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Posted: Apr 1st 2011 9:23PM AngryTurds said

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This game seems like Rockstar's least ambitious. I've barely heard any hype around this game beyond that it's Rockstar's take on a detective game. I want to be interested but nothing's really doing it for me.

Posted: Apr 1st 2011 9:49PM SisypheanLife said

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@AngryTurds

Its basically LA Confidential: The Game. If that's not your thing, then so be it, but everything about this is ambitious for Rockstar. Its a non-sandbox, single-player, period-piece game with a focus on subtlety and innovative new motion capture tech.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2011 9:50PM Crimsic said

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@AngryTurds
Technically it's being developed by Team Bondi, I'm simply interested for the authenticity, focus on facial animation, and investigation mechanics. I can see why this isn't everyone's cup of tea though.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2011 9:57PM Jack Kevorkian said

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@AngryTurds A video game centered around 1940s crime drama is a common genre you are right.

I'm being sarcastic you are what is wrong with the industry. All industries.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2011 10:15PM SHAUUUN said

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@AngryTurds

What? Are you serious? When was the last time you played a MATURE detective game that takes place in the golden 40's, that revolves around collecting and finding clues, and interrogating suspects by reading there facial reactions? Less ambitious my ass. I'm sorry but you must be the type of person who thought BlackOps was the god of ambition...:/
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Posted: Apr 2nd 2011 9:13AM Hong Dong said

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@AngryTurds You should check out Joystiq more often and check out Rockstar's pages on facebook. This is the only game they have been promoting since last November, roughly. Oh that and a few Max Payne screens.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2011 9:49PM Crimsic said

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I really hope the clue finding actually takes some skill, and you're not finding magical, pixie-dust covered, glowing murder weapons.

Unless there's a case involving a pixie. In which case...by all means...

Posted: Apr 1st 2011 10:47PM PN04 said

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Clue finding might be easy anyway, but like Phoenix Wright the difficulty may be more in the way of figuring out how they relate to each case and using them to interrogate people.
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Posted: Apr 2nd 2011 8:53AM Franklin Gothic said

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@Crimsic from what we saw at PAX east, it seems like finding clues is more about being therough than difficult per-say. That said, the acting, setting, and writing (at least the 2/3rds of the mission we got to see) was so fantastic im not sure thats gunna bug me? It really felt like a true interactive movie/crime drama and, while some choices will branch the path of a mission, the rockstar rep said each mission is ultimately linear/has one conclusion.

Not sure the average gamer will appreciate this title :)
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Posted: Apr 2nd 2011 9:16AM Hong Dong said

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@Franklin Gothic I don't think they will. CoD is probably the limit of their ambitions. Having said that, Rockstar has built up enough capital to be ambitious on this. They have their expectations set already. It's just so refreshing when a company can take a "risk" like this and not just keep churning out generic crap.
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Posted: Apr 1st 2011 9:55PM kbeehaze said

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Can't wait 4 this game

Posted: Apr 2nd 2011 10:56AM aconrad777 said

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why does someone in the comments always say it's non-sandbox when they keep saying in PR release that you're in a big open rendetition of old LA. I understand if they say it because it's supposed to more directed and less shoot 100 pigeons across the map, but this still sounds like it has Rockstar's signature bread and butter cash maker of an open world sandbox.

Posted: Apr 2nd 2011 1:32PM SisypheanLife said

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Because Rockstar themselves says its not a sandbox game. Its an open-world game, but with a distinct relatively linear storyline. Its not about running around an open-world doing whatever you want and causing chaos, i.e. sandbox.
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Posted: Apr 2nd 2011 3:03PM Hong Dong said

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@SisypheanLife Exactly. It wouldn't fit into the role of being law enforcement if you could go around causing chaos anyway. Leave that to the CJ's and Niko's of this world.
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