Zero Punctuation: Ghostbusters: The Video Game

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messy

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I find this review really unfunny, especially compared to some of the recent ones (Duke nukem and the infamous one) and bit a short. In regards to your information/opinion on the game I agree with a lot of those points, I played it for a bit and there are a lot ghost to catch, and they take a fair while to catch.

Although I liked the characters and the homages to the film
 

Loop Stricken

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Triffid said:
Also, what's with all the people liking that terrible Extreme Ghostbusters cartoon? Seriously, it's the most hated Ghostbusters spin-off amongst bustin' fans, and rightly so.
Kylie Griffin.
I rest my case.
 

FalloutJack

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Okay, the video was funny. However, I can't really agree with it, myself. Everyone is allowed their own opinion, of course. This one's mine.

I have this game and I played this game on the normal level of difficulty (Experienced). Putting aside anyone's opinion (good or bad) of what they think of the acting or the plot, I didn't have half the trouble Yahtzee apparently did. Can't explain why either.

Movement and camera manipulation was controlled by the proper analog sticks, the controls were explained well enough, and I could see what I was doing. Aiming the proton stream was only difficult in the sense of how sensitively you move the analog sticks and not that hard to get a handle on. (Plus, if you don't like the stream, just shoot it with something else!) To me, there wasn't a problem with a ton of streams in the room, since I used them sometimes to figure out where I needed to fire.

The business of traps? I've no idea what the issue is. You put out the traps, you grapple the ghost, you fling it into the nearest one. Where's the problem? I may've had to do alot of the work, but I'm the main character in this game! The other Ghostbusters were backup. They kept other ghosts occupied and trapped some of them and I did all the things they wouldn't. The reviving process didn't have any stitches for me either. I got knocked out and brought back as much as everyone else and it all worked out in the end.

In fact, the AI seemed to be totally fine in my game. Hell, there was one of the later boss battles where I did nothing but run around and look tasty so the others could blast the sucker into oblivion. If you can depend on them to kill a giant monster while you just run around, then it's fine. The only problems I had with the game had to do with some of the enemies at certain locations.

You know what it is? I think games hate Yahtzee.
 

Jacques 2

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I have to agree that this isn't really a review, it's an insult listing. Yahtzee tends to do this when he has a game that he pre-emptively hates or has a bias against (see: movie producer bit) Hostility is fine, going into a 4 minute rant and not giving us anything on the game except glaring faults and a premise (that's given in the games damned title), is just playing the record for the mindless masses.

On that note: Does he care? No

On another note: Anyone else annoyed by the "outro" with the crying fans and the bit about never being thankful no matter what concession is made (Spider-man 3 poster taking forefront)? It's just a tad bit.. hypocritical for a reviewer to say, and... Spider-man 3 did suck, on terms of writing, acting, and following through with the idea of a Spider-man movie. It's not like it would have been any better had they actually done Venom ala the comic instead of squeezing facetime out of him for the actor, and reducing him to another black suit spider man, instead of a hulking black semi-liquid mass of muscle tissue that's the result of an alien attempting to survive a new environment by using a host that while accepting to the symbiote is also quite mad and so consumed by rage that they drive the symbiote insane too. No, that wouldn't have been better than a cheesy sharp toothed Eric from that 70s show in a black spiderman outfit with no good qualities what so ever, or a symbiotic alien lifeform attempting to find an appropriate host (it wasn't really evil in the comics, it just happened to stimulate agression in Parker because they weren't compatible). So with that, fuck it, Spider-Man 3 deserves the hate it gets from fans.
 

Nageck

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There are plenty of good games based on movies. King Kong was pretty fun. People apparently enjoy the Godfather games because they have made like five versions of the same one. I enjoyed ghostbusters.
 

Loop Stricken

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Jacques 2 said:
On another note: Anyone else annoyed by the "outro" with the crying fans and the bit about never being thankful no matter what concession is made (Spider-man 3 poster taking forefront)? It's just a tad bit.. hypocritical for a reviewer to say...
That's the entire bloody point.
 

FalloutJack

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The Keeper said:
Macksheath said:
I liked Dr Who...although thats probably because I haven't seen any of the old episodes yet.
You are aware he was speaking of the new ones, right?
That's an oddity which I cannot fully understand myself. Bit flippant of him, isn't it? The new Doctor Who is like a testament to the best and most humoristic times of the old series. To like the old is to embrace the new, open armed, and to like the new is to appreciate at least the finer points of the old. They go hand in hand, neck and neck. This long line of Doctors must be taken as whole and not duality, for better or for worse. My vote is for better.
 

rabidkanid

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The sausage maker at the end with the smeared lipstick looks like The Joker XD

Does that mean The Joker sucked off a pig and only after that did he go crazy?
 

gizmo2300

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What? no we already have the game! at least in Denmark, i've had it for almost over a week now.

Anyway, about the review Yahtzee pointed out alot of trouble i haven't had in the game, the proton graphics doesnt take up THAT much space and i think i've only had to revive a teammate 4 or 5 times in the entire game.

Sorry man, you make great adventure games but youre nitpicky about your reviews. In the bad way.
 

TwoShedsKeisadiya

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LOL, I find Ghostbusters to be the exact opposite of most things stated in this review but Yahtzee is always good for a laugh and usually trust his judgement.

A rare miss, I say...
 

Drowlord

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I got it for my kids on the Wii... The gameplay sounds totally different. For starters, you're aiming your wii remote at things. The other players never throw traps, and there's no crossing-the-streams issue. That's not to imply that the wii version is better... The story and character gripes are just as valid, and the wii remote is important for moving around... which means you have to carefully aim the remote at the TV the entire time you're playing the game. Which makes my arm tired pretty quickly. And really just sucks in general.
 

NotSoProBenny

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Well I'm gonna have to disagree on this one. I absolutely loved this game and yes it may be a fan service - but I'm a huge Ghostbusters fan so what do I care. I do have a couple of gripes with the game though;

Firstly why is there no co-op story mode? You nearly always have at least one NPC with you at any given time so hardly difficult to have implemented

Secondly the online mode is a huge let down. Matchmaking is a nightmare and there really isn't any sense of teamwork. Every match type is basically a competition on who can catch the most ghosts, and as such no encouragement to actually help anyone out.

But those things aside, I really did enjoy this game
 

SkinnyChaplin

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I find that me and yatzee have different tastes in games for example, he was very amused with inFamous where as i was Meh on it and actully traded it in for hotd overkill... wait he liked that one too. nevermind, sorry for reading
 

BGH122

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The whole video was worth it for the final sassy, if disgustingly evocative, remark.
 

Yoda isOnline

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iamq said:
Knew you would complain about the AI. Although is there any game except Left 4 Dead where you cannot complain about the AI?
actually i'd like to complain about the AI in L4D as well. Prime example is when we're holding out on a rooftop and Lewis thinks it would be a better idea to fuck off to ground level and get his bollocks bitten off and then spat in his face by a horde of angry zombies, and then not stop complaining when i refuse to heroicly jump in front of the tank to save him. I guess what i'm saying is that AI are, at the end of the day, computers. And computers have no common sense!
 

Tom Phoenix

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This video made me rather nostalgic, since it reminded me of Yahtzee`s review of the F.E.A.R expansion and the Ghostbusters theme that served as it`s intro. Personally, I have always maintained that Yahtzee`s videos were better when he used various songs for intros/endings and this latest review preety much shows why. It would have been so fitting this time around! :(