So Oryx captures enemies from different races and forces them to fight for him. Sounds like he's the Gravemind and the taken are flood combat forms.
So the question I guess I would ask after that thought would be: Does this formula for a new enemy feel satisfying? or would you like to fight a whole new race?
I think this works given time and budget and limitations (if there are any from last gen consoles) but I hope new games in this franchise introduce some new races to go up against. :)
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No the hive is like the flood
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At least when the Flood took over a host they were mutated to the point of not looking anything like their previous race. The Taken are seriously just high-level palette swaps of the Fallen and Cabal.
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Taken is the equivalent to the Sha from Warcraft's Mist of Pandaria expansion. It's basically a manifestation of negative emotions that mind control races.
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I would have liked to see new enemies. But hopefully these new "taken" forms will somewhat feel like fighting a new race.
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I have all the halo games except Halo 2 and Halo 3 ODST. But the flood was pretty scary in Halo 3.