Trezu said:
currently LA noire for me looks like Heavy Rain plus Mafia 2 but i have yet to play the game and thats what i see when looks at reviews.
I think it looks really good but i don't really wanna buy it to expensive in AUS $110 it costs
so im gonna wait for a while....even though 'Dead rising 2' is still at $90 so im gonna have to wait long time
but i did have questions
What do you think about the game?
Is it Fun and or Interesting?
Immersive?
Would you go back and play it again?
and how long is the game i hear its bout 30% longer then RDR from a Mate.
It certainly feels that way, which is fine since 50% of RDR was traveling anyway. The gunplay is EXACTLY like RDR but minus the ability to target limbs accurately/easily. The other part of the gameplay is what was previously mentioned: a point and click game. Literally. You point where the hand goes, then click(press) X(or the 360 equivalent).
I'll tell you right now that if it really costs $110 dollars you might want to skip this. Might want to skip this anyway, since there's
a big fiasco about how this game is burning out and bricking original model PS3s and 360s. Aside from that, the game suffers from the same issue RDR did: characters being introduced and mostly (if not entirely) forgotten about.
_I won't spoil it, but I will warn you that though the very end of the game is ridiculously written to me with character inconsistencies and revelations being revealed WAY too late for them to matter, the biggest draw of the game was the chance to work on the infamous Black Daliah case and the murders surrounding that unsolved brutal murder. This is actually a really well done story arc (the game has a few arcs), with each case leading into the next until you get to the climax (which I won't spoil). Yet, the climax is
incredibly lame and it's over before you even piece anything together for yourself. Sure this is my opinion, but if you look it up online, like watch a playthrough (which is what I recommend whether you decide for or against the game) you can see it's nearly fact.
So, yeah. My advice is to check it out for yourself if you must, but don't buy it. It's no where near $110 good, that's for sure.
Positive: Some neat features, mostly good acting (as it better be since everyone's into this phase of putting "real" actors into games these days), and you can find yourself having fun after a while.
Negative: Writing inconsistency, plot twists too late, lame climaxes, fan-dividing ending (some like it, others think it's mediocre or shit), and last but not least, the potential to overheat your console to the point where it shuts down. This happens more than once (even once), and you can say goodbye to your console.
Youtube clips to see what I mean about the plot
Link for console-killing overheating issue:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.285099-UPDATE-Sony-and-Rockstar-Neither-L-A-Noire-Nor-Firmware-Overheating-PS3-Consoles?page=1
EDIT:
Geek_DR said:
I have been really enjoying it, although it suffers from the old dialog-options-don't-match-the-intent problem. A lot of the time I'd read a grieving character's face and think they're leaving something out, so I select "doubt" and Cole yells at them out of nowhere. from calm conversation to yelling. Sometimes when you select "truth" it is finalized and the line of questioning ends, other times Cole will good-cop-style ask a follow-up question to fill a blank. so with not obviously hostile witnesses it can be a bit of a crap-shoot between "truth" and "doubt"
OH! And this! MOTHER F***ER
THIS! What the hell was up with that? That pissed me off to no end. Find better titles for the options or reword the options according to the interrogation. Damn did this enrage the hell out of me.
That being said, the world is very engrossing and the characters are fantastic.
Highest praise is definitely the fluidity of the investigations. You miss a clue or a question, you probably still get the guy, but with a bit more legwork, or you might send an innocent man to jail. It really leads to the sensation that you are solving the crime, not just following a set plot. Sometimes you go to one person of Interest or scene before another and it dramatically effects the tone of an interrogation later.
EDIT: and I love the Noir soundtrack. 40s music, Noir-style score. great.
Though the game does push you forward and hold your hand most of the way through, Geek_DR is also true here. Although there were plenty of times when it changed nothing and the characters suggested visiting someone I'd already arrested
"Let's go pay the bums a visit."
Me: I did. We got the guy in the interrogation room at Central. Do you have head trauma?
Oh, and I should've said how good the score was. I don't like the game, but the music is very nice and fits well. But then you could always buy the soundtrack.