So I think it’s safe to say and even assume the Flood will not be in Halo Infinite and might NEVER be coming back in the main line Halo games.
In some ways, I’m happy the Flood are going to stay dead because one they are an OP enemy, two they would need to make them a more interesting enemy to fight making them more threatening and scarier than before, and three Halo 3 seemed to have been a good ending for them in a the main line Halo games. While spin off games they could make an appearance in some way shape or form.
Let alone in addition to that, Halo Infinite is rated T. Halo has always been a very light M compared to other rated M games that were extremely bloody and gory. (Like Gears for example.)
The Flood require that rated M in order to play more with the flying body parts since Flood liquify their hosts and are a biomass infection.
If they show up as DLC for Infinite, how would it affect the rating of the game? I have no idea.
Its pretty much certain they will be added at some point t after launch.
More importantly.
There are already threads for this discussion so go to those if you want to be part of the discourse rather than make redundant threads and devide said discourse. No gore = no flood thread.
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> Its pretty much certain they will be added at some point t after launch.
> More importantly.
> There are already threads for this discussion so go to those if you want to be part of the discourse rather than make redundant threads and devide said discourse.
> No gore = no flood thread.
Funny enough, I didn’t see that post until after I just posted my thread.
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> The Flood require that rated M in order to play more with the flying body parts since Flood liquify their hosts and are a biomass infection.
The game does not need to be rated M to include the flood. Times have changed and censorship is not as strict these days. Halo Infinite is rated on blood and violence, the flood could fit into Halo Infinite. Also, every Halo game is rated PEGI 16 here in the UK, and the flood appears. Halo was never an M … Halo Infinite does lack blood though.
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> > The Flood require that rated M in order to play more with the flying body parts since Flood liquify their hosts and are a biomass infection.
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> The game does not need to be rated M to include the flood. Times have changed and censorship is not as strict these days. Halo Infinite is rated on blood and violence, the flood could fit into Halo Infinite. Also, every Halo game is rated PEGI 16 here in the UK, and the flood appears. Halo was never an M … Halo Infinite does lack blood though.
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> This is just my opinion of course.
I agree. There is practically no reason for the flood not to come back.
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> > > The Flood require that rated M in order to play more with the flying body parts since Flood liquify their hosts and are a biomass infection.
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> > The game does not need to be rated M to include the flood. Times have changed and censorship is not as strict these days. Halo Infinite is rated on blood and violence, the flood could fit into Halo Infinite. Also, every Halo game is rated PEGI 16 here in the UK, and the flood appears. Halo was never an M … Halo Infinite does lack blood though.
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> > This is just my opinion of course.
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> I agree. There is practically no reason for the flood not to come back.
Yup, the flood appeared in Halo Wars 2 and that was also rated T.
I don’t know how many times I’m going to say it today, but the ESRB’s parental age suggestion of T does not automagically remove any and all chances of the Flood returning.
The assertion is baseless. The only thing inherently “mature” about the flood is Body Horror, which is very tame. There’s nothing “gory” or “graphic” about how they die, either.
The fabled M rating is a guideline for parents, as well as a marketing factor, not the be all end all of a game’s content. Geez.
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> I don’t know how many times I’m going to say it today, but the ESRB’s parental age suggestion of T does not automagically remove any and all chances of the Flood returning.
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> The assertion is baseless. The only thing inherently “mature” about the flood is Body Horror, which is very tame. There’s nothing “gory” or “graphic” about how they die, either.
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> The fabled M rating is a guideline for parents, as well as a marketing factor, not the be all end all of a game’s content. Geez.
I couldn’t agree more. I am getting tired of people dismissing flood over a “T” rating. They could easily sway the art style to a more parasitic bug like appearance over the “zombie” appearance of the past. They are very “fungal” creatures. Do people not remember in Destiny 1 when the Hive were first shown on the moon? Destiny Hive are just as creepy as Halo Flood, and Destiny is rated “T”.
I think during the 10 years of supported content for the game post launch, they add the flood enemies as a dlc.
343i has said they gonna come out with new weapons, enemies, vehicles, missions, maps etc. during its 10 years. so everything is possible
Luckily ESRB ratings don’t apply to DLC, only the main game. The DLC can be M-rated, so there’s an opp there for flood reintroduction. Plus Halo was always an incredible soft M-rating.
But seriously, why can’t they just bring back the flood already? I don’t get what’s so hard about it for 343i.
