Topic: Pure Xbox Game Club - Halo 2 (Nov)

@trev666
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@themightyant Many thanks for that most appreciated

@trev666 I can see what you are saying, so in ME1 and 3 most of the missions are based on the overall story arc it's fair to say. Whilst in 2, the recruitment is a smorgasbord of different story styles not necessarily based on the destination. I can see that.

In that sense it's a bit more like a mini series than a film. I enjoy that, you can knock off a couple of missions after work and then a few at the weekend. Before the big crescendo.

As for fem-shep the voice actors performance is better imo. Much better.

Anyhow I'm not writing about ME1 so will leave it there.

@trev666 use spoiler tags e.g

Edit: woops, I missed that a whole new page had started on this thread that I hadn't read yet! Carry on.

@themightyant

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I'm sure you know (IMG)(/IMG) already

And you can also make links but this occasionally makes people look like a spam bot lol:

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Weirdly I actually use asterisks for bold and (em)(/em) tags for italics

Bold can also be done with (strong)(/strong)

I wanted to share some screenshots...

Mako Madness:






^Mako vs. Shifty Looking Cow

Landscapes:

This last one is a blue star but it looks like the planet carries on behind it as if it is sitting in a well in the planets surface...

First Contacts:

^ New Party Member - Class: Thief

Other shots:

^Strange New Worlds

^Ant-Man or the Wasp

^Standing on the edge of tomorrow, today

^Mother of Dragons

^Mother of Dragons II

@ralphdibny These are great! I haven't really used the photo mode in this game but you make me wish I had! I didn't even know that "shifty looking cow" creature existed, and how did you make the Mako fly so high! lol Well done.

@themightyant cheers! I can't say what days I took some of those Mako photos but I seem to remember thinking about the criticisms about the inflexibility of the Mako as I was lining a few of them up. Mostly I just flung the Mako off of high peaks using a combination of boost and thrusters!

Find the shifty looking cow! There is one in a herd of them that is actually called Shifty Looking Cow (says so when you look at it). If you go up to it and look at it, it freezes. Turn the camera around and look away, turn it back and look at it and you will see it edging closer until it freezes again. If you look away and let it get really close then it does something to you...

little things like the shifty looking cow or the prothean artifact on Eletarnia are some of the little things that make mass effect great

@themightyant it is definitely an unpopular oppinion but I agree with @trev666. ME2 is a fantastic game with many good companions but I really disliked cerberus, the ilusive man and Miranda which brings it to the back of the rank.
P.s: I also don't have a problem with ME3 ending and actually in game I had the biggest screw up on the whole series (One of my lovers killed herself after I f upped on a more diplomatic way of solving the issues at hand)

Great to see a lot of engagement this month with Mass Effect Legendary Edition. I haven’t had the time to join unfortunately. But the first Mass Effect is one of my all-time favourite games (and one of my most replayed games). Is the Legendary version of 1 a big improvement? I might have to go through it. I didn’t understand the excitement for the Legendary release because all the games are backwards compatible.

And just while i’m here, the first is my favourite of the trilogy. I just really loved the world building, it had an extremely strong antagonist in my opinion, and I liked how it felt more like a Bioware RPG than the other 2.

Perhaps if you were on PS3 and played Mass Effect 2 first that would be your favourite just because it would have been your introduction to the world.

I would rank the games; 1,2,3,Andromeda… with 1 being the best. So progressively worse lol, but I would still encourage people who like the trilogy to try Andromeda. It is still a good game (and mostly fixed now I believe), just not Mass Effect 4.

Had to have a short break from the game because I went to Cornwall this weekend. Coming back tomorrow so I'm hoping to polish it off over the coming days. Last time I played, I had just started Virmire with every side quest up to that point completed.

@ralphdibny not long to go now then just a couple more hours

@trev666 probably longer, knowing me! 😅 Would be good to finish it today though 🤞

@ralphdibny I have played this game about a dozen times and never found the "shifty looking cow". I have seen the creatures but must have just driven right past them lol

now everyone seems to refer to Ashley as a racist to my knowledge shes a xenophobe which is different

@trev666 to be fair there is not much of a difference in personalities between those two types of characters

but there is an important distinction racists think they are superior while xenophobes dont like anything that is strange or foreign. Ashley doesnt believe shes better than Alien species she doesnt like or trust them which i would say is xenophobic

@TuckNorris85 haha fair enough, spoiler alert: he steals your credits when you are not looking

@trev666 that's an interesting distinction you make actually. On earth in the present non fictional time, I always thought of racists as people who didn't like other people with a different colour skin and I thought of xenophobes as anyone who dislikes people from other countries. The terms seem to be used interchangeably in the news and media though. I always thought the superiority thing was specific to a subset of either racists or xenophobes rather than a defining characteristic of either.

I believe either Ashley or Kaiden themselves do actually say at one point, something along the lines of "I mean, I'm not racist or anything" which is probably where players are getting their terminology from. The line stuck out to me because I also thought the use of the word racist was a bit odd but I guess the generalised vocabulary is probably just reflective of the year and galactic society that the characters live in

Just FYI, it looks like next month's game is going to be Dead Space unless we get any more votes.

Brutal Legend -
Conker's Bad Fur Day/Live & Reloaded - 1 (Balta666,
Crysis -
Dead Space - 3 (WCB, lookupmore, Grail_Quest,
Fable Anniversary -
The Gunk -
Hades -
Halo Wars -
It takes two - 1 (WCB,
Kameo: Elements of Power -
Maneater - 1 (themightyant ,
Marvel Avengers -
Ninja Gaiden Sigma
One step closer to Eden -
Ori and the Will of the Wisps - 1 (Clankylad,
Perfect Dark -
Rage -
Sable -
Skul: The Hero Slayer -
Sniper Elite 5 - 2 (themightyant, Lavalera
Trek to Yomi - 2 (WCB, R1spam,
Tunic - 2 (TuckNorris85, xMightyMatt14x,
Undertale - 1 (Balta666,
Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus -
Yoku's Island Express - 2 (Balta666, lookupmore,

I'm also probably going to knock a few games off that list that haven't been voted for. You can still vote for them and I'll add them back to the list, its just a bit of housekeeping really