Ghostbusters: We're Finally Ready to Believe You

[Chris3123]

It's a bizarre thread, intended to bring about the end of the world, and now it looks like it might actually happen.

This thread is headed for a disaster of Biblical proportions.
I mean Big Blue, real wrath of TEH BABA type stuff.
Spammers and trolls coming in from TrollKingdom!
The Trek XI and Enterprise forums in a boiling flame war!
Forty years of Admin MODMAN!
Flame wars, porn attacks, and spam!
The banned rising from the grave!
Noob sacrifice, Enterprise fans and TOS purists living together. Mass hysteria!

Forty years of Admin MODMAN!

I like the cut of your jib.

Anyway, on topic: I started playing htye game a few days ago. While it can get somewhat repetitive, it's still really fun. And of course the dialog is great. I really enjoy the multiplayer too.

Anyone else try interacting with the Vigo painting in the garage/lobby of the Firehouse? He talks to you. Keep doing it over and over, as he has many things to say.

 

[Trekker4747]

I must really say that this is a fun little game. As videogames go it's pretty pedestrain and nothing spectacular, if it weren't for the "Ghostbusters" title it wouldn't be worth checking out, but as a Ghostbusters game this is damn-near perfect.

Given the complexities I imagine are involved with getting the cast together -and getting Ramis and Akroyd to pen the script- I doubt we'll see a suitable sequel. Though I'd love to see one, one with far less linearity and more open-endedness.

 

[Messianni]

Given the complexities I imagine are involved with getting the cast together -and getting Ramis and Akroyd to pen the script- I doubt we'll see a suitable sequel. Though I'd love to see one, one with far less linearity and more open-endedness.

Well...

Spoiler: end of the game.

In the credits sequence, Stantz mentions to you, the rookie, something about starting up a Ghostbusters franchise. This seems to be the writers leaving an opening for a game sequel with a new, younger team in a new location.

 

[ALF]

Alright, I'm a huge Ghosthead and although I love the game once it's finished I kind of wish there were some sort of sandbox-style version where you could run around GTA style trapping ghosts.

Having said that, I much prefer to trap ghosts than to destroy them. So I documented each save point in the game (that one can easily select from the replay career screen) that occurs just before a trappable ghost encounter. Sometimes there is a bit of distance to traverse or a couple of corporeal spooks to blast first, but for the most part this list should drop you directly into the zap, cap and trap action. Let me know if you spot any mistakes...

Ghostbusters: The Video Game - Trappable Encounters:

Hotel Sedgewick


1. You’re Hired! (Sloth Ghost) [Class V Full-Roaming Cardinal]

2. Rough Decent (Bellhop Ghosts x2) [class III Animating Specter]

3. Rodriguez Bar Mitzvah (Slimer) [class V full roaming vapor]

4. Charge of the Light Brigade (Bellhop Ghosts x2) [class III Animating Specter]

5. And the kitchen sink too (Pappy Sargassi) [class III Roaming Animator]

Times Square

6. Mass Panic (Hobo Ghosts x2) [class V full roaming vapor]

7. Hindenburg the Musical (Opera Diva Ghosts x4) [Class IV Full Roaming Phantom]

8. Ghosts at Work (Construction Worker Ghosts x3) [class III Animating Specter]

Public Library

9. Sorted Out (Cruster and Crusto) [Class V Telekinetic Animator]

10. Old Secret Places (Cruster) [Class V Telekinetic Animator]

11. Eleanor's Plan (Eleanor Twitty, AKA The Librarian Ghost) [Class IV Semi-Anchored Entity]

12. Hall of Mirrors (Cultist Ghost) [Class III Elevated Remnant]

History Museum

13. Dr. Rutherford, I Presume (Possessor Ghost) [Class VII Wandering Possesser]

14. Opening Night (Beauty Queen Ghost x4) [Class VII Wandering Possesser]

15. Ghost War (Confederate Ghost x4); (Union Ghost x4) [Class IV Full-Torsoed Specter/Floater]

16. Little Egypt (Union Ghost x2) [Class IV Full-Torsoed Floater]

Return to Hotel Sedgewick

17. Power Restored (Chef Deforrest) ; (Cook Ghost) [Class III Animating Specter] ; [Class VI Archored Phantom]

Shandor Island (N/A)

Central Park

18. The Elusive Key (Cultist x2) [Class III Elevated Remnant]

19. Battle in the Boneyard (Cultist x2) ; (Cultist Summoner) [Class III Elevated Remnant] ; [Class III Mortal Remnant]

20. Air Strike (Cultist Summoner) [Class III Mortal Remnant]

21. Full Assault (Cultist Ghost x4) [Class III Elevated Remnant]

22. Final Gate (Cultist Ghost x4) [Class III Elevated Remnant]

 

[Arrqh]

Gah, I can't believe I didn't notice the ham!

Haunted Ham

 

[Messianni]

Gah, I can't believe I didn't notice the ham!

Haunted Ham

That article is hilarious.

"I can be a Jew and a Ghostbuster, just like I always wanted to be."

 

[Trekker4747]

Gah, I can't believe I didn't notice the ham!

Haunted Ham

I noticed it. I just figured, like many Jews, the family didn't keep kosher.

 

[Chris3123]

Finished the game today. I enjoyed the whole experience. Also, I didn't know (but should have expected) that I would end up going up against

Spoiler: boss

Ivo Shandor

himself. Cool.

 

[Corran Horn]

This game is what I've been searching for all my life. I feel ... complete. I want to bear its children.

Pretty much. The actual feel of hanging out with the Ghostbusters is amazing.

Ghost slamming, capping and trapping is exactly as I'd hoped!

The story truly seems to continue from GBI and GBII, and actually ties the two stories together seamlessly, somehow. This is great... if and when the next GB movie comes out, I will consider it GBIV.

I agree with all points. When I think back to some of those crappy Ghostbusters games...like the one where you 'drive' the Ghostbusters logo through the grid of city streets...*shudder*.

As you say, I really don't think they could have done a better job of the trapping part. Throwing a trap, slamming the ghost around to disorient, dragging it to the capture cone, seeing it get sucked in, then retrieving the trap...that was fantastic. Really puts you in the films. I only wish I'd gotten to clean the traps in the containment unit. That would've been awesome.

The voice acting and script are great. The PC version graphics look fantastic on my box at 1900x1080.

 

[Timby]

Apparently, Terminal Reality had an incredibly creative way of breaking pirated versions of the game. The crack for pirating the game is based upon the .exe file on the game disc. If you have a pirated copy...

Spoiler: :)

The candelabras in the Hotel Sedgwick are invulnerable.

 

[Dac]

Picked this up yesterday on Xbox 360...in teh UK!

Was only £45...considering it was all of 1 penny cheaper on PS3, I decided to get the 360 verison with better graphics, achievements and multiplayer with people i know...although its just occured to me they wont have the game for another few months - do'h!

In any case, its a pretty fun game - not as good as I had hoped, but after all this back and forth with release dates etc I suppose my expectations were maybe a little too high. Still though, its a solid game.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I'm playing it right now. Decent game so far, nothing spectacular, but fun enough.

 

[acappellasaurus]

I am having a crazy problem with saving. I am playing the XBOX 360 version, and play for quite a while, past beating the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, and I cannot seem to save the game. I know it says it autosaves, and I believe perhaps it does, but when I go back to play again the next day, it appears to be erasing my save data and overwriting it with a new game. There's no option to load a previous career or anything. Any help?

 

[TheBrew]

I am having a crazy problem with saving. I am playing the XBOX 360 version, and play for quite a while, past beating the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, and I cannot seem to save the game. I know it says it autosaves, and I believe perhaps it does, but when I go back to play again the next day, it appears to be erasing my save data and overwriting it with a new game. There's no option to load a previous career or anything. Any help?

Don't worry about it, it's a weird dialogue option, but as long as you select the HD where you saved your game, it will allow you to resume from there.

 

[Messianni]

I am having a crazy problem with saving. I am playing the XBOX 360 version, and play for quite a while, past beating the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, and I cannot seem to save the game. I know it says it autosaves, and I believe perhaps it does, but when I go back to play again the next day, it appears to be erasing my save data and overwriting it with a new game. There's no option to load a previous career or anything. Any help?

Don't worry about it, it's a weird dialogue option, but as long as you select the HD where you saved your game, it will allow you to resume from there.

Yeah, that got me at first too. It's a weird way of phrasing it.

 

[acappellasaurus]

Call me dense, but I guess I still am not understanding the method to get back to the saved game. Can anyone take me through it from the boot of the game (on 360).

 

[donners22]

Well since I don't own a PS3 or Xbox360 I intend to play this on the PC when it comes out over here. So I'll let you lot know what I think sometime in late November, if Amazon is to be believed!

It's only going for $US30 as well, though there's plenty of DRM ranting as usual.

 

[Chris3123]

Call me dense, but I guess I still am not understanding the method to get back to the saved game. Can anyone take me through it from the boot of the game (on 360).

Hi, Dense! I'm Chris.

Ok...

Window pops up.
Choose Select Storage Device
Select the storage device you wish to use (presumably the HDD)
It will say "Existing save data on the storage device will be overwritten." Just ignore that. Choose Continue.
You're now at the main menu, with your saved game ready to go.

That wasn't such a chore, now was it?

 

[Timby]

Well since I don't own a PS3 or Xbox360 I intend to play this on the PC when it comes out over here. So I'll let you lot know what I think sometime in late November, if Amazon is to be believed!

You could always ask someone in the States to gift it to you on Steam, and then pay that person back through PayPal.

 

[firstjump]

This game is great! I've been watching The Real Ghostbusters volume 1 on dvd for the past few weeks, and now that I have this game the Ghostbusters craving in me stays fresh!