convore.json/groups/take2/la-noire/messages.json

[{"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1304578079.190357, "message": "Rockstar, *not a GTA style game*, a detective adventure game, with (seeimgly) good writing, acting and visuals.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 925489}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1304577992.1086071, "message": "So\u2026 how should I feel about this?", "group_id": 9493, "id": 925459}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1304578711.5743999, "message": "Ahaha.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 925656}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1304578093.671382, "message": "tl;dr: Pretty good.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 925495}, {"user_id": 32057, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1304578471.1439259, "message": "Also it's has been compared to Police quest :)", "group_id": 9493, "id": 925587}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1304578782.3092871, "message": "> CUFF MAN BEHIND BACK", "group_id": 9493, "id": 925683}, {"user_id": 31852, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1304584771.2602849, "message": "I'm definitely intrigued. Especially since it's not a GTA clone.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 926465}, {"user_id": 31753, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1304616179.3644991, "message": "I'll definitely be getting this, but only after I'm done with The Witcher 2.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 932011}, {"user_id": 32692, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1304972564.870724, "message": "I think most players are in for a surprise when they buy this game, thinking it's another Rockstar drive-about.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 977252}, {"user_id": 31753, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305004945.8602171, "message": "I'm quite happy that it's not a typical Rockstar game actually. I've many times attempted to get into the GTA games, with various levels of success, but I never last very long.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 985160}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305016197.8943939, "message": "I'm definitely excited for this. AAA games that try something radically different are rare.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 986806}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305017992.5342031, "message": "I think the one disk version is going to win out for me, in that case.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 987077}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305017486.78269, "message": "L.A. Noire hasn't really piqued my interest yet, but I may well buy it eventually.  I think I may wait for a Digital Foundry face-off, though.  I don't like the idea of two disk swaps on the Xbox 360, but given R\u2605's history, the technical differences between the Xbox and PS3 versions might be\u2026\u00a0complimucated.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 986965}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305017646.66524, "message": "Rockstar normally do a good showing on PS3, don't they?", "group_id": 9493, "id": 987001}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305018154.1655741, "message": "Oh. Then, yeah, that's not even a thing.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 987103}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305017821.4742789, "message": "Their last few games have had very different looks on the two consoles, such that a direct, simplistic \"this one is better\" comparison becomes hard.\n\nI think for both GTA4 and RDR the more-or-less consensus was that the Xbox 360 versions were technically better (running at a higher res, among other things), but that a lot of people may prefer the look of the PS3 versions.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 987043}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305018050.381366, "message": "Well, at any rate, they've promised it'll be two single swaps, not a lot of back-and-forth.  Which I'd probably be willing to put up with for notably better visuals.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 987090}, {"user_id": 32692, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305019600.66166, "message": "The performance of GTA4 and RDR aren't really relevant -- LA Noire doesn't run on Rockstar's engine, but a proprietary thing from Team Bondi (who have experience in developing PS3-exclusive games.) All the demos I've seen were on PS3, so I expect that to be the slightly better version.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 987511}, {"user_id": 32282, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305021461.49734, "message": "I'd probably be more excited about this if I had never played The Getaway. Shudder.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 987870}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305024639.9520831, "message": "I didn't know it was a new engine.  Interesting.\n\nAlso didn't know about the Getaway link.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 988078}, {"user_id": 32282, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305024865.46137, "message": " Yeah, this was originally going to be a PS3 exclusive and Sony funded at least some of the initial development (IIRC).\n", "group_id": 9493, "id": 988091}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305054233.3879919, "message": "(How'd you manage to post in a different font?  I guess I should RTFM\u2026)", "group_id": 9493, "id": 994523}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305056810.3225341, "message": "Given the lack of text wrap, looks like some sort of CODE tag. *But how?!*", "group_id": 9493, "id": 995101}, {"user_id": 32282, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305057362.9493041, "message": "It was a mistake - I copied and pasted some text and that happened", "group_id": 9493, "id": 995208}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305104390.306608, "message": "Sure, I meant by default!", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1004163}, {"user_id": 32057, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305103451.1243401, "message": "You can wrap the the text though, top right of his post.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1004023}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305111684.8744531, "message": "I had a look at the L.A. Noire videos on Xbox Live last night.  Still can't say the game really grabs me, but\u2026 after RDR I'm more than willing to give Rockstar the benefit of the doubt.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1005832}, {"user_id": 32692, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305115775.6957419, "message": "Well, they keep pitching it as an action/open-world game with other elements, but I keep hearing it being compared to Phoenix Wright. (Which is great!)", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1006639}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305117456.571454, "message": "Well, it's quite clear from the videos that the sleuthing elements do play a part. And I do like the fact that the facial animation is subtle enough for you to pick up clues from characters' expressions\u2026", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1006851}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305134847.7380061, "message": "Well, I had enough faith to preorder, so let's hope it's good.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1010733}, {"user_id": 32692, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305210583.275588, "message": "This is going to be the new Assassin's Creed 1.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1024922}, {"user_id": 32282, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305265746.8032041, "message": "Reviews are starting to trickle in: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2011/may/13/la-noire-game-review Also 10.10 from OXM", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1036226}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305266498.8801751, "message": "So *not* the new AC1 then.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1036398}, {"user_id": 31753, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305267473.8971291, "message": "Did the Gaurdian pull their review, the link now throws up a 404.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1036572}, {"user_id": 32282, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305268777.605159, "message": "They must have broken an embargo", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1036831}, {"user_id": 31753, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305272044.0939381, "message": "Yeah, it also seems Google's cache doesn't have it viewable yet either. Oh well.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1037661}, {"user_id": 32692, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305277068.9561789, "message": "AC1 had some glowing reviews. Basically, this is going to be a game that will sell very well based on the marketing, but a large proportion of the audience will hate it. The backlash is going to be incredible, considering how many people are going into this thinking it's Ye Olde GTA (and it's absolutely not).", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1038663}, {"user_id": 32282, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305279687.2423501, "message": "I think Heavy Rain might also turn out to be a good reference points. Hopefully the voice acting is better, though. And I hope the shooting and driving mechanics are better than the Getaway.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1039182}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305411800.5300851, "message": "Here's a working Google cache of that Guardian review: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en-gb&oe=UTF-8&q=cache:9EjXLNHmP_gJ:www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2011/may/13/la-noire-game-review", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1055625}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305490277.203146, "message": "L.A. Noire is to be the first game to be \"screened\" (how?) at the Tribeca Film Festival: \nhttp://ingame.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/03/29/6370186-la-noire-to-be-first-game-screened-at-tribeca-film-fest", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1062974}, {"user_id": 31852, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305616391.51214, "message": "I won't be getting this on Friday -- I just have too many other games I'm currently busy with -- but will definitely pick it up sometime soon.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1079678}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305615165.3306739, "message": "Seems reviews are out.  You know where to find 'em.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1079514}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305615858.959758, "message": "Eurogamer:  \u201cL.A. Noire resembles a cross between GTA, Ace Attorney and Heavy Rain \u2013 and it's almost as interesting as that makes it sound.\u201d", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1079576}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305616868.2827849, "message": "Averaging a healthy 90% on Gamerankings.  Lots of 9s and 10s.  Eurogamer's 8 comes in on the low side.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1079815}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305616714.897583, "message": "I guess I will get it soonish.  But as I've said on Twitter, I'm keeping *at least* next week open for DiRT 3.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1079772}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305616601.7767041, "message": "I'm so excited to play this tomorrow. :D", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1079739}, {"user_id": 31753, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305618935.9751151, "message": "I'll definitely pick this up, but right now I'm putting all my time aside for Witcher 2, which I took delivery of this morning.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1079981}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305654400.6526959, "message": "Delay on my Amazon shipment. :(", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1085525}, {"user_id": 31866, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305679197.7415609, "message": "Seems like I was doing such a good job of avoiding news about this game that I completely missed the release date! This week already?! Need it!", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1090493}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305684281.172287, "message": "I really wanted it today. *Sniff*", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1091655}, {"user_id": 32692, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305721609.396867, "message": "Grabbing it on Friday, playing it on ___?", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1096393}, {"user_id": 31852, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305753943.1828051, "message": "http://support.rockstargames.com/entries/20127883-ps3s-shutting-themselves-off-while-playing-l-a-noire\n\nQuote:\n**********\nQuestion: My PS3 turns itself off when I am playing L.A. Noire.  What can I do?\n\nAnswer: We have received some reports of PS3s overheating while playing L.A. Noire or beeping three times before shutting down/turning themselves off, mostly on older 60GB and 80GB fat models. \n\nPrimary reports seem to be that updating to firmware 3.61 will cause PlayStations to overheat. There have been various reports of this on a few different games now, all reporting their PS3s turning off or \"Red Lighting\" after having installed 3.61. This can range from games randomly freezing to PS3s turning off anywhere between 30 mins use to 2 hours.  We have confirmed locally that multiple games (Rockstar and non-Rockstar) overheat or freeze only when 3.61 is installed. ", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1103438}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305779501.46191, "message": "Anyway, time to head home and try this and/or blow up my PS3.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1107777}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305779469.9917459, "message": "Jesus. Fucking. Christ.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1107771}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305800021.934999, "message": "LA Noire is ... interesting.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1110108}, {"user_id": 32282, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305804311.7751989, "message": "Xbox 360s too apparently: http://www.next-gen.biz/news/report-la-noire-to-blame-for-consoles-overheating Think I'll get the PS3 version and not upgrade my firmware until a patch comes out", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1110401}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305880571.8797071, "message": "IT'S A CONSPIRACY!", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1122763}, {"user_id": 32057, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305888853.9953051, "message": "More here http://www.lazygamer.net/ps3/rockstar-blames-sony-for-l-a-noire-glitches/", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1124216}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305889776.1842871, "message": "http://www.next-gen.biz/news/rockstar-sony-issue-joint-statement-on-console-overheating\n\nJust totally random.  Pay no attention, gamer.  Now move along.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1124293}, {"user_id": 32692, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305890017.363097, "message": "It overheats the PS3, it freezes the Xbox -- I bet it'll be just right on the Wii 2.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1124316}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305893742.816869, "message": "IT'S A CONSPIRACY!", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1124853}, {"user_id": 32282, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305918261.70871, "message": "Yar, I'm not really sold on this game after two and a half hours....more news at 11.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1129214}, {"user_id": 32282, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305928606.2576489, "message": "Ok, it gets bettef further in..", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1130970}, {"user_id": 32282, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305938134.4316261, "message": "The contrarian Tom Chick: http://www.honestgamers.com/reviews/9397/LA-Noire.html He's a bit unkind, but not completely wrong.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1131480}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305958869.8516879, "message": "... but I really want to keep playing. I guess I'm just taking to the slow and methodical gameplay as a ... change of pace, if anything.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1132904}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305958828.6126981, "message": "It's a very strange game. I'm on the first Homicide case at the moment, so, maybe three or four hours in. I find the clue searching tedious, the interrogations inscrutable, and the action sequences repetitious.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1132902}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305959036.7935081, "message": "My biggest annoyance is that I don't like any of the characters. It's also a pity that the stunning faces are paired with some very awkward body animation. Also the generally flat lighting just makes me miss how pretty Heavy Rain was. Still, it's great seeing new games of the sort at all!", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1132908}, {"user_id": 31852, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305981505.0821929, "message": "Clint Hocking does NOT like this game. http://twitter.com/ClickNothing/status/71100717657628672", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1133696}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1305990584.673527, "message": "My impression is that this game is getting a whole lot more attention from non-gamers than gamers.  Case in point:\n\nhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/may/20/la-noire-psychology-detective-phelps\n\nInterestingly (and I'm far from the first to point this out), a lot of woman gamers seem really to enjoy it.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1134425}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306006348.9864969, "message": "It's *very* much a non-gamer's game, which is a polite way of saying that all of the mechanics are slightly broken.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1136127}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306007811.8806131, "message": "There's a lot to enjoy here. The actual premise of the game is pretty solid, but *most* of the design choices seem to be just short of greatness. I think I would have preferred a more directed, cinematic experience in-between crime scenes, I'm not convinced that being open world really fits it, as you're essentially only moving between very rigid locations, triggering highly scripted events.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1136282}, {"user_id": 33318, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306012604.503845, "message": "All this game has taught me is that I'm a terrible detective.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1137027}, {"user_id": 32692, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306026211.33551, "message": "@ZAnimus Clint Hocking's probably not someone you can expect to deliver a rounded opinion here -- he pretty much considers any game that emulates film or fails to dramatically differentiate itself from other mediums as a failure. (The funny thing is, Far Cry 2 is *kinda* like a kitsch Heart of Darkness.)", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1139113}, {"user_id": 32282, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306094418.1970589, "message": "Ok, now that I'm 13 cases into the game, I am a bit puzzled by the universal praise. The only aspects of LA Noire that I am finding to be excellent are the voice acting and the facial animations. But the gameplay is repetitive, contrived, rigid and half-baked. It's more like playing a guessing game than doing detective work in many cases. The main character is a dour jerk; that's fine, but give us some sympathetic or humorous hook if we must spend 30 hours with the guy. The writing is also just not quite good enough for the game's cinematic ambitions - it's decent for a videogame, but rather humourless and flat compared to its inspirations. I'm left wondering why I shouldn't be watching LA Confidential or Boardwalk Empire instead of watchign a game that is about on a par with Law & Order: Criminal Intent in its writing and plotting. And Bondi would've done itself a huge favour getting rid of its rather drab and empty open-world and focusing on mise-en-scene the way Heavy Rain did for each of its sequences. Action gameplay is weak, as well. It's worth seeing the facial animation technology and the game is a nice change of pace over most of the stuff we get from the big studios, but it's really not a 95% game, more a 70% one. Methinks a lot of people bought into the hype when they were revieiwng this.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1143706}, {"user_id": 32282, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306094456.152452, "message": "Is there a way to paragraph text on this site?", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1143714}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306095755.37305, "message": "Shift-Enter.\n\nYour opinion seems to overlap greatly with Tom Chick's.  Starting to wonder whether I should bother with this at all.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1143827}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306102076.9391301, "message": "Badlander just summarised all the problems I have with the game. The open world is wasted, the mechanics (especially the action ones) are clunky, repetitive and broken, the facial animation is great but ridiculously over-exaggerated, and doesn't help fix a bad script and terrible secondary animation. \n\nFor a game that styles itself on film, all of the cutscenes are boring both visually and in content. I'd never purport that David Cage was a great director, but if we're going to compare film like experiences, Heavy Rain puts this game to shame.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1144647}, {"user_id": 33318, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306103848.205966, "message": "I think I pretty much agree with you lot. I'm very confused why this title has received all this praise. Yes, I've only just inserted disc 2, but the repetitive style has already taken shape on the first disc. Rather disappointed. I love linear games, but I have to agree with Darric - Heavy Rain puts this to shame. One last thing. Yes, I know that the facial animation is absolutely incredible... But why on earth are people going on about the graphics? It reminds me of Max Payne, which would be great if it was 10 years ago...", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1144903}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306106287.601248, "message": "I'm glad someone else is pointing this out. It's not the model detail itself, but the lighting in this game is *really bad*, and makes the characters look flat.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1145385}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306126489.5378301, "message": "http://i.imgur.com/0qATn.jpg", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1148501}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306132776.3876729, "message": "Now I KNOW I'll hate it.  Charlie Brooker loves it:\n\nhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/23/gaming-makes-hollywood-look-embarrassing", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1149321}, {"user_id": 32282, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306139258.5997009, "message": "And Darric, I'd agree David Cage does understand film a bit better than Brandon McNamara. The way every scene in Heavy Rain is composed - from the lighting to the props to the camera angles - shows a mastery of cinematic language that is missing in LA Noire.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1150246}, {"user_id": 32282, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306139050.9038351, "message": "Remember when CD-ROM was an amazing technology and people were raving over Phantasmagoria and Mag Dog McCree? I pretty much see LA Noire as the latter-day equivalent. Maybe the visuals are  more sophisticated but the game design and gameplay isn't.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1150231}, {"user_id": 32282, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306161464.4901271, "message": "http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-la-noire-face-off", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1153231}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306218848.3465731, "message": "I like the comparison to early CD-ROM gaming.  **MULTIMEDIA!!**\n\nI'd been waiting for that face-off.  Now I'm not sure I care anymore.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1162460}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306219686.8234739, "message": "So, summary:  It's reeeeasonably close, but still a very definite win for the PS3.  Couple of things:\n\n* It seems DF is pretty convinced it's a variant of the same RAGE engine as GTA4 and RDR.\n\n* Same issue with shadows as Far Cry 2, with the 360 doing dithering while the PS3 uses hardware-based PCF.\n\n* You have to swap discs on the Xbox EVEN IF you install the whole game to hard drive.  WHY?  Why can't they follow the same procedure as, say, Forza 3 \u2014 where only the first disc needs to remain in the drive if all discs are installed?", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1162633}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306228134.9411609, "message": "Five more cases to go. I AM SO BORED.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1164128}, {"user_id": 32282, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306247871.029403, "message": "At least the story starts to go somewhere on  the last homicide case...", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1166556}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306257593.418714, "message": "I'm at the awkward position (at the end of Vice) of having not really followed everything, so I don't really have any idea what's going on in a larger sense any more. I'm pretty sure it's all boring though.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1168220}, {"user_id": 32282, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306258963.0540121, "message": "Sorry I meant at the end of vice something finally happens.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1168466}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306263095.146765, "message": "Right, yeah, I just did that. If anything that sequence just betrays how poorly structured the narrative in this is, as that entire sequence is set up with no precedent, and plays out without any emotion.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1169246}, {"user_id": 31866, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306335792.224503, "message": "Wow, this is not how I expected this thread to go. I watched the gametrailers review and while they have mostly praise to give the game, the bit of gameplay outside the actual case solving and interrogation parts look extremely dull. So this slips down to my get-it-once-discounted list for now.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1179416}, {"user_id": 32692, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306336855.991859, "message": "I still haven't played this, which is why I haven't been able to tell everyone how wrong they are. Just be patient, everyone.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1179607}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306344043.036701, "message": "I bet you'll *love* it.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1181137}, {"user_id": 32282, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306355187.2475469, "message": "And that's a wrap. The last quarter of the game is actually not bad at all. If the game was half as long and ditched the open-world stuff competely, it would have been better off, though.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1183927}, {"user_id": 33318, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306430765.8700249, "message": "Right, quite far into disc 2 L.A. Noire has just gone up a notch... Actually a few notches to get me really intrigued.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1194283}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306443342.205641, "message": "Vice?", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1196098}, {"user_id": 33318, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306450482.537142, "message": "Yup", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1197210}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306465091.318969, "message": "It was definitely a welcome change after the drudgery that was Homicide. Really, it seems that the most variety is in the desks that are supposed to be less exciting, Traffic and Arson.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1199375}, {"user_id": 33318, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306573004.3236549, "message": "It's gone back to the boring wash- rinse-repeat formula. I expect the last two or so cases to be rather good. At this point I'd give the game a 70 if I was feeling generous", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1211851}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306615245.1708441, "message": "Doneso. Bizarre choices for the last three cases.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1213930}, {"user_id": 33318, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306667986.4147711, "message": "It's a bizarre ending. Leaves lots of space open for DLC", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1216851}, {"user_id": 32282, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306746740.3601589, "message": "Ha, about three cases in I started pressing triangle to make my partner drive as soon as I realised that the response calls were mind-boggingly boring and thus worth completely avoiding. The identity crisis between adventure game and traditional open-world game is the biggest problem LA Noire has. I would have loved it much more as a tight eight hour game without all the superflous fluff.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1225542}, {"user_id": 32692, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306746338.7830141, "message": "It's funny that Lance brought up FMV games -- if you look at the faces closely (especially the ears), you can spot a little noise. It *seems* as if Motionscan overlays video of the actors onto the polygonal models, which explains the uncanny acting and the huge storage space requirements. \n\nAlso, I certainly don't love this game, but I do like it. I think the interrogation process is utterly unique and captivating, even if it's much too compartmentalized. It's an interesting component of an incredibly detailed adventure game, albeit one in which player agency is fairly minimal. That's okay -- it just makes it a bad *detective* game.\n\nI mean, the fact that the homicide run (which I just completed) amounts to a string of forced failures shows you how little input you really have. Figuring out the case for yourself makes interrogations easier and more satisfying, but things often unfold in such a way as to guarantee your success. And how many matchbooks, bars and fleeing suspects can there be in one city?\n\nAs for the open-world stuff: I can't think of anything less fun than driving around a city in a car. And since nobody in their right mind would patiently drive everywhere while obeying the rules, the story has to turn a blind eye to why Phelps turns into DREBIN every time he gets into a car.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1225506}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306748581.756669, "message": "And I wouldn't have minded the driving if it didn't reflect on your record, because I really couldn't care less about hitting pedestrians, and didn't want to go the route of the auto-drive.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1225726}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306748698.9490659, "message": "I also feel like the episodic structure ultimately hurt it. Like Baddie says, it should've been a tighter scripted more cohesive eight hour game, with a more traditional adventure game style narrative.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1225736}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306748504.4638741, "message": "The forced failure *really* irritated me. Some of the ... thingums ... were painfully obvious, and you have no choice but to put up with being a bad detective.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1225715}, {"user_id": 32692, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1306770383.543299, "message": "The best part about the driving is that the story is totally character-driven -- but we have to ignore that when the character is driving. Phelps driving like an imbecile is relegated to the same narrative blind spot as dying and restarting. \n\nOh, and I also love how the game is over when someone who is only tangentially related to the crime runs and escapes.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1228500}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1307536923.2506211, "message": "The short story collection is free this week on a number of ebook services:\nhttp://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/07/la-noire-short-story.html", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1336556}, {"user_id": 31753, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1307537265.977562, "message": "It's not free on the Kindle store if you're in South Africa. Yay.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1336589}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 33792, "date_created": 1307537365.4860439, "message": ":(  I was actually surprised to find it's free for me here.  It's not on the local iBookstore for me, though.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1336601}]