L.A. Noire

[Sir Legendhead]

Do you still progress if you screw up a case? The only one I botched was Slip of the Tongue, and I did that before even starting the core game.

[Stevil]

Yeah, if you fuck up, you move on like nothing happened. Your actions don't really determine the overall plot, which is set in stone from start-to-finish.

There's a moment in The Golden Butterfly where you choose to arrest one of two suspects (neither are guilty, but as part of the plot you have to accuse one of them - it's a shamble in terms of writing), and if you pick the dad - who has the most evidence planted on him - you get a 1-2 Star Rating. If you arrest the kiddie fiddler, then you get 3-5 depending on your usual skills.

So, I had the dad arrested, and the Captain went coco-bananas on me. Next case, he was perfectly fine. Reloaded the last case, picked the kiddie fiddler, Captain wants my babies. Next case, perfectly fine.

*rolls eyes*

[NotoriousBIG420]

You guys are making me want to pop this game back in and finish it.

[Edd Strid]

Yeah, if you fuck up, you move on like nothing happened. Your actions don't really determine the overall plot, which is set in stone from start-to-finish.

There's a moment in The Golden Butterfly where you choose to arrest one of two suspects (neither are guilty, but as part of the plot you have to accuse one of them - it's a shamble in terms of writing), and if you pick the dad - who has the most evidence planted on him - you get a 1-2 Star Rating. If you arrest the kiddie fiddler, then you get 3-5 depending on your usual skills.

So, I had the dad arrested, and the Captain went coco-bananas on me. Next case, he was perfectly fine. Reloaded the last case, picked the kiddie fiddler, Captain wants my babies. Next case, perfectly fine.

*rolls eyes*

Stevil, that case pissed me off for the reasons you explained. I didn't want to book either of them but was forced one way or the other, still annoying that pinning it on the guy who was the more likely of the two got you downgraded.

[Sir Legendhead]

AHHH SPOILERS

Lol, not really that worried about it. Probably for the best that you warned me, actually. I almost rage quit after the thing with the shrunken heads. Not that I would've quit the game completely, but for a minute after that I was like, ok, we're just playing straight from the wiki from here on out...

[Stevil]

Is that from The Fallen Idol?

That's actually one of my fave cases, but that one scene at the B-movie studio is full of bullshit.

Homicide is just badly written from start to finish, so its actually nice when you get to Vice and it becomes pretty straighforward. The Naked City was one of the better moments, but why they made it DLC is a mystery to me.

[Sir Legendhead]

Not sure about the name but yeah, it's the one where you talk to the guy with the backlot studio.

The part where he calls him out is one of my favorites though. It actually looks like he might hit him for a second, lol.

[Stevil]

"Tell me what I need to know...or I will BREAK...YOUR FFFUCKING....JAW!"

[Arttemis]

Holy shit, the absence of that desk is criminal (pun intended)! I would have paid $15 for the whole bundle as DLC. I'm not even joking, I'd probably buy every case released just because I really freaking loved the Dragnet/Law & Order detective work.

The middle questioning option should have definitely been called threaten, since it served that purpose far better.

Legend, you're probably not going to, but I would really recommend playing the game without any assistance. Getting stuff wrong, missing things, they really make the game feel different and give a reason to replay the cases since it's a surprisingly refreshing experience to find a clue or respond correctly where you didn't before.

[Sir Legendhead]

Legend, you're probably not going to, but I would really recommend playing the game without any assistance. Getting stuff wrong, missing things, they really make the game feel different and give a reason to replay the cases since it's a surprisingly refreshing experience to find a clue or respond correctly where you didn't before.

Oh don't get me wrong, I have been playing unassisted for the most part. I only looked up that one thing with the studio guy because trying to make sense of it nearly did my head in. I wasn't even that worried about a perfect score. I just wanted to understand what they did there.

[State Lemming]

I really liked the traffic cases, they felt like real mysteries. Everything after that was boring and for some reason really straightforward.

[Stevil]

Homicide is where the game takes complete dive, but Vice puts things back on track. Well, the best it can, anyway. The cases are far more interesting and more varied after going through same serial killer M.O. six times in a row.

[Sir Legendhead]

Homicide is where the game takes complete dive, but Vice puts things back on track. Well, the best it can, anyway. The cases are far more interesting and more varied after going through same serial killer M.O. six times in a row.

The thing with the Homicide cases is pretty obvious. By the time the third naked, ritually marked female showed up, it was clear that the game just wanted me to go along with its plot while I arrested some totally innocent people.

Plus last night, I left off right after the case where you get the letter in Tech Services. Really enjoyed the verse from Prometheus Unbound which came with that. I also liked how they ended Golden Butterfly, once I saw what the writers had done. Like you said before, neither one of the suspects actually did it. For me it came down to either taking a child molester off the street, or making a little kid an orphan. No real moral dilemma there, but the interesting part was coming around to see the situation for what it really was.

The only part that bugged me about that case was how Cole interrogated the daughter right off the bat. I restarted that scene several times, trying to make it unfold so she could at least hear the news from her dad. Seemed so bizarrely insensitive, how they made it play out.

knock knock

"Hey kid, your mom is dead. This seems like a great time to start pressuring you with questions..."



Also, if this post is a garbled mess, it's because I'm running on nearly no sleep and was interrupted about half a dozen times while typing it. Yay brain!

[State Lemming]

Homicide is where the game takes complete dive, but Vice puts things back on track. Well, the best it can, anyway. The cases are far more interesting and more varied after going through same serial killer M.O. six times in a row.

Yeah I enjoyed vice until the main plot starting weeding into them.

[Sir Legendhead]

Yeah I enjoyed vice until the main plot starting weeding into them.

Yeah, like I said I haven't gotten that far yet, but I was thinking the doctor from the newspapers had to tie into it somehow. It's gonna be interesting to see how that turns out. I'm probably just going to exit this thread until I finish the game, because spoilers and all that.

[State Lemming]

Yeah, like I said I haven't gotten that far yet, but I was thinking the doctor from the newspapers had to tie into it somehow. It's gonna be interesting to see how that turns out. I'm probably just going to exit this thread until I finish the game, because spoilers and all that.

I'll be curious to see what you think of it all. The game takes a different direction than I would've expected (or liked, but that might just be me).

[Stevil]

knock knock

"Hey kid, your mom is dead. This seems like a great time to start pressuring you with questions..."

There's a bit in The Naked City where Phelps is comforting the maid over the death of an model in the next room.

It starts off sympathetic, and even though you know she's lying about the girl having male visitors, Phelps is understanding. Then once you call her out on the lie, he goes nuts and treats her like shit in the blink of an eye. He doesn't even apologise, just leaves the scene straight after.

And this is the supposed to be the "perfect" interrogation.

[Sir Legendhead]

There's a bit in The Naked City where Phelps is comforting the maid over the death of an model in the next room.

It starts off sympathetic, and even though you know she's lying about the girl having male visitors, Phelps is understanding. Then once you call her out on the lie, he goes nuts and treats her like shit in the blink of an eye. He doesn't even apologise, just leaves the scene straight after.

And this is the supposed to be the "perfect" interrogation.

They picked a great actor for Cole. I especially like the rapid eye blinks he uses when the character starts getting worked up about something. Funny thing is, I looked up a clip of his from Mad Men, and I had gotten so used to his work in the game that his real life performance seemed like a cartoon!

[Stevil]

I love that one face he pulls:



ME GUSTA!

[Sir Legendhead]

Is it just me or did they beef him up for the game? He looks thinner in real life.



Now that I compare the two, it seems as if the digitization process compressed his frame rather than adding bulk to it. His entire frame is taller and lankier in his photos and vids. The man's name is Aaron Staton btw, for anyone who didn't know and wants to google it.