So, as anyone who's completed TVG will know, Shandor Island appears to be pumping out slime. According to Ray, that slime is the same stuff from Ghostbusters 2 and ‘explains how it got into the sewers’.

So… are we to take it that the events of GB2, and once again, the responsibility of Shandor?

I too wish that they'd of elaborated more on this.

I think that was the inference… which I thought was pretty sweet. It makes Shandor that much more insane and dangerous, that he was behind not only Gozer, but another paranormal attack that was completely unrelated to Gozer.

I thought that was a cool bit of backstory and like has been said, made Shandor that much more dangerous in the long run. It'd be cool if TVG's sequel (if it happens) explored this plot point some more.

I hate this idea, myself.

For all the talk about how derivative GB2 was (and it was) one thing it did right was have a villian with no connection to Gozer. Now they tried to retcon one in.

The other reason is that it makes Vigo look a lot weaker–now we find out he couldn't even generate his own psychomagnetheric slime? He just had to piggyback his plan off of someone else?

I've come to greater appreciation, the last couple of years, to JMS's decree in the RGB writer's bible to “forget about Gozer. He's history.” I definitely liked it better when every villain didn't have to be Gozer's father, or concubine, or minion, or Scottish redneck cousin.

Doc Fritz;158532
I hate this idea, myself.

For all the talk about how derivative GB2 was (and it was) one thing it did right was have a villian with no connection to Gozer. Now they tried to retcon one in.

The other reason is that it makes Vigo look a lot weaker–now we find out he couldn't even generate his own psychomagnetheric slime? He just had to piggyback his plan off of someone else?

I've come to greater appreciation, the last couple of years, to JMS's decree in the RGB writer's bible to “forget about Gozer. He's history.” I definitely liked it better when every villain didn't have to be Gozer's father, or concubine, or minion, or Scottish redneck cousin.

I do get your point here, and I agree with it in most scenarios. The thing that I liked about this was that it isn't really connecting Vigo to Gozer. Its connecting Vigo to Ivo Shandor. There's no actual relationship with Vigo and Gozer. I mean you could consider them to almost be different chess pieces in Shandor's game. They're not related in a family sense, which is what I like about it.

What confuses me, is a key premise of GB2, was that the citizens of New York sort of generated the slime itself, it was bad vibes manifesting under the city. Most likely caused by Vigo.

But TVG would suggest it was pumped into NY, and then sort of… codified by all the negativity in the city.

Come to think of it though, there was no implicit connection between Vigo and the slime made, other than circumstantial stuff, we never saw him USE it perse… maybe it simply allowed him to increase his grip on this world…

C'mon Fritz… this be your territory.

The slime that appeared in his portrait stands to upset that bit of rationale, sadly.

That being said, I'm creatively interpretting it as referring to the slime that was in the tunnels beneath the museum with the Gozer exhibit, and not a remark about the rivers of pink slime in 1989.

I am too lazy to repost this from an arguement:

JamesCGamora
From my remembrance, they never straight-out said that a single event in the game was a connection between Vigo and Gozer. They did however insinuate, via a character who, in all honesty, compared to the others didn’t know better…but nothing more. Insinuations and hints of this nature can either be accepted or ignored by the fan base or future writers…I mean look at Marvel comics. For the longest time it was insinuated that Sabertooth was the father of Wolverine…and look how that ended up

My point is, until it is written as fact in canon later, it is not

Doc Fritz;158532
The other reason is that it makes Vigo look a lot weaker–now we find out he couldn't even generate his own psychomagnetheric slime? He just had to piggyback his plan off of someone else?

I felt that way too. Implying that the slime was actually an outside force in the events of GB2 was the only big problem I had with the game's story.