Combine Empire....greatest enemy ever?

Combine Empire, best enemy ever?

  • Yes, good enemy with good background and fun to fight

    Votes: 51 69.9%

  • No, I dislike them, please state which enemy is better

    Votes: 11 15.1%

  • Possibly, explain how

    Votes: 11 15.1%
  • Total voters
    73
remember the combine tailor make their soldiers based upon whatever their fighting so the combine would make zerg-like soldiers except they'd be better. :)
 
and then the Zerg would absorb those soldiers into their armies.
 
Eejit said:
and then the Zerg would absorb those soldiers into their armies.
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But the Combine would also do that..then they would end up with exactly the same two armies.
And then Combine would bomb the shit out of the entire galaxy.
 
Quite frankly, The Imperium of Mankind, ala Warhammer 40k, would snap the Combines little neck. As would all the other empires in that continuity. Especially the Orkz. Does it have background story. Oh dear god yes. If only they had a decent FPS... cry.


Space Marines... I just realized... they are all 7 to 8 feet tall Gordon Freeman's. Millions of them. All all with a HEV Mark'A'Billion, and... heavy bolter's. *shudder* And psychers, too.

G-Man is a Warp Demon. Only logical conclusion. *proceeds to have fits and convulsions, chaos energy writhing out of his pores*
 
Meh, The Culture would still pwn them all.

Hell, even the Idirans would probably be tough for the Combine.
 
Saruke said:
...You mean the monster that had two pink ballons on the side of it's head?

....That was lame.
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it was not lame!

see rap below::::


ba do ba do bado,
so there i was with nothing to do,
when i heard a scream that sounded like shamu,
i looked up and what did i see?
a big scary monster looking back at me!

its the cloverfeild rap, the cl-cloverfeild ra-aapp

its the cloverfeild rap, a song about monsters and a bunch of other crap

what the heck! theres a monster in the trees!
stupid monster, dontcha eat me!
oh crap! theres spiders falling off his back
we better go down to the subway track!

its the cloverfeild rap, the cl-cloverfeild ra-aapp

its the cloverfeild rap, a song about monsters and a bunch of other crap

than i was down in the darkness and i couldnt see
and those stupid spiders snuck up on me
i was like "screw u spiders, i dont want to talk to you"
and they are like "stupid mofo, were gonna bite you"

its the cloverfeild rap, the cl-cloverfeild ra-aapp

its the cloverfeild rap, a song about monsters and a bunch of other crap


then we got in the helicopter all reaady to leave,
when here comes along my huge pet peeve,
the monster came out from back behind the buildings
and took the chopper down like it had creme filling




i and my freind will take credit for this. and its copyrighted. (actually its not)
 
The armies from Warhammer 40K are a bunch of sh*theads. I think enemies etc like that are just crap.
 
MFL said:
Quite frankly, The Imperium of Mankind, ala Warhammer 40k, would snap the Combines little neck. As would all the other empires in that continuity. Especially the Orkz.
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Orkz would be too busy killing eachother to defeat the Combine. If the Orkz united they'd kill everything, but they never shall.
 
Yeh, they never shall cause theyre crap
 
Your a poet and you didnt know it :D
 
It wasnt bad, but it was still sh*t lol

Still, I couldnt do any better, good job :D
 
The Toad Empire & KOMPLEX (Bucky O hare)!

or

M.A.D and Dr. Claw (Inspector Gadget)!

The Combine are pretty mean! Probably my most favorite serious enemy (so ignoring badass fairytale dudes like Bowser!) that ive fought in a computer game.
 
The Covenant from the Halo series has a much more drawn-out history than the Combine. A union of different species of aliens, all bonded by a religion that believes in activating weapons that wipe out all life in the universe? And to top that off, their war begins by finding an unmanned cargo freighter transporting fruit to another planet about 20 years before the war ends?
 
Xevrex said:
The Covenant from the Halo series has a much more drawn-out history than the Combine. A union of different species of aliens, all bonded by a religion that believes in activating weapons that wipe out all life in the universe? And to top that off, their war begins by finding an unmanned cargo freighter transporting fruit to another planet about 20 years before the war ends?

Fail.
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Fixed. Wiping out all life in the universe? How is that a "drawn out history" if you know all there is to know about it already?
 
Xevrex said:
The Covenant from the Halo series has a much more obvious and cliched history than the Combine. A union of different species of aliens, all bonded by a religion that believes in activating weapons that wipe out all life in the universe? And to top that off, their war begins by finding an unmanned cargo freighter transporting fruit to another planet about 20 years before the war ends?

lol.
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Fixed again.
 
Xevrex said:
The Covenant from the Halo series has a much more drawn-out history than the Combine. A union of different species of aliens, all bonded by a religion that believes in activating weapons that wipe out all life in the universe? And to top that off, their war begins by finding an unmanned cargo freighter transporting fruit to another planet about 20 years before the war ends?
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I felt like an ass while writing that, but all in all it is my opinion and you don't have to accept it. Don't bash on my opinion or I'll do the same.
 
Xevrex said:
The Covenant from the Halo series has a much more drawn-out history than the Combine. A union of different species of aliens, all bonded by a religion that believes in activating weapons that wipe out all life in the universe? And to top that off, their war begins by finding an unmanned cargo freighter transporting fruit to another planet about 20 years before the war ends?
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I really don't think this comment shows anything that the covenant has on the combine. We know next to nothing about the combine while we already know everything about the covenant. A discussion like this fails because theres absolutely no way to know. The only thing we do know about the combine is that we haven't seen nothing yet. Remember, the seven hour war was just that. All of earth taken over by the combine in seven hours. though they might have already be in disarray from the Xenian invasion, the combine kicked all of our asses in just hours. it took the covenant at least days to do the same to earth. there were still underground human operations running, though Halo's earth was completely overrun, but the combine only stopped our destruction because we bargained with them, They don't need us for ANYTHING. The covenant need humans, apparently,
because humans are forerunner, and only they can activate the rings.
The combine could wipe their asses with us and flush us away and never need us again. Don't forget that if the combine teleported into the covenant capitol that the covenant would be completely ****ed, cause look what chief was able to do on his own, he completely ****ed that place up on his own. If soldiers and headcrabs infested the capitol, covenant = ****ed.

I just got a unique visual of a zombie grunt... Zombie brutes would be horrifying, and I don't want to think of fast zombie brutes... So, in all, half-life > halo. (In the sense of enemies.)
 
Van_Halen said:
I really don't think this comment shows anything that the covenant has on the combine. We know next to nothing about the combine while we already know everything about the covenant. A discussion like this fails because theres absolutely no way to know. The only thing we do know about the combine is that we haven't seen nothing yet. Remember, the seven hour war was just that. All of earth taken over by the combine in seven hours. though they might have already be in disarray from the Xenian invasion, the combine kicked all of our asses in just hours. it took the covenant at least days to do the same to earth. there were still underground human operations running, though Halo's earth was completely overrun, but the combine only stopped our destruction because we bargained with them, They don't need us for ANYTHING. The covenant need humans, apparently,
because humans are forerunner, and only they can activate the rings.
The combine could wipe their asses with us and flush us away and never need us again. Don't forget that if the combine teleported into the covenant capitol that the covenant would be completely ****ed, cause look what chief was able to do on his own, he completely ****ed that place up on his own. If soldiers and headcrabs infested the capitol, covenant = ****ed.

I just got a unique visual of a zombie grunt... Zombie brutes would be horrifying, and I don't want to think of fast zombie brutes... So, in all, half-life > halo. (In the sense of enemies.)
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I misunderstood what it meant by drawn-out history.
 
I prefer to fight enemies who aren't total morons that don't understand the laws of electromagnetism.
 
Druckles said:
Like whom?
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I'm fairly sure that plenty of sci-fi adversaries understand electromagnetism, Druckles.

If you're asking why I think that the Covenant don't understand the laws of electromagnetism, it's because they don't. All their tech is maintained by a bioengineered slave race that doesn't know how to use scientific principles, but instead work by instinct. They don't even know enough to make their plasma weapons actually work better, despite Cortana figuring it out within moments. I'm talking about something that happened in one of the novels, btw. It was a scene where she worked out how to make how to make the magnets that shoot the plasma work teh betterz.
 
Oh, right, you were talking about the Covenant. I never followed the Halo storyline quite as well as that of Half-Life. One day I'm going to play all three games through fully :/
 
The Empire in Star Wars, while they had the Sith on their side, seemed pretty weak otherwise. Seriously, the stormtroopers were almost comical in their ineptitude (but they did manage to hit the broad side of a planet).

The Covenant seem pretty tough, but they were fighting an army of marines that, besides the Master Chief, also seemed pretty weak (although Johnson was a badass). Gordon could have pushed over the marines of that universe. In that universe the Flood were, in my opinion, the deadlier foe (especially when you consider the only containment option).

The Borg gave me somewhat of a sense of dread (and they weren't really 'defeated' if I remember correctly). When the Borg were in town, you didn't tangle with them, you got the F out. I guess they're about on par with the Cylons, but the Cylons seem less menacing somehow.

The Combine seem pretty tough too, but as mentioned before, we don't know much about them. The 7-hour war makes it seem like they're basically invincible, and we didn't get to see their real might in battle (heck, they might not have sent in everything they have). I don't get a sense of dread from the Combine, more a sense of, 'these guys wish they had the augmentation skills of the Strogg. Please hold while I kill your Strider with a few RPGs.' Harvester vs. Strider? Now that I think about it however, the Advisors are a problem. If Valve shows us more about what the Combine are really capable of, they may get my vote (although I do think the Flood could take the Combine with a quickness.)
 
It's hard to compare the super-enemies from different "movie-universes". Each one had a different reason for being what it was. The Empire was much stronger in Episode Three than it appeared to be in the next chronological movie, for example, so you have to look at it relatively. The Empire had the ability to destroy planets almost instantly, and if you take into account the expanded universe, they'll appear to be slightly more terrifying than they were in the films. The whole Star Wars universe is rather childish itself when compared with Star Trek, so it's no surprise that the Borg fill you with more dread. Half-Life, as Valve have said, is not a child's fantasy, so people don't come back to life. People die. It's that realism which adds a lot to the Borg and the Combine and takes a lot from the Empire.

For any FPS to be possible, the hero (you) must be able to take on all those hordes, dumbing down the enemy significantly.

Plus jedi are just so awesome they make the Empire look like puppy dogs :/
 
Xevrex said:
The Covenant from the Halo series has a much more drawn-out history than the Combine. A union of different species of aliens, all bonded by a religion that believes in activating weapons that wipe out all life in the universe? And to top that off, their war begins by finding an unmanned cargo freighter transporting fruit to another planet about 20 years before the war ends?
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Please do not bring Halo into this...I might just start a very large rant about why Halo is crap and overrated and why Half life is neither.
 
I rather think stormtroopers are more scary than the lame Borg zombies. They were only cool in TNG.

"I will now shuffle towards you slowly while you shoot your piddly phaser at me".

Please consider that the Flood are only a threat because the forces that opposed them were complete morons. Forerunner or Covenant, utter morons. Any competent foe that faced them in their weak spore form would just hang back and torch them from the distance.

(And what is The Toaster in your sig, Drucks?)
 
The flood, Covenant etc are all just crap enemies, they are terrible to fight and have almost no background what-so-ever.

In conclusion, Halo sucks balls, Half Life does not.
 
Force battle between the Emperor and a Advisor, interesting.
Sky-net, good but nah.
Can Doctor Who count or is that just a no fly-zone?
 
Flying over Doctor Who territory is legal, but I would advice against, it hasnt exactly got the best enemies now has it.

A Dalek is shown as so evil - Fire an RPG off it
A Cyberman is a walking peice of metal - again with the RPG
And so on and so forth...



But a force/telekinetic battle between the Emporer and an Advisor would be interesting... For instance, they are both old, green and wrinkley and they both float around like idiots.
 
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