The Most Terrifying Scene in Fiction...
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To understand the horror of this scene, you first need to understand why the flood is significant. And why the flood showing up on earth, was an absolute doomsday scenario. If you've played halos campaigns, you probably know that the flood is a very threatening species. The flood appears in every one of the games in the original halo trilogy. And It's constantly made clear that the flood is a horrific, terrible force. But the games don't exactly speak to just how terrible they truly are...
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what if the flood was called the freak andi nstead of infecting all of humanity it ate ass and sucked toes
What a horrible day to be literate!
that's just hentai tentacles if they gained the ability to take over entire civilizations
Pin of shame
@@danielawesome36 I take it as a pin of pride
I think you need to calm down man
The Gravemind when Master Chief appears in High Charity:
IT FOLLOWED US HOME
Haha yep
Can we keep him?
I was going to like this comment but you got 117 likes so we gotta leave it like that
All of the graveminds knowledge and it couldn’t handle the sheer power of buckshot and rock n roll
Those who didn’t understand: それ？(what?)
Those who DID understand:
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Remember. It took the flood an entire day to infect the entirety of high charity. Imagine how fast an entire continent would get consumed
Well, Shipmaster glassed "half a comtinent", and while that might be overkill (probably not), I'd imagine that it'd take only 12 hours at the most, and that is counting that the continent was Africa, which is pretty open, and sparse.
Definitely not overkill. As he said, 1 single spore can destroy a species
@@therobustempyrean1436The Flood can get all the wildlife and possibly plantlife too
@@TheBeastInBlackit worst
It take time for plant because of the lack of neural system
But remember, it not a « parasite » it a « virus » it infect cell, morphing normal cell into more flood supercell
So nothing that is one way or another biological is safe long term
ONI predicted that the Flood infestation of Voi would have overtaken Earth in mere hours if it had been left unchecked. Likewise, The containment breach on 04 almost got a gravemind and left the ring within a day or two despite its relatively low numbers and it being in the feral stage to start off the infection.
you forgot to include the part where the sangueli begin glassing the entire place and only the Arbiter convinces them not to glass the entire planet.
I forgor
@@KaleTheLeaf💀
I don't ever wanna hear the flood get called "freaky" again
the tentacles tho
@@oysteregg2537NO!
"One single flood spore can destroy a species"-R'tas Vadunn, Halo 3, Ending cutscene of Floodgate
" were it not for the arbiter's counsel I would have glassed your entire planet!"
-also R'tas vadunn, also from halo 3
@@cameronnewton7053 , also from that cutscene in floodgate
Yeah that happened
Technically given enough time I could as well
@@unbearablysmug2437 yeah but 7.62 will have an easier time stopping you
Yeah i agree that had to be scary for the flood seeing the chief was already there.
Haha they were quaking
So much horror conveyed in such a short scene. It's amazing how one enemy faction can change the genre of a game, I remember playing Halo 3 first so my original experience with The Flood completely blindsided me in a bad way and it took until my cousin came over before I could finish the campaign on split-screen because I was too skittish for solo, and too poor for online play
Literally same dude
this experience but with the OG halo CE, I cannot tell you how much the game suddenly flipped genre and the terror that came with it.
Me when my parents ask why there's a stray dog in the house: it followed me home...
The dog: fate had us meet as friends, but this home shall make us family!
That's not even far from how this all began...
Reading “it followed me home” made me think this was gonna be about that one scp that’s just a cave that leads to a universe where everything is dead
I looked it up, it’s 2935
Thanks. Rendezvous at the library. We're safe, for now... (L4D2 song plays)
Wait, if the flood were a scp what containment class would it be? I don’t think meter does it justice of how hard it is to contain
@@JoshCuznerApollyon class most likely
It also reminds me off the Mandala Catalogue.
I just read it. Holy shit, that's amazing. And horrifying.
RIP Keller was a real one
How to counter "Logic Plague" - make the AI stupid
@@watch.v-dQw4w9WgXcQ you’re not gonna believe this…
Gravemind: "I am a monument to all your sins!"
Wheatley: "Hm... I'm gonna say... a big obelisk!"
Gravemind: "No, it's a metaphor."
Wheatley: "I don't think so, it's like a big upright rock!"
Beat me to it.
Artificial Intelligence *VS* Natural Stupidity
WHEATLEY
"it followed me Home, Cesar"
Haha I initially was going to have another section of the video where i talked about that line too, but I decided to cut it out and make a dedicated video about that line later on.
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who thought that.
I don't know if it's still canon but any UNSC personnel who survived were either killed by ONI or closely monitored for the rest of their lives. The Flood is somewhat declassified (The public is only given basic info) now due to outpost discovery. However, the horror of The Floodgate mission is still heavily classified and subsequent glassing that was taken place to wipe its presence was covered up as a Covenant attack. Also, another tidbit of info is that after the event Buck and Alpha 9 were sent in to make sure nothing survived.
@@SmileyBoi21 I love the idea that people would have conspiracy theories about what happened in Africa. Like “well we were allied with elites at this time so why would they glass us?”
@@SmileyBoi21 that wouldn't make much sense, that's like an entire battlefleet and countless companies stationed all over getting wiped out by ONI
@@watch.v-dQw4w9WgXcQ ONI only eliminated personnel who threatened to reveal the truth about the Flood. Almost all the UNSC forces stationed near the crash site were overwhelmed and consumed. I believe Sgt Stacker is the only named character to have survived along with a few elites.
@@watch.v-dQw4w9WgXcQ Tbh, most of the UNSC personnel at the crash site were mostly wiped out by the Flood. There weren't many named survivors aside from Sgt.Stacker. Also, it's ONI and those guys are willing to go to great lengths to keep secrets.
@@SmileyBoi21 it's a contradiction of actual protocols and security - a large scale wipe like that is still impossible to cover up, considering every eyes of the UNSC was literally looking there
I miss when Halo levels had such ominous names like this. Now they’re just called stuff like “Blue Team” or “Sanghelios” rather than these cryptic level names
Floodgate was basically a Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant in Halo level form.
Thank god Halo's Earth didn't end up like Half-Life's earth from all the Xen wildlife invading the Earth.
Well, it wouldn't have ended up like Half Life either- At least Xen had biodiversity, there's a lot of beautiful scenery. The flood, not so much. Everything would be the exact same horrific monstrosity wherever you looked.
Miranda says that the flood is spreading all over the city not even a minute after the ship crashes. "Or risk losing the entire planet" is a huge understatement. Even if the Chief did blow up the city, the flood still probably would have consumed the entire planet unless he did it in seven seconds. It certainly would have if nothing was done at all. The Shipmaster arriving and glassing a significant portion of the continent, probably well beyond the city, is really the only reason humanity didn't become a buffet line for the flood instantly.
Offensive Bias: "Nah, I'd win."
I forget if during the final fight it was 1000 to 1, or 10,000 to 1 in the Flood's favor, but homeboy certainly had his work cutout for him that day...
Bro might beat gojo ngl @@delfuscreeto7552
I liked the introduction in Halo CE better, tbh. It had better buildup and really let you KNOW somebody did something they shouldn't have. I guess the CE introduction shows how insidious and unknown the Flood was, while the introduction in 3 shows just how much of a threat an established infestation is.
The perk of being the start of a franchise as opposed to being the third entry in the series
2:59 Whats even more scary is that if it has reached the coordinator stage, when one person is infected, the entire hivemind retains the knowledge harvested
Logic plague eh?
Release the intelligence dampening cores!
Wheatley was corrupted by glados body. A intelligence dampener is doing nothing.
We need Wheatley
@@atticus999x Wheatley is too smart we need the other cores.
2:23 "I am a monument to the boogie."
-Funkmind
Groovemind
holy shit that flood busting a move to a techno remix of the halo theme cracked me up hard LOL nice video dude!
It might’ve followed him home
You think so?
I think it might've possibly followed him home. @@nidomeister24
One of the things that hit hardest in that level is the marine who saw his CO become infected by the flood and he had to shoot it. You can see him crying in a corner periodically pointing his pistol to his head before forcing himself to take it away
2:16
Please don't be down-bad for the eldritch parisite from beyond space and time...
It's really interesting because had the Covenant not evaporated that whole lake, the spores could have infiltrated the water cycle and killed everything. So in a way, the Covenant doing stupid things for their beliefs actually helped humanity avoid a larger infection.
Another helpful factor was that everyone either died or was mostly evacuated when the Covenant was about to open the portal. So the Flood had a harder time infecting everything because most aircraft was downed when the portal EMP happened, so they lacked any way to fly off the region too and had to resort to driving away or running around the Savannah but it was too slow of a solution and the Sangheili managed to glass everything nearby before they could reach other areas.
They also learned from their failed incursions on Installation 05 and High Charity's spread so most of the Sangheili only came down in drop pods that couldn't be flown back and also very few, numbered, Phantoms to avoid a potential takeover from the parasite that wouldn't be noticed.
Also, if you really think about it, the only guy to be recovered from the ground during the whole infection part was the Master Chief. NO ONE else was picked up besides The Arbiter if playing co-op, thus avoiding a potential spread on the Shadow of Intent and the rest of the Fleet.
Everything was calculated, insane.
I thought this was going to be about Mandela Catalog, but I'm not disappointed in it being about Halo.
SAME
Incredible video, the setup of the tone in the beginning was wonderfully executed
Then you said the flood is freaky and that shook me out of it but it was funny enough to let slide
This is so good and well summarized! Short, but lots of information, and some humor.
I think your channel will become big someday! 😁 I like!
Nice video as always brother.
Halo 3 was my introduction to the halo franchise, and as a kid this level was also my introduction to being so scared that I had to get my big brother to give me the courage to play the mission.
"Infect spacetime itself, making anyone within it feel unwelcome in the universe"
Ayo this shit real
"WhAt Is ThIs? MoRe BrUtEs??"
I know the Arbiter asked that question for Master Chief to deliver his one liner....but would he not recognize the flood?? He was the Covenant commander in Halo:CE and fought the flood himself in Halo 2. This is so out of character...I hated how he was sidelined in Halo 3.
Honestly thats just a symptom of halo 3s story lol
I always thought he was still in a dazzle from seeing that whole blinding light from the Portal, Chief's visor can save him from the temporary blindness from a theoretical supernova explosion at a safe distance, he could watch it and the VISR of the helmet would tone it down, which is why you never get blinded despite seeing terribly flashy explosions up-close, meanwhile Arbiter had nothing to stop himself from getting flashed by a Slip-space Portal explosion, so he asks not because he doesn't know the parasite, but because he couldn't see well what was up with that ship.
So, he asks the guy with the orange tinted "glasses" that always keep his eyes safe to tell him what the hell just flew over his head because he's still recovering and didn't discern the biomass covering the ship so he assumes it's a faulty brute ship leaking something.
It's not after the crash and the ensuing biomass fog being instantly dispersed that he realizes what the Chief meant with "worse".
@@OnePlayer480 It's a good head canon to have. However, both of them were looking at the portal, and turned around after the ship appeared and looked at it several seconds while it passed over head. The arbiter even points his carbine at it. Probably because the animators wanted him to have some type of reaction.
To me, that line should have been delivered by a marine or the admiral on coms. The Arbiter should have said "worst" while the Master Chief should be telling the UNSC exactly what to expect.
Plus, even if the Arbiter was blinded...it's kind of a dick move to not tell him right away lol. The UNSC should have nuked the ship and the whole city right away but the game would not happen.
The whole airbourne flood spores just instantly fucking the air up around anywhere they visit is one of the more disconcerting bits about them. A reminder that even if you took out all the macro flood forms in an area, even if you "win" the battle, that stuff just isn't going to wash out.
Based on some new lore that dropped with the Flood cosmetics in Halo Infinite, the way I understand the Logic Plague now is that its a blanket term for the effect The Flood can have on synthetics. It can either be when the Gravemind or other conscious Flood nodes 'talk' an AI to join its side, or injecting a literal computer virus it codes on the fly directly into the AI's system to reprogramme it.
Nothing 343i is canon.
Pardon the language, but that was fucking stupid.
The gravemind or other advanced forms convincing an AI to switch sides through established communication channels? Ok, that's fine. But biological infection forms coming up with an interface to electronic systems on the fly to inject malware, let alone doing that faster than the suit AI can self-destruct? Yeah, that's just dumb.
That's exactly what it is. The Forerunners always were a bit flowery with their language.
@@BlueTeam-John-Fred-Linda-Kelly Cope.
@@Dryym I would rather cope than be a corpo slave.
“It is throwing a party, Cesar”
had the same idea
"Were it not for the Arbiter's council, I would have glassed your entire planet." The fact that the Shipmaster was ready and willing to glass a planet, and had to be talked down to settling for destroying damn near half a continent, shows just how serious a threat The Flood poses.
I like the detail of your character slowly being infected as the video progresses
I like your stuff. Subbed.
God that is a killer level title name. :O
Instant subscribe, especially for the Flood being so...freaky
"the 'flood' and 'freaky' should NEVER be in the same sentence" - the human halo encyclopedia of my friend group
I remember as a child playing Halo 3, when the flood was introduced I only got through the first 2 enemies before quiting out of fear.
Sadly I cant go back to play it now because I'm broke, and my 360 got sold.
"I say we leave the planet and nuke it from orbit. Thats the only way to be sure." -A wise woman
"Fuckin' A!"
After seeing Truth escape to the Ark to activate the firing sequence of all the Halos, I thought "We can't be more screwed"
I see the ship infected with the Flood crash and there I just said "Master Chief, may God have mercy on you"
And I could feel how with that posture he responded by saying "May he have mercy on us all"
The Flood is what happens if John Carpenters The Thing was in a Military Sci Fi Narrative.
I remember playing halo three with a friend. We both had never played the other games but I knew some lore and when the flood ship flys over. He was wondering what the fuck it was. I was sitting their wide eyed and said “omg the floods come to earth”
made me remember one of the best horror films out there, The Thing
Personally, this WOULD be the most terrifying scene in fiction.... if there had been any repercussions from this.
I know that half of Africa gets glassed, but that is the end of the horror. The rest of Earth is fine, the infestation was completely wiped out, and everyone who wasn't there lived.
Compare this to how seriously the Elites took the outbreak on 05 (Ghosts of Onyx). To ensure that no trace or spore of the Flood remained, the majority of 05's surface was glassed, completely destabilizing the ringworld's atmosphere and making it uninhabitable. But Flood spores can still survive in space, even latching onto ships. The fleet had to monitor the entire area for several days before fully satisfied that all traces of the Flood were reduced to ash.
By all logical means, Earth should've been lost the moment the Flood craft entered the atmosphere. Winds would've carried every single speck of Flood well beyond Africa, and continued to spread in the small window of time it'd been given. The only reason why it didn't is because Bungie backed out of that decision at the 11th hour, and so it served no significant repercussions.
it’s been recently stated that near the end of the forerunner-flood war the gravemind stated it would “test” humanity “when they grow fat on power”
given that humanity was certainly not at their strongest during 3, the flood wouldn’t exactly want to test them at that point
which means it’s likely that the flood were intentionally holding back in order to test them later
@@KingBossBob ....that feels supremely contrived, and doesn't line up at all with the Gravemind's behavior.
If he wanted to "test" humanity, then why bother sending a Flood ship to Earth when they're nowhere near as strong as they once were? And he can't control every individual spore, so the infection would continue to spread without restraint.
And if this is "recent" lore, then I can only interpret this as 343i trying to make up for Bungie's poor decisions.
@@stickyman9595 i guess to make it appear as if the flood was genuinely attacking humanity, if it’d backed off that’d be pretty suspicious
it’s not confirmed the gravemind was holding back during 3 (and 1000% certainly wasn’t the intention at the time) but yeah. gravemind wants to test humanity at their strongest, half-assing the fight when they’re weak in order to come back later when they’re stronger makes sense imo. it also explains some of the other questionable choices the gravemind made in 3s campaign, like after failing to grab the pelican with its tentacles it just forgets about them when fighting chief and the arbiter? and how despite its ridiculous intelligence it’s not smart enough to disable high charity’s automatic doors, or atleast collapse the hallways in chiefs path
but yeah the last paragraph is certainly true
@@KingBossBob Imagine if the Gravemind DID disable High Charity's automatic doors.
And what if, in the campaign, Tartarus' huge hammer would be needed to bust through them, and in this alternate universe, he was convinced.
However, the nature of the bossfight would need to have been changed.
Frankly, this is just a result of having multiple authors and the franchise being as old as it is. The original trilogy is one vision of halo's setting, the books are another, they're not really the same. And this isn't even getting into 343's countless retcons, which they did a LOT OF, especially concerning the flood.
Flood spores especially weren't really explained much in the games, just that "one single flood spore can destroy a species" and that infection forms carry spores. There's not even an explicit mention of airborne spores, only a possible allusion to it in the Library when spark mentions "When the flood begins to alter the atmosphere" we certainly don't know how well wind carries them, if the immune system can fight them, if they can actually survive outside of biomass, etc.
all of this info was gained later, by different writers who had a different vision of the setting. in other words, it's not that "bungie backed out", it's that later writers created a plot hole with retcons and further explanations.
The scene with the infected ship is so well made that it felt creepy to me even when I didn't know what was going on
"It followed me home, Caesar"
I’ve been finding these all over, knew I wasn’t the only one
@@L-ghtlessSky yeah, them's alternates are everywhere these days
@@ivansleepy4722 (btw I don’t know if it was autocorrect but Cesar’s name is spelled without the first a
@@ivansleepy4722 the other day one of them even showed up in tonka joey’s comment section
It's all fun and games until the radio squawks Corrupter.
Demons when Doomguy sets foot in Hell: "IT FOLLOWED US HOME."
The flood is the best kind of zombie. It can spread via bite, spore, or popcorn squid. And once it gets to a certain point it gets smarter.
It followed me home, Caesar
"A single flood spore can destroy a species. Were it not for the Arbiter's council, I'd have glassed your entire planet"
-Elite ship captain, immediately at the end of that mission, after casually ordering an orbital bombardment on half of Africa and being called out for it. He was right, in everything.
“It followed me home” is also said in The Mandela Catalog and it is just as terrifying.
@@Jupiter_Mayflower yeah I was going to include that but I’m saving it for a future video instead
Seeing the title I thought you were gonna talk about the mandela catalogue
@@mr-fatji1491 I was going to include it but I decided to save it for a future video
POV the flood gets freaky!
Tone shift goes from "having a good ol time fighting aliens alongside space marines."
To
Uncertainty over the upcoming challenge.
I think the original introduction to the flood is a little more terrifying for the purpose of the story. Like Keyes' squad is completely alone in a dark, rainy swamp, completely cutoff from anyone on the surface, and ambushed by an enemy no one has ever encountered.
But I think being a normal human, the flood arriving on Earth is just about the most terrifying thing that could ever happen to the human race
yeah i think both intros to the flood are done well considering the context for each
And yet our boy offensive bias played 5d chess with the flood
The flood is also in a situation where the more biomass it gains, the more it 'remembers' from prior feedings. All the info on how to build and use forerunner is still in there. It's likes how they were able to get High Charity to the Arc via regular slipspace
Yessssss halo flood are finally mentioned as the scariest thing to ever be created.
Look at this quote “One single flood spore can destroy a species!”
First! I really enjoyed the video
Thank you!
That intro was phenominal
I swear if I hear the flood being described as freaky in 2025 imma crash out
Halo absolutely nailed the hopeless and terrifying nature of the flood. They establish how dangerous they really are in CE and then reintroduce you through the Arbiter in 2. Also imagine the Master Chief describing something as “worse” than a ship of brutes… bone chilling.
You have no idea just how much I hate the Flood.
I did not expected this to be about halo, but I welcome it.
Recently played through "Still Wakes the Deep," and for those who've been wishing for more Flood, I can't recommend it enough. Won't spoil why, you'll see
I couldn't tell what this was from the thumbnail at first and figured it would be a scene from a movie, so seeing my favorite Halo 3 mission pop up was a nice surprise 👍
EDIT: the really cool thing about 4:50 is that when I first played the game, I didn't even realize it was the same mission in reverse because the tone shifted so much.
Gravemind kinda freaky
“It followed me home”
GENUINELY THOUGHT THIS WAS GONNA BE A THE MANDELA CATALOGUE REFERENCE BECAUSE LIKE
“It followed me home Cesar.”
What was that song you used towards the beginning when the zombie was getting pumped full M6D led?!?! Lol..
I'd also like to know
In the time following Chiefs venture towards the ark, There was a period Where voi and most of Africa was plunged into a catastrophe of terrible proportion. The ONI comms blackout,The Africa cordon. All to culminate in being glassed by the end. Imagine being a human having to watch half a contient be glassed willingly because the alternative is the end of the galaxy
This level scared the crap out of me when I was 12...core memory lol
Earth was saved just because the Sangheili fleet was there to glass them
Bro i was thinking it was going to talk about vol 1 of mandela catalog
@@trolledfordrip I was planning on including that but I decided to make a separate video on that in the future
@@KaleTheLeafTHREE MOONS YOU WILL??
So Microsoft owns Halo….and Warcraft now… I present an even worse scenario. Flood infected Old Gods.
The scariest part is, *I don't think the infected's torment ends in Death.*
I am strongly of the belief that the infected person's psyche is sucked into the Gravemind, where they are tormented for all of eternity. The Flood, the Precursors, are beings beyond flesh and blood, who I believe embedded themselves within the threads of reality of the Halo universe itself. That's why they were so unconcerned with the Halo array going off, it's impossible to kill something that makes up reality. They were only angry at their food getting killed off.
I can't be the only one that noticed he was slowly getting more and more infected, right?
Thank you for noticing bro no one else said anything
@@KaleTheLeaf np ^^
If the Flood landing on Earth is a doomsday scenario, then what does that make the Shipmaster? 😂
Me making flat earth orientated AI...
The flood just sounds like the tyranids
“Worse”
that was a cute sound at the end
if youre a fan of this scene check out Once Awake from Warframe, i'm of the opinion it does this beautifully (though it's not as "it followed me home" as it is "oh it's not dead"
spoilers ahead so dont watch it if you want to play warframe fresh
It followed me home... TO HAVE A PARTY 🎉🎉
Nah dude. Halo 1 the cutscene introducing them, rip Jenkins, and then after that you see THE FUCKING MASTER CHIEF BREATHING HEAVY. Literally the most scared we've seen him even to this day. Then you just see "The Flood". Played it when I was a kid, terrifying. I got lost on that level so many times.
IMO the floods easily gamings most terrifying and catastrophic plague/parasite/force or whatever other word someone might use for it but I suppose that’s one of the reasons its name is such a perfect fit….the flood is omnicidal by nature and in my book that’s as nightmarish of a thing be followed home by as it fuckin gets lol
Damn, what's that title screen music? It hit perfect
Halo 2 soundtrack for the flood I believe
Oh my you can tell that I didn't grow up with Halo 😂 I'm now very interested bc of this video @@KaleTheLeaf
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Technically Earth is not Chief's home =
Made me die inside when I was kid, nice choice
thought is was something else. Until the hot blue lady
00:20 I will say, myself and pretty much every Halo fan hates the way Halo 3 tries to make every character say some badass one-liner instead of things that make sense to their character and history. The Arbiter has fought the flood more times than the Chief has, so him dumbly raising his carbine rifle to a crashing ship (Like it's gonna do shit) and then asking "What is it, more brutes?" After seeing a clearly - OBVIOUSLY flood infected corvette is just so maddeningly dumb. This is pretty much every Halo fans chief complaint for Halo 3, especially in comparison to the nuance and well paced character building of Halo 2. Other dumb lines such as Miranda Keyes saying "To War." And then turning around and doing nothing, or Thr Prophet of Truth going from a master manipulator in Halo 2 using religion to play the entire covenant into his goals vs his depiction in Halo 3 where he was just another religious fanatic like the rest of them really knock the whole game down a peg. Even Bungie themselves said they regret hoing overboard in dumbing everything down. They were trying to have Halo 3 feel more like Halo CE with it's straightforward nature, but ultimately in the end just gave Halo 2 and its moving parts the middle finger. Halo 3 had too many plotpoints and characters to work with from Halo 2 to meaningfully deliver on the way they wanted to, especially with the fact that Halo 3 only has EIGHT missions, leaving characters like the shipmaster to exist as glorified cameos in the conclusion of their own stories. What is left is neither the fast paced straight forward simplicity of Halo CE nor the intrigue and depth of Halo 2. Halo 3's only saving grace - and it is a STRONG one - is the length of its missions, the badass parts thag stick, and the absolute perfection of its chaotic sandbox gameplay. Best way I could put it is this:
Halo CE - Best Campaign
Halo 2 - Best Story
Halo 3 - Best Missions
Thank you for the love-react. I will guard it with my life.
Thought it was gonna be man in the wall from warframe ngl
I thought it was going to be about TMC initially hehe
SAME
@@L-ghtlessSky yoo
When you know the true scale of the Flood this scene takes on a whole new terrifying feel. The Flood isn't just any parasite. Its the strongest most powerful entity in any science fiction universe. It could lay ruin to any science fiction universe with terrifying speed. Humanity is already in a losing battle and they are worn out to the point that they can barely even spare one ship for a mission that decides the fate of the galaxy and now they have a galaxy destroying parasite taking over Earth which is the last human planet that isn't pure glass. Its a two front war now and humanity is having their butt handed to them from both sides. When the Flood arrives to Earth they really were beyond screwed. If the Elites hadn't arrived to offer help then Earth and humanity along with it likely would have been destroyed and the Flood would begin their galactic domination once more and potentially spread across the entire universe maybe even traveling to other universes infecting them as well. According to Miranda it only took seconds before the city was overwhelmed by the Flood.
Wait wait I’ve never heard of HALO being called a horror game? Is that good?
It’s certainly scary at times