Stairs

Not having to go back down buildings

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Stairs

Not having to go back down buildings

Good Samaritan Hospital

These are all valid reasons and I fully support this thread. Not that that means much.  
 
But honestly, yeah, it's little things like attention to stairs and the ability to pick up your hat after it's knocked off that make me appreciate the game as much as I do. The gameplay is pretty take it or leave it, but the attention to detail can't be denied. Too bad the game was a product of developer slave labor, makes me feel kinda dirty for liking it so much. 

Stairs

 
For some strange reason,  I always observe how characters move up and down stairs in video games.  It's been something that's been bothering me since I've been a wee lad.  I hate how most video game people just slide or jump unrealistically up and down stairs.  Rarely do games have their characters take each individual step, and when they do, a part of brain tingles and sends out good signals throughout my body.  L.A. Noire takes its stairs seriously, and that is my first reason why this game is awesome.  Only other game that I know of that takes stairs seriously is Killer 7.  Loved that game too.

All your points are fair and well, but they don't make a game amazing, bro.

The third one might make you appear a little biased.. oj ;P 
 
One reason I especially loved about L.A Noire, which is kinda in relation to the stairs, is how automated a lot of the movement is. Especially during chases when you just hold a button to overcome whatever gets in the way, almost like the Assassins Creed games. The stairs in particular how they manipulate your movement to walk down them without any fuss and all efficiency brings a joyful tear to my eye. 
 
I still see L.A Noire as a flawed, and appreciatively attempted, masterpiece towards a lot of its aspects (like.. the interrogations..), but there are a few small tid bits that I still vehemently admire.

All your points are fair and well, but they don't make a game amazing, bro.

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 I was freaking born here and it's a landmark in the game.  How could I not love L.A. Noire?

I wouldn't read this unless you've finished the game.  It's basically a condensed version of this post. 
 

Uncharted 2 had good stair-walking animations.

Torment can create great things.

I wouldn't read this unless you've finished the game.  It's basically a condensed version of this post. 
 

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Yeah, the game completely rips off LA Confidential, and the writers were too lazy to research how gambling works, and the game wants you to somehow care that you just cheated on your wife when you didn't even know that you were married, and you never had any choice in the matter in the first place, and the evil rich people in the game thought it was a good idea to film their evil meeting where they discuss their evil plan, and they thought it was a good idea to film that meeting from multiple cameras and edit it together so it's a really nicely produced video of their evil meeting, and then they just leave that highly incriminating video lying around, and you're powerless to avoid arresting the wrong criminals for over half the game, and this is true even though you already KNOW for a fact that you're arresting the wrong people while the really killer is still out there, and ultimately the game is about as interactive as watching a movie, and you're forced to let a pedophile continue molesting children, but it sure does look nice when you go up and down stairs!  

 tl;dr = I disagree.

I don't really care about the realistic stairs, but I love the realistic jumping across buildings and climbing pipes and stuff.

The stair animation tech probably comes from GTA IV, that's the first game that did it properly I think.

I think they use the same tech for stairs as in GTA 4. Wonder if you can fall down them

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Ever since RE 1, have the Resident Evil games had realistic stair walking. Also, Uncharted, and Red Dead Redemption, and GTA 4.

In Red Dead I don't allow anyone to walk stairs. Not even that matters as I shoot first and TELL later.

stair animations bother me in pretty much every game besides L.A. Noire. So glad that others notice this too

I don't care what people say L.A. Noire is a great game. I loved the stairs thing too. Kind of a gaming pet peeve of mine when you slide up and down stairs.

The stair thing is so true, although it feels as automated as the rest of the action scenes (it locks into the animation and winds down when you stop). It is similar to GTAIV but there it is an actual real-time dynamic animation based on the positioning of your feet and dictated by physics. LA Noire is full of awesome moments like that though, the animations on climbing and jumping fences combined with the swaying camera shake were stellar.

@SpaceInsomniac:

The conspiracy film was the only mcguffin in the plot but it sure is glaring. Why does it even exist? Is it supposed to be a cutscene where Jack infers all of this? It can't be because it is an actual clue. Why not take that film reel straight to the DA's office?

i agree with the stair thing