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Op Ed

[Oct 20, 2011, 10:34 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

The Armchair Empire - Curse of the Noire Monkey.
But LA Noire represents a massive missed opportunity.

There was a chance for the developer and publisher to mine the detective stories of radio's Golden Age in North America and real hard boiled detective fiction. I'm writing about the likes of Dragnet, Tales of the Texas Rangers, The Adventures of Sam Spade, the writings of Dashiell Hammett and RaymondChandler, Richard Diamond, and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar ("The man with the action-packed expense account").

The most damning part is that all this source material to which LA Noire owes its style, sensibility, and vibe is so perfectly suited to episodic or serialized downloadable content.

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Re: Op Ed

Oct 20, 2011, 19:59

Draugr

I'd say it would be a good idea, but possibly due to the way the assets are generated though, they might be dead in the water. Since they were using motion capture, they'd need to hire actors for everything, do the mocap, etc. Granted when people do DLC they need to bring in voice actors but what they would need to do would certainly be a step up. Most DLCs come in and are able to reuse a lot of the assets from the original game and whatnot, while they would be able to use the environments a lot of things would need to be from scratch. It's possible that it just wasn't in the cards in terms of profitability, they'd need to invest way more than others would in DLC/Episodes. When only half of platform owners participate in DLC, that doesn't sound as profitable as to just moving on to other things. This comment was edited on Oct 20, 2011, 20:08.

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Comment [quote="Draugr"Oct 20, 2011, 19:59]I'd say it would be a good idea, but possibly due to the way the assets are generated though, they might be dead in the water. Since they were using motion capture, they'd need to hire actors for everything, do the mocap, etc. Granted when people do DLC they need to bring in voice actors but what they would need to do would certainly be a step up. Most DLCs come in and are able to reuse a lot of the assets from the original game and whatnot, while they would be able to use the environments a lot of things would need to be from scratch. It's possible that it just wasn't in the cards in terms of profitability, they'd need to invest way more than others would in DLC/Episodes. When only half of platform owners participate in DLC, that doesn't sound as profitable as to just moving on to other things. [/quote]

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