![]() ![]() Industrialized Evil: The entire Strogg civilization can be summed up as one giant war machine, constantly churning out more weapons and soldiers to invade other worlds for more resources and populations to churn out weapons and soldiers in a Vicious Cycle.The Stream Protectors are also human-like but their jaw is very different. The Makron, for instance, appears to be humanoid, but all that remains is their head wired into a Spider Tank. Humanoid Alien: Many Strogg were once Human but some are merely human-like.In fact, their assimilation process makes the Borg look humane as they reassemble their prisoners while they're still conscious and not even tranquilized as the Borg prefer. Expy: The Strogg are functionally Captain Ersatz Borg, due to their aggressive mission to assimilate new lifeforms into their army only with a scavenged, Used Future design to their technology, and much more brutality in the assimilation process.Even past "death", the cybernetics can still control and maintain the body for the Stroggs' needs. Empty Shell: The victims of Stroggification are forced to live, but their bodies no longer obey their will.Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: The cybernetics themselves don't eat the soul, it's the neurocyte activation that the Humans need to be concerned about.Brainwashed and Crazy: Their captures are forced to act against their will due to their neurocyte implants.Bald of Evil: All Strogg(the humanoid ones at least), except for Iron Maidens who appear to have implanted artificial cables for hair.Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Strogg society is a meritocratic stratocracy where the strongest ruled, with the mightiest warrior and general of their race being the 'Makron', who leads and are chosen from among ranks of lesser warlords who command lesser Strogg as well as fight among themselves for the position if the Strogg leader is killed (although occasionally a new Strogg Mekron is built from scratch).The Assimilator: The Strogg directives make them seek out and bring new species into their fold to exploit their specialties in terms of a desired role that needs filling. ![]() This is Hand Waved by the Strogg injecting steroids and nanomachines repairing the cells, and the story even acknowledges that some transfers end in failure, but one may wonder if sedation would save the Strogg a lot of trouble. Artistic License – Medicine: The Stroggification process is so brutal to POWs that it's a wonder victims don't die from shock.However, they also used hand-held weaponry as shown with the Tactical Strogg. Arm Cannon: A favorite prothesis of the Strogg, used for tools as well as weaponry.The Strogg allegedly wanted to conquer Earth to have a staging area to invade dozens of other civilizations, provoking humanity to strike back against their home world of Stroggos and end the Strogg menace at its source. If that is true, then supposedly they went rogue and became a threat to the galaxy in their own right, assimilating various species into their ranks. Either way, there will be plenty more Quake news to talk about when QuakeCon 2023 rolls around in August, so stay tuned for updates.Rumor has it that the Cyborg Strogg were created for a war in another part of the galaxy. QuakeCon 2023 is scheduled to take place August 10 – 13, so if a Quake II Remastered reveal is on the way, it will almost certainly happen there.Īlthough today’s rating only mentions a PC version of Quake II Remastered, it seems likely that it will come to consoles just as Quake Remastered did in 2021. A remastered version of the original Quake was revealed and released during QuakeCon 2021, bringing visual enhancements and new DLC to PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One for $9.99. Trusting Google Translate, it describes the game as “an FPS game that wages war against the hostile alien race, Strogg, who plans to invade the earth.” If Quake II Remastered is real, the rating says that players can expect “excessive expression of violence” along with “blood and body damage.” The rating specifies a PC release but makes no mention of console versions.īethesda and id have obviously not officially revealed a remaster of 1997’s Quake II, but if it is real, it will be anything but a surprise. Quake II Remastered just received a rating from the Game Rating and Administration Committee in South Korea, suggesting that Bethesda and id Software plan to announce a re-release soon (via Gematsu). ![]()
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