- PLUT0NIUM 235
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- Honorable Member
how are they not a 'space zombie' race? look at what happens in a zombie film for example when these walking dead people manage to somehow disable a tank and kill the occupants, how are they accomplishing this? same thing applies to the Forerunner, they are supremely advanced, would assume they didn't just 'welcome' the Flood onto their warships and such? either that or the Forerunner were an incredibly inept race who kept all their 'tactical' information public knowledge for anyone to get their eyes on, in which case they deserve everything coming to them.
also the Flood are a parasite, if Forerunner wear this 'armour' of theirs almost all the time, for all their lives how do they become infected by the Flood? if I wear a Space Suit I absolutely cannot be infected by an outside virus, bacteria or parasite, there are so many terrible plot 'caverns', not just holes in the Flood background and overall story. also they aren't scary in the slightest, never once (all games!) have I once been 'afraid' of a Flood or thought 'man that is freaky.!' so for that point alone the Flood fail, all they are is an inconvenience, at best.
can tell you, an advancing horde of Zerg or Tyranids would be countlessly times more frightening than an advancing horde of what looks deformed people. that is what makes the Zerg such an effective enemy, they are horrific, they are deadly, they don't pretend to be 'the almighty' species but they are lethal at what they do which is land on a planet and start tearing things up, at first they stood no chance against the advanced Protoss and were even just a nuisance to the Terrans, it was only when massed swarms started appearing that things turned bad. same applies to Tyranids, and again that is what makes them such an interesting and horrible race, they are vicious beyond believe, fast and feral, don't attack in a 'logical' or 'intelligent' way, they are just like nightmare animals which is why you fear them!
also I am well aware of how the Flood defeated the Forerunner, but it still doesn't make it any less 'mediocre' and I am a proper Halo fan! Humans in Halo are brilliant, bit primitive but otherwise the foundation is there for a great science fiction human race, the Covenant are awesome, you both fear them and laugh at them depending on who you face, but for me the Flood have no redeeming qualities, they are just another annoying space-zombie race that magically infect your armour troopers, steal all your secrets, all your knowledge, all your warships (not sure how they are achieving this one!) and of course can't be stopped in any way shape or form without wiping out every last sentient life-form in the galaxy, doesn't make a difference that in the games Sentinels make them look like maggots and that a SPARTAN with a flame-thrower can kill as many Flood as he likes, the greatest, most advanced race that ever existed got steam-rolled! doesn't make a difference that horrible, nasty virus like HIV and such forth are now being targeted by genetically altered versions of a virus and such, because the Forerunner are obviously too retarded to engineer an effective 'counter' to the Flood.
in addition, the Forerunner had weapons that could 'devastate' planets, even stars, they could do more or less everything except stop a humble parasite, the amusement, bet god was sitting on a cloud somewhere having a right old laugh at those poor fools, the race with 'trillions of ships' and 'weapons that can destroy Halo in seconds', reminds me strangely of what happens in Resident Evil, some zombies get loose and bang! the whole world is controlled by zombies, doesn't matter that machine-guns would tear them apart faster than a vicious dog taking on a stuffed toy, or tanks that they could bash on for all of time and not get into (with sealed environments), the list goes on, so that is how the Flood are just another 'zombie' race.