I thought the story was bad when playing it but your narration made it good and digestable. It has some lows and some highs but my god now i want to know what comes next! Keep up the good vids
Hello. I appreciate your comment and your point of view. In my opinion, after being SUPER dissapointed with Diablo 3 after falling in love with Diablo II, this Diablo IV I was expecting again a big sadness. To my surprise, I just finished it today without expansion, and I have to say that the Lore is very very good in my opinion. A lot of debate between what's good and what's evil. A lot of shades of grey about who is helping and who is not. Who will betray you. Why this guy have this motivation. Etc etc.
I got to the Durance of Hate and eventually reached what is formerly known in D2 as DoH level 3, walked like 10 feet and stopped. I GOT GOOSEBUMPS!!! I know this floor layout….
What only happened in this expansion: 1. We saved Neyrelle. 2.......... I was disappointed we didn't get to fight Mephistos Akarat avatar and in the fight he could split his body in a gory ingame cutscene and have him take his true form. So Mephisto is still out there in Sanctuary. Where is Tyrael? Where is Lorath? Especially with this Neyrelle centric expansion. I was expecting some hints/tidbits about them and maybe even some foreshadowing of Baal and Diablo... or Imperius and the Angels (my theory is that Tyrael ran away from the Horadrim because he still has an Angelic connection and he got a vision showing Imperius is preparing his army to have his final war against Sanctuary and the Humans so Tyrael ran away to try to stop this from happening/doing something).
@@NyxVellum Thank you. I find the Angels and especially Imperius so fascinating and cool. I wanna see more of them. And they will come but I have a hard time waiting.
While ending is definately underwhelming, but at the same time it was what I hoped for. Defeating mephisto immediatelly would feel underwhelming, they obviously playing long con, so it all depends if they cook it right
@@vonb2792 Yes. He wanted an alliance with the player, the Wanderer. So Mephisto probably like a lot of times during the Eternal Conflict wants to betray his brothers and be the ultimate winner. Unfortunately the wanderer did not accept this.
They cooked with the trailer but the story overall was ass, the ending felt super forced and pointless. The side vilain of the church felt so out of place as well. At least the new class is fun and there's more to do in the endgame. Hopefully they'll write something better for upcoming expansions.
It's setting up two story beats that will overlap in the future. Mephisto is likely going to hide in the body of Akarat and gain strength and tributes to bring back the other primevals. As for the church, it's more than hinted at that the church is failing. If the church fails then the angels get less tribute and become weaker. I'd imagine that they will eventually 'remedy' it. Can very easily see Imperius finally get the war he always wanted.
I like the fact that a Prime Evil isn't just easily dispatched by a random character in the world. And therefor he is setting up the revival of his brothers. I do however see the disappointment people experience, because we didn't even get to fight the real mephisto
As long as the eventual fight with the Prime Evil, or Evils, at some point-- does justice to THIS fight,- I'm happy with it. Not sure how they'll pull that off, but, the weight of fighting Mephisto's avatar and having us ONLY win because of Akarat's sacrifice? That was SERIOUSLY epic.
Yes my thoughts exactly. I hope blizzard is not going to rush this story now bc of the backlash from people that wanna fight te big Boyz.
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@@TheCrownedSunif the story goes slow like this. And mephisto plans will actually bear fruit. We might actually experience the war between prime evils and high heavens that imperius so desperately want to. But people will be so disgusted by the amount of DLCs needed to get there.
See, I know logically that this is what they are doing, but it felt like the base story was a setup for mephisto, and this dlc feels like a setup for mephisto. I know the next xpac will go hard, but it's hard not to feel left out in the cold on this, at least where the story is concerned. I'm a life long diablo player, and this xpac has so much great about it, I'm very happy with the state of the game, I just wish the campaign got as much love as the new class
The best moments is when they focus on Mephisto, neyrelle's struggle and well the evils of hell(And well the Church of Light part was nice to). Felt a bit short I enjoyed it, any parts I didn't mention felt weird/ I didn't care for.
Not sure what everyone is criticizing in D4 writing. Story is solid. Thick with despair and hopelessness. Calls back to every Diablo ever. Darkness comes, avatars are born and we are called to face the wars they bring. Calls further into question our decisions to slay our mother. Was she right? Creates new paths for us to follow in the future. Maybe not the most exciting and somewhat predictable but Diablo has ever been about “the cycle”. And evil lives in that wheel.
Good thing i can just watch these videos instead of getting scammed by blizzard. 40$+ used to give you closure now they just keep baiting you with next time on DBZ! (for another 40$+ at least)
I was really waiting for this video :D Great job as always and I'm looking forward to the story of Akarat. Now speculations going on: the next expansion MUST be about the Light and the Church's road to redemption, hopefully we get the holy-warrior class too finally.
I feel bad for all past heroes of Sanctuary, Rathma, Tal Rasha, and now Akarat. They are recycled out to be messed 1 by 1, their shining heroic past and history becoming dull. If i were in Sanctuary, all good heroes bad ending, Heaven closed their door, nothing else can look up and better destroy the planet. Anyway, hope next DLC in Xiansai, where Akarat come from, one of the region never step in in any Diablo franchise yet.
This really looks like it was supposed to be the final chapter of the base game, but they decided they would make it the first expansion simply for greed's sake
Who knew that moment when you predicted this whole "expansion" story upon watching the trailer? Hatred now has hold of an entire faith that when revived, coupled with the shaken cathedral of light, will compel sanctuary to side with akarat (mephisto)
Thanks for a breakdown of the lore. 40 dollars is a lot for an expansion. Gonna wait for a sale. Hope the writing from the d4 team gets better with time.
Almost making me want to buy it. Diablo has been a franchise that influenced my enjoyment of datk fantasy and D&D. Just has a special place in my gaming soulstone.
The campaign was fine, not super good but definitely not as bad as some folks would have you believe. I think it boils down to a few things, like the fact that a lot of people don't like Neyrelle as a character so chasing her down as a key story element just falls flat for most; add in some pacing issues, less Mephisto than what we wanted, and the hype surrounding release... well it was bound to disappoint somewhat. I personally found the story engaging and cinematics pretty good, and even though I could take or leave Neyrelle as a character, I did somewhat empathize. Where the expansion really shines is the new Spiritborn class which is so much fun to play, and Nahantu is an absolutely gorgeous new area of the map to explore. And don't even get me started on that soundtrack 🤌 All in all you get your money out of it i think. And I do like the implications of the ending and something mentioned about the other Prime Evils.. ifykyk. I think people tend to gravitate to the extremes a lot these days, and if something isn't excellent or amazing than its automatically bad or a dumpster fire.
I love how the main character in this first-person RPG is ... Neyrelle. Also, has anyone kept track of how many characters follow the "oh, they were so good but they've been corrupted and now I have to kill them" trope? Honestly, in Diablo V we should just preemptively kill anyone who tries to help us before they inevitably turn evil :P
I was waiting for this video and wow - great job! Thanks Nyx! I saw lots of people criticising the VoH lore, but I really like it. It was a bold decision to not let us kill Meph yet, but I think him possesing Akarat's body opens a cool and nasty way for Mephisto to mess with the people of Sanctuary. Wonder if he will pretend to be Akarat reborn
I agree. I've seen a lot of negative reception to the lore but I'm also quite intrigued as to how we will battle Akarat-Mephisto. Hopfully the build-up will be epic.
Agreed. This just opened a lot of possibilities. With the cathedral of light in shambles, he's surely going to take advantage of bringing in more followers and start a holy war. Is he going to use the zakarum, the triune or start another religion perhaps being the antichrist now? This kinda feels we might get a paladin/crusader/templar like class next expansion as well.
@@MondianP with Prava becoming our bestie we might get a Pale?penitent Knight as a new class I think. And yeah - Meph seems to become an antichrist///antiakarat/ antirat :D
@@ajsti91 only thing I didn't like was Prava suddenly becoming our bff after getting screwed over in hell. Was hoping we took her out and not some nobody like Urivar lol. Kinda expected we wouldnt take out Meph right away though they're trying it differently though and doing it long term despite this expansion being a massive cliffhanger. Still think Lilith and Rathma would be back, Lilith's blood and Rathma's prophecy are still focal points of the story.
I can't remember propperly, but someone said that the expansion's story won't be fully released at lunch and will be added in portions. May be alongside each season... Currently it didin't resolve. Mephysto returned to prepare for his brothers' return. Heavens are eerily silent... Tyrael is nowhere to be found... this is not a complete story. And judging by the Blizzards' Diablo expansions, we might have to wait for Diablo V to continue it...
I'm often critical of Blizzard, but credit where credit is due: they knocked it out of the park with the new expansion. The new systems are a big improvement, the new class is interesting, the writing is tight and almost poetic in some spots, and the story is scaled down and extremely personal. And its ultimate message about the perseverance of the human spirit was a wonderful change of pace for a series that can sometimes lean too heavily into edgelord nonsense. This is was a story about saving a single soul - a story about people helping each other through incredibly challenging circumstances, not about killing demons, and I love that. 10/10
Not super big on the story myself, felt it deviated from the tone of the series overall and was paced weirdly. That said, it is refreshing to see a different perspective and I appreciate yours
I get that the “light” was corrupted, but they should have made a holy sword and board path that stood up to the corrupted knights. Paladins and crusaders didn’t follow in inarius.
It's so wild how they fooled us all the time with the name of the expansion. When it was revealed i still rememeber hiw everyone was saying "we know it's the girl" When i found out they were basicall foreshadowing the end of the expansion i couldnt believe how smart the title actually was. I wasn't really that much invested into the story while playing and think it wasn't really told very well im still glad they didnt burn mephisto as a Bossfight yet and decided to build up on it instead. This was an incredibly well done video that hooked me every second even if i know the story already!
I am looking forward to what's coming, but I wish it didn't come at the cost of using an entire bloody expansion as essentially a setup arc. And, as others have mentioned, the abundance of questions that have remained unanswered. Where the hell are all the angels and what are they doing?
The whole expansion I was just thinking siding with Lilith would have been a better option. I hate participating in a story with a better solution constantly yelling at me in the back of my mind.
Dude, The game begins by telling you that the sanctuary fell, the prophecy was fulfilled, what you are playing is the past to see how the destruction of the sanctuary happened, you cannot make decisions because they have already been made.
From a lore stand point the expansion was great, as well as the lessons on grief,regret, guilt etc. All of that was handled really well. The problem is how short it was left alot of things that could have been truly peak moments as lackluster. Duders stabs us in the back and kicks us in water setting up for a major encounter later as well as reminding the player and the wanderer even though theyve killed lilith and have fought through hell they are still fragile and mortal. Dudes hunting down neyrelle as well. So outside the opening does he really pose any threat tension etc? Fuck no. We only see him again one more time when we kill him. He doesnt even come close to getting to neyrelle which could have lead to a proper threat outside mephisto and the stone to her. The ending felt rushed and the mephisto fight kinda just felt anticlimatic and there was basicly 0 actual fight to worry about. I woulf have liked for mephistos herald to feel like a proper threat in the fight as well. The the other dude betraying us felt like a easy to see happening ahead of time thing that was building so i didnt mind it but also i would have liked a bit more, for it to go darker. Neyrelle being saved felt like them wanting to avoid a Leah 2.0 situation which i do get. But the way neyrelles story was going id have actually liked to see the soulstone completely and permentantly take her and we get a full blown reborn mephisto fight. Also where the hell did lorath go? Dude got the lead to chase neyrelle then we never see him. Dude must of have gotten lost wherever the d3 nephillim went on vacation lol Over all from a lore and spectacle stand point and a lesson stand point it was great. But from a expansion and player stand point it was way to short, not enough was fleshed out and it feels like we only got half an expansion worth of length. I finished it all in maybe 6 hours outside of a bug where i had to redo the final quest cause i got dc'd before the portal. End game stuff is enjoyable and spiritborns also enjoyable. Tldr- good lore,good themes. to short, not satisfied,spiritborn fun.
Thanks for this! Im a diablo lore fanatic and didn't want to buy this dlc/xpac. But as you said that you know it will repeat itself, talking about meph.......what if we get to go back to the city of the damned and destroy the soulstones on the hellforge again! GIVE ME THEM RUNES!
"I saw my corpse, & from my mouth crawled hatred. A father burned his children on a pyre, & a mother molded a new age from the ashes. I saw the weak made strong, a pack of lambs feasting on wolves. Tears of blood rained on a desert jewel, & the way to hell was torn asunder. Then came a spear of light, piercing hatred's heart, & he who was bound in chains was set free." Interesting prophecy. It's broken down into 5 sentences. The 1st & 3rd I'm still stuck on, so maybe someone can fill me in on this with their thoughts. Although Mephisto is associated with the wolf, the lambs feasting on wolves could mean that something rises up to fight Mephisto. But the 2nd - "Father burned his children" makes me think of Inarius or Urivar, & that Reverend Mother Prava is the mother who molds a new age from the ashes (as referenced at the end of VoH). The 4th - "Tears of blood... Hell was torn asunder." obviously refers to Caldeum & how Lilith entered Mephisto's realm of hatred. This could reference the turning of events leading to Mephisto's imprisonment in the soulstone & his release as essentially hell broke loose with the Helltides, Neyrelle's journey in VoH, & how strong Mephisto's influence has been since the gates opened. The 5th - "Then came a spear of light... bound in chains was set free." I'm thinking this has something to do with the Mephisto-possessed Akarat.
Say what you want but Urivar was smart asf not wasting that opportunity to stab us while we were distracted. Like we the mfer that took out Lilith, it’d be dumb not to do that with how powerful we must be to survive hell as a Victor.
Inarius most likely got stuck in Hell to get Izual'd Lilith - not sure - Mephisto could ensure her permadeath or arrange for someone to conume her reforming esence. Can go both ways
thanks for this video brother, I'm playing only for the gameplay and loot, and don't have patience for all this in game, I'm skipping all this sh*t.. But it's nice to know what is going on lol 😅 thanks again and keep up the good work ❤
I don't know why but I disliked Nyriel from the very beginning and thought that she was a side NPC. So I was surprised that she became the main character. Anyway, that's just my preference, I'm all limbs for Inarius and Lilith hah. And yeah, where are other Angels and Evils? (At least smth they, the Devs, could have hinted smth, I don't know ) Lorath? I didn't understand what happened to him. Thank you for the video! Respect and extolment for passion for lore and narration skills.
Thank you for this video mate. You spared me from having to buy D4, just to know the lore 😊 I love lore videos and I even got a D4 closed beta invite and played it, but when I played it I realised that I really didn’t like the gfx or the gameplay, so it made me wanna buy the game even less. People like you deserve a medal for your work 💪
Your character literally got stabbed through the back sticking out your chest, with a gaping open chest/back wound you fell into swampy jungle water that in any real world would have parasites swimming up and laying eggs in your weiner, and you came out of it like it never happened. Neyrelle had another man inside her who gave her a relatively mild case of stigmata. Who has the real plot armor here?
@@notbrad4873 The question is WHY did our character get backstabbed so easily? We took out the daughter of a prime evil in a fight, yet we apparently are hopeless to noticing a guy moving behind us, backstabbing us with a dagger, not to mention we have taken far more devistating blows then a dagger that has done far less damage to us. I mean its plot armor with Neryelle is resisting a prime evils influence as the world around her is being corrupted because she gives a prayer? The horadrim struggled to find a way to contain Baal and the Wanderer's only solution was to embed the stone in himself to try and contain the evil. Far more wise and expereinced individuals have tried to find ways to contain a prime evil and quickly fell, yet a little girl can just casually carry the stone around and be fine? MInd you a prime evil that was at pretty much full regenerated power. The D2 hero only held the soulstones of the freshly defeated Prime Evils for a very short time after taking hold, while Marius having the soulstone SEPERATED from Baal in what would of been likely several months at most had mentally deteriorated.
Yeah all this time you were thinking NEYRELLE was the veasel of hatred. That was a trick. Its was AKARAT that turned out to be the vessel. NO LORATH in the story too. Sneaky.
Cutscenes and Cinematics team doing the heavy lifting as usual, from D3 onwards. Meanwhile for the story directiion: MEH When Baal was introduced in LOD expansion, it so satisfying. Act 5 alone beats this plot.
Im honestly amazed and impressed you managed to spread out this story to 40mins. Without all the fluff in game you could easily tell the story in 5mins😂
Perhaps Akarat will take Inarius' spot in the heavens, Inarius losing his wings and all. idk. Also why are all the left eyes only melt of the statues around Mephisto rising from the black tar in the final scene.
Akarat inspired the Zakarum faith (Church of Light) which gave us Paladins and Crusaders. Now that the body of Akarat has become the Vessel of Hatred, it heavily hints that we will get a Holy class return next expansion to answer the threat of their spiritual leaders body being taken by Mephisto. tbh d4 and voh campaign story have both been lackluster. too much focus on emotional melodrama. a constant yo-yo of "I cant do this... but we can do it together.. omg its hard... we must!... boo hoo hoo.. hurrah!". Too much faff. D3 campaign story was so much better, punchier and epic. I'm still not sure how i feel about them fucking with 20yr old lore to make up a spirit realm to sell their new class in this expansion.. which is basically d3 monk with spirit/jungle makeover. Just reusing old assets and putting new packaging on it.... sigh, atleast the gameplay is good.
