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| Re: Something else I don't like about "Halo 2.0" | |
| Posted By: Metalingus627 <mtracy627@yahoo.com> | Date: 1/10/13 10:53 p.m. |
In Response To: Re: Something else I don't like about "Halo 2.0" (Ragashingo) : I actually liked the Flood in Halo 2. There was something different about : them than any other Halo. They struck quick and hard, but then retreated : and reset their ambushes if you retreated too far. They were hugely : dangerous without being boring or unfair. They never seemed to overstay : their welcome in any encounter unlike they sometimes would (in the Library : where they just kept spawning…) Halo 3's Flood were crumbly crap that fell : apart if you looked at them wrong. They moved too slow, shambled too much : I felt overwhelmed, but in a good way, with Halo 2's Flood. I felt : embarrassed any time I died to Halo 3's. The environment in which they were presented was a big part of that. Whenever the Flood became a factor, the environment became darker, more sinister. High Charity was all but completely blacked-out, you sometimes didn't know where the attacks were coming from, all while listening to the apocalyptic versing of Truth and Gravemind over the loudspeakers. (Or Truth over the loudspeakers, Gravemind through the mouths of his subverted victims. ;) ). Bungie took the best parts of 343 Guilty Spark and applied them to every Flood encounter in Halo 2. Not to mention the Flood had some measure of physical toughness (even Infection forms were harder to shoot in this game) and could drive vehicles. Halo 3 had this partially in Floodgate, but in most of our encounters with the Flood, everything is brightly lit, and the encounters use quantity rather than quality. Pure Forms are given the role of being challenging, and to some extent they succeed, but overall the Flood could have been handled much better in this game. I'd love to see 343 introduce them again later on in the fiction. :)
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