The Official GHOSTBUSTERS Thread

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, I remembered that right after I posted and changed it. Same basic principle, though.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

I don't really play multi-player too much. Are any of the multiplayer achievements easy to get like I only have to tolerate 14 year olds for how many missions?

Eh not really. Most of the achievements are gonna take you a while. From my experience, the community for GB is better than other communities. I haven't come across too many kids, i mean this is a game based off of a 25 year old franchise. I say jump online, if someone is being annoying, mute them. Its that simple.

 

[Sam Fisher]

I started playing on Professional and wow, the other GB are completely and untterly useless on this setting.

 

[spidey-dude]

the bit I found impossibly hard was with the possesor ghosts just before you go underground - they posses everyone so fast that it takes so long to kill anyone

 

[TheCorpulent1]

It took me a couple tries to get past that bit as well. You've just gotta be quick about switching between weapons and trapping the ghosts when they're outside of bodies as soon as you can. Once you whittle down their numbers, it becomes a lot easier.

 

[BlackLantern]

I tether them to the celings or walls...tends to keep them from posessing people

 

[Erzengel]

Eh not really. Most of the achievements are gonna take you a while. From my experience, the community for GB is better than other communities. I haven't come across too many kids, i mean this is a game based off of a 25 year old franchise. I say jump online, if someone is being annoying, mute them. Its that simple.

I'm on the last level on Experienced now.

 

[Upset Spideyfan]

Ouch, normally I like Yahtzee's reviews but he ravaged this game. I thought he was pretty off the mark on 90% of what he said (much like his Dead Space review).

 

[TheCorpulent1]

He's a very picky gamer, it seems. Plus, I'm sure he magnifies a lot of his gripes for the sake of his show.

But thanks for reminding me to listen to it. I completely forgot about it yesterday.

 

[BlackLantern]

I like Yahtzee...I listen to his reviews more for entertainment than what he actually thinks of the game....his COD4 review is gold..."It's a gun whack, but it just happens to be an above average gun whack"

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Man, he hated almost everything I loved about the game. But it was still funny.

 

[gregtestagent]

He's paid to do that. The only game he liked, or the only on he didn't complain as much about because he must always complain, is Portal. The only video game reviewer who makes valid complaints, while showing us the gameplay, is the Angry Video Game Nerd, James something or other. Yahtzee must slant his show, and it is a show not a review, to increase the comedy. I've seen all of his shows and it's my estimation that he does not spend much time with each of these games, and that he's only moderately skilled at video games in general. So if your skills aren't sharp, your tongue had better be, that's Yahtzee in a nutshell.

 

[BlackLantern]

I liked Yahtzees reviews of Condemned 2, Devil May Cry 4, Uncharted, COD 4,

I don't like the Angry Video Game Nerd....rubs me the wrong way

 

[TheCorpulent1]

He's paid to do that. The only game he liked, or the only on he didn't complain as much about because he must always complain, is Portal. The only video game reviewer who makes valid complaints, while showing us the gameplay, is the Angry Video Game Nerd, James something or other. Yahtzee must slant his show, and it is a show not a review, to increase the comedy. I've seen all of his shows and it's my estimation that he does not spend much time with each of these games, and that he's only moderately skilled at video games in general. So if your skills aren't sharp, your tongue had better be, that's Yahtzee in a nutshell.

He doesn't seem particularly skilled at video games, but he does often raise good points about games. Not always, of course, but often. I've agreed with the sentiment, if not the extent, of a lot of his criticisms. Personally, I think Yahtzee looks for story more than anything else (unless the game is specifically without much in the way of story, like a strategy game or something), and he blows any tiny impediments to the story up to gargantuan proportions. He's clearly not a hardcore gamer who goes for difficulty or slick gameplay above all else, so things made for that set (like Gears of War, which he mentions in this review) are usually lost on him. It's certainly more entertainment than even-handed reviewing, but I do still agree with at least one or two of his points in most of the reviews for games I've played.

 

[Paradyme]

Demo is up on Xbox Live Marketplace for those that are still waiting to test it out.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

He's paid to do that. The only game he liked, or the only on he didn't complain as much about because he must always complain, is Portal. The only video game reviewer who makes valid complaints, while showing us the gameplay, is the Angry Video Game Nerd, James something or other. Yahtzee must slant his show, and it is a show not a review, to increase the comedy. I've seen all of his shows and it's my estimation that he does not spend much time with each of these games, and that he's only moderately skilled at video games in general. So if your skills aren't sharp, your tongue had better be, that's Yahtzee in a nutshell.

You hit the nail on the head. Some of his stuff is funny, but most of the time he's so far off that it's just pointless(of course he does this on purpose). I dont read/listen to that many reviews as it is and i deff dont waste my time listening to his "reviews".

 

[gregtestagent]

You hit the nail on the head. Some of his stuff is funny, but most of the time he's so far off that it's just pointless(of course he does this on purpose). I dont read/listen to that many reviews as it is and i deff dont waste my time listening to his "reviews".

I do have to admit his work is funny though. He should really branch off into other mediums instead of just gaming, I'd like to see him rip movies.

 

[gregtestagent]

He doesn't seem particularly skilled at video games, but he does often raise good points about games. Not always, of course, but often. I've agreed with the sentiment, if not the extent, of a lot of his criticisms. Personally, I think Yahtzee looks for story more than anything else (unless the game is specifically without much in the way of story, like a strategy game or something), and he blows any tiny impediments to the story up to gargantuan proportions. He's clearly not a hardcore gamer who goes for difficulty or slick gameplay above all else, so things made for that set (like Gears of War, which he mentions in this review) are usually lost on him. It's certainly more entertainment than even-handed reviewing, but I do still agree with at least one or two of his points in most of the reviews for games I've played.

You know he'd strike back at us for these assessments with cruel wit, but I do really believe that his resolve to grade games fairly is almost non existent. Numerous times he mentions that he will or did make only negative reviews simply because it's his sort of style. While it's fun to poke and pull down something that's not yours, critics still have the responsibility to review the material fairly. Of course, that's the original idea of how critics are supposed to do their jobs.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Oh, yeah, I have no doubt he's reviewing games unfairly and blowing things out of proportion. My point was that, in spite of how far he exaggerates everything, he does usually come up with a couple points I agree with in most of his reviews. Even in his Ghostbusters one. I didn't find most of his "problems" the least bit problematic when I played the game, but the other Ghostbusters did get knocked down too easily without contributing anything.

 

[gregtestagent]

Oh, yeah, I have no doubt he's reviewing games unfairly and blowing things out of proportion. My point was that, in spite of how far he exaggerates everything, he does usually come up with a couple points I agree with in most of his reviews. Even in his Ghostbusters one. I didn't find most of his "problems" the least bit problematic when I played the game, but the other Ghostbusters did get knocked down too easily without contributing anything.

There is that point in the game, with the stone angels, where Ray is absolutely worthless, and in fact a danger to the mission since he gets knocked out without fighting like you said, and he's unable to pick you up. Thank goodness they made an achievement out of picking up your teammates. On my first run around on casual, I didn't get it because non of us ever got knocked out.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I always go straight to the middle difficulty on my first play-through and, outside of that one area and the part in the museum where you have to fend off the possessing ghosts, it's still pretty easy. Those two areas alone make you really, really despise the other Ghostbusters, though. I called Ray some pretty awful names during the stone cupids bit.

 

[Paradyme]

I always go straight to the middle difficulty on my first play-through and, outside of that one area and the part in the museum where you have to fend off the possessing ghosts, it's still pretty easy. Those two areas alone make you really, really despise the other Ghostbusters, though. I called Ray some pretty awful names during the stone cupids bit.

When I got to that part on Hard with Ray he just stood there. I was dodging left and right just watching him. Then the little stone things started to hit him over and over and he just stood there. I'm yelling "What are you freaking doing?!" Then I revive him and run down to where they were spawning from and closed the portal and they still kept coming but at least he actually started shooting them after that.

I think the A.I. gets constantly glitched. I have other examples but I'm sure most of you know what I mean if you've played.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, they did just stand around every now and then in fights. I've noticed a lot of AI buddies in games are like that. I played Gears of War shortly after Ghostbusters and noticed that Dom is the most f***ing useless AI character ever created.

 

[Paradyme]

It would almost be better to play by yourself in Gears 2 sometimes. Especially when you are split up. I can't tell you how many times in Gears 2 when I was playing through with a buddy and my friendly AI would run right up into an onslaught of enemies just to be mowed down before I could even get there. Of course he dies shortly because they run up and curb stomp him. End of game, restart.

These devs need to rework the teammate A.I. Especially the likes of EPIC which normally their bots are highly intelligent.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Heh, yeah, they advance way too quickly. The Ghostbusters have the opposite problem: they just stand around like morons and get knocked down by ghosts. Ray and Egon had a particularly annoying habit of cornering themselves when we were fighting the giant library monster, too.