10 Most Painful Video Game Cliffhangers EVER

The cliffhanger of the first Diablo game was already mean enough. In it, your protagonist rams Diablo's soulstone into their forehead, but slowly realises they cannot hope to contain the Lord of Terror and leaves Tristram for the good of the townsfolk.

But in the next game's expansion, Lord of Destruction, the threat level is far worse than a single town. This time, it's the whole world that's at stake.

Diablo's brother, Baal, travels to Mount Arreat in order to spread his corrupting influence to the Worldstone, a huge and powerful crystal that predates the creation of Sanctuary.

The player confronts and kills Baal in the Worldstone Keep, but is too late to stop the corruption, and so the Archangel Tyrael decides that, to give the humans even the slightest chance of survival, the Worldstone must be destroyed.

And so, in an epic Blizzard cutscene, he does just that.

The game does everything it can to tell you that this action will have untold consequences for the world going forwards, the likes that not even Tyrael can predict. Diablo III finally shed light on the damage these consequences had wrought - but for us, that was a whole ten years later.

That's a looooooong time to wait for a decent conclusion.