Rockstar Releases First L.A. Noire DLC, Explains Why the Rockstar Pass Is Actually Worthwhile

I'm considering buying this pass. Has anyone played Naked City and Slip of the Tongue? Are they worth getting?

I'm considering buying this pass. Has anyone played Naked City and Slip of the Tongue? Are they worth getting?

PSN Store is up (UK), buying the R* pass as I type.
After the introductory price of this pass it isn't such a great deal. Very happy as I haven't completed the game yet so this will prolong my experience (I accidentally bought the PS3 version without the extra case on amazon so yay me).

I actually bought L.A. Noire for the ps3 since it was originally a ps3 exclusive. Which is a rarity since I tend to only play exclusives on the ps3. Now I remember why I always choose 360 if I have a choice.

so sick of 360 getting dlc first. its fucking stupid.   but on the other hand, the ps3 version is superior in terms of graphics and of course the amount of discs (lol). 

I don't own L.A. Noire, but I must say that "Nicholson Electroplating Disaster" is an amazing name for anything.

Excellent....I can always use more DLC for L.A. Noire.

Rockstar is offering us to buy the bag of apples, instead of each one individually. If it saves me some cash, I'll bite.

...but I feel like at least some of it should have been offered free to the people who bought this game on day one.

I really like the idea of the RockStar Pass. It's the equivalent of Red Dead Redemption's "Undead Nightmare Collection" which included all of the DLC for Red Dead Redemption. That was a steal, and so is this, assuming you enjoyed L.A. Noire.

I enjoyed L.A. Noire but not enough to buy the DLC. I'm not fond of having to pay for this pass either. I assumed that it would come with new copies of the game as an incentive to not buy pre-owned. I'm not saying that it isn't a fair pricetag for the content, but I feel like at least some of it should have been offered free to the people who bought this game on day one.

so sick of 360 getting dlc first. its fucking stupid.   but on the other hand, the ps3 version is superior in terms of graphics and of course the amount of discs (lol). 

I think I'll wait for the GOTY where all of this stuff is just built in.

Still waiting for LA Noire to arrive in the mail, cant wait to see how it plays.

Since the penalty for not getting this soon is all of $2 in price increase, I can wait until I pick up the game down the road.  If it was $15, I'd consider getting it now.  Want to play, but got enough to get through for now.  

So the "free community unlock" of the Chicago Piano gun was my preorder bonus, which I still haven't managed to download through the store, for obvious reasons.
 
Not sure whether I should be annoyed or not.

Also wish Alex formatted this so it was easier to read the content and how much adds you'll get for 10 bones. Right now it is just blocks of text. Cmon Alex. Don't let bloggers one up you. 

Also I wanted to add, that in the Country I live in and is born in, game shop almost never have any pre-order stuff. Games are rarely even offered to pre-order. So for us this Rockstar Pass is a nice way to get pre-order and other DLC content that we maybe wouldn't be able to get.

i'll get the rockstar pass

so sick of 360 getting dlc first. its fucking stupid.  
 
but on the other hand, the ps3 version is superior in terms of graphics and of course the amount of discs (lol). 

Hell yeah, more time with Roy Earle, can't wait!

Getting the pass. I'll be getting 3 DLC packs and eventually save 160 MSP on it so it works out good.

I'm all up for some reefer madness.

It's ironic, but all the DLC and pre-order garbage only serves to devalue their game and increase demand for cheaper used prices
 
I bought this game new foolishly thinking the "Rockstar Pass" would be included.... Shoulda stuck with my original plan of getting it used for $20-30 so I could afford all the DLC.. As is stands now, I don't feel like upping my investment in this game to $75. 
 
...And try to imagine for a second how fragmented the next GTA is going to be. Ah, video games

@Damian said:

No, thanks. Seems a fair price and all, but I'd rather pay $10 for one big DLC package along the lines of Undead Nightmare or some of the Borderlands offers. And you have to know that they have something bigger planned after mid-July. I'm'a wait for that, and hope I still care when it comes.

Rockstar has stated that the DLC announced today is all of the planned DLC for the game.

Eh sure. But realistically I'll be picking up the game for $10-15 cheaper than $60 anyway. I'm still not cool with a brand new game and all its content costing me $75+ unless it comes with an extravagant figurine.
 
And could we have an editorial ruling on which price goes in the parenthesis throughout an article and which one gets absurd-money-name of the week? I suppose I'm just upset there aren't more occasions to say "Nintendollars".

season pass sounds perfect

Not sure about this one.  On one hand the $10 season pass sounds great, on the other hand, I already have two pieces of DLC for LA Noire I can't use since the store's not back up yet.  $10 to get you $20 is good, $10 to get you $16, shoot, still good.  Maybe I'll just get the pass and offload the voucher to someone on GB.

This was an instant buy for me for my Xbox 360. I own the game on PS3 and I'm thinking about getting this there also. 
 
I kinda like it how Rockstar is doing this with the DLC.

Rockstar's approach to DLC is becoming pretty status quo. They tested a few things out with GTA IV and smoothed the wrinkles out in Red Dead Redemption. I'd expect an L.A. Noire DLC bundle to hit the marketplace sometime in the fall...

Also wish Alex formatted this so it was easier to read the content and how much adds you'll get for 10 bones. Right now it is just blocks of text. Cmon Alex. Don't let bloggers one up you.

Well, if the Playstation Store is up and running before the price goes up, I reckon I'd go for the Pass. But at this rate, I I should maybe add it to my Christmas list.

im fukin stoked fo this

@Branthog: The achievements may be in your list, but they are not part of the games disc allotted 1000 points. The game has a total of 1200 gamerscore if every achievement would be unlocked, thus you're not missing out on any of the points you are supposed to be able to unlock from a retail disc. They are treated as DLC so they get away with it. As for it being a 100kb download to unlock something on a disc, I'm usually super pro DLC and the entitlement a lot of people seem to have when it comes to DLC released after the fact is sickening, however this being on disc is quite shadey but I guess they were ment to be a preorder incentive so they gated it away. I never preorder games so I'm happy I even get the choice to access the content.

Sweet more cases

Sounds good to me.

Bitch bitch, moan moan. 
 
I would have paid even more for the bonus cases, so I'll bite. Good on ya, Rockstar.

I just got about 500 free msp from being part of that Microsoft Rewards program so I'm up for this.

It took dlc to teach me that I can get a shotgun from the trunk of my squad car.

The pass seems like a great deal, I'll pick that up for sure.

Rockstar said before release that they were going to sell all the pre-order DLC eventually, but I didn't expect it to be this soon.  This whole thing seems kind of weird, but I'm willing to pay $10 to get all the content that's currently out there, plus two additional cases.   
 
This was discussed on the Bombcast a few weeks ago, but you have to wonder how much DLC is going to be released, given the cost and time commitment involved with getting the cast into a studio.