@@KnighTsaucE88 God, you far right losers screeching whenever a black person or a person missing an arm is on screen is hilarious. At least you won't breed and spread those genes full of stupid further.
Also please visit the in game story. For just 50% of the price of the entire game you could buy stuff that makes you not look like a peasant It would be bad for business if gamers could find good looking gear by just playing the game instead of paying money! its just good game design
The writing is what pissed me off, it doesn't fit in diablo. Power of Friendship? What is this FairyTail? Even D3 had a line from templar, "This is a matter of honor now, we must not hesitate" in Act 1 which is miles better than any script in D4 VOH
@@EmberEyes905 Yea I thought D3 was a step down of story telling + all the colorful shit but D4 made it even worse They started off strong in the prologue that leads to Inarius, and it went straight to hell from there. It is the first time ever I will not be buying a Diablo expansion until I can grab it for like 10$
1:40:26 The dialogue for this supposedly emotional scene feels so completely off... Like Akarat just sacrificed himself and she is all me me me and me. I will be fine, I will be ok, I won't give up, will I see you again. The only "You" is You can go now, I am done with you. Not a single comforting word to Akarat even though he just declared he is scared of what comes next. Neyrelle really is a representation of the modern audience...
She (or more like the whole party) fucked things up by using that soul stone on Meph in hell already. If we kill Lilith and let Meph alone, at least he will stay in hell for a long while instead of finding his way into sanctuary.
I think people forget that Mephisto manipulated the party into it. We as watchers speak too easily without being in that scenario under his demonic influence
@@TheDeathCap Wdym? The people should have known even better than us to not entrust the soulstone to some random little girl that couldn't fight off a zombie alone
@@Iqbalx1 Thats what I hate the most about d4. Its exactly the same as the wanderer, just way less cool and epic but a lot more woke Lorath was cool until they made him a drunken fool half way through.
Prava did not deserve that "redemption arc" and Akarat deserved better than the Furry-born and Girlboss expert. RIP Lorath, you got screwed the hardest.
I would argue that prava deserved a redemption arc or have her continue down a path of hatred. What we have here is a complete character annihilation, white washed into a mere token black savior.
@@jet2135StarCraft is different. The story is already finished for Starcraft. It's easy to abandon a completed game because there's no point in sequels all they need to do is release a small balance update here and there for multiplayer to justify it's still supported. The story on games like Diablo and WoW expansions on the other hand always keep ending on a "Please stay tuned on what happens next". ActiBlizz is too scared to give these games an ending because one thing and one thing only *MONEY* . For some reason lots coping people still continue buy them no matter how lackluster and awful the new updates/releases on these games are.
@@SliceLeedice Good point. Though I believe the end of D3 was also the logical end of the whole story (shithead writing and game, but still). They led us to believe that the Nephalem have the greater potential over any demon or angel and can crush any of their mightiest champions. Then, all of a sudden, in D4, humanity is once again reduced to a rabble of mortal beings to make it seem more vulnerable to another invasion of hell forces. No more human half-gods, no more grandeur of saving heavens and crushing all prime evils in a single shot, all gone to make way for another crappy money-making storyline. You know, they're always at the ready to have the whole narrative retconned just to put another crappy writing in there So I wouldn't rule out that someday, once they feel that both WarCraft and Diablo franchises have been milked dry, they will come up with a retconned SC lore introducing another Jailor that's been pulling all the strings behind the curtains and Amon being one of his puppets or some similar stuff I mean even the finished story won't stop them from squeezing a bit of extra money from the once glorious titles
@@jet2135 Yep, all players wants in video games are conclusive finality to it in the most spectacular ways possible, regardless of angels from "mortals doing the unthinkable", "rags to riches" types of narrative ascensions, distinct newborns of superior halfbreed, becoming dictatorial overlords that knows the better than anyone in the story, etc They could've give such conclusion even if the storytelling as crappy as Diablo 3 (and they definitely gave that in Reaper of Souls ending despite how lazy that ending's presentations due to forced rush jobs after backlashes -_-, yet Diablo 4 which supposed to fixing Diablo 3 flaws, ends up making the whole trajectory worsen, they even ends up killing two characters that pretty much could ends "Eternal Conflict" by bringing concepts of harmony and inherited guidances, but nope, they put play into Inarus going insane instead of showcasing of what makes him (and Lilith) different from the other angels and demons altogether, with humans can bring greater potency, now they make the Diablo franchise's counterpart of Jesus being desecrated not just in body, but even have his Spirit vulnerable to corruption and death just to give another edges to prime evils (which already have stupid hack powers to corrupt anything without limitations and consequences at all), you don't see angels nor their council able to restore faster than the prime evils can corrupt, even the respawn timer for the Angiris council's archangels are apparently shown to be longer than the prime evils, even you don't see lesser evils can defy the burning hells and demons by shedding their horns or scales or their dark nature like Tyrael does with ripping his demonic and angelic nature They don't even addressing important details that can develop the story more organically, balanced to better conclusions, things just there and happens for no good reason at all nor having clear factors to such
There was no Diablo game after D2. D3 was developed by completely different people, and they gave us a distilled version of initial vision. That was always the difference between Blizzard and Blizzard North (devs of D1 and D2). Blizzard North wasn't afraid to sacrifice balance for variety and take risks to achieve something unique. Blizzard on the other hand is afraid of pretty much everything. Every aspect of their games has to be 100% safe and HR approved in every way.
@@MagnusMarvin even then the build up towards it still feels Half baked.. although it's visuals of the last scene was Stealler Got goosebumps like I did when I saw Diablo Break Heaven's gate. That story may been meh but that still felt good.
Note for future Horadrim: "You get your hands on a demon possessed soulstone and feel it cracking -you plunge it into the rotting corpses of a weak bum or drunk. The demon will rise but it will not gain any extra power, no guarantee it will be weakened but it will definitely be pissed! Do it to spite those bastards! And that's a win of itself. "
I beat the campaign and a few side quest after 9-10 hours. Def felt that way in the end but for how much was added to the game, soundtrack, cosmetics, graphics, new area. It’s up to par with today’s inflation. I had a great time playing
@@likaloyes and Mephisto did say his brothers are coming so we’ll probably get Diablo or Baal tease in the next expansion. Vessel of Hatred was kinda wasted imo. Just a filler episode.
From the end of this expansion, Im pretty sure we will not get diablo or baal or any angel for the next expansion. Maybe just kill mephisto? Such a waste of time and $
of course Neyrelle somehow manages to come out of all the shit she did perfectly fine, is now somehow an expert on Mephisto, she's going to continue to be a main protag of the story and no one calling her out for anything she did. Sigh, this mary sue character is officially one of blizzard's worst.
@@voidox imagine having whole fucking Aiden the greatest warrior who couldn’t resist Diablo, but some random ass one handed girl somehow managed to do it.
i hated what happened to leah in diablo 3 but now i hope neyrelle gets the same treatment, AINT NO WAY SHE GETS OFF THAT EASY. she better ATLEAST have some level of crippling dementia in the next few expansions.
it's been a while since i read Legacy of blood but as far as i remember the main character there although puppeteer by Bartuc's armor into horrible acts of evil, had quite a hard time dealing with those acts even questioning if his intent would bring those acts to happen. For as much as I payed attention to the video here, i've not seen much of that from Neyrelle but quite a bit of blaming the stone for all those actions.
This story would be considered a mediocre waste of time even for a side-quest ... They could have asked an AI and even that would have written something more compelling ... Seriously, so far we've wasted an entire base game and an expansion, for basically a few individual cool moments, but an underwhelming overall story. We're basically at the same point in the story as we were at the end of the base game ...
Reaper of Souls was the same price I think, and that had a pretty short campaign. I don't agree with the pricing, but Blizzard have been getting away with it for many years.
These are ALL cutscenes? So in the end you do not fight Mephisto? So, for those who bought the expansion, it is another $40 wasted? LOL. Are people going to fight him in the next expansion or what? And then have another where you help for example Baal, only to kill him in the expansion after that? I'm still salty about the $70 I paid for D4, but right now I'm so glad that the disappointment I felt would save me at least 4 expansions each priced at $40.
Virgin Diablo 4 protagonist talking about feelings and struggling to beat Lesser Evils, goes to Hell for 30 minutes and has to leave because it's spooky vs Gigachad Diablo 3 protagonist who kills his way through Hell and Heaven, beats up Archangels and all 4 Lesser Evils + 3 Prime Evils all fused up into one.
D3 protagonist was a Nephilim; the closest beings to anu having both Order and Chaos power in their blood. They're gods. Pretty sure the main character in D4 is just a talented guy. Why aren't all humans nephilim you might ask? I onno.
D3 main character was op and kinda ruined the story, personally i am glad they moved to some more down-to-earth power levels showing how powerful and dangerous actual Prime Evils are. Other than that i agree, can definitely feel the lack of "epicness" in D4 and VoH DLC.
@@tylernelson1416 The Diablo 4 PC gets an upgrade from Lilith's blood ritual thing at the start of the game. He's also a newer generation which should mean stronger because the Worldstone was destroyed a while ago so their powers should slowly come back. We should be stronger than this IMO.
D3 Was the first mistake. This "shame" come from that. Remember Tyrael speaking of mortal triumph ? Then they made the angels a bunch of idiots and the nephalem an unstoppable demigod. But the original heroes .... Well they Were only humans. Should just remain that Way.
@@Rogar79 the angels were always a bunch of idiots. They aren't good. They nearly voted to exterminate humanity. Tyrael is good, but the others aren t much better than Hell.
So the cliff hanger of D4 vanilla was that mephisto is coming back. And the cliff hanger of the expansion is mephisto is coming back... I wonder how many expansion it will take till ppl get to fight diablo. Imagine that. Fighting diablo in a diablo game.
How can Blizzard waste so much potential? - They should not have focused on Mephisto for such a long time. - They should have kept Lilith and Inarius in most of the story and not just have them both only be in the base game. Two very significant characters and we are already done with them. - They shouldn't be squandering the lesser and greater evils and their interactions and politicking. What I personally wanted to see this story: - a whirlwind tour of sanctuary where we go to each part of it and face a different evil(we have never had a Diablo game with all 7 evils and I'd love to see that) - Have them grow the evil's character and not just be forgettable like what they did to Andariel and Duriel in the base game. - Have the final expansion deal with the lord of TERROR and BUILD HIM UP with each expansion. I can't believe they are dragging this story out for anything but their profits. I personally will wait until the last expansion and MAYBE buy a bundle to save. Eat shit Blizzard!
It would have been WAY better if there were cutscenes involving the 7 Evils speaking and scheming like an actual opposing team of sorts, if not solely just to display their characterizations. Would have been great if, rather than just be told by Elias that Andariel was being summoned, we got some moments where Lilith is speaking to Andariel and actually makes a deal to arrange the summoning so that we can see what Andariel values for her loyalty, and how Lilith feels about it (perhaps she didn't want to sacrifice an entire country but there was no other option to get Andy on her side?). It would have also helped for there to be any explanation whatsoever for why Duriel showed up. Perhaps Diablo and Baal should have appeared alongside Mephisto in their own animal forms with some banter between them. We know Baal is a huge troll who likes screwing around and making wisecracks based on his D2 appearances so it would have been neat seeing him crack a few dark-humored one-liners at the suffering of others while Diablo remains overly stern and Mephisto continues to the smart one of the three. Some scenes with Inarius talking to Prava would have also helped flesh out their faction as more than just a bunch of moronic zealots (Vigo has more characterization than his entire faction combined...).
I still can't believe it ended like this. I got scammed. Never again will I preorder a diablo game again. Actually a diablo themed thing. The graphic novel, Legends of the Necromancer Rathma was atrocious and dumb. This expansion is dumber.
The reason why this expansion is named "Vessel of Hatred" is because it accurately describes how long time Diablo fans feel right now towards Blizzard.
Here is my analysis of it: Expands the Story greatly during the game events: ❌ Things that permanently affect the lore: ❌ Gives hints for next game: ❌ Kick ass gameplay and cinematics: ✔️
They have sold StarCraft II in 3 pieces if you remember. So probably D4 will have a few more yearly expansions (one for all main evil) then we will have a complete game in 2028. Questions is whether the fans are willing to pay for it as the whole game will cost easily 300-400 dollars.
Oh mine... You know, sometimes less is more. Diablo's story evolved to an over complicated mexican soap opera that tries too hard to be interesting. It should have kept the catholic inspired dark tone. Light vs darkness or good vs evil, simple and awesome. When Nyrelle is talking to that shinning lion it gives me free willy or lessie vibes. Such an overcomplicated melodrama. I guess I'm going back to D2.
Man, This is Baal all over again where a great persons body is used for their ressurection. Baal had Tal Rasha and Diablo had the Wanderer... now Mephisto has Akarat!
So grateful you made this. Thank you. I can't believe the bad decisions after bad decisions. Protaganist being run through the back by some nobody with a sword? Dude was just some rando knight. My undead minions would never allow that to happen, not to mention a single hit wouldn't do shit to me with the level of armor and hp regen I have. This is why I hate above all else when cinematics allow shit to happen that can't actually happen in gameplay, and then oh look, some rando can resurrect me? If that power exists, why don't we see that EVERYWHERE? Nope, just that one time for the protag. Just a one off to make you indebted to that rando npc. Fuck that's so dumb. This writing was so damn bad. Thankfully the game itself is fun in its own way, but with putting mechanics like the merc system and the dark citadel behind the pay wall of a DLC, they're just asking us to hate them as a company. You want to have an expansion with a continued storyline and a new class? That's fine, we got that in D3: Reaper of Souls. But the mercs? That was base game D3. Greedy greedy greedy.
Goodness, i detest Neyrelle. The writers desperately attempt to paint her in admirable and sympathic light. You could tell they try hard to overlook or distract from her screwing up everything (ended up getting people killed and us to bail her out) because of the "strong and independent female" trope
Well, she is: 1) woman 2) mixed-race 3) physically disabled (no arm) so, she must be strongest and most independent character. Original campaign ended with Lorath saying "do not follow her she said so, respect her will dude like wtf" Thus, our character accidentally ended up near her even though didn't want to - because respecting her wishes. Generic Starcraft 2 villain with a cigar made sure of that in unavoidable backstab cutscene.
It's basically the way the developers/director/producer of this game's DLC framing the whole story and characters, and it's neither give good lore writing + script nor satisfying outcome of the whole plot of this DLC's story Somehow they make Diablo 3 DLC looks so much better by comparison wtf lol
I am glad I didn't spend money on this. I will buy it with the next expansion, this is not enough story wise and I can't stand the new lore or Neyrelle.
Diablo 3 Rwaper of Souls was $20 and you fought the boss. Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred is $40 and don't fight the actual end game boss. Blizzard thank you for ruining something beautiful!
First of all--thank you for posting this. I was expecting a familiar face come to tell the Wanderer where the hellforge is and slam the hammer down on Mephisto’s soulstone. 🤦 First I feel bad for Rathma, NOW I feel bad for paladins and crusaders, Akarat got treated BAD in this DLC. Yikes.
I love how they set up prava to be the antagonist or at least an obstacle in the dlc by the end of the base game. However sbi probably advised against a black antagonist since there's apparently no such thing, so its time to pull a white guy out of their ass to be what prava would have been. This is a real shame because I can see like an entire redemption arc for her revolving around her growing out of the hatred Inarius was carrying, but alas, I suppose black people don't deserve redemption arcs according to dei standards.
Didn't we see her get mauled by a horde of demons? How is she even here, alive and all preachy and shit. Either this is a doppelganger situation or their way of avoiding a black character as evil...either way, still weak writing imo.
They took the story and run straight to hell with it. Oh man -.- Woke, weak, boring. Only a bombastic trailer for advertisement is all the effort went into it feels like.
"My brothers are coming, and they will not bargain with you " Expansion is garbage and not worth a single penny but The guy who is voiceovering Mephisto is an ARTIST
bro until now i still cant understand why neyrelle didnt just leave the stone with the horadrim? they were the most capable group of people to resist its temptation and power, plus they actually had the knowledge and strength to fight off whatever tried to take it for themselves
yea i was like what did they do to ma boi mephisto, look at D2 mephisto you would just get chill just looking at it but this dog here just look like pet dog who just pass away and came back to life
Doesn't matter if it's the vessel. I'm sure most or us were looking forward to taking down at least one of the prime evil. We got garbage instead. If you can't see that they're just prolonging this crap for $$ then I feel sorry for you.
It feels like the story was written by a group of 13-year-olds dabbling in fan fiction, and the forced DEI characters seem completely out of place in the Diablo universe.
Man why are so many people so mad it‘s ngl your own fault if you buy this expecting a good story from blizzard. If you buy it for just the sake of playing the game and blasting for 100+hours it‘s absolutely worth it
Blizz art team never disappoints. Sadly, the story, gameplay, items, skill tree, classes, and etc... are all so vapid and mediocre that you are better off just watching the story on youtube instead of wasting your 70+40 US dlls
Its funny how people cried about d4 beign bad but as soon they saw expansion they rush to spend 40$ :D 40$ is nothing to me but im not gonna give it to blizz after what they gave us 1 year a go.
Now i get it the difference between vessels of hatred And lord of hatred..... Well looks like mephisto will walk among innocent and try to revive his brothers...
you know, i bet I couldve handled the soul stone. i mean i did solo kill andariel and lilith btw. plus im like related to mephisto, so he probably cant control me. he couldnt control lilith after all..
i liked the expansion the story did feel like an epilogue i agree on that however i think its good that they try to built something up and not try to make mephisto the second jailer from wow you know the guy who planed everything all along and then is instantly defeated
And the girl and all characters played by Mephisto again. Dumbass girl think she can outsmart a Prime Evil but in the end she messed up. Who could have thought?
They should have waited 1-2 years to finish the base game instead of releasing as an unfinished product. Then they sell these acts and new areas as dlcs while these should have been in the base game. And we have not even meet Diablo yet. I am sure they will promise everything, but I doubt we will reach a second expansion if number of players will drop significantly.
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It turns out that the people who bought this game were the vessel of hatred all along.
We owe imperius an apology for not voting to destroy sanctuary 😂
😂👍
Can't wait for him to show up and kick some fucking ass.
Thanks for helping me to confirm that I did the right thing not buying this thing.
The story only gets worse...
hehe m2 :D They dont have idead what they doing with this game, and what next.... money saved.
this story is weak af and full of dei characters
@KnighTsaucE88 dei?? quit being corny weird ngga
@@KnighTsaucE88 God, you far right losers screeching whenever a black person or a person missing an arm is on screen is hilarious. At least you won't breed and spread those genes full of stupid further.
@@KnighTsaucE88 Shut up snowflake
So this entire DLC feels just like random sidequest.
yes it is another sidequest...
One small linear act at a time. $40 each... 🥱. Makes you wanna wait till it probably goes FtP in 2028+. At least then it will have a full story.
Also please visit the in game story. For just 50% of the price of the entire game you could buy stuff that makes you not look like a peasant
It would be bad for business if gamers could find good looking gear by just playing the game instead of paying money!
its just good game design
The writing is what pissed me off, it doesn't fit in diablo. Power of Friendship? What is this FairyTail? Even D3 had a line from templar, "This is a matter of honor now, we must not hesitate" in Act 1 which is miles better than any script in D4 VOH
@@EmberEyes905 Yea I thought D3 was a step down of story telling + all the colorful shit but D4 made it even worse
They started off strong in the prologue that leads to Inarius, and it went straight to hell from there.
It is the first time ever I will not be buying a Diablo expansion until I can grab it for like 10$
1:40:26
The dialogue for this supposedly emotional scene feels so completely off... Like Akarat just sacrificed himself and she is all me me me and me. I will be fine, I will be ok, I won't give up, will I see you again. The only "You" is You can go now, I am done with you. Not a single comforting word to Akarat even though he just declared he is scared of what comes next.
Neyrelle really is a representation of the modern audience...
A Mary Sue. And people complained about Leah from D3, who was 10 times better character.
@@zemvoidShe has the baby boomer mindset. The "me" generation. 😅
That dialog exists because this is a ham-fisted Jesus metaphor.
It's all "me me me" there too.
Holly crap that is true. i had to watch it again to realize what you said.
Neyrelle is DEI creator self insert. Disguting, i know😂
RIP random boatman
T.T
Nyrelle when was the last time you showered? OUAAAAAGGH....
So Neyrelle screwed up everything by leaving by herself? Got it.
She (or more like the whole party) fucked things up by using that soul stone on Meph in hell already.
If we kill Lilith and let Meph alone, at least he will stay in hell for a long while instead of finding his way into sanctuary.
I think people forget that Mephisto manipulated the party into it. We as watchers speak too easily without being in that scenario under his demonic influence
@@TheDeathCap Wdym? The people should have known even better than us to not entrust the soulstone to some random little girl that couldn't fight off a zombie alone
At the very least in the end it didn't end as bad as what happened to the wonderer with diablo
@@Iqbalx1 Thats what I hate the most about d4. Its exactly the same as the wanderer, just way less cool and epic but a lot more woke
Lorath was cool until they made him a drunken fool half way through.
Its sad to say, for those that bought the game, Hatred is working in you
yes it is...
@@Vibestand yep
Prava did not deserve that "redemption arc" and Akarat deserved better than the Furry-born and Girlboss expert. RIP Lorath, you got screwed the hardest.
I would argue that prava deserved a redemption arc or have her continue down a path of hatred. What we have here is a complete character annihilation, white washed into a mere token black savior.
Prava is a woman she can't be wrong.
What a stinking disgrace to Blizzard North's legacy. For the sake of all that's holy, Actiblizzard, leave this franchise in peace already
I don’t think they would. I mean why would they?
@@vijaz5559 I don’t know, why did they abandon StarCraft?
@@jet2135StarCraft is different. The story is already finished for Starcraft. It's easy to abandon a completed game because there's no point in sequels all they need to do is release a small balance update here and there for multiplayer to justify it's still supported.
The story on games like Diablo and WoW expansions on the other hand always keep ending on a "Please stay tuned on what happens next". ActiBlizz is too scared to give these games an ending because one thing and one thing only *MONEY* . For some reason lots coping people still continue buy them no matter how lackluster and awful the new updates/releases on these games are.
@@SliceLeedice Good point. Though I believe the end of D3 was also the logical end of the whole story (shithead writing and game, but still). They led us to believe that the Nephalem have the greater potential over any demon or angel and can crush any of their mightiest champions. Then, all of a sudden, in D4, humanity is once again reduced to a rabble of mortal beings to make it seem more vulnerable to another invasion of hell forces. No more human half-gods, no more grandeur of saving heavens and crushing all prime evils in a single shot, all gone to make way for another crappy money-making storyline. You know, they're always at the ready to have the whole narrative retconned just to put another crappy writing in there
So I wouldn't rule out that someday, once they feel that both WarCraft and Diablo franchises have been milked dry, they will come up with a retconned SC lore introducing another Jailor that's been pulling all the strings behind the curtains and Amon being one of his puppets or some similar stuff
I mean even the finished story won't stop them from squeezing a bit of extra money from the once glorious titles
@@jet2135 Yep, all players wants in video games are conclusive finality to it in the most spectacular ways possible, regardless of angels from "mortals doing the unthinkable", "rags to riches" types of narrative ascensions, distinct newborns of superior halfbreed, becoming dictatorial overlords that knows the better than anyone in the story, etc
They could've give such conclusion even if the storytelling as crappy as Diablo 3 (and they definitely gave that in Reaper of Souls ending despite how lazy that ending's presentations due to forced rush jobs after backlashes -_-, yet Diablo 4 which supposed to fixing Diablo 3 flaws, ends up making the whole trajectory worsen, they even ends up killing two characters that pretty much could ends "Eternal Conflict" by bringing concepts of harmony and inherited guidances, but nope, they put play into Inarus going insane instead of showcasing of what makes him (and Lilith) different from the other angels and demons altogether, with humans can bring greater potency, now they make the Diablo franchise's counterpart of Jesus being desecrated not just in body, but even have his Spirit vulnerable to corruption and death just to give another edges to prime evils (which already have stupid hack powers to corrupt anything without limitations and consequences at all), you don't see angels nor their council able to restore faster than the prime evils can corrupt, even the respawn timer for the Angiris council's archangels are apparently shown to be longer than the prime evils, even you don't see lesser evils can defy the burning hells and demons by shedding their horns or scales or their dark nature like Tyrael does with ripping his demonic and angelic nature
They don't even addressing important details that can develop the story more organically, balanced to better conclusions, things just there and happens for no good reason at all nor having clear factors to such
I was honestly disappointed, we didn't even fight Mephisto (just a herald) and the whole trip was in vain
I see why they named it vessel of hatred and not lord of hatred..
don't worry! surely the next expansion will involve Mephisto! and another 50 bucks:)
imagine getting upset at an expansion called Vessel of Hated, which lets you fight.. a Vessel of Hatred
@@ReaperspearX imagine making a game called Diablo 4 with no Diablo
@@ReaperspearX "B-BUT THE NAME BRO?!?!"
Can't tell if you're baiting or just that clueless lmao
So much crying and drama. Modern WoW and Diablo's writing are now indistuingishable
Protect me from Actiblizzard 🤮 okay? . . . Okay?
There was no Diablo game after D2.
D3 was developed by completely different people, and they gave us a distilled version of initial vision. That was always the difference between Blizzard and Blizzard North (devs of D1 and D2). Blizzard North wasn't afraid to sacrifice balance for variety and take risks to achieve something unique. Blizzard on the other hand is afraid of pretty much everything. Every aspect of their games has to be 100% safe and HR approved in every way.
Yes, Diablo is Blizzard North's child, and only they knew how to foster it. All that followed after LoD is a worthless uncanonical piece of crap
I watched the whole entire thing. Never been so disappointed in a Blizzard expansion in my life. Only the very last scene was diablo worthy.
@@MagnusMarvin even then the build up towards it still feels Half baked.. although it's visuals of the last scene was Stealler Got goosebumps like I did when I saw Diablo Break Heaven's gate. That story may been meh but that still felt good.
Thanks.. just saved money there. What a stupid ending
So was this whole jaunt basically for nothing
Looks like , blizzard us mephisto in disguise
we are back to where we started i guess...
@@joaopedrorosa6198 to d4 bad?
no. they got your $40. that's more than enough.
Note for future Horadrim: "You get your hands on a demon possessed soulstone and feel it cracking -you plunge it into the rotting corpses of a weak bum or drunk. The demon will rise but it will not gain any extra power, no guarantee it will be weakened but it will definitely be pissed! Do it to spite those bastards! And that's a win of itself. "
Strike the stone in the body of a dying person. So when he is revived he will be dying as well.
huh this really feels like half a game.
I beat the campaign and a few side quest after 9-10 hours. Def felt that way in the end but for how much was added to the game, soundtrack, cosmetics, graphics, new area. It’s up to par with today’s inflation. I had a great time playing
It's called an "expansion", and these are just cinematics. Just shows how hollow most of the criticism in this comment section really is...
@@CJW0056 im glad you enjoyed the game.
So, the next boss is Mephisto in Jesus look a like with sword again?? Where is Diablo? Where is Angelis Council? Tyreal?
Lord of Terror still reforming, The council and the High Heavens have abandoned humanity. Tyreal dead.
It was pretty obvious that Diablo was *not* going to be in this, nor Baal
Akarat was afraid. Diablo is the lord of terror. It's linked in a way I guess
@@likaloyes and Mephisto did say his brothers are coming so we’ll probably get Diablo or Baal tease in the next expansion. Vessel of Hatred was kinda wasted imo. Just a filler episode.
From the end of this expansion, Im pretty sure we will not get diablo or baal or any angel for the next expansion. Maybe just kill mephisto? Such a waste of time and $
of course Neyrelle somehow manages to come out of all the shit she did perfectly fine, is now somehow an expert on Mephisto, she's going to continue to be a main protag of the story and no one calling her out for anything she did. Sigh, this mary sue character is officially one of blizzard's worst.
@@voidox imagine having whole fucking Aiden the greatest warrior who couldn’t resist Diablo, but some random ass one handed girl somehow managed to do it.
@@imloir yup, she literally comes out unscathed from freaking Mephisto... another self-insert pet character for a writer for sure, so bad :/
Why does her sex have anything to do with it? Classic misogynist gamers LOL
i hated what happened to leah in diablo 3 but now i hope neyrelle gets the same treatment, AINT NO WAY SHE GETS OFF THAT EASY. she better ATLEAST have some level of crippling dementia in the next few expansions.
it's been a while since i read Legacy of blood but as far as i remember the main character there although puppeteer by Bartuc's armor into horrible acts of evil, had quite a hard time dealing with those acts even questioning if his intent would bring those acts to happen. For as much as I payed attention to the video here, i've not seen much of that from Neyrelle but quite a bit of blaming the stone for all those actions.
This story would be considered a mediocre waste of time even for a side-quest ...
They could have asked an AI and even that would have written something more compelling ...
Seriously, so far we've wasted an entire base game and an expansion, for basically a few individual cool moments, but an underwhelming overall story. We're basically at the same point in the story as we were at the end of the base game ...
bruh, this is such a scam for 40$ holy shit
Reaper of Souls was the same price I think, and that had a pretty short campaign. I don't agree with the pricing, but Blizzard have been getting away with it for many years.
@@RustCohle072 bro at least you fought the reaper of souls, the one you could see in the announcement trailer
In RoS we got to kill the bad guy , here we chased after stupid nurele and got fuc...@RustCohle072
@@imloirthey click baited us
AND it's called Diablo with no diablo
These are ALL cutscenes? So in the end you do not fight Mephisto? So, for those who bought the expansion, it is another $40 wasted? LOL. Are people going to fight him in the next expansion or what? And then have another where you help for example Baal, only to kill him in the expansion after that?
I'm still salty about the $70 I paid for D4, but right now I'm so glad that the disappointment I felt would save me at least 4 expansions each priced at $40.
i feel so good for being at least not braindead to prepurchase this dlc. Saved myself 40 bucks. Sad, I bought base game for 70$ though
Same mate Damm I'm glad I did not buy this peace of shit expansion
The base game ensures I will never waste money on the Diablo franchise again 😂😂
shit game but godtier cinematics tho, saved $40 ez
I think u get to fight meph in like 2 more expansion. Like 8 more expansion to fight baal and diablo
Thankoooooos 😅. You just saved me lots of 🤑💰💰🤑🤑
Virgin Diablo 4 protagonist talking about feelings and struggling to beat Lesser Evils, goes to Hell for 30 minutes and has to leave because it's spooky
vs
Gigachad Diablo 3 protagonist who kills his way through Hell and Heaven, beats up Archangels and all 4 Lesser Evils + 3 Prime Evils all fused up into one.
D3 protagonist was a Nephilim; the closest beings to anu having both Order and Chaos power in their blood. They're gods.
Pretty sure the main character in D4 is just a talented guy. Why aren't all humans nephilim you might ask? I onno.
D3 main character was op and kinda ruined the story, personally i am glad they moved to some more down-to-earth power levels showing how powerful and dangerous actual Prime Evils are.
Other than that i agree, can definitely feel the lack of "epicness" in D4 and VoH DLC.
@@tylernelson1416 The Diablo 4 PC gets an upgrade from Lilith's blood ritual thing at the start of the game. He's also a newer generation which should mean stronger because the Worldstone was destroyed a while ago so their powers should slowly come back. We should be stronger than this IMO.
D3 Was the first mistake. This "shame" come from that. Remember Tyrael speaking of mortal triumph ? Then they made the angels a bunch of idiots and the nephalem an unstoppable demigod. But the original heroes .... Well they Were only humans. Should just remain that Way.
@@Rogar79 the angels were always a bunch of idiots. They aren't good. They nearly voted to exterminate humanity. Tyrael is good, but the others aren t much better than Hell.
Saved me 40$, thanks
So the cliff hanger of D4 vanilla was that mephisto is coming back. And the cliff hanger of the expansion is mephisto is coming back...
I wonder how many expansion it will take till ppl get to fight diablo. Imagine that. Fighting diablo in a diablo game.
diablo now is talk a bout the betray and losing faith of human more than someone called diablo
How can Blizzard waste so much potential?
- They should not have focused on Mephisto for such a long time.
- They should have kept Lilith and Inarius in most of the story and not just have them both only be in the base game. Two very significant characters and we are already done with them.
- They shouldn't be squandering the lesser and greater evils and their interactions and politicking.
What I personally wanted to see this story:
- a whirlwind tour of sanctuary where we go to each part of it and face a different evil(we have never had a Diablo game with all 7 evils and I'd love to see that)
- Have them grow the evil's character and not just be forgettable like what they did to Andariel and Duriel in the base game.
- Have the final expansion deal with the lord of TERROR and BUILD HIM UP with each expansion.
I can't believe they are dragging this story out for anything but their profits. I personally will wait until the last expansion and MAYBE buy a bundle to save.
Eat shit Blizzard!
And a game where you could join the Evils would be cool. But nooo, Blizzard is too idiotic for that
It would have been WAY better if there were cutscenes involving the 7 Evils speaking and scheming like an actual opposing team of sorts, if not solely just to display their characterizations. Would have been great if, rather than just be told by Elias that Andariel was being summoned, we got some moments where Lilith is speaking to Andariel and actually makes a deal to arrange the summoning so that we can see what Andariel values for her loyalty, and how Lilith feels about it (perhaps she didn't want to sacrifice an entire country but there was no other option to get Andy on her side?). It would have also helped for there to be any explanation whatsoever for why Duriel showed up.
Perhaps Diablo and Baal should have appeared alongside Mephisto in their own animal forms with some banter between them. We know Baal is a huge troll who likes screwing around and making wisecracks based on his D2 appearances so it would have been neat seeing him crack a few dark-humored one-liners at the suffering of others while Diablo remains overly stern and Mephisto continues to the smart one of the three. Some scenes with Inarius talking to Prava would have also helped flesh out their faction as more than just a bunch of moronic zealots (Vigo has more characterization than his entire faction combined...).
Path of exile 2 lookin pretty good in a little over a month.
yeah no question, but i was atleast hoping for some cool Mephisto cut scenes man FUCK how is this still so bad with 0 expectations from blizzard
Wow! Aslan aka Jesus from Narnia is really everywhere! Praise be Jesus.
I still can't believe it ended like this.
I got scammed. Never again will I preorder a diablo game again. Actually a diablo themed thing. The graphic novel, Legends of the Necromancer Rathma was atrocious and dumb. This expansion is dumber.
Not fighting Mephisto or actually him appearing looks literally like a scam.
Oh damn Neyrelle lives. Great, means I don't have to buy this one.
they really screw the story line, they should have give different ending, like if u side with mephisto or lilith will give different storyline
The hero we need. Thanks for saving me a few bucks.
When you buy a ticket for a concert and only the backing band performs... :D
Neyrelle Baggins strikes again. SHARE THE LOAD
So no Diablo, No Mephisto...? still nothing?
Bingo... And worst of all, no offline mode smfh.
who would of guessed lilith was right about what she said before dying mhm
Almost like putting mephisto in a soul stone wasn't a good idea, you know like the whole entire reason Diablo 2 happened☠️
The reason why this expansion is named "Vessel of Hatred" is because it accurately describes how long time Diablo fans feel right now towards Blizzard.
Here is my analysis of it:
Expands the Story greatly during the game events: ❌
Things that permanently affect the lore: ❌
Gives hints for next game: ❌
Kick ass gameplay and cinematics: ✔️
man...this isnt diabloesqe at all. It feels like what dragonage was meant to be.
they cant make a dark gothic game?
same thought :D I was expecting this gonna be a lot like act 3. Rip diablo
@@remotetechie6910 ironically a girl and her pet animals cozy game lol
are you retarded?
@berzerk4 go play diablo 1 and then play this 'girl and her pets cozy game "
They have sold StarCraft II in 3 pieces if you remember. So probably D4 will have a few more yearly expansions (one for all main evil) then we will have a complete game in 2028. Questions is whether the fans are willing to pay for it as the whole game will cost easily 300-400 dollars.
It won't have a few more years of expansions.
I would be surprised if it had any other expansion at all.
@@TiagoMorbusSa Probably you are right. How could they bring out a Mephisto centric expansion without a proper fight and defeat of him?
Starcraft 2 was actually good though
One Plus - we didn't get D3 twist of girl being a vessel for Mephisto, like Leah was for Diablo.
But we still have time.
Oh mine... You know, sometimes less is more. Diablo's story evolved to an over complicated mexican soap opera that tries too hard to be interesting. It should have kept the catholic inspired dark tone. Light vs darkness or good vs evil, simple and awesome. When Nyrelle is talking to that shinning lion it gives me free willy or lessie vibes. Such an overcomplicated melodrama. I guess I'm going back to D2.
cinematic better then game typical blizzard
Thank you for saving me the hassle. Dumb ass Neyrelle is still alive I see. Worst NPC maybe ever. Hard pass. Can't wait for PoE 2.
Early access next month. It will be so much fun
got the full value of the game here for free with only 30% of this video too! Thank you for saving me money for real!
I feel so sorry for everybody who bought this.
Man, This is Baal all over again where a great persons body is used for their ressurection. Baal had Tal Rasha and Diablo had the Wanderer... now Mephisto has Akarat!
ohwow. well taken! now is mephisto time to walk around
I hoped that Neyrelle end like Leah in Diablo III
It's called storytelling. And its getting better, they are not forcing you to pay for the thing so stop whining.
@@formwar3262 well.. since you must buy the DLC to continue the story.. IS like compelling you to do so.
But IS their New revenue model
So grateful you made this. Thank you. I can't believe the bad decisions after bad decisions. Protaganist being run through the back by some nobody with a sword? Dude was just some rando knight. My undead minions would never allow that to happen, not to mention a single hit wouldn't do shit to me with the level of armor and hp regen I have.
This is why I hate above all else when cinematics allow shit to happen that can't actually happen in gameplay, and then oh look, some rando can resurrect me? If that power exists, why don't we see that EVERYWHERE? Nope, just that one time for the protag. Just a one off to make you indebted to that rando npc.
Fuck that's so dumb. This writing was so damn bad.
Thankfully the game itself is fun in its own way, but with putting mechanics like the merc system and the dark citadel behind the pay wall of a DLC, they're just asking us to hate them as a company. You want to have an expansion with a continued storyline and a new class? That's fine, we got that in D3: Reaper of Souls. But the mercs? That was base game D3.
Greedy greedy greedy.
Goodness, i detest Neyrelle. The writers desperately attempt to paint her in admirable and sympathic light. You could tell they try hard to overlook or distract from her screwing up everything (ended up getting people killed and us to bail her out) because of the "strong and independent female" trope
Yeah and as a result I rooted for Mephisto over her.
Such an annoying character, Mephisto is at least fun antagonist.
Yeah the DEI stinks from here
Well, she is:
1) woman
2) mixed-race
3) physically disabled (no arm)
so, she must be strongest and most independent character.
Original campaign ended with Lorath saying "do not follow her she said so, respect her will dude like wtf"
Thus, our character accidentally ended up near her even though didn't want to - because respecting her wishes.
Generic Starcraft 2 villain with a cigar made sure of that in unavoidable backstab cutscene.
Blizzard North > Blizzard
Standing around while NPCs give me endless exposition. Where do I swipe?
That beginning.
You’ve fought all hells, etc and get stabbed in the back. 💀
Top notch writing 😂😂
Stabbed in the back Agaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin
@@ryanhupp5240 “how can we set this expansion up” “stab em in the back”
Not only fought all hell - defeated Lilith days or weeks before this expansion.
The mc cares way more about Neyrelle than I do.
It's basically the way the developers/director/producer of this game's DLC framing the whole story and characters, and it's neither give good lore writing + script nor satisfying outcome of the whole plot of this DLC's story
Somehow they make Diablo 3 DLC looks so much better by comparison wtf lol
Gamers to blizzard: 1:33:27
Should be top comment
I think the writer who wrote that has been thinking about sending his resignation letter to his boss.
Everyone be like: I understand why you did it the most terrible of things. Its fine, no biggie.
I am glad I didn't spend money on this. I will buy it with the next expansion, this is not enough story wise and I can't stand the new lore or Neyrelle.
this game since D3, never disapointed me, with every release is more bad than previous. Good work blizzard, keep it goin
Bad scenario
Bad story progression
Awfull dialogues
Awfull speech acting
100% NOT a Diablo game.
Diablo 3 Rwaper of Souls was $20 and you fought the boss.
Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred is $40 and don't fight the actual end game boss.
Blizzard thank you for ruining something beautiful!
No reaper of souls was 40 dollars as well you most likely had a sale.
Also inflation.
Also it is not special it is the first dlc.
Remember those brave, but unfortunate fans who even tattoed D4 themes on themselves.
so the end boss is not a prime or lesser evil but an avatar? fuuuck, i am glad I didn't get burned again.
It's just a generic Resident Evil zombie dog mob.
Boring story, I"ll pass again. Feels like D3 enhanced at 2024.
I think D3 is more fun
@@Bulletproof_Trump a vessel, then someone betrayed like Magda did. Well at least, we fought prime Diablo at D3.
First of all--thank you for posting this.
I was expecting a familiar face come to tell the Wanderer where the hellforge is and slam the hammer down on Mephisto’s soulstone. 🤦
First I feel bad for Rathma, NOW I feel bad for paladins and crusaders, Akarat got treated BAD in this DLC. Yikes.
You guys have to watch the long as cut scenes like these the whole time?
Diablo with no Diablo you say? silly players, Diablo is the one doing the development this time, enjoy funding the prime evils $40 at a time.
LMFAO!!! 16:54, so a discounted Voldimort? this games writers and designers lied on that resume!
Dude wtf is up with the smoking too lmao. Looks like he’s vaping
Honestly he looks like he came straight out of the Warhammer 40K universe.. A Chaos space marine
I love how they set up prava to be the antagonist or at least an obstacle in the dlc by the end of the base game.
However sbi probably advised against a black antagonist since there's apparently no such thing, so its time to pull a white guy out of their ass to be what prava would have been.
This is a real shame because I can see like an entire redemption arc for her revolving around her growing out of the hatred Inarius was carrying, but alas, I suppose black people don't deserve redemption arcs according to dei standards.
Prava somehow surviving assault of demons in D4 was indeed a joke, how? How can you survive 1000 demons literally climbing on you (from cutscene).
True and Real.
Didn't we see her get mauled by a horde of demons? How is she even here, alive and all preachy and shit.
Either this is a doppelganger situation or their way of avoiding a black character as evil...either way, still weak writing imo.
This.
I love the story so much, and yet something feels no right there
They took the story and run straight to hell with it. Oh man -.- Woke, weak, boring. Only a bombastic trailer for advertisement is all the effort went into it feels like.
a shame arthas' soul is also extinguished.
"My brothers are coming, and they will not bargain with you " Expansion is garbage and not worth a single penny but The guy who is voiceovering Mephisto is an ARTIST
bro until now i still cant understand why neyrelle didnt just leave the stone with the horadrim? they were the most capable group of people to resist its temptation and power, plus they actually had the knowledge and strength to fight off whatever tried to take it for themselves
@@vonb2792 says a lot about their writers' storytelling skills. They cant think of a new story without the characters doing something stupid
I dunno, maybe because Mephisto was speaking to her through the stone?
Because "strong independant female"😂
@@theanimeboy9953 they're surely bad, but I also think they're constrained by corporate goals. Not that this reedems them, though
Because we couldn't have a girl boss that way.
ooph. Good thing I didn't buy the expansion.
I thought this was Mephisto’s expansion but we only fought his overgrown dog. What a waste of story telling.
I heard Rhykker was dissapointed with the story. He was right. Thank you for saving me 70bux
Diablo 4 reminds me of the game of thrones southpark episode....*dont worry they are on the way!*
So glad I didn't pre-order this. You don't even get to fight Meph. Will save my money for a far superior game like Path of Exile 2 early access.
yea i was like what did they do to ma boi mephisto, look at D2 mephisto you would just get chill just looking at it but this dog here just look like pet dog who just pass away and came back to life
@Demonwisp Uh that was kidn of the point if hus vessel.
Doesn't matter if it's the vessel. I'm sure most or us were looking forward to taking down at least one of the prime evil. We got garbage instead.
If you can't see that they're just prolonging this crap for $$ then I feel sorry for you.
So we should feel sorry for neyrelle?.. SMH, she's unbearable, a torture to listen to! You're a side character to her! What a woke BS!
It feels like the story was written by a group of 13-year-olds dabbling in fan fiction, and the forced DEI characters seem completely out of place in the Diablo universe.
Exactly this!!
Man why are so many people so mad it‘s ngl your own fault if you buy this expecting a good story from blizzard. If you buy it for just the sake of playing the game and blasting for 100+hours it‘s absolutely worth it
The Problem from Diablo 1-4
is that The Cursed Stone 🗿😅
Blizz art team never disappoints. Sadly, the story, gameplay, items, skill tree, classes, and etc... are all so vapid and mediocre that you are better off just watching the story on youtube instead of wasting your 70+40 US dlls
Its funny how people cried about d4 beign bad but as soon they saw expansion they rush to spend 40$ :D 40$ is nothing to me but im not gonna give it to blizz after what they gave us 1 year a go.
Nice flex
Now i get it the difference between vessels of hatred
And lord of hatred.....
Well looks like mephisto will walk among innocent and try to revive his brothers...
I think it’s a joke on the whole “return of Jesus”. Surprise, surprise, Jesus II is actually Satan’s brother.
Let me guess.. next expansion going to be called diablo 4: lord of hatred
Diablo 4 : Jesus
next DLC shall called "Diablo 4 : See How I can use 50 bucks to disappoint players"
Age of Hatred probs. they tease it at 1:52:16
Diablo 4: Jessus bad, Devil good - "back to roots marketing" - you get a flying pony
you know, i bet I couldve handled the soul stone. i mean i did solo kill andariel and lilith btw. plus im like related to mephisto, so he probably cant control me. he couldnt control lilith after all..
Imagine paying $40 for this lmaooooo
i liked the expansion the story did feel like an epilogue i agree on that however i think its good that they try to built something up and not try to make mephisto the second jailer from wow you know the guy who planed everything all along and then is instantly defeated
Finished the expansion campaign only two days ago and I’ve already forgotten what the last boss looks like.
Sweet baby inc all over this.
I made right choice to play TnL
game crashed in the middle of cutscene and it got skipped but i caught up
And the girl and all characters played by Mephisto again. Dumbass girl think she can outsmart a Prime Evil but in the end she messed up. Who could have thought?
what is u problem blizzard?
radical feminism
Love how they sold a sidequest for an actualy game. thank god i skipped it this time
am i the only one who thinks this dlc is very underwhelming?
every comment here says this
It's the first dlc it is to be expected.
They should have waited 1-2 years to finish the base game instead of releasing as an unfinished product. Then they sell these acts and new areas as dlcs while these should have been in the base game. And we have not even meet Diablo yet. I am sure they will promise everything, but I doubt we will reach a second expansion if number of players will drop significantly.
the story is rly stupid isnt it
i actually predicted the story before i bought the game, and it's really happen, and disappointed... expected disappointment...
This feels like the first part of a questline, not a whole story 😅
Are they planning 20 expansions to this game or what? With this pace we will get to fight Diablo in 2048