Caught me off-guard. Bold choice, but I think this transition to a darker overall feel (at least in the cinematics) will pay off for the Diablo universe.

I dont want to sound evil but i knew something wrong is going to happen to that girl. She was too nice.

in one of the short story anthologies it described Baal wearing Tal Rasha down bit by bit and it was horrfying.

arm*

I laughed. They know the audience if you have ever played a diablo game thats what your arm feels like after 12hrs from all that hardcore non stop click a mouse combat action

Sucks that the game sucks though

@@Louis412e It is actually really fun

yea i just wish the game was close to that quality 💀

@@Louis412e It has gotten a fair bit better lately.

@@Louis412e cry about it

Easiest Prime Evil 😂

​@@AlithAnar Hardest Uber prime in D2

With maphack can be done at least 120 times an hour

@@leoli306 why would u do that ? u can simply follow one direction and u dont need any maphack, lol

You didnt need maphack for meph, I think youre thinking about baal ​@@leoli306

Great comment!

Ahahaha

Accurate AF

True.

Epic

They did it's too brutal

Not made by Blizzard. Likely made by someone such as Blur Studios.

@@DiiGiiTAL Blizzard dont outsource there cinematic team its from them

His name is Bobby

Normally trailers like this are outsourced to third parties. But maybe it's done in-house I dunno

It’s really cool and amazingly animated. But it feels a bit like they shelled out money for the wrong things. Their cinematics are so amazing but their gameplay is so mid

@@bigdadybojangls9219 i dont praise the state of the game only the cinematic art team. They have been Killing it with every game. You could praise art direction while the gameplay team suck and vice versa

Legendary trailers for every game.😊

I feel that they are trying to outdo themselves with each trailer and the result is just overkill. Kind of how like James Bond movies have gone and some marvel movies where the feats of the character are at least plausible at the start but in the later parts they're just getting absurd. Also for a demon that is supposed to be about hatred I get a much more virus-disease-vibe here, it's not how I imagine a demon dedicated to hatred would manifest itself.

Yeah I mean they don't need to balance cinematics so they can just go ham with it

Where Terror and Hatred tread, Destruction is sure to follow.

Old man : I love young people ❤

Or you could have just taught that backstabbing asian chick a lesson once so she would know what happens when you steal a soulstone from the protagonist

@@ksc2934 You didn't pay much attention now, did you?

Until a Harlequins crest drops

I really wanted to beat the 💩 out of my character for not accepting Lilith's proposal. Sure, Mephisto was weirdly enthralling, but you can't trust any of the Evils... Not even the Angels. But I'd rather side with the Mother of Sanctuary.

@@condeuiosandilixtos7858 SAME like she's literally our mother.. even if she's shady and evil out of EVERYONE she would probably care about santuary's wellbeing the most. unless she secretly wants it destroyed

@@condeuiosandilixtos7858 I dunno about that. I genuinely think she would have been _better_ for sanctuary than Mephisto but at the end of the day, she has her own goals and cares little for humanity. This is seen by the fact that she is not bothered by the impact her actions has on people and the lives she ruins. There would be _some_ people she would favor, and she might even attempt to bring back the Nephalem but she would do it with the intent of controlling them.

@@socialcockroach3307 Lilith is a lesser evil but is still evil. She just wants to control and rule over everything. Having said that, she is still like an angel compared to Diablo, Mephisto and Baal. They are basically the devil himself, since all three of their names means "the devil" in different languages.

@@KingOfThePanduz That fact there are still people wanting to side with Lilith shows that you guys did not pay attention to her story.

Main prob is obviously, that there isn't really any other solution.

And then i'll run off by myself without the people who actually managed to defeat everything in their path

Lilith literally could have destroyed mephisto once and for all, something that's never happened before......yea we could have another malthael situation but still

@@lukewithann7256 Right. To think she could possibly go it alone, after our main character paved the way... Asinine lmfao.

she made her choice, Mephisto or Lilith, and she got manipulated into choosing helping Mephisto.

Beat me to it

It's all about gameplay. Cinematics are just a marketing tool nowadays.

Too bad the gameplay never matches the cinematics.

I believe I will watch playthroughs on youtube this time around for the story, the initial game wasn't worth the money in my humble opinion.

​@@testowwirrelevant. People enjoy blizzard cinematics when they're good. Which they usually are.

Sonhooo

You mean like the warcraft movie? You don't know what's good for you

The Warcraft movie is good, but the mainstream audience just thought it was a movie for Warcraft fans and not for them.

well businessmen love artists, they hype game and cheat audience with expectations.

💯

Correct question would be "who doesn't" and then nobody likes this post as a result 😂

We wanted that since 2000.

Nobody else. You’re the only one dude!

We all always did.

True. Without them Blizzard would probably be dead already at this point

Much better looking than the cartoony mess that was D3.

@@JFinns cartoony mess ? that game came out 12 years ago, it was a really good graphically game back then. only thing that carried D3 is Cinematics like every other blizzard game.

@@JFinns i'd much rather play a bad looking game that plays good than an okay looking game that has no endgame and blows.

@@JFinns It was beautiful and a continuation of the cartoony style of D1 and D2. Take your realism to CoD 124...

In the Diablo 2 expansion intro cinematic, the guy literally popped like a balloon.

I laughted so hard, thanks

Maybe Vessel of Hatred will be on RedEngine lol.

Not the dreaded T-pose!! 😂

Yep, I really would like to see a horror game in the Sanctuary following this style, it would be great

That's the only thing they are good at😂

Art department is about the only redeeming thing left going for Blizzard. Maybe sound team too.

...chills, a draft must have meandered in

Mephisto is looking real Evil in this one! they really went hard on this Cinematic Trailer and hit a Homerun

Ah yes the "Screaming women" era of gaming

@@1lapmagic women bad screaming when tortured by most evil being in story

Can't wait to see more of mephisto

​@@1lapmagic they ruined screaming because of woke

@@1lapmagic SMH women being allowed to scream when being tortured, what's next? Gaming has gone so woke!

Shadowlands Anduin cinematic crawls back up from the darkness....though to be fair that was a fail due to story implications not the animation.

@@Sephiroso. Exactly. Blizz cinematics just can't miss. Even when it's stupid story they make it look ridiculous.

​@@TaimaFor I handed on to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures; that he was buried; that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures 1 Corinthians 15:3

@@konrad1916 bruh

Marius is that one reluctant light drinker friend getting dragged out to bar at 11pm. "Give me the car key, marius." "Noo! noooo."

yess ! loved it the art team is solo carrying blizzard ngl

Breathes*

@@revlismorningstar825 Ty lol...

@@Khinouille Oh for sure!

@@Branziman I got you homie👌🏻

It's all about gameplay. Cinematics are just a marketing tool nowadays.

"You can hate on Blizzard as a corporation", thanks, I will.

No one has ever hated on the art from blizzard. This isn’t some revelation

What is there to hate on Blizzard as a corporation? I love Blizzard games. They're the best.

@@beny988 But that all happened under the dark dominion of the evil CEO Bobby Kotick. There is hope that everything will get better now that Blizz belongs to Microsoft.

Because hobbits are resistant to the call of the... oh wait...

To be fair, Mephisto provided the answer in this very cinematic.

THIS is the best water effect i ever seen in the history of the video games 👌

It's a cinematic trailer..

​@@theobell2002so? Hes just saying the effects are good. And they are.

best water effect ive seen

​@@theobell2002no way

Accurate analysis of the trailer!!! 🤣🤣🤣 This was SICK!!!

Is that what that’s called? Body horror?

@@leftyluchiano7275 yeah

Not to mention horrified fear and pain. Just every powerful negative emotion at once. Not to mention Mephisto's fetish, hatred.

3rd day to come back to the trailer, only to hear that scream. dont know exactly what is is, but it give me chills. Like "Horror is back on the menu".

True, the voice acting is insane. That sent shivers down my spine. I also loved the ''surrender'' from Mephisto at 2:13.

@@danieltische1493 same here . whoever did the voice acting is insane

Mephisto: Well done child. You've put so much anger and hatred in your scream, it has deafen my ears. Now I'm really gonna possess you later.

Apparently it's the same VA as Melinoë. Serious range!

Now imagine that in Japanese it will be "Watashi o hanashite" hm...where did I hear that before...

More like $1m at best. Servers are still getting rubber banding issues. Devs gave up on this game a week after launch.

10 million budget, with gameplay of 10 euro budget game.

*Monetization team Budget 100 million

10 million is being generous

@@vectorfox4782 i never have rubber banding now days

Yeah, that's exactly what he did the last time when he possessed Sankekur the Que-hegan priest in Diablo 2.

@@piotr3612 sankekur got the mutilated flying torso treatment

As per its main theme even with Albrecht in the first game.

Diablo is the best caracter in the serie

​@@yanlevasseur7449 Well, you know what Mephisto is gonna do when he gets loose, he will also set his brothers loose.

they gotta make the money back that was spent on making the cinematic no?

@@SuPeRfRoG99G make good game, it will bring much more than hyping trailer that has almost no value. If I ever saw chinese game trailer and had to believe game will all about that... its just hype. Make great game and stop milking audience after how much$ for full game? ah yea they resisted 1 week.

Gawed, I swear some NPC's are Stupid beyond belief....

In our defense, she ran off on her own...

As clearly mentioned in this very cinematic, it's not her who chose to ran away with the stone. It's the Lord of Hatred

@@RamzaBeoulves My point was more laughing at how every time, the NPC who leaves with the soulstone, is corrupted by it and the same outcome happens all over again. It's almost like we've seen this exact scenario play out in one or two of the Diablo series already... lol

Looks like Diablo 3's Leah all over again lol

ive never heard a scream like that in any media. Its like the scream of someone who has been screaming for hours and has barely anything left to give but is still screaming at the top of their lungs. I wonder if this was legit one of the last screams of a massive recording session when the voice actors throat was dyign from screaming so much lmao

@@M00SHTY spot on

kinda cringy tbh

@@turonlumpia your comment is cringy kiddo :D ROFL MAO

@@turonlumpia TBH

Conversations with Mephisto were a highlight for me in the original game, this trailer promising more fun interactions with him in VoH.

@@Nephalem84 Yeah he's really fun especially when being cheeky. Like the way he said "Yes, I've had a bad few years" and the way he said that in almost a childish "I've been a bad boy" kinda way.

for once a scream felt like an actual, realistic scream

Very rarely do you get to hear a voice actor actually destroy their vocal chords. Big props to her.

If you listen that cinematic in Japanese language...it can remind you of something else...

But the game it self does

@@gullf1sk No, it doesn't. Season 4 is great.

let's not forget about the sound effects!!!

welcome to forever ago.... this is nothing new now, lol

​@@drip.in.sanity and voice acting

@@stonecold5373 You're right that it's not new that their cinematics are insane, but the thing is, they just keep getting better.

there's a difference between dark and grotesque, and this is grotesque, not dark. There is practically no sense of mystery or ambiguity, just gory depictions but everything is in plain sight.

@@framinthor d2 was like this but couldn't show it well, the transformations of wanderer, and the horrifying thing that baal did, look up the remake, that's tal'rasha's face nailed onto his face years later cinematics team is doing wonders, and once they do it, you call it grotesque? they were trying their best for the old examples, the vertex count and the effects didn't get to human psyche tho

D2 levels of dark. 10/10. And then some goofy looking animal print cosmetics that don't match the cinematic at all.

Now if only we had D2 levels of gameplay instead of this linear mess of mechanics.

@@falricthesleeping9717 how else would you describe the images if not grotesque? I love that it is grotesque but it's not dark. At least not dark in the way I see it, I guess people encapsulate gore, grotesque, evil and horrific all under the same umbrella and name it dark, I think dark is a category separate from those which adds ambiguity and horror that you are imagining rather than the horror that is blatantly presented to you. For example Marius conversation with Baal (thinking it was tyrael) it was dark, because there was a sense of tension in trying to understand the things Marius went through without it being blatantly stated. While in this cinematic, it was just grotesque, it easily shows you what she is going through with gory images instead of you trying to comprehend how bad her situation is. I am not the most articulate person so I can't explain it in much better detail than this but I hope you understand what I mean between the difference of Dark and Grotesque and why this isn't dark in my opinion

They would ruin it with strong female character woke nonsense, just spare us. I pray that soon this strong female character nonsense will stop and we can get back to good story telling and games that aren't focused on checking off boxes

Bro I know!

I do remember there was Warcraft in 2017 if I have it correct.

yeah a small team of 10-20 people in a game company will work on a movie because you dont have any idea how time consuming and how many more people they'd have to hire for that

I read once it takes about a year to make these cinematics of a few minutes. You probably can't linear extrapolate how long it would take them to make a full feature film but I guess the production time would be too long and/or the costs would simply be too high. But who knows, with the rapid development of AI software to support the artists (not replace them) some things that are not possible at this time might be very possible within a few years.

Since the beginning of players asking the same question has always resulted in the same answer. Too expensive and would take too much time for them to develop a full length film version of their cinematics. Perhaps that could change some day, but that’s always been the case before.

People ask this all the time. When Disney or anyone else makes a movie. A 90 minute animation will usually take them 8 months to a year to create and animate. A single 3 to 5 minute cutscene like this takes a comparable amount of time and resources. To make a movie like this would be grand, but it would be someone's magnum opus at Blizzard cause it would take somewhere between 10-30 years for anything close to 2 hours of story. Not to mention the server/computer costs to render. That's why we do not have a movie tho

Say sike right now dude

True .. i was thinking the same thing lol 😅

I completely agree. Tossed this game a while ago. Way too repetitive.

Sadly this will probably never happen with this franchise :(

The "can't be satisfied" crowd has entered the chat.

Well then watch Leagues S14 trailer...

Cinematics? That's in-game graphics!

@@yamiimax lol no it isn't (unless you somehow mean League, which I wouldn't know)

@@Taima I've been sarcastic haha

Fallen? When? Where? That accusation that went nowhere? The social media clowns, who jumped on it to make money? The crybabies who always spit at everything no matter what?

Lmao their games are top notch as ever. Smoothest running gameplay of anything I’ve ever played. It’s unmatched. And the art teams speak for themselves, obviously. Business conduct behind the scenes is a totally different issue.

@@Yehoshua66 "top notch" lmfao d4 devs had to sacrifice an entire season to actually create a functional loot system in a game genre that has loot as one of its core principles. this is AFTER 5 years of development and multiple alphas and betas prior to launch.

Too bad it's a gaming company and not a movie company

I think they are inarguably the best of the games industry for sure!

blizzard mastered baiting thru trailer

Not gonna be, so don't hold your breath lol

Like, we're in KURAST, why did we not get the Paladin at the very least?

Exactly, because the game doesnt do it 😂😂😂