Not mine. I loved doing that too. It was extremely satisfying to smash those things into a building in front of the owner's eyes.

It doesn't change the overall story, but it absolutely changes the case you're on.

Unbecoming

This is the Deal of the Day at Amazon - $44.99.

You know, I'm of two minds of the game. As gameplay, it was nothing spectacular. As a narrative, it was very good but not without flaws. As a stylistic endeavor, it was absolutely magnificent. So much about the game I absolutely loved, and so much of it left me frustrated, and more than a little of it left me confused.

I think vision >>> reach on this one, but I was left with an overall positive taste in my mouth. Kind of reminds me of my response to the first Assassin's Creed game. So much to love, but it was draped over a fundamentally flawed (if still somewhat enjoyable) gaming experience.

If they can expand upon the gameplay elements, make the interrogation experience more logical, open up the world a little bit *AND* have the investigation elements less linear and with more lasting consequences on both the character and the world, we'd really have a stellar game.

I'm hoping that LAN2 is as much a quantum progression as AC2 was to AC1.

it is now 39.99 both systems...

one of our own at dvdtalk I guess was in LA Noire...amazing...


http://forum.dvdtalk.com/10816927-post138.html

Although I enjoyed it for the most part, I hope there ISN'T a sequel. I find it refreshing that Rockstar hasn't fallen into the endless sequel trap this generation and I'd like to see them do another new game. Yes, GTAIV was a sequel, but sequels on new hardware don't bother me, and it's still the only GTA game on the current systems.

I want a sequel that is more a hard boiled detective story.

I want a prequel powered by SCUMM.

I believe Bondi is already talking sequel, since the technology created for LA NOIRE is already in place, road tested, and they could do a new one significantly quicker (a lot less than most of a decade) and cheaper.

But I'd only want the right kind of sequel. Improved gameplay, a tighter story, more open-ended and with action consequences to boot.

Well, unless they have to re-use the city assets, I hope they set it in a different era and place. San Francisco during the Summer of Love would be pretty cool.

I'd never finish the game. I'd just spend it chasing down and shooting all the hippie NPCs.

Guys, I have a question about this game, but please no spoilers!

I'm only on the 6th mission, but I encountered a potentially odd situation.

In this case, I needed to go to the house of a dead man's wife and question her. After the questioning, I was to leave and go question the driver of a hit and run accident.

But I didn't leave. I walked around the woman's house looking for clues. I walked up to the telephone, phoned the police dept, and was told to go to the morgue immediately.

So I did. I went there over the preferred second location of questioning the driver.

When I get to the morgue, I realize that the game has been played out of order. Phelps is mentioning information to the mortician about the driver (who I hadn't questioned yet), and that I need to go arrest the dead man's wife for murder (which, up to that point, I hadn't necessarily deduced she committed)

Long story short (too late, I know)--is this game not meant to be played "out of sequence" like that? I mean, if a clue comes up that requests I visit a scene immediately, even before the preferred second clue/witness that's listed in my notepad, should I just ignore that and always do it in order?

It's a Catch-22 for them. You either give the illusion of choice or put the player in a "linear" path.

Obviously the story required that dialog at the morgue even if Cole shouldn't know it. It's the omniscience of the story.

Your best bet is to go down the list of things you need to do. Or learn that crap and play it again later. It's not a perfect game.

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I did the same thing. I think this is the only instance that I can remember where you're told to go someplace immediately, and... they don't really mean it.

Great stuff.

Holy shit! I went to college with the guy playing Phelps! Crazy. It was funny, too!

Thanks. And what about the times when you drive down the street and people are just randomly running down the sidewalk, as if they're running from someone or just committed a crime?

I'm guessing that's nothing--just some random animation of people running?

The pedestrian AI in this game is completely messed up. I was walking calmly through an office building and some guy was screaming "WHAT THE HELL!?" repeatedly.

I know, I'm sick of constantly hearing "You ever hear of soap" or every time you walk into any of the police stations "Bastard confessed even though he was innocent anyway" or something to that extenet.

There is a bit more dialouge than you think though...if you sit on any bench or shoe shine station in the city you'll hear it.

Other than that it's just a bunch of loud shoes walking all over the place.

Change your suit more often. I think that helps with that one.