Yeah, Kulle built his archive all by himself for his research and experiments. I don’t know about you, but all I saw there was corridors, a few platforms and some jars. What on earth was he studying with those? I mean it’s just a giant empty complex. Didn’t see much anything archived there either, except for monsters and dust.
Blizzard have made themselves by making “Warhammer games” in a time when Games Workshop refused to enter the age of computer gaming. Everything in Warcraft and Starcraft is heavily influenced (I’m putting it nice and neutral here, some things were actually close to plagiarism) by Fantasy Battles and Warhammer 40k. It seems though that it’s not just the visual style Blizzard adapted from them, they also have that more-epic-than-the-epicest-but-doesn’t-make-any-sense-in-a-closer-examination style of writing. It doesn’t matter though, it’s what we expect of them.
Diablo 3 is currently my go to game for some brains-off entertainment. I’m only playing it occasionally now. Mostly I play hardcore, because I have zero interest in the softcore “endgame”. Things like doing goblin runs don’t sound like playing to me. Yeah, I’m old fashioned in that way I guess. I like to play my games, not just perform five minute runs over and over again in hope of a loot drop that’ll make it easier for me to perform five minute runs over and over again in hope of a…