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Rockstar Games Presents L.A. Noire

Just look at those mouths move!

Nov. 11 2010

Posted by: Steve

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L.A. Noire

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OH MAN THIS IS SO AWESOME I JUST READ ABOUT THE GAME AND I WANT IT SO BAD *foams at the mouth*
 
I tend not to get too excited about games these days, no really.

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HOLY SHIT MONGO!!!
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@neochadnezzar: I thought this too, looks just like him...but creepier, yes.
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@edenspresence said:
" @neochadnezzar: I was totally just about to say 'I spy Ken Cosgrove' :) The faces look a little odd but if you can recognise an actor by their in-game model that's not bad. "
So was I. Fuck you people for thinking the same thing as me
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Goddamnit Rockstar you are wasting all my money.

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Wow the mouth animation looks amazing, just when you think you have seen it done well, you see something like this.

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That's some really convincing blinking and shit!

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Edited By supalink

interested, need to see more

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Amazing!!!

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@neochadnezzar: OMG thats awesome. Saw the trailer and was like whoa is that Cosgrove. Boom it is. Seems like a good actor to put into a period specific game. 
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Some of the voices sound incredibly familiar but i cant put names to them which is annoying the piss out of me.

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Truly amazing.

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For a second there I thought I am watching Mad Men ;) Impressive overall, but hell yes that the facial animation stands out on its own.

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This, this, this is the game I think I always wanted!

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Edited By ballsnbayonets

lips yes eyes no

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LA Confidential: The Game? You have my interest, game people.  
 
@randiolo
said:
" that was tottaly Mr  kobayashi ! "
Yeah, I thought the same thing. If it is Pete Postlethwaite, that's pretty cool. 
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Damn. Looks awesome.

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@Evercaptor said:
" In terms of facial animation, it's no Alan Wake. "
Uh, gonna have to disagree with you there.  I thought the people in Alan Wake looked pretty weird when they talked.  Though honestly, I still think some of the best I've seen comes from HL2.
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I came.
 
(Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown)

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Goddamn I love Rockstar!

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@FritzDude said:
" Holy shit! Best lip syncing i've seen in a game. "
This. That lip syncing is making it seem WAY more realistic even though the faces looked kinda bland.
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Rockstar, masters of the lip sync!

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I've been so excited for this game for years, and I've never even played a Rockstar game before.

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The main guy looks like the dude from madmen who is pete campbell's nemesis

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God, this thing's been in dev foreeeeeeever

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please be good, please be good

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I really don't like the face animation.

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@neochadnezzar said:
" Is it just me, or does the lead detective in this look like a creepy CG version of Ken Cosgrove from Mad Men?  EDIT: Just checked and it totally is. Good on Rockstar making a semi-obscure dude recognizable. "
I couldn't stop thinking about this while I watched the trailer.
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@Theavsfan said:
" @neochadnezzar said:
" Is it just me, or does the lead detective in this look like a creepy CG version of Ken Cosgrove from Mad Men?  EDIT: Just checked and it totally is. Good on Rockstar making a semi-obscure dude recognizable. "
I couldn't stop thinking about this while I watched the trailer. "
Probably because it is him. Props to Rockstar for making their models believable enough to be recognized.
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Love the facial expressions!

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I'm really looking forward to this one.  Not that impressed by the trailer (spoiled by GTA/Red Dead), but this is a genre that's vastly underrepresented in gaming.

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I went from meh to Hmm… about 10 sec in. There sure do know how to make good trailers, I want to see hwo this turns out.

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Deus Ex: HR, DA 2 , The Witcher 2 and this. Damn 2011 is going to be awesome.

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Their lips. They are synced!

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Very impressed with the animation.
 
edit: That didn't really state how blown away I am. Hot damn!

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Man and I thought Uncharted 2 had amazing faces.  This is crazy!!

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That 'forehead' guy looks a lot like Scott Bakula. 


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ITS BEEN A LAWN ROOOAAD

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So, it's going to be GTA but in the 30s. Not interested, sorry. I liked Red Dead Redemption but I think for the third game in a row it might get a bit stale. 
 
EDIT: Nevermind, thought this was another R* San Diego game. Still, not particularly interested. Good looking faces does not make a game good, I want to see the gameplay.

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Mouth animations are amazing, but the rest of the graphics look PS2 era.

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Hmm, which Rockstar game is the PS3 exclusive, again?

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Sup Madmen.  I wonder if Cosgrove makes 300 a month in this game too? ;)
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@wh4tshisface said:
" Hmm, which Rockstar game is the PS3 exclusive, again? "
Agent
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I've been looking forward to this.

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Man i hope that game is co op if they had a co op detective game i would love that.

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Rockstar + Film Noir = a videogame basically tailor-made for my interests. I just wish the main character wasn't so bland-looking, I'd rather it was a more world-weary Bogart type of dude.

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hot damn that was a good trailer. Looked way more like a movie or tv than a game.

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I didn't know L.A. was so close to the Uncanny Valley. ZING!

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tasty

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@neochadnezzar said:
" Is it just me, or does the lead detective in this look like a creepy CG version of Ken Cosgrove from Mad Men?  EDIT: Just checked and it totally is. Good on Rockstar making a semi-obscure dude recognizable. "
They probably had too. I suspect that they are heavily doing Mocap for this and acting the scenes just like in Uncharted so they need to use the actor's resemblance as much as possible. Looks amazing,