WRUP: L.A. Noire's toony case

by Alexander Sliwinski on May 20th 2011 11:00PM

Just let the idea of an L.A. Noire game featuring the cast of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? wash over you. We'll be over here with $60 ready to buy whenever it's ready.

What's everyone playing?

Alexander Sliwinski (@XanderSliwinski): On the case with L.A. Noire. There's been a lot of Witcher-ing going on in my house, so I probably should check that out too.
Ben Gilbert (@BigBossBgilbert): I'm heading back to Philadelphia for a wedding this weekend and celebrating my lady's birthday on Sunday, so it doesn't look like I'll be doing any gaming outside of Tiny Wings on the bus to/from Philly. The 28x nest will be mine!
Christopher Grant (@ChrisGrant): I started Assassin's Creed Brotherhood just before departing for E3 judge's week in LA; will hopefully find some time to spend on that before the weekend is out. If not, there's always this multiplayer update for Infinity Blade.
David Hinkle (@DaveHinkle): I wanna wrap up Bulletstorm and get that back to Gamefly, but that Lenoir is a cruel mistress who currently has me under her thumb.
Griffin McElroy (@griffinmcelroy): Got mad mysteries to solve. Not in L.A. Noire, mind you. In real life. Who the hell ate all my Pringles? I am going to throw all the books at you.
James Ransom-Wiley: [The Long Kiss Goodnight]
JC Fletcher (@jcfletcher): I'm playing nothing! NOTHING! But I'm watching others use video game hardware to play the loudest music ever at Blip Festival.
Justin McElroy (@JustinMcElroy): I'm playing through Red Faction: Armageddon, but once I slake my thirst for destruction, I'll probably try to finish inFamous.
Ludwig Kietzmann (@LudwigK): I'm still hacking, slashing and calmly meditating my way through The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. I might squeeze in some L.A. Noire, but there's only so much that can be done in 48 hours.
Mike Schramm (@MikeSchramm): I'll be honing my skill at discerning a lie in L.A. Noire. Except for Saturday morning, when I'll be one of about a million people frantically pressing F5 on the Blizzard website to buy tickets for BlizzCon.
Randy Nelson (@DangerPenguin): I heard the world's ending this weekend, but I feel fine. Too many cases to solve in L.A. Noire, anyway!
Richard Mitchell (@SenseiRAM) I finally finished my joystick (behold!), so I might rock some Mortal Kombat. I'll have to tear myself away from Clash of Heroes though, and there's this unopened copy of L.A. Noire right here ...
Steven Wong: Heading back to New Vegas. I heard a rumor ... something about "Honest Hearts," and feel compelled to check it out.

Tags: Roger-Rabbit, what-are-you-playing, WRUP

Reader Comments (108)

I'm playing...L.A. Noire, duh.

I liked how Drew Carey was the suspect in the first traffic case. I felt bad arresting him, though.

@Red Runner no one is playing the witcher 2? I am disappoint >:/

@darkfocus
oh wait ludwig is...all is well...well kind of....other than that whole end of the world thing...

@Red Runner

L.A. Noire for me, too.

That is an amazing idea

@hereafter

great idea indeed, i seriously doubt spielberg would allow it.....

@Hunter141072 I agree. The people who made the movie had to go through a lot of trouble from the cartoon companies just to get all the Disney and Warner Bros characters to be in one movie. They actually had to regulate how much screen time each character had. It would be nice just to see just Roger Rabbit though, not to mention Jessica. Mmmm...

@bamb0ostick

Not to mention Toon Town! They'd probably have to go with 3D-modeled toons instead of the 2D from the movie, but even that would be okay. I almost wouldn't mind someone coming up with their own characters that pay homage to the actual characters and then doing a game that way.

@hereafter

That could be a possibility, just using jessica, eddy the cab, rogger, all the characters that were created for the movie could be used. But even with that the blessing of steven would be needed, and that could be hard to get.

I'm playing rapture tomorrow. If that doesn't pan out, back to L.A. Noire

@jph89

Its the 21st in AU and I'm not dead so plan accordingly ^_^

@ShadowXIII

well according to crazy man jones who penned up the whole thing, it happens at 6pm PER time zone - IE, when it hits East Coast US, those in Cali got 3 hours to prep. Or if they fly in a plane west they can just circle the planet and escape the wave of magical insanity I suppose.

L.A. Noire... and when I'm not playing that I'll be watching Mad Men.

@Sc0p3

Can't wait for season 5.

L.A.Noire.

Dead Space 2, still hoping to find someone to finish Portal 2 co-op with me. Maybe starting 3D Dot Game Heroes.

Dicking around with New Vegas again because it's so rad having a pearl-handled .357 and a pinstriped suit. Also just bought Nier because I've heard decent things and it was about ten bucks at Fred Meyer.

Waiting for L.A. Noire to arrive in the mail, since a $20 credit from amazon is a pretty tasty deal.

Also, this whole Roger Rabbit bit made me nostalgia so hard my desk exploded. Thanks, guys. Thanks a heap.

Goddamnit Joystiq, now you got my hopes up for nothing!

I hope you get raptured.

L.A. Noire!
I am the top problem sleuth in the city. Solicitations for my services are numerous in quantity. I get my save dames and get answers in a hard boiled manner on a daily basis.

I am detective Premature Ejaculation Man.
Now all I need is an intro song.

@Premature ejaculation man

It'll probably be pretty short.

@Premature ejaculation man
30 seconds of porn music followed abruptly by a sad trombone clip: http://www.sadtrombone.com/

@Premature ejaculation man -

I can't think of a song right now but...
I've got a good intro for you though!

"Look! Up in the sky!"
"Is it a bird?"
"Is it a plane?"
"No! It's...oh he already came and went. Never mind"

@BananaBoat

Its a bird
Its a plane
Its **splat** aww my eye

@Premature ejaculation man - I take it back. Here's your theme song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLVHlgheJ_8

@original fred

Is it sad I clicked that 200 times?

@Premature ejaculation man

Wouldn't "Jizz In My Pants" work?

Terraria.

Terraria.

More Terraria.

Best $10 I've ever spent.

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze

I'm glad it's doing well, the game is awesome.

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Hearing a lot about that one around town...is it that good?

@Shadowbender

It's great but it doesn't take too long to collect almost all of the available items. That being said, I've played about 20 hours since its Monday release.

@Breadroll

Yeah, I've played about the same, and I have everything I could ever want, but.. heck, I've paid $60 for less than 20 hours of gameplay, and I'm not even done yet. Such a great deal. =P

Mass Effect and then Mass Effect 2.

I have some misguided idea that I'll get all six classes through the first two games and ready for ME 3.

@Heffer Wolfe

Hey man, me too!

But I'll be playing a case or two of LA Noire in there. I want to stretch this beast out like a tv show.

Hey, man too soon--oh wait.

Switching between L.A. Noire and New Vegas.

I have yet to see any of the numerous glitches that purportedly plague this game, but at seventeen hours in, I suppose I have plenty of time to discover them.

@Korbie I didn't start getting peppered with the NV glitches until about 30 hours in.

@Faceless Troll

So what should I be looking out for? Quest-associated bugs? I suppose if they were just generic glitches I guess I would have seen some by now.

@Korbie There's a lot of companion related bugs. Veronica glitched a lot on me and liked freezing in certain places, and companions tend to disappear at weird points. Some quests will be unsolvable and wind up screwing you over depending on how you do certain things. Also, on the 360 the game really started suffering horrendous load times. There's lists of documented bugs that are longer than I can really go into detail here if you search for them.

@Faceless Troll

Thanks for the clarification. Looks like I'll have to keep an eye on the Fallout Wiki.

@Korbie Another thing to be careful with that's not totally a bug is talking to characters that are triggers for companion quests. ED-E, Raul, and Veronica will all start their quests after you've spoken to certain people about certain things with them in your party. It's mostly been patched, but occasionally if your companion isnt with you the first time you talk to somebody, you wont get it later.

+1 for excellent use of Rodger Rabbit.

LA Noire of course...

Need to pick up LA Noire this weekend...Yeah, definitely need to do that.

Other than that, my friend and I are making a beastly team in Portal co op. Plan on wrapping that up soon.

Also, AC Brotherhood, and U2.

I literally just paused LA Noire to look at Joystiq. Also, I am playing Fix the Washing Machine this weekend.

LA Noire and Portal 2 for me.

Tokimeki Memorial: 2nd Season. Eyy. :D

@The Only Girl
Should probably clarify... "Girl's Side" Tokimeki sub-series.

Wrapping up Borderlands DLC that was collecting dust during the PSN outage....damn there's a lot of collectibles in the Claptrap pack (Sidenote: I HATE the Mad Moxxi stuff).

Terraria is awesome. That is all.

Still on Dragon Age: The Kirkwall Chronicles. It seems like the story is finally starting to pick up since I hit the second act. I'm going to try to power through it this week so I can get on LA Noire which I picked up today.

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