could easily wipe out an entire party of high level characters without breaking a sweat.

[SmittySixTen]

I don't think this is even a question. The Butcher is as much a hallmark of the Diablo franchise as Wirt's wooden leg, which had darn well better make some sort of appearance.

[jamesisbest]

I'm sorry to disappoint but thought it definately sounded like it was about the butcher, however, it was a old recollection of an old warrior. He was describing the trouble his fellow mates had many years ago (most likely 21 years ago during d1). Would be sweet to have the butcher resurrected or some other ploy to put him back in the game. Perhaps he could be a secret easter egg battle found over a year after release much like Diablo 2 had secret cow level as well as the more recent ubers.

[CarsV]

I don't think this is even a question. The Butcher is as much a hallmark of the Diablo franchise as Wirt's wooden leg, which had darn well better make some sort of appearance.

I hope Wirt makes a a special appearance. Wirt, the new Prime Evil of hell.

[Saint Anger]

I'm sorry to disappoint but thought it definately sounded like it was about the butcher, however, it was a old recollection of an old warrior. He was describing the trouble his fellow mates had many years ago (most likely 21 years ago during d1).

That was the whole clue. (The fact that the recollection of his events reminded alot of the Butcher).

[ThulRasha]

I hope Wirt makes a a special appearance. Wirt, the new Prime Evil of hell.

Every time he hits you, you lose 10% of your gold.

[SmittySixTen]

I hope Wirt makes a a special appearance. Wirt, the new Prime Evil of hell.

Yes, and in his dying breath he makes you pay 3x the real value for a sub-par piece of equipment. If you refuse to pay, then you DIE.

[coldsong]

Stay awhile and listen!

[Cast_Raider]

I think we all know deep down who really needs to make an appearance (http://youtube.com/watch?v=To2-xGxTiuU).

[Alfonso the Great]

I think we all know deep down who really needs to make an appearance (http://youtube.com/watch?v=To2-xGxTiuU).

I'll see that (god I love Gharbad!) and raise you (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zRfT0L7qF8&feature=related).

[Feonn]

Let's hope so...there are only a few things that I can remember about Diablo I, as I never really liked it:

- The Butcher
- Hyrda's
- The big D himself

I always liked the butcher :D
It was actually hard to kill them. The best creatures you encounter in Diablo II are, in my opinion:
- Coldcrow (Caves level 1)
- Treehead
- Duriel

For the rest it's just a bunch of noobies :D

[Aranock]

The Tristram Cathedral section on the Diablo 3 website implies that it takes place after the events of Diablo 1, so the wounded adventurer he is speaking to can't be the guy who dies in front of you (butcher quest) in Diablo 1.

We all know the other townsfolk still have their arms attached or are dead, so the person he is referring to is someone we haven't met yet who lived before our hero in Diablo 1 arrived.

Oh, and Abd al-Hazir is interviewing this unknown person about the "old" Tristram...meaning his description of the butcher was from the past -not the present day. (sorry to dissapoint)

[lionheart]

Yea its something used to give u a little of a flashback on the first game. I doubt they will include the butcher again in the new game, anyway you never know