Mystery Science News Thread 3,000

https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/60266/4-New-Versions-of-L-A-NOIRE-Coming-November-14

I can’t imagine anyone was chomping at the bit for a remaster of that game

Please remember that you can’t critique anything South Park because it’s ‘’’’‘satire’’’’’

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Can South Park just end

It’s been on since I’ve been in fuckin’ middle school

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Quoting this as the giant flashing sign nothing South Park or it’s creators do should get a pass. That this wasn’t the moment of public outrage and boycott is a failure of shared humanity.

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LA Noire is “good” in the way trashy middle-brow prestige-tv is “good”. It’s a fun pass-the-controller experience with a partner (whether they normally do games or not).

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The easy solution is just make people madatory play on easy if the pick white, and let every other skin tone pick the level of difficulty. This makes the same commentary and avoids penalizing people who want to play as non-white characters.

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I wonder if they’ll have the option to skip action scenes as a toggle for the rerelease. That would make it the TV game with the highest production values by far.

Yeah if they just molded it into more of a Telltale Games style thing it’d probably be better

Completely both!

(Enough of the latter that, I think, I read your post in a weird way and maybe responded inappropriately.)

I swear the wider gamescrit universe gets all its ideas from sb

It isn’t really that fun to play but I love LA Noire as a accidental comedy, for its tonal weirdness and ability to reference Kropotkin. Maybe my memory of it isn’t so good but it does a good job of committing to its premises with a little humour instead of defaulting to more stereotypical gaminess. It kind of makes sense that this funny, funny game was directed by an abusive and wretched OCD demon. Flaws and all, this thing was aggressively engineered, nothing about it seems borne of laziness.

Best consumed watching somebody else play it, though frsure.

I once contaminated a crime scene because I accidentally ran over the victim’s body when driving there

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just like irl

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la noire would of been good if the homicide and arson desks were stand alone cases instead of sitting around wasting time on nonsense while you wait for the game to let you do something about the Puppet Master sneaking around improbably planting evidence that you could see the game setting up a mile away

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but then it is a Noire movie (and everyone that doesn’t play it in b&w takes some fun out of it) and it is, as mentioned itt, a comedy-flick also, so, that’s what i expect!

like when you re supposed to go hunting for a red? blue? or green? car. They resolved this in a pretty good manner…

I was tentatively interested in the new Metroid but somehow watching this video just made me think maybe the franchise can’t really offer much novelty anymore

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I just don’t really get why they had to go for that bright, primary colours vaseline on the lens look

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