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We have a thread about the facial technology of LA Noire, but not one for the game itself! This must be fixed.

So, who has it, and what do you think?

I'm in love with this game so far. Just made it to homicide, where the 'real' cases begin. My biggest downfall in this game is if someone else is in the room with me while I play it, because they'll want to talk while I'm trying to carefully listen to this suspect's response to my carefully worded interrogation.

Then tell them to kindly shut the fuck up.

Do you play in B&W or Color?

I'll admit my interest in the game went up considerably when I learned you could play it in Black and White.

It's sitting here next to me. Unopened.

I have to finish Fallout 3 first. I must.

I dream about owning it but Terraria keep me busy. Taking a break from DCUO since I mostly raid and that conflict with my work schedule

Pre-ordered it. Bought it Tuesday. It's flipping awesome.

It's been kinda fun playing it with my girl watching me play, though. When I'm at a crime scene, she'll point out things and ask if I can check them out or not. During interogations, we'll listen and watch the suspect for clues and then (very briefly) discuss whether they're lying or not.

I tried playing in black and white, and while it does give it a unique flavor, I ended up missing the color.

The fact that they scan real actors throws me off when I come across one I recognize. Why is Matt Parkman here?

Stupid platform only game.

yeah.Why do we PC's get shafted all the time.Had to wait forever to play Fable 3.

LordRendar said:

yeah.Why do we PC's get shafted all the time.Had to wait forever to play Fable 3.

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Sales Sales Sales

I can't wait to play this on my shiny PS3.

...when I have a little more money.

Anyone else think this is a little too... easy? I just got done with my third Traffic case and it just seems like the cases all seem to be fairly obvious. The only hard part is picking the right evidence on some of the Lie selection...

AshburnerX said:

Anyone else think this is a little too... easy? I just got done with my third Traffic case and it just seems like the cases all seem to be fairly obvious. The only hard part is picking the right evidence on some of the Lie selection...

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Traffic is the tutorial. Keep playing.

Yeah, when you get to Homicide, it's murderously harder.

ThatNickGuy said:

Yeah, when you get to Homicide, it's murderously harder.

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What is harder?

Ravenpoe said:

Traffic is the tutorial. Keep playing.

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I was under the impression that Patrolman was the tutorial. Still, I'm like 5 hours in... it's a pacing problem, I guess.

AshburnerX said:

I was under the impression that Patrolman was the tutorial. Still, I'm like 5 hours in... it's a pacing problem, I guess.

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Well, traffic is the second tutorial, then. But yes, it's when I got to homicide that it felt like the 'real' cases were beginning.

Traded in some PS2 games to Gamestop, with the 25% bonus they give towards LA Noire, I got it for less than $7.

The second I hit homicide was the second I found it harder and harder to get a read on people. A real fun game and man is the world big.

Seraphyn said:

The second I hit homicide was the second I found it harder and harder to get a read on people. A real fun game and man is the world big.

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Actually, I'm finding the first homicide case rather easy. The guy at the bar was an easy read, as was the husband.

Here's a sort-of hint/maybe cheating way to easily eliminate answers: If you open up the Intuition menu, it tells you how many people got this choice right with help. If it's in the +90% range, it's almost always ether a Doubt or Truth. That at least gives you a 50/50 shot before you spend a point. If it's 50% or below, it's almost always a Lie. This isn't too much help, but it does let you know you may have evidence to contradict the statement.

Also, the Intuition menu is singularly unhelpful if you need to present evidence. If your spending a point, at the very least they could give you percentages on which evidence to present. Just telling you it's a lie doesn't really help you if you have 8-9 pieces of evidence.

I never used an intuition note and I'm on the The Quarter Moon Murders case.

Overall the game is very interesting to play albeit very linear and relatively easy.

Not sure how great the story of this will be to Red Dead Redemption (which I still have a ways to go in and plan to finish before getting too far), but hell, the game is fun to play and Rockstar's made two games in my favorite settings.

The game seems to go easy in the first real interview situation, but damn, the difference made just by finding one more clue. We replayed the last Patrol mission a couple times. Very interesting game.

Jay said:

I never used an intuition note and I'm on the The Quarter Moon Murders case.

Overall the game is very interesting to play albeit very linear and relatively easy.

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Hey, I figured I might as well use them, considering the game gives you so many (why give them to you for leveling up? Give me more clothes, better weapons, or better cars). Plus I'm trying to do a no-reload run my first time. However, the times you would most benefit from a hint are the times when they system doesn't allow it.

For instance, when you question Hopgood in "The Fallen Idol"....

Also, about "A Marriage Made in Heaven"...

AshburnerX said:

Also, the Intuition menu is singularly unhelpful if you need to present evidence. If your spending a point, at the very least they could give you percentages on which evidence to present. Just telling you it's a lie doesn't really help you if you have 8-9 pieces of evidence.

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Whenever I've used an intuition point that led me to select lie, it's always had at least half of the evidence pieces crossed out to help you narrow it down.

Ravenpoe said:

Whenever I've used an intuition point that led me to select lie, it's always had at least half of the evidence pieces crossed out to help you narrow it down.

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... I suddenly feel REALLY stupid. I never checked after selecting the lie!

I don't use intuition points myself, seems more fun that way. And luckily, most if not all cases can be solved even after failing a few checks due to somewhat strict evidence use design (like what you said about Hopgood's case).

God... just from the previews I knew that I wanted to get this game... I've GOT to have some games lying around to trade in SOMEWHERE....

"A Marriage Made in Heaven" - I suck at this game sometimes.

It's something of a puzzle game, just with very different pieces than most. I'd actually like to see more games like this involving putting evidence together and doing interviews, trying to solve crimes rather than push blocks. This may be a game I actually buy DLC for, if I find myself able to trust PSN again.

escushion said:

"A Marriage Made in Heaven" - I suck at this game sometimes.

It's something of a puzzle game, just with very different pieces than most. I'd actually like to see more games like this involving putting evidence together and doing interviews, trying to solve crimes rather than push blocks. This may be a game I actually buy DLC for, if I find myself able to trust PSN again.

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Hey, at least you get the PS3 exclusive mission for free. Really, if you can get the game for any system, get it for PS3. The 360 version isn't bad or anything, but it's not as good as the PS3 version.

As for "A Marriage Made in Heaven", I think that's the case where the game really pounds it into your head that you MUST check the crime scene perimeter for evidence, even if the evidence doesn't seem important. This really comes into play in "The Fallen Idol" and later on. It also makes it apparent that you really need to make sure you go after everyone involved, even if they might be innocent of the crime.

Darryl, just buy the points card at Gamebuy or whatever you usually go to instead of using your credit card. I never was a fan of putting my credit card on any consoles and the recent debacle has made me turn that option off for good with such an alternative.

I didn't know they sold cards for PSN like they do XBLA. I'll do that, thanks.

escushion said:

I didn't know they sold cards for PSN like they do XBLA. I'll do that, thanks.

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Yeah, and theirs are much easier to understand because they don't have that bullshit point system. It's just a ten dollar card, not a 1600 point card.

AshburnerX said:

Hey, at least you get the PS3 exclusive mission for free. Really, if you can get the game for any system, get it for PS3. The 360 version isn't bad or anything, but it's not as good as the PS3 version.

As for "A Marriage Made in Heaven", I think that's the case where the game really pounds it into your head that you MUST check the crime scene perimeter for evidence, even if the evidence doesn't seem important. This really comes into play in "The Fallen Idol" and later on. It also makes it apparent that you really need to make sure you go after everyone involved, even if they might be innocent of the crime.

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FYI, until the Playstation store is back up, we can't even redeem the extra mission.
All that extra stuff is redeemed and downloaded through the PS store, so until that's back up, no extra missions...

Up to the Black Caesar...

OK, now the game is getting interesting. Just finished the Vice desk...

I Own it, and I love Everything about it. I can't wait for the sequel, but I hope it's not rushed out.
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Beat it Yesterday. The ending really seemed to fit the story.

You're just finishing, I'm just starting over after a storm knocked out our power while the game was auto-saving, erasing the file. Luckily the "completion" files were there so I could skip Patrol, but I'm having to redo all of Traffic to get to partway through the first Homicide, where we left off.

I miss when I could just have a Save option in games, not like this and Assassin's Creed where it's all regulated by the game as to when it wants to preserve itself.

If a game doesn't allow you to make your own saves, it should at least have the decency to have backup saves, just in case of corruption.

rathkor said:

I think the lack of a real save feature in this game was intentional. that way you couldnt just save and reload if you messed up. it makes it so you actually have to suffer the consequences of your failures, rather than just using the save feature to get around it. I liked it, and i usually cant stand when games leave out a save feature (like Assassin's Creed 2, which it was my ONLY complaint from that game, outside of DLC complaints.)

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Uh... no it doesn't. It always saves automatically at the beginning of entering a crime scene, but it doesn't save again until after the scene is complete and you've left the scene. All you need to do is ether finish the interview and select quit before you leave the scene or hit the Xbox button on the controller and exit the game. Both let you redo interviews without completely restarting the case.

Finished it up just a few minutes ago...


BTW... what's the last weapon I need to use for the "Roscoe and friends" achievement? I've used the pistol, Thompson, Chicago typewriter, Garand, Shotgun, and the hidden weapon in the final case... do I need to find a revolver somewhere? If so, what mission?

Uhh.. the Thompson IS the Chicago typewriter

CrimsonSoul said:

Uhh.. the Thompson IS the Chicago typewriter

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Not in the game. Thompsons have the military issue box magazines that hold less ammo. The Chicago Typewriter has the big 50 round drum magazines that gangsters love to use. That's the only difference.

And it's coming to PC: http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/06/23/la-noire-coming-to-pc-this-fall/

Who knew adventure games wouldn't do as well as predicted on consoles...

Except it's already sold enough that Take-Two is already talking about doing a sequel, as the considered the release "very successful". Considering how long the first game took and how much money it cost them to make it, that's pretty high praise.

This isn't a matter of porting it to make up sales, this is a matter of Rockstar nearly always making a PC port of it's top games as a matter of course. I know there are already PC ports of all the GTA series (minus Chinatown Wars), Bully, and Red Dead Redemption.

AshburnerX said:

and Red Dead Redemption.

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Someone hasn't been reading the comments from that link i see...

You know, the sad thing is, I bought this on its release date and played the hell out of it for a few days...

...and honestly have barely touched it since. I don't know why. I was really enjoying it. Maybe I just kinda found it repetative after awhile. At some point, I'll pick it back up again, I guess.

ThatNickGuy said:

You know, the sad thing is, I bought this on its release date and played the hell out of it for a few days...

...and honestly have barely touched it since. I don't know why. I was really enjoying it. Maybe I just kinda found it repetative after awhile. At some point, I'll pick it back up again, I guess.

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Pretty much this. It's a solid game.... just not addicting.

I think the episodic nature of the game is both an advantage and a hindrance. On one hand, each story by itself is only maybe an hour... hour and a half, tops. This means it's easy to squeeze in a case when you have some time. On the other hand, it also means that an overarching storyline can take upwards of 5 to 6 hours to complete, which can leave you feeling burned out if you try to marathon it.

I'd rather not play it in 6 hour chunks. I want to make it last. Since I bought it, I've played a case on two or three nights a week, like it's a good TV show. I'm enjoying it this way, though there's not enough cases still. I have two traffic cases DLC to go back to, one Vice case still to be released, and then 5 more arson cases... I want more.

Finished it up last night.


Still have 3 DLC cases to go through, including the yet unreleased one. I really enjoyed this game--I keep seeing reviews pick at it for dumb reasons, like GameInformer saying there wasn't enough action -_-. I was pleased. It's one I'll play through again and I hope they do even more DLC for. And I want a sequel too.

I rented it last week, played a little bit of it, enjoyed what I had... it's got the same problem for me that GTA itself had - the Sandbox element, while liberating in scope, doesn't mesh well with me for some reason...

I will say this, though... with the street calls going out... L.A.'s petty criminal population was CONSIDERABLY thinned during my time on the streets... headshots going out like they were going out of style. *blows smoke off of .45, caught in the light of a desk lamp*

I have a hard time considering this a sandbox game. You're dropped right into the next mission (case) after the previous one ends, and you can let your partner drive you between every scene of interest. There's also not much to do besides the radio call-ins, which are completely skippable.

Yeah, in retrospect, calling it "sandbox" would be a gross exaggeration... don't know what to term it, though... for whatever reason, I was just having a hard time clicking with it, which is a shame, because it really does seem to be a well-crafted game.

I'm glad I'm not alone in these thoughts. It's not a bad game by any means. It's just...not engrossing.

I'm...actually kind of ashamed to say I'm selling my copy today.

Officer_Charon said:

Yeah, in retrospect, calling it "sandbox" would be a gross exaggeration... don't know what to term it, though... for whatever reason, I was just having a hard time clicking with it, which is a shame, because it really does seem to be a well-crafted game.

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Episodic. Each part of the game comes to a narrative close (until the last three missions, and even that's interrupted if you have the arson DLC) so there's nothing urging you to continue right then and there.

For my playstyle, that worked for me. Play a case a night, it had the longevity I wanted and I want more of it. It is a good game, not an addicting one. I'm happy about that. I didn't need another Heavy Rain grasping my attention for six hours straight.

L.A. Noire is only a sandbox game in that they recreated a pretty stunning version of California and scattered tons of stuff to find in it.

- 50 Film reels (I've only found -2- they are so well hidden)
- 40+ Landmarks
- 50 Radio missions (some of which have to deal with characters from previous investigations)
- Badges to find (if you have a certain DLC)
- Hidden cars

But unlike GTA, there really isn't any reason to find these things outside of the XP gain.

I'd mentioned how I was going to sell it. I went to my usual place (BMV Books) and they were going to give me...$15 for it. Screw that noise! So, figuring I was gonna keep for a bit longer, I gave it a second chance.

...I've become re-hooked on the game.