skankerzero;151411
everyone is entitled to their own opinion, that's fine.

I'm sure there are plenty of fans and people who absolutely hate this game. There's nothing wrong with that. Can't make everyone happy.

If there's one thing you can't hate about the game is that it's providing a rebirth for the franchise. That in itself should be a reason to love it as a fan.

I want to have your babies!

Everyone keeps saying shandors final form is lame but i mean come on if you were a guy who worshiped demons and monsters what kind of form would you wanna be a cute bunny i mean come on i think is final form was well picked.

I would gladly choose a cute bunny…cuz no one suspects the BUNNY!!!!!!!! BWAHAHAHA

seriously, I liked his Destructor form.

Doctor Venkman;151405
Then the wording you're looking for is “the only reason I even liked this game a little bit”, not “the only reason I liked this game as much as I did”. “As much as I did” implies that you like it quite a bit.



See, now you just look foolish. You have absolutely nothing to back this up and you just proved that that all you want to do is bash the game for whatever reason. That's a shame.

I might not work at TR but I was around last fall when they had released screenshots of the game/most of the major details. Everything that was revealed to us then looks the same way as it does now. For the past 4 months they have been doing a media tour with the game, teasing it. I am a “gamer” and I have followed games from concept phase to development to release. I just don't see the evolution of the game as I've seen with other games… They were going to release it in October 2008, so do you REALLY think they needed 8-9 months just to “spit polish” it? If they had, the game would be alot more “polished” than it is.

One more time, I don't hate the game or think it's a piece of crap just because there are things about it that I criticize. I just think that it's rediculous to consider this as GB3. Non GBfans HATE Gb2 because it is just a retread of Gb1. My point is that “Gb3” is even worse. It's like they just went back and tweaked a few things and gave us the same movie again.

If you went to the threatre to see Gb3 and it was just a retread of Gb1 with the same bad guy (Gozer), the same cliches of shutting down the CU, crossing the streams and Walter Peck, recycling catchphrases from the first movie, using the EXACT same score, the same locations, the re use of Alice/Slimer/Staypuft wouldn't you be a little mad? Personally, I'd start screaming at the screen! As I said before, I would accept this game if it were an adaptation of GB1 and GB2. It works a lot better as GB 1.5 than it does as GB3. It's insulting to us fans that this is supposed to be a third movie…

And Jay, the quote is “no one suspects the butterfly”…

StayinPuft;151424
And Jay, the quote is “no one suspects the butterfly”…

I am fully aware of the Simpsons quote… I wasn't reffering to that… I wasn't really reffering to anything specific…

And we get it, you feel the game is just a retread, that they didn't put enough/any effort into story, lines, etc…

good for you.

Jay, the correct quote is “Opinions are like a…”

Oh wait. Forget it.

Ok, reading through this thread from page 2 on has been a interesting rollercoaster.

then theres this….

skankerzero;151311
final cut scene is 1:30 seconds long.

Seriously I was annoyed by how short the ending was, and already its been commented on elsewhere that the ending felt rushed. If you want to know what was better in the ending department……the Stylized version had a longer ending, and even offered a mini game of blast slimer while going through the credits. But I'm nick picking.

However, addressing some of StayinPuft's comments…… I don't agree with the whole “its GB 1.5 thing”. It offers a good deal of new ghosts and such, showing in finer detail the class system, and as for the Gozer thing, seriously Ivo Shandor being the final boss was and the dialog says was really fun. I was happy with the story, as it tied GB and GB2 together better (Slime Labs), and built on the Gozer/Ivo Mytho.

I'll admit it, I started seeing the details coming out a year and half ago, and I had worries that it would be a retread of GB. However, the game did a good job at pleasing me on many levels, and on the areas it didn't (lack of RGB) it was explained and I wasn't shocked.

technically speaking, and I know cause I've been technical for years, it would have been Ghostbusters 2.5 not 1.5 cause 1.5 would have meant it happened between Ghostbusters 1 and 2. I would have prefered a Ghostbusters 2 3/4 though, anyway to suggest a release of that skankerzero?

It is absolutely a GB “3” considering that it is a new storyline. Just because that storyline is centered on expanding material we've already touched upon does NOT make it a retread, and anyone who says different is clearly LOOKING for things to be unhappy about.

That's what a trilogy might do. Typically, a trilogy is a series of three things that tie in to each other, nut just three stories with the same characters or what-not. Hence why the second, third and fourth Star Trek films are considered a trilogy, because together, they comprise a storyline unto themselves that are unrelated to the first, fifth and sixth Star Trek films (The Genesis project and its aftermath). Similarly, the Back to the Future films are a trilogy because they are all actually connected to each other outside of just having the same characters/environments/events/what-have-you. A series of “threes” are typically labeled a “trilogy” these days, when it seems that the term is only supposed to apply to three specifically interconnected stories.

Since the GB game finishes off the legacy of Ivo Shandor (and retroactively involves Vigo and the events of GB2 as more Shandor-related occurances), it really ties the first two films and the game together as a Ivo Shandor-related trilogy. Again, because the Game revists things that were touched upon in the first film doesn't make it a retread. If the game was a “best of” of scenes of the first/second film (like GB Doom was), then these comments would hold water. But because the game isn't, the comments don't.

Really. Since when was expanding on the pre-established considered re-hashing? The argument can be made the revisiting Shandor was purely for nostolgic purposes and Shandor as a threat didn't need to be revisted, but who gives a damn? If you're really going to complain about expansion of what you've only briefly seen, then you're less a fan and more a nitpicky, impossible-to-please fanboy.

I, for one, loved the idea to further explore Ivo Shandor, because as I said earlier, it makes a neat trilogy out of the two films and this game. Sure, GB2 being included retroactively is a bit hasty, but why not? It lends new weight to the previous two films when I've watched them again after playing the game. The game was not just a shot in the arm to the franchise's future potential, but it sheds new light on the franchise's previous entries.

Egon Spengler;151453
It is absolutely a GB “3” considering that it is a new storyline. Just because that storyline is centered on expanding material we've already touched upon does NOT make it a retread, and anyone who says different is clearly LOOKING for things to be unhappy about.

That's what a trilogy might do. Typically, a trilogy is a series of three things that tie in to each other, nut just three stories with the same characters or what-not. Hence why the second, third and fourth Star Trek films are considered a trilogy, because together, they comprise a storyline unto themselves that are unrelated to the first, fifth and sixth Star Trek films (The Genesis project and its aftermath). Similarly, the Back to the Future films are a trilogy because they are all actually connected to each other outside of just having the same characters/environments/events/what-have-you. A series of “threes” are typically labeled a “trilogy” these days, when it seems that the term is only supposed to apply to three specifically interconnected stories.

Since the GB game finishes off the legacy of Ivo Shandor (and retroactively involves Vigo and the events of GB2 as more Shandor-related occurances), it really ties the first two films and the game together as a Ivo Shandor-related trilogy. Again, because the Game revists things that were touched upon in the first film doesn't make it a retread. If the game was a “best of” of scenes of the first/second film (like GB Doom was), then these comments would hold water. But because the game isn't, the comments don't.

Really. Since when was expanding on the pre-established considered re-hashing? The argument can be made the revisiting Shandor was purely for nostolgic purposes and Shandor as a threat didn't need to be revisted, but who gives a damn? If you're really going to complain about expansion of what you've only briefly seen, then you're less a fan and more a nitpicky, impossible-to-please fanboy.

I, for one, loved the idea to further explore Ivo Shandor, because as I said earlier, it makes a neat trilogy out of the two films and this game. Sure, GB2 being included retroactively is a bit hasty, but why not? It lends new weight to the previous two films when I've watched them again after playing the game. The game was not just a shot in the arm to the franchise's future potential, but it sheds new light on the franchise's previous entries.

*Stands and claps*

THANK YOU! Great post. StayinPuft you obvious nit picks really don't make sense like many have said before me. I mean you DID say you went to fight satan, which sounded stupid. I mean yes, he did look like him, but only because of his horns to me. He was evil and worshiped demons, like said above, so it fit. Then you go on about retread. Please. This storyline would rock in a movie adaptation and would blow our minds. Gargoyles, MANY types of ghosts, huge and wonderfully detailed places like the underground of the museum (that in full cgi would be bad ass). Yes Stay Puft is in there, but if you paid attention it is Gozer which they NEVER destroyed only pushed him back into his dimension. This game/story is GB2.5 for me and really ties everything together. Now I would have added this: make Vigo come back and tie MORE into the game form GB2, but ALOT is from GB2 as the pink slime in multiplayer, the slime blowers and the whole “slime is just more than mucus from a Ghost” idea that GB2 presented. IF they had made Vigo come alive and really had a bad ass fight, that would have been great. I would have replaced the spider witch/queen with Vigo, just a personal choice. Still Egon Spengler hit the nail on the head, you are just a whiny and picky fanboy that won't be satisfied with anything.