Does Spawn Infested Terrans break your suspension of disbelief?

[ArcherofAiur]

We all know that video games have suspension of disbelief where the player accepts how the gameworks even if it doesnt make sense. Gameplay tends to be more important than realism. However, there is a level at which the situation is so noticable and illogical that the suspension of disbelief is broken. This interupts the players immersion and possibly enjoyment of the gameplay experience.

Dustin Browder has offered that the Infestor eats the Infested Marines and then spits them out. However it is unclear whether this happens before or after the Infesor pops out of an egg in the middle of a PvZ battle.

Personally, I can let allot of things slide. I can buy a ultralisk hatching out of a small egg, I can buy 10 marines taking down a battlecruiser. Heck I can even buy mutalisks flying in space. But having Infested terran appear in a battle where there were no terrans to infest completly breaks my suspension of disbelief.

[Pandonetho]

Nah, somebody came up with a pretty plausible explanation for it and it fits with the new Infestor model so I'm pretty fine with it now.

In any case, I wouldn't mind if it was a different unit/model that did the exact same thing as the infested marine, but it's fine the way it is IMO.

It actually seems like it would work pretty well too, as a psychological factor, when marines see infested marines (lorewise).

[PsiWarp]

Blizzard's gonna have to touch up on the Infested Terran's model someday.

Why not make it completely organic and create wonderful new lore involving the remaining Infested Terrans' evolution, over the 4 years of inactivity?


-Psi

[ArcherofAiur]

Nah, somebody came up with a pretty plausible explanation for it and it fits with the new Infestor model so I'm pretty fine with it now.

Which explaination?

Why not make it completely organic and create wonderful new lore involving the remaining Infested Terrans' evolution, over the 4 years of inactivity?
-Psi

If they made them just infested humans with no armour or guns I dont think anybody would have a problem believing the infestor could grow them. It would just mean that human DNA had been incorporated into the zerg genome. Heck they could even give them a bio gun

[Pandonetho]

Which explaination?

Don't remember exactly, but it was close to what Dustin said.
They go underground and take in the dead bodies of marines then infest them.

The problem with that is, since when did infestation bring people back to life?

[PsiWarp]

Or at least be contained within the Infestor, not "contaminating" the Zerg genome.

Wouldn't it be great if the Infestor can store experimental DNA and spawn those mutant strains, I think that might be cool for the "Unit Test Drive" for Heart of the Swarm.


-Psi

[DemolitionSquid]

We all know that video games have suspension of disbelief where the player accepts how the gameworks even if it doesnt make sense. Gameplay tends to be more important than realism. However, there is a level at which the situation is so noticable and illogical that the suspension of disbelief is broken. This interupts the players immersion and possibly enjoyment of the gameplay experience.

Dustin Browder has offered that the Infestor eats the Infested Marines and then spits them out. However it is unclear whether this happens before or after the Infesor pops out of an egg in the middle of a PvZ battle.

Personally, I can let allot of things slide. I can buy a ultralisk hatching out of a small egg, I can buy 10 marines taking down a battlecruiser. Heck I can even buy mutalisks flying in space. But having Infested terran appear in a battle where there were no terrans to infest completly breaks my suspension of disbelief.

Just because it doesn't get shown doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Could they require the Infestor to go to the pit and consume Terran corpses? Yes. But at that point the ability is no longer a spell. Its ammo based. Not even the Terran need to back to base to re-supply.

Some things don't need to be shown.

[Pandonetho]

Wouldn't it be great if the Infestor can store experimental DNA and spawn those mutant strains, I think that might be cool for the "Unit Test Drive" for Heart of the Swarm.

Heh, yeah, it'd be pretty cool if the infestor could open up a list like the High Temp's hallucination, and spawn different test/mutant strains of Zerg, all costing different energy. Of course, that would probably throw off the balance of the game.

[ArcherofAiur]

Just because it doesn't get shown doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Could they require the Infestor to go to the pit and consume Terran corpses? Yes. But at that point the ability is no longer a spell. Its ammo based. Not even the Terran need to back to base to re-supply.

Some things don't need to be shown.

I have no problem with the infinite ammo part of it. Its the having marines suddenly appear on the battlefield when terran arnt part of the battlefield that is the problem.

It seems like they tried to solve one race inconsistancy (infestation doesnt against protoss or zerg) and ended up substituting it for another one (infested marines dont make sense against protoss or zerg)

[Triceron]

Oops, I voted yes when I wanted to vote no.

No, it doesn't break suspension of disbelief for me. Nothing wrong with carrying around the enemy in an infester's body, ready to spawn. I think of it as a clam and a grain of sand, where the Infester is slowly coating the Terrans with goop that makes it easy to carry inside its body and at the same time changing their genetic code. The infester's pretty big too.