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[mattiewheels]

Yeah, it was misleading to some, disappointing to many, but you gotta be crazy to call it a terrible terrible game. I liked it because I was raised on adventure games, but it does a lot of things pretty well too.

 

[jett]

Yeah, it was misleading to some, disappointing to many, but you gotta be crazy to call it a terrible terrible game. I liked it because I was raised on adventure games, but it does a lot of things pretty well too.

It only does two things well, atmosphere and facial animation. Anything related to gameplay mechanics borders on crap.

 

[Smash88]

For everyone asking about Red Dead – as we’ve mentioned before, we have no plans to bring Red Dead to PC. We’re not going to go into the why’s and why not’s here – and we’d like everyone to please keep comments on topic to LA Noire. Those that persist to complain or campaign for Red Dead on PC will have comments removed for being off topic. Thanks for understanding, all.

That part really hurts, it would look so amazing if it came on PC. I can only keep the faith that it will come sooner or later.

Anyways, I am so excited and will definitely pick it up on Steam Day 1.

 

[mattiewheels]

It only does two things well, atmosphere and facial animation. Anything related to gameplay mechanics borders on crap.

It did get ultra-repetitive and the whole investigation system was confining compared to what we all dreamed up, but like I said, I really enjoyed it from a Police Quest 1947 kind of angle.

 

[hlhbk]

fixed

Easily one of the best games in the last decade.

 

[BoobPhysics101]

I have two sealed PS3 copies chilling in my room. Play one, or sell them both? Got 'em for $25 each.

 

[Deleted member 17706]

I have two sealed PS3 copies chilling in my room. Play one, or sell them both? Got 'em for $25 each.

Sell 'em both if you have a good computer. While the game is excellent, the framerate is pretty abysmal, especially if you're used to 60fps in most of your PC games.

 

[Betta Lines]

Though if you're used to other R* games on PS3, the framerate is pretty damn good.

 

[BobsRevenge]

Sell 'em both if you have a good computer. While the game is excellent, the framerate is pretty abysmal, especially if you're used to 60fps in most of your PC games.

I'm mostly a PC gamer and I honestly wasn't too bothered by the PS3 framerate. It dipped heavily every now and then, but its not like the framerate is important to the gameplay very often, and it barely ever dipped while I was driving iirc.

 

[Fjordson]

I don't understand all the negative comments.

I just checked Metacritic: 89%

I haven't seen much negativity anywhere other than GAF, so take that for what you will. Like I said, I think it's a great game, and having a gaming rig behind it should only sweeten the experience.

Because it was univerally praised by critics, and yet half of the gaming public hates it. Something is very wrong with game criticism when a game this bad has an 89 on metacritic. All of Rockstar's games are overrated by critics and they usually have a big backlash because of it. I think there's something shady going on between Rockstar and the games press.

Half of the gaming public or half of NeoGAF? Two very different things.

 

[Anasui Kishibe]

Easily one of the best games in the last decade.

played by you, maybe, which brings me to: buy better games

 

[Persona7]

I was waiting 6 months for the sub-20 price drop so maybe I will just wait for it to drop on PC.

 

[Deleted member 17706]

I'm mostly a PC gamer and I honestly wasn't too bothered by the PS3 framerate. It dipped heavily every now and then, but its not like the framerate is important to the gameplay very often, and it barely ever dipped while I was driving iirc.

It didn't bother me at all during interrogations and most investigations, but any time I actually had to move anywhere at a non-walking pace, the sluggishness got on my nerves. I doubt the game ever even hit 30fps.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

I think it was an amazing game for the first half or so, but it suffered form problems that games with dev cycles that long suffer from.

They lost perspective about pacing, which happens when you see the same game every day for half a decade. The game should have been half as long and twice as tight, instead huge confrontations were left to shooting gallery moments or cutscenes. No one there stood up and said "Hey, aren't we kind of subverting our own game theme by doing things like tightrope walking?" because you just don't get that when everyone is working on a game that long.

The game showed all its tricks by the end of Homicide and at that point became a slow slide in to boring. That's sad. I would have loved to have left the game with a happy, positive image but that's reserved only for the first half.

I'd give it a 7 or 8 for what they did with the technology, I guess.

 

[Haint]

Fuck, I'm like half way into the PS3 release. The LoD and texture draw in are fucking atrocious and the game looks like shit because of it. I'd have loved to have played the PC release, but I thought this was gona be another Red Dead situation.

 

[ColonialRaptor]

YES!!

 

[bluedeviltron]

I'm so far behind on L.A. Noire for PS3, I may just sell it and hold off for the PC version.

It's great, but it definitely wasn't GTA or RDR level balls-gripping for me.

 

[mr stroke]

can't wait for this. holding out hoping there would be a pc version. now bring on the real mods!

 

[Tricky I Shadow]

LOL, enjoy one of the most boring games of this gen PC gamers.

Seriously.....L.A Noire was a tedious mess. Bring over Red Dead!

 

[Slo]

Without reading the thread, is it fair to say that I'm the 400th guy wishing that this was RDR instead?

 

[tiff]

I haven't seen much negativity anywhere other than GAF, so take that for what you will. Like I said, I think it's a great game, and having a gaming rig behind it should only sweeten the experience.

I wish there were more negativity. It's a really neat concept and it could be so much better than it turned out to be, but if everyone's happy with how LAN 1 turned out then I don't have much hope for the sequel.

 

[Lostconfused]

Without reading the thread, is it fair to say that I'm the 400th guy wishing that this was RDR instead?

Sure is. Man I really wish they would port RDR.

 

[K.Jack]

Nice. I hope my laptop can handle 60fps at 1080p.

 

[Deleted member 80556]

Even though I have already beat it, and I soon to get to a 100%, I think I'll end up buying this, I don't know why I like to have PC version of my favorite games. Guess it's for back up, and mods.

 

[Xplatformer]

I'd much rather have Red Dead on PC.

Mother fucking this. New video card am confirmed.

I could care less about LA Noire.

no, believe me you're not. You'll be enjoying vistas in HD for first two hours and then boredom will overtake you. Still it's good if you're sticking to the story missions in small quantities.

I'm hoping some game "journalists" will actually ask Rockstar why they chose L.A. Noire over RDR. There can't be a good explanation for this, but I love seeing non-answers and PR speak.

Fuckin' a

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

nice!

Spoiler

now R* get to work on RDR for PC