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Gez said:
My theory is simple: there are only three people in the entire facility that are just freshly arrived, and that have not spent their last few months (at least) being subjects to nightmares, suspicion, paranoia and a growing psychosis. When you talk to the people before the shit hit the fan, or when you read the logs they left, you see how everybody has heard voices, or heard about other people who did, or they have seen strange things, noticed weird stenches, there are all these "volunteers" who disappeared and the stories that are told about that, etc.

Basically, their minds have been weakened by the growing psychosis, as well as probably some dark magic from Betruger, to make them succumb faster to the attack. Some resist for a time, but eventually they're all killed or possessed. The ones who are badass enough to fend off zombies (the marines) were among the most affected by the "conditioning" going on since they were the ones who provided the pool of "volunteers".

Campbell, Swann and the Doomguy arrive with their full wits about them and resist a lot better. Eventually, Campbell and Swann succumb to their wounds acquired in combat, but they don't get possessed. The Doomguy remains the sole survivor of the entire facility.

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the_lurker said:
It's simple really. Some people have DNA that makes them inherently good, and others, well, they have DNA that makes them bad. And when they get infected, the bad ones become the demons, and the good ones get superhuman abilities.

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EmZee712 said:
My personal question is, how come he gets to survive? He's, and I quote from the game, Marine Security making him just the middle man between security and soldier. I know everyone on that base received roughly the same kind of training as the Doom Guy, but for some reason he gets to be the ONLY survivor out of what... Millions of Civilians/Armed Personnel? There has to be atleast one coward who hid underneath the smallest crevice somewhere on that facility, then again how could they search it all and determine everyone's dead when that base is pretty freakin huge. I just think it would be neat to see atleast a few other soldiers mopping up what's left, after all you don't get to see them fight much other then when they're carelessly entering a room then ambushed.

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audiodef said:
Wouldn't it be something if, in Doom 4 (if it's ever made), one possible thread of the game would be that you become infected and continue on as a zombie, trying to avoid being killed by a computer-run new Doom Guy from the UAC?

Or maybe you become possessed and your goal is then to defeat the forces of good before they kill you. Evil wins!

This has nifty possibilities in multiplayer.

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audiodef said:

Or maybe you become possessed and your goal is then to defeat the forces of good before they kill you. Evil wins!

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Uri could hear their yells, the screams, the few barked words of confusion, trying to marshal each other's brains to understand and, Christ, do something.

But with the air came the noise, and having seen what happened last time, Uri pressed tight against the wall, neatly into a corner, and waited for the inevitable, waited for what came next.

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I have a name, he thought. Even as a roaring train of sound and light rocketed past him, almost ripping him away from his crouching position at the wall, he kept thinking, I have a name. I'm, I'm...

And he knew that if he couldn't recall his name now, and who he was, that something would begin to slip, that whatever still roared past him would somehow be able to touch him, capture him... change him.

So he absolutely knew he had to fight to keep coming back to that point. My name, my life... I had it just a few seconds ago. It was there, sweet God, it was just there. Please don't let it just vanish.

But then the roaring noise seemed to ebb, and with it, the light, the color, began to fade. The roaring express moved on, seeking other corners, other people. And then, there it was:

I'm Uri. And I'm okay.

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