Current Events > Was LA Noire a good game?

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kind of

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No, the gameplay was boring, the story was poorly written, and most of the characters were boring. Also it's open world for literally no reason as there isn't actually anything to do.

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JACKBUTTMOMMY posted...

The opposite of this. Just look at the username.

I did look at your username. All caps. The username of someone constantly told to shut the fuck up IRL because they're a loud mouth.

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I thought it was good but hearing about its development later really soured my opinion.

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Doubt

It is a good game, but flawed. It still may not be for everybody.

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most disappointing game of all time

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Irony posted...

I did look at your username. All caps. The username of someone constantly told to shut the fuck up IRL because they're a loud mouth.

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I loved it. The setting is right up my alley; I love noir stuff and detective stuff.

Yes

Good is the best way to put it actually. Had problems, but by no means was it bad. Really liked it.

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I really liked the story and the gameplay was unique. I enjoyed it. I think it's a "classic" for how unique it is and not necessarily because it was amazing.

I think the issue was that since it was coming after RDR I believe and San Andreas people expected GTA: Cop Noire. When it wasn't really that at all. That was one of the huge criticisms i saw at the time

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I enjoyed it, but I can't really say how good it actually was. Most of the story was fun, but near zero replayability.
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I liked the first chunk of it. But I was thinking man this game is gonna be even better when I get to the Homicide desk. Then it just...doesn't.

It's obvious very quickly that it's some killer framing all of these guys but that's the story so none of it feels satisfying. Then Cole is randomly revealed to be cheating and then he dies by drowning in a sewer and the game barely felt coherent in the second half.

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ArianaGrandSlam posted...

doesnt help that Rockstar advertised it that way, doesnt help that people thought it was something Rockstar made

It wasn't even advertised that way. They pushed the fuck out of the facial animations and facial clue thing.

People assumed that because it had the rockstar logo on it.

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I4NRulez posted...

It wasn't even advertised that way. They pushed the fuck out of the facial animations and facial clue thing.

People assumed that because it had the rockstar logo on it.

Yeah, I remember this-- seemed like every gaming site made a big deal about the whole animation thing.

The facial animation has aged hilariously. They hyped up that you can tell if someone is lying by their facial expressions. Which is technically correct but this just had the actors making the most over the top expressions on their face when they're lying. Like rolling their eyes everywhere and biting their lip.

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Darmik posted...

The facial animation has aged hilariously. They hyped up that you can tell if someone is lying by their facial expressions. Which is technically correct but this just had the actors making the most over the top expressions on their face when they're lying. Like rolling their eyes everywhere and biting their lip.

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When I played it, the on screen prompts didn't seem right.
I'd press a button for like "Ask Question" and the dude would lose his shit and start yelling, made the conversations seem like the dude was unhinged. But I think something happened in the development that explained it.

I still enjoyed the game, the facial animations at the time kind of amazed me really.

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DravenRainrix posted...

When I played it, the on screen prompts didn't seem right.
I'd press a button for like "Ask Question" and the dude would lose his shit and start yelling, made the conversations seem like the dude was unhinged. But I think something happened in the development that explained it.

I still enjoyed the game, the facial animations at the time kind of amazed me really.

The other thing is the game only ever had one 'correct' answer and to make it obvious you chose the wrong one Cole would act like a psycho.

The game just lacked any nuance or subtlety with the investigations.

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It had the novelty going for it with the facial animation stuff, but it had issues. I don't know if they specifically told the mocap actors to be as over-the-top as possible with their facial reactions because they didn't trust their audience to be able to understand subtlety, or because the actors weren't trained and really just didn't know how to act with any subtlety, but whatever the case was, it just kinda ended up looking strange.

And then the game itself just kind of fell apart after a while. The Homicide desk was pretty much the exact same case like five times in a row, and it just came completely unglued after that, to the point that I am struggling mightily to recall most of it. Phelps cheats on his wife for no goddamn reason whatsoever and gets demoted, you take control of another character and have a big action shootout finale for no goddamn reason whatsoever, and then Phelps dies in a sewer flood for no goddamn reason whatsoever.

Also, the open world was completely pointless. It looked good and you can appreciate the effort they put into recreating the LA of the '50s, but, like, what purpose did any of it serve except as background decoration?

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