Granted it's an amazing game, there's always room for improvement. What would make this game better?

more kelso, less homicide 

A monster truck.

The Normandy SR-2.

alec mason's hammer

Get rid of the open world and side missions and just give me more cases.

Power armor.

Polished or removed open world. Both the driving and shooting were lame. I would appriciate if developer focused more on the storytelling and the adventure-like gameplay.

Cole Phelps having a fucking life. 
 jumping from one investigation to another constantly, doing the same song and dance, killed the game for me. You don't do anything else.. 
 
 
 
@CL60 said:

Cole Phelps having a fucking life. 
 
jumping from one investigation to another constantly, doing the same song and dance, killed the game for me. You don't do anything else..

A more subtle hint system. Your only options are to turn it off completely and make the game incredibly hard to do well at, or leave it on and make the game too easy. Perhaps a middle-ground would have been nice in offering challenge with the opportunity for success.

Polished or removed open world. Both the driving and shooting were lame. I would appriciate if developer focused more on the storytelling and the adventure-like gameplay.

How about convicting criminals who actually committed the crime. I HATED arson and homicide because I knew before hand that the person i convicted wasn't the real perpetrator. I was all ok for them doing it for homicide but to have me go through that again for arson was dumb

Get rid of the open world and side missions and just give me more cases.

Like Dany and Quipido said, I would prefer if there was some kind of closure (and variety) when you completed a homicide case. Or at least some third option so you can tell your watch commander "Hey, I think there's another guy at work here. Let me try to prove it."

Ok Im going to be dickish ..... not existing that would make it good >:(

I thought it would do better to be more campy, you know like other Noir movies of the time frame.

More shooting

Removal of both the star rating and the indication of whether your assessment of the suspect is right or wrong. LA Noire does an excellent job at not making too many concessions in trying to be a normal sandbox videogame. I feel they lacked the confidence in truly going all the way. If the emotion in the animation is really on par with reality, a gut feeling should be enough, instead of the instant checkboxing and overall scoring of the player.   
A somewhat deeper interrogation process wouldn't hurt either, where one mistake doesn't completely cut off the accusation. Perhaps the ability to keep the suspect under increasing pressure, something the Irish chief of police seems to allude to when you are presented with your first interrogation. While too much pressure could backfire. 
 
The chase sequences could do with some tweaking. A car chase is usually at it's most satisfying when you can catch up with actual driving skills, not by simply staying in range and following the scripted events.  
 
Although, would this make LA Noire better than it currently is? I don't know. I won't go into story details as I imagine there are still plenty of people in the middle of the game, but it could use a revision.

If it were set in Twin Peaks, and the game was called Twin Peaks.

Less open world stuff, its unnecessary. 
 
Deeper investigation system, remove the black and white answers, add in some degrees of failure.  When I say someone is lying, it should allow me to use a bit more logic than I currently can.  It's looking for one answer, and one only.  Sometimes this can be frustrating as I was thinking a bit different route with my investigation.  EG: Prove that Im conneted to the victim! and you have 3 or 4 possible evidence pieces that *could* link them, but only one is the right answer. 

Less open world stuff, its unnecessary.  Deeper investigation system, remove the black and white answers, add in some degrees of failure.  When I say someone is lying, it should allow me to use a bit more logic than I currently can.  It's looking for one answer, and one only.  Sometimes this can be frustrating as I was thinking a bit different route with my investigation.  EG: Prove that Im conneted to the victim! and you have 3 or 4 possible evidence pieces that *could* link them, but only one is the right answer. 

the action sequences needed to be spread out better, you do too much murdering towards the end of that game

A story that's worth a damn

Removal of both the star rating and the indication of whether your assessment of the suspect is right or wrong. LA Noire does an excellent job at not making too many concessions in trying to be a normal sandbox videogame. I feel they lacked the confidence in truly going all the way. If the emotion in the animation is really on par with reality, a gut feeling should be enough, instead of the instant checkboxing and overall scoring of the player.   A somewhat deeper interrogation process wouldn't hurt either, where one mistake doesn't completely cut off the accusation. Perhaps the ability to keep the suspect under increasing pressure, something the Irish chief of police seems to allude to when you are presented with your first interrogation. While too much pressure could backfire.  The chase sequences could do with some tweaking. A car chase is usually at it's most satisfying when you can catch up with actual driving skills, not by simply staying in range and following the scripted events.   Although, would this make LA Noire better than it currently is? I don't know. I won't go into story details as I imagine there are still plenty of people in the middle of the game, but it could use a revision.

I would like it if I could run around and hit people with dildos. Also - jetpacks.

I would like it if I could run around and hit people with dildos. Also - jetpacks.

UR MOMMA!

@Tophat666 said:

@drag said:

more kelso, less homicide

What he said.

Also you're crazy. Homicide was without a doubt the best desk in the game. I really liked the way they tied all the cases together in the end and Rusty started out as a cold heartless prick but as I went on he became a cold heartless prick that I actually cared for. Favorite desk and favorite partner. The other desks felt a little rushed at times to be honest: especially traffic and Vice were over before they had begun, at least homicide had some length to it and that Irish boss he was the best. Homicide was without a doubt the best part of that entire game, infact if the whole game had "just" been homicide I would have loved it even more.

Have questions and responses based on the evidence you've found instead of the 3 point system. Or if your going to keep the truth, doubt, lie system have doubt work like we're told it's going to work. e.g. I know the perp is lying and I haven't found the bloody knife so I use doubt. He gives me a more vague answer then what I would have gotten if I had the knife but it doesn't completely shut down the line of questioning. 

An ending that didn't suck shit.

@FluxWaveZ said:

An ending that didn't suck shit.

yep.

Also, I think I said it in this tread but seriously, two fucking desks in which the person locked up didn't commit the crime. Two desks, 10 cases out of 22 that were released, for fucks sake!

Only thing that really bothered me was I thought the partners from homocide and arson were really one and the same. As for the rest, I think I understand how they approached it no problem with balance, maybe a bit with the length of driving rarely. A better combat system might have been nice, for sure. The ending got a little strange in some ways, though it was correctly loyal to the theme.

A PS3 that had a functioning blu-ray drive. Hint: My Blu-ray drive died as I was playing.

Only thing that really bothered me was I thought the partners from homocide and arson were really one and the same.

a bag of dicks. 

@bybeach said:

Only thing that really bothered me was I thought the partners from homocide and arson were really one and the same.

Well, Rusty was obviously more of a misogynist and a drunk than Biggs. Also, Biggs seemed less jaded than Rusty and, in the end, seemed to have a friendlier relationship with Cole than Rusty had but yeah, they had their similarities.

Better gameplay. Honestly, it may be the weakest part. I was anticipating this to be an easy pick as my Game of the Year, but it's not gonna make it. There's too many issues with the gameplay. Brace yourselves, a rant ensues:
 
First of all, driving SUCKS. What happened here? One of the greatest things about GTA was the driving. Now I know this was only produced by Rockstar, but still. Maybe it's just not as fun because your score is penalized for wreckless and destructive driving, but I think there's more to it. You're always given a police car to use, which means you can't listen to the radio, and that's a bummer. Man, the also just gets so repetitive. I feel like that's what I'm doing the vast majority of the time, and it's gotten to the point where I just wrecklessly rush to my destination as quickly as possible. Turning on the sirens usually doesn't help me all that much either. Maybe the world just isn't presented in such an interesting way, I don't know. I live in Los Angeles, I love the place. I should be more enamored by scoping it out than I am when I play LA Noire. Then there are the car chases, where your partner gets to shoot out the tires and you miss out. That would be the most exciting part, and you can't even do it yourself. Disappointing! So I decided I would start riding shotgun to skip the driving sequences, however, when you do this it's an auto-skip right to your destination. That means you miss the dialogue chatter between you and your partner. You can't just sit there and look around in first person like in GTA, instead all of that is missed. It's a shame, really. 
 
Oh, and then there's the side missions. Man, do I really want to get into all of this? Well, the annoying thing about side missions is they totally distract you from the thrill of the pursuit of solving crimes, but more than that, they're usually WAY THE HECK FAR AWAY from where you are. That only leads to more driving. Not cool. Then you get there, and they're generally very short, and the majority of them just seem to revolve around killing a couple dudes. That's another big problem I have with the game. You're a cop, so you try to be the good guy, but still you have to kill so many people. I wish the game focused more on tactical ways of stopping and detaining the bad guys, rather than just shooting them dead. At least let me shoot them in the arm and then go tackle and 'cuff them or something. It feels wrong to have to kill so many people when it seems unnecessary, but the game relies heavily on the idea that if they shoot at you, you must kill them. It just doesn't feel right. It would be so much better if I had to use my wits to stop them, rather than to just take cover and pop out and shoot. Also, it would help if there was a little more incentive to not getting shot, rather than the now-standard "get shot, take cover until health restores" nonsense. 
 
I could say a lot more, but I'll stop there for now.

It should transform into whatever game you wanted to play instead of LA Noire.

Polished or removed open world. Both the driving and shooting were lame. I would appriciate if developer focused more on the storytelling and the adventure-like gameplay.

@doejonathan said:

I feel they lacked the confidence in truly going all the way.

It seems like an experiment to me. Like they felt they couldn't just drop all the 'normal' gameplay because that might be a step too far for a lot of players. So they kept in the big open city and the driving (which was fine I think, it's that people aren't expecting the cars to drive like that) and the gunplay. Another game in the same vein would likely go further along the path of detection, at least I hope so.

Make it longer.  Is it just me or was the story incredibly short?  I was let down, luckily a friend at Gamestop let me return it after I finished it in about 3 days for Mortal Kombat, no extra charge, even though my L.A. Noire was obviously used.  That was a smart move on my part, because I'm telling ya, Mortal Kombat has tons more to do in it than L.A. Noire, and so does inFamous 2, which I bought shortly after.  
 
Those games are my current faves and definitely give you your money's worth, more so than this game.  I loved the cases of L.A. Noire, I thought the story kind of lost its way near the end, doing arson wasn't fun at all.  It wasn't that fun playing as Kelso, or whatever the guy's name was who was in Vietnam with Cole, who you play as near the end.  I didn't mind the lack of shooting, thought it was appropriate actually.  When there was action, it was great.  When there was a case to solve, it was usually fun.  Even the side missions were always fun.  
 
And of course the dialogue, voice acting, and facial animations were second to none.  But I sucked at interrogation, so getting things wrong was frustrating and I had no intention of playing through it again and making the same mistakes (bad memory).  It's a great game but I don't think it's worth owning after you beat it, but few games are.
 
But still, my main beef is that it just seemed too short, ended abruptly, kinda just faded away.  I have a feeling it would have worked better as a movie actually, which I've never said about any game before.  The end climax seemed like that should have been the half-way point...I dunno.  It was great all around but let me down at the end.

Wouldn't kill to have more variation in the game...taking on case after case after case was a bit boring mid-game until the story got really interesting.

Free DLC.

How 'bout zombies? I haven't seen zombies in a video game in a while.

Supernatural cases.

It's not an amazing game. It has high production values and is an above average experience but it drags on and gets very boring in parts.
 
If I was to rate the actual gameplay though, as in, all the boring chase sequences, the clunky controls, the fairly poor feel to the shooting and the horrible driving it would not score favorably at all.

Free-use of guns when you finish the game. airplane use (no i'm not kidding) but like really old planes.
also in the second game you should be aprivate dedective so you should do arson cases, homocide cases and other cases all toghether.

 Oh, and then there's the side missions. Man, do I really want to get into all of this? Well, the annoying thing about side missions is they totally distract you from the thrill of the pursuit of solving crimes, but more than that, they're usually WAY THE HECK FAR AWAY from where you are. That only leads to more driving. Not cool. Then you get there, and they're generally very short, and the majority of them just seem to revolve around killing a couple dudes. That's another big problem I have with the game. You're a cop, so you try to be the good guy, but still you have to kill so many people. I wish the game focused more on tactical ways of stopping and detaining the bad guys, rather than just shooting them dead. At least let me shoot them in the arm and then go tackle and 'cuff them or something. It feels wrong to have to kill so many people when it seems unnecessary, but the game relies heavily on the idea that if they shoot at you, you must kill them. It just doesn't feel right. It would be so much better if I had to use my wits to stop them, rather than to just take cover and pop out and shoot. Also, it would help if there was a little more incentive to not getting shot, rather than the now-standard "get shot, take cover until health restores" nonsense.   I could say a lot more, but I'll stop there for now.