So with the Lore...

Smart move. The minute you reveal what something is, it completely loses its potential to be anything you could imagine... and it is diminished because of it...

Like how Prometheus ruined the Space Jockey.

Worst. Letdown. Ever.

Massive apocalyptic jellyfish creatures?

(Hopefully)

Did someone say "apocalyptic jellyfish"??

*A Chinese design to clean the air

Apocalyptic... jellyfish... So... Beautiful

Maintaining mystery is essential to story development. Good examples are Lord of the Rings and the Halo story. In Lord of the Rings Tolkien continuously refers to stories and the metaphorical "mountain" "over there" to incorporate depth in the world. He never tells too much of the "mountain" or story but keeps parts of it a mystery. If he revealed everything he would have to keep interest by creating more "mountains over there" past the mountains he just explained.
You find this in Halo. You have the mysterious forerunners and Guilty Spark refers to Master Chief as Re-claimer. There is mystery in this and gives depth to the whole story. Only in Halo 4 do you finally learn much more about where the Halo rings came from and who built them and why those who built them are no more. And yet, mystery remains. Another alien race is introduced that is even further reaching than the Covenant since so much has been learned by now by the Covenant that they are old news. Therefore, the introduction of another "mountain over there" aka the revealing of a new alien race.
In all likelihood, especially if the story has been created well, even as we learn more of the Progenitors it will only raise more and more questions and widen the scope of the questions. The name "Progenitor" has been put out. The main question is. Who are they? Answer: (for example) the original AI constructs built by the humans.
Then this opens up many questions. Where have they been? Why are they enemies of the non-original AI robot faction? Where are they coming from? How did the lesser AI robots come about? And so on. You answer one, perhaps one of the lesser important ones such as where have they been? Answer: building their own metal worlds for themselves to live on after they had thought they had destroyed all of the non-originals. See? You climbed one mountain, but now you see another. Endless cycle.

The Halo example would be good if it were true. The books revealed everything years ago, and it was still awesome when you knew why things were happening. Also, Halo 4 goes flagrantly against all the books and previous games.

Well, Halo 4 was made by 343 Industries and not Bungie. Guess they felt they could do what they wanted with it :/

True. And it had the potential to the be best of all the Halo games. It started to touch on the moral questions of the Spartan program, and all the interesting concepts that relate to stealing kids at the age of six and doing 'speriments on them. Then it went, nope, we're just going to ignore all of that.

Wow... 1st and probably last time I heard someone mention D3 lore in a positive light. I'd rather read the twilight trilogy in a marathon session than be subjected to that again...

It is more casual, and I feel Diablo could be more flexible with it.

Some people overly delve into the world, and when it changes later they get upset. I do too if it affects something that matters.

However, I am not against changes between two tales based roughly off the same thing. For instance, Slenderman lores, Silent Hill cannons, and even more casually all the changes between the Portal 1 cannon and Portal 2 cannon.

It is slightly better than doing it like Zelda or Street Fighter, where you force that **** to make sense by breaking it up to hell.

Despite its simplicity (That team are all jerks we've been fighting for 6k years so go kill them all) I really enjoyed the lore of the original TA. I still dust it off and play it on occasion (thank you GoG). I really hope that the lore of PA will at least loosely tie in with TA. I'd like to find out how the ARM/CORE fared afterwards.

ARM all the way, hell yeah.

I'm just gonna leave this here:

[All caps Diablo 3 story by Sevis]

VILLAGERS: OMG THE UNDEAD ARE RISING

LEAH: ITS JUST UNCLE DECKARDS CRAZY STORIES

*VILLAGER GETS HEAD EATEN OFF

LEAH: AGAIN, JUST STORIES, I ASSURE YOU

*NAKED OUT OF PLACE WITCH DOCTOR SHOWS UP

LEAH: I TOTALLY TRUST YOU COMPLETELY, LETS GO FIND UNCLE DECKARD

LEAH: LOOK THERE HE IS, FELL DOWN 100 FEET OR SO BUT HES FINE

*EVERYONE GOES BACK TO TOWN

DECKARD CAIN: RANDOM WITCH DOCTOR, GO KILL THE SKELETON KING, HE RESURRECTED JUST BECAUSE THIS ENTIRE ACT IS A DIABLO 1997 REFERENCE

WITCH DOCTOR: K

*WITCH DOCTOR KILLS SKELETON KING AND FINDS A NAKED BLACK MAN

WITCH DOCTOR: YO DECKARD, I FOUND THIS NAKED BLACK DUDE

DECKARD CAIN: K GO FIND HIS SWORD PIECES

WITCH DOCTOR: Y????

DECKARD CAIN: DUNNO LMAO, JUST A GUESS

*MAGDA SHOWS UP

MAGDA: I COME FROM WORLD OF WARCRAFT TO DESTROY U

WITCH DOCTOR: K LMAO ALREADY GOT THE SWORD PIECES

MAGDA: DAMN!!!!! ILL JUST GO STEAL THAT NAKED BLACK DUDE AND PROLONG THIS ACT FOR NO REASON

*SHOOTS FIRE AT CAIN, STEALS BLACK MAN

LEAH: STORIES KILLED MY UNCLE!!!!!!!!!

WITCH DOCTOR: PRETTY SURE MAGDA DID, NUB

*WITCH DOCTOR RUNS TO SAVE BLACK MAN

WITCH DOCTOR: OMG THE BUTCHER, ANOTHER POINTLESS RESURRECTION OF A 1997 DIABLO CHARACTER WITH NO EXPLANATION

BUTCHER: AH FRESH MEAT!!!!!!!!!!!

*BUTCHER DIES, BLACK MAN SAVED

TYRAEL: YO HERE I AM FOOL

WITCH DOCTOR: WHY U BLACK NOW DOG?

TYRAEL: TOKEN BLACK ANGEL LMAOOOOO

*GOES TO ACT 2

VILLAGERS: OMG THE PRINCE SENT ALL THE GUARDS AWAY

WITCH DOCTOR: HE MUST BE BELIAL IN DISGUISE

LEAH: NO, NO WAY, LET'S GO ON A POINTLESS QUEST TO DO A BUNCH OF CRAP DESPITE THE FACT THAT WE ALREADY KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON.

ADRIA: HEY DAUGHTER SUP

LEAH: OH HEY MOMS, JUST MORE STORIES TEEHEE

ADRIA: WE MUST GET THE BLACK SOULSTONE USING THIS OLD HORADRIM DUDE THAT CREATED IT

WITCH DOCTOR: K

*WITCH DOCTOR RECOVERS THE SOULSTONE:

WITCH DOCTOR: WAIT, HOW DID THE SOULS OF THE OTHER 5 DEMONS GET IN HERE ALREADY?

ADRIA: DON'T WORRY BOUT IT DOG... CHRIS METZEN

WITCH DOCTOR: GOT IT!

BELIAL: I AM THE WORST LIAR EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRR

WITCH DOCTOR: WE KNOW

*CAPTURES SOUL

*GOES TO ACT 3

AZMODAN: YO DAWG, ATTACKING UR RAMPARTS

WITCH DOCTOR: THANKS FOR THE LEAD BRO

AZMODAN: HEY NP DAWG, ATTACKING UNDERNEATH NOW

WITCH DOCTOR: HEY DUDE THANKS AGAIN, COULDNT HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT U

AZMODAN: ANYTIME, HEY COME TO MY PLACE SO WE CAN SMOKE SOME BLOW

*WITCH DOCTOR GOES TO THE HEART OF SIN

WITCH DOCTOR: YO I BROUGHT THE WEED

AZMODAN: SWEET DAWG, BEING A WARLORD IS TOUGH

WITCH DOCTOR: JK LMAO, GOT UR SOUL

*GOES BACK TO BASE

WITCH DOCTOR: OMG LEAH IS THE PRIIIIIIME EVIL!!!!!!!!!!!

ADRIA: YEA PLANNED THIS 20 YEARS AGO DOG

WITCH DOCTOR: BUT, AGAIN, HOW DID U GET ALL THE SOULS IN HERE IF YOU JUST NOW GOT THE BLACK SOULSTONE?

ADRIA: CHRIST METZEN

WITCH DOCTOR: GOTCHA!!!!!!!!!

*GOES TO ACT 4

DIABLO: WELCOME TO MY ***** OF TEAR-OR!!!!!!!!! I AM THE PRIME EEEEVILLLLL

WITCH DOCTOR: WHY DON'T YOU LOOK LIKE A COMBINATION OF ALL THE EVILS THEN???

DIABLO: I DUNNO... ASK CHRIS METZEN

WITCH DOCTOR: K

DIABLO: CAN YOU TELL I'M A GIRL THIS GAME??? I CAN'T STOP TALKINGGGGGGG

DIABLO: LOOK TYRAEL, UR OWN LIEUTENANT

TYRAEL: WAIT, HOW DID IZUAL COME BACK?

DIABLO: CHRIS METZEN MADE IT HAPPENNNNNNNNNN

IZUAL: I AM BACK FOR ABSOLUTELY NO REASONNNNNNN

*IZUAL DIES

DIABLO: HE WAS USELESS ANYWAY, COEM KILL MEEEEE

*WITCH DOCTOR ENTERS ***** OF TERROR

DIABLO: WELCOME TO MY ***** OF TEAR-ORRRRRR, NO ONE HAS EVER ESCAPED

*DIABLO DIES

TYRAEL: WE DID IT BOYS... ANGELS.... AND MEN!!!!!!!!!!!!