****Official L.A Noire thread****

It is.

I finished it last night. Not what I was hoping for.

Good game though overall, 8/10 IMO.

The technology used here is groundbreaking. What I'm waiting for now is a game to come along with a more compelling story to put it to better use.
 
Spunkey said:
It is.

I finished it last night. Not what I was hoping for.
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I'm still at what I hope are the latter stages of the Vice desk. Doubt I'll play it much today, if at all. When I got it on Thursday I was hugely excited, but by Saturday it just felt like a chore playing it. It's a good game, I commend the developers for trying something different and I know pretty much every game has an element of repetition involved but this is just too monotonous. I was saying to a friend yesterday that there always seems to be one piece of easily obtainable evidence that absolutely blows the case wide open and it's always something really conveniently placed that would never be there in real life. I think I would feel better about that if they just made more effort on certain things.

Firstly I'd have liked to spend more time as a bog standard cop instead of just a couple of training missions at the very beginning of the game. A friend was telling me about having to rank up and about having to progress through the levels to make it as a detective, this was before the game was launched and I said to him I bet it will just be two or three tutorial missions at the very beginning of the game and the rest continues like normal, which is exactly what happened so there was an element of disappointment there for me. Secondly I think like most other games that use the RAGE engine they should have implemented the clock a bit better. Made it so that for example if it was 9-5PM you'd have to go to a witness/suspects place of work, if it was after that you might find them at home or at a bar which they're known to frequent, going places at different times has different people there and different ways of finding out information. The game feels too linear for me.

I would have rather had more focus on actually working your way up from lowly cop all the way up to detective, the Homicide cases expanded and made less repetitive and had that as the main game, instead of the various "desks". I don't feel I've made much of a connection with any of the partners apart from Rusty, and that is mainly because every few hours I get a brand new partner which totally kills any feeling that I had for them. The game does get it right in places for me though, I absolutely loved the parts leading up to the end of the Homicide cases, I won't spoil anything but for those that have played through already I'm specifically talking about the part which begins with having to visit a fountain...

What royally ****ed me off though was the actual ending to the Homicide cases... talk about a let down. :/
 
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K1LLSW1TCH said:
Are they in the style of GTA 3/Vice City/ San Andreas where you just have to drive around until one "appears"?
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Well the guides suggest that they're parked up but so far I haven't found one that I'm after just sitting there so yeah it's very much wait till one drives past in a given area :(
 
K1LLSW1TCH said:
I don't feel I've made much of a connection with any of the partners apart from Rusty, and that is mainly because every few hours I get a brand new partner which totally kills any feeling that I had for them.
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Completely agree. The character development as a whole was a big miss. I found myself not really caring about the central character, and when the whole Elsa affair thing happened, it was over and done in about 2 minutes and that was it. Yet, the guys life was supposed to have been turned upside down, lost his family (who you'd never even met, seen or even heard talked about and yet you were supposed to care) and he'd been busted down to arson. How does he deal with this? He quietly walks into Elsa's aparment. Great. Next case.

I absolutely loved the parts leading up to the end of the Homicide cases, I won't spoil anything but for those that have played through already I'm specifically talking about the part which begins with having to visit a fountain...
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Agree again. This is the best bit of the game.

What royally ****ed me off though was the actual ending to the Homicide cases... talk about a let down. :/
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It's recurring theme in this game. You have a long fuse burning to what you hope is going to be a massive explosion, and it turns out to be a ***** little bang.
 
Spunkey said:
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I'm glad that at least you agree, so I can't have been that harsh in my assessment. Don't get me wrong it's a good game and for some people it will be their game of the year, I can see why but I was just expecting something a little more varied with more thought. I heard it was pulled from a different developer a few years into it's development and then re-made, you can tell because in certain areas it feels rushed where more thought would have led to a much better experience for me personally. The developer obviously has a lot of talent and a load of good brains, not to mention some help from Rockstar who are one of my favourite developers so I'm absolutely certain they could have added things to this game which I thought would have made it a much better experience.

Still I'll finish the game off and wait for the DLC depending on price, if it's TLAD and TBOGT type DLC then that's fine, if it's crappy Mafia 2 style DLC then no thanks.
 
although ive been enjoying this game , i also feel like its also become a bit of a chore getting threw it!

I find it very linear , which i thought was not going to be the case when first checking out pre-release game info.

I know its not the same type of game to red dead but its not a patch on that ,and i feel they should have taken a heavy rain type approach where the game can take different routes based on decisions?
 
Anyone bought L.A Noire Rockstar Pass? From my understanding it gets you all the DLC + upcoming for 800msp?
 
Just got all 95 cars!!

Gonna go all out to 5 star the remaining cases and get all film reels to get platinum tomorrow :cool:
 
PiKe said:
Anyone bought L.A Noire Rockstar Pass? From my understanding it gets you all the DLC + upcoming for 800msp?
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I did, I love LA Noire so 800msp for three cases, three suits and a gun weren't too bad. Two of the three cases are being released in mid june.
 
Just got my platinum trophy, anyone who's got the game on the 360 tried the DLC yet?

Bloody PSN store still down :(
 
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