Bevendre

“Y’all liberals don’t un’erstand.  If’n it didn’t get done first in ‘Murcah, it ain’t gunna work in ‘Murcah!  Stop talkin’ ‘bout mythical places like Australier, an’ Eurp an’ Jipin cuz they ain’ ‘Murcah an’ what may or may not’ve worked for them’s ain’t gunna work for ‘Murcah!”

-Unfortunately realistic American conservative, 2015

ruuqo replied to your post: ruuqo replied to your post: I think I know why I…

Perhaps the reason I did actually enjoy them being in the game and you didn’t is that you are comparing them to other things where as I thought they were very original for a “zombie” enemy.

That’s fair, and to each their own.  I didn’t look at them as very zombie-like because they’re so distant from zombies in behavior, origin, mechanics, etc.  They’re more parasitic than necrotic and came off as more ‘Tentacle Ticks from Planet F’ than they did anything really zombie-like.

ruuqo replied to your post: I think I know why I like Halo ODST and Halo Reach…

Seriously? I always thought the Flood were a great enemy, they were nothing like your average zombie and eventually even get their own backstory and whatnot. Not to mention the Pure forms in halo 3.

I just don’t think they’re worth the time they’re given in the first three games.  I would have much rather time been spent on the Covenant and the power balance there because that’s interesting and more entertaining than the Flood in general.  

They’re not very zombie-like, true, but that’s not an issue.  They’re just dusty, more unpleasant Borg mixed with some Xenomorph for good measure.  It doesn’t help that their origin is pretty similar to those of Metroids.

They might be varied in form, but are all virtually identical in strategy, rush forward and shoot/melee, save for the Pure Stalker forms which do the same thing until they decide to mutate at which point they become rooted in place.  They’re varied, but as a whole they aren’t pleasant to look at, nor are they morbidly enthralling, they’re just fleshy and there and are overall just annoying.

Had they just been wiped out in Halo CE I don’t think many people would miss them.  At all.  Had they not appeared in Halo CE I don’t think many people would miss them either.

I think I know why I like Halo ODST and Halo Reach more than the original trilogy.  No fucking Flood.