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It looks like Netflix could be adding an animated "Diablo" series to its original programming lineup.
Boom! Studios founder Andrew "Andy" Cosby tweeted on Wednesday that he's in "final talks" to write and show-run the upcoming series from Activision and Netflix. "It's very exciting and I hope to the High Heavens it all works out," he said.
[...] There's no information currently on what the "Diablo" series might entail, but Cosby will be bringing his pedigree as the writer behind the new "Hellboy" film reboot to the project, which should make for the kind of gory and violent expectations fans have for any series that could be based on the "Diablo" series.
My inner geek and child both say "yay!" but my inner cynic says "oh no...".
Source: https://variety.com/2018/gaming/news/animated-diablo-series-netflix-1202952386/
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Fingers do massive damage to phones.
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Animated "Diablo" Series Reportedly Coming to Netflix
(Score: 5, Insightful) by ikanreed on Monday September 24 2018, @07:51PM (1 child)
You know that thing you liked at some point in the past? Now it's on netflix with a predefined transformation
*if it was animated, now it's live action
*if it was live action, it's anime
*If it was actually pretty well done, now it's fucking garbage
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 25 2018, @12:09AM
Counterexample: Voltron: Legendary Defender isn't live action.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday September 24 2018, @07:54PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt0jCgxIhrI [youtube.com]
D2's cutscenes hold up pretty well, but I don't think anyone here will be optimistic about this Netflix series. Until we see a trailer at least.
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(Score: 2) by damnbunni on Monday September 24 2018, @08:38PM (1 child)
Andrew "Andy" Cosby? The hell?
Are we going to start seeing Robert "Bobby" Robins and Steven "Steve" Jobs?
Something like Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene makes sense. But I think I could figure out 'Andy' is short for 'Andrew' without the quotes.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 24 2018, @08:59PM
Might be SEO. Catch searches both for Andrew Cosby and Andy Cosby. Robert "Bobby" Robbins yes; Steven "Steve" Jobs no. (Steve is a substring of Steven, but watch out for Steven "Stevie" Jobs and Stephen "Steve" Jobs.)
(Score: 3, Informative) by crafoo on Monday September 24 2018, @08:55PM (3 children)
I recently played through ACT 2 and 3 of Diablo 3. The story construction and dialogue writing are terrible. Every aspect absolutely sucks with no redeeming qualities. Maybe someone at Netflix is a pissed off fan who wants to try the story with real writing talent.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 24 2018, @11:38PM
(Score: 2) by toddestan on Tuesday September 25 2018, @02:13AM (1 child)
Personally, I thought the series went kind of astray with the expansion for Diablo II. It kind of felt like the people who made the expansion weren't the same ones that made the original game, which made it seem kind of tacked on without a lot of thought. Diablo III wasn't a lot better.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 25 2018, @03:41AM
You should try Hellfire. The item drops are more or less well thought out and integrated well, but the dungeon and quests....
(Score: 3, Interesting) by RamiK on Monday September 24 2018, @08:56PM (2 children)
Compile-able and somewhat readable: https://github.com/diasurgical/devilution [github.com]
There's also Diablo: The Hell mod (closed source [patreon.com]) with the Hell 2 especially shaping up to something comparable or better than contemporary titles like Path of Exile and Grim Dawn.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday September 24 2018, @09:39PM (1 child)
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(Score: 2) by RamiK on Tuesday September 25 2018, @12:50AM
I found D2 very boring. It didn't have any story, sandbox, or crawl worth mentioning and all you did was item runs and grind for XP. The games might share a franchise, but the fact enemies don't respawn in D1 outside the NG/NG+ should tell you everything you need to know if you ever played other ARPGs.
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