The Geth |
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2.7% (2) |
The Flood |
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33.3% (25) |
The Combine |
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32% (24) |
The Galactic Empire |
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5.3% (4) |
The Borg |
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6.7% (5) |
The Reapers |
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20% (15) |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1033 Joined: 9 Dec 2007     | |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 52 Joined: 2 Jan 2008   | The Borg; for their plain trash-weirdness. (Imagine having to forcefully marry one of those things) |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 51 Joined: 2 Dec 2007 |
Do the borg have the white trash shotgun weddings? |
Beat Writer  Posts: 131 Joined: 21 Nov 2007   | Ok. So the flood and the reapers have wiped out life throughout the galaxy numerous times. Killing is easy. Conquering is hard. The combine have conguered, enslaved, murdered, AND genetically altered thousands of species in multiple universes, not just a galaxy. The fact that they use us to enslave ourselves says alot. Keep in mind too that the combine you see on earth in HL2 are just peace-keepers, police if you will. The main invasionary force left years before Gordon arrive (of which we start to see in Ep2). Then there's the Borg. Even the flood couldn't stand up to them. The borg would just inject a few nano-probes into the gravemind and bam, the entirety of the flood is under borg control. Christ this is a nerdy topic, lol. But my vote goes with pettingzoo's choice. Rosie is one scary....what ever she is. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 103 Joined: 3 Jan 2008   |
Exactly, the Cataclysm Beast. |
Muckraker  Posts: 237 Joined: 9 Sep 2007 | i vote half baby half insect from doom 3, but only if i get a chainsaw :) |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 57 Joined: 5 Jan 2008 | I said The Flood because they can even take over our dead. And use them against us. But I was also one of those surprised people that The Zerg were not on there. You have to annihilate an entire planet in order to rid the Zerg threat. Or go straight to the Zerg Overmind ... but even then that would leave uncontrolled Zerg forces roaming about on their own. I think another potential threat could be the Protoss.. they are a very advanced race. |
Anonymous Source  Posts: 4 Joined: 5 Jan 2008 | I'm also surprised the Zerg weren't mentioned as well.. that said the reapers are the most capable of destruction, but I'm certain we would be overlooked, as we aren't a space fairing civilization. The Geth aren't really that dangerous as far as im concerned, they seemed content to dwell on their own planet before the reapers stepped in and dictated their actions. |
Paperboy  Posts: 15 Joined: 3 Jan 2008 |
I really wasn't expecting a laugh from this topic, but you get the gold there! and yeah, whilst i'll accept the Necrons could pose a threat, i refuse to accept them in this conversation, i thought this was Videogaming nasties, not boardgame nasties? (i know there's a warhammer game, it doesn't count in my opinion) Possible spoilers: And in response to Cool13011 the reapers use the citadel and mass relays to get to us quickly, they can still get here by conventional means, it'd just take a Really long time. (see end of Mass Effect if you don't know what i mean) |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 940 Joined: 23 Dec 2007  |
"Hey ma! I've been assimilated y'all!" |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 69 Joined: 7 Nov 2007 | The koreans from crysis ;) |
Beat Writer  Posts: 146 Joined: 25 Sep 2007 | Is everyone forgetting the Zerg? |
Anonymous Source  Posts: 10 Joined: 12 Dec 2007 | Is everyone just forgetting the advisers from HL2:Ep2? Those are some bad mofos, I wouldn't want to be on their bad side ever. Also to the guy saying living under the Combine would be cool, they get starved as punishment, CPs pretty much beat people on a daily basis and Barney mentions a beating quota in HL2, Combine aren't exactly taking care of people, they're absolutely controlling them. |
BANNED  Posts: 133 Joined: 9 Oct 2007   | FLOOD ALL THE WAY. duh. They'd kill the U.S. first as it's the most powerful and the largest threat. Then, they'd attack China, the U.K., Russia, and India at the same time. Slowly growing in each country. If any other species attacked, they'd attack 1 country at a time. Giving everyone else plenty of time to help out. It's much easier to send help to one country than to send help to every country while protecting your own. Flood would win because they would have numbers, power, and strategy. So many creatures controlled by the gravemind, the gravemind is like hundreds of thousands of supercomputers in a single mass that can think and reason freely. Also, we kill enough of each other and we die off from disease and old age, but the flood doesn't care if we had cancer or if we were old or young or killed, any defects are filled in by the floodling's own organic structure. They would probably hide and hit every graveyard bringing back the recently deceased and the dying. Then, they'd hit small towns and larger cities simultaneously to destroy the workforce and the chain of command in a single move. They would dominate. I foresee the United States' destruction in around 40 hours and if they use their carrier fleet which is most definitely counted as part of their invasion force, all life in the U.S. would be wiped out in 10-16 hours. Keep in mind that as they're attacking the U.S., they're simultaneously attacking China, England, Germany, Russia, India, and probably Spain. The world would be taken over in days. Then, it's resources would be used efficiently under gravemind's control and, the flood can survive easily in below zero climates, so use of Siberia's resources would be steady and unrestricted. They would be able to create fleets of ships in only a few years. Install landing pods and packing them full of floodlings then piloting the ships with human and modified animal flood and they'd colonize the other planets and use our solar system as the basis for their complete invasion of the galaxy/universe. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3353 Joined: 2 Dec 2007  | The Reapers hands down. They've exterminated all life in the galaxy hundreds of times over. They've only been haulted so far because the prothiens shut down the keepers. How long is that going to stop them I wonder? Also... THEY HAVE FUCKING MIND CONTROL!! Another couple of points to shut everyone up: They're robots, meaning they don't need food, oxygen, etc, etc. They feel no emotion, good for destroying people. They're as big a ships! They have a geth army that worships them. I could go on with this. Reasons it's not the rest: |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1268 Joined: 13 Sep 2007  |
If you pay attention, the Flood were created by the forerunners while they were researching how to make the perfect organism, then they escaped and the whole damn galaxy died. The infection forms seem to be some kind of early attempt at changing someones DNA after conception. This explains why they can only use the bodies of aliens anatomically similar to us without us having evolved to deal with them. |
Paperboy Posts: 23 Joined: 8 Jan 2008 | i'd say flood, but beyond this list, metroids, and 'aliens', as in xenomorphs, the long headed black creatures from the Aliens vs Predator 2 game (and watever movies it originated from). those aliens would pose a huge threat, seeing as they could stay dormant for years, underground maybe, surfacing to facehug, and eventually hundreds and thousands can emerge to take over the world. sure u can blast em, but acid blood. nuke em from afar maybe? nukes pose thread to ppl too, so i reckon those aliens would pose a larger thread than any on that list. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 3353 Joined: 2 Dec 2007 | I haven't played Halo3 but I don't see why everyone's going for the flood. To me they're just a virus. Also, wasn't the Racchni mentioned? Whoever wants to vote for the Zerg or Tyranids, or whatever, it's pretty much the Racchni. |
Paperboy  Posts: 24 Joined: 8 Dec 2007 | They're not listed, but some of the Bioshock splicers and the fast zombies from Half-Life 2 were pretty freaky. The level containing the white statue splicers that then come to life just scared the bloody shit out of me. I would hit them with the wrench,and they would bleed, but not move, so I kindof knew they would come to life at some point, but the suspense of not knowing when put me really on edge for an hour or so. And the HL2 Fast Zombies still make me shudder with that wail they make before the charge, chilling stuff. It's funny how I'm never scared by a movie, but when playing through select games, I'm much more invested in it, and thus much more mentally affected when shit starts hitting the fan. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 941 Joined: 29 Dec 2007  | i think the worst thing to encounter is the ZERG |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 941 Joined: 29 Dec 2007 |
you have no idear do you? the rachnie are a weak zerg. a weak verstion of one type of zerg rahnie are a weak zergling/hydrolisk if Zerg was there it would get hughe votes. not nesacerly the most not everybody thinks the same |
Beat Writer Posts: 156 Joined: 17 May 2007 |
ASSIMILATE.
Some people seem to have missed what the Combine was actually doing to our planet in HL2. Think: people come in on the trains, but never leave; the docks and ships are all landlocked by the receding shoreline; no children are being born; the Citadel expands every few hours, literally eating the city; entire blocks of houses become mysteriously bricked up overnight. They were devouring the Earth for resources.
...you can't be serious. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 872 Joined: 2 Jan 2008  |
You have to stop talking now. Racchni, Zerg, and any other animal with that basic shape is so clearly emulating Alien. Granted, the Aliens don't build spaceships, but don't settle for Brand X. - J |
Copy Clerk Posts: 98 Joined: 16 Dec 2007 | Flood vs Tyranids = Tyranids. They eat everything on the whole PLANET. That's right. The Flood can suck the brains out of the gaunts all they want, they still get scoured. The necrons would slaughter mankind without breaking a sweat. Wraiths take out all the world leaders at once, scarab swarms destroying any source of food, and the warriors implacably wiping out civilization. Orks? Are you kidding me? They are ten times scarier than the necrons or the nids if you ask me. Kill one, and hundreds pop up in a few days. Once orks breach into a world, they will plague that world with assaults for centuries. They're humanoid fungus with their technology in their genetics (and they will always have meks that can rise to an occasion when needed - see spontaneous invention of teleportation, which then spread across the galaxy) and oh yeah. They're all psychic. If orks attacked Earth, we might hold them off for maybe a decade max. I'd vote for the Vogons, though. Too bad they're not on the list. EDIT:: Btw, zerg are just cheap tyranid rip offs [seriously. Do some StarCraft research]. And no, nids aren't Gieger alien rip offs. They were originally gorillas with four arms, really, but the creative designers behind them fixed that. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 102 Joined: 5 Jan 2008 | why no zombies? come on, thats going to be the end of the world. A massive wave of undead spreading through our cities! Heres hopin they are the slow bastards. But if i had to choose, id say some wierd alien parasite thing like the flood, probably from Mars or something if we ever get there. HEY! We discovered life on Mars! Damn NASA. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1599 Joined: 13 Dec 2007  | The Daleks! |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 941 Joined: 29 Dec 2007 |
no the aliens are not as bad as the zerg. but i dont know what a traien-thing is don't yell at me it may have just been befor my time ZERG DO NOT LOOK LIKE RACCHNI OR ALIENS. a zerg can take a gunshot to the head and keep goni (for a bit any way) and from how cool aliens is i would say the alien can't |
Paperboy  Posts: 36 Joined: 5 Nov 2007 | humans ourselves. we don't need aliens or stuff like that to kill each other. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 483 Joined: 5 Jan 2008 | Combine wins. Also, headcrabs = Flood. Combine took over headcrabs. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 563 Joined: 1 Jan 2008 | Tyranids. As said before, they eat everything on the enite planet, even the atmosphere. Video game-wise, what about the deathclaw? Wouldn't they be pretty tough if they had the right numbers? |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 3353 Joined: 2 Dec 2007 |
Deathclaws are pretty much indestructable (in Fallout 1 anyway. Tactics doesn't count) But they have no army. Mother lays a few eggs, they go out and hunt like animals. The few that can talk are too anti-war to fight. The Enclave wiped them out. Hey, that's another one to vote for, the Enclave or Brotherhood of Steel. Geez. The flood are getting alot of votes. You only see one Reaper in Mass Effect and look at the size of it!? Also, I'll have to agree with most people who said the Combine. Took 'em, what, 5 hours to conqure all of earth! Even Gordon seems to be having a bit of a time trying to take them all out. |
BANNED Posts: 133 Joined: 9 Oct 2007 |
Ahem. What happens to someone when he's taken over by a floodling? ZOMBIE!! Flood are zombies, borg are kinda like zombies, Combine use zombies as warfare. The list has plenty of zombies. And, the fast zombies are included with the Combine. Combine use the head crabs as bio-warfare. They're simply weapons. Also, yes, there was only 1 reaper in the last battle. That's all we'll have to face. There's no citadel and no Mass Relays anywhere that I know of near earth. This is a battle of just earth, not the surrounding planets. Sovereign can't use the citadel or Mars to get everyone else here. We'd only have to fight 1 ship because the geth aren't reapers. They work for the Reapers but they're counted as their own species in this poll. One ship about the size of a Star Destroyer would not pose much of a threat to the entire planet. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 57 Joined: 5 Jan 2008 | I say anything that can swarm in huge numbers will be the most threatening (ie. Flood, Zerg) And to the people who have mentioned a Zerg rush... those could take down anything. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2677 Joined: 23 Dec 2007 | Regardless of the Statistic, you have to realize everyone: ALL OF THEM WOULD SUCK if the instance in question occured. |
Beat Writer Posts: 131 Joined: 21 Nov 2007 |
Well said sir. However, I may have to change my vote to coincide with Larenxis choice. The Dalek's would almost always win, as the damn "Doctor" is never around when ya need him. :/ On a side note, I must reiterate that the combine (along with the headcrab/zombie bio-warfare tactics they use AND the new inclusion of the advisors) are just a peace-keeping force left on earth to make sure the "assimilation" of earths resources runs smoothly. Basically, they're the grunt workers and police. If this peace-keeping force exhibits such power and insurmountable oppression, image what the main invasionary force would be like. Food for thought. |
I wouldn't mind the Combine at all, actually. Aside from the whole 'sex oppression' thing, the world turns out pretty sweet. No more war, or crime. Food deposited to you for free, the option to become a cyborg with a funny voice and mean firepower. Breen was right when he called them 'Benefactors'.