Posts Tagged ‘Lore’
IGN On Diablo 3 Lore
July 25th, 2008 / / by Sp3tSnAz
IGN has a new interview up with Leonard Boyarsky, the game’s lead world designer. The interview is mainly about the lore of the game, how closely it matches up to the old games, how the lore will appeal both to hardcore and casual player as well as character voices.
The best parts of the interview can be seen below, while you can see the rest of it over at IGN.
Jay Wilson on Plot, Lore and Battle Net
July 1st, 2008 / / by Sp3tSnAz
Kotaku has a new interview up with Lead Designer behind Diablo 3, Jay Wilson. The interview talks of the Lore, the Plot and Battle Net.
Kotaku: So, Jay, what can you tell us about the storyline of Diablo III?
Jay Wilson: In the previous two games, Diablo and his two brothers, Mephisto and Baal, were the three Prime Evils of a world called Sanctuary. Where we start off in Diablo III, it’s twenty years later (after Diablo II: Lord of Destruction) and the brothers are gone, they’ve been vanquished. Essentially everyone was kind of geared for Hell to actually invade. At the end of Lord of Destruction, the Worldstone was destroyed, it left a giant crater and everyone was expecting the hordes to come pouring out of it and nothing happened. So, Deckard Cain is one of our main characters from the first two games, he’s spent the last two decades trying to find out where the last two Evils are, what they’re doing and why the invasion didn’t happen. A lot of the rest of the story focuses on Tyrael, the Angel of Justice, and what’s happened to him since that event as he was actually the angel who destroyed the world.
Kotaku: With the popularity of WoW and other online games, Battle.net seems to have nearly disappeared into the background. Do you think Diablo III will breathe new life into the service?
Jay Wilson: I can’t really talk about Battle.net but I will say, Battle.net will not be a background. I’ll be huge, the next version will be absolutely Blizzard’s focus. Everyone is going to be thrilled when they see the kind of stuff we have planned! It feeds into our overall focus of providing a really great service for our players.
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