Ah, that specific Epic Developer Fail is a pet peeve of mine. You have to be a special kind of stupid to spend tons of resources on localizing a game to different languages, and then refuse to spend the minimal amount of effort needed to actually give people a way to manually choose the language they want.

Lara Croft is big on the whole "it belongs in a museum" thing though. I saw a treasure room hidden underneath her mansion in Tomb Raider 2 and in Tomb Raider 3

She's keeping it all for herself!

Honestly, i don't know if i scold somebody for using old techniques. Stop motion looks silly of course (and has been for the past 20 years and yes the terror dog running out of the shandor building looked a bit crap which is why they only showed it for a very short scene and that's another thing, most of the time you don't see the dog when it chases Tully and that works also a lot better than what directors today have with quick camera cuts back and forth in such scenes) but i don't think all old techniques are bad because there's CGI. Let's go back to my Star Trek example: I honestly think that the painted wood models look a lot better than the CGI models in the Star Trek TOS remake because they don't look like some cutscene from a video game and that's my main problem, everything is colorful, plastic and fake looking. I haven't seen good CGI in a long time because most of the time they go completely overboard or think "the more colorful, the better" even if it results in a pink light saber for Darth Vader.

So to go back to Ghostbusters:
Take the original library ghost:
https://morganrlewis.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/ghostbusters_pdvd_184.jpg?w=640
It is fucking ugly, certainly looks still somewhat scary (worked better when i was younger, than again even the black Panther from the Garfield goes camping movie scared me to death :D ) and it's not overly colorful. It works really good i think

Now take a look at the library ghost from the reboot:
http://www.bilder-upload.eu/show.php?file=96b8b4-1457033221.jpg
It's way too colorful with the typical "It's a ghost, so make it blue!" thing, the pseudo-seductive look and the overall "it's a model, not a ghost" look. It looks right out of some video game and looks way too good, not scary in the slighest, rather laughable actually.

It really looks dull as hell..... No wonder I haven't seen Hollywood movies from those last years.....

The jokes makes me think of those modern "harmless" sitcoms, duh :(

There are alot of fat women these days who will watch this film because they worship their goddess Melissa Mccarthy who happens to be in this movie.

Plus, alot of white knight boyfriends will have to accompany their girlfriends to this crap movie and pay for it.

I dont think it will flop. It will make alot of money because women will watch it.

We just showed it to my six and eight-year-olds.

They pretty much "meh'd" it.

"We spent tons of resources on localizing the game to your language, now we're going to have to make sure that you will play it in your goddamn language as well!" :P

Although in the case of Ghostbusters that isn't even true. No resources were spent on foreign language voiceovers, there's only English, but you have to play with menus, subtitles and instructions in your localized language (which I don't find any less annoying; and I guess it should be even easier to allow switching those off, in theory.).

EDIT: Maybe I was wrong, I hear the Steam version might actually include German voiceovers as well, even though the game page says otherwise. No idea about other languages. And to change the in-game text apparantly you have to switch the region/language for non-unicode programs, which is annoying but maybe worth it on longer playing sessions.

When that ghost threw up on Chritine Wigg I threw up in my mouth a little. This looks oh so bad.

I know it where two different studios working on it but in both cases Atari was the Publisher, so you'd think they say "wait a minute, this version has a gender option, it should be in that other version too!" but i guess they didn't care.
It's not that big of a deal, i'm a woman so i prefer playing a female character whenever possible but i have no problem playing a male. I just don't really understand why one version has that option and the other don't, different developers or not, there should be cross-talk between those on such things.

Interesting. I was 9 when it came out. I loved it.

My kid is a timid 6. He gets scared at everything in movies. I'll likely wait a year or two still.

It's annoying for sure and i don't want or need subtitles, having them on the screen sucks. It reminds me of all the old DVDs that have hard-wired german subtitles on the english audio track. It always makes me wonder if those people think "Gee, wanna watch it in english? we give you a help with subtitles because surely you don't understand that language!"
The Ghostbusters game has that problem over all countries, it's not just germany and at least the voices are english.

(And it was even worse on the PS2, i had my PS2 set to english which made some guys like Tony Hawk show up in french, since they only had german and french on the disc, no english version available!)
I watched it for the first time when i was 4 or so, my older brother was a big ghostbusters fan which in turn made me a big fan but the first few times, it scared me as hell, the ghost, the terror dogs, the entire ending.
(Then again, the black panther in the Garfield in the Rough movie also scared me like nothing else back then :D )

If you think the comments in this thread a harsh, you should read the one on the YouTube page; it's being savaged. Here's one of the tamer comments:
ShallowDepression1 hour ago (edited)
Why didn't they just go with 4 women, instead of 3?

I commented on there too, the "showing up between masquerade heads joke has been done on the a-team over 30 years ago" and that's the problem: you have middle-aged women doing stupid one-liners, probably written by 60 year old guys trying to be hip and the cgi just sucks big time and overall it just breaks my heart. I rewatched the trailer now (i'm a couple beer and whiskey shots into so i was hoping it would ease my mind and no, just fucking no, this is just an abomination, The bathtub scene was better in Ghostbusters 2, the "evil take over a friend" was better done in countless real ghostbusters episodes because they had at least 20 minutes to make it worthwhile. From the trailer it seems they repeat everything the Ghostbusters movies as well as the Real Ghostbusters show over several seasons did in 90 minutes and that can't work, it just can't

Like that The Last Airbender movie?