Finished the homicide desk in L.A

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Noire. The individual mysteries were pretty good, but the conclusion to that arc — and the way it tied together what came before — was downright silly. I can't stand the lazy mystery writing crutch of "We don't know how to solve this mystery, so let's just have the killer reveal himself." The first episode of the (otherwise brilliant) Sherlock did the same thing.Here's hoping the arson arc goes better.

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  • https://plus.google.com/100321691796574035876 Bryan Hall

    That game started out so great for me, but right around the time I started the arson desk I grew incredibly bored with it and never bothered to finish it. A lot of things contributed to it, I guess, but I never really felt like I was doing anything – the game did it all for me.

    I did feel the same way about the murder arc's storyline, by the way.

  • https://plus.google.com/111968549647043165403 Aaron Ross Powell

    I actually don't mind the "game doing everything for me" issue. I recognize it, definitely, but it doesn't bother me because I'm digging it as kind of an interactive movie instead of a video game. Which is precisely what I want, anyway. I've always liked video games as extended stories and get frustrated when they either lack a good story or the gameplay gets in the way of me experiencing all of it.

  • https://plus.google.com/100321691796574035876 Bryan Hall

    I agree – story comes first in every game for me. Not sure if you have a PS3, but Heavy Rain is absolutely incredible and is probably why I got tired of L.A. Noire. After seeing how an interactive movie could be done so well when I played Heavy Rain, LA Noire just felt forced for some reason.

  • https://plus.google.com/111968549647043165403 Aaron Ross Powell

    I do have a PS3 and played the demo of Heavy Rain a bit. I'll have to check out the full thing after I finish L. A. Noire. (Even if elements of the story bug me, I'm such a huge, huge fan of the genre and setting that I'd finish it for those alone. And, anyway, only minor bits of the story have really bugged me so far.)

  • https://plus.google.com/100321691796574035876 Bryan Hall

    Trust me, Heavy Rain won't disappoint.

  • https://plus.google.com/111097102522228662594 Joe Kaluza

    I watched my wife play LA Noire through, and loved it as a mystery movie.

  • https://plus.google.com/111968549647043165403 Aaron Ross Powell

    I almost didn't buy it for precisely that reason. You can watch some guy play through the whole game in HD on YouTube. But driving around 1940s LA was too much to pass up.