It makes sense that they're desperate to make zombies a threat. Actual zombies wouldn't be scary at all. A shield phalanx with a line of bows behind would solve every conflict.
I noticed early on in the show that once they had a nice group set up, the threat from zombies was always either a surprise attack, or the "swarms" just being too large for the group to handle. There's only so much mileage you can get out of that cliche before people start questioning the worldbuilding.
However when it comes to zombies every storyline I've seen even though yeah the scenes are creepy as fuck for me at the same time it's a case of why are the survivors the most stupid people on the planet? If they had half a brain like you point out they would switch to medieval weapons and armour which zombies can't bite through and then it would be over in five seconds, especially proper plate armour you can put on easily thanks to modern design.
Or you know just set up crew served weapons and destroy every zombie to the horizon. Too bad the military in these stories never thinks of that.
The flood from Halo because worse still that's actually plausible since the flood is essentially an outer space organism that can infect people just by breathing the air in and they take control of your brain and warp you inside out which is creepy as fuck.
The concept of the Flood is right proper Lovecraftian horror. It was never really depicted in the Halo series as scary as the Flood actually was; we had a brief glimpse of how horrific something like that might be with the short film Into The Aquila Rift, but it's a shame we don't have more media that properly explores the absolute horror of being a living shell for an outer-dimensional species (though, I suppose the movie The Puppet Masters from 1994 comes sort of close) .
Doesn't even take that much. The Monster Hunter International world treats zombies as your entry level threat, more of a payday on legs. Only issue is if they were created by a necromancer or houdoun. Put on armor, pop pop pop, collect samples, collect paycheck.
WWZ was excellent, really lightning in a bottle almost, given how obsessed with zombies every aspect of pop culture was back then. TZSG was funny too in its own right
I loaned my copy out to a friend, in exchange for their copy of Thus Spake Zarathustra...don’t regret that but I have been craving a reread of WWZ as time goes on
It makes sense that they're desperate to make zombies a threat. Actual zombies wouldn't be scary at all. A shield phalanx with a line of bows behind would solve every conflict.
I noticed early on in the show that once they had a nice group set up, the threat from zombies was always either a surprise attack, or the "swarms" just being too large for the group to handle. There's only so much mileage you can get out of that cliche before people start questioning the worldbuilding.
Or you know just set up crew served weapons and destroy every zombie to the horizon. Too bad the military in these stories never thinks of that.
The concept of the Flood is right proper Lovecraftian horror. It was never really depicted in the Halo series as scary as the Flood actually was; we had a brief glimpse of how horrific something like that might be with the short film Into The Aquila Rift, but it's a shame we don't have more media that properly explores the absolute horror of being a living shell for an outer-dimensional species (though, I suppose the movie The Puppet Masters from 1994 comes sort of close) .
Doesn't even take that much. The Monster Hunter International world treats zombies as your entry level threat, more of a payday on legs. Only issue is if they were created by a necromancer or houdoun. Put on armor, pop pop pop, collect samples, collect paycheck.
Man, I’ve got to re-read those.
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WWZ was excellent, really lightning in a bottle almost, given how obsessed with zombies every aspect of pop culture was back then. TZSG was funny too in its own right
i've read both more times than i can really remember
I loaned my copy out to a friend, in exchange for their copy of Thus Spake Zarathustra...don’t regret that but I have been craving a reread of WWZ as time goes on