- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
The Flood in Halo seemed to be competing for the Special Olympics. At no point did I believe they could pose a real threat to the galaxy. I was never in the Armory part for more than a few seconds, so Ive never seen these camo flood. I played H2 first, and I never really listened to their name for some time. They were just the enemy.
I jumped to Halo, and the flood just werent as scary. Big, unorganized mobs that show no knowledge of tactics. After beating the Library on Legendary, I was honestly surprised at how easy it was. You just need to move no more than a foot at a time. The flood will appear in piecemeal fashion, easy killings. Sometimes I had to kill them, backtrack, then go forward and spawn them again over a dozen times before they stopped coming. I cant recall more than 3 points where I died.
But my most important point. Not once did I see them using anything more complicated than a gun. No hogs, nothing. A creature too retarded to figure out a gas pedal cannot infect the universe. The Covenant could just fly off and leave the T&R. Problem solved.
If they could use ships, that strongly suggests they are intelligent, feelling creatures. Gravemind is my favorite character in the entire series. I felt sorry for the Flood. They just wanted to survive, and they can only do that one way. The Forerunners commited genocide a million times greater than Hitler ever did, destroying a species that was too different from the others to communicate. For a 100,000 years Gravemind sat, alone, trying to understand why he was hated so. IMO Gravemind is essentially an autistic child who has just realized there are other intelligent creatures out there. Ah damn, I got teary eyed thinking about space zombies. I always was soft like that.