This game was fucking great to me. So great, it's my favorite game of all time. Love the 40 settings, great story, the open world has a lot of great details, nice classic cars.. and so on.
***** Yeah, people have reason to complain about the ending... BUT.... It's totally based off of the film noire genre. *****SPOILERS AHEAD***** See, it's basically required of the genre to have an unhappy ending, Honestly, I loved it, I think it perfectly summed up everything the game was about, and it fit perfectly with the overall tone. It absolutely was not a happy ending, and it probably could have done with a bit more closure, but it really did fit with the game itself in every way. The fact that Phelps died is probably the best that you could have asked for, anyways. What were you expecting, for him to get back together with his wife and live happily ever after? Just doesn't always work that way, and while this was quite cynical of the game to end as it did, it was first and foremost the perfect summation of the film noire genre, as well as a great bookend to an awesome game when you realize that it kind of was happy, in its own sad way.
***** I will never understand your thought process. The ending was the only fun part of the game. The whole game was super repetitive, all you did was the same b.s. investigate and interrogate and once in a blue moon you had any action. At least at the end you got to use your gun for once.
***** Already did it one, gotta throw my two cents in one more time... Just to touch on that Red Dead Redemption, the ending to it was absolutely perfect, beyond the "staying true to the genre" which it did do. I said before that as a standard ending, LA Noire isn't the best, but stays true to the genre. That aside, Red Dead was absolutely perfect in and of itself, genre be damned. That ending was spectacular, and there's so much symbolism and subtext beyond the obvious that I strongly encourage you to look into. As for seeing Roy go unpunished, that's sorta the point. When, in real life, was the last time that you saw someone like him get truly punished? He had power and money; those two things will buy you basically anything in real life, and he was easily able to manipulate his way out of trouble. That's how the world works more often than not. Sure, it's great when the bad guy gets punished, but it just doesn't happen. The Noire genre was meant to reflect America's disillusionment in the Modernist era (look it up if you're not familiar), and part of that is realizing that the world ain't fair. Good guys die and bad guys win in reality, and that's what they had to show in this game to stay true to the genre. If you still hate the ending after that, take this away from my rant: You gotta at least recognize the writers for what they did, it takes balls to give an ending that may not be well received, knowing that it wouldn't be ahead of time. They had to point out a fundamental flaw in human society; that being how bad guys really do prosper quite often, and doing the right thing will typically get you killed in situations like that.
***** Oh, sorry, and one last thing... Maybe the fact that you don't like the "hero dies" fashion, as you put it, or the fact that Roy goes unpunished. but perhaps that's the point? Let me ask you, do you have to agree with everything that happens with an ending for it to be objectively good? If everything had a perfect ending, then it wouldn't reflect reality at all, but besides that, what else would you have to think and talk about? We wouldn't have this conversation with a perfect ending, so it had to have succeeded on some level, right? Basically what I'm getting at is, do you have to "like" what happens for an ending to be good? I personally don't think so, and that's sort of the point.
what about a 'popeye' doyle in New York chasing up the French Connection to heroin trafficking in the 1970s? that would be the big case he just can't crack but it could be open world... maybe not.
Can't really wonder, because this requires a lot more than using a good game engine. Bondi really took faces and bodies as passion because knew the game dies or lives because of it. The newest assassin's creeds and call of duties just don't think it's so important to have skilled people sitting in multimillion dollar face acting studio and I can agree. There aren't many games where faces are the gameplay, yeah there is little shooting and driving, but the only thing that matters "does s/he look guilty"
Even better that they're real actors. I couldn't place the actor of Hugo Moller, one of the suspects for his murdered wife, until I realised it was the guy who played the cop in Heroes
DrBreezeAir Yeah, it really is. I think Joe didn't understand the ending. It showed that fighting corruption doesn't award you and is useless. You will most likely end up dead and the bad guys live on. When the lawyer ,who helped Jack, shaked Roy's hand...I was really pissed.
+Sam Geuvenen I still play gta 4. more than 5. mostly because of the social stuff like bowling. I play it kinda like a grimey sims. The characters in it are much more my taste to the characters in 5. in fact, I just Played a game of pool with lil jacob in my apartment this morning :)
Just wait. Your favs become 10+ years old overnight...Shit Call of Duty Modern Warfare is reaching ten years old now. If that doesn't make you feel old....lol...but seriously LA Noire feels like it came out yesterday.
matthew ashlin I believe that grammatical correct, it's "Wow, you're a bitch." And why would someone such as your low-self say such a thing like that to a stranger? Clearly, your parents failed at teaching you to have respect for other people. You mad bro?
The ending was actually a bit sad because thats when Cole realized he was kind of a shitty guy the only thing i didnt like was that he cheated on his wife Throughout the whole game he was a man of morals, but just up and has an affair
+The-Infamous Unless it's from the same team it will be botched and some sort of underproduced cash grab. For example I've been waiting for a decent X-Com sequel for 20 years and it still hasn't happened. I wish people would just buy good games when they come out to keep good producers like this in business. But it usually doesn't take place when the marketing fails. Hype is all that matters apparently, and great games regularly go unnoticed. LA Noire is just the most recent example. Btw awesome review from Joe. He should have given it at least a 9 though. The negatives are so insignificant and the positives so overwhelming. I wish we could have more games like this. Detective sims can be so awesome, and especially when they're this well-made.
One of the most fun and original games i've ever played...the only visible bad thing - no replay value, but it just shows how good the story is. SPOILER I just couldn't replay it this year, even 3 years after first time, i just couldn't solve all those cases knowing the real truth, and arrest innocent guys.Just isn't the real feel as it was the first time, when i was actually lying in bed trying to fall asleep, thinking ''hmm who might be the killer'', night after night. I WANT SECOND PART, OR GAME LIKE THIS!
misteraxl1 I personally think it has replay value! I come back from school in winter break and I managed to play it through and enjoy it, mainly because I forgot some important details. To me, this game is kind of like an interesting TV show that I could watch again.
I'd rather have a sequel for this first before GTA 6 or the new RDR. Imagine LA Noire 2 with even more cases, plus all the improvements Joe mentioned! Instant GOTY! Make it happen, Rockstar.
TheRantMaster53 I think instead of LA Noire 2, they should call it NY Noire and push it into the 50s or even the 60s. Also, if they make the protagonist detective played by Jon Hamm, I would die happy. :)
BrendanStuart I loved Bully, but I am a real sucker for that retro 40s theme in L.A Noire, so I think I would rather have a sequel to that honestly. We'll see which one Rockstar will make first. They'll probably make Bully 2 anyway.
AlexSDU GameStop is offering a reward of 100,000 dollars, and if you trade in a new copy of No man's sky which came out a month ago and cost you 60 dollars, you can get a total of $2.50. What a deal!
Team Bondi had some bad connections with its employees with being underpaid, extreme crunch time for 3 whole years. But it's truly sad that we'll never get a new L.A Noire
I found this game for $9 the other day and already close to finishing it. This game is 19383829282x better than any GTA. L.A Noire is such an underrated game and it deserves a sequel way more than GTA
Kisses•From •Rosewood I love this game and I don't know why I did not pick it up when it was priced down for SEVEN dollars...But when I got to playing it, I was enjoying it....The ONE MAJOR Gripe I have with this game is the Street Crimes...Yeah they're fun, some were a pain in the ass to get through, especially the ones that involved chasing someone down in a car because the turns can be either too sharp or too narrow to get through which gets you caught on an edge of something and your perp escapes!....But that's not the gripe I am talking about...I am talking about in Free Roam, all street crimes are available again! Free roam should be for the extra stuff you DIDN'T do yet....Not giving you the option of doing them over again! We're they really so fun that we'd want to do them over again? Not really, half of them were a pain to get through...So If I want to just find some collectibles I haven't found yet, then I have to avoid every area that has a street crime available even if I had completed it and came back to free roam...FREE ROAM MEANS TO FREELY ROAM....WHAT WERE THEY THINKING WITH THIS PART?!
I would LOVE to see this game remastered. I know team bondi is no longer with us, but it would be awesome if Rockstar did a part 2 of LA Noire. everything about this game feels so good, the music they use, the moods they build, the character development, the cinematography ..... it's crazy how good this game is.
this is still his best review of all time in my opinion, the skit were amazingly well done, (clever,funny & spot on) very entertaining review overall . this video right here is the definitive version of the ANGRY JOE SHOW ... PERIOD !!!
It really sucks that the team Bondy shutdown, they had a great franchise in their hands. Just imagine a open world like gta5 but set in the 40-50 with all type if side activities. Having players on line be cops/detectives and the others be criminals trying not to be cough, and doing crimes around the city.
They can't because team bondi no longer exists that is why they haven't also they weren't gonna make la noire because bondi and rockstar had a bitter relationship
***** This game getting sequels would be far from a bad thing because we need more new and different kinds of games released and this should not be the only Detective game like this.
axe ram Yes! I got absolutely blown away by this, I played this game on a crappy PC a long time ago and, sometimes the facial animations would stutter and freeze during dialogue sequences, but when they unfreeze, they don't go out of sync, it's like the animations are "tied" to the audio.
There I was, New World Anthropology/Archaeology 243 class, 8:45 pm, bored from a hour and 45 minutes of class, another hour and 15 minutes to go. My mind drifts to the case I am currently playing in L.A. Noire. I align the clues, piecing small stuff together one by one. I draw a pattern on my in-class video notes, linking people, places, times and objects, all leads pointing to the killer. I circle him in red several times. My professor tells us to hand in our notes to get credit. Without realizing I had no notes written out I hand it in. Once we have gone to break I realize I had handed in nothing but my L.A. Noire case notes. After the break my professor hands them back wit our scores on them. I get mine and see 20/20. How can this be!? There was nothing on the paper about Clovis culture arrowheads and obsidian tools but rather a web of case notes from L.A. Noire! I look on the back and see she had written, "Good job, you got the right guy. This case took me forever." I look up to see my elderly professor smiling at me. She winks and heads to her computer to enter the grades. BEST PROFESSOR EVER!!!!!!
I pray this story is true. I've done my damndest to turn old timers that I know are into noir onto the game and it makes me happy to know there's a generation of people who have long derided video games that now may start to take them seriously. It's about damn time.
kdog. If the development team didn't go bankrupt, do you think they'd have made a series out of this game? A franchise? I'd like to think so, but it's my understanding this wonderful game was horrendously expensive to make. :(
Aye, I would've bought like three copies of that game Just to increase the salestatistics a little bit more. Not even kidding. When I see passion-projects, I support the fuck out of'em with mucho gusto!
Yeoman86 Gaming I would pay 60 for a remaster. I never finished the game and would like to try again on PS4. I really enjoyed the challenge Noire presented as it forced you to think, evaluate, consider and reconsider, and the face feature system was excellent.
It's a damn shame that Bondi no longer exists because of the Australian government removing funding from some both progressive and bigger game developers, not believing that games can benefit Australia's economical future. Fuck me dead, dude. This was a fantastic game that definitely could grow from what we got, especially with the extra additional features like what you mentioned in this review; being able to wonder around and interact with the civilians directly in like a restaurant, or at the movies, a drive-in, or elsewhere. And of course sliding in more consequences for your actions to make the games overall achievements THAT much more rewarding :) However, because of Bondi being stripped of any funding, and Rockstar actually playing a very small roll in it's actual development, and rather more in it's distribution, etc, it's extremely unlikely that we'll ever see a sequel
Yes, they did fund Team Bondi for their next game "Whore of the Orient," but I didn't hear much about LA Noire. Team Bondi themselves were in development hell for 7 years, with a bunch of devs coming and going due to the mismanagement of the company and painful crunch hours. Not to mention the hundred employees that were left out of the credits and felt mistreated.
Interesting, even though this is an old article, it looks like we might see something come of this soon since GTA5 is wrapped up. GTA online doesn't look like it's going to add heists before Watch Dogs comes out so hopefully that means that they're working on their next project and hopefully this is it.
This is one of my absolute favorite video game narratives because it NAILS the fucking time period, that inter-crossing world of returning veterans still transitioning mentally from the war into the civilian world saddled with the baggage from their previous lives. While society at-large deals with the unforeseen consequences of all the wartime production capacity in the form of contraband goods, surplus drugs and firearms smuggled in from the war.
1:39 - "It'll be the slammer for the both of ya, see? Reaahhh... Now get out of here, kid; I got things to do, cases to solve, see? Raaah. See, ahhhhh... Maaaahh. And if you knew what's good for ya, you'd stay away from that character, see? Meahhhh, m-... raaaah, see? ....... raaah."
L.A noire: best game I've ever played. Needs a sequel, possibly playing as Kelso or phelps' past partners later after the death of phelps. Or it is set in a completely different city. I don't care what it is I just want a new game
They did. You have many Hollywood landmarks, and the game exudes atmosphere, like Red Dead Redemption. The cars, clothes, mannerisms. It all fits together well.
CrunkKrow The game has a lot of focus on really small details. Tiny mundane objects that are there for flavor even if they don't serve the case. The cars even are accurately damaged by collisions and such. Like, if you get hit in the back right corner, the back right corner is dented exactly as it would be. I think there are even bullet scratches to the cars.
I'm surprised he didn't mention the "black and white" option in the menus, making the game... well... black and white. But really, this game is truly amazing. I played it on the most difficult setting, with no hints or help, and loved the muffins out of it.
And red redemption is the second in the series so there can't be a red dead redemption 2 if there are two in the series. Currently we only know it as Red Dead 3
+Quillin IKR. Apparently la noire was supposed to be much larger. Upon entering the traffic desk they mention a robbery desk. Apparently that was part of the game but got cut due to budgeting. LA Noire best game of all time. We need another!!!!
+Quillin IKR. Apparently la noire was supposed to be much larger. Upon entering the traffic desk they mention a robbery desk. Apparently that was part of the game but got cut due to budgeting. LA Noire best game of all time. We need another!!!!
Yeah, there was 2 extra planned desks they were forced to cut.. Bunco (Fraud) and Burglary (Robbery).. Also Auto Theft would have been a part of the traffic desk... So yes, alot of the game was cut to form what we can play today... Cant wait to see what Team Bondai does with "Whore of the Orient".
This seems like the type of game that would have major stars, had Rockstar still cast triple A actors in their games, though the original actors for Cole and Jack remain. This is who I would have casted back then: Stefan Bekowski: Sam Rockwell Rusty Galloway: Michael Madsen Roy Earle: Chris Pine Herschel Biggs: Nick Nolte James Donnelly: Bryan Cranston (He still had short hair at the time) Gordon Leary: James Woods Archie Colmyer: Michael Keaton Leland Monroe: John Goodman Courtney Sheldon: Josh Hutcherson Harland Fontaine: Christopher Walken Curtis Benson: Dennis Quaid Ray Pinker: Tobey Maguire Malcolm Caruthers: James Rebhorn Elsa Lichtman: Diane Kruger
+Ed C23 hell yeah or how about set in NYC in the disco era of the late 1970s I mean think about it we already had the 1940s in L.A were a cop was served in ww2 and now we can have an NYPD detective that served in the Vietnam war in the late 60s/early 70s and also this time instead of having the black dahlia as the main killer in the homicide cases It would be the Son of Sam.
I can't see this game taking place anywhere else but Los Angeles. Hollywood and this game go hand in hand. I hope LA Noire 2 stays in LA and jumps to the mid 50's around the time of Marilyn Monroe and other starlets of that time.
My biggest issue with LA Noire was the inability to fail a case. No matter how much you fuck up, the case continues on and you eventually get your man. It would have been great to see criminals getting innocent verdicts because you didn't collect enough evidence or been able to potentially arrest the wrong people. Instead the game holds your hand, giving you hints and allowing failure only through death.
This game is nothing short of GENIUS! This one of those MUST PLAY adventures no gamer should intentionally pass us. Probably the coolest features about this game are: 1) the open space environment, 2) authentic looking faces, motions, and physics, 3) the multiple outcomes with nearly every scene or sequence you play, and 4) very good story writing. The fact that authentic vintage landmarks were replicated in exquisite detail really adds to this genre piece in ways that make me yearn to have lived in LA back in the day.
Joe made a great point about picking LIE vs DOUBT, so here's a good way to tell the difference and get it right all the time: Chose doubt when you know the person is lying, (because of a nervous tick, or not looking you in the eyes), but can't prove it. Choose lie when you know the person is lying, and you have evidence to PROVE it. Good luck, gumshoes!
I'd love it if they made a sequel to this game but had a more robust and consistent set of logic for determining what the correct interrogation responses are. The reasoning that they seem to want you to follow is: If the person isn't making a goofy, sketchy looking face, select truth. If the person is acting fishy, do you have evidence (which you can cite from your notebook) that contradicts what the person is saying? If you do, select lie, if not select doubt. Provided you were thorough in investigating all crime scenes up to the point of the interrogation, you should succeed. However, the game doesn't always follow this logic, which is problematic as it is a core gameplay element that plays a big role in determining your success. Sometimes evidence that seems to strongly contradict what someone says won't prove the lie, but other times you're expected to use evidence that's only thinly related to what the person said, and that doesn't solidly substantiate your claim that the person is lying. Another issue is that you can't fully review evidence after it's been collected, which means that if you don't memorize every line of info on a form before you have the context necessary to tell what's relevant, that piece of evidence is probably not going to help you in your sleuthing because you can't revisit it after you have more info. You can get a brief description of the evidence in your notebook, but that summary doesn't always tell you what you need to know to make the connections necessary to successfully progress the case. These flaws may seem minor, but I found them to be a persistent source of frustration that kept taking me out of the game, and they undermine the main part of the experience that attracted to me the game in the first place. Another issue I had is the contradiction between how Cole Phelps is depicted and how you end up playing him as a consequence of the game way is structured. Phelps is supposed to be a strict by-the-book guy, but if you bother to drive to crime scenes yourself, you're probably going to end up doing reckless stuff because it's encouraged by the game's GTA/arcade-style controls. Similarly, all of missions and side missions that involve fights and gunplay make the game a lot more action-intensive than I necessarily want for my Noire detective story. The nail in the coffin for me is the terrible PC port. The game is locked at 30 frames per second, which I get is probably a constraint imposed by the facial animation system, but it would've been nice if they could've fixed the system so the frame rates would only lock while in dialogue mode and for cutscenes. There are jaggies everywhere and the maximum supported antialiasing option (3X) seems to do absolutely nothing (and I'm someone who is usually satisfied by 2X FXAA). Screen tearing is rampant (nope, no option for v-sync) and even on a fairly strong gaming PC (i5-2500, GTX 670) there was significant stutter at times. And the game doesn't look that great to begin with (though I suspect it would look fine if those technical issues were ironed out). It's sad because there is a lot to appreciate about this game. It's a great concept, the performances are entertaining, the atmosphere is super sweet, and there are some fantastic technical elements, but Rockstar wasn't quite able to bring it all together, or, for me, make the game enjoyable enough to even want to play past the first five or six cases. I do hope that they, or someone else, takes another crack it something like this though.
***** >Why not just torrent it for free? I'm not sure if you know this, but games cost money to make. Developers spend money, usually a large amount, to make a game of this size. In order to make a profit and put food on their family's table, they sell the game to make up for development cost and gain an income. If the game doesn't sell, they lose money and aren't able to produce better games further on. How would you feel if you spent your life working on an amazing software only to have it being torrented. If you torrent, that's fine, but when you advocate it like you just found out about it yesterday and think you're smart, you are incorrect.
Dang, I just watched this video this morning and this is so good, man! I really enjoyed this, Angry Joe! Hope you keep it up! Gonna watch more of your videos from now on. Btw, have you ever reviewed AC Black Flag? Syndicate? Couldn't find them so I guess not
Yeah, that's why I'm giving it a shot as well. I heard it was a pretty bad port, so hopefully I won't have any problems. Even if I do end up getting problems, 7.50 isn't hard to make up. Much better than the 30 dollar original price.
I like how you can select Lie and then take it back. "I think you butchered your husband, cut him up, and turned him into chili! You bitch!" "What? I would never! I loved my husband!" "My mistake. So tell me about this receipt for a washing machine."
This game was fucking great to me. So great, it's my favorite game of all time. Love the 40 settings, great story, the open world has a lot of great details, nice classic cars.. and so on.
I was disappointed with the ending, but still good game overall.
***** Yeah, people have reason to complain about the ending... BUT.... It's totally based off of the film noire genre.
*****SPOILERS AHEAD*****
See, it's basically required of the genre to have an unhappy ending, Honestly, I loved it, I think it perfectly summed up everything the game was about, and it fit perfectly with the overall tone. It absolutely was not a happy ending, and it probably could have done with a bit more closure, but it really did fit with the game itself in every way. The fact that Phelps died is probably the best that you could have asked for, anyways. What were you expecting, for him to get back together with his wife and live happily ever after? Just doesn't always work that way, and while this was quite cynical of the game to end as it did, it was first and foremost the perfect summation of the film noire genre, as well as a great bookend to an awesome game when you realize that it kind of was happy, in its own sad way.
***** I will never understand your thought process. The ending was the only fun part of the game. The whole game was super repetitive, all you did was the same b.s. investigate and interrogate and once in a blue moon you had any action. At least at the end you got to use your gun for once.
***** Already did it one, gotta throw my two cents in one more time...
Just to touch on that Red Dead Redemption, the ending to it was absolutely perfect, beyond the "staying true to the genre" which it did do. I said before that as a standard ending, LA Noire isn't the best, but stays true to the genre. That aside, Red Dead was absolutely perfect in and of itself, genre be damned. That ending was spectacular, and there's so much symbolism and subtext beyond the obvious that I strongly encourage you to look into.
As for seeing Roy go unpunished, that's sorta the point. When, in real life, was the last time that you saw someone like him get truly punished? He had power and money; those two things will buy you basically anything in real life, and he was easily able to manipulate his way out of trouble. That's how the world works more often than not. Sure, it's great when the bad guy gets punished, but it just doesn't happen. The Noire genre was meant to reflect America's disillusionment in the Modernist era (look it up if you're not familiar), and part of that is realizing that the world ain't fair. Good guys die and bad guys win in reality, and that's what they had to show in this game to stay true to the genre. If you still hate the ending after that, take this away from my rant: You gotta at least recognize the writers for what they did, it takes balls to give an ending that may not be well received, knowing that it wouldn't be ahead of time. They had to point out a fundamental flaw in human society; that being how bad guys really do prosper quite often, and doing the right thing will typically get you killed in situations like that.
***** Oh, sorry, and one last thing... Maybe the fact that you don't like the "hero dies" fashion, as you put it, or the fact that Roy goes unpunished. but perhaps that's the point? Let me ask you, do you have to agree with everything that happens with an ending for it to be objectively good? If everything had a perfect ending, then it wouldn't reflect reality at all, but besides that, what else would you have to think and talk about? We wouldn't have this conversation with a perfect ending, so it had to have succeeded on some level, right? Basically what I'm getting at is, do you have to "like" what happens for an ending to be good? I personally don't think so, and that's sort of the point.
I would love if Rockstar would do a sequel set in 1980's Miami
they did, it's called GTA Vice City...
Id like a part 2 set in new york
I would like them to do the 1930s New York, would be equally cool as LA Noire
And what? Call it Vice City Noire?
what about a 'popeye' doyle in New York chasing up the French Connection to heroin trafficking in the 1970s? that would be the big case he just can't crack but it could be open world... maybe not.
The funny thing is that facial details from a game from 2011 puts games from 2017 and even games from 2018 to shame
Can't really wonder, because this requires a lot more than using a good game engine. Bondi really took faces and bodies as passion because knew the game dies or lives because of it. The newest assassin's creeds and call of duties just don't think it's so important to have skilled people sitting in multimillion dollar face acting studio and I can agree. There aren't many games where faces are the gameplay, yeah there is little shooting and driving, but the only thing that matters "does s/he look guilty"
Just hope ps5 game would use la noire bondi engine (motion scan)
Even better that they're real actors. I couldn't place the actor of Hugo Moller, one of the suspects for his murdered wife, until I realised it was the guy who played the cop in Heroes
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he lied to us that was a chocolate bar not a cookie
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An Overly Manly Man hell yes
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He was talking about ESO, not Daggerfall the game.
Joe is a fucking good actor.
Agreed
His acting makes me cringe most of the time
How? I could understand if he was taking it seriously but he is doing it tongue and cheeck. Some of his expressions are brilliant.
Lee marshall i dont know lol but it just makes me cringe. there are some times when i do like his acting tho
Fair enough. I love his over acting and facial expressions his eyebrows give him so much character lol.
LA Noire is amazing. It's underrated. Because it's a masterpiece.
DrBreezeAir Yeah, it really is. I think Joe didn't understand the ending. It showed that fighting corruption doesn't award you and is useless. You will most likely end up dead and the bad guys live on. When the lawyer ,who helped Jack, shaked Roy's hand...I was really pissed.
DrBreezeAir La Noire isn't nearly as underated as Mafia 2.
Mafia 2 was great. It just wasn't Mafia 1 great.
DrBreezeAir this is far from a masterpiece
DrBreezeAir it's not a masterpiece
NO! NO MORE BOWLING! NOT AGAIN! Remember what happened in Liberty City last time?
+Sam Geuvenen "Cousin! Lets go bowling?" :D
+Santeri Wolf "throws the phone away"
+Jay. Tee but you can't do that
***** I jump off the Statue of Happiness every time.
+Sam Geuvenen I still play gta 4. more than 5. mostly because of the social stuff like bowling. I play it kinda like a grimey sims. The characters in it are much more my taste to the characters in 5. in fact, I just Played a game of pool with lil jacob in my apartment this morning :)
Oh my god, it's been almost 5 years since this game came out.
...I feel old.
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Just wait. Your favs become 10+ years old overnight...Shit Call of Duty Modern Warfare is reaching ten years old now. If that doesn't make you feel old....lol...but seriously LA Noire feels like it came out yesterday.
+kirbystarwarrior And I still play my original copy I've had since it came out. It's still good.
+stripgaga hate the gameplay. but my god I enjoy driving around and going into the few shops for that detail.
*****
the gameplay isn't much different from a point a click or telltale style games now and i think it does that niche way better than they do.
When Joe told me to get a cookie at the beginning, I went into my pantry, got a cookie, and put it on the table so I could obey his order.
matthew ashlin I believe that grammatical correct, it's "Wow, you're a bitch." And why would someone such as your low-self say such a thing like that to a stranger? Clearly, your parents failed at teaching you to have respect for other people. You mad bro?
TexasLegend3
Eat a Snickers?!?!? You're being payed off. You're Mars' bitch.
TexasLegend3 well its your opinion what is normal >:
TexasLegend3 You deserve 10.1 cookies.
TexasLegend3 That was moist. Bravo.
Is it just me or does Joe really suit that old fashioned look?
Good old days
"Blood, Nudity, Death, Racism.
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"Has a nice ring to it" - some random psychopath
That ending. That fucking ending. Such a huge gut punch for an otherwise great and intriguing game.
Yah, but in a weird way, I liked the ending, it gave it that gritty tone, and life moves on.
The ending was actually a bit sad because thats when Cole realized he was kind of a shitty guy
the only thing i didnt like was that he cheated on his wife
Throughout the whole game he was a man of morals, but just up and has an affair
+Galacta1310 I think it was showing that even someone who is strong in their morals are still not perfect
What pissed me off the most about it was fucking Roy Earle. It's really seldom that I loathe scumbag made of pixels that much.
purpleprinc3 Me too I felt the ending made the game feel that much more like a noir-film
I'd kill for a another one of these games. Worth every penny.
Really? I respect your opinion, but I find that hard to believe. I found numerous things wrong with this game that just put me off in finishing it.
It's definitely not for everyone. I was a big fan of games like Indigo Prophecy and Heavy Rain so this was right up my alley.
Pat B
I really like it too.
Pat B such a shame they didn't make heavy rain for pc i would of brought it
Pat B I still need to complete Heavy rain. (PS3 version)
Joe's interrogation sketch is the best sketch he's ever made hands down. It had me dying.
That sketch about the gamestop & its sonic game were one of his best 😂😂
La noire > Mafia 3
Brain tumor > Mafia 3
oh...wait...that's the same thing
Well yeah....
What was so bad about Mafia III?
Wait! I see another Angry Joe Review...I was showing this review to my sister.
KageTrauma Nice bait m8
Matt Green How was I supposed to know?!
we'll never have another LA Noire game.... :(
:( DONT SAY THAT. uhhhhh huh huh huh (that's me crying)
no more Team Bondi and the fact ti was so underrated , shame really.
+ThePoolofDeath there is a possible sequel in the works
+ThePoolofDeath what's even more sad is that they will never use that facial tech again
+The-Infamous Unless it's from the same team it will be botched and some sort of underproduced cash grab. For example I've been waiting for a decent X-Com sequel for 20 years and it still hasn't happened. I wish people would just buy good games when they come out to keep good producers like this in business. But it usually doesn't take place when the marketing fails. Hype is all that matters apparently, and great games regularly go unnoticed. LA Noire is just the most recent example.
Btw awesome review from Joe. He should have given it at least a 9 though. The negatives are so insignificant and the positives so overwhelming. I wish we could have more games like this. Detective sims can be so awesome, and especially when they're this well-made.
One of the most fun and original games i've ever played...the only visible bad thing - no replay value, but it just shows how good the story is. SPOILER I just couldn't replay it this year, even 3 years after first time, i just couldn't solve all those cases knowing the real truth, and arrest innocent guys.Just isn't the real feel as it was the first time, when i was actually lying in bed trying to fall asleep, thinking ''hmm who might be the killer'', night after night. I WANT SECOND PART, OR GAME LIKE THIS!
Team Bondi is working on a new game set in Asia actually!
The great thing is that I played it recently and completely forgot who was guilty.
misteraxl1 I personally think it has replay value! I come back from school in winter break and I managed to play it through and enjoy it, mainly because I forgot some important details. To me, this game is kind of like an interesting TV show that I could watch again.
Earl Grey I completely agree.
misteraxl1 I replayed it.. only once though
I'd rather have a sequel for this first before GTA 6 or the new RDR. Imagine LA Noire 2 with even more cases, plus all the improvements Joe mentioned! Instant GOTY!
Make it happen, Rockstar.
I want a new manhunt as well
Damn Rockstar, why you leave us in the dirt?
TheRantMaster53 I think instead of LA Noire 2, they should call it NY Noire and push it into the 50s or even the 60s. Also, if they make the protagonist detective played by Jon Hamm, I would die happy. :)
i think, even before that, we should get a new Bully. of all the Rockstar games, Bully was the one with the most charm
BrendanStuart I loved Bully, but I am a real sucker for that retro 40s theme in L.A Noire, so I think I would rather have a sequel to that honestly. We'll see which one Rockstar will make first. They'll probably make Bully 2 anyway.
joe's face while trying to lie 😂
NickyB-Rizzle You mean every word he speaks in every review he’s ever made?
@@AnalSeepageForDummies Stop
@@AnalSeepageForDummies LOL. What'd he do? Shit on your favorite game? Stop being such a fucking baby and grow some balls
@@AnalSeepageForDummies Woah! We got our selves a baby over here guys! Someone must be a COD fan lmao
@@AnalSeepageForDummies right now you probably like Anthem
18:08 Rumor has it, Angry Joe still on the run from Detective Joe.
AlexSDU GameStop is offering a reward of 100,000 dollars, and if you trade in a new copy of No man's sky which came out a month ago and cost you 60 dollars, you can get a total of $2.50. What a deal!
Real shame how Team Bondi went out of business after the game, their first and last
Team Bondi had some bad connections with its employees with being underpaid, extreme crunch time for 3 whole years. But it's truly sad that we'll never get a new L.A Noire
@Zoommaster19 I was looking forward to Whore of the Orient
"NOBODY SAYS NO TO ANGRY JOE!!!" *bolts shoot* "rawr!!!" "dagnabit!" that scene killed me
I found this game for $9 the other day and already close to finishing it. This game is 19383829282x better than any GTA. L.A Noire is such an underrated game and it deserves a sequel way more than GTA
Kisses•From •Rosewood I love this game and I don't know why I did not pick it up when it was priced down for SEVEN dollars...But when I got to playing it, I was enjoying it....The ONE MAJOR Gripe I have with this game is the Street Crimes...Yeah they're fun, some were a pain in the ass to get through, especially the ones that involved chasing someone down in a car because the turns can be either too sharp or too narrow to get through which gets you caught on an edge of something and your perp escapes!....But that's not the gripe I am talking about...I am talking about in Free Roam, all street crimes are available again! Free roam should be for the extra stuff you DIDN'T do yet....Not giving you the option of doing them over again! We're they really so fun that we'd want to do them over again? Not really, half of them were a pain to get through...So If I want to just find some collectibles I haven't found yet, then I have to avoid every area that has a street crime available even if I had completed it and came back to free roam...FREE ROAM MEANS TO FREELY ROAM....WHAT WERE THEY THINKING WITH THIS PART?!
Kisses•From •Rosewood GTA is more sandbox. LA Noire is more story-driven. It makes no sense to compare them.
+Kisses•From •Rosewood the company that made this game, disassembled. :3 Don't know how to say it.
+Kisses•From •Rosewood I found it at Gamestop for $6... What's up with that?!
+! Gta is the most milked franchise of them all :)
Anyone want a remaster of the masterpiece on ps4?
Fuck yes are you kidding me? that would be epic and also for the Xbox one.
Better yet, a sequal, though a remaster would be nice for people that haven't played it.
***** True
I would LOVE to see this game remastered. I know team bondi is no longer with us, but it would be awesome if Rockstar did a part 2 of LA Noire. everything about this game feels so good, the music they use, the moods they build, the character development, the cinematography ..... it's crazy how good this game is.
***** Do PS3 controllers seriously still do cost that much?
Joe: There's cookies on the table. Have one, they're good.
Me: *looks down at table; sees Oreos I'm eating*
"Motionscan is the future"
well....
Yup, they fucked it up --'
It should've been..
oh? What do they call it nowadays?
Lol
extinct Well... They still do it now.
Watching this 10 years later. May 2021
Our class had a CSI thing to do and we were told to watch TV shows like CSI, CSI NY and CSI Miami etc. I just played this game
I tip my hat to you for being such a cultured human being.
I just started playing this game on PC. This game holds up really well. I suggest it to whoever is looking for a new game.
me too! i got it today and its a real masterpiece.
***** no. I only have a gtx 645 and it runs fine.
unlikely
Is a good game but the 30 fps kill it for me am too sensitive to frames hurts my head .
+Sam winchester I think they wanted it to feel cinematic, therefore the 30 fps. 60 fps would have been great though
All the cases in this game is based on real crimes that happened around this time period. Like the "Black Dahlia" and the "Black Caesar".
Detective Joe: "Do you happen to have any idea what I'm talking about?"
Me: "Yes actuall-"
Detective Joe: "Shut up!" (Slaps)
Me: "...........ow."
9:42 is hillarious.
this is still his best review of all time in my opinion, the skit were amazingly well done, (clever,funny & spot on) very entertaining review overall . this video right here is the definitive version of the ANGRY JOE SHOW ... PERIOD !!!
This and the Ride to Hell reviews were crazy good.
GAs honeybear wowed
MARHVIN XII I liked that skit about the GameStop incident
I agree for the most part, the only thing I don't like is the amount of jump cuts.
It really sucks that the team Bondy shutdown, they had a great franchise in their hands. Just imagine a open world like gta5 but set in the 40-50 with all type if side activities. Having players on line be cops/detectives and the others be criminals trying not to be cough, and doing crimes around the city.
Krisow guys, it's "Bondi" and it's pronounced "bond-eye" just so ya know.
What you're describing is pretty much APB reloaded, besides the time being set in 1940's-1950's.
You just basically described a 1940's cops n robbers game, badass
They should make it a movie with the original actors. Or a second game. Pleeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaase Rockstar!
A second game would be better
both! :P
They can't because team bondi no longer exists that is why they haven't also they weren't gonna make la noire because bondi and rockstar had a bitter relationship
Your wish has been granted. La noire 2 confirmed
@@JC19171 no it isn't, moron.
Well.. I guess that joe just made a new review 😂😂 this game is re releasing!! Awesome review.
The ending made me really sad, Rockstar usually has ending that get the feels wheels rolling
***** This game getting sequels would be far from a bad thing because we need more new and different kinds of games released and this should not be the only Detective game like this.
Unfortunately Team Bondi went bankrupt so I doubt there will be a sequel, Maybe KMM Studio (The people who bought Bondi) will do a sequel, who knows.
walter price I Played This Game Before, But I Didn't Like It.
Vijay Laud waiting for that game to be revealed. im excited for it.
walter price "I'm sorry..."
L.A. Noire is fucking awesome.
I really like how when they talk the lips are really in sync with the sound and the acting is amazing
axe ram Yes! I got absolutely blown away by this, I played this game on a crappy PC a long time ago and, sometimes the facial animations would stutter and freeze during dialogue sequences, but when they unfreeze, they don't go out of sync, it's like the animations are "tied" to the audio.
9:21
God, i couldn't get a read on Joe, he has some serious poker face.
Joe* and lol
+OoEy Corrected the original post.
There I was, New World Anthropology/Archaeology 243 class, 8:45 pm, bored from a hour and 45 minutes of class, another hour and 15 minutes to go. My mind drifts to the case I am currently playing in L.A. Noire. I align the clues, piecing small stuff together one by one. I draw a pattern on my in-class video notes, linking people, places, times and objects, all leads pointing to the killer. I circle him in red several times. My professor tells us to hand in our notes to get credit. Without realizing I had no notes written out I hand it in. Once we have gone to break I realize I had handed in nothing but my L.A. Noire case notes. After the break my professor hands them back wit our scores on them. I get mine and see 20/20. How can this be!? There was nothing on the paper about Clovis culture arrowheads and obsidian tools but rather a web of case notes from L.A. Noire! I look on the back and see she had written, "Good job, you got the right guy. This case took me forever." I look up to see my elderly professor smiling at me. She winks and heads to her computer to enter the grades. BEST PROFESSOR EVER!!!!!!
That is EPIC!!!
***** lame quote bro
I pray this story is true. I've done my damndest to turn old timers that I know are into noir onto the game and it makes me happy to know there's a generation of people who have long derided video games that now may start to take them seriously. It's about damn time.
They should totally remaster this game on the xbox one and the PS4
Damn, they would would've gone bankrupt soon.
kdog.
If the development team didn't go bankrupt, do you think they'd have made a series out of this game? A franchise?
I'd like to think so, but it's my understanding this wonderful game was horrendously expensive to make. :(
Aye, I would've bought like three copies of that game Just to increase the salestatistics a little bit more. Not even kidding. When I see passion-projects, I support the fuck out of'em with mucho gusto!
It was released in 2011, it looks fine, it dosn't need remastering.
Yeoman86 Gaming I would pay 60 for a remaster. I never finished the game and would like to try again on PS4. I really enjoyed the challenge Noire presented as it forced you to think, evaluate, consider and reconsider, and the face feature system was excellent.
This game is so underrated
kalkampanaros No, *UNDERRATED
9 years after the mo cap technology in this game still blows my mind how realistic facial expressions looks🔥💯
9/10 unique game!
L.A. Noire + MAFIA II = GREAT!!!
Best lip syncing I have ever seen in a game. Brilliant game.
It's a damn shame that Bondi no longer exists because of the Australian government removing funding from some both progressive and bigger game developers, not believing that games can benefit Australia's economical future. Fuck me dead, dude. This was a fantastic game that definitely could grow from what we got, especially with the extra additional features like what you mentioned in this review; being able to wonder around and interact with the civilians directly in like a restaurant, or at the movies, a drive-in, or elsewhere. And of course sliding in more consequences for your actions to make the games overall achievements THAT much more rewarding :) However, because of Bondi being stripped of any funding, and Rockstar actually playing a very small roll in it's actual development, and rather more in it's distribution, etc, it's extremely unlikely that we'll ever see a sequel
Benji James The Australian government funds video games?
Yes, they did fund Team Bondi for their next game "Whore of the Orient," but I didn't hear much about LA Noire. Team Bondi themselves were in development hell for 7 years, with a bunch of devs coming and going due to the mismanagement of the company and painful crunch hours. Not to mention the hundred employees that were left out of the credits and felt mistreated.
Benji James That's where your partially wrong kiddo!
Benji James Australia is also against Mortal Kombat games because of the blood and gore. I’d be depressed if I were a gamer living there. Seriously.
Government funded software developer gets stuck in dev hell for 7 years and the employees are unhappy. Go figure ;) lol
Damn here I am 10 years later.
ffs, at first I thought it is a 1 or 3 years old video
I want another one of these games.
Interesting, even though this is an old article, it looks like we might see something come of this soon since GTA5 is wrapped up. GTA online doesn't look like it's going to add heists before Watch Dogs comes out so hopefully that means that they're working on their next project and hopefully this is it.
I love the theme song of this game. Something to listen to when you're relaxing.
Sooth soomth jazz
Agreed
It's eargasmic
I listen to it when I'm travelling somewhere and come with some stereotypical cop narration in my head for some true Noir experience!
Yep
Is it just me or is this a lot better and funnier than his current reviews?
before copyright issues stole a part of joes personality
They’re all regurgitated vomit.
I agree.
As do i
Yeah
This is one of my absolute favorite video game narratives because it NAILS the fucking time period, that inter-crossing world of returning veterans still transitioning mentally from the war into the civilian world saddled with the baggage from their previous lives. While society at-large deals with the unforeseen consequences of all the wartime production capacity in the form of contraband goods, surplus drugs and firearms smuggled in from the war.
"Ya I killed those people!!" Best part!
1:39 - "It'll be the slammer for the both of ya, see? Reaahhh... Now get out of here, kid; I got things to do, cases to solve, see? Raaah. See, ahhhhh... Maaaahh. And if you knew what's good for ya, you'd stay away from that character, see? Meahhhh, m-... raaaah, see? ....... raaah."
I'm wearing pajama pants, so no
L.A noire: best game I've ever played. Needs a sequel, possibly playing as Kelso or phelps' past partners later after the death of phelps. Or it is set in a completely different city. I don't care what it is I just want a new game
11 years later, I'm still playing this amazing game. Now on the OLED Switch. Somehow I could never get enough of it.
This game was an awesome change of pace. I really enjoyed it. It immerses you in the time period and putting the cases together are really fun.
Did they add alot of little subtle details? that make the world seem and feel even more believable, like most Rockstar Masterpieces?
They did. You have many Hollywood landmarks, and the game exudes atmosphere, like Red Dead Redemption. The cars, clothes, mannerisms. It all fits together well.
CrunkKrow The game has a lot of focus on really small details. Tiny mundane objects that are there for flavor even if they don't serve the case.
The cars even are accurately damaged by collisions and such. Like, if you get hit in the back right corner, the back right corner is dented exactly as it would be. I think there are even bullet scratches to the cars.
0:35 he says cookies for on table then eats a Tim Tam
in Texas that's a cookie... or was in the 50s
I am Australian and Americans say they have no tim tams...
TheGmodGamerchannel well if you have no tim tams, YOU HAVE NO SOUL
Joel B true dat
TheGmodGamerchannel yep no clue what that is it looked like a twix to me
4:46 - Woah, is that Greg Grunberg?
Hell fucking yes
The entire interrogation scene had awesome pacing.
I WOULD NEVER GET THAT ANGRY!
ARE YOU SURE IT WASINT *pulls out sonic:free rider* THIS
me:GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Rockstar never makes a bad game.
Rainbrujah Dash
No idea what you're talking about sir.
You must be high. Damn kids and your wacky weed...
Smokin that wacky tabacky
state of emergency was their only bad game.
bullys not that bad its basically the prequel to gta
*cough* max payne 2 *cough*
Here because of the Remastered announcement🙈
The good ol days. I miss this old joe.😿
Yes ...😢
why do you say that? what's changed?
+touchperception People always complain and talk about how a TH-camr has changed over the years lol.
He's turned into a libcuck now.
+mooganify not really but ok
One of the best stories in gaming.
I'm surprised he didn't mention the "black and white" option in the menus, making the game... well... black and white. But really, this game is truly amazing. I played it on the most difficult setting, with no hints or help, and loved the muffins out of it.
Oh shit thanks for letting us know about that!
8:50-10:59 *The acting from AJ is great it’s Oscar worthy I must say and that ending twist got me.* 😂
LA Noire 2, Red Dead Redemption 2, Bully 2, GTA6... omw Rockstar pleeeeeeeease.
And red redemption is the second in the series so there can't be a red dead redemption 2 if there are two in the series. Currently we only know it as Red Dead 3
Sorry but Team Bondi doesn't exist any more so probably no LA Noire 2 :(
+Quillin IKR. Apparently la noire was supposed to be much larger. Upon entering the traffic desk they mention a robbery desk. Apparently that was part of the game but got cut due to budgeting. LA Noire best game of all time. We need another!!!!
+Quillin IKR. Apparently la noire was supposed to be much larger. Upon entering the traffic desk they mention a robbery desk. Apparently that was part of the game but got cut due to budgeting. LA Noire best game of all time. We need another!!!!
Yeah, there was 2 extra planned desks they were forced to cut.. Bunco (Fraud) and Burglary (Robbery).. Also Auto Theft would have been a part of the traffic desk... So yes, alot of the game was cut to form what we can play today... Cant wait to see what Team Bondai does with "Whore of the Orient".
Nine years....
Time flies man..
Wait I thought Joe did get his money back from sonic free riders.
Alex Aycock Oh okay, thanks for clarifying.
Alex Aycock No problem.
R* is best gaming company! Every game they made is masterpiece!
Except for that piece of garbage Red Dead Redemption.
KIDDING. I'm just kidding.
+Kate the bear Was about to say you were absolutely insane
PickeKid I typed that out attempting to troll... I felt disgusted with myself. I still feel slimy.
+Oto B. GTA Chinatown Wars...
That fucking facial expression part is so accurate and has me in tears every time
Just finished it yesterday. I can't believe it took almost 6 years to play this game...What an amazing experience
GTMaxy94 just bought it off of humble bundle for like 6 bucks and am having a great time
+The Pooch awesome ;)
Its so trippy that the characters look exactly like their actual voice actors it really adds to that movie feeling.
Kyle Soler Saves then the time of having to think of faces for each person.
Yeah I don't remember 2 of the guys nez but one was from charmed tv show and lost tv show.
This seems like the type of game that would have major stars, had Rockstar still cast triple A actors in their games, though the original actors for Cole and Jack remain. This is who I would have casted back then:
Stefan Bekowski: Sam Rockwell
Rusty Galloway: Michael Madsen
Roy Earle: Chris Pine
Herschel Biggs: Nick Nolte
James Donnelly: Bryan Cranston (He still had short hair at the time)
Gordon Leary: James Woods
Archie Colmyer: Michael Keaton
Leland Monroe: John Goodman
Courtney Sheldon: Josh Hutcherson
Harland Fontaine: Christopher Walken
Curtis Benson: Dennis Quaid
Ray Pinker: Tobey Maguire
Malcolm Caruthers: James Rebhorn
Elsa Lichtman: Diane Kruger
This is my favorite game EVER
Try Mafia 2. I bet you'd love it.
Mafia 2 did look pretty sweet. Bet it's cheap now too.
+ei kukaan Mafia 2 is just an third person action shooter...
movement2contact Mafia 2 focuses more on story than action.
+Ryan Schwartz Yes, favourite story and characters.
See? NYAhh! see? myahh! See....?
NYAh
Joe should play Ace Attorney.
Obviously
+Light Yagami He has actually
HE SHOULD REVIEW IIIIIIIIIT
Light Yagami I don't think he reviews handheld games unfortunately. He is a fan though.
...
La noire sequel please
Yes! Only this time in 80's Miami... Or Chicago's mobster (alcohol prohibition) days.
The last one would be a prequel.
+Ed C23 hell yeah or how about set in NYC in the disco era of the late 1970s I mean think about it we already had the 1940s in L.A were a cop was served in ww2 and now we can have an NYPD detective that served in the Vietnam war in the late 60s/early 70s and also this time instead of having the black dahlia as the main killer in the homicide cases It would be the Son of Sam.
Bmendez378
That sounds like a really fitting sequel.
Papa John No the original is bad enough gta 6 instead please.
Plot twist! The detective is Joe! L.A. Noire directed by M. Night Shyamalan
What the Fuck ( excuse me for my foul language ) I did not expect that!
+KidFromVault101 What a twist!
Next you'll be telling me Superman is Clark Kent!
I can't see this game taking place anywhere else but Los Angeles. Hollywood and this game go hand in hand. I hope LA Noire 2 stays in LA and jumps to the mid 50's around the time of Marilyn Monroe and other starlets of that time.
The 70s would have been nice.
My biggest issue with LA Noire was the inability to fail a case. No matter how much you fuck up, the case continues on and you eventually get your man. It would have been great to see criminals getting innocent verdicts because you didn't collect enough evidence or been able to potentially arrest the wrong people. Instead the game holds your hand, giving you hints and allowing failure only through death.
Though you couldn't technically fail a case, you would get your ass yelled up by the boss for charging for the wrong guy.
@@RangerTroll THE CHIEF HAS MY BALLS STUCK ON A FRYING PAN!!!!!!!
@@jimfitzgerald2289 Lol
This game still holds up 10 years later
The way the music changes at 9:42 in combination with the camera zoom in on Joe's face is really quite brilliant.
I'm so glad Other Joe is now a regular on the show... It kind of feels hollow without him now.
Did detective Joe just steal my fucking line
This game is nothing short of GENIUS! This one of those MUST PLAY adventures no gamer should intentionally pass us. Probably the coolest features about this game are: 1) the open space environment, 2) authentic looking faces, motions, and physics, 3) the multiple outcomes with nearly every scene or sequence you play, and 4) very good story writing. The fact that authentic vintage landmarks were replicated in exquisite detail really adds to this genre piece in ways that make me yearn to have lived in LA back in the day.
A shining example of what video games should be like.
I almost pissed myself with your interrogation sketch faces HAHAHAHAHAHA
So sad that they shut down the Studio
Joe made a great point about picking LIE vs DOUBT, so here's a good way to tell the difference and get it right all the time:
Chose doubt when you know the person is lying, (because of a nervous tick, or not looking you in the eyes), but can't prove it.
Choose lie when you know the person is lying, and you have evidence to PROVE it.
Good luck, gumshoes!
I tend to come back to see this Angry review every now and then because it's so fun haha, one of my favorites.
I'd love it if they made a sequel to this game but had a more robust and consistent set of logic for determining what the correct interrogation responses are. The reasoning that they seem to want you to follow is: If the person isn't making a goofy, sketchy looking face, select truth. If the person is acting fishy, do you have evidence (which you can cite from your notebook) that contradicts what the person is saying? If you do, select lie, if not select doubt. Provided you were thorough in investigating all crime scenes up to the point of the interrogation, you should succeed.
However, the game doesn't always follow this logic, which is problematic as it is a core gameplay element that plays a big role in determining your success. Sometimes evidence that seems to strongly contradict what someone says won't prove the lie, but other times you're expected to use evidence that's only thinly related to what the person said, and that doesn't solidly substantiate your claim that the person is lying.
Another issue is that you can't fully review evidence after it's been collected, which means that if you don't memorize every line of info on a form before you have the context necessary to tell what's relevant, that piece of evidence is probably not going to help you in your sleuthing because you can't revisit it after you have more info. You can get a brief description of the evidence in your notebook, but that summary doesn't always tell you what you need to know to make the connections necessary to successfully progress the case.
These flaws may seem minor, but I found them to be a persistent source of frustration that kept taking me out of the game, and they undermine the main part of the experience that attracted to me the game in the first place.
Another issue I had is the contradiction between how Cole Phelps is depicted and how you end up playing him as a consequence of the game way is structured. Phelps is supposed to be a strict by-the-book guy, but if you bother to drive to crime scenes yourself, you're probably going to end up doing reckless stuff because it's encouraged by the game's GTA/arcade-style controls. Similarly, all of missions and side missions that involve fights and gunplay make the game a lot more action-intensive than I necessarily want for my Noire detective story.
The nail in the coffin for me is the terrible PC port. The game is locked at 30 frames per second, which I get is probably a constraint imposed by the facial animation system, but it would've been nice if they could've fixed the system so the frame rates would only lock while in dialogue mode and for cutscenes. There are jaggies everywhere and the maximum supported antialiasing option (3X) seems to do absolutely nothing (and I'm someone who is usually satisfied by 2X FXAA). Screen tearing is rampant (nope, no option for v-sync) and even on a fairly strong gaming PC (i5-2500, GTX 670) there was significant stutter at times. And the game doesn't look that great to begin with (though I suspect it would look fine if those technical issues were ironed out).
It's sad because there is a lot to appreciate about this game. It's a great concept, the performances are entertaining, the atmosphere is super sweet, and there are some fantastic technical elements, but Rockstar wasn't quite able to bring it all together, or, for me, make the game enjoyable enough to even want to play past the first five or six cases. I do hope that they, or someone else, takes another crack it something like this though.
4.99 on steam right now.
4.99 US Dollar?! OMG, we Europeans are ripped off then! The total bundle (incl. DLC) is 9,99 EUR... 7,49 without DLC
Sorry : P But that's why I love Steam. So many insane sales.
np, mate =) Yeah love steam for their sales too, and the fact you don't need disks.
Because it's cheap, I have an income, and torrents sometimes have annoying discrepancies compared with the legit copy.
***** >Why not just torrent it for free?
I'm not sure if you know this, but games cost money to make. Developers spend money, usually a large amount, to make a game of this size. In order to make a profit and put food on their family's table, they sell the game to make up for development cost and gain an income. If the game doesn't sell, they lose money and aren't able to produce better games further on. How would you feel if you spent your life working on an amazing software only to have it being torrented. If you torrent, that's fine, but when you advocate it like you just found out about it yesterday and think you're smart, you are incorrect.
Dang, I just watched this video this morning and this is so good, man! I really enjoyed this, Angry Joe! Hope you keep it up! Gonna watch more of your videos from now on.
Btw, have you ever reviewed AC Black Flag? Syndicate? Couldn't find them so I guess not
Angry Joe has quite the acting skills back then! XD
Saw this review a few months back and now it was $7.50 on steam with the DLC that Joe mentioned was coming. I'll give this a shot.
Yeah, that's why I'm giving it a shot as well. I heard it was a pretty bad port, so hopefully I won't have any problems. Even if I do end up getting problems, 7.50 isn't hard to make up. Much better than the 30 dollar original price.
Bought the game of a friend today. 11 bucks. Oh yeah. Freaking bargain right there!
If you think that's a bargain then you'll think that Gamestop is the most generous company ever. They're selling it for 7
MexicanPride1377 Not in Norway.
Falcon Plays Steam it can be 5 bucks.
Brandon Miller I got it for free.
Aaron Mont From a friend or did you pirate it.
“I don’t know where the victim was!”
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I like how you can select Lie and then take it back.
"I think you butchered your husband, cut him up, and turned him into chili! You bitch!"
"What? I would never! I loved my husband!"
"My mistake. So tell me about this receipt for a washing machine."