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Subject: How did you react when you first saw The Flood?

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I was little at the time so I freaked. Not all out, but it was a WHAT THE -blam!- moment. Minus the expletive. I didn't know words like that back then. It was creepy though watching Jenkins helmet cam...

  • 07.05.2010 2:46 PM PDT

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I thought it was the result of futuristic chemical warfare. I went over to it, and it started trying to kill me. I WAS SO CONFUSED.

  • 07.06.2010 9:42 PM PDT

Two words: Flipped. Out.

  • 07.06.2010 11:37 PM PDT

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In short, I turned the game off.

I left it there for a few days, came back, and still got freaked out.

  • 07.07.2010 12:13 AM PDT

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Me and my brother were playing and we were 5-6 and 8-9 and it took us at least 2 hours for us to get the courage to try and escape that place

  • 07.07.2010 1:24 AM PDT

U mad?

Jenkins' helmet camera was what did it for me. The mystery from the mutilated corpses, the freak accidents that the team had witnessed, the destruction of the catacombs beneath the swamp, unexplained fires everywhere, etc. And then to hear the infection forms crawling that moment that everyone goes quiet and then that intense moment as the cutscene ends and you see in the corner of the screen "The Flood" was indescribably.

First time playing, I was in jr. high probably 12 yrs old in 7th grade. I immediately hid in a corner and waited for each door of infection forms to break open. I shot every last one before they got to me. But then...when the combat forms appeared...and that final door bursted open...my heart started racing and I was scared to death. I didn't know what had happened at first. My screen had flashed red, I had heard a weird gargling noise, and turned around to find this weird, terrifying monster. I shotgunned the first, it got back up, I said WTF!, shot it again, cleared the room, and hid for a while debating whther to keep playing through the level or not. I literally inched out of the first encounter room up the ramp to the dead marine bodies, I ran without looking back and did a combination of hiding and running until meeting up with the rest of the marines outside. Some of the scariest points were the very small corridors, that would often have a single combat form in them, off in one of the side rooms. Haha I remember the first time an angered Flood combat form rushed me full on to claw me. What a scary and yet epic moment.

  • 07.12.2010 10:01 AM PDT

Mac

The bits before actually seeing them where the weirdest like the dead jackals and grunts.

  • 07.12.2010 10:07 AM PDT
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Aka No_Consequence

I remember squinting and the screen and saying "wtf? I thought this was about aliens not gross hobos..."

  • 07.13.2010 5:29 AM PDT

There can only be 1!!!

It was such an experience, i was scared and mystified at the same time.

  • 07.13.2010 5:59 AM PDT

Eat, Sleep, Row

I got really freaked out and didn't play it for a little while...But then the strange awesomeness brought me back!

  • 07.13.2010 8:09 AM PDT

i remember having a few nightmares i was young back then
but my fondest memory was jimmy the floodling. I used to shoot off his arms and he would follow me around like my greatest buddy.

  • 07.13.2010 11:33 AM PDT

:)

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I got really freaked out and didn't play it for a little while...But then the strange awesomeness brought me back!


Same here! :)

  • 07.13.2010 11:55 AM PDT

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They reminded me of an arcade game you pay 25cents for at a movie theater. I like fighting covenant better than the flood

  • 07.20.2010 11:21 PM PDT

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I was only 6 or 7 when my very first xbox game was halo CE and when i first met the flood, i got really scared even before i met them. Where i start seeing blood and dead alien and even a lone marine who start shooting me.
But when i met the flood i got scared but never turn off my xbox, i just sill playing it.

And now when the new xbox 360 came out, i lost the disk and i beening missing it.
But until i find out that you can download halo CE off xbox 360 and i did it. and i sill love it, it was worth a wait.

  • 07.21.2010 2:44 AM PDT

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It was an epic moment I remember going thru the alian blood soakes hall and jumping when the bodey fell thru the door and kinda humerus when keys said the elite was a friend of jenkens scared as hell when I seen the infection forms and even moor when I seen the combat forms and I nearley cried when keyes died

Thanks for these epic memories
Love.jordan fronterhouse

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Never get tired of any halo game still play all of em and own all of em and own most of the books I'm on the first strike book now very epic

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  • 07.21.2010 10:39 AM PDT
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I was like what the****and I started falling back loosing ground quikly fireing crazily with my ar but they kept coming i killed them but they got back up soon i was out of ammo and was****** the first time Id encounterd something that i couldt kill 1...2..and as darkness filled my head i saw my dead body lieing in the corner with little spiders cralwing on my body something happened that night ..something ..broke me...3...2...1 and i spawned full of fury and rage...i...i was...lauphing HYSTARICLY :{} AND WHEN I SPAWNED i WALKED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HALL WAY THE STARTED JUMPING DOWN FROM PIPES IN THE WALLS THE FLOOD SLOWLY WALKED TORWARDS ME IT WAS AS IF IN SLOW MOTION...THEN THEY WERE ON ME MY SHIELDS WERE DOWN AND MY HEALTH WAS LOW AND I SNAPED I CHARGED THE NEAREST FLOOD SHOOTING WHEN I GOT CLOSE I MELEED HIM AND HE FELL I CROUCHED AND TURNED ALMOST SIMALTANUOSLY AND FIRED THEY FELL BUT ONE CHARGED ME I GOT UP AND CHARGED LIKE A KROGAN OFF OF MASS EFFECT 2 WHEN WE WERE CLOSE I UNLEASHED A FULL CLIP THAT TORE THROUH HIM BEFORE HE COULD REACT I PUNCHED HIM DOWN AND HE WENT FLYING AND SUDENLY I KNEW WHAT IT WAS ...THE ESSENCE OF SURVIVAL.

  • 07.21.2010 10:51 AM PDT
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I was scared as I was only about 6 when I discovered them

  • 07.21.2010 12:37 PM PDT
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Im a CMNeir fanboy from the States that show you how silly i really am.

the flood are just charachters that are there to annoy people and scare there children a waste of time my brother says

  • 07.23.2010 10:31 AM PDT
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  • 07.23.2010 2:58 PM PDT

It kinda confused me...

  • 07.26.2010 11:03 AM PDT

The first time i saw them was in Halo 3 (yes I know, I never played Halo up till then, but i was young and have since played them all) at my friend's house, it was the one level were we were on the same side for like two seconds, anyone i remember look as we ran down a hall and thinking What the heck are these guys? After that i was never scared of them.

Which sucks cause the first level they were in was really cool (for the first half at least) and i came into it knowing what would happen.

Still in halo 2 i was a little creped out having to fight them in the dark.

  • 07.26.2010 6:18 PM PDT

Guess it was just a reminder to use young kids, that games are rated M for a reason.

  • 07.26.2010 6:25 PM PDT

i freaked out. they looked horrible and took so much ammo. Melee was useless. The part that scared me the most was when the lone marine started to shoot at me and told me to get away. Flood are horrible monsters. I hope they aren't in reach.

  • 07.26.2010 6:37 PM PDT

I Was a little frightened because i was like 9 years old but now I just think they are annoying. Anyway i'm going to play 343 guilty spark On the halo pc version.

  • 07.27.2010 2:58 AM PDT