So just what was Belial's plan there?

[NuurAbSaal]

But, yeah, having Azmodan tell us that his armies have breached the walls below the keep was pretty stupid.

I finally made the connection. Resident Evil 5. Bear with me.

A large number of the bosses and mini bosses in Diablo 3 constantly blabber on about how nothing you do is of any consequence, to clear evidence of the contrary. This is especially bad for Azmodan and Diablo. They have plans, you thwart them easily, they say LOL NO MATTER! and then you thwart their other plans or schemes. This was the single most painful fact about D3 for me, the childish (somebody mentioned this already) reactions and clear inability to comprehend their peril by the so called prime evils (and then THE prime evil). They are dumb as bread.

Now, the dialogue between Chris/Sheva and Wesker in RE5 was very similar in a way. Only in that game the "heroes" had apparently no idea Wesker could and would kick the shit out of them with ease (though the horrible writing forbade him from just outright killing the only threat to his plan), and merrily confronted him with yells of "It's over, Wesker!" over and over again. Followed by a beating, some mini boss battle and anther level of 'Where in World is Albert Wesker'. Dumb. As. Bread. This was hilarious at times in RE5 (especially with the unlocked custom costumes, gogo Disco Chris!), but, as stated, it annoyed the hell out of me in D3.

Thank god Buzzard put a ton of (imo) very well done Lore into the game to distract me from the main story. Shen (as has been mentioned) is brilliant, there are lots of references to interesting events and I especially enjoyed the Bestiary entries. So, there was definitely a lot of talent available for the game. It just didn't have anything to do with the main story. Meh.

take care
Tarabulus