8 Most ANTI-CLIMACTIC Video Game Deaths

Deckard Cain remains one of the most popular NPCs in the Diablo franchise - a quintessential Wise Old Dude who obviously wasn't going to live forever, but clearly deserved one hell of an epic going-away party.

But amid its many other disappointments, Diablo III said balls to that, instead having Cain be killed off early in the game by a poorly written, excessively cartoonish villain, Maghda, who hurls a flurry of... butterflies in his face.

While there's nothing inherently wrong with Cain being killed off - he is super, super old after all - a character of such stature and popularity clearly deserved better than getting summarily executed by a goofy-looking antagonist with an even sillier one-shot attack.

Hell, he didn't even get one of those eye-wateringly expensive Blizzard cutscenes to immortalise his end, making it all feel like even less of a big moment.

At launch Cain's thoroughly naff death only further compounded Diablo III's other pressing issues, and well over a decade later, fans still hate how Blizzard sent him on his way.