I don't like watching playthroughs but I won't be getting my PS3 until I graduate(June) so I'll just take a taste of the game. Thanks for putting this up.

I am a bad person. I keep watching them but I shouldn't.

Goddamnit, it looks incredible.

i just skip around.. i really wanna see the gameplay.

Awesome, can't help myself but enjoying it anyway.

I understand that people are excited(as am I), but why would you want to watch this and have some of the game spoiled for you?

I wanna watch this, but I don't.

GTA mixed with Heavy Rain?

@CL60: It contains a few spoilers. If you only watch the first case in the video, you're not really spoiling the game.

Looking pretty good aside from some of what looks like some framerate issues.

Even on low quality the videos time just sits at 00:00/00:00 

I can't fucking look away.

But this commentator is trying his hardest to make me quit watching...driving like a retard and piping up to say nothing anytime he can...

GTA mixed with Heavy Rain?

Only reason I'm watching is to see if I should keep my preorder.

This further reinforced my feelings about the game. The simple truth/doubt/lie system coupled with the facial animations seems to be the only even remotely interesting thing about it. The shooting is auto-aimed Red Dead Redemption-style bullshit, the melee combat looks to be about as engaging as that of Uncharted 2 and the crime scene investigation is just you looking around the environment and pressing the "look closer" button.

How are you guys watching this?! Mine has been sitting here doing absolutely nothing for 20 minutes. :'(

How are you guys watching this?! Mine has been sitting here doing absolutely nothing for 20 minutes. :'(

@CL60: Even refreshing? Maybe try another browser? 

@CL60 said:

How are you guys watching this?! Mine has been sitting here doing absolutely nothing for 20 minutes. :'(

Try a different browser or turn off adblocker. That always seemed to fix gameanyones videos for me. I'm trying so hard to resist watching this! I shall not give in!

I watched it all and I'm unsure about it, the investigation stuff is cool but the fist fights, shooting and driving are straight out of GTA and I detested that stuff. Will probably pick it up for cheaper and when there are less games being released, too many other games to play.

I don't wanna spoil anything so I'm not gonna watch, but can someone tell me if its good, please?

I can see how later on this will get really hard to figure out, but some of those chase scenes were just too awesome.

I can't fucking look away.But this commentator is trying his hardest to make me quit watching...driving like a retard and piping up to say nothing anytime he can...

@Doctorchimp said:

I can't fucking look away.But this commentator is trying his hardest to make me quit watching...driving like a retard and piping up to say nothing anytime he can...

based on my experience from watching him over the years, he's a very relaxed gamer. although he has good taste in video games, he is  a very casual gamer. give him a break.

must...not...look....R* games are the only ones that both have enough of a story component and are good enough for me to actually care about spoilers.

I didn't want to watch... but it made me so excited for the game.

I'm gonna have to agree with Icemael on this one.  Initially I was looking forward to this game, but in hindsight I should've known better.  I don't know what this insistence is among game developers for making "interactive movies" rather than engaging and complex games.  And then there's the internet community, who demands the OMG AWSUM STORYZ but doesn't seem to even understand what "plot" and "narrative" means.

There is not one, NOT ONE GODDAMN video game out there that has a respectable and well-written "story".  Even the most well-acclaimed "story" games are B-movie Direct-2-DVD level writing, at best.  And that's ok, because the focus oughta be on gameplay, because that's why people fork over the cash.  It's depressing to watch this trend toward "press x to trigger cinematic" gameplay, its all flash and no substance.

L.A. Noire may not be the worst offender.  But just look at the way the game relentlessly guides you by the hand and forcefully nudges you in the correct direction.  The worst part is how Phelps declares "This does not pertain to the case" when he picks up a fucking coffee mug.  Why can't the developers just let us use our own instincts to determine which clues are relevant, I mean it's quite frankly the least they can do.  That kind of hand-holding is just insulting.  Ah well.

Trust me guys, the people who are competent and experienced at the nuances of storytelling are not writing video games.   

I'd go the complete opposite, very few movies have well written stories and the ones that usually do are based on a book or some other kind of media.

The focus doesn't always have to be about gameplay when the overall experience of the game is incredible.

 Not only that, I would count quite a few video games that have very well written stories that could easily hold up to a lot of movies today.