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[Bluecast]

Why do people give LA NOIRE so much shit around here? It's like every NOIRE film wrapped in one. It's fucking awesome!

[Who Really Cares?]

As i said in the AC topic...


Liked it at first but then it wore off and i saw i had simply played a linear game filled with the same basic mini games over and over and a large world that was only about 5% useful and i could play as badly as i wanted to and still complete every case and simply move on.
The story also turns into a mess and some of the acting [mainly from the main character is just painful] The game also suffers from them changing the options to Lie,Truth and doubt right at the last moment which is why he simply yells at people 9/10 even when you pick truth.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHpj2dYlgpM[/youtube]

[Segata Sanshiro Jr.]

i like it alot, its not a game i'll go through a ton of times but its fun.

I think people just had an ideal that was too lofty. Same with alan wake, which tons of people told me was trash but I loved (and played on wrc's recommendation).

[Clint]

Forza Horizon...loving it.

If anyone has picked it up add me to XBL. Be nice to play someone on it!

[Bluecast]

Better than any GTA I ever played

[Riku Rose]

Why do people give LA NOIRE so much shit around here? It's like every NOIRE film wrapped in one. It's fucking awesome!

Got boring quick and in the end just felt like a tech demo. The story was also painful for so many reasons and the end was dreadful. Also the amount of times that I would press one of the buttons in the interview segments only for him to say nothing like what I wanted him to.

The game had good ideas I just hope they use them in a more fun game in the future.

[Spokane]

I am a bit shocked you like it so much blueman. But I am glad to hear that because I like it a lot too!

PS: Bing Crosby grew up in Spokane.

[Riku Rose]

PS: Bing Crosby grew up in Spokane.

Now then, Now then.

[Bluecast]

All Riku described was every GTA

[Riku Rose]

Yeah I hated the interview segments in Vice City...

[OL]

Yeah I hated the interview segments in Vice City...

If Vice City had interview segments, I imagine they'd involve a chainsaw and take place in a bathroom.

Still playing AC3. Reviews be damned (haven't actually read any, just heard a lot of complaints), I'm having a lot of fun. There are glitches, sure, but none of them are anything I can't get past. Mostly just graphical stuff.
And I'm still, after 20-something hours into it, not sure if I like that freerunning is all done with one button, or if I prefer the previous "high profile button + foot button" method. Seems like there's more precision with the old way, but the new way still works just fine. The gameplay changes like that are all a big series of tradeoffs and compromises. None of it is bad, but I can't really say any of it is necessarily better either.
This all probably makes it sound like I'm kind of neutral on the game, which I'm not. I love it, just as I do the rest of the series, and I'm absolutely having a blast. Just not blind to the changes and flaws.

Also popped in Ace Combat: Assault Horizon this morning, intending on just a few minutes, but ended up playing for an hour and a half. I keep meaning to play all the way through it, so I may have to soon. Excellent game from what I've experienced. Great presentational style, fantastic music, awesome control ideas. It's pretty much the only modern military-themed game I can think of at the moment that I'm really, really enthusiastic about.

[MiTT3NZ]

Like I said in the other topic, I don't think anyone hates L.A. Noire, they just hate that it failed to deliver on it's promises. I liked it, and it's a fine example of the current gen, but outside the missions it had absolutely nothing to it. I'm one of those guys who doesn't like fast travel, but I couldn't help but skip as many journeys as possible coz of how boring driving round L.A. was. I didn't even care about missing out on street crimes.

Segata made a good comparison with Alan Wake. I liked Alan Wake, I thought it was pretty decent (although the lip-synching was fucking atrocious), but it wasn't as good as what the developers initially led you to believe it was. However, in Alan Wake's case, I remember Remedy (it was them who developed it, right?) took the time to come out and say "people are getting the wrong idea about the game, it isn't like this, it's like that". As far as undelivered promises go, L.A. Noire was more akin to anything Molyneux-related. Granted, it would've been difficult to actually meet those expectations, but we have them for a reason.

I defo didn't hate the game though, and I'm actually trying to forget as much as possible about it so I can return to it next year, enjoy it all over again with the DLC, then start mopping up a few achievements here and there.


...and I reckon it was GTA IV that received the most unwarranted hate this season. Fucking brilliant game, excellent online multiplayer, but had an unfair amount of haters because of the high scoring reviews, colour palette, and the friends aspect. Aside from the original, it's actually the first Liberty City-based GTA game I actually enjoyed (that segment in San Andreas doesn't count)

I actually reckon in-game cameras were perfected in GTA IV too. I could never go back to III or Vice City after playing SA coz of the uncontrollable camera, and it was annoying in SA when the camera was also linked to the driving stick (never understood this) I honestly can't think of another game though that has executed right thumbstick camera control as well as GTA IV. And, in a slight arse-kissing moment towards Segata, it had possibly the best and most value for money DLC this gen.

[Bluecast]

Best comparison for me is that every GTA I played III,VC,SA is it's like Madden. It's mostly the same with cosmetic differences bit mostly minor. It just feels the same as the last one I played. So I got bored of GTA very quick. I love sandbox but GTA didn't do it for me. I do want to get Saints Row III. Thinking about Sleeping Dogs but the gun combat is almost a deal breaker

[MiTT3NZ]

Seriously? San Andreas was vastly different from it's predecessors. The formula may have still been there, but it wasn't minor cosmetic differences at all, and added a lot of depth to the series. If anything, it saved it from becoming exactly what you've described it as. Rockstar are a developer/publisher I trust, because they truly take their time with titles so as not to over saturate the market with the same iteration every time. The only time they could be considered guilty of that was with the "Stories" spin-offs, and their original intentions were just to give gamers a portable version of the "III" era of GTA.

[Bluecast]

I owned it for about a month. Played maybe 6 or so hours and got bored and got rid of it. Out of that much it felt same old same old. Also even then those games were butt ass ugly and buggy. So they annoyed me in that respect also.