[Spoilers] Leaked pictures from cinematic

Well....the girl being diablo was easy to guess... also, after seeing the animated cinematic about the archangels, it was pretty obvious that they would turn on each other...Also I have heard on judgehype forum that the butcher is back too (he apparently shows himself in a video at the 28-29th second). I am still trying to find the video tho...

No real surprises here - I thought it was very odd that some random girl got so much exposure in the game coverage despite not actually doing anything. I figured she either saves the day (not likely) or ends up screwing you over (i.e. turn into Diablo). Imperious turning on the angels is no surprise either after the animated film; it's just a question of how it happens.

I am sad, she is kinda hot :3

I am still holding out until I get the game guide. There is no way to know that Leah transforms into Diablo yet, and until then we should hold our opinions.

Personally, I think it's likely, but whatever-game's not out yet, guide's not in yet.

Well it's all pretty obvious now so dont read past this if ure dumb and dont want the plot spoled including Tyrael and Imperius.+ Show Spoiler +

When Azmodan says "you thought you were so clever" he is talking to Diablo, not Leah. Diablo was so clever in hiding away in her. And in the first teaser, Leah sees diablo among other things, she sees her own destiny, not some prophecy.

This is it. This is the story right here.

corrupted Leah/Leah=Diablo

looks pretty solid indeed

Leah is not a big spoiler IMO. It was incredibly obvious from the day I saw the Black Soulstone video. Even before then I had a good idea she would be Diablo because of the feminine features of Big D but I'm surprised so many people didn't know about her being Diablo yet.

Maybe it will seem better when it has the context added to it, but I'm pretty skeptical about the story being very good at this point.

the black soulstone is the key to combine the prime and lesser evils into Ubermegadiablo (leaked strings shows that Diablo uses all of the powers of theirs) so he can own the High Heavens. I wonder beside Tyrael who the fuck gonna help us kill him, seems like we have been fighting the 7 headed dragoon one head a time in the past and he wanted to loose.

Yes this has been speculated by a few, i can kinda buy it but mostly because Metzen is lazy. Im hoping it isn't true however since it's so goddamn lame. Besides this i do not want help in defeating diablo, i do not want it to be like a wow bossfight either where you can choose to have Tyrael help you with buff X and another angel with buff Z. Then achievements for doing it with no buffs!!!!!!!! ....

Mortals should defeat Diablo since he is in Sanctuary, period. Even if he assaults the high heavens, mortals should defeat him, thats the point of the damn game.

But damn it makes alot of sense. Azmodan says that when he gets the black soulstone he can rule as THE prime evil, not one of but THE prime evil. Fuck this is such a dumb plot. Oh well this dumb shit might make me hang in there till the 23rd(fuck exams)

But if this is true hmm what for the expansion? Kinda closes of a few things other then say Inarius returning from hell, mallformed and absolutely batshit insane due to millenia of torture.

In the Black Soulstone trailer when Leah is in hell, you can see the lesser evils only, the prime ones' seats are empty-> theyre trapped in the black soulstone ready to get consumed by Leahblo?

The Black Soulstone could be the key to the Abyss or to them merging, definitely.

That was hell? in the cinematic? Also updated my previous post a little, the one u quoted.

In the dream, Azmodan doesn't have the stone yet, but he says "one by one our brethren fell into your trap". Leah has the stone, why or how we do not know but i think it has been confirmed that she does indeed have it? And the brethren he speaks of... could they be Mephisto and Baal? They are in the Black Void aren't they? It could be lesser evils yes, Andariel and Duriel makes no appearance in the game. And it could also be that Leah follows the hero around as you kill demons, absorbing them into the stone without knowing Diablos plan. That might be a good explanation how he gets their powers.

Since you meet Belial and the queen of pain but also Azmodan.

Deckard Cain is implied to be dead. The hero spends the whole game casting down the Lesser evils and imprisoning them, only to have Diablo break out of the black soulstone at the end of act 3 and launch and assault on heaven. Leah is not initially Diablo, but is forced into possession. Also, Imperius is not a bad guy, just gets a cameo in the last level just before the final quest to kill Diaablo.

that was definetly some kind of throne room of the evils. Yes. Azmodan knows that Diablo's plan was to get exiled, get the soulstones and the worldstone destroyed so he can manifest inside Leah and get all of them powers to pwn Heaven. He wants all of that power for himself thats why he invades Sanctuary, only to find that Leah befriended the player and we pwn him. After that Impetus shows up, trying to kill Leah, but Tyrael comes and try to argue that they shouldn't kill Diablo but prison him inside Leah, they fight for a bit, then Adria turns Leah into Leahblo, so Impetus dies and Tyrael flees. Act 4 is an epic battle between the Heaven and Hell, without Impetus and with Ubermegadiablo its kind a onesided, but we show up and somehow manage to break the black soulstone's bond, and meanwhile Tyreal deals with the other evil we imprison Diablo in our head so we can play the same story for the 4th time. :D JK, They say we will have 2 more expansions and it will resolve all of the conflict in d1-3. I guess if all of the prime and lesser evils will be defeated in vanilla d3 maybe corrupted angels

spoilers are so funny :d

i dont get it how is Leah Diablo?? did the soulstone emit some aura and possess her or something?

its isnt the same, in D1 the king's son is captured and became the vessel for diablo whereas Leah didnt consume the stone at all.

- Leah spends all night healing the wounded w blacksmith's wife
- blacksmith's wife gets plagued
- everyone gets plagued
- DODODODO

Tyrael

I'd still hit that.

I now regret clicking. Woulda been fun to find that out during the game. Curse my curiosity

tho the ending is even more cheesy than SC2 WoL ending

I didnt want leah to go like that, she was cute . But metzen really needs to retire this plot style, it's been getting old since war3. They never say what happens to adria after she betrayed them, why would adria betray them. Ahh well, maybe playing the game will answer that. I dont really understand what they can do with the expansion.

From the cinematics, it seems as though stuff starts to get pretty rushed towards the end (act 2 diablo revealed, ac3 kill diablo), I hope it doesnt feel as rushed as sc2, as in boom..we smashed the zerg planet in after 2 missions. D2 felt epic because it was a game long build up and chase.

Was Leah in any other Diablo game or newly introduced in Diablo3? I'm assuming her history gets revealed in game or am I missing something?

Although I liked the Imperius vs. Diablo one, the Diablo II cinematics were much better. Where's the subtlety? Making Tyrael tell us the story in an extremely cheesy way wasn't a smart move at all. Totally ruined his character for me. Also, Tyrael's new voice sucks.

I agree fully. The last cinematic was just... some hollywood inspirational speech crap, awfull. And yes the new voice blows.

Every scene with angel wings was amazing. The animation is legittttttttt.

Diablo has the black soulstone with mephisto/baal and the lesser evils' powers. The fight isn't supposed to be close.

I agree with this, I was kinda okay with it till that point, the voice did feel kinda meh, but it when it got to the last bit, it really turned me off, with all "the mortals did it! they saved angels! the underdogs won!" bit that went on again and again.

Not really surprised though - compare SC2 plot and storytelling to SC1/BW, and pretty much the same thing happened. HotS will probably be a good indicator of how the "story" of the Diablo 3 expansion would flow, too.

Leah is Diablo. But she is also the daughter of the warrior from Diablo 1, who became Diablo in Diablo 2 (The Wanderer) and of Adria, the Witch from Diablo 1 !!!!!

Also, Adria appears in Diablo 3 !!!

Alma from the FEAR series!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHaeJFHbV6Q

Why didn't they keep the original Tyreas voice actor? =( The new guy's not right AT ALL.

And way too damn much narration (even if you ignore the parts prior to the cinematics themselves). D2 cinematics were atmospheric, and the minimal dialogue they contained was great. This is just... distracting, lame storytelling. What the hell happened?

Thanks. I didn't know about that. I thought it was pretty weird how he lost by just getting stabbed.

Here's a link to the making of Diablo 3
http://www.twitch.tv/incgamers_clan/b/317945796

At 28:35 . metzen says something like "we feel like there is still a nice girl out there to save, and would like to visit that, but how it will come to close, we dont quite know for sure, maybe we might visit it sometime in the later chapters". Hmm....sounds similar :p

The cheesy ending, I didn't like so much.

"YOU CAN NOT JUDGE ME! I AM JUSTICE ITSELF!"

I really hated new diablo form, where is my beefy, muscley diablo that enters the gate in d2
it was a warrior diablo back then, now we have a spellcaster diablo (bodytype-wise)
his shoulders almost reminds me of tier 5 Warlock set in WoW

I thought Diablo looked rather like a Xenomorph.

Couldn't agree more. I think the old D2 cinematics were made by some other guys (Blizzard North), now replaced by incompetent WoW people. This felt very WoW-ish. There was no suspense at all.

The tyrael-imperius and imperius-leahblo fights were SICK.

The story is cheesy and fuck but Tyrael is such a godamn baller, hes like batman. I was expecting him to say "Gotham city needs a hero!" as he was shedding his wings and armor.

Oh, Leah becomes Diablo.. I totally did not see that one coming!
Blizzard's story lines have always been pretty predictable anyway. Doesn't mean it's not gonna be awesome, though.

Only reason I kind of knew from the get go of the beta that Leah was most likely Diablo was for two reasons, the first was because it was odd that out of nowhere (past mentioning) this Leah girl appeared and followed me, helped me, and almost seemed like a main focus. That kind of gave it away, Blizzard needed to slowly introduce her. It would have added much more surprise when everything came to the end, at least thats what I think. And also, like people have mentioned before, the Diablo pictures from Blizzcon tried to 'highlight' the fact that the new Diablo body was different from the others, pointing to a likely female host.

About Tyrael's new voice: is it just me, or does he sound like a black man? (Not being racist here, or saying that's why the voice sucks. Just curious)

EDIT: Googled it. Jonathan Adams:

Female Diablo is fine with me, but why the hell did female Diablo speak with a masculine voice?

MAN DEFEATED EVIL EVEN THOUGH WE SAID MAN WAS DUMB!!! HAIL MAN! I WILL TAKE MY PLACE AMONG YOU NOW! AS A MORTAL! FUCK YEAH GLORIOUS RIGHTOUS HOLLYWOOD INSPIRATIONAL SPEECH ENDING! YEAH!

I was watching somebody stream the game and there was a Necromancer cameo at one point, complete with skeletons xD