I really hope in the near future, maybe at launch this game will have some voiced NPCs or some kind of NPC that tells you about the world/time line because now … the game feel kinda empty. I don`t fell like my character is making any impact, some of the bosses are forgettable…you can surf through all the chapters like it was nothing. And you wont remember to much of the story. I know this is an ARPG , and this genre does not have the most exciting storytelling or its not that important… but I think with a few cut scenes between chapters, (ex. like the presentation of the characters you play) and voiced NPC, plus having some NPC like Decard Cain (D2) or Tyrael (D3) that are there to help with the story telling it adds a lot more depth, and will make the game feel less empty.
you aren’t missing much. I tried to loremaster this game after making multiple runs through the whole thing on a few characters and what it breaks down to is not only bare bones, but it contradicts itself in an unbridgeable, universe destroying sort of way (basically there’s a really big, un-addressed plot hole) but here’s a quick crash course in the lore:
Start: you are on of 5 individuals who don’t matter in a cosmic sense, as what happens to one happens exactly the same to all 4 others, but there’s a slight nuance to each class:
Acolyte: you went to mage school but wanted to use evil magic, so you left in search of evil magic.
Mage: you were a teacher at mage school, but one of your students wanted to use evil magic, so you chased them out of town and are now looking for them so you can apologize.
Primalist: you live up north and things are pretty lit until the big fire bird attacks with his armies and you have to flee for your life.
Sentinel: you were in the big fire birds army when they attacked the north, but you thought it was wrong and felt bad, so you deserted.
Rogue: lolyeet #yolo nobody tells me what to do.
this leads into act 1, where you are traveling for reasons and encounter a religious group under attack by the bird men, you rescue them and they give you the artifact of indeterminable power that yeets you into the future, not questioning this, you encounter the survivors of a void apocalypse you know nothing about, and they aren’t surprised at all that a new person has arrived carrying the artifact of indeterminable power.
you learn that the artifact you have is one of 3 shards, and set off to find the other 2. one is held by a dude who used to be cool, but then he wasn’t cool, so you kill him and take his shard, then you go to the temple of god person to get the last shard. in the temple you fight some nonsense that shouldn’t have been able to get in because of the door guard, but that doesn’t matter to continuity because #arpg, so you gotta fight some stuff in the temple.
you get the last shard and reform the thing, which yeets you into a pocket dimension called the end of time.
aat the end of time you learn that everything sucks, and nobody is happy, but you could fix it by trying a thing that won’t work, so you go back in time to the imperial era which was the result of angry man killing the gods and taking their power, now he’s the emperor. deciding that he must die, you try to figure out how to get to him, but you can’t. then you meet a friend who says he can take you to the emperor if you help him, so you do, but it turns out he can’t, but he actually knows someone who can, and thus you meet a woman named “Yulia” (keep an eye on her)
Yulia tells you to get on a boat, and somehow this takes you to a mountain where the emperor lives, then she kills your friend and tells you to do the thing, but you don’t know what thing she’s talking about. she freaks out on you and yeets you to the past, where you meet a big magic deer who takes issue with the big fire bird. unfortunately the big fire bird has a type advantage against ice deer and one shots him, because there are apparently no consequences to killing a god in this universe. you go to a nearby town to tell people that their deer friend is dead, and the town’s leader turns out to be Yulia, but she’s younger, alive, and doesn’t know you. so you do the thing that every time travel story messes up on, and become the self fulfilling prophecy that you already know wont work by making a plan with yulia to do the thing in the future.
then you move on and steal the magic deer’s super weapon that he hid in a tree for some reason, and go take it to a big squid man who tells you to prove yourself. you do after probably multiple attempts because he’s overtuned AF, but then he makes the super weapon stronger in a nondescriptive sort of way, then you go looking for a snake person to do the same thing, just so you can stab the super weapon into the bird, which is ultimately what causes the emperor to exist in the first place…
TL;DR, nothing you do matters and this story has no resolution. you’re just running in circles because that’s what passed for deep story-telling 30 years ago, and people aren’t over it yet.
Memorable character does make the games more memorable. That being said, if there were ever more cutscene, make it skippable please. I have seen Rahyeh penetrate Heorot enough times without being able to skip them.
EDIT: one cool thing is in act 9, there is a story connection to rouge origin. Quite impressed that the devs bother to add that when I read it.
Which is ironically what Heorot should have done when Rahyeh started channelling…
closed time loop is a severe issue when trying to stop the apocalypse.
unless you do some bullshit like shatter the epoch thus creating a million different timelines, where in one you save the world… there is no solution
Great… now I want to watch all of the Marvel movies again.
Thank you for filling the gaps with the story:) I honestly did not know every detail.
Yeah it`s a time loop story but nonetheless it can be explained better and improved through out the development of the game.
Most game have skippable cut scenes. But it can be good through out the development of the game to also work a bit on the story telling. Plus because its a time travel story its a good premise for a game that wants to update again and again. Time travel shenanigans.
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