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Originally Posted by Moxie
You've got me convinced to get it too. Question, though, can you really just wander through the game without playing? Won't someone shoot you sooner or later and spoil the fun??
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Good question considering it's made by the same people as all the
Grand Theft Auto games. But unlike
GTA, in this one you're a cop, which means it is your duty to uphold the law.....going on the offensive running over pedestrians and the like is strongly discouraged, and you can only use your gun when the game lets you (which is maybe 3% of the time). On the flipside, nobody will ever randomly come at you...you're a cop, after all.
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Originally Posted by alanlutz
OMG. Thanks to all you guys and this great forum I've been reading for the past two months, I went out last night to Fry's and bought my first ever PC Video Game, L.A. Noire. Now I have to beef up my RAM and Video card since I am not usually a gamer. It LOOKS great, though.
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Originally Posted by alanlutz
Me too. Loving the game too. Can anyone advise me on how to get the great screen shots from the game? I thought I tried Print Screen but didn't work since it's in its own full-screen resolution.
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Awesome -- expect many, many hours of cruising and solving cases ahead! Sorry but I don't know how to get direct screenshots; I've just been using my camera and pointing it at my TV.
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Originally Posted by austlar1
Just want to jump in with an LA Noir (the game) observation. It is very realistic, but a lot of it (or most of it) does not seem to be based on actual buildings or streetscapes. I guess that would have been almost impossible to recreate. I once lived in a craftsman bungalow on S. Ardmore between 3rd and Beverly. The first thing I tried to do while exploring LA Noir was to drive past my old home in my hijacked auto. Turns out that the street in the game is not at all like my recollection of S. Ardmore. Seems like once you get out of downtown or away from Hollywood Blvd, the environment is mostly imagined. Don't get me wrong, I could spend hours prowling about this imagined LA because it is so beautifully rendered, but I find myself wondering what is based on reality and what is imagined.
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I agree with everything you say -- outside of the core areas, there's lots of interpreting and imagining going on.
Another observation: I find it interesting that they went for realism of the street grid over realism of the region, and by that I mean they accurately reproduced every street between Hollywood and Downtown, and that's all they did -- no beaches, no hills, no Valley, no South Central......the very first time I drove around and realized this I got pretty heated, no joke. I can only imagine these areas will be rendered in LA Noire 2 -- assuming there'll be one!