Sometimes, shit happens, and who you gunna call? New Ghostbusters game in works (maybe)

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http://www.destructoid.com/new-ghostbusters-game--29260.phtml

This is either test footage or a REAL good fake.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 15 January 2007 06:40 (eighteen years ago)

Looks pretty good. I can see a GTA style game working -- most GTA clones lack GTA's comedy, which this wouldn't (hopefully).

The original game had a lot of good ideas and a few bad ones that ruined it.

― a.b. (alanbanana), Monday, 15 January 2007 06:50 (eighteen years ago)

workplace restricts the web site but a.b your description of it leads me to believe it's going to be like the Spiderman games.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 15 January 2007 13:36 (eighteen years ago)

wow. this looks great ! I would love a good ghostbusters game !
I remember when I played to this one : http://images.google.fr/imgres?imgurl=http://www.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/1050780318-00.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.mobygames.com/game/pc-booter/ghostbusters/cover-art/gameCoverId,20047/&h=865&w=640&sz=84&hl=fr&start=19&tbnid=eVy6CJ8gwvidrM:&tbnh=145&tbnw=107&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dghostbusters%2Bpc%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Dfr%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26channel%3Ds%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:fr:official%26hs%3Dml9%26sa%3DN

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

hmm, i'm not convinced. That gameplay looks kinda dull, got bored just watching that first clip.

There's only so much excitement to be had from wandering around shooting the same ghosts with the same gun.

and what the hell have they done with Ecto 1 ?!!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 09:16 (eighteen years ago)

well, that my be just a part of the action. it could be gta like or something with different kinds of action... dunno.
I'm not to objective with ghoestbusters... fond childhood memories !

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 11:34 (eighteen years ago)

i would prefer to drive around in the original Ecto 1 mobile tho, that thing looks like something from that awful Sega touring cars game.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 11:46 (eighteen years ago)

ITS FAKE DOODS

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

The C64 Ghostbusters game was rad, I remember feeling like a Big Man when I beat it finally.

― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

TEST FOOTAGE AIN'T NECESSARILY FAKE

unless it is.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

cease and desist

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 00:21 (eighteen years ago)

Okay, regardless of whether this is fake or not: fuck this game.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 00:33 (eighteen years ago)

NO WII CONTROLS, NO CREDIBILITY

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 00:42 (eighteen years ago)

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/755/755532p1.html

IT'S A REAL TEST HA HA IN YER FACE CHAKI

(only tied up in licensing, blah)

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 04:36 (eighteen years ago)

cool. might have to get a xbox360 then !

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

I only watched the first vid, so maybe I'm missing something, BUT: Where are the trap thingies??? You don't just ZAP GHOSTIES!!! </mad>

― c('°c) (Leee), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

'cuz it's early proof-of-concept stuff, nothing like an actual finished game.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

Early proof of concept = a fucking unreal mod? i think some of the sound fx were stock

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

OTM about the traps !

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Thursday, 18 January 2007 10:23 (eighteen years ago)

uhh... sure its real..

it's a real fan-company-made rip of Gears with no license

http://www.wii60.com/86/zootfly-responds-ghostbusters-is-real/

at least they're not getting a cease-and-desist like that Chrono Trigger game

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

We'll see.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

FUCK. THIS. GAME. Apparently this can't be said enough.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

SOMEBODY GOT DISAPPOINTED ON THEIR BIRFDAY

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:56 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, the trauma of not knowing which emergency room my wife went to was only compounded by not receiving a shitty game based on a past-its-prime franchise. Got me dead to rights there.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 January 2007 23:37 (eighteen years ago)

http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/1482/threadrockec2.jpg

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 18 January 2007 23:40 (eighteen years ago)

Jeez. Sorry, then, I didn't know.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 19 January 2007 00:28 (eighteen years ago)

It was kind of an unfair comeback, I admit!

(Also I wouldn't have used it if she wasn't okay.)

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Friday, 19 January 2007 03:25 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.4colorrebellion.com/media/pics/07/01/GhostBusters.gif

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 19 January 2007 07:30 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://pc.ign.com/objects/142/14218854.html

Screenies up of new game.

http://www.ghostbustersgame.com/

http://ps3media.ign.com/ps3/image/article/869/869230/ghostbusters-the-video-game-20080424012307965.jpg

― kingfish, Thursday, 26 June 2008 19:55 (seventeen years ago)

ten months pass...

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=214338
is ps2/3/psp exclusive (save the wii version, i guess)
this sucks.

― Neither have you tasted my Jesus (stevie), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 10:20 (sixteen years ago)

its out for DS too, or some Ghostbusters game is anyway

― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 10:20 (sixteen years ago)

So it's semi-brand-exclusive in Europe only? Weird, never heard of a case like that before. It sounds more like Atari just didn't want to bother to ship the 360 version in Europe for whatever reason, if all the other versions are coming out.

― Nhex, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 10:55 (sixteen years ago)

annoying. it says it's a timed exclusive tho so it'll come to 360 in time

― zinguist (cozwn), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 11:30 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

Played this last night. Surprisingly very hard! But a total nostalgia trip for fans of the original movies, the sound effects (especially for the trapping) are just so, so good.

― Nhex, Thursday, 18 June 2009 19:52 (sixteen years ago)

How's Alyssa in it?

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 18 June 2009 20:33 (sixteen years ago)

I didn't even realize it was her until you mentioned it. In the early sections of the game I watched she didn't have that much to do. Besides it's all going to fade under the quips of main cast. (though it was funny to see William Atherton and Brian Doyle Murray back, too)

― Nhex, Thursday, 18 June 2009 20:42 (sixteen years ago)

i rented this

its ok

kinda sad to see venkman spouting such bad one-liners

― s1ocki, Friday, 19 June 2009 03:14 (sixteen years ago)

ah ! so, is it worth buying or not (for a nostalgic fan of the movie) ?

― AleXTC, Friday, 19 June 2009 09:37 (sixteen years ago)

it's a renter imo

i kinda hate all the pke meter stuff, it gives me a headache putting the goggles on and taking them off

― s1ocki, Friday, 19 June 2009 14:34 (sixteen years ago)

Maybe not necessarily for $60... I wasn't a huge superfan of the movies, but I was in a room with three of them, and they all loved it. I agree that it isn't that great strictly by gameplay, but I definitely got a kick out of it.

― Nhex, Friday, 19 June 2009 17:41 (sixteen years ago)

FUCK. THIS. GAME. Apparently this can't be said enough.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Thursday, January 18, 2007 1:59 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
SOMEBODY GOT DISAPPOINTED ON THEIR BIRFDAY

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, January 18, 2007 2:56 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Yes, the trauma of not knowing which emergency room my wife went to was only compounded by not receiving a shitty game based on a past-its-prime franchise. Got me dead to rights there.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Thursday, January 18, 2007 3:37 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― ripnebb (jeff), Friday, 19 June 2009 18:09 (sixteen years ago)

five months pass...

starting to really dig this actually. it is kind of weirdly hard on the default setting - but its fun, looks really great in spots, in game dialog is great (weirdly better than the cutscene dialog tbh). combo of ass-handing by bosses, underpowered famous ghostbusters that you constantly have to revive and just a little too long loading times gets real frustrating tho.

― .81818181818181818181818181 changed everything (jjjusten), Thursday, 17 December 2009 19:28 (sixteen years ago)

yeah, that loading screen gets really annoying quickly, since you have to see it every time you die. if i ever play through it, i'll just go straight to Easy mode

― Nhex, Thursday, 17 December 2009 19:32 (sixteen years ago)

oh yeah, which brings up another issue, you can not change difficulties without restarting the game, which is grade a stupid

― .81818181818181818181818181 changed everything (jjjusten), Thursday, 17 December 2009 19:35 (sixteen years ago)

did u already beat BLOOD IN THE SANDY VAGINA?

― fictional, homosexual, Baltimore hoodlum (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 December 2009 22:49 (sixteen years ago)

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