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/worl...mcathedral.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

[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]

IŽd 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

[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.