• TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    What? I played Diablo 1, it literally had a story? Chris Metzen co-created the setting for the franchise with David Brevik and Bill Roper in 1996. The changes Blizzard wanted made from the original concept of Diablo was to make it real-time rather than turn based and to add multiplayer as part of the publishing agreement. I don’t see anything about a storyline being “forced” on the developers.

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      2 months ago

      Basically David brevik said that there was no story and the cut scene on the end was added by blizzard south. They had no intent to add that.

      I stand corrected though. Metzen is credited as a writer on Diablo. But not Diablo 2.

      I suspect Metzen wrote the ending that was tacked on according to Brevik, since at that time blizzard north was a completely different team at the time.