As a first-person shooter, Geist fails for several reasons. The aiming system is broken, enemy AI is almost non-existent, you have an unlimited amount of ammo, and you only spend about 1/3 of the game with a gun. The reason Geist succeeds is because it isn't, stricly speaking, a true first-person shooter. Most of your time is spent solving puzzles and using your ghostly powers to move ahead rather than blasting everything that shows up in front of you.
The graphics in Geist aren't anything great, in fact it is often rather sub-par compared to other recent console games. However, it has a nice attention to detail and a decent art design that keeps the overall look of the game from suffering too much due to lacking technicals.
The controls don't work too well during shootouts since the aiming is hard to work properly, but the shooting aspect of the game is very muted and aside from a few places and some boss battles you won't spend much time concentrating on the downsides of the controls. For everything else it works just fine.
Were Geist really shines is in the gameplay. You constantly have to stop and think about your next move: what person [or animal] you'll need to get to the next area and how you're going to scare them enough to make use of them. If it weren't for this part of the game, Geist would just be another below-average shooter. With it however, Geist is a game that has it's flaws, but when it focuses on what it does best, it can be a lot of fun.
Don't let the low reviews frighten you away from this game. Once I figured out how it worked, I started having a lot of fun.
-Battalion Wars
-Geist
-Meteos
-Advance Wars DS
-Norelco electric shaver
-M [Criterion Collection]
-Le Samourai [Criterion Collection]
-Ikiru [Criterion Collection]
-Cromartie High School volume 4
-Star Wars Trilogy Box Set
-Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
-The Third Policeman
-Knife of Dreams
-The Best of H.P. Lovecraft
-A bunch of chocolate
-Pizza Hut gift card
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DS
Viewiiful Joe Double Trouble 29.95
9.98
Madden 05
Mr Driller
World Champ Poker
GBA
SpongeBob Battle for Bikini Bottom/Nicktoons Dual Pack-19.95
Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi 19.95
9.98
Ace Combat Advance
Advance Wars 2
Barbie as Princess & the Pauper
Barbie Horse Adv
Battlebots
BeyBlade Grevolution
Boktai 2
Cartoon Network Bundle-includes Block Party (GBA), Cartoon Network Platinum Edition (GBAV), and GBA SP Headphones
DBZ Buu's Fury
Disney's Magical Quest 3
Donkey Kong Classic NES
Donkey Kong Country 2
Elf
FIFA Soccer 05
Final Fantasy 1&2
FZero GP Legend
GBAV For Ho-Oh the Bells Toll
GBAV Pokemon Beach Blank Out
GBAV Pokemon I Choose You
Golden Sun Lost Age
Hamtaro Ham Ham Heartbreak
Hobbit
Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland
Klonoa 2 Dream Champ Tournament
Mario Pinball
MegaMan Battle Network 4 Blue Moon
MegaMan Battle Network 4 Red Sun
MegaMan Blue
MegaMan White
Metal Slug Adv
Ms Pacman Maze Madness
Pacman Pinball
Racing Gears Advance
Rave Master Special Attack Force
Robots
Rugrats All Grown Up
Shaman King Legacy of Spirits: Soaring Hawk
Shaman King Master of Spirits 2
Shaman King: Master of Spirits
THUG
Tokyo Extreme Racer
Tron 2.0
Wario Ware, Inc.:Mega Microgame$
World Champ Poker
WWE Survivor Series
Yu-Yu Hakusho: Spirit Detective
YuGiOh 7 Trials of Glory
PSP
Darkstalkers
Dead 2 Rights
Rengoku
World Soccer Tour
PS1
Crash Bash
Crash Team Racing
NFL Gameday 05
Twisted Metal 4
XBox
NFS Underground 2-19.95
9.98
Amped
Amped 2
Area 51
Bad Boys
Bard's Tale
Blood Rayne 2
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory w/ticket
Close Combat First to Fight
Conflict Vietnam
Conflict: Desert Storm II
Conker
Counter Strike
DOA Ultimate
Doom 3(reg ed)
DragonBall Z Sagas
ESPN MLB
ESPN NBA 2K5
ESPN NFL 2K5
ESPN NHL 2K5
Euro 2004
Fable w/bonus DVD
Fatal Frame 2
FIFA 05
FIFA Street
Fight Night 04
Godzilla Save the Earth
GTA Double Pack(GTA3 and VC)
Gungriffon
Halo 2 LE
Karaoke Revolution(game only)
King of Fighters Maximum Impact Maniax
Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders
LOTR Return of the King
LOTR Third Age
LOTR Two Towers
Major League BB 2K5
Mech Assault 2 LE
Midway Arcade Treasures 2
Mortal Kombat Deception
Mortal Kombat Deception KE
MTV Music Generator 3
NARC
Nascar 05
NBA Live 05
NBA Street vol2
NCAA Football 05
NCAA March Madness 05
NFS 2 HP
NHL 05
Ninja Gaiden
Pariah
Prince of Persia 2
Project Gotham Racing
Project Snowblind
Rainbow Six 3 Black Arrow
Razes Hell
Riddick
Robocop
Rocky Legends
Sid Meir's Pirates
SNK vs Capcom Chaos
Splinter Cell
Strike Force Bowling
SW Clone Wars
Tiger Woods 05
TOCA 2
Top Spin
Trigger Man(up from 4.98)
Trivial Pursuit
Ultra BustAMove X
Unreal Championship 2
World Champ Poker
WWE Wrestlemania XXI
GameCube
9.98
Agent Under Fire
Charlie and Choc Factory w/ticket
DBZ Sagas
Def Jam 2
F-Zero
FIFA Street
Fight Night 2
HP Chamber of Secrets
LOTR Two Towers
Madden 05
Mario Party 4
Mario Party 5
Metroid Prime
MoH Rising Sun
NBA Live 05
NHL 05
Pikmin 2
Pokemon Channel
Resident Evil 4
Sims Bustin Out
Sonic Adventure/DX Combo
Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow
SRS Street Racing Syndicate
Starfox Adventures
Super Monkey Ball 1&2 combo
Tiger Woods 05
Viewtiful Joe 2
Virtua Quest
Wario Ware
Zelda Four Swords
PS2
NFS Underground 2 19.95
9.98
Agent Under Fire
Alien Hominid
Ape Escape Pumped and Primed
ATV Offroad Fury 1
Bad Boys
Bard's Tale
Batman Begins w/ticket
Beatdown
Blood Rayne 2
Champions of Norrath
Cold Winter
Crazy Taxi
Dance Dance Revolution Extreme with Free CD(game only)
Dark Cloud 2
DBZ Budokai 3
DBZ Budokai 3 LE
Death by Degrees
Def Jam Vendetta
Delta Force Blackhawk Down
Digital Devil Saga 1
Dynasty Warriors 5
ESPN College Hoops 2K5
ESPN NBA 2K5
Euro 2004
FIFA 05
Fight Club
Ford Racing
Ghost in the Shell
Haunted Mansion
Haunting Ground
Hitman Contracts
Hot Shots Golf 3
HP Chamber of Secrets
Inellivision Lives(up from 4.98)
Jeopardy
Killer 7
Killzone
King of Fighters Maximum Impact Collector's Edition
Life Line
LOTR ROTK
Max Payne
Metal Slug 4&5
Midway Arcade Treasures 2
Mortal Kombat Deception
MX vs ATV Unleashed
MX World Tour
NBA Live 05
NBA Live 05
NCAA Football 05
NCAA March Madness 05
Neo Contra
NHL 05
Outlaw Golf 2
Pinball HOF(up from 4.98)
Predator
Project Snowblind
Psychonauts
Ratchet and Clank
Rise to Honor
Rocky Legends
Romance of the Three Kingdoms IX
Romance of the Three Kingdoms X
Rumble Roses
Samurai Western
Shaman King: Power of Spirit
Silent Hill 4
Sims
Socom 1(game only)
SRS Street Racing Syndicate
SSX 3
Star Ocean
Tak and Power of JuJu
Tekken 5
Tenchu FS
The Getaway
THUG 2
Tiger Woods 05
TimeSplitters 2
Transformers
True Crime Streets of LA
Viewtiful Joe 2
Winning Eleven 8
World Champ Poker
World Tour Soccer 06
OMG! There are quite a few really good games in there. I'm going to go look for: Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland, Fable w/ bonus DVD, Mortal Kombat Deception KE, Prince of Persia Warrior Within, Resident Evil 4, and Tekken 5. I doubt all of them will be in stock at the only Toys R Us I know of around me, but I'm hoping there at least a couple.
Quote:But so far, so good. The story makes sense. The lion exchanging his life for Edmund's is the sort of thing Arthurian legends are made of. Parfait knights and heroes in prisoner-of-war camps do it all the time. But what's this? After a long, dark night of the soul and women's weeping, the lion is suddenly alive again. Why? How?, my children used to ask. Well, it is hard to say why. It does not make any more sense in CS Lewis's tale than in the gospels. Ah, Aslan explains, it is the "deep magic", where pure sacrifice alone vanquishes death.
Ignoring the Christian allegory why is Aslan's resurrection any more nonsensical than say Gandalf's in LoTR?
Quote:Of all the elements of Christianity, the most repugnant is the notion of the Christ who took our sins upon himself and sacrificed his body in agony to save our souls. Did we ask him to? Poor child Edmund, to blame for everything, must bear the full weight of a guilt only Christians know how to inflict, with a twisted knife to the heart. Every one of those thorns, the nuns used to tell my mother, is hammered into Jesus's holy head every day that you don't eat your greens or say your prayers when you are told. So the resurrected Aslan gives Edmund a long, life-changing talking-to high up on the rocks out of our earshot. When the poor boy comes back down with the sacred lion's breath upon him he is transformed unrecognisably into a Stepford brother, well and truly purged.
Christ's sacrifice is the foundation of Christianity.
Quote:Why? Because here in Narnia is the perfect Republican, muscular Christianity for America - that warped, distorted neo-fascist strain that thinks might is proof of right. I once heard the famous preacher Norman Vincent Peale in New York expound a sermon that reassured his wealthy congregation that they were made rich by God because they deserved it. The godly will reap earthly reward because God is on the side of the strong. This appears to be CS Lewis's view, too. In the battle at the end of the film, visually a great epic treat, the child crusaders are crowned kings and queens for no particular reason. Intellectually, the poor do not inherit Lewis's earth.
Newsflash lady that part is allegory too! It's supposed to represent the crown one gets in heaven.
So I know a few people here watch the greatest show on TV so I thought it was time for a thread dedicated to Arrested Development. What have you guys thought of season 3 so far? I wasn't the biggest fan of the Rita storyline since it focused too much on Michael and Rita and didn't allow the rest of the family to shine. AD is at it's best when every family member is part of the show. That is why I thought the most recent episode, Making a Stand, was the best of the season. Lucille's makeover was frightening, Michael and GOB had their competition with George Michael and Steve Holt, Maeby had to find her movie monster, George Sr. had his Boy Fights videos and took part in the lesson with J. Walter Weatherman, Tobias and Lindsey had their divorce proceedings with Bob Loblaw (Bob Loblaw's law blog ), and, of course, Buster had his awesome lesson at the end of the episode. That last part with Buster really made the episode for me.
Anyway, what is everybody's favorite episode of AD? I would have to say Good Grief from season 2 would be my favorite, but Afternoon Delight and Key Decisions are pretty good too. I'd also say that GOB is my favorite character, but you can't really go wrong picking a favorite character from Arrested Development.
Well, Nintendo has proven that it's not just about graphics. The DS spanked everything else combined. Perhaps Nintendo can reclaim Japan with the Revolution and DS combined...and don't forget they still have a new Gameboy in development.:)
), and, of course, Buster had his awesome lesson at the end of the episode. That last part with Buster really made the episode for me.