Halo pretty much marked a precedent on local multiplayer. It's even great to this day as I can attest when I played with my friend the multiplayer of the first game with a friend before going to Belgium.
If you want to get into Halo, start with the first game (can be the original of remake) and go to the rest of the games in the order of release. It might help you if you don't feel like playing other games and maybe distract you for once of Mass Effect :P
I remember reading your entry of Halo 2 on your favorite games and very much agreeing even if I didn't comment.
Warfare ain't something pretty and though Halo never explores much of the morality of the conflict (atleast in the games, I think the comics and books do it), it certainly shows the despair and results from the intergalactic war and doesn't pull an "America, fuck yeah" attitude like you said.
If I had a son, I also wouldn't have a problem with him playing Halo as long as he understands the differences between fantasy and reality.
Speaking of CoD, I pretty much learned thanks to Zero Punctuation that CoD: Ghost made South America the enemy and I come from Colombia. I haven't played the game, so I don't know if it's overly ofensive, but it shows that the developers are either too lazy, are trying to offend everybody or are really bigots.
Not the first FPS I had played, but it's the first FPS I had ever bought.
They would have to take all the violence and sex and it'll be imposible either way due to the propertie, but I think a LEGO Game of Thrones would be interesting and it helps that it also has a big cast of characters and many stories to tell.
Good luck with your series.
Since i'm not good with acronyms, which LoL is the one you're refering to?
And another film I need to watch. Just so you know, Larry Flynt is played by Woody Harrelson, aka Haymitch from The Hunger Games, aka Tallahase from Zombieland (or twinkie maniac as I invented right now), aka, one of the protagonists from that new tv show, True Detective.
I didn't know about this until I saw on my Iphone the title of your blog. Very sad indeed.
Rest in peace Mr Ramis. Atleast I hope he reunites in an afterlife with other legends like Leslie Nielsen and Jon Belushi.
I just play for fun and inmersion, so i'm not really one for the competitive side. However, I do have exceptions; they are Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Skullgirls and BlazBlue.
