LA NOIRE

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Anybody else making a love accident in the pants waiting for this?

Mid-way through "Red lipstick murder" seems like a goodin so far, dont have access to my ps3 until tonight

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Hit and run case, found the knife and accused the widow- she batted me off. Played it wrong. Cornoner gave me the inside track though and I nailed 'em in the end

Just finished that one. Excellent writing and acting.

I really like this game. It's slow moving, but it's really atmospheric and feels authentic. The facial thing is really good but it's sort of obvious at the beginning. I'm guessing witnesses and suspects get a bit more poker faced as you move up the game!

"...it never gets any easier Bukowski"

did you get another copy already notch?

Few of my mates have got it and say its brilliant. Thinking of getting it next week.

Liam_Main wrote:Few of my mates have got it and say its brilliant. Thinking of getting it next week.

what about exams!!!!!

MR. scotland27 wrote:

Liam_Main wrote:Few of my mates have got it and say its brilliant. Thinking of getting it next week.

what about exams!!!!!

judging by your age your doing gcse's...not a lot of revision required

MR. scotland27 wrote:

Liam_Main wrote:Few of my mates have got it and say its brilliant. Thinking of getting it next week.

what about exams!!!!!

Next Saturday MR. Ill spend my weekend chilling after a hard week. I break up next week aswell so i'll probably spend most of the holidays on it.

same liam hopefully ill get it during the week

MR. scotland27 wrote:did you get another copy already notch?

Made a priority of it - I was hooked

I've basically dropped £40. Well, **** happens.

I got my copy, had a lovley day with my daughter, came home sat down to waste my weekend on playstation and saw the yellow light of death. less than amused

Ouch... I've been on this a bit this weekend. Just done the case detailed above and I'm well into the next one. It's a pretty gritty game, well presented but with a few holes.

Like when you drive into something in the car, there's about a two second delay before your partner shouts "LOOK OUT!".

Also, I'm noticing that when a great amount of detail is required during a car chase, the framerate slows quite a bit.

However, this are just minor nit-picks in what otherwide is a terriffic game so far...

Yeah, I had a great physics glitch. I walked towards a door, hoping to open it, only for my character to clip into the side of the house and end up on the roof. His hat fell off and ended up stuck on the roof. Spent about five minutes trying to get it back

It's a fantastic game but it's definitely for a 'mature' audience. They've captured the hardboiled film noir style perfectly! Acting and voice work are way better than I've encountered on a game before.

Absolutely amazing game. Slow to start off with but picks up as it goes, some of the later cases are amazing, been promoted/demoted to the Arson desk, 5 cases to go i think before i finish and start achievement hunting.

From reading this thread sounds like I really need to get it...

Completed it this morning, won't ruin it for anyone but I was disappointed with the ending.

At the start it seems a bit one dimensional...cases are similar and so are the streeet crimes. Hopefully it will pick up once a play a little more.

I just gone up to homicide,the case before was the best by far. Slow starter but definitely hooked now.

7/10 for me

anyone else fed up with the "I can't use this" "that can't help" etc when he picks up a toilet brush or something. WHy pick it up then Cole WHY?? Good game though, up to homicide now

Completed it the other day, and as a fan of film noir absolutely LOVED the ending! And the game. Sets a new standard for storytelling in games imo. The new facial animations help that a huge amount.

I must disagree with you Notch, I found the ending to be rather disappointing. It is a fine game and one I would recommend to most. Even if it does go Investigate > Question > Action rigidly throughout the whole game.

This game is brilliant but there's is a lot that can be improved, not got time to go into detail just now, but the driving for a start.

Is it me or is there no handbrake?

Right Bumper.

Got £30 trade in at gamestation for this game. Not a bad price really.

AquaArab wrote:Got £30 trade in at gamestation for this game. Not a bad price really.

That's a good price. Going to wait till the next two DLC come out (Nicholson Electroplating and Reefer Madness) come out before trading in/selling the game.

Wonder if they'll release anymore DLC hopefully for the Homicide and Arson desks as they were my favourites.

Recon the DLC will be expensive for this? If it is, I'm just gonna flog it.

Wasn't sure about the ending myself, is there any alternate ones?

Don't think there are any other endings which is why I traded it in. Once you have played it you know how it ends and pretty much how all the cases will pan out as well.

Pr4wn wrote:Recon the DLC will be expensive for this? If it is, I'm just gonna flog it.

Each DLC case costs 320 microsoft points and their are four of them.

I decided to purchase the rockstar pass which includes all four DLC cases, 2 extra suits and a weapon for 800 microsoft points.

K-PX0110 wrote:

Pr4wn wrote:Recon the DLC will be expensive for this? If it is, I'm just gonna flog it.

Each DLC case costs 320 microsoft points and their are four of them.

I decided to purchase the rockstar pass which includes all four DLC cases, 2 extra suits and a weapon for 800 microsoft points.

If anyone is planning to play DLC then the pass is the way to go, i'm getting sick of waiting for it though, the fourth one isn't out until July 21st.

L.A. Noire's Nicholson Electroplating DLC is now available on Xbox Live.

Just started playing this last night.

One word...epic.

Really? I'm tempted to get it.

1. It’s a Rockstar game, so storyline and characters etc are hugely important
2. The graphics are immense, the animation for the characters is the closest ever seen to real life.
3. It just feels right, immediately you can get into it, it builds slow but just at the right curve to keep you involved.

The scored is excellent, the voice acting is superb, you will recognise some of the actors if you're a series/film enthusiast, the story is very well done.

I really enjoyed it but I found the ending to be a bit of a letdown.

Pr4wn wrote:The scored is excellent, the voice acting is superb, you will recognise some of the actors if you're a series/film enthusiast, the story is very well done.

I really enjoyed it but I found the ending to be a bit of a letdown.

Would agree about the ending, definately a game i would recommend, graphics/animation is amazing, setting's and storyline are great.

I'll be starting the DLC missions tonight.

'Reefer Madness' Vice Case is now available on Xbox Live.

A game that does a lot of things well but nothing great is what sums up LA Noire, so much potential and it just fails to hit any of the high notes. Its a very solid game and the type of game that should be used as a template for future games.

The motion capture technology was the one stand out performance in the game and is definitely a great step in the right direction. Essentially the game is far to easy and no where near as clever as the developers though it would be. To much leading by the hand and simplistic puzzles that seem like your doing a Jigsaw except you've picked up the one aged 8-9.

Then again simplistic gaming is not just a problem LA Noire suffers from, you just have to look at the hype Uncharted has received to see where the gaming industry is failing.

7/10

Got promoted to VICE a few weeks ago, but haven't played it since. I think a truely great game should keep you engrossed till then end. I have never really felt that strong urge to play it like I have with other games. I'm not really sure why either. One thing I do know is that I really hate the travelling from one place to the next. The driving is nowhere near as fun as in GTA or as on horseback in RDR.

Driving was a major drawback in the game. Didn't really notice anything that could be classed as a "puzzle" except the maze...and I hate mazes

The maze was horrible. I must have spent at least half an hour trying to get to the middle of it. I kept ending up on the outside no matter where I went!

The maze was a nightmare.

I got this for Christmas 2011, and was really looking forward to it...but the slow start, plus poor driving mechanics, led me to putting it aside.

20 months later, and I am in love with this game! The searching for clues bit is time consuming, but you have to do a good job for your interviews to go well. I have to say though, it's much harder to read people's faces on a game than it is IRL.

About halfway through the game now, then I can get onto the DLC

I liked it initially but it just turned into such a Dragon's Lair style game (please let someone else remember that game) with it feeling a lot of the time like you were watching the game rather than participating in it.

Is there an LA Noire 2 coming out in 2014?

I don't remember that game, but you're right, it does feel like you're incidental to the game rather than part of it. Perhaps that's why I'm enjoying it so much?

Dragons Lair was insanely difficult. You basically had move the joystick at the exact nano second to get the response you needed or you were dead. It was at least £1 per go when arcade games were around 20p per go.

It was a proper cartoon.

That game is 30 years old you know!

John wrote:Is there an LA Noire 2 coming out in 2014?

I don't think anything is confirmed.

Is it possible to still complete cases even if you get 0 questions right?