L.A. Noire

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I guess this is ten years old. Just trying to play it on Steam is awful. Gotta download the Rockstar Launcher. Gotta update the Rockstar Launcher. Gotta set settings via the Rockstar Launcher, which were ignored by the game. Gotta set the same settings in the game. Gotta watch the introduction movie, which was 5 minutes of:

"Los Angeles.... the city of Angels. The city that's like a live wire. The city of opportunities. The city of flinging pork patties. The city of dreams. The city of possibilities. The city of Lode Runner was the 'gold standard' of IBM PC and 100% compatible. The city of nightmares. The city of corruption. The city of -- "

No wonder the incompetent d-bags in management for Team Bondi were mandating crunch, just to watch the intro movie took up 7 hours of a mandatory 12 hour day.

The gameplay is fine, it's a good detective game so far. But I've NEVER SEEN a game less interested in telling me when it has saved, or letting me save, or letting me know when it last saved or anything. Just ehhhhhhhhhhh quit when you want, maybe you'll replay a scene again maybe not, eff you. This may be the pinnacle of getting absolutely nothing out of a game when you want to stop playing.

[Jizaboz]

"Detective Phipps. I'm going to have to ask you a couple of questions.."

I liked this game but my favorite part was generally the interrogation parts which.. yeah if you don't know the interview is about to end then it auto saves and yr shit out of luck. However, I want to say without spoiling the game for you that basically no matter what you do you in all of your investigations, you end up with the same ending. Just manage to scrape by. That part was the main thing that nagged me. Like bro I can see this train is about to go off a cliff here at the end. We could get off here, or here or.. OK whatever THE END.

It's not that long of a game. I want to say I beat it in 2 weeks tops. And yes, the RockStar Social Club thing is totally stupid and I'm still using my LA Noire Avatar despite playing GTA and Red Dead a couple times a year.

[AArdvark]

I thought it was just a bowl of OK. I was (and am) playing Mafia 2 at the same time so it was a little frustrating not being able to shoot everyone all the time. Also, having to avoid previously played street crime scenes while driving places to advance the story is dumb. It got to the point where I just let my partner do all the driving. Eventually I just used a walkthru to beat it and then found all the cars and put the game away in a drawer

[RealNC]

You're lying, Morgan.

[AArdvark]

Huh, just read the Wiki on this and saw that Team Bondi closed after the release of this. Beating the programmers to death is not a good solution for company longevity. Too bad, I bet the sequel would have been great