Common Thought of Sir Rantsalot

Ok the big finish,

The main point of this series of blogs, is that for years Ghostbusters has plagued our society with thoughts of the great beyond, I’ll bet you have wanted to immediately think, “who ya gonna call” after hearing creepy sounds in the attic. But, since they are an imaginary supernatural removal group, there’s only one way we all could get the thrill of catching ghosts ourselves, video games.

When the first wave of Ghostbusters games came out, they all had the same idea, going around and doing the same boring routine until you had to enter the building that had Zuul. It gave me a bad headache.

See for yourself:

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Then a couple years on came the release of Ghostbusters 2, and the games concept escalated into something that kept you wanting more

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But it was the same thing over and over + the ending sucked… BOO!

But another company made a better Ghostbusters 2 which consisted of a free-roaming map with a positive, fun attitude.

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It’s really fun.

Then there was an arcade game and a gameboy game based on the cartoon. Both of which weren’t that good. The arcade game consisted of a overlaying shoot-em up like Contra, it had the right idea, but it just didn’t feel right.

No vid here.

The game boy game was a puzzle game…

Who thehell wants to play a game entitled “Ghostbusters” when all you’re doing is solving puzzles, and not catching ghosts?

Sega went their own way and made a pretty damn fun 2-d shooter where you catch ghosts, and make $$$

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The point of these blogs talking of Ghostbusters is that there has been some happenings. Bill Murray agreed to do a Ghostbusters re-union as long as it was CGI, and since it’s not the big rage, the original cast decided upon creating a video game.

Ghostbusters has always been awesome by the likes of me, and I would absolutely hate to see another game go down the drain since there’s been only 2 good games in the history of this franchise. So with that in mind, I give you the trailer for the game to be released in the fall.

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Thanks for reading!

Catch ya on the flipside