08-18-2012, 10:57 PM
(08-18-2012, 09:58 PM)Occhidiangela Wrote: Love all of the end of act cinematics, but somehow, they didn't leave me a hook for the expansion, the way Marius got pwned by Baal in D2, and how Aidan stabbed his own self in the forehead with that soulstone in D1 ...
YES.
I've been thinking about this for awhile now. Was meaning to bring it up as a topic on the pseudo-podcasts we were doing but never got around to it. There was no cliffhanger at the end of D3. No implication that things were going to get worse before they got better. There are obviously things left open and not all strings are tied off (Adria is still out there, there was something stated about trying to save Leah's soul, etc.) but nothing that left me with an "oh SHIT!" feeling.
The one thing from D3 that they better not try to explain, as far as I am concerned, is Shen. They implied throughout the game that he may be more than just a crazy old kook and that allowed Blizzard to give him some great 'breaking the 4th wall' moments ("What a fascinating place this is. Look at all this wonderful architecture. You could walk all the way around the world and never find its like." -> "Except for this part. I've seen this somewhere else before.").