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I can't remeber mine but that's probably because I WAS SO FLIPPIN FREAKED OUT.
But even to this day they scare me.

  • 09.27.2004 1:33 PM PDT
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The first time i found the flood was at a friends house at 2:00 am, neither of us had ever even heard of the flood. Anywho we were getting tired so a few minutes of completing AoTR we were hopped up on sugar, but that energy disapeered as soon as we saw the cut seen. A few pair of pants later I belive I stated something along the lines of "Holy -blam!- did this ever turn into a Resident Evil game from a Sci-Fi shooter fast!!"

[Edited on 9/27/2004 2:17:02 PM]

  • 09.27.2004 2:08 PM PDT
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I hate them!!!!!
their soooooo ugly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 09.27.2004 2:54 PM PDT
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Meh. I was plying co-op, and we were throwing grenades everywhere, so i only saw them once the little dudes were all gone and the bigger ones were toasted. The Jenkins movie freaked me out though.

  • 09.27.2004 3:59 PM PDT
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If the flood scared anybody thats just dumb. I looked at it like another enemy to kill and just said more kills and more ammo for me and most of all more carnage and fun!!!

  • 09.27.2004 4:51 PM PDT
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Ok I was at my friends house playing the game and hes lyk "Your gonna have some fun, hope you brought extra boxers" and im lyk "why"... "ye'll see". *BOOM Flop* HOLY F-ING GOD WHAT THE HELL ARE THOSE!!!??? He didnt answer. after a while i was pwoning them with my shotgun and pistol, and i then figured out that you can shoot arms and heads off. So i stratigized and thought aweosme meat shields. So while they were being ignorant, and ignoraimases the other contined to beat them senseless. Had lots of fun. Untill i got bored of killing them. Then once i hurd a *thwoosh* noise i died... i didnt know they could use rocket launchers. He laughed his ass off. Damn him......

  • 09.27.2004 5:20 PM PDT
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hmm that was peak of hating mosseymou, umm so i didnt care.
he had just blown off this one kid in the forums with a bazook.... wait story for another time

  • 09.27.2004 8:13 PM PDT
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One time I skipped the video I was freeked out so much cause I didnt know what those did until my shield fell down Oh and i figured out how to get to the uper level of that room its a cool secrete not one flood can get you up there and the battle forms dont see you there either

  • 09.27.2004 8:14 PM PDT
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Lol. It was 1 in the morning, and I saw the cutscene. Before that I had watched the movie Alien, and Aliens, so when you see a little thing running around hoping to get into your chest its freky. Then, my brother came up behind me, and the combat form jumped at me, smacked me, and at the same time i got hit by my brother. I jumped 5 feet int he air, and i was sitting down XD.

  • 09.27.2004 8:17 PM PDT
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First Time I was almost asleep and I got owned I was like crap i didnt get a checkpoint

  • 09.27.2004 10:18 PM PDT
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My first reaction was similar to the marines later on, "OH, LIKE A BIG ZIT!" Then came the big guys and i just used my trusty AR on them. They got back up and I just smacked them down thinking they had no weapons, then came the slapper (on their side) that was fun. It was like being hit by a small hunter. So I just hit them again with the AR. Later on, when i met the carriers, I had fun with explosives. Let me put it this way, I killed 5 combat forms with one frag grenade and 2 carriers.
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  • 09.28.2004 4:27 AM PDT
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When I first faced the flood it was in the Library. My friend told me to just run to the door and then put my back against it and shoot at anything that moves until the door opens and then do the same thing. That was on the normal setting. THE very first time I played Halo. But when I did it properly with Legendary in co-op. We moved on slowly killing them all bit by it. Which I must say was a whole lot more effective. My very first reaction was "What the heck are they?" and then "KILL KILL KILL, DIE DIE DIE!!!!"
It wasn't as scary the first time round but as I got more into it and played properly on Legendary. I found it very freaky. Like I was actually there. I grew to hate them very quickly and fell in love with the good ol' shotgun.
They die rather easily I must admit, but the mass of them are very overwhelming.

  • 09.28.2004 5:15 AM PDT
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Trust me, it wasn't pretty.

  • 09.28.2004 11:48 AM PDT
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I thought the small ones where really hard :)

  • 09.28.2004 11:53 AM PDT
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My first reaction when I was playing 3 o'clock in the morning during a thunderstorm, was 'GET ME OUT OF HERE!!!!', and now, after KOing thousands of flood on legendary, I love the sweet revenge that my shotgun brings me.

  • 09.28.2004 12:27 PM PDT
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First encounter was during a co-op game, so I was prepared. Now all I need is my trusty shotgun and they are no big deal.

  • 09.28.2004 1:08 PM PDT
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Posted by: wha123
Posted by: dylan90
at first whenever one landed in front of me I jumped about two feet in the air... I played 343 GS for the first time at midnight when nobody else was awake so it was pretty freaky

ditto

Copy that.

  • 09.28.2004 1:41 PM PDT
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I was playin at night with my friend.....Lets just say our only reactions were DIE DIE DIE DIE BLAM! (gun fire) DIE DIE DIE DIE BLAM! there were no survivers
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  • 09.28.2004 2:23 PM PDT
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I didn't have the privilege of playing co-op when I first found the Flood, late into the night. Scared the hell outta me when the first big-arm flood jumped at me through the door!

  • 09.28.2004 2:26 PM PDT
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same only we didn't look ahead to the manual and was scared half to death the first time we saw the little ones. we didn't know what door they came out from at first and so fer the 1st 3 minutes all we could see were the little guys. after that the big ones come and were like HOLY -blam!- THEY GOT BIG ONES TOO?!? lucky us i adapted well and didn't die untill the flood ambush outside with the marines

  • 09.28.2004 2:51 PM PDT
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My first reaction was "they expect me to beat this level without a shotgun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????

  • 09.28.2004 4:18 PM PDT
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for me, direct quote-
watch the movie "what the hell?? " watch them come at me. "HOLY SH**!!! DIE YOU SOB'S, DIE!!!!!!" kill all the flood with a shotgun. go through door. see abig one. "THERE'S MORE!?!?!?!" bam. bam. bam. "Damn, that was easy." one comes up behind me. kills me."....... that sucks."

[Edited on 9/28/2004 4:57:40 PM]

  • 09.28.2004 4:53 PM PDT
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It was 3 am, all nighter with my brother on co-op. First time through.
We were slowly approaching the now well known "first encounter." the eerie silence and shed blood literally bathed the green luminosity dungeon that the flood grew to know as their home.

Our equipment status was poor at best, a half empty needler and empty
Pistol for me, plasma rifle and plasma pistol for my brother, no grenades.
And after an easy victory assaulting the control room, our expectations were foolishly raised.

The ominous glowing red alien signs came as a subliminal warning, I could feel something wasn’t right; he could too but wouldn’t voice it. Previous boss fights from past gaming experiences burned through my mind like so many plasma bullets. But we pressed on, we had come too far now to stop though, we HAD to continue, and curiosity had gotten the better of us.

We eventually came upon Jenkins; pity that surged through my body was soon overcome by terror and remorse. I wondered what had fell them, and what had become of sarge, the lovable auto sniper.

I looked up, after somewhat admiring the tenacity of the new found enemy, to see the horrified look on my brothers face. I twisted to see what he was at.
Violently they lunged, what seemed like hundreds of tiny marauders surged forward in a hunger fuelled lust. Shields ignited as the tiny, crab like critters gnawed away at them. Plasma bolts blazed through the air, tearing through the scourge as if they were made of paper. But they continued to come, now more violently than before, and our ammo was rapidly draining.

"CRUD" pierced through my terrorized daze. My brother had fallen to a large, elite-esque zombie whack to the back of the head. I was alone now, against a swarm of my worst nightmares.

They turned to face me as I bored into them with my needler, but they were to numerous. The small ones threw off the needler's built in tracking. Soon the needler was expelled. And I had one last choice: flail.

All the combat training in the world couldn’t help me here. As I lashed out with the empty needler, splats and gurgled noises filled the air. A blow to the face, a chop to the neck, nothing seemed to quell their temper. I soon fell to their numbers, and went to sleep for the night.

I am older now, much wiser; I now know that the assault rifle kicks the flying snot out of the little buggers. And a good'ol shot gun to the face will make any zombie smile.

  • 09.28.2004 11:05 PM PDT
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I though what the hell? These things are SO easy to kill! So I kill all the little bastards then the warriors come in and all I can think is Holy Sh**! I kill all of them then I run out and they're everywhere! You can't get away from them! I thought OH MY GOD I'M F**KED I am so dead. That was before I found a shotgun. Then I thought "this is easy!" and just went through the rest of the game like that. If you ask me, Elites are harder to kill.

[Edited on 9/29/2004 9:15:19 PM]

  • 09.28.2004 11:39 PM PDT
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watching the jenkins movie i just thought oh hell im in for fight so let them bring it. Then it goes all quiet and the motion tracker has alot of red dots. thats when i thought holy hell. so wot to do. get my grenades and shotgun and shoot and throw like hell. and that is with the small ones bubble ones. then came the big mofos bring em on so i own em all!!!!

  • 09.29.2004 1:48 AM PDT