the beast

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grant_m wrote:

It's the guy under your bed. In your closet. In your head.

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

but we all know they didnt. They consider it a courtesy to put most of the lore in voluntary side objects and skippable dialogue. Which is very nice for a click fest but now and then we get threads like these which make clear either the lore needs to be less obscured now that Act 4 draws on do much of it, or click fest type people post before doing their research.

Neither are big enough problems for GGG to justify addressing from a financial aspect, I expect.

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NeroNoah wrote:

My favourite game on the series was the first (Have you seen my daughter? What is going on with this city? Like...the whole game...), and most people remember fondly the second one. God knows how much time I've spent trying to understand the mythology of the place and what the hell is going on, rather than fixating on the personal demons of the characters (yes, they are interesting).

Who cares about why D1 did things that way or who would care about it? Sometimes you just have to do things different to the rest to make a point. Also, games like Dark Souls (if I understood well) got away with the same thing, so it's not a lost battle.

The whole reception of Beyond, lorewise, it's a good signal for that (see Qarl's comments in the challenge postmortem development manifesto, and from other people too). People like that there is more outside to discover, the mistery...

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DalaiLama wrote:

Ah Diablo 1- We didn't have fancy six links, or four links or even more than one colour socket. We had one red gem that we had to shove in our forhead and we were glad for it. The lore was a bit spartan, but it's nice to be able to play a game and have the lore an optional part that you can dig into if you like.