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Dude, it's been two months. Coming into the thread is a risk you take. There's no set rule on how long things must be spoilerized post-release. In my opinion, it's not even necessary then.

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They should have done two $50 releases. First game up through homicide, the second the rest. Release six months apart.

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Then I'd be almost done the first game!

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Can someone translate this into english for me?

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I thought this was probably true, since they left in a lot of dialogue from Phelps' superiors referring to these kinds of activities when I did poorly on a particular case.

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No need...it is english, just growl which you read it out loud and it will make sense.

If they broke it up into two games based on chuck's suggested break points I'd almost be done the first game.

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I did a case perfectly and still got talked down to right at the end. I'm 3 perfect cases away and a few more miles of driving to be 100% complete with all of the achievements including all DLC. I'm hoping to have it wrapped up tomorrow.

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Finally finished this up on Monday evening. I thought the game was just okay, it had some cool parts to it but I got bored by it about halfway through. Then towards the end I thought it kind of picked up again. I liked the look the game had and thought it was pretty cool messing around in 1950's LA, but I guess the biggest complaint I had was that it didn't even seem to matter how good or bad I did on cases. I think it would've been more interesting if there were different outcomes for doing well or poorly on a case.

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I know it is an evil word, but I figured it warrant a thread bump. Noire is under $25 used in some places. Is there any disadvantage to buying a used copy for 360? Do I miss out on anything? And yes I can live with the shame of a used copy :).

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No disadvantage at all. There are no "New at Retail only" items or cases for the 360.

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^This

The ps3 version however is a different story.

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Just to let you folks know, the used copies are starting to hit $20. I finally picked up a Like New copy from Amazon's Warehouse deals for $20.99 last night. Couldn't hold out much longer and I had been watching it for about a month specifically on there. (All of the sudden it just dropped last night from 25.99 to 20.99). Good stuff, can't wait.

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Just forced myself to finish this last weekend (got it on release day). To say its the disappointment of the year is an understatement.

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Rage would like to have a linear and repetitive word with you.

I wasn't disappointed by L.A. Noire at all, although a branching storyline with consequences would have been nice.

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Just rented this from blockbuster for ps3 and the unable to play it. I run initial update needed to play the game and once downloading and installing it goes to a black screen with nothing happening. I reboot the system and delete the game data utility which has a 1.2 gig update and a Dlc update and then redo the process and the same thing happens. I try this 3 times.

I cant find much online about this. Anyone else had this happen on ps3?

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My copy of the game should be arriving today and the strategy guide I was able to snag from GoHastings for $5 should be at the end of the week. Sadly though, I probably won't be able to touch it until November. Too many game writing commitments ;) but I am still looking very forward to the game.

Edit: Got the game as mentioned. Was really surprised to find that the copy had the film strips as well as the DLC card for "The Naked City". Now I don't know if it is redeemed or not (I would hope that if somebody used it, they would throw away the card) but regardless looks like I lucked out. Like New indeed :)

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Just started playing this game on PC thanks to Steam sales for $12.49... enjoying it quite a bit and played it for most of the day just up until I was promoted to Homicide (about 5 hours according to Steam). It's linear, and my interrogation skills are pretty hit or miss, but i'm loving the different cases and the investigation. It's not quite Police Quest, but still fun. I went back and started reading about some of early posts for when the game was released up until the point where pinata started complaining about spoilers (again?) and figured I should stop there :lol: No issues with driving that people were talking about though, and i'm using a 360 controller on my PC.

I'm enjoying this a lot more then Red Dead, which I couldn't get into at all and all but gave up on. I like somewhat linear games with interesting story lines, so this seems to be right up my ally. Love the style and the graphics. For all the reasons that people have about graphics not being a big deal, you get a game that takes advantage of new technology and would benefit greatly by even more powerful systems.

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One of the problems most people ran into is that it was pushed as an open world game, but there's nothing to do in that world. It would have been better served if it had been stripped of that stuff and just released as a linear detective adventure game.

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I just got this game (thanks Steam Holiday Sale) and am disappointed this isn't in the actual game. I only played 82 minutes last night (I had just installed it and wanted to play a bit before bed) and when I first became a detective, the officer in charge mentioned this'd happen if I screwed up on my cases.

So there's no actual story consequences for botching cases?

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Yes, again! ;) But I'm glad it helped you know when to stop reading.

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It actually helped a lot, given the nature of this game. :up:

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What do you mean there's nothing to do? You get to hunt down pointless collectibles and try to spot hard-to-find vehicle types, all for an in-game reward of nothing.

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I don't know, none of that really bothers me since I never care to do a lot of the side stuff in GTA either which I find boring. I don't see how removing that stuff would make it better; people can just ignore it :shrug:

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:lol:

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With it in the game, people are given the illusion that there's other stuff to do. Therefore it can only result in either people like you who don't care either way, or people who like open world stuff and then consider it a strike against the game.

However reading that it was initially there for a reason, so when you fail a case you're sent out to do menial tasks... that makes sense. This game was lucky to have come together at all.

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I wonder if they'd be willing te reintegrate the menial tasks as either a DLC or expansion patch (along with new cases, of course).

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I believe Team Bondi is shut down, and with the Complete Edition already out I can't imagine there's anything else coming out.

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Really? Did this not sell well at all?

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It sold really well, but from what I understand the studio had a lot of management issues and controversy. A lot of stuff came out about really bad working conditions, and I believe even Rockstar talked about how they didn't want to work with them anymore. From Wikipedia, it looks like they couldn't get funding for their next project so they just collapsed.

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Well that's quite a shame. But it seems Rockstar retained the rights to the IP and even kept some of the Team Bondi staff in the different Rockstar studios. :up:

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Yeah apparently the management team at Team Bondi were a collection of assholes. Some of the stories I've read about that place makes it even more amazing that this game ever came together at all.

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I bought the complete version a few weeks ago from Bestbuy.. and have been playing this week. I am just amazed on how cool this is. I just completed the first homicide case. Too bad there won't be more from the makers.

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Never say never. Rockstar could make it happen.

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Yeah, I doubt Rockstar would bother to hire on former Team Bondi employees and secure the rights to the IP unless they had plans to either make a sequel or similar games to it.

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That would be cool. Anyhow I am still in awe on about how big the world is. I had one of those street crimes on the other side of town and it took like 20 minutes to get there! Needless to say I let my partner drive on the way back.

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I liked it a lot. I ended up doing every last thing to do in the game, even collecting the 20 badges that came as part of the DLC. I'd love to see a sequel from Rockstar.

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So Frank Darabont is now doing a show for TNT called LA Noir. Unrelated, and yet not. Kinda interesting.

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and yet not.


;)

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And means... nothing.