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Ghostbusters: The Video Game Does Booth Babes Right
Posted by Michael McWhertor at 10:10 AM on July 25, 2008
Ghostbusters: The Video Game looks fantastic. Each time we've walked past the multiple kiosks showcasing the game at Comic-Con this year, we think "Must remember to play that at some point". What Sierra clearly understands, though, is how to appeal to Ghostbusters fans. Shorten the pants, expose some cleavage, then fill out the skimpy Ghostbuster uniform with women who look pretty for a living. We'll take one of whatever they're selling.

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tvo
Posted 3:14 PM 25/7/08
haha mark_n_b, everyone is crushing you
tvo
Jonaconda
Posted 3:07 PM 25/7/08
@mburkit: I stand corrected, sir. Her face indeed looks less paperbag-worthy in that second photo.
I would drink her bathwater.
Jonaconda
fquick
Posted 2:04 PM 25/7/08
@ForAllThatEverWas: well done sir, haha.
fquick
polarenvy
Posted 1:31 PM 25/7/08
WOW, the one on the right really puts the BUST in Ghostbusters!
polarenvy
paulrules
Posted 1:18 PM 25/7/08
Please have these girls as playable characters!
(lol)
paulrules
mburkit
Posted 1:08 PM 25/7/08
@Jonaconda:
I don't know, with the blonde, I think it's just the lighting. She looks better in this picture.
[www.flickr.com]
On a side note, I'm spending a lot of money the day this game comes out. This game + both movies on blu-ray. I want the 25 disc Real Ghostbusters Boxset too, but that $179.99 present might have to wait till X-Mas.
[www.timelife.com]
mburkit
Absent Blue
Posted 12:26 PM 25/7/08
@jaws3people0: I lol'd, no seriously, I literally lol'd!
But the real question is... why didn't I fantasize about this before?
Absent Blue
Spoony Bard
Posted 12:25 PM 25/7/08
All is well.
Spoony Bard
Dennen
Posted 12:21 PM 25/7/08
@Nightshift Nurse: Mile High Colonic:
Nah. Please share with us afterwards and all will be fine.
You dragged us into it, sir! It is not my fault I was born curious!
Dennen
Nightshift Nurse: Mile High Colonic
Posted 12:16 PM 25/7/08
Is it wrong of me to want to buy one of those get-ups for my wife? (And one of her friends?)
Nightshift Nurse: Mile High Colonic
Zero_Beat
Posted 12:06 PM 25/7/08
@Dennen:
Ooh, with evidence too! Two cookies for you!
Zero_Beat
Dennen
Posted 11:44 AM 25/7/08
@tk.:
Good point. I'll take the cookie though. Hold the ectoplasm. And if you've come in contact with any ghosts lately, then please - wear gloves while handling the cookie. I don't want any kind of residue. AT ALL.
Dennen
GordieHoweHatTrick
Posted 11:43 AM 25/7/08
Did Egon tell them about the twinkie?
Those chicks would be terrible Ghostbusters. They wouldn't be able to leave Venkman's office, making Dana a very pissed off women. Janosz would be happy.
GordieHoweHatTrick
tk.
Posted 11:42 AM 25/7/08
@Zero_Beat: Uh, you can keep that cookie. :(
tk.
Dennen
Posted 11:41 AM 25/7/08
@Zero_Beat
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Cookie? Mine?
Dennen
Zero_Beat
Posted 11:33 AM 25/7/08
I want to slime them with my ectoplasm.
*Cookie to whoever gets the joke first.*
Zero_Beat
FeatherNET
Posted 11:32 AM 25/7/08
@mark_n_b: Get a bloody sense of humor, will you?
FeatherNET
nanikore
Posted 11:28 AM 25/7/08
@interficium: i know, tell her i said "Hey".
On a side note, Total protonic reversal. Thanks ladies.
nanikore
ryohazuki
Posted 11:25 AM 25/7/08
@ApertureScienceIntern: You can keep her, though I'll admit the blonde's looking a little botox in the face.
@Mike: note to self ... "ghostbusters ... adult ... costume ... for ... the ... wife ... check!" Who needs a nurse or a maid when you can get the girl who kicks paranormal ass?
ryohazuki
dead_red_eyes
Posted 11:25 AM 25/7/08
@dv8godd:
Thank you, sir.
dead_red_eyes
Polite Society
Posted 11:15 AM 25/7/08
@dv8godd: I couldn't have said it better myself.
No, really. :/
Polite Society
Eltigro
Posted 11:14 AM 25/7/08
That's one big twinkie.
Eltigro
hlfx
Posted 11:03 AM 25/7/08
@bigman88zz:
I see a good PAIR of proton packs in there........just for the record...
hlfx
SsLordMagus
Posted 11:02 AM 25/7/08
@BaseVilliN:
Nah, im not interested in the game. Just saying they look great. Thanks anyways :)
SsLordMagus
interficium
Posted 10:57 AM 25/7/08
On a serious note, I'd like everyone to know that my girlfriend is much more attractive than mark_n_b's.
interficium
Sentaiman
Posted 10:56 AM 25/7/08
My PKG "Meter" just went off the scale............
But anyway, im really looking forward to this game, if for nothing the story (written by Dan and Harold themselves) alone.
Sentaiman
Stalkumi
Posted 10:52 AM 25/7/08
@mark_n_b: Pretending that your left hand has "long legs and fantastic breasts" hardly constitutes you getting "laid". Give it a break.
Stalkumi
Jonaconda
Posted 10:52 AM 25/7/08
@BaseVilliN: The one on the left is cute, dude. You can't tell me you wouldn't want to deposit some ectoplasm in her containment unit.
Having made my obligatory dick joke for this post, I concur about the thing on the right. I'm no fan of fake cans in the first place, but the Catch 22 of getting them to begin with is they look even worse on girls who were originally small of breast. Blondie on the right is a textbook example of why implants are a mistake.
Further compounding the problem is she's at that indescriminate age between 25 and 35 (I'm betting closer to the ceiling than the basement) thanks to some ill-advised plastic surgeries. Chemical peels, Botox, perhaps a facelift? The world may never know, but she's already got that vaguely-tranny look about her most commonly associated with Joan Rivers before she turned into the Cryptkeeper.
Jonaconda
Scottyshonuff
Posted 10:50 AM 25/7/08
On a more serious note, I think they are hyping this game up clean and most of all they are making it real fun. Every event that Sierra goes to to promote ghostbusters its been awesome(from what i hear)
Scottyshonuff
Shabat0ge
Posted 10:50 AM 25/7/08
@jaws3people0: Haha nice one.
Shabat0ge
Guvnah
Posted 10:49 AM 25/7/08
I won't lie, I would wear something like that for Halloween. With less chest, of course. Maybe a tank top there.
Guvnah
dv8godd
Posted 10:46 AM 25/7/08
@mark_n_b: Claiming gamers can't get laid and therefore drool over booth-babes while acting incensed about the practice is even more tired than the occasional comments of gamers that can't get laid and therefore drool over booth-babes.
While some comments in posts like these do tend towards the childish, a lot of it is just tongue-in-cheek fun for "actual" adults too. It's not just put out there to piss off uptight people who feel the need to preface their annoyance by announcing they've got a hot girlfriend.
I mean, who's mature here if you feel the need to defend such a position by claiming you can get laid?
Seriously, come down off the high horse, it doesn't suit you at all.
dv8godd
dead_red_eyes
Posted 10:45 AM 25/7/08
@Krondonian: - "Psssh. I'll take Bill Murray, or no-one. No-one, damnit!"
Seconded!!!!!
@mark_n_b:
Oh please, spare us from your broad generalizations and preaching.
dead_red_eyes
Djstawberryjam
Posted 10:43 AM 25/7/08
Nobody gona do it? Okay I shall and in advanced Im sorry, so so sorry,
ahem.....
Ghost.BUST.ers.....
thank you and gooooodnight.
Djstawberryjam
Diesel_Power
Posted 10:43 AM 25/7/08
Nice bodies, but they have butter faces and look old.
I'll pass.
Diesel_Power
Scottyshonuff
Posted 10:42 AM 25/7/08
Oh how i would love to cross their streams...err..um...
Scottyshonuff
KingGorilla
Posted 10:41 AM 25/7/08
@Channing: Annie Potts FTW!
KingGorilla
Trym
Posted 10:40 AM 25/7/08
I guess I must be the only one who thought the trailer for this game made it look absolutely horribly done. If the trailer for the game, meant to show off its best attributes, includes screen-tearing, something is very very wrong.
Trym
Genocyde
Posted 10:39 AM 25/7/08
@mark_n_b: so how are your balls doing, hanging out in your girlfriend's purse? Did you let her on to write up your comment? ;)
Genocyde
Thassodar
Posted 10:39 AM 25/7/08
@mark_n_b: And when you get dumped by said girlfriend I'm sure to see you drooling over the next hot piece of ass. It's the circle of life.
Thassodar
PepsiPerfect
Posted 10:39 AM 25/7/08
@mark_n_b: Because the internet is ALWAYS serious business.
gg
PepsiPerfect
awwyeadatsright
Posted 10:38 AM 25/7/08
@mark_n_b: Banhammer PLZ?
awwyeadatsright
doctorwily
Posted 10:37 AM 25/7/08
@mark_n_b: "For fun and fact, I can get laid"
Good god man, what are ya doing here. Go get some lovin' from your balloons and twigs!
doctorwily
Channing
Posted 10:35 AM 25/7/08
I'd rather see a Janine Melnitz.
Channing
y2julio
Posted 10:31 AM 25/7/08
@mark_n_b: Ok. Mr. Kill Joy. If you think the comments from the people in here are serious, then you got "I'm better than thou" syndrome.
y2julio
BaseVilliN
Posted 10:27 AM 25/7/08
@SsLordMagus: 26. But thanks for playing.
BaseVilliN
mark_n_b
Posted 10:26 AM 25/7/08
booth babes. Because gamers are lame, immature doofuses who would never get within 50 feet of an attractive female otherwise.
Show them a bit of cheesecsake and they'll buy anything.
As proven, apparently, by Kotaku.
The fact that this is the marketing logic used by every booth babe totying company is why I find the booth babe concept so offensive.
For fun and fact, I can get laid, my girlfriend is long legged and has fantastic breasts, and I question the class and intelligence of everyone who has posted (or written Michael, you and the editor who let this story go up should be downright ashamed of yourselves) that these two models constitutes enough of a reason to be interested in this game.
mark_n_b
pandafresh
Posted 10:25 AM 25/7/08
@SsLordMagus: a lot of the comments probably are,actually...
pandafresh
Saint Anima
Posted 10:24 AM 25/7/08
@GTA4er: See, I was going to say something like that, but thanks for being the one to do it. ;)
Saint Anima
Saint Anima
Posted 10:23 AM 25/7/08
Who ya gonna call? !
Seriously, who? Because if I ever called for the Ghostbusters and I ended up getting those old dudes instead of those babes, I'd rather just chill with the ghost.
Saint Anima
SsLordMagus
Posted 10:23 AM 25/7/08
Dude, what are you guys? 17?? They look Great.
SsLordMagus
UltimateIdiot
Posted 10:22 AM 25/7/08
Hmmm, I think I got a ghost problem. I better get that phone.
UltimateIdiot
Krondonian
Posted 10:22 AM 25/7/08
Psssh. I'll take Bill Murray, or no-one. No-one, damnit!
Krondonian
PepsiPerfect
Posted 10:21 AM 25/7/08
@hotdamn:
Look, if the girls say the game looks fantastic, THE GAME LOOKS FANTASTIC.
PepsiPerfect
BaseVilliN
Posted 10:20 AM 25/7/08
Pass on both. And the game.
BaseVilliN
tvandlust
Posted 10:20 AM 25/7/08
Love the outfits, but the woman look like the "Before" shots on Oil of Olay commercials. I generally don't think of myself as a picky man (mostly because I'm not really in much position to be), but, y'know, Do Not Want and all that.
tvandlust
GTA4er
Posted 10:20 AM 25/7/08
Win. More like Ghost"busty"
GTA4er
ForAllThatEverWas
Posted 10:19 AM 25/7/08
"bustin' makes me feel good"
ForAllThatEverWas
LittleBigPlaneteer
Posted 10:19 AM 25/7/08
Yes please
LittleBigPlaneteer
Elly
Posted 10:18 AM 25/7/08
@AE86: They've got pills you can take for that now. ;)
Elly
y2julio
Posted 10:17 AM 25/7/08
*takes out Credit Card* put me down for whatever they are selling :)
y2julio
dropoff
Posted 10:17 AM 25/7/08
@ApertureScienceIntern: i got first on blondie.
dropoff
Scott3D
Posted 10:16 AM 25/7/08
booth babes are kind of old looking. Brunette is still good though.
Scott3D
Crosswayboy
Posted 10:16 AM 25/7/08
I'll take 2 of whatever they're selling! ;)
Crosswayboy
Stalkumi
Posted 10:16 AM 25/7/08
my Slimer is acting up.
Stalkumi
hotdamn
Posted 10:15 AM 25/7/08
Game looks fantastic? Seriously?
Every trailer of that game I've seen so far looks seriously underwhelming.
hotdamn
Cirno
Posted 10:15 AM 25/7/08
@jaws3people0: Well said, well said.
Cirno
ApertureScienceIntern
Posted 10:15 AM 25/7/08
Oh man.....reminds me of the old GOOD E3.....dibs on the brunette....
ApertureScienceIntern
bigman88zz
Posted 10:15 AM 25/7/08
no proton packs?
bigman88zz
jaws3people0
Posted 10:14 AM 25/7/08
gotta remember not to cross my streams.....
jaws3people0
Kung
Posted 4:35 PM 25/7/08
I think my pants got slimed...
Kung
Mokka
Posted 5:24 PM 25/7/08
"Ghostbusters: The Video Game Does Booth Babes Right"
...except for their faces...but what guy needs to look at a face when he can stare at boobs, right?
Mokka
mentalboy11
Posted 6:23 PM 25/7/08
ill take neither, instead, i'll go to the grocery store and pick up women there.
mentalboy11
Kazzahdrane
Posted 6:20 PM 25/7/08
With faces like that, no thanks! More interested in new info about the game tbh.
Kazzahdrane
P-Flute
Posted 6:19 PM 25/7/08
@Mokka:
Yeah, how dare they pick...completely regular woman.
P-Flute
excaliburps
Posted 7:26 PM 25/7/08
@mark_n_b: I think the statements here are more aimed at the "good fun" region than actual factoids about gamers' repressed sexual tension.
Sidenote:
"my girlfriend is long legged and has fantastic breasts"
Pics or it's just an Xbox with a skirt. =D
@dv8godd: Good call!
excaliburps
Shiryu
Posted 8:28 PM 25/7/08
Dammit, eveyone already made all the puns I could think off... I do wander if they believe in in UFOs, astral projections, mental telepathy, ESP, clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full trance mediums, the Loch Ness monster and the theory of Atlantis? Wonder if they were asked about that toget this job...
Shiryu
Track
Posted 9:02 PM 25/7/08
The game looks awesome, hope it's not just looks though and that gameplay is kickass.
These boothbabes, the uniform is nice, seen boothbabes with much revealing clothing on, hell this looks like a plausible costume for the Ghostbusters company :) Would be funny too, as the main ghostbusters would be drooling all over them at first.
Track
Talleh
Posted 10:26 PM 25/7/08
Man, is ComiCon going to be the new E3?
Talleh
TRT-X
Posted 10:11 PM 25/7/08
@Shiryu: I would wager the only thing they were asked was "Can you name one of the Ghostbusters?"
Half credit was given if their answer contained any matching letters. "Jake? Well, Peter has an 'e' and Ray has an 'a'...so you're in!"
TRT-X
Dusk777
Posted 10:55 PM 25/7/08
@mark_n_b: Dude WTF!!!! these chicks make more money in couple of days than you make in a month!! Not all gamers are sad dudes who cant get laid!! I myself am Damn sexy and get laid very frequently with lots of beautiful ladies!! =P
The comments posted are for fun, for the poster and other people s enjoyment. Don't post shit like that as it just makes you sound like a dick! Now on to my hilarious comment:
I'd like to cover them in my Ectoplasm!!! =P
Dusk777
Eltigro
Posted 11:04 PM 25/7/08
@Mokka: faces? they had faces?
[scrolls back up]
Oh yeah, they do have faces. They aren't that bad.
Eltigro
shaunomacx
Posted 12:17 AM 26/7/08
@mark_n_b: damn religious zealots eh :P
idiot!
shaunomacx
phor11
Posted 12:51 AM 26/7/08
Does that pic not look photoshopped to anyone else?
phor11
Radz
Posted 1:30 AM 26/7/08
@mark_n_b: On another forum you're claiming that you're in a wheelchair...
Just what should we believe from you?
[www.escapistmagazine.com]
Radz
ShadowScale
Posted 5:12 AM 27/7/08
Soooooo how did they do booth babes right again?
ShadowScale
goddessakasha
Posted 10:28 AM 27/7/08
@phor11: If it is, they need to go back to the software and do more work on it.
goddessakasha