L.A Noire

Trailer

Trailer with gameplay etc

Screenshots

I saw this yesterday and am really excited for this game. Didn't see or find a thread on this so here it is.

I really like the look of the facial features and better graphics. Since one of the things I have always disliked about GTA or Red Dead, was the faces of the people. They always seemed less realistic compared to the environment.

I really like the whole crime solving thing. Since I am a fan of crime shows this game really has an appeal to me.


So are you guys going to be buying this as soon as it comes out (may 17-NA) or is this a let down from previous rockstar games. I'm curious what other people think.

Looks like an excellent game but what do you expect its R*. Also you mis spelt Noire

So I did. Haha fixed.

I really like the older settings in games now. Red Dead and now this. I find it something different and fresh to all the new modern or futuristic setting games.

This game makes me want to get an Xbox. The whole concept looks so awesome! I just love that whole "back in the old days"-vibe it gives you.

Originally Posted by Nico

This game makes me want to get an Xbox.

It is also on the Playstation 3.

Game of the Year 2011? Perhaps it will succeed where Rockstar's last game failed.

THERE IS ALREADY A THREAD FOR THIS MELP JEEZE: L.A Noire

But yours is obviously doing better than mine, so we should keep yours! (also mine is pretty old).

Anyway, yes, this game interests me. I don't know if I'll buy it, but I'm definitely going to try and rent it!

Originally Posted by Andross

It is also on the Playstation 3.

Ah, I thought it was an Xbox exclusive. Well, I'd get an Xbox over a PS3 anyway, I think.

But I searched Like 5 times I'm sowwy. ;-;
Maybe because I was spelling it wrong ^_^;;

I'll be buying it definately. I'm a fan of crime solving so this really hits my good spot.

But that face thing in your thread has been added to the OP.
GOSH I LOVE THE FACES NOW.

At first I thought it was too early for Rockstar to release a new game. After RDR, I would expect more time before their next big game, but I've always liked the idea of L.A Noire, and the game simply looks awesome.
Also, a lot of people seemed to have forgotten that this game (or its idea) had been announced a LONG time ago as a concept CG video. Like during the pre-PS3 e3 conferences. I thought it was long forgotten when R* suddenly put out that recent trailer and went as far as putting a release date for this year. Exciting stuff.

WHY IS THERE NO PC BUILD OF THIS GAME?

It's going to look like **** on console comparatively, and the whole point is a graphical thing.

Originally Posted by Nico

Ah, I thought it was an Xbox exclusive.

It was actually a PS3 exclusive, but a 360 port has been anounced.

Well, I'd get an Xbox over a PS3 anyway, I think.

That's dumb.

Originally Posted by 8bit

WHY IS THERE NO PC BUILD OF THIS GAME?

A lot of developers are dropping PC support for console exclusivity because of digital pirates =/

It's going to look like **** on console comparatively, and the whole point is a graphical thing.

Yes, it will, but raw graphics =/= beautiful game. I'm more interested in gameplay these days, anywhoo.

It was actually a PS3 exclusive, but a 360 port has been anounced.

True dat.

Originally Posted by Radek

A lot of developers are dropping PC support for console exclusivity because of digital pirates =/

Console titles are pirated all the time; it isn't as if there's a significant gap or anything like that.

I blame the success of the 360 (A console coming from the developer of Windows, which has been the OS of choice for most gamers)--a console which has historically seen heavy success in titles that are also available for the PC, made by a corporation that went out of its way to secure console exclusivity for popular franchises once made for the PC (Such as Halo)--for the decline of the PC.

Originally Posted by Andross

Console titles are pirated all the time; it isn't as if there's a significant gap or anything like that.

You need a chipped console, however. PC piracy is much bigger than console piracy. Console piracy requires more work on the pirate's end, especially with avoiding the Xbox 360 military police of doom and their banhammer.

Originally Posted by Radek

A lot of developers are dropping PC support for console exclusivity because of digital pirates =/

Nah, but that's a good scapegoat. The real reason is that publishers don't want to deal with the cost and hassle required to support PC releases of games, when there's a smaller market and more competition. Also, PC players tend to have [reasonably] higher standards. E.g., less tolerance for ridiculous DLC, or lack of dedicated servers for multiplayer games.

Yes, it will, but raw graphics =/= beautiful game. I'm more interested in gameplay these days, anywhoo.

Yeah, but the graphics are the central point of this game. And it'd look so much better with some subsurface scattering on the characters and higher resolution textures.

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Originally Posted by Radek

You need a chipped console, however. PC piracy is much bigger than console piracy. Console piracy requires more work on the pirate's end, especially with avoiding the Xbox 360 military police of doom and their banhammer.

Well, I think in terms of console piracy, the DS is a good example. It's much easier to pirate DS games than most PC games, and yet, it doesn't have the same issues as PC has that are attributed to piracy.

Originally Posted by 8bit

Nah, but that's a good scapegoat. The real reason is that publishers don't want to deal with the cost and hassle required to support PC releases of games, when there's a smaller market and more competition.

It's probably a combination of that and what I've mentioned. You can't honestly believe piracy isn't one of the reasons they are pulling away from PC support?

Originally Posted by Radek

You need a chipped console, however.

Or--in the Wii's case, at least--an emulator.

PC piracy is much bigger than console piracy. Console piracy requires more work on the pirate's end, especially with avoiding the Xbox 360 military police of doom and their banhammer.

I don't know about that. Most people who pirate modern games, I assume, are gaming enthusiasts who wouldn't consider a modded console all that big of a deal, and to them, risking the 360's policies wouldn't be all that big of a deal (Plenty would probably not even go online with the console).

In any case, though, I highly doubt that piracy is why the PC gaming market is in the slump that it is; console title piracy was incredibly heavy two generations ago, and the big boys were able to survive without the tough anti-piracy measures they take today.

I blame the 360 for gobbling up the PC's niche (Note that most big 360 games--at least up until two years ago--are also available for the PC, and that the 360 has historically relied upon genres that the PC market claimed as their own, such as shooters).

Well, I think in terms of console piracy, the DS is a good example. It's much easier to pirate DS games than most PC games, and yet, it doesn't have the same issues as PC has that are attributed to piracy.

I don't consider handheld portables to be the same thing as a home console.

Originally Posted by Radek

It's probably a combination of that and what I've mentioned. You can't honestly believe piracy isn't one of the reasons they are pulling away from PC support?

Why would piracy cause this? Perhaps AAA developers want to thwart the growing indie games scene, however, I'm enough of an optimist t0 assume this isn't the primary reason.

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Originally Posted by Radek

I don't consider handheld portables to be the same thing as a home console.

That's because they're not the same thing. Handheld consoles are handheld. I'm not sure what your point is, though.

Originally Posted by Andross

I blame the 360 for gobbling up the PC's niche (Note that most big 360 games--at least up until two years ago--are also available for the PC, and that the 360 has historically relied upon genres that the PC market claimed as their own, such as shooters).

There is a chance that Microsoft did this with pirates in mind at one point or another.

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Originally Posted by 8bit

That's because they're not the same thing. Handheld consoles are handheld. I'm not sure what your point is, though.

I was talking about the variations in difficulty. (to pirate)

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Originally Posted by Andross

In any case, though, I highly doubt that piracy is why the PC gaming market is in the slump that it is; console title piracy was incredibly heavy two generations ago, and the big boys were able to survive without the tough anti-piracy measures they take today.

The difference between now and then is that blockbuster games take 50+ million dollars to develop.