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[L.A Noire] - Phelps, you didn't use spoiler tags! You're a loose cannon!

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  • Two Headed BoyTwo Headed Boy Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    David_T wrote: »
    Huh, that's weird. I decided to finish off the street crimes in free roam and did Traffic, Homicide and Ad Vice and ended up missing eight. I go on to Arson and there's only one street crime on the entire map.

    Even driving around didn't seem to get me any new ones. Do they have to drop during a case? I thought they all just showed up in free roam.

    Are you sure you did all the previous ones? Just because a repeat street crime comes up doesn't mean there's others on that desk that haven't been completed.

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  • David_TDavid_T A fashion yes-man is no good to me. Copenhagen, DenmarkRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I kinda assumed that the red crimes without a name are the ones you haven't done and the gray ones that are named are the ones you've already done. I finished all the red ones, at least.

    Ah crap, don't tell me I have to go back and go through every single one of them just to make sure?

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  • SirialisSirialis of the Halite Throne. Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    David_T wrote: »
    Huh, that's weird. I decided to finish off the street crimes in free roam and did Traffic, Homicide and Ad Vice and ended up missing eight. I go on to Arson and there's only one street crime on the entire map.

    Even driving around didn't seem to get me any new ones. Do they have to drop during a case? I thought they all just showed up in free roam.

    I just got the "Complete all street crimes" achievement an hour ago, and I had the exact same problem.

    I'm not sure what causes it, but you can figure out which desks street crimes you are missing by trial and error, start each one up, if you got all it will say "You've completed all street crimes on this desk" when you start it, some street crimes might be dependable on a day or a night cycle? I'm not sure, I just know I checked them all several times, and suddenly a red street crime pops up out of nowhere (And I did check even with the buttons that should show all street crimes on the map.)

    So in short, see if you get the "No street crimes on this desk", if it doesnt then just drive around for a bit and see if it pops up on the map after some time.

    EDIT:
    It's divided like this, spoiler for street crime names just in case.
    Traffic: 12
    Boxing Clever, Cosmic Rays, Masked Gunman, Shoo-Shoo bandits, Gangfight, Amateur Hour, Death from Above, Theater Robbery, Pawnshop Holdup, Hotel Bandits, Hung out to Dry, Army Surplus.

    Homicide: 13
    Vengeful Ex, Death Plunge, Canned Fish, Would Be Robber, Running Battle, Bank Job, Unsuccessful Holdup, Cop Killer Shot, Honey Boy, Misunderstanding, Thicker than Water, Killer Bandits, Bowling Lane Robbery.

    Vice: 10
    Commies, Fatal Plunge, Against the Odds, Daylight Robbery, The Blue Line, Zoot Suit Riot, The Badger Game, Camera Obscura, Secret Keepers, Bad Date.

    Arson: 5
    Accident Prone, Paper Sack Holdup, Cafe Holdup, Bus Stop Shooting, Hot Property.

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  • The WolfmanThe Wolfman Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    All the red icons in free mode are street crimes you haven't completed yet.

    You'll also get a message when you load up free mode if you completed all the street crimes for that desk.

    Oh, and make sure you're looking over the entire map. Despite Vice taking place mainly in Hollywood, there were a few crimes in the south east side of the city.

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  • symbolsorsymbolsor Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I had that happen to me too, backing out to the main menu and reloading made them appear.

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  • BrymBrym Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Lunker wrote: »
    I normally hate being the guy who makes the list of wants for a sequel immediately after finishing the first game in a new IP ... but here's my two major wants:

    - Option to disable visible signs of correct/incorrect answers: I think this was the real sticking point for a lot of people's problems with the interrogations. When you hear that bad chime or see all of those X's in Cole's notebook, it sets off a lot of that video game OCD in people.

    - Better description of Truth/Doubt/Lie options: I don't know that everyone wants full-blown multi-branch dialogue trees (though I think I do), but I really liked how Mass Effect 2 handled things.


    Those two improvements (and fixing the crash bugs!) would be sublime.

    I just finished the game. I liked the ending quite a bit. It left me feeling better about the game than I expected after I was starting to get frustrated in the middle.

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  • CaptainNemoCaptainNemo Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    The only thing I really want is the ablity to set a default vehicle. I want to be Batman, so it's Phantom or nothing.

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  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I'm torn about letting my partner drive because I've heard that letting him drive is slower than you driving yourself (in the game clock. You'll miss some plot events if you don't drive.)

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  • The WolfmanThe Wolfman Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Game beaten.
    Those last 3 cases really had a "We better think of a big plot to end the game with" type of feel. It was a nice plot, don't get me wrong, and it did have some seeds planted here and there throughout the game. But it was really Arson 3 where the realized they better do something with it.

    The ending... eh. Not bad I guess. Can't say I was applauding at the end or anything though.

    Looking back, yeah you can really see how they must have did one hell of a hack job to get it out the door and fit on 3 DVD's. It suffers in places, but to their credit they did a hell of a job regardless.

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  • CaptainNemoCaptainNemo Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    You can use a flamethrower in this game. Holy shit.

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  • The WolfmanThe Wolfman Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    You can use a flamethrower in this game. Holy shit.

    Which ends up being more trouble than it's worth. I died like 10 times trying to use that thing. I only stuck with it because I wanted the trophy for killing a bad guy with every weapon.

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  • CygnusZCygnusZ Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    So, I just cleared the lipstick case and I have to say, I'm really not all that impressed with the game so far.

    Maybe it's because I just cleared Gyakuten Kenji 2 a couple of days ago, but I don't find the investigation and interrogation bits very interesting. The facial expressions thing is a cool gimmick, but in the end it's just that, a gimmick, plus maybe I just suck at reading expressions but all the faces the people make after ending their statements look really unnatural to me.

    The open world is horribly redundant, and the action parts just feel clumsy to me. All this game has really done for me so far is give me a craving for Red Faction: Guerilla (result of a combination of me being an awesome driver and the people being immortal and also way too good at dodging my car).

    Eh.

    Without spoiling anything too dire, pray tell me, do the story and/or the cases get better later?

    Since you're used to playing Japanese detective games, LA Noire simply can't match up.

    I personally recommened:

    Kamaitachi No Yoru
    Cross Tantei Monogatari
    428: Fuusa Sareta Shibuya De
    Missing Parts 1 & 2
    Houchou san no uwasa (free)
    Hayarigami
    Nishimura Kyotaro DS series

    Kamaitachi is easily the most famous game of this genre in Japan. It's one of a handful of titles I'd say is actually a perfect game, and you can get it for pretty cheap for Super Fami, PS and GBA. Cross is a bit harder to find, but it's correctly regarded as being at the top of its genre.

    And of course, you should play Machi: Unmei no Kousaten.

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  • CaptainNemoCaptainNemo Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    You can use a flamethrower in this game. Holy shit.

    Which ends up being more trouble than it's worth. I died like 10 times trying to use that thing. I only stuck with it because I wanted the trophy for killing a bad guy with every weapon.

    The pleasure I get from using it on those
    crooked LAPD cops and Monroe goons
    is enough for me to justify it.

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  • DecoyDecoy Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Dangit.... the game, for some reason, wouldn't let me charge the person I wanted to charge. No prompt came up for them. So I got two stars despite a high clue/question % and low damage. Being told my case was thin while not allowing me to actually charge the guy I wanted to seems a bit crappy.

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  • SeanronSeanron GlasgowRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Woot, Just made Vice!
    Y'know, Rusty grew on me! Plus the Homicide ending knocked me for five! Bloody politics!

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  • FiggyFiggy Fighter of the night man Champion of the sunRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Listen, Phelps, I understand that it's getting tiring having to chase down every suspect on foot. But, it's your own damn fault!

    If you wouldn't flat out break into a run whilst yelling "LAPD!" as soon as you see him, maybe he wouldn't start running right away.

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  • PurpleMonkeyPurpleMonkey Why so derp? Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Seanron wrote: »
    Woot, Just made Vice!
    Y'know, Rusty grew on me! Plus the Homicide ending knocked me for five! Bloody politics!
    Upon the ending of Homicide I was almost expecting Rusty to say "Forget it, Phelps. It's Chinatown."

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  • CygnusZCygnusZ Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Just saw the real detective thing. Laughed pretty hard when I realized that almost the exact same things bothered us.

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  • Skull2185Skull2185 Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    You can use a flamethrower in this game. Holy shit.

    Which ends up being more trouble than it's worth. I died like 10 times trying to use that thing. I only stuck with it because I wanted the trophy for killing a bad guy with every weapon.

    Well, shit fuck... so the flamethrower does count...

    late game spoiler:
    I found it was was like :o , but then I died twice trying to cross the flooding water because mans could shoot me and I couldn't shoot them, so I says eff this... :x Now I have to redo that whole thing just to get the cheevo

    Also, I am 50 reels, 50 cars, and 14 landmarks from 100%
    Sooooo close... the cars are going to be tough.

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  • Skull2185Skull2185 Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Sorry to double post

    But fucking Golden Butterfly...
    I still don't understand why I two starred it. I mean... its pretty obvious that the husband did it. Wet clothes, muddy bloody shoes, He burns his shoes and runs from me. History of violence... but I guess the captain didn't care, he wanted me to nab the pederass? But then neither of them really did it, so why did the husband have bloody shoes, and why was he burning them?

    :x

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  • SirialisSirialis of the Halite Throne. Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Skull2185 wrote: »
    You can use a flamethrower in this game. Holy shit.

    Which ends up being more trouble than it's worth. I died like 10 times trying to use that thing. I only stuck with it because I wanted the trophy for killing a bad guy with every weapon.

    Well, shit fuck... so the flamethrower does count...

    late game spoiler:
    I found it was was like :o , but then I died twice trying to cross the flooding water because mans could shoot me and I couldn't shoot them, so I says eff this... :x Now I have to redo that whole thing just to get the cheevo

    Also, I am 50 reels, 50 cars, and 14 landmarks from 100%
    Sooooo close... the cars are going to be tough.

    I'm missing 1 car now :? and of course it's the rarest car.

    Cadillac Series 75 Limousine, fuck you.

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  • Skull2185Skull2185 Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Sirialis wrote: »
    Skull2185 wrote: »
    You can use a flamethrower in this game. Holy shit.

    Which ends up being more trouble than it's worth. I died like 10 times trying to use that thing. I only stuck with it because I wanted the trophy for killing a bad guy with every weapon.

    Well, shit fuck... so the flamethrower does count...

    late game spoiler:
    I found it was was like :o , but then I died twice trying to cross the flooding water because mans could shoot me and I couldn't shoot them, so I says eff this... :x Now I have to redo that whole thing just to get the cheevo

    Also, I am 50 reels, 50 cars, and 14 landmarks from 100%
    Sooooo close... the cars are going to be tough.

    I'm missing 1 car now :? and of course it's the rarest car.

    Cadillac Series 75 Limousine, fuck you.

    I can say with 100% certainty that I found one just sitting by the pumps at a gas station. Check those!

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  • ruzkinruzkin Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Skull2185 wrote: »
    Sorry to double post

    But fucking Golden Butterfly...
    I still don't understand why I two starred it. I mean... its pretty obvious that the husband did it. Wet clothes, muddy bloody shoes, He burns his shoes and runs from me. History of violence... but I guess the captain didn't care, he wanted me to nab the pederass? But then neither of them really did it, so why did the husband have bloody shoes, and why was he burning them?

    :x

    If you get one of his late questions correct, he explains:
    The shoes were covered in rabbit blood, and he was burning them out of fear that you'd use them to wrongfully convict him.

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  • mere_immortalmere_immortal So tasty!Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Are there certain cars in certain areas or are you dudes just hopping in whatever you find?

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  • Skull2185Skull2185 Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    ruzkin wrote: »
    Skull2185 wrote: »
    Sorry to double post

    But fucking Golden Butterfly...
    I still don't understand why I two starred it. I mean... its pretty obvious that the husband did it. Wet clothes, muddy bloody shoes, He burns his shoes and runs from me. History of violence... but I guess the captain didn't care, he wanted me to nab the pederass? But then neither of them really did it, so why did the husband have bloody shoes, and why was he burning them?

    :x

    If you get one of his late questions correct, he explains:
    The shoes were covered in rabbit blood, and he was burning them out of fear that you'd use them to wrongfully convict him.

    Oh I'm a bad detective... :(

    As far as cars go, I usually just hop in whatever I see, since most of the cars look pretty samey.

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  • GatsbyGatsby Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Man what weapons are they looking for with that achievement? I've used the pistol, the Thompson, the BAR, the shotgun, the M1 and the flamethrower and still haven't gotten it.

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  • mere_immortalmere_immortal So tasty!Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Gatsby wrote: »
    Man what weapons are they looking for with that achievement? I've used the pistol, the Thompson, the BAR, the shotgun, the M1 and the flamethrower and still haven't gotten it.
    In the (I think) second beat cop case where you use the shotgun against the bank robbers you need to drop it and use Cole's revolver.

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  • BehemothBehemoth Compulsive Seashell Collector Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I always go back to the car your partner drives (it's different at each desk), it's marked on the map.

    One time I wasn't paying attention and made my partner drive around in the morgue's hearse for the whole case. Every time we got in he said "Are you serious? We're driving around in this!?"

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  • DomhnallDomhnall Minty D. Vision! ScotlandRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    When does the DLC Slip of the Tongue come into play? I downloaded it during the last Traffic case and then went onto Homocide and now when I look at the traffic cases to replay it isn't there. Should I delete it and redownload it or do I need to play through Traffic again?

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  • apotheosapotheos Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2011
    The map in this game fucking sucked.

    But then the entire open world part of the game was ... well it was really kind of terrible wasn't it.

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I liked it, but it's definitely going to rub people the wrong way for not having a million things to do in it

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    apotheos wrote: »
    The map in this game fucking sucked.

    But then the entire open world part of the game was ... well it was really kind of terrible wasn't it.

    Yeah the street crimes didn't really add very much and not having a simple line drawn for a route like every other game this generation was kind of a dumb move.

    Also it was kind of dumb that each desk tended to move you to different parts of the city, and those desks had their own street crimes, but sometimes those crimes would be on the complete opposite side of the city themselves.

    "Welcome to arson, now drive to the train station to stop a purse snatcher!"

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  • FiggyFiggy Fighter of the night man Champion of the sunRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Actually, I quite liked there not being a line drawn to your destination.

    For starters, they didn't have GPS devices in the 40s. Second, I found in GTA and similar games that I would just follow the line to each destination, pretty much missing out on the entire point of "open city" in these games. In fact, I think I turned off the GPS in GTA IV, but I could be misremembering. I like to find my own route to a destination, be it calmly down city streets or dangerously careening down back alleys, side mirrors flying off in the process.

    Of course, the ability to accomplish that feeling is hampered when a map is poorly designed. I haven't come across any issues in LA Noire, but there were plenty of points in GTA IV where you'd want to get across a bridge but would have to back track to find some awfully designed and awkwardly placed on-ramp a few miles in the opposite direction.

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  • PurpleMonkeyPurpleMonkey Why so derp? Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Figgy wrote: »
    Actually, I quite liked there not being a line drawn to your destination.

    For starters, they didn't have GPS devices in the 40s. Second, I found in GTA and similar games that I would just follow the line to each destination, pretty much missing out on the entire point of "open city" in these games. In fact, I think I turned off the GPS in GTA IV, but I could be misremembering. I like to find my own route to a destination, be it calmly down city streets or dangerously careening down back alleys, side mirrors flying off in the process.

    Of course, the ability to accomplish that feeling is hampered when a map is poorly designed. I haven't come across any issues in LA Noire, but there were plenty of points in GTA IV where you'd want to get across a bridge but would have to back track to find some awfully designed and awkwardly placed on-ramp a few miles in the opposite direction.

    I've had that problem with bridges a few times in LA Noire. It was bloody nightmare trying to find the way into the train yard.

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Didn't have a gps in the old west but you could still draw a line to your destination in RDR. Its a convenience thing they do for the player so you can navigate the city easier. Hell the game even includes one on a specific mission which makes missing one for the rest of the game a backwards design decision.

    If its a realism thing then you as the player shouldn't be able to keep pulling up the map to look at it either.

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  • ShensShens Portland, ORRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Figgy wrote: »
    Actually, I quite liked there not being a line drawn to your destination.

    For starters, they didn't have GPS devices in the 40s. Second, I found in GTA and similar games that I would just follow the line to each destination, pretty much missing out on the entire point of "open city" in these games. In fact, I think I turned off the GPS in GTA IV, but I could be misremembering. I like to find my own route to a destination, be it calmly down city streets or dangerously careening down back alleys, side mirrors flying off in the process.

    Of course, the ability to accomplish that feeling is hampered when a map is poorly designed. I haven't come across any issues in LA Noire, but there were plenty of points in GTA IV where you'd want to get across a bridge but would have to back track to find some awfully designed and awkwardly placed on-ramp a few miles in the opposite direction.

    The horses in Read Dead Redemption were born with internal GPS. It didn't really kill my immersion into that game.

    I do love that you can press square (PS3) and your partner will give you directions if you are driving. "Take a left at the next intersection." Driving around was a lot easier when I started using this. I still wont dare drive during cases because I am horrible at turning 1940 era cars, I guess.

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  • mere_immortalmere_immortal So tasty!Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I don't really get the complaints about navigating the city, it's just a giant grid really.

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  • PurpleMonkeyPurpleMonkey Why so derp? Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Some people (i.e. myself) have no sense of direction

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  • seabassseabass Doctor MassachusettsRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Nothing will ever satisfy more than when I parked a car on top of that jerkface from vice. Shows you right for never getting in the car fast enough, being a total jerk, and that other thing I won't mention.

    Incidentally, they don't continue to take damage if the car is stationary, so you can actually pile several vehicles on top of a person.

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  • Skull2185Skull2185 Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I don't really get the complaints about navigating the city, it's just a giant grid really.

    The main issue is

    Drive 10 feet-check the map-drive 10 feet-check the map-drive 10 feet-wash your hands.

    I too wish they included a "guide line"

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