So I recently finished LA Noire, and despite never playing it (I am such a bad person), I wanted to dive straight into Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Has that ever happened to anyone here? I'm wondering if I'm an oddity here.
Is that because you found the driving mechanic in LA Noire completely tacked-on and lackluster and felt the need to cause some meaningful vehicular mayhem?
Because that's how I felt anytime I drove anywhere in LA Noire.
Is that because you found the driving mechanic in LA Noire completely tacked-on and lackluster and felt the need to cause some meaningful vehicular mayhem?
Because that's how I felt anytime I drove anywhere in LA Noire.
While I agree that the driving in LA Noire was crap, it's more because I was wondering how much "LA" would look in a more modern time. I know San Andreas is fictional, but the location and the social period was inspired by LA.
Two totally different beings, so i can't say that it had that affect on me.
PS: the way that I play L.A. Noire is to not drive around the city as much as possible. The driving is not fun, nor the draw for that game. It could ave been left out and that game would have been equally as enjoyable.
Nope, but buying a controller for the PC has made me want to revisit San Andreas. Maybe a controller would help make Zero's missions a little less impossible.
Not really. I already played San Andreas to death though.
To all the people that hate the driving parts of L.A. Noire I didn't find the it all that bad really. It wasn't great but I'm a history nut so it was fun to drive around a re-creation of 1950s L.A. And let's be honest. How would you expect old cars to handle?
No, playing any GTA-esque Rockstar game makes me want to never play a GTA game again. I hate myself for forgetting that just in time for the next GTA-esque Rockstar game to be released.
And yeah, I know Rockstar (mostly) didn't develop L.A. Noire. But it has a lot of the same crap mechanics surrounding the not so terrible parts.
EDIT: I find it funny how its now cool to hate LA Noire. Oh, you kids.
Yeah, I really don't get that. I guess it is mostly to do with the perception of the game vs. what it actually is. I'm sure Rockstar's promotion of the game as "GTA 1940s" was a big reason for its financial success, but it sure worked against the mainstream perception and expectations of the game. The very fact that this poll exists is evidence of that. L.A. Noire has more in common with Sam and Max than it does with GTA. If more people realized that it was actually a modern interpretation of the classic adventure genre, I don't think it would be bashed as much as it. I'm sure many of the GTA and sandbox style game fans have zero interest in adventure games, which makes the hate for L.A. Noire more understandable, even if it isn't really justified. I'm sure if I was tricked into buying and playing a creepy anime dating sim because if was marketed as a JRPG, I would be just as upset.
I bought LA Noire on release and played it for a day and never touched it again. A couple weeks ago I tried finishing it but I'm only up to Vice. Starting to today though, I've been playing through GTA SA. I'm around the middle way through of San Fierro and plan to finish it this weekend. Might go back to LA Noire afterwards and then onto Vice City. But to your question, no, LA Noire and GTA SA are completely unrelated to why I want to finish either.
I did this, but the game wasnt what i remembered it to be and shut it off 10 mins into the game, just didnt give me that feel (granted i played it on the pc this time).
EDIT: I find it funny how its now cool to hate LA Noire. Oh, you kids.
Yeah, I really don't get that. I guess it is mostly to do with the perception of the game vs. what it actually is. I'm sure Rockstar's promotion of the game as "GTA 1940s" was a big reason for its financial success, but it sure worked against the mainstream perception and expectations of the game. The very fact that this poll exists is evidence of that. L.A. Noire has more in common with Sam and Max than it does with GTA. If more people realized that it was actually a modern interpretation of the classic adventure genre, I don't think it would be bashed as much as it. I'm sure many of the GTA and sandbox style game fans have zero interest in adventure games, which makes the hate for L.A. Noire more understandable, even if it isn't really justified. I'm sure if I was tricked into buying and playing a creepy anime dating sim because if was marketed as a JRPG, I would be just as upset.
I wasn't sure about this game because it was advertised as more of a sandbox game. However, the quick look turned the tides completely for me. After just finishing the Maltese Falcon and Red Harvest (amazing Dashiell Hammett books btw), this kind of style was EXACTLY what I was looking for in a game. I will admit it seems some of the mechanics are repetitive, but I still have immense fun doing these things. The reasoning behind that is just as you say, this ADVENTURE game is not geared towards GTA-heads. It's more about the power of telling a series of gritty noire mini films, which by the way, are told with supreme skill. That's just my 2 cents addition to your statement...
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