Chris Raftis

I thought Rock Band was supposed to be in short supply? Then why at the Best Buy in Kingston did they have a stack of boxes as tall as me about 4 deep? Those are going nowhere fast.

Megaman turns 20 years old

I finally read through the article about the new Ghostbusters game. I was all hyped up about this since the entire cast (except Rick Moranis?) is returning, but now I'm not so much. While this game will probably kick ass as a game in itself they are billing this thing as Ghostbusters 3. Why is this so bad? Because it retells the ENTIRE 1st movie.... only this all happens in 1991.... about 7 years AFTER that movie. Yes, Slimer is back, and yes, he happens to go right back to the SAME EXACT HOTEL he was at in 1984. Oh yeah, he also happens to fly around the chandelier and hang out behind the bar as both get destroyed in the process... again. Oh yeah, the place was also set to host a banquet about 30 minutes later. Ugh. The public library is featured and they also show a shot of the same exact ghost that was reading the books from the movie's first scenes. Stay Puft also returns. I don't know how they're going to explain that. Stay Puft wasn't exactly an apparition like the others. He was literally a 10 story tall giant marshmallow... hence why he burns and explodes. Nevertheless, I cannot figure out why they didn't just try and rewrite the script to the first movie and add things they couldn't do to the first movie either because of time or technology constraints. The game would still have kicked just as much ass, maybe even more since they weren't trying to hide the fact that they wanted to incorporate EVERYTHING from the movie. Even better yet might be the fact that the person evaluating your job throughout this game is none other than the city's hired agent, Walter "this man has no dick" Peck. Yeah, it certainly makes perfect sense that the man solely responsible for the city's worst disaster 7 years ago is placed back in a job with the city evaluating the same people he took down then. Here's to hoping the gameplay itself is rock solid. I can look past the rest of it and at least pretend I'm playing a game based off the movie.