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Subject: A flood charecter
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Poll: (Read bottom first) A flood as a playable charecter.  [closed]
Yes:  31%
(16 Votes)
No :  51%
(26 Votes)
2nd flood option:  10%
(5 Votes)
other (explain what type of chaecter):  4%
(2 Votes)
Flood, but tour own option (Explain):  4%
(2 Votes)
Total Votes: 51

Option 1. I thought it might be cool for later in the game you play as a flood begging like this. You here Gravemind say awaken my child know that i am your leader your creater and that tou have a meaning a destiny for the future of our flood. Now go and fufill your destiny and that is when you begin a flood campaign.

I don't like this as much but i'll explain anyway.

Option 2. You play as a human or covie who was taken by the flood but you are resisting there control and using there powers against them to try and stop them from taking control and feasting on all living things.

[Edited on 6/13/2006]

  • 06.12.2006 5:16 PM PDT

Posted by: GreenChief764
id like to see them for MP for a zombies gametype when you get killed you turn into the flood


HELLZ YES PEOPLE.

  • 06.12.2006 5:19 PM PDT
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The bottom option.

And dude. even saying spoilers like that can get you banned.

but the idea is good. And here's my one.

Gravemind fuses with cortonna. uses both combinned supreme intellects to move mond onto a better body, a stronger body, an uber flood, in a humanoid shape. and then fly to earth and kill everyone. the end.

  • 06.12.2006 5:20 PM PDT
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I didn't think of that but ya that would be hot.

  • 06.12.2006 5:20 PM PDT
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I Like Option 2 kinda. BUT. It would be better If you were a charecter that get's gunned down and BECOMES the flood.

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Posted by: GreenChief764
id like to see them for MP for a zombies gametype when you get killed you turn into the flood


Nice idea man! You mean like last guy to die wins.

  • 06.12.2006 5:21 PM PDT
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Posted by: Sparda3b
Option 1. I thought it might be cool for later in the game you play as a flood begging like this. You here Gravemind say awaken my child know that i am your leader your creater and that tou have a meaning a destiny for the future of our flood. Now go and fufill your destiny and that is when you begin a flood campaign.

I don't like this as much but i'll explain anyway

Option 2. You play as a human or covie who was taken by the flood but you are resisting there control and using there powers against them to try and stop them from taking control and feasting on all living things.





I like your first option, it would be cool playing as a flood.

  • 06.12.2006 5:21 PM PDT

wait wait wait.... exactly what spoiler did he mention? that gravemind controls flood?


huh?

  • 06.12.2006 5:22 PM PDT
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but what about the shelids? would this make you have no shields? or are you depending in a health bar again?

  • 06.12.2006 5:23 PM PDT

yeah, but what spoilers did he mention exactly?

  • 06.12.2006 5:24 PM PDT

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I think the MC will be infected.

  • 06.12.2006 5:24 PM PDT
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Posted by: MrSpinkleswirth
wait wait wait.... exactly what spoiler did he mention? that gravemind controls flood?
huh?


He said maybe spoliers. Which is still not allowed by the rules.

Posted by: MasterChef1013
but what about the shelids? would this make you have no shields? or are you depending in a health bar again?


We could have more health yeah, but sacrafice shield for a super energy sword hand, while holding another gun or two, and being able to jump super high? Its well worth it!

  • 06.12.2006 5:26 PM PDT

Does anyone remember a game sounding just like that? I 'unno... Area 51 ring a bell? Guy with alien genes trying to destroy aliens that attack.

Flood aren't deserving of character option, unless it's multpiplayer. And even then, I'd say not likely because their critical weak point is their chest, not their head, and that would lessen the experience to have them in it.

  • 06.12.2006 5:27 PM PDT

you could have a flood tentacle. like, melee, you lash out with a ranged whip tentacle.


and cut their faces off!!! oozing blood out the gore drenched floor!!!! with their brains showing and falling out!!!!! and then they make the horrible screams!!! then you lash out and eat them slowly and painfully!!!! muahahahahahahaaaaa!!!!!!!


or just play as an infection form....


and cut their faces off!!! oozing blood out the gore drenched floor!!!! with their brains showing and falling out!!!!! and then they make the horrible screams!!! then you lash out and eat them slowly and painfully!!!! muahahahahahahaaaaa!!!!!!!

  • 06.12.2006 5:29 PM PDT
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Posted: 6/12/2006 5:27 PM

Subject: A flood charecter ( maybe spoilers)



Does anyone remember a game sounding just like that? I 'unno... Area 51 ring a bell? Guy with alien genes trying to destroy aliens that attack.

Flood aren't deserving of character option, unless it's multpiplayer. And even then, I'd say not likely because their critical weak point is their chest, not their head, and that would lessen the experience to have them in it.





Which is why option 1 says it is a special flood and option 2 says that the person/alien is resisting the control.

  • 06.12.2006 5:30 PM PDT

....why did you need to post the information?

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Playing as a flood would be kind of hard in my opinion. If you ask me, the flood are easy to kill. It's only when theres like twenty of them in a group is what makes it hard, or if they have shields.

  • 06.12.2006 5:40 PM PDT
Subject: A flood charecter

You say tomato; I say potato.

remember that game area 51 where you are infected with the zombie* virus and you had to destroy the enemy as the enemy. imagine that in halo 3. the chief is taken down, but because of his supperior intellect, he is able to regain his motor skills and be the same john 117 (except for the deformities)

  • 06.12.2006 5:49 PM PDT
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Being a Flood character would ruin H3. The Flood...have no regard for their own "life", they only have an eternal hunger. They do anything to satisfy that hunger, they go so far as to run after you with no arms in the hope that you might drop dead soon. Nobody can "resist" control from the Flood. In "The Flood" Jenkins was only able resist by a "galactic" fluke, as its described in the book. The infection form which attacked him was severly weakened by its hibernation.

Anyway, back to the point. If you played as a Flood character it would contradict the storyline. One moment your saving the Earth from the Flood (i'm not saying this will happn but there's a good chance) and then the next your a combat form trying to capture Earth and its smorgasboard of people. And also, if you played as a Flood form, would you adopt Flood "tactics". In all my years of playing the Halo games i have never really seen any Flood form run away and take cover. They just charge in and try to overwhelm you. Also, in MP it would be unfair.

It all comes back to the "i want to play as a Grunt/Brute/Jackal/ODST in MP" argument. I think it should be a level playing field and let skill seperate player not appearance/ability. Things such as sniping. Flood are basically immune to it. That could change MP gameplay drastically.

Anyway, that my two cents.

  • 06.12.2006 6:09 PM PDT
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how about this for a flood character idea. You start out as an infection form and you get to go around hijacking human/covenant bodies much as you would jack a vehicle. While this really wouldn't seem all that viable once you did transform your body into a combat or carrier form, i think it would be sweet to go up and take over a body as an infection form.

  • 06.12.2006 6:15 PM PDT
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that would also be cool

  • 06.12.2006 6:47 PM PDT
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That sounds quite a bit like the start to the first level in the Alien section of AVP.

But, the main point is not "would it be cool?" but how would it evolve the story line. Playing as the Arbiter in H2 was moving the story forwards but from a new point of view. A main story theme is fighting "hordes of aliens that vie to destroy you." if we played as the flood, we ARE the horde. Anways the flood don't offer a point of view that could help the plot move forward. They are the antagonists, the bad guys. Playing as them has no value, either you ruin the game, or the feeling is lost due to the fact that the character you are playing as has to lose, and you are not working towards an achievable goal.

Sorry if this is a little disorganized.

  • 06.12.2006 7:24 PM PDT
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it isnt halo at all

  • 06.12.2006 7:28 PM PDT
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no if you play as a flood that relly lame....

  • 06.12.2006 8:41 PM PDT