Quote:Geist, Nintendo’s attempt at a solid, exclusive first-person shooter, has officially gone gold, according to the developer’s web site. In Geist, you play as a spirit who has to kill to [insert generic shooter storyline here]. The gimmick is your power to possess other characters - from soldiers to dogs to (if I recall the E3 demo correctly) dog bowls. It has all the features of a game that might help Nintendo with the older crowd – blood and gore, partial nudity, multiplayer. Then again, games like Killer 7, Resident Evil 4, and Metroid Prime haven’t helped much. Either way, this is a unique twist on the overused stealth games; hopefully the game quality will fall somewhere between Splinter Cell and Batman Begins.
Quote: "Once again, the ESRB has failed our parents," Yee enraged. "This particular game has been known to include extremely heinous acts of violence, and now it has been uncovered that the game also includes explicit sexual scenes that are inappropriate for our children."
Quote: "I have urged the ESRB on numerous occasions to rate this game AO based on its blatantly graphic nature," he continued. "Clearly the ESRB has a conflict of interest in rating these games... Parents cannot trust the ESRB to rate games appropriately or the industry to look out for our children's best interests."
Quote:The mod's author, Patrick Wildenborg had told the press that his code adds no new content to the game, but unlocks what is already on the disc.
"If Rockstar Games denies that, then they're lying and I will be able to prove that," Wildenborg wrote. "My mod does not introduce anything to the game. All the content that is shown was already present on the DVD."
Quote: "The disturbing material in 'Grand Theft Auto' and other games like it is stealing the innocence of our children, and it's making the difficult job of being a parent even harder," Clinton said.
Too bad you're not around much anymore to see this. Probably just as well, since we don't have a birthday image for the three females who have posted here.
I've always wanted to read the Heir to the Empire trilogy by Zahn, but by the time I decided to read it, the first book had been out of print for some years... every book store I went to didn't have it...but I finally found one lonely copy sitting at the Barnes & Noble in Dartmouth, and I am finally about to embark upon it. I also picked up "The Ten Thousand", by Michael Curtis Ford---which also looks very promising... hopefully it'll be like "Gates of Fire", by Steven Pressfield, which is without doubt one of the best novels I've ever read.
I'm finishing up my first Ben Bova sci-fi book, "Jupiter." Anyone else here ever read anything by him?
I'm posting this here to make sure that it's seen. It can be moved to the appropriate forum later.
So we've been thinking about ways to get new members which is almost impossible since people can't find us. I got to thinking what about joining a webring? So I looked around and Webring.com seems to be the most popular. If you search for Nintendo on their site you get several Nintendo webrings. Some of which have many listed sites. It would be one way to get new members and all you'd have to do is put the webrings banner on the site.
The other possibility is a banner exchange program. There seem to be a lot of those so we'd have to try and find a good one.
Just throwing some ideas out there so tell me what you think.
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