L.A Noire

[Hanamaru Kunikida]

Trailer for L.A Noire got leaked, and it was supposed to be out on Monday.
http://kotaku.com/5740574/la-noire-trailer-leaked-releases-may-17

Anyways, the game looks really good..Like the link/trailer said, this game is out May 17th.

[Hanamaru Kunikida]

@animeyay (http://www.animeforum.com/member.php?u=229110):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmj6jDnKMEg

Didn't you say you like detective games? Perfect one for you.

[animeyay]

ugh! of course it's gonna be for the systems that I do not own >.>
when can I get rich? T.T

like the fistfight though lol. most of the detective games I played involve brain and only brain, no physical brutality. ;D

[G-FLASH]

I just love the Faces the animation on them are amazing.
Best thing i've seen since Heavenly Sword Cut scenes.

[Hanamaru Kunikida]

I really like it that you need to make your moves carefully for you solve the case correctly. This game is really going to be awesome, it's what the CSI games should be. Heh

And yeah, the fistfights is a good additional as well, to interrogate the suspect. =3

[Hanamaru Kunikida]

http://youtu.be/tYNhs0roxT0

OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG

I want it NOW. D=<

[Aleyna]

I feel your pain @animeyay (http://www.animeforum.com/member.php?u=229110): cause I don't have an xbox as well. >_<

[Mang]

I like these type of games (Detective). So I will certainly pick this one up since Rockstar usually make quality games. I do however hope that it will be better than Heavy Rain but I very much doubt it.... so I don't have my entire hopes up.....

[Hanamaru Kunikida]

I like these type of games (Detective). So I will certainly pick this one up since Rockstar usually make quality games. I do however hope that it will be better than Heavy Rain but I very much doubt it.... so I don't have my entire hopes up.....

Team Bondi, with the help of Rockstar. Rockstar is publishing it.

[darkskies]

Yay not long now until LA Noire comes out, bring it on! I've spent the last few months just waiting for it to arrive here (http://browsergames.co.uk)! :)

[BoldMushroom]

I'm not a big fan of Rockstar Games - I don't enjoy most of their titles as much as most gamers and critics do (though as someone mentions, this game is mostly developed by Team Bondi) - but LA Noire looks like a whole lot of fun. From everything I've seen, the gameplay is unique, intelligent, and not overly saturated with gunplay and car chases; on top of that, the story is cinematic and open-ended without being overly bogged down with cutscenes. I wonder how "open-world" the gameplay is, and whether or not that would be a good or bad thing. I suppose it all depends on how they implement it.

Either way, very excited for this one.

[Hanamaru Kunikida]

Review got leaked:
http://www.giantbomb.com/la-noire/61-21500/la-noire-review-from-guardiancouk/35-495588/


Between cases, you either get a flashback to Phelps' war experiences in Japan or a glimpse into his off-duty life; both those elements end up feeding back into the overarching storyline. The oeuvres of Shelley and even anarchist author Piotr Kropotkin are fed into the mix. Newspapers that you find when hunting for clues trigger yet another backstory (this time involving ongoing LA skullduggery), which yet again intersects with the main storyline in the game's later stages.

The control system is sufficiently simplified that even the most determined non-gamers shouldn't find it intimidating.

Indeed, the more hardcore gamers may carp that it isn't sufficiently action-packed or precise. The one criticism that could be levelled at the game is that the shooting system has been over-simplified so that it feels clunky compared to thelikes of Grand Theft Auto.

From start to finish, LA Noire feels like a film – LA Confidential

As you rise through the ranks, you earn Intuition points, which can be cashed in to eliminate one wrong question-tone (or reveal the location of all the clues at a location). Luckily, LA Noire is pretty forgiving, so if your body language-assessment skills aren't up to CSI standards, you should still get the right result in the end, although you risk a chewing-out from your boss for shoddy police work, which is genuinely mortifying.

The game's pacing and narrative arc impress as much as its believability. The bog-standard detective work, fun though it is, is punctuated judiciously by action sequences including car chases, pursuing suspects on foot, climbing around inaccessible areas, puzzle-solving and, of course, shoot-outs.

[Hanamaru Kunikida]

So I got the game and all, so far, so good.

I really like the interrogating and how it emulates an actual detective case by you gathering a bunch of clues and makes you link it to the suspect. So it's a game that you really have to revise all your resources that it gives you and actually read through them as every bit helps, although when you are showing evidence it does show a small description of the clue, is best to read or speculate the entire clue for better performance.

You are also graded per questions, and those questions are formed by the some clues that you gathered. And by the end of the cause, depending if you got all the questions right and gathered all your clues, you get a reward like your typical mission in any game.

Another point; Actually pay attention at the tone of some of the characters you interrogate and their faces. It's been quite useful, especially the tone of this character in the beginning of the game, won't give much detail of it as I don't want to spoil.

EDIT: Yeah, do pay close attention to their face expressions.

[FluffyDango]

Buying it on Friday, hopefully :D
Getting the Nordic Edition for it, google it.

[Hanamaru Kunikida]

Yeah, I only got the standard edition.

I also recommend turn off the music/chimes because it guides you through the game, as it hints you the whereabouts of the clues. So unless you are a pansy that likes things easy, I sugges turning them off, it's more fun.

[FluffyDango]

Yeah, I only got the standard edition.

I also recommend turn off the music/chimes because it guides you through the game, as it hints you the whereabouts of the clues. So unless you are a pansy that likes things easy, I sugges turning them off, it's more fun.

Well you guys in USA can get so many diffrent editions, so it`s just fair that we in the nordic countries get an edition that you can`t get hehe :P

Of the game Test Drive Unlimited 2 you could get a WallMart edition, Best Buy Edition and many others.
The only edition possible to get here was the Limited Edition.
Well I got the Casino and I`m happy with that, except it doesn`t work how it should :P

[Inactive Account 0061]

mfw NO effing MONEY to buy it D:<

[Hanamaru Kunikida]

The clues aren't actually genetic. This game truly needs a 10/10 for for everything...gameplay, originally, soundtrack.

[FluffyDango]

So apparently the game can make old version PS3s overheat :P
I`m afraid for my PS3 since it`s the 80 gb version.

Well I guess that if it overheats the game will lag, so I`ll be fine if I just turn of the system. Right? :P
And then I`ll just put the game aside until I change to my new 220 gb PS3.

[The Wing Man]

Really groundbreaking stuff.

[Hanamaru Kunikida]

So yeah I finished the game on Tuesday and I can't wait to hit the DLC. =3

I am going to try to get 100% on this game.

[FluffyDango]

Bought it yeasterday, won`t dare to play it until Rockstar admits that the overheating consoles is the games fault and not Sony and fix the problem :P
No other game overheats the PS3 and the 360 overheats too so it`s deffinitly not Sony`s update :P

Argh it really annoys me that game developers use the consumers as beta testers nowadays.

[International 4-8818]

I have been playing the game since it came out and I loved L.A. Noire but I will say that it had a lot of potential to being even better. When I saw the game, I basically saw Red Dead Redemption in 1947 LA. I love the detective aspect and the depth of each case and how missing clues can really make it or break it for a case. The facial expressions and so on are of course amazing. My beef with the game is that the advertised it as a pretty open game when I feel that it is pretty linear. In Red Dead, you had the option of either being a good or bad cowboy (yet it did not affect the storyline) but in this game, you can not kill random people let alone pull out your gun unless in an action scene. Hitting people with your car does nothing but make them magically appear out of harms way except for your partner. Your partner is the only character in the game that can react to a car and be injured or killed. You can't use the trolly system, you can't interact with people on the street (mainly street vendors), no music options for the radio, just one station, weather or day light does not change (only for different missions), no home for your main character, you can not change the camera for your car except for one stupid angle, and there was not the option of either being a good cop or bad cop which I feel would have added a lot more depth to the game.

[Hanamaru Kunikida]

Basically what you said but do take in mind that Rockstart are only the secondary developer, Team Bondi was the big boy on this game and considering it's the first game that they actually made it wasn't that bad. You can't really relate it to Grand Theft Auto or Red Dead just because Rockstar publishing it and giving Bondi a hand on it. And yeah, stuff like the radio was pretty annoying, heck, even Mafia II has that option. Also, about about being a good cop or a bad cop, L.A Noire seems more story-heavy and it relies more on your choices of the cases rather than your actions, but sure, that would of been nice, maybe next time. And if anything, this game is more of a detective game than anything else, and I am not really disappointed with the firefight or the fighfight having no depth as I wasn't expecting any, they are just there to add more flavor to the game and make it more realistic.

My own true concerns about the game are the radio, the camera when driving (using the R/R3 gets annoying and you mostly likely will crash) and not being able to kill people., oh and the side quests are not repetitive and dull. Really, I really wasn't expecting a GTA on the 40s.

I can't really relate this to RDR at all as RDR is a sandbox game, you can either earn fame or infamy and there's actually good sidequests to do. RDR is more an action game.

[Scruffy]

I thoroughly enjoyed this masterpiece of a game. Definitely recommend it to anyone.

[Eris]

I really like it that you need to make your moves carefully for you solve the case correctly.

Nothing is going to beat KGB (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB_%28video_game%29). This game was a damn mine field of decisions that get you shot or sent to gulag.

[Hanamaru Kunikida]

For those who doesn't own a console and missed it, no worries, there's a PC release:
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6320849/la-noire-pc-bound-this-fall-ships-4-million-units

Now we need Red Dead Redemption, lolz.

[Vandet]

I just got my platinum trophy in L.A Noire the other day, was pretty awesome

[MAKASOUL]

I have it upstairs for the xbox and i cant wait to play it but i`v got tales of vesperia to complete first.

[nrL]

I'm so getting this one.