: Josh Holmes actually said "if we had chosen to pursue the flood, if that
: would have entered into the story somehow, we would have had to do some
: major re-invention of what that encounter would play out like." So by
: his own words, he's talking more about the encounters and play experiences
: than a re-invention of the Flood itself.

: I kind of agree with that though honestly. The Flood as a character is
: interesting, but the encounters are quite monotonous. The only thing
: interesting about the Flood encounters is not always knowing if you
: finished them off or not.

: - MacGyver10
I think Bungie had the right intent with the Pire forms but in practice they turned the predictable Flood into the really aggravating Flood. Getting pinned down by ranged forms was not fun.

There's still plenty of room to expand on them, though, and Forerunner trilogy gave some nice expansion.