Nightmarish invaders with shades of purple, blue and pink. War2 Engine Go Go Go.

SC2 zergling design sucks. The wings are pointless and they aren't even functional. And they also look too bulky and stupid.

If it looked like this picture it would be so much better.



And they messed up the heads too in the new design. At least make it look like the SC portrait which is more canine like instead of a flat face.

I basically agree with everything the topic starter said.

hah, I guess I really have no reason to point out the flaws in the "insect" argument =P. That was lame at best.

I'm not really sure how well I myself can judge this aspect, since most of the videos I've viewed are pretty low quality. But I'm sure this kind of thing would get more fine-tuned at the end, regardless of design choices.

As for the above Image, yeah, I'd prolly say it's one of the best, but it's unfortunate we can't see the face well. The pic's one of two sc: ghost zergling pics I've seen, and they look quite a bit different. the other one is not so great:



And yeah I'd say my biggest complaint is the head/face, but the body shouldn't be too fat either. Just doesn't fit the role or the traditional unit. And another thing, the wings that WERE there (insect-like ones) would never have any use at the zergling's scale, even if still thin =P. It's stretching modern science fiction. Bat-like wings (which I'd rather not see any at all) would be more likely to lift the thing and have SOME function.

No. Zerg aren't insects. Insects have exoskeletons and Zerg do not.

If anything they're more reptilian.

It also depends on which zerg units you're talking about.

Post has been edited 3 time(s), last time on Aug 28 2008, 9:33 pm by Donkey Punch.

The initial zerg form WAS an insect, the Larvae are the closest representative of the original Zerg species.

However, this does not mean that all the species or mutations of the zerg are necessarily insectoid.

Exactly.

They are animals, hydralisk was a mammal, theoretically lurker must be too, Ultralisk is... ok forget it.

The wings are probably just asthesics, although I beleive only a few zerglings should have it, or at least the (female?) ones (Similar to ants).

Lol. We don't even know how they procreated back in the dune runner days, and besides, the zerg may only make the more aggressive gender =P. In any case, it'd be more lame for only a few to have wings, and wings have already been removed.

Yeah, totally, the current zerglings look like raptors in facial structure. That's part of what makes them kinda cute. Totally not a bug. Several of the units look reptilian.

Also, I've noticed a lot of people still complaining about the wings here... the wings are not really the issue right now--if you didn't like them, as it's been mentioned, they've been removed, and frankly I find the rest of the SC2 zergling's body structure to be more concerning... As we've said, they're too bulky and their faces are not raptor-like anymore. That entirely changes the creature.

Calling them animals is like saying they're alive. It's dumb and doesn't negate anything that's been claimed here such as saying they're insects because, as it's been pointed out before, insects are animals.

I think using the original creatures before they were assimilated into the Zerg is a good basis for classifying what they are as Zerg, but they've also undergone untold amounts of genetic modification so any one unit can have characteristics of many organisms such as insects and mammals.

Anyway, I can see zerglings as being insects but that doesn't mean they have to be round and squishy looking.


Both of these pictures look insect like but the difference is that the bottom one is too round and fleshy.
Actually the top one looks more like an insect than the bottom one.

Post has been edited 3 time(s), last time on Aug 29 2008, 9:25 pm by Donkey Punch.

What do you propose to call it then?

Zerglings, what are they? Zerg, case justified.

Nice. That's got to be the worst argument I've heard in this thread yet. =P (Then again, I'm not entirely sure what you're arguing, now that I think about it. >_>)

It's not like they haven't established an identity with that name already, you know.

And yeah I don't think either one of those pics above look like insects. The wings help, certainly, but the rest of it doesn't match. Just because it has a shell-like appearance doesn't mean it looks like an insect > >... the back spines may help a bit i suppose... but it's more like a dinosaur-ish monster-ish thingy. Can't really put it in such a natural category. But it was what it was, and the new one isn't it, that's all.

The joints and some of the limbs such as those two spike things above them are sort of insect-like, well actually more crustacean-like. That's what makes the strongest impression on me. The skin (in the top picture) also seems more crusty or hard rather than like a hide. The outside in the bottom picture just looks like fleshy round stupid crap that makes it look fat and slow.

Yeah, the SC2 concept makes it look more like it would be big, slow, and do heavy damage, which is pretty much the opposite of what it should be.

What happened to Metzen?

He's VP, doesn't do artwork for Blizzard anymore.

That one is an in game of StarCraft Ghost, the other with the spotlight render can be seen in the cinematic cutscene.

Who says Everyone loves zerglings?
i love them, as family, but who knows who hates them...

Unless they hate them enough to want to ruin the game in some way, that viewpoint is invalid, as they wouldn't care regardless. And frankly, I don't want to consider the former. Kinda a moot point there.

Now here's a Zergling...

You're kidding? That thing looks like it escaped from Starship Troopers...