Red Dead Redemption was criminally good...goddammit Rockstar, stop making good games. LA Noire looks too good to pass up but I'm going to hold off until it's cheap.

Meh.

Rockstar sandbox games = farts in the wind

apparently this game is NOT sandbox like GTA and you don't run over hookers and all that.

fuck that. only unlimited random violence is real.

$27
just put it in.

heard it's a decent game but there's way too many cut scenes so you just watch half the game

I was hoping that was just the beginning. It is way way way dark.

i got it cheap so now i will complain about it yet still finish it.

PROS
- faithful reproduction of 40's LA, film noir presentation
- the most realistic faces yet in a game, great characters and voice acting go with it
- crime scene investigating/cluefinding is hard to beat
- good interrogation branching system
- story keeps you playing, good missions

CONS
- character movement control is abysmal (i know the guy isn't mario, but at least mario can turn around)
- why do they insist on having a seperate trigger to make you run? it's an analog stick, fucking use it. i could be drinking my beer instead of needing 2 hands to move.
- cover system could use a lot of work, mostly because turning around and moving generally sucks
- lame side missions
- chases and shootouts can get boring
- aside from finding cars and points of interest, the city is pretty empty even compared to 2008 GTA
- unreadable map. yeah it's accurate, but you can't even find the tiny white arrow that represents you.
- the game keeps telling me what buttons to press when i'm halfway through the game, stop it
- the cases don't really branch off into different directions but mostly pigeon-holed into solving them one way

pros are enough to keep playing it. it's more of a story-driven cluefinding game but it's no excuse to make the action and exploration second-rate.

I haven't touched it since my post on 7/2

just put it in again

fix'd

"Not trace of semen in the anus, vagina or stomach"

just dusted of

did you put it in, and then dust it off? i never beat this but i think i was real close.

Idk... I got stuck in portal 2 cause of a glitch so I put this back in... I hope I'm getting close. I have a feeling that the black dahlia person might be a person I fought with I the war.

Ok, there are 5 chapters and I'm at the end of the third one.

Just gave the story another run through, would love to see more games in this vein. Definitely agree with ark though... I liked the side missions while they lasted, but it seems a real waste of a roamable city to have only like 3 or 4 different non-story elements to pursue. The film cans are pretty much impossible to find and I got tired of searching for more cars after driving about 2/3rds of em.

Partner-driving is key... "You're behind the wheel!"

Noticed a major continuity flaw this time through; I charged the school-creeping perv with the Moller murder, but for the rest of the Homicide Desk, Phelps and Galloway kept talking like I'd arrested Hugo Moller. Was a bummer considering how well the story elements generally carry through the whole game.

just got this game used the other day. pretty decent so far. plan on trying to beat it within the week so i can return it for full refund

Oh, I fail almost every single interrigtion question. The movie secretary one I had to do 5 times.

Main character cannot control his emotions when he questions people, seemingly for no reason.

"where were you the night of the murder?"

"I was at home."

"CUT THE SHIT LEEROY,

"I was at home"

"oh, so you were at home. ok"


What's the deal with that?

Same thing when he's driving. He's constantly getting mad at his partner. Rage issues.