Anyone playing Ghostbusters?

[andrew r]

Just asking as I'm wondering if you're having problems with it. I've had two. Firstly when you're in the library, when chasing Elenor Twitty, and the bookcases turn into a maze, the game seems to freeze, but the sound continues. It's happened a few times on my machine and caused it to crash. The other problem I found, only once, but someone else has had this, is when you go back on after a saved game, it doesn't have the 'resume career' option. I went into my saved data section, and it was there on the hard drive. Loaded up the game again, and there it was!

Who else has had problems? Are there patches to download?

I forgot to say, this is the PS3 version as the 360 and Wii versions are out in October.

[charlespt]

I was going to borrow the PC version from a friend but it seems it also has problems

[rlm]

i think you're wrong on the release dates on the wii and 360. i have the 360 version of the game the wii one is also out.

but yes it seems those atari testers don't know how to test games. ghostbusters is said to contain some of the worst bugs/glitches to date. there are no patches available yet for any of the consoles. the harder you play the game, the worst the glitches/bugs get, especially games freezing on you. every console and the pc version contain the bugs. also the game goes out of synch from time to time.

i myself have experianced multiple games freezing. for me most of them have taken place in the sedgewick hotel. also there have been numerous times when the game just doesn't continue. some examples......after defeating the bellhop ghosts in the hotel the manager is supposed to appear and then the fisherman ghost shows up. well, i defeated the ghosts and the manager did not appear at all. nothing would happen. this also happened when the guys enter the hidden room the gray lady leads them to. after removing the book, the guys have a small conversation and then the gray lady goes all evil and attacks. but i've had it where i've taken the book the guys talk and then nothing happens. not one fight. at another time it took about 3 minutes before the gray lady finally showed up to fight.

there are also moments where some of the ghosts just vanish and you can't get to the next area until you defeat that last ghost. but you can't cuz he's gone. in some cases the ghost has just become trapped within the walls. here's an example of what i mean. this again in the sedgewick. so i'm fighting the bellhop ghosts and i notice that one of the ghosts has just vanished. we capture the other ghosts and nothing happens. the manager is supposed to show up but since that one ghost up and left the game won't continue. so now what? i start to explore the lobby and the hallways. i start going down the hallway that leads to the ballroom, the one the manager shows up from in the cutscene, i get to the door of the ballroom and turn back and go down the hallway again. that's when the ghost finally freed itself from the wall and attacked me. it's crazy.


besides all that, if the game didn't have that many bugs it would be enjoyable. i love the achievments for the 360 and trying to find the cursed artifacts is cool too. currently i am trying to finish the game on the hardest difficulty.

as for the resuming game thing. it kinda does the same thing on the 360. i already have a career started but when i decide to go back later and play the game it asks me where i want to save my game when i start playing. i say the hard drive and it tells me there's already a saved game and if i want to continue. i say yes and it tells me that all previous saved data will be erased and if i still want to continue. i say no cuz i don't want my career erased and it takes me to the menu and i can't find my saved career. but if i say YES to continue (risking my game save being erased) it takes me to the menu and my already saved career mode is there. weird. someone didn't make this guy properly.

atari either needs to get new game testers or hire themselves better game programmers. every game atari has released has bugs, many bugs. anyone remember "enter the matrix"?

[andrew r]

Cheers for all the info (the other machine releases must be October for the UK) As for clitches, there's an extra which also goes out of sync with the sound. This is the making of, once you've finished the game. I've still not got all of the trophies, like the scans and artifacts. I have found most of them. It's a shame that it's got cliches as it's such a great game, an excellent film tie in and it's funny too! I can't help singing along to the theme song either!

[rlm]

well a hint came out that has led many to believe that a patch for the game will be coming out soon. hopefully this patch will fix the bugs found through out the game. in a recent magazine interview the creators of the game stated that they were going to get hard at work on their next game but that before they do they have to finish some work with the ghostbusters game. this interview was done some time after the game was released. its thought that this means the team might be working on a game patch.

[andrew r]

Fingers crossed that they are going to fo that. As I've yet to scan all of the ghosts in the game. I'd hate for it to crash again.

[rlm]

found a new bug. i thought i was the only one that experianced this but looks like i'm not. i was playing on the pro level and was in a tunnel in the cemetary with ray. suddenly ray just vanished. i could still hear him talking to me. after i left the tunnel i met with the other guys who were waiting outside the mystically locked gate. the glowing creatures popped up and ran down into the tunnel to whereever ray was. the stone angels kept attacking me and even killing me. i automatically got revived over and over and no one was there to bring me back. ray head was on the top right and it indicated he was still alive and somewhere out there. i kept hearing ray's voice telling me things. i destroyed the gate and we all made it to the entrance of the tower. ray was still missing. after the ecto 1b can't make it anymore, ghost start to attack. but instead of wave after wave and then ending with the stone giants, i ended up battling group after group. i would destroy one small group, then about 1 minute later another group would come out and this repeated over and over. i captured all the ghost priests but the stone giants never came to life. just one group of ghosts after another. ray was still missing but still talking. i had to start at the check point again cuz without ray the game wasn't going to continue. when i started again ray was back and i was able to continue. strange bug.

[Scotty]

Did they forget the BETA testing with this game?