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What the community thinks of L.A. Noire, ordered by reader support. Agreeing, translating and reporting a message need no account.
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37 comments
What the community thinks of L.A. Noire, ordered by reader support. Agreeing, translating and reporting a message need no account.
37 comments
SaveByte40
Another duel, another round of the same arguments. It's fine, I guess. Good in parts, tiring in others.
GhostLegend98
Moi c'était pendant un chômage technique, les interrogatoires occupaient mes journées vides, ça vous est déjà arrivé de vous accrocher à un jeu comme ça ?
MertieHunter
Replayed it recently, the tech holds up less than the writing does.
FrameKid2
Entiendo lo de la escritura, pero decir que la tecnología no aguanta nada es exagerar, las expresiones siguen funcionando muy bien hoy.
NovaMaster2
People keep saying it's just a walking simulator with dialogue trees and I'm tired of hearing it. The detective work carries entire cases on facial reads and evidence gathering, and that's a real mechanic, not filler. It earns its spot in this ranking fair and square.
ComboLegend
Franchement je le vote toujours quand il affronte StarCraft, ça doit être mon 15e duel avec ce match up.
AbdullahKnight
Fair enough on the mechanic, but does earning its spot mean it deserves to win against literally everything, every time, no exceptions?
RogueNinja97
Portal 2 has puzzle design that ages perfectly (still tight today). This has interrogations that age just as well, different genres though.
QuestLegend2
So this is going to sound weird but I played this right after a breakup and something about driving around 1947 LA doing interrogations was weirdly therapeutic, like I had a job to do and cases to solve instead of thinking about my own stuff, my roommate thought it was hilarious that I got so into questioning virtual witnesses, anyway good times.
QuestRex5
Did questioning virtual witnesses actually help more than just distracting you, or was it just noise to drown out the real stuff?
Wolff54
The interrogation mechanic is genuinely unique, nothing else really does what it does with reading faces and choosing your approach. The driving and shooting sections feel bolted on though, like a different team made them, and they drag down what is otherwise a really interesting detective experience.
LuckyByte9
Justo por eso yo también recuerdo más las conversaciones que las persecuciones, se me quedó igual.
NovaOwl
Yeah I get the appeal but honestly the driving sections killed my momentum every single time, made the pacing feel off overall.
CoopAce
Sits at 1707 ELO with a 63% win rate, which is a solid mid-tier record for a nine year old port.
Nova_Pagan
Ese porcentaje de victorias dice más del listado que del juego en sí, la verdad.
SilentMaster
A mid-tier ELO with that win rate after nine years says the core mechanic still convinces people, that's not nothing.
SammieDragon
I get why people put StarCraft and Portal 2 on pedestals, but the facial animation work in this game did something neither of those even attempted, and I still think about interrogation scenes years later.
Geraldine_2001
Facial animation is impressive, sure, but compare the actual open world to what other games on this list offer and it's thin.
qstanton
You'll say the interrogations carry it, but I felt the same gap in the shooting parts every single playthrough I did.
Lopes69
Vu et revu ce discours sur les animations, j'y ai joué à la même période et ça m'a laissé complètement froid.
wrodarte
Solo le he dedicado unas quince horas repartidas en varias semanas, nunca de corrido. Con eso me alcanzó para ver lo bueno de los interrogatorios y también lo flojo de las partes de acción, que se notan menos cuidadas que el resto.
LuckyMaster
q raro, a mi las persecuciones en coche no me molestaron tanto como dices.
PedroHunter
Otra vez este juego arriba (aunque no tanto arriba, para ser justos). Sigo sin verle tanto mérito.
Kuphal99
Tired arguments, maybe, but I replayed the interrogations last winter and they still hooked me for a whole evening.
Iron_Mitchell
The win rate at 63% over 452 duels isn't luck, it means the interrogation system genuinely convinces people match after match, which is exactly the point people miss when they call it tired.
lenoir_bernadette
pas convaincue que ça se compare vraiment à Elden Ring, ce sont deux mondes différents, mais je comprends qu'on les mette face à face pour le classement.
Ibáñez5
Jugué la campaña completa en una semana de vacaciones, sin prisa. Lo que recuerdo es la cara de los sospechosos, ESE detalle me atrapó de verdad.
Éric_25
ah les caras si, ça reste le vrai point fort, ça change vraiment la façon de voter sur ce jeu pour moi
sporer_elva
Same faces, same memory for me, and honestly that's still enough to keep voting for it.
SilviaAce
Creo que merece estar donde está, aunque no estoy del todo segura de si debería subir más. La parte de investigación es realmente sólida y sigue sorprendiendo por lo detallada que es, aunque tal vez el ritmo general del juego no ayude tanto como debería a mantener ese nivel de interés constante.
Ghost_Archuleta
Las animaciones faciales siguen siendo impresionantes incluso hoy, eso hay que reconocerlo. Pero las persecuciones en coche y los tiroteos se sienten pegados con cinta, como si fueran de otro juego metido a la fuerza en este.
RoguePhoenix
¿Cinta adhesiva? ¿No es un poco duro para unas persecuciones que al menos cumplen su función?
Cosmo_Corrales
Está bien pero para mí se queda corto comparado con lo que otros juegos del listado logran en rejugabilidad.
LootPlayer95
Oh, another vote for replayability from the ranking that also holds StarCraft and Portal 2, sure, apples to oranges but I get it.
ArcadeMaster
Lo de la rejugabilidad corta es justo, yo lo jugué una vez y no he vuelto a tocarlo desde entonces.