User blog comment:JackFrost23/L.A. Noire: The Big Snooze/@comment-1743369-20110715040427

Red Dead Redemption was the first game by R* I had ever played - I had never gotten around to the GTA series. I was blown away by the game! (Weren't we all?) I hadn't previously been into westerns at all, but after RDR, I became VERY interested in them. (My grandmother even gave me the 70+ Louis L'Amour western novels she owned. Thanks grandma!) Shortly after, everyone was talking about L.A. Noire and it's new motion capture technology (which may quite possibly be the best part about this game. I just wish this technology had been in RDR). At that time, I was still hooked on RDR, so I wasn't too interested. Well, a couple of weeks ago my friends were talking about how good it was, so I decided to get it. I'm not much into the detective-theme, but the hype my friends gave to it and the fact that Mafia II had gotten me into the 40's setting made me want the game. So, I got it, went home, and put it in my XBox, and I just had a sinking feeling from very first milli-second of the first cutscene. I knew I was going to be disappointed. I'm not sure why, because like I said RDR was the only R* game I'd played and I didn't have too high hopes for the game, but at that moment I knew I had wasted money. Like has been said, there wasn't much to do. If you're not playing a main mission, you're doing a street crime and that's about it. I liked the chase sequences, whether it was on foot or in a car, and I liked the actual hunting for clues and interviewing people. Speaking of which, I didn't like, as Jack said, how there is one way to solve the case, but multiple ways to fail. One of the biggest annoyances for me personally, was when you made the wrong choice, you immediately knew you were wrong. So many times in the game did I believe someone and select 'truth' only for Phelps to shout, "Stop lying to me, so-and-so." I mean, if I'm wrong at least let me continue with it instead of knowing exactly which facts I've got straight and which I've completely screwed up. It should have let me solve the case with the inquiries I myself made, not the only ones they've scripted. If I put the wrong guy in the can, so be it! It happens in real life! Because of this, L.A. Noire is an interactive movie that you will play (watch) one time, and then sell it - which is exactly what I'm doing tomorrow.