Exactly, people say "Diablo has never had a good story" and I completely disagree. The second game had an amazing story, it just was told in a completely unique way.
My personal opinion is that the story of Diablo II was good. Not superb, but great for a videogame. But what it made it really awesome was how it was told. It was master storytelling for the medium (videogames). Diablo III history isn't really much better or worse... but it's told in a terrible way that makes it unbeareable. And the details, the dialogs... are horrible. But the overall story isn't much better or worse. But that's it... in the end a story is only as good as it's narrator... and Diablo II was an excellent narrator. Of course, the game isn't story focused, it's more grind based. But the story is here to put the tone and it does it wonderfully.
Also, the graphics were incridble for 2000. I mean look at it. Doesn´t even look bad today. It was the same with Warcraft 3. Blizzard games are often so far ahead of their time, it is unreal.
Of what I remember from watching a playthrough of it, Diablo III suffered from exposition overload. It also had some pretty hackneyed writing, not just bad delivery. I always remember one specific moment when an undead ghost king (Leoric?), appears for a second to say "you will never defeat me," and then disappears again. Someone at Blizzard actually wrote that, and thought it was necessary to put in the game. It's no wonder Starcraft 2's story turned out how it did.
@@-Gurza- also when Azmodan, who is supposedly the best strategist of the burning hells, has been giving you ideas on what he's actually plotting to do. I mean cheezaz, you are a strategist and by default a good tactician as well. Why feed info to your enemy? In D I, you decipher information through town gossip and scared tomes. Everything is left for you to guess. In D 3, everything is a dead give away. Way too much gerrymandering.
Maybe Marius wanted to personify or describe the shift he saw in his companion. From a weakish and lanky person walking or moving at a deadish snail pace till that point was now suddenly invigorated with energy and moving at a speed more akin to the wanderer's age or rather Aidan's age. A sharp change from his former drained out speed to rushing over towards an inhuman screaming tree holding a skeletal man may seem demonic to an observer and for good reason.
I know I'm WAY late on this, but just for the Hell of it if anyone is interested... The voice actor for Marius is actually Frank Gorshin, an amazing actor who is probably best known for his role as the Riddler from the 60's 'Batman' with Adam West!
Just found this out today actually... he was amazing and completely set the tone for the game. He also voices the Warcraft III trailer and was phenomenal in that as well.
That's what I said when I beat D3 and saw the ending. Diablo and Diablo 2 are about LOSING. Shit is perpetually going to literal hell, and you're always two steps behind trying to triage, to staunch the bleeding and put out what fires you can. But it's never a happy ending. D1 ends with the protagonist sacrificing himself to HOPEFULLY MAYBE contain Diablo for JUST A LITTLE LONGER. D2 ends with Baal getting his soulstone back and being set loose. LoD ends with the heart of the world being sacrificed with no knowledge of what that might do to the world. Then D3 ends with honest to god bright shiny sunlight and gleaming gold and triumphant music. I like the game itself, but what the hell, D3? There was some cool dark imagery, particularly when Leah becomes Diablo and fights Imperious, but it's not of the gothic Lovecraftian horror we got in D2. Marius wondering, almost asking himself "Why did I follow him?", then answering in the most defeated tone, "I don't know," gives me chills every time. "Always... into the east." "What could I do? I ran." Oh my god, this writing was so good. I love me some angel/demon smackdown, but it doesn't stack up against the sheer feeling I get from these lines.
D3 doesnt eve happy, it basically ends wrath Tyrael implying the nephalim will eventually become corrupt and kill LITTERALY EVERYTHING cuz he's already priced he can kill uber-demon, and uber-angel.
My take was that it's one thing to be hopeless, but if you make things too hopeless, no one is going give a damn about anything anymore. You won't even bother doing anything to fight back and just let Hell kill everyone. It's a pessimist's wet dream. Remember even Path of Exile, the successor to Diablo, while being hopeless overall, made sure that you still actually made a positive difference in some way. D1 and D2 just screams "nothing you do ever matters, you are just wasting your time." The overall darkness and hopeless has effectively crossed the line from "mature" to "edgelord's wet dream". If it wasn't for the WorldStone releasing the seals on humanity's power, no one would've bothered playing a game that essentially never lets you win in any meaningful way.
I love Marius' place in the game. He serves as a foil/counterpoint to the PC of the game. Paralleling what you did, where Marius sat back and watched everyone get slaughtered, you reclaimed the citadel. Where he failed to enter the portal, you did. Ultimately you redeem Marius by the end by finishing what he couldn't. I think its really important to do this for world building purposes, to make Marius so weak puts you into the world where the stakes are real and the average person is helpless against the forces of Hell, and it works as a backdrop to add to the power progression the player goes through, where Marius descends into damnation and eventual death, the player becomes a world saving hero by the end.
i remember diablo 2 with rose colored glasses. I know graphics are not everything but the resolution in Diablo 2 makes it hard for me to play now. Id love a remake but im sure i would find a way to shit on it and ruin the good memories.
A lot of people don't understand that the concept in Diablo has changed since the world stone has been destroyed. In Diablo 3 the nephalem can achieve power even greater than those of the archangels and prime evils. The naphalem in Diablo 2 had limited capabilities so the atmosphere had to be dark and scary, which would represent the emotions of the hero.
Just as the evil of Diablo's soul stone... Money, it consumes us all... I grew up playing Diablo, it was one of the first games I ever played online. It completely blew me away to be a part of an online community, that was something that consoles at the time could only DREAM of. But I haven't lost hope, I have faith Blizzard will be able to turn it around in the next series of patches and the Expansion.
It cannot be overstated how important this game was to me as a kid. I remember a time in my life where even when not playing the game I would run through these cinematics in my mind over and over again. I loved this game, its atmosphere and its setting so damn much. It is interesting coming back to view them like this, they bring forth a lot of emotion and memories. Had a troubled home, and no internet or ability to play D2 at home. However I would spend all my afternoons at the local netcafe playing D2 and Counter-Strike, and often even the weekend nights as well. It was one of the primary ways I got away from it all. Only way I could afford all that time at the netcafe was because I was on their tournament team in Counter-strike and got free time "for practice," but honestly I would spend most of that time on D2 instead.
I'ts amazing how this stuff just goes completely over your head as a kid, even though it's such a simple and straightforward plot, and these cutscenes are all just so EXTREMELY well done, i am so astounded how i didn't appreciate these at all when I was younger
there's an art to straight-forward story telling as well. it was just trendy in the 80s-90s to tell these straightforward stories, they just told it extremely well.
@@FluffyPoopPrincess ya but he doesn't fit angelic description tho. He just became a regular black dude with a deep voice. Tyraels old voice sounded ancient and angelic. No offense but come on u must understand the difference lol.
I always loved 17:38 cuz it's Mephisto telling Diablo what to do, and he's just like "Geez, alright, alright, big bro, just let me get back to my realm!" xD
Baal is so sadistic looking back at these cinematics. He knows all along that Marius has the soul stone and has all along, but still puts him through all of that.
@@III-db2zz try out Diablo 4 beta for only 79.99 man it’ll be live tomorrow! Politics is a core part of Diablo, do you not remember Mephistos cult ? What about Baal!
"Not your foult? Tell me Merius, how was it not your fault." I miss this kind of character in Diablo 3... it's a shame that it was made for 12 years kid so it could sell more.
"You haven't failed old man...you have done exactly as you were meant to do". I remember seeing the preview trailer with that in it and throwing my money at the monitor. This and the Baal cutscenes were so damn masterful. These were part of the stepping stones that turned video games into media art.
I just feel sorry for Marius. You can hear the pain in his voice. I think Tyrael asking him to take the soulstone through a gate into hell was too much for a mortal. Every human being is afraid of death, and on top of that if he were to die in hell (which is more than likely considering that it is hell) his soul would be trapped there forever and the angels wouldn't come to save him. I say that's pretty fucked up. Then after just trying to survive and find a quiet place to live, Baal comes and kills him, sending his soul to hell anyways. This all happened to some random guy that happened to meet the dark wanderer. He didn't choose to align himself with the prime evils, but he paid the price for it anyways. As a game, it is fun, but if I was in Marius's shoes, I probably would have run too. It's a good thing we don't live in sanctuary because that would be a horrible experience.
Yeah it did a great job in explicitly showing the agony of a normal, weak human being. There's some beauty in that... Now in D3 there's nothing like that. I didn't feel any emotion playing D3. It's all fancy and that's all.
I heard Blizzard was planning a second expansion named "Salvation". My personal guess (for what it's worth) is this would have shown mercy for Marius, somehow. We'll never know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is precisely what made D2 epic my friend. The story was not accounted by the heroes or the villains but an innocent bystander who unwillingly and unwittingly got dragged into a centuries old battle. As far as Marius' fate in the story goes, he had already doomed himself when he decided to tag along with the Dark Wanderer. No offense but did he expect a bag of cookies with a pat on the back in the end? He literally followed a guy that torched an entire inn, killed people, and summoned hellish monsters right in front of his eyes. Clearly, he should have known that he had a purpose which is why Diablo didn't kill him (yet) and that after he did his part, he would die.
Every time I watch these I dont plan on watching all of them, but they’re so damn good I’ll sit here for half n hour and watch them like I’ve done 3948 times lol
Easily one of the greatest cinematic sequences in video game history. That a World of Warcraft movie is being made before a Diablo movie is a travesty.
Diablo is a cult videogame at this point in time, that's why Blizzard is paying more attention to Warcraft. For Diablo to actually make a comeback it must return to its roots, and Blizzard must hire back the man who came with the idea in the first place; David Brevik.
@@raziel6304 his themes and storycrafting are great, but if you watched his video about the start of the series, he had some pretty shitty ideas for the game and the other developers really helped create the ARPG by steering him straight on a lot of game mechanics
I hope D4 will be as depressing as this, where after every act you get a cinematic to explore what is happening. I hope the story it tells spurns players forward towards the end again... a proper diablo story, dark and grusome
I really loved the character of Marius... he makes us seem so vulnerable compared to the prime evils. Would you have gone into hell and destroyed the stone, as a mere mortal? They should've had this feeling of dread in Diablo 3...
Me seeing this for the first time in 2000: *jaw hits the floor* "this....is the best looking cinematics I have EVER seen!" Me seeing this for the 500th time 20+ years later: "How were they even able to make something like this back then....??"
this is one of my favorite games. easily one of Blizzards best work along with Warcraft III: Frozen Throne. Everything about these 2 games were perfect...beautiful graphics, music and gameplay paired with epic lore.
Baal is such a mysterious character, he spreeds pain and destruction without hesitation yet sits for a long time listning to Marius story thatbhe aldready knew. He could easily torture him to get the location of the soul stone yet he just plays along
That’s what I call demonic as the lord of hell, just deceiving Marius, giving him hope, gaining his trust and lowering his safeguarding, and when he gave out what Baal needs, and suddenly review himself and give him the fatal hit.
*Blizzard:* Now, to pull NetEase's soulstone... *Tyrael:* NO! DON'T DO IT! **Diablo Immortal announced** *Tyrael:* FOOL! You have just ensured the doom of the Diablo franchise. You cannot even begin to imagine what you have set in motion this day. Go to the Temple of GGG, in the oceanic country of New Zealand. There you will find the Gate to Inspiration opened before you, you must find the courage to step through that gate, Blizzard. Take the Stone of Activision you hold to the Hellforge, where it will be destroyed. Now run, take the stone and run! *Players:* What choice did we have? We ran...
"WE traveled together east...always into the east!" Diablo 3 lacks everything that made the franchise excellent. It only excels in combat, but "epic" crazy combat takes away the dark, horror feel of the games. Diablo 3 RoS hopefully addresses this...
I like to think that the green hologram that escapes the wanderer (Act I) is the soul of Adrian which tries to avoid hurting anyone. Diablo finally manages to cast his soul out (temporarily) and blaze the whole area. As soon as Adrian's soul returns, the wanderer calms down signifying that even with a Prime Evil possessing the entirety of his being, Adrian is still trying to fight, albeit a futile fight. It's little things like this, such symbolism in cinematics that made D2 epic. These cinematics scared the crap out of my 10-year old self but at the same time I wanted to play more, explore more, fight, conquer. I'd feel like a real warrior fighting evil back then lol. D3 wasn't that bad for game play but it didn't establish that good a mental connection with me. Even looking at diva Diablo, I wasn't scared anymore, I was like 'Meh..' D3 showed me that Diablo was not real and that the story was set in some fictional sanctuary and that the heroes fighting were not exactly humans. But D2? It had no lore on sanctuary or any major mention of the nephalem which made me believe it could be real. It was relatable. Demonic possession is what I had heard of, every character class had simple skills with no glitz or glamor and I struggled, yes really struggled against some bosses. The difficulty, the stakes, and unimagniable peril was translated to me as a gamer by the difficulty of the game itself. Diablo never speaks anything beyond as few words in the cinematics, we see him 90% of the time as a Dark Wanderer cloaked from head to toe but he still scared me. It's the little done in moderation that sometimes makes the sweetest recipe. Hopefully Blizzard will realize where they erred and rework their plans for D4, if it is ever made. This grunge, dark, demonic story, the simple game play but unforgiving difficulty and the epic musical score is what we need. So long Diablo...you will forever be missed. :')
I'm becoming increasingly convinced that the Diablo series is a subtle warning about the deleterious effects of participation in politics. The plot surrounding the fight to control the Worldstone maps perfectly onto books like Eric Voegelin's "Science, Politics, and Gnosticism" and Glenn Alexander Magee's "Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition." The heavenly counterparts to those being titles like "Orthodoxy" and "The Everlasting Man" by G.K. Chesterton.
damn, this makes Diablo 3 feel like a Disneyworld attraction. What happend? how come D3 seems so.... not diablo like.... feels like a PG13 movie when this seems really dark and made for mature audiences.
yea, only pussies are left now that are trying to make their games for 10 years old kids. and when i think about it now, i was maybe 10 when i played d2.. was i scared ? yes. did i love it ?! FUCK YES!
I still play it occasionally. But yeah, it lost some of the atmosphere that made 1 & 2 great and the abilities were oversimplified (I do like the rune modifications to skills tho, theyre cool); and except for the first act, the music wasn't very Diabloy at all.
To be fair, they did darken the game a bit after the initial screenshots got nerd raged on, but they also added the, oh, I forget the name, secret level where you kill my little ponies and teddy bears, which is a wink to some fan art that came out of the initial screen shots. Ah well. Maybe CDP will give us back dark storytelling with Cyberpunk 2077.
Man this brings back memories :P So epic and dark. Why did they have to ruin diablo 3 by making it so cheesey :(, the evils felt like evils in D2 and they become a joke in d3
The old cinematic of the last act is so better than the new one in resurrected ! I loved the way Tyrael was fusiness as a spirit. The new cinematic is too clean. And the music...
Does Tyrael really expect Marius to remember that super long set of instructions when he couldn't even follow his ONE order to not pull the soul stone out?
Tyrael was facing two prime evils in one room and he was getting desperate, it wasn’t like he had any cho…..nah forget it, Tyrael was an idiot of epic proportions!
Remember when things actually happened in Blizzard cutscenes? When it wasn't just Warcraft 3 cutting to shadows and sandcastles, or Diablo 3 showing a woman falling asleep as her grandfather read a book?
Oh did i love Diablo 2.... Compared to Diablo 3 blizzard made a huge fail. Diablo 2 was the love of my life. I grew up with it and it is and will always be the best game ever. This video gave me chills and so many memories from the past =:) It also makes me damn mad on blizzard. Thumbs up for the video!
Jaizzerx And if Blizzard had done what the fanboys want and release an HD cover of D2, everyone would have cried foul about the lack of originality and what have you, not to mention the fact that a literal translation of D2 into the modern game scene would not be well received, with its clunky, repetitive gameplay, nonsensical loot system, and excess of exploitable glitches.
I first played Diabolo III 2 years ago, at the time I didn't understand why people hated it. Then I played Diablo II a year ago, well I was absolutely blown away. There's just so many things that I absolutely love about this game.
As I watch this I look back. I look back in my life and see so many hours I've spent on this game. So many girlfriends pushed aside. So many jobs lost. This game had a heavy hold on me as I'm sure it did with many others. However I do NOT regret it LoL. It was so much fun back then. It's just a shame they haven't made anything good since then. RIP
I need only the first cinematic to really want to play the game. It's maybe the way they tease the story or maybe it's just the voice acting being so on point. Blizzard is known for their cinematics, but this one is on top of them all.
Since I was a kid, I've always hoped there will be a Diablo movie in the future that will feel similar to those amazing D2 cinematics. I guess that will never happen, it's a pitty.
Seriously, how did Tyrael expect this old fart to get through Kurast ( it's hard enough as a Druid more so a random nobody ), enter Hell, go to the Hellforge, beat the demons there and break the soulstone? C'mon now. Wouldn't it have been easier for Tyrael to tell Marius how to find the other Archangels and ask for their help? Imperius and co would probably be able to storm hell and break the stones like no problem.
Just stopping by to watch all of these so I can be refreshed for when the remaster is released. Excited as much for the updates cinematics as I am the game itself.
The cinematics really did feel like a decent reward for beating each act.
Exactly, people say "Diablo has never had a good story" and I completely disagree. The second game had an amazing story, it just was told in a completely unique way.
My personal opinion is that the story of Diablo II was good. Not superb, but great for a videogame. But what it made it really awesome was how it was told. It was master storytelling for the medium (videogames).
Diablo III history isn't really much better or worse... but it's told in a terrible way that makes it unbeareable. And the details, the dialogs... are horrible. But the overall story isn't much better or worse.
But that's it... in the end a story is only as good as it's narrator... and Diablo II was an excellent narrator.
Of course, the game isn't story focused, it's more grind based. But the story is here to put the tone and it does it wonderfully.
Also, the graphics were incridble for 2000. I mean look at it. Doesn´t even look bad today. It was the same with Warcraft 3. Blizzard games are often so far ahead of their time, it is unreal.
Of what I remember from watching a playthrough of it, Diablo III suffered from exposition overload. It also had some pretty hackneyed writing, not just bad delivery. I always remember one specific moment when an undead ghost king (Leoric?), appears for a second to say "you will never defeat me," and then disappears again. Someone at Blizzard actually wrote that, and thought it was necessary to put in the game. It's no wonder Starcraft 2's story turned out how it did.
@@-Gurza- also when Azmodan, who is supposedly the best strategist of the burning hells, has been giving you ideas on what he's actually plotting to do. I mean cheezaz, you are a strategist and by default a good tactician as well. Why feed info to your enemy? In D I, you decipher information through town gossip and scared tomes. Everything is left for you to guess. In D 3, everything is a dead give away. Way too much gerrymandering.
"He moved with demonic speed"
- cuts to the wanderer, barely strolling
lol, that part always makes me giggle
Maybe Marius wanted to personify or describe the shift he saw in his companion. From a weakish and lanky person walking or moving at a deadish snail pace till that point was now suddenly invigorated with energy and moving at a speed more akin to the wanderer's age or rather Aidan's age.
A sharp change from his former drained out speed to rushing over towards an inhuman screaming tree holding a skeletal man may seem demonic to an observer and for good reason.
@@m22d889 Wow, kudos to your wording, vocabularies and phrasing! Quite the wordsmith!
Give him a break. The man was coming off of untold weeks of rolling off his tits on opium.
Powerwalking like Hal from Malcolm in the Middle.
marius' voice actor is so good at what he does, i felt genuine despair in his voice
I know I'm WAY late on this, but just for the Hell of it if anyone is interested... The voice actor for Marius is actually Frank Gorshin, an amazing actor who is probably best known for his role as the Riddler from the 60's 'Batman' with Adam West!
Just found this out today actually... he was amazing and completely set the tone for the game. He also voices the Warcraft III trailer and was phenomenal in that as well.
and mortal kombat armageddon intro
We never paid heed to the ancient prophesies... Epic voice
"Like a thousand needles in my heart" still and always will send chills up my spine. You can FEEL the pain and fear in his voice at that part
The dark tone of diablo 2 is what make's it so great. The story is so hopeless, but that's exactly what encourages you to fight!. Love this game.
That's what I said when I beat D3 and saw the ending. Diablo and Diablo 2 are about LOSING. Shit is perpetually going to literal hell, and you're always two steps behind trying to triage, to staunch the bleeding and put out what fires you can. But it's never a happy ending. D1 ends with the protagonist sacrificing himself to HOPEFULLY MAYBE contain Diablo for JUST A LITTLE LONGER. D2 ends with Baal getting his soulstone back and being set loose. LoD ends with the heart of the world being sacrificed with no knowledge of what that might do to the world.
Then D3 ends with honest to god bright shiny sunlight and gleaming gold and triumphant music. I like the game itself, but what the hell, D3? There was some cool dark imagery, particularly when Leah becomes Diablo and fights Imperious, but it's not of the gothic Lovecraftian horror we got in D2. Marius wondering, almost asking himself "Why did I follow him?", then answering in the most defeated tone, "I don't know," gives me chills every time. "Always... into the east." "What could I do? I ran." Oh my god, this writing was so good. I love me some angel/demon smackdown, but it doesn't stack up against the sheer feeling I get from these lines.
D3 doesnt eve happy, it basically ends wrath Tyrael implying the nephalim will eventually become corrupt and kill LITTERALY EVERYTHING cuz he's already priced he can kill uber-demon, and uber-angel.
@@edohan9486 All they're are saying in Diablo 3 is that humanity regained the power that was lost to the WorldStone
My take was that it's one thing to be hopeless, but if you make things too hopeless, no one is going give a damn about anything anymore. You won't even bother doing anything to fight back and just let Hell kill everyone. It's a pessimist's wet dream. Remember even Path of Exile, the successor to Diablo, while being hopeless overall, made sure that you still actually made a positive difference in some way.
D1 and D2 just screams "nothing you do ever matters, you are just wasting your time." The overall darkness and hopeless has effectively crossed the line from "mature" to "edgelord's wet dream". If it wasn't for the WorldStone releasing the seals on humanity's power, no one would've bothered playing a game that essentially never lets you win in any meaningful way.
not even as close as dark as diablo1 kid, diablo2 is a gothic game but hardly horror. diablo 1 was all horror.
“east, always to the east”
definitely the most epic line on any starting cinematic of that time
I love Marius' place in the game. He serves as a foil/counterpoint to the PC of the game. Paralleling what you did, where Marius sat back and watched everyone get slaughtered, you reclaimed the citadel. Where he failed to enter the portal, you did. Ultimately you redeem Marius by the end by finishing what he couldn't.
I think its really important to do this for world building purposes, to make Marius so weak puts you into the world where the stakes are real and the average person is helpless against the forces of Hell, and it works as a backdrop to add to the power progression the player goes through, where Marius descends into damnation and eventual death, the player becomes a world saving hero by the end.
Marius had a bad build and poor quality gear. With a little farming he could've leveled up a little and maybe looked up a build guide too.
@@BigWheel. Idk the idea of grinding while there are "A thousand needles in my heart" doesn't sound fun, I can see why he would give up
He had dial up connection, poor Marius.
@@followingtheroe1952 Probably got hit by too many bone fetish's explosions.
These cinematics are still so much fun to watch. The pacing, the tone, the music were all on point.
i wish Diablo 3 had the same Gothic feel as this had.
Damn yeah, I still play Diablo 2 occasionally, single player hardcore. Diablo 3 is just a cheap rip off.
i remember diablo 2 with rose colored glasses. I know graphics are not everything but the resolution in Diablo 2 makes it hard for me to play now. Id love a remake but im sure i would find a way to shit on it and ruin the good memories.
Dubsy A remaster wouldn't hurt though.
A lot of people don't understand that the concept in Diablo has changed since the world stone has been destroyed. In Diablo 3 the nephalem can achieve power even greater than those of the archangels and prime evils. The naphalem in Diablo 2 had limited capabilities so the atmosphere had to be dark and scary, which would represent the emotions of the hero.
this looks suprisingly better than the resurrected animations in many areas.
Agreed
i disagree personally, but to each their own
"Like a thousand needles in my heart" Yes Marius, that's the feel of d3's plot.
@@mygamestodayllc I'm sure it'll feel like another out of season april fools joke.
and unfortunately d4's...
And Immortal. Uuuf madone
I still can't understand what drove Blizzard to turn this masterpiece of storytelling into just another season of Power Rangers.
drawback of capitalism bro,it was supposed to happen
Orkun Albayrak
I totally agree with you, but it's just so sad.
Igoronline what are you talking about?
It almost seems like the exhausted their quality on StarCraft 2 and just kind of... outsourced for Diablo 3.
Just as the evil of Diablo's soul stone... Money, it consumes us all... I grew up playing Diablo, it was one of the first games I ever played online. It completely blew me away to be a part of an online community, that was something that consoles at the time could only DREAM of. But I haven't lost hope, I have faith Blizzard will be able to turn it around in the next series of patches and the Expansion.
It cannot be overstated how important this game was to me as a kid. I remember a time in my life where even when not playing the game I would run through these cinematics in my mind over and over again. I loved this game, its atmosphere and its setting so damn much.
It is interesting coming back to view them like this, they bring forth a lot of emotion and memories.
Had a troubled home, and no internet or ability to play D2 at home. However I would spend all my afternoons at the local netcafe playing D2 and Counter-Strike, and often even the weekend nights as well. It was one of the primary ways I got away from it all. Only way I could afford all that time at the netcafe was because I was on their tournament team in Counter-strike and got free time "for practice," but honestly I would spend most of that time on D2 instead.
The seriously is one of the best games ever made
As in all-time !
i want to like 10s of times but cant. take your likes and double them
Absolutely agree
I love how he looks at his pipe, and throws it on the floor in the opening scene. It's like he' saying "wtf am I smoking??!"
That most definitely is opium. The way he just sits their unconscious.
Tyrael's wings are amazing!
I'ts amazing how this stuff just goes completely over your head as a kid, even though it's such a simple and straightforward plot, and these cutscenes are all just so EXTREMELY well done, i am so astounded how i didn't appreciate these at all when I was younger
The cinematics from the expansion stand up to even today's standards, they are so good.
people still take this game for granted and then cry about how they never got mod support when they never did on the original
there's an art to straight-forward story telling as well. it was just trendy in the 80s-90s to tell these straightforward stories, they just told it extremely well.
Diablo 2 resurrected hype brought me here. these cinematics are wonderful, even 20 years later s2
Before becoming human, Tyrael was very cool.
u mean before he get the hollywood style bullshit pc garbage.
@Proletariat pc = political correctness not personal computer lol
@@laujack24 "Hollywood style bullshit pc garbage"?? He's just a hot, black guy, calm down!
@@FluffyPoopPrincess ya but he doesn't fit angelic description tho. He just became a regular black dude with a deep voice. Tyraels old voice sounded ancient and angelic. No offense but come on u must understand the difference lol.
@@FluffyPoopPrincess Diablo 2 Tyrael was a depiction of BALANCE. Diablo 3 Tyrael was an uncle trying to find his beer.
I always loved 17:38 cuz it's Mephisto telling Diablo what to do, and he's just like "Geez, alright, alright, big bro, just let me get back to my realm!" xD
Considering Diablo's power, it is kinda weird that he would be the youngest of the three.
@@diablorises i thought Baal was got some reason...
20 years later and this still holds up.
Baal is so sadistic looking back at these cinematics. He knows all along that Marius has the soul stone and has all along, but still puts him through all of that.
Mephisto's speech is still so epic.
The fact that Marius has no npc model and only as a character in a cinematic makes it even more sad that you couldn't reach out to save him.
Yeah... his last words "What have I done to deserve all this." Always send a chill down my spine and I feel so bad for an NPC.
nah man trump 2024 marius would vote trump
@@RaphaelCosteau I don’t see how diablo could have political structures.
@@III-db2zz try out Diablo 4 beta for only 79.99 man it’ll be live tomorrow! Politics is a core part of Diablo, do you not remember Mephistos cult ? What about Baal!
Well his little brother is in the d4 and he gets gawked
I spent my stupid money on Diablo 3 and it destroyed me......i am now watching Diablo 2 cinematics to revive my admiration for that masterpiece i knew
I feel your pain.
60 bucks destroyed you? lmao!
@@khav11 I think he is talking about the "real money auction house" which used to be a thing...
@@kukenballe7063 no mention of that and i remember the AH
@@khav11 Notice the wording "I think he is talking about [...]"
"Not your foult? Tell me Merius, how was it not your fault." I miss this kind of character in Diablo 3... it's a shame that it was made for 12 years kid so it could sell more.
When i first watched the cinematics the moment he said that "Not your fault?" I knew there was something fishy with that hooded man
Heh... I was probably 12 around Diablo 2 days, so idk what is your point
@The Monster Under Your Bed No, 12-15 pretty much was the target audience for Diablo 2 games. You're just talking out of your arse :p
you mean family friendly d3
I remember being blown away with how real these looked when I was little.
Best plot twist in cinematic. (if you know the end of the Marius's storytelling).
What was The plot twist?
Baal was the twist.
@@ramiemorales3521 he wasn’t talking to the angel that told him that he doomed the whole world it was Baal
grew up playing the diablo series
Nate H Better cartoons though.
Didn’t we all
still playing it. get plugy mod
I'm here after the Diablo 4 trailer.
this cinematic series is so much better than the d4 stuff
@@Dunewarrior00 Nothing will come near to this, eaven if Diablo 4 is good, they will never come close to the grasp of the tone of this game
Me too
I’m here after the D2 remaster news.
"You haven't failed old man...you have done exactly as you were meant to do". I remember seeing the preview trailer with that in it and throwing my money at the monitor. This and the Baal cutscenes were so damn masterful. These were part of the stepping stones that turned video games into media art.
I just feel sorry for Marius. You can hear the pain in his voice. I think Tyrael asking him to take the soulstone through a gate into hell was too much for a mortal. Every human being is afraid of death, and on top of that if he were to die in hell (which is more than likely considering that it is hell) his soul would be trapped there forever and the angels wouldn't come to save him. I say that's pretty fucked up. Then after just trying to survive and find a quiet place to live, Baal comes and kills him, sending his soul to hell anyways. This all happened to some random guy that happened to meet the dark wanderer. He didn't choose to align himself with the prime evils, but he paid the price for it anyways. As a game, it is fun, but if I was in Marius's shoes, I probably would have run too. It's a good thing we don't live in sanctuary because that would be a horrible experience.
Not to mention having to live knowing that he was too weak to resist Baal and being convinced to release him.
Yeah it did a great job in explicitly showing the agony of a normal, weak human being. There's some beauty in that... Now in D3 there's nothing like that. I didn't feel any emotion playing D3. It's all fancy and that's all.
I heard Blizzard was planning a second expansion named "Salvation". My personal guess (for what it's worth) is this would have shown mercy for Marius, somehow. We'll never know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Agreed. Donno why Tyriel choose the weak and old marius instead of many mortal heroes .
This is precisely what made D2 epic my friend. The story was not accounted by the heroes or the villains but an innocent bystander who unwillingly and unwittingly got dragged into a centuries old battle. As far as Marius' fate in the story goes, he had already doomed himself when he decided to tag along with the Dark Wanderer. No offense but did he expect a bag of cookies with a pat on the back in the end? He literally followed a guy that torched an entire inn, killed people, and summoned hellish monsters right in front of his eyes. Clearly, he should have known that he had a purpose which is why Diablo didn't kill him (yet) and that after he did his part, he would die.
Every time I watch these I dont plan on watching all of them, but they’re so damn good I’ll sit here for half n hour and watch them like I’ve done 3948 times lol
4:15 Griswold's Edge.... gone just like that, he never picks it up.
Best videogame and best videogame-movie of all time !!! The number-1 !!
I'm going to complete this game again.. For like the 26th time
+Terkel Blegager Right. I completed this game so many times and got bored after finishing D3 once in the the hardest mode.
Terkel Blegager me too
Only 26? Damn, I kinda feel like I have an obsession with this game then lol.
yup, watching the LoD intro with Baal just never gets old...
Man, these cutscenes are going to look absolutely bonkers recreated in Diablo 2: Resurrected.
Easily one of the greatest cinematic sequences in video game history. That a World of Warcraft movie is being made before a Diablo movie is a travesty.
+chamr OMG a diablo movie + a remake of the D1/2 togheter would be AMAZING
Diablo is a cult videogame at this point in time, that's why Blizzard is paying more attention to Warcraft.
For Diablo to actually make a comeback it must return to its roots, and Blizzard must hire back the man who came with the idea in the first place; David Brevik.
@@raziel6304 his themes and storycrafting are great, but if you watched his video about the start of the series, he had some pretty shitty ideas for the game and the other developers really helped create the ARPG by steering him straight on a lot of game mechanics
@@raziel6304 They were greed and fired all the key member cuz they were paid "too much".
19:40
Screams on the background intensify, as Baal requests to give him the stone. You can hear *:"NO, PLEASE NO, NO!!!"*
still epic to watch after 18 years
"What choice did I have? I ran..." I'll never forget that line as long as I live
Diablo 2 is and was the best game i´ve ever played in my life. I grew up with it. And i Love it
My exact thoughts.
Oh my god I had no idea that was Frank Gorshin doing the voice of Marius.
He was amazing.
Damn shame he never did another video game.
When I was a kid Blizzard gave me a game for grownups. When I became a grownup Blizzard gave me a game for kids.
Уххх... Аж мурашки по коже от сцены разрушения Камня Мира. А актер, который озвучивал Мариуса - по-моему просто гений.
Some of the best voice acting in games' history. Particularly Marius.
Who else is here after they announced D2 Resurrected?
I hope D4 will be as depressing as this, where after every act you get a cinematic to explore what is happening. I hope the story it tells spurns players forward towards the end again... a proper diablo story, dark and grusome
D4 will be depressing but instead of good writing its microtransactions
I really loved the character of Marius... he makes us seem so vulnerable compared to the prime evils. Would you have gone into hell and destroyed the stone, as a mere mortal?
They should've had this feeling of dread in Diablo 3...
Me seeing this for the first time in 2000: *jaw hits the floor* "this....is the best looking cinematics I have EVER seen!"
Me seeing this for the 500th time 20+ years later: "How were they even able to make something like this back then....??"
this is one of my favorite games. easily one of Blizzards best work along with Warcraft III: Frozen Throne. Everything about these 2 games were perfect...beautiful graphics, music and gameplay paired with epic lore.
And both went lame afterwards.
xxlCortez People are still playing D2 after all those years, you moron.
Gold Roger
Including me. I didn't refer to them, I referred to the sequels.
Gold Roger he was talking about World of Warcraft and Diablo III...I still play D2 and War3 until now.
crusnik102605 To me, it seems at though he was talking about D2 and WC3 ''Afterwards'' as in after a few years.
Baal is such a mysterious character, he spreeds pain and destruction without hesitation yet sits for a long time listning to Marius story thatbhe aldready knew. He could easily torture him to get the location of the soul stone yet he just plays along
Hoffer Puffer What I would call 'truly demonic'.
I would assume being a prime evil with all the power in the world could get one bored.
Baal and Duriel
That’s what I call demonic as the lord of hell, just deceiving Marius, giving him hope, gaining his trust and lowering his safeguarding, and when he gave out what Baal needs, and suddenly review himself and give him the fatal hit.
It's a common archetype that demons have zero pride. They will manipulate to get what they want, saying or doing anything.
*Blizzard:* Now, to pull NetEase's soulstone...
*Tyrael:* NO! DON'T DO IT!
**Diablo Immortal announced**
*Tyrael:* FOOL! You have just ensured the doom of the Diablo franchise. You cannot even begin to imagine what you have set in motion this day. Go to the Temple of GGG, in the oceanic country of New Zealand. There you will find the Gate to Inspiration opened before you, you must find the courage to step through that gate, Blizzard. Take the Stone of Activision you hold to the Hellforge, where it will be destroyed. Now run, take the stone and run!
*Players:* What choice did we have? We ran...
Blessed Aenygma. Save us.
*applause*
Perfect
"WE traveled together east...always into the east!"
Diablo 3 lacks everything that made the franchise excellent. It only excels in combat, but "epic" crazy combat takes away the dark, horror feel of the games. Diablo 3 RoS hopefully addresses this...
bad news....it didn't
12:20 "He moved with demonic speed and then...then you appeared!" Always gives me chills!!
Tal Rasha is badass beyond insanity
This is Peak Blizzard. Got me missing the good old days.
Blizzard North to be exact. Their departure marked the end of an era.
0:58 .... the background screams, "Fuck you Jeffrey"?
2pro4u2c Nope, it's "fuck you, Joffrey!" :P
2pro4u2c fuck you jeffrey! Kill me!
fuck you Jeffrey, get off of me lol ty for the comment
I like to think that the green hologram that escapes the wanderer (Act I) is the soul of Adrian which tries to avoid hurting anyone. Diablo finally manages to cast his soul out (temporarily) and blaze the whole area. As soon as Adrian's soul returns, the wanderer calms down signifying that even with a Prime Evil possessing the entirety of his being, Adrian is still trying to fight, albeit a futile fight.
It's little things like this, such symbolism in cinematics that made D2 epic. These cinematics scared the crap out of my 10-year old self but at the same time I wanted to play more, explore more, fight, conquer. I'd feel like a real warrior fighting evil back then lol. D3 wasn't that bad for game play but it didn't establish that good a mental connection with me. Even looking at diva Diablo, I wasn't scared anymore, I was like 'Meh..'
D3 showed me that Diablo was not real and that the story was set in some fictional sanctuary and that the heroes fighting were not exactly humans. But D2? It had no lore on sanctuary or any major mention of the nephalem which made me believe it could be real. It was relatable. Demonic possession is what I had heard of, every character class had simple skills with no glitz or glamor and I struggled, yes really struggled against some bosses. The difficulty, the stakes, and unimagniable peril was translated to me as a gamer by the difficulty of the game itself. Diablo never speaks anything beyond as few words in the cinematics, we see him 90% of the time as a Dark Wanderer cloaked from head to toe but he still scared me. It's the little done in moderation that sometimes makes the sweetest recipe. Hopefully Blizzard will realize where they erred and rework their plans for D4, if it is ever made. This grunge, dark, demonic story, the simple game play but unforgiving difficulty and the epic musical score is what we need.
So long Diablo...you will forever be missed. :')
even w/ the new/better gfx of 'resurrected' these cinematics are still better, better audio/better atmosphere and un-fucked with
I'm not a fan of horror movies but this NEEDS to be made in a dark, grim horror.
Bring this back, this is what the Diablo community needs now.
in this cinematics you can clearly see what diablo 3 is missing.(no idea how did blizzard missed such an important thing while making D3 )
TheLordstrider it's because D3 was made by a different Blizzard Team who apparently didn't understand what was so great about D2.
Thanks for this, one of my childhood mementos.
Thank you for this great upload
"The consequences that even i cannot foresee" -- yeah none of us foresaw the disappointment that was to be named the successor to this great game.
Mephistoe's speech is my favorite
I'm becoming increasingly convinced that the Diablo series is a subtle warning about the deleterious effects of participation in politics. The plot surrounding the fight to control the Worldstone maps perfectly onto books like Eric Voegelin's "Science, Politics, and Gnosticism" and Glenn Alexander Magee's "Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition." The heavenly counterparts to those being titles like "Orthodoxy" and "The Everlasting Man" by G.K. Chesterton.
damn, this makes Diablo 3 feel like a Disneyworld attraction. What happend? how come D3 seems so.... not diablo like.... feels like a PG13 movie when this seems really dark and made for mature audiences.
rip blizzard north bro
yea, only pussies are left now that are trying to make their games for 10 years old kids. and when i think about it now, i was maybe 10 when i played d2.. was i scared ? yes. did i love it ?! FUCK YES!
I still play it occasionally. But yeah, it lost some of the atmosphere that made 1 & 2 great and the abilities were oversimplified (I do like the rune modifications to skills tho, theyre cool); and except for the first act, the music wasn't very Diabloy at all.
i played it when i was 5-6 yrs old, i pissed myself when i saw Duriel.
To be fair, they did darken the game a bit after the initial screenshots got nerd raged on, but they also added the, oh, I forget the name, secret level where you kill my little ponies and teddy bears, which is a wink to some fan art that came out of the initial screen shots.
Ah well. Maybe CDP will give us back dark storytelling with Cyberpunk 2077.
Man this brings back memories :P So epic and dark. Why did they have to ruin diablo 3 by making it so cheesey :(, the evils felt like evils in D2 and they become a joke in d3
The old cinematic of the last act is so better than the new one in resurrected ! I loved the way Tyrael was fusiness as a spirit. The new cinematic is too clean. And the music...
Does Tyrael really expect Marius to remember that super long set of instructions when he couldn't even follow his ONE order to not pull the soul stone out?
Tyrael was facing two prime evils in one room and he was getting desperate, it wasn’t like he had any cho…..nah forget it, Tyrael was an idiot of epic proportions!
13:51 "Fool!"
Haha I love that Tyreal just picks Marius up by the neck.
2:39 best part of the entire cinematics don't @me.
The part where they struggle to animate his running later always kills me. 😂
Remember when things actually happened in Blizzard cutscenes? When it wasn't just Warcraft 3 cutting to shadows and sandcastles, or Diablo 3 showing a woman falling asleep as her grandfather read a book?
wow i hadn't seen the first act 1 prologue in close to 20 years thanks!
Oh did i love Diablo 2.... Compared to Diablo 3 blizzard made a huge fail.
Diablo 2 was the love of my life. I grew up with it and it is and will always be the best game ever.
This video gave me chills and so many memories from the past =:)
It also makes me damn mad on blizzard.
Thumbs up for the video!
Jaizzerx And if Blizzard had done what the fanboys want and release an HD cover of D2, everyone would have cried foul about the lack of originality and what have you, not to mention the fact that a literal translation of D2 into the modern game scene would not be well received, with its clunky, repetitive gameplay, nonsensical loot system, and excess of exploitable glitches.
Honestly Diablo 3 would have been perfect if they kept the traditional leveling...
@@jarynn8156 shame about the censorship in d2r, but its pretty good otherwise, even fixing glitches while keeping the positive effects
I first played Diabolo III 2 years ago, at the time I didn't understand why people hated it. Then I played Diablo II a year ago, well I was absolutely blown away. There's just so many things that I absolutely love about this game.
"Do you want something?"
That voice, 😆
Awesome..^^ enjoyed!
Nothing beats Diablo 2-cinematics. Nothing.
To bad Blizzard North closed up.
D1 and D2 were epic games.
one thing that all blizzard games had, were awesome cutscenes. they always looked way ahead of it's time.
Great old times. Diablo II was the best game of the series overall.
As I watch this I look back. I look back in my life and see so many hours I've spent on this game. So many girlfriends pushed aside. So many jobs lost. This game had a heavy hold on me as I'm sure it did with many others. However I do NOT regret it LoL. It was so much fun back then. It's just a shame they haven't made anything good since then. RIP
Imagine marius going there and getting fucked up by the monster with the hammer . How does tyrael expect him to beat that monster ?
I have this on DVD :D
I need only the first cinematic to really want to play the game. It's maybe the way they tease the story or maybe it's just the voice acting being so on point. Blizzard is known for their cinematics, but this one is on top of them all.
Since I was a kid, I've always hoped there will be a Diablo movie in the future that will feel similar to those amazing D2 cinematics.
I guess that will never happen, it's a pitty.
....One of the best Video-Game-Cinematics of all times from my Point of view.
Fun fact the guy who voiced Marius was the man who played the riddler in Adam West's tv batman show.
What an incredible story. These cinematic shave aged beautifully
the wanderer casually walks over a bridge
marius "he walked with demonic speed!"
diablo ends with this part
I agree.
Kutil Kol no he is reborn in diablo 3
@@icybite7342 He meant the game..
Oh man I remember watching this when I was 13, it amazed the shit out of me. Still is for the time.
I remember how disturbed i was at Marius cries of anguish, chilling stuff :/
Seriously, how did Tyrael expect this old fart to get through Kurast ( it's hard enough as a Druid more so a random nobody ), enter Hell, go to the Hellforge, beat the demons there and break the soulstone?
C'mon now. Wouldn't it have been easier for Tyrael to tell Marius how to find the other Archangels and ask for their help? Imperius and co would probably be able to storm hell and break the stones like no problem.
The council decided that they wouldn't help humans, it was forbidden for angels to go to earth. Tyrael is just a bro.
Well because Imperius it too proud to do it the easy way.
pateuvasiliu After played D3 you will know how dumb Tyrael was.
If angels set even a foot in hell they are utterly destroyed. This may sunrise you, but demons are extremely more powerful than Angels.
Rob Laney That's completely wrong, I have no idea where you got that info.
This cinematics are perfect never get bored of them. THey FEEL EVIL
Came here after the D3 immortal cinematic. This is how you tell a story.
Just stopping by to watch all of these so I can be refreshed for when the remaster is released. Excited as much for the updates cinematics as I am the game itself.
Just finished Lord of Destruction for the very first time ! long hard but epic ride..