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The newest videogame movie? DIABLO.
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I am a freaking nerd.
Yes. The arrogance was in believing that he could contain the demon. Let this be a lesson to everyone; if you shove a soul stone containing a powerful demon into your brain seek magical aid immediately. Go straight to the nearest wizard guild/college/convocation. Do not stop at the tavern to have a few drinks.
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It was the same ending for every class if I remember correctly. I'm pretty sure I've only played the mage and it always ends with the diablo stone forehead smashing.
I had no idea they explained what happened to our heroes in the 2nd one. Pretty neat stuff that I overlooked.
Maybe they could turn the game idea on its head, and do it in matrix style, where the game itself is self aware. It knows how good it is, and the demon inside knows that all who play it are failing college classes, neglecting their loved ones and damaging their innards with terrible fast food, unable to stop...ruining their lives...:-)
nah
YES YOU ARE FUCKED, SHIT OUT OF LUCK, NOW I'M COMPLETE AND MY COCK YOU WILL SUCK.
With a good writer they could make a great movie that is entirely true to the source material. And no, your two-hundred and fifty-seventh Baal run doesn't count as source material.
Just as an example they could have a warrior, sorcerer and rogue drawn to Tristram by news of bad things happening. For extra punch later maybe they've been traveling together for a while and have already pieced together some of what's happening. Most of the first half of the movie takes place in town where they get to know everyone, learn more about what has happened and what will happen and fight off a couple of demon excursions from the church. Then they descend into the dungeon. Along the way they find a library with an account of what happened to Tal Rasha and old information about the sin war (maybe some flashbacks here). They find a portal to freaking hell in the caves under the church and go in to fight diablo, seal the portal and hopefully rescue Leoric's son. Along the way the sorcerer and the rogue die. If their characters have been developed well these can be extremely emotional scenes (at least one of them should die fighting Lazarus, probably the sorcerer). This also leaves the warrior alone to figure out what to do with the soul stone. At this point he recalls the story of Tal Rasha and realizes the only way to protect the world is to sacrifice himself to seal Diablo away. Shard-to-the-forhead, roll credits.
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Also, did anyone legitimately find their gear in Diablo 1?
I loved that potion bar dupe. King's Swords of Haste for everyone!
I beat the game the first time legitimately, then I cheated like hell.
I think I usually had King's Swords of the heavens, but haste was pretty good too.
And the staves was just silly.
I am a freaking nerd.
Obviously, that didn't work out quite as he hoped.
The three's original bodies were all destroyed during the Sin War. The Horadrim created the soulstones to contain their souls, or else they would have been free to just fly to the body of their choosing and take it for themselves. Baal's stone was damaged, so they had to stick it in Tal Rasha and bind him. They hid Diablo's soulstone under Tristram and Mephisto's under Kurast. But even though he was bound in the soulstone, Diablo could still call out to humans and corrupt them and manipulate them (think The One Ring here). So he lured Prince Albrecht down there and persuaded him to stick it in his face, taking over his body.
So it's either one of two things. Either the Wanderer took the stone for himself in fear of Diablo luring someone new down there and starting it all over again, or Diablo tricked him into doing it. Maybe even by using these exact arguments, like "If you let me free, I'll just get Wirt's body, but you're strong enough to contain me!"
Of course, being strong enough to contain him was pretty much a huge scam, considering Diablo now had an actual warrior's body instead of just a kid's. Diablo managed to completely take over the body and actually imprison the Wanderer's soul in the soultone, then he took it off and tossed it out his carriage somewhere between Tristram and the Rogues' Citadel.
Because we all fully expect the movie to follow every single one of the game's plot intricacies exactly.
I'm going to go ahead and blame the devil
And if the first movie bombs and no sequel is made; it'll have been a good investment.
Movies should be made on a per movie basis.
...........yet
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Cain. Deckard Cain.
Someone's memory is a little bit off.
Woah, was that something from the short novels, and not the books that came with the game?
Because Diablo certainly had a piece of a soulstone in his head all throughout the game, it was just hidden under the skin for a while.
What always confused me was how the soulstone ended up sticking out of diablo's head by about a foot by the time you fought him.
Oh and the part where they didn't die.
"You're the man now, warrior."
That's from one of the trailers Blizzard released before the game was out.
(I only played Diablo I, II was boring and ugly so I traded it off~ Pardon the throwback novelty item.)
edit.. page five, I should have known someone would have beaten me to the conceptual punch. To be serious I guess it could be a cool movie if they 300'd it and just made it look awesome and action packed. If they try to give it some jackass story it will suck.
Diablo 3
Diablo 2 for the DS and PSP
STOP WASTING TIME HALF MAKING THEN ABANDONING STARCRAFT GAMES LONG ENOUGH TO MAKE NEW DIABLO ONES.
Haha, Snakes On A Plane-style. I vote yes.
Hollywood will change shit. Period. (Especially esoteric little giblets of information like generic hero #2 and #3 becoming enemies in the second game; which 95% of the people who played the game didn't even notice)
They will do what they feel makes a better movie and the original content be damned. As they should; because a shitty movie that's 100% accurate to the source material is still a shitty movie, whereas a good movie that only pays lip service to the source material is at least a good movie.
'course, with videogames, we usually end up with shitty movies that only pay lip service to the source material. Such is life. And Uwe Boll.
The hero/es could decide at one point it'd be best to head up for reinforcements, only to discover that the paths they followed previously don't exist anymore, and no matter their efforts, all passages lead back to the same stairs going down.