Want to enhance your Xbox Game Pass experience? Come join the official Pure Xbox Game Club!
We can't take any credit on staff for this — the PX Game Club is the work of ralphdibny and the rest of the contributors over at the Pure Xbox forums, who have established a community that meets up every month to play a game on Xbox Game Pass and share their experiences. Games are voted on every month by the contributors involved.
The game for June 2022 is Mass Effect Legendary Edition, which is available as part of EA Play. The intent is to play through the first game only, although feel free to move onto the second and third games if you want to!
You'll find the forum thread to get involved below (it has over 1,650 entries to date!):
If you're interested in what kind of discussion goes on, here's an example of what one contributor had to say about last month's Pure Xbox Game Club title, Life Is Strange: True Colors:
"Haven Springs and its residents really felt like a community. I was thinking about this some more and while many places within games are memorable how many actually get this aspect right, not many I'd wager. The actual footprint of the game, the area you can walk around, is tiny. Mostly half a high street with a couple of buildings and alleys you can go into, plus a couple of mostly unimportant areas you visit once as a plot device.
However visiting them and their residents repeatedly really built up that sense of place and community through simple game design. It reminds me of Yakuza's Kamurocho or even, to a lesser extent, earlier GTAs like 3 and Vice City before world size became the defining factor and we hardly returned to the same place twice, Grove Street excepted. Often less is more and density of the world over expansiveness can be a good thing. Smaller developers in particular can leverage this to their advantage in some games."
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Everyone should play this trilogy. It’s the best narrative experience I ever had - with rich lore to rival Star Wars in my opinion.
Woop woop woop, still in the big leagues! 😃
Not sure if I will repost this every month but it might be useful if we attract more faces....
It will be one game a month with the first Mass Effect on the Legendary Edition as our current game
Play the game at your own pace and discuss it there!
We normally choose the games from game pass ultimate
You don't have to join in every month
You can play on any platform you like if you have the game there and/or don't have game pass: PC, Xbox, even PlayStation, Switch or Commodore 64 (if available). It will be interesting to see if the experiences are different across platforms in terms of performance or features. You could even play an original version of a game if we are playing a remake! (Some users at PushSquare played the original resident evil 2 over the remake as their monthly game a little while back)
Discussion and light tangents are also allowed (catch ups with other users, discussions on related games and past game club games).
Please use spoiler tags if you are discussing plot or key moments in the game! You do so by typing [spoiler] insert text here [ /spoiler] without the space between [ and /
We don't carry votes for games over from the previous month's when voting for next month's game. The reason for this is that people's schedules change or somebody might drop off the face of the earth so it would kinda suck if an absent user's old vote is counted toward a month they won't be participating in. All votes start from Zero every month. - you vote by posting the name of the game you want to play in the thread and tagging me @ralphdibny
We don't repeat games, there is a list in Post #1 of the games we have played as part of the club in the past so they won't be available to vote for again in future. Other than those games, feel free to throw suggestions out (in the thread) and I will add them to the list of possibilities.
It should go without saying that people should be respectful of other people's opinions if they choose to join in. We are all wired differently and are free to think what we want without making other people feel bad about what they think. I am sure we are all fairly passionate about video games even if the intricacies of our passions don't fully line up. I think we are a good bunch though anyway so I think everybody will be welcoming to new faces!
Let me know if you want to be added to (or removed from) the tag list for the thread. It's basically just a list of usernames that I copy and paste into the announcement posts so that everybody gets a notification when we change game. I normally only use the tag list once a month but I will occasionally use it a second or third time if there is either a tie for votes between two games or if we need to vote on something additional to the next monthly game.
Other than that, pop over, see what it's all about. Relax, enjoy and discuss some games with the rest of us. Welcome!
I really enjoyed the remake of 1 but for whatever reason I can't stand two you just feel pushed down narrow corridors with stupid ammo limits that make the game unfun for me. I know that is going to be an unpopular opinion I just do not like 2. I actually enjoyed andromeda more.
@VisitingComet1 definitely and unpopular oppinion but I was also disapointed with it. Firstly I feel I am the only One that quite liked the gameplay of the original (at least on PC) where after leveling up a bit I was a monster with the sniper with unlimited ammo as MS1 has cooldown instead of ammo. But my biggest complain is the setting, I really dislike the cerberus and the ilusive man, and even Amanda and the other first dude are boring characters.
P.s: Andromeda is amazing and in terms of narrative and characters I like it almost as much as the OG.
@Balta666 ya I felt like Andromeda got a bum rap so it had some weird face textures or whatever. The combat was amazing I had a ton of fun with it.
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