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Is Brendan McNamara (LA Noire VISIONARY) still making games?

Uh.. nevermind how LA Noire turned out, guys. Dude burned every bridge, I'd be surprised if any publisher still want to work with him.
 
I thought the game was wasted potential. All that time spent making locations and creating a great-looking city, but nothing to do...the city just felt lifeless. The last few hours of the game are bizarre as well.
 
Anyone who thinks LA Noire was a great crime story should probably read James Ellroy's LA quartet, since they're the genuinely great crime stories Team Bondi's writers pillaged to make the game.
 
I really loved LA Noire, and wish there were more games like it. I also dig that it was a period piece as well. Soundtrack was fantastic, too. Gameplay was repetitive, sure, but I enjoyed the length of the game due to the stories of the cases.
 
To me, the detail and scope of 1940s LA provided incredible atmosphere and felt as if the city was more of a main character than even Cole. All the criminals within the game
not to mention Cole himself
are kind of products of the town or were seduced by its allure in one way or another. Some perhaps even driven mad.

To me, at least, it puts a different perspective on the otherwise rather odd ending.
 
I was disappointed that the open world was pretty much just a background with no real reason to explore it. Other than that though I really loved L.A. Noire. It was unique and something different that felt refreshing. The story kind of fell apart in the end but I felt that most of the individual cases were interesting on their own.
 
It wasn't that bad. It shits the bed in its latter half, but it's far from a terrible game.

I finished it. I enjoyed the experience of having played it. It was a different kind of game to the standard TPS fare.
 
I really, REALLY liked LA Noire. Although I was pissed off at Cole's ... indiscretions and my lack of ability to chose whether or not those indiscretions occurred, I still played the heck out of it.

The OST is also one of the best ever. I bump to it in my car all the time
 
Whore of the Orient is one of the few game pitches that had me excited based on premise alone. Does anyone actually know what's going on with that game?
 
As far as I can tell, Whore of the Orient is still in production, after much of Team Bondi were hired by Kennedy Miller Mitchell. Yet besides some leaked gameplay in 2013, nothing has been seen of it. Perhaps we'll see something soon-ish? Who knows.

For what it's worth, I had a great time with L.A. Noire. An open-world point-and-click adventure game had never been attempted before or since, I think. And I found the facial capture to be absolutely stunning. The ending was daft, though, and the stories behind its development were sordid.
 
LA Noire was great. It was perfect as one case per day kinda like a TV kind of game.
They nailed the period. It was fantastic to have a cop based counterpoint to Mafia games.

I would be interested in Whore of the Orient very much.
 
GillianSeed79 said:
The interrogation mechanic was broken and unintuitive. Collecting evidence consisted of clicking on shiny bits unless you turned it off. The narrative punishes you for actually solving a crime at some point. And the open world is pointless and bland.
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I agree with all of this and still enjoyed LA Noire

God tier atmosphere
 
LA Noire was pretty good up until those horrible last few chapters and awful anti-climax of an ending.
 
I enjoyed pretty much all of LA Noire except for some of the interviews and the last mission/case. And like others have said, it's much more enjoyable if you approach it like a big budget PnC game.

I wouldn't mind seeing this guy's follow-up game if it's similar to LA Noire.
 
Loved L.A. Noire. I feel like another game by him could be cool, but I remember stories coming out about him being a crummy boss and Bondi having a bad work environment, so I'm not how I'd feel about supporting him again.
 
According to Wikipedia, he is still working. Also The Whore of the Prient is supposedly still in the works.
 
LA Noire is far better than GTA IV.

nacimento said:
L.A. Noire is the best game with the Rockstar name attached somewhere, sans RDR, which I haven't played.
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I was really excited for whore of the orient (even if it looked ripe for racist stuff) but i sure hope that guy isn't in charge of anyone

i should finish LA Noire
 
Rockstar developed like 90% of Noire but they still were unable to completely fix McNamara's shitty design decisions, the result is a mediocre story that has one ridiculous twist, a bland world, the worst car handling and shooting in the whole of 7th gen. Overall it was garbage, impressive but dead end facial animation tech is all that came out of it.
 
ShamePain said:
Rockstar developed like 90% of Noire but they still were unable to completely fix McNamara's shitty design decisions, the result is a mediocre story that has one ridiculous twist, a bland world, the worst car handling and shooting in the whole of 7th gen. Overall it was garbage, impressive but dead end facial animation tech is all that came out of it.
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Did you play GTA4?
 
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