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The game generally saves before you start talking to someone or if you enter a location with some you can talk to. If you screw up a line of questioning, you can dashboard and load back in often right before the conversation or a few minutes away from it. (Providing you didn't leave the location the conversation took place in, thus triggering a save). Feels like cheating, but it's a lot less hassle than having to go through entire cases & non-skipable sequences all over again for a single mistake. You don't even have to go out to dashboard. Just hit start, choose exit, then load it right back up. It takes much less time than going through all the splash screens again.

The odd thing is, I went into Scott Pilgrim begrudgingly, because I thought it would be nothing but pop culture references, but ended up liking everything else about it.

Thanks, I'll try that next. The guide that came with the GOG edition suggested I cast Aard to knock down harpies, but that's pretty hard to do when there's ten of those fuckers bearing down on you, and you can't cast Aard ten times in a row without a serious time delay.

I am really struggling right now. After I remove some stone in a harpy cave, ten harpies surround and beat the shit out of me. I tried dodging and running around, picking them off one by one, but eventually they back me into a corner and there's no way to escape.

Let me put it this way; if your boss isn't chewing the loving shit out of you, you probably did it right.

I'm weird like that. I like to play through from beginning to end. I'm like that with comics. Never open them up from the middle, always start reading from the beginning, over and over and over again... On-L.A. Noire: Pretty fucking sweet. I just finished the Traffic Desk. Those faces, man. It really makes such a difference when you're playing a character who behaves and speaks like a real person, it makes it that much more satisfying playing them out. Also, the characters and writing are goddamn sublime. One thing that still irritates me- I have all hints turned off (the way I like it), but when I'm interrogating people the game STILL tells you if you do a line of questioning right or wrong. I wish it wouldn't do this. I thought of turning the music down so you couldn't here the "correct" music or the "incorrect" music- but the game still puts a tick or a cross next to the questioning in your notebook anyway. If it didn't have this, you'd be able to play through it and get a result and not know what/ where/ if you went wrong. It would be like Heavy Rain. It would be much more streamlined and consistent. Especially considering how differently some of the cases can pan out (I just found out that in a case where I got to an apartment to find it ransacked by thugs and had to search it for clues, if I had reached the apartment faster I would have been able to fight and interrogate the thugs! Amazing! I had no idea, and it would have completely changed my line of investigation.) I've literally restarted a case or two from the beginning because the game's told me I've interrogated incorrectly- sometimes I've done it wrong by bad judgement, but sometimes just from the lack of clarity towards which evidence means what, that others have mentioned. Which is the only big problem in my book. My only big problem is the "Doubt" function. When you hit X, you never know if Cole will say something like "I find that hard to believe" or "YOU MURDERED HER YOU ASSHOLE! GIVE IT UP!"

The new Pirates of the Carribbean movie is fucking garbage. It's like a never-ending contest to chew the most scenery. Also, they made the Spanish captain dress like Prince, for whatever reason. It's a shame, because I kind of like some of the actors in it (Jason Statham's partner in Snatch, the snarling British villain from V for Vendetta and Speed Racer), but everyone was universally awful. Not to mention that the plot is entirely moved forward through horrible expository dialog.

Just bought it today! The Giant Bomb Quick Look sold me. JEDI MIND TRICKS! HOLY SHIT!

I wish Rockstar's Social Club site updated my progress more often. It still shows I only completed 11 street crimes, when I've really completed all 40. Also, I think I may need help finding film reels. I only found one at the very end of the game, in the last case. It was on a porch.

I beat it, too. It wasn't exactly short, though. Unless you can call 19 hours short.

On the latest Bombcast, they mentioned that two whole desks were cut from the final product. Those are two full desks that could be used as DLC. Apparently, they used the Blu-Ray disc size as the barrier; they really did fill the whole thing up. Also, the game was in development for seven years; the technology became available for them THREE years before release. Over 300 terabytes of performance data, compressed to fit into the game.

It's rule number 4, can't predict things that are already confirmed. What you can do, as suggested, is predict it's name (current rumours are "Feel" and "Stream"), what games will be announced for it, how much it is priced at, etc. Just so you know, it has been confirmed that Bungie's next game will NOT be announced at E3 this year.

I noticed that, too. I completely missed an avenue of questioning and three different interrogations my first time through, because I chose to respond to an issue the game was pressuring me to deal with. Also,

I wish they did a better job of moving you onto the street crimes you haven't completed, and notifying you when all the crimes for that area have been solved. The Arson free-roam is the only part that informed me all the street crimes were exhausted.

I did. Is that the one where If so, I also enjoyed that. Yep. The acting is really something else in this game. If they had the equivalent of Oscars for video game performances, this game would be showered with them. I am particularly fond of Dr. Fontaine's Southern drawl.

Disc three begins on the second Vice case. Not sure where the second starts.

Did you collect all the newspapers? I found that one at the end proved to be Whoops! Had a teensy bit of a slip-up with the spoiler tags the first time I posted that. Hopefully no one saw anything.

I beat it, though it certainly wasn't short. I clocked in at around 19 hours. Man, what a game! I'm already attempting to 100% it. That was some ending. This game is so amazing.

Yeah, I've been thinking about doing that for one. Two things: 1. This case I just took is so damn noir that I had to turn the Black and White filter on. Hits every staple of the genre to a "T". The only thing missing was a deep narration by the main character. 2. Cole Phelps is a genius. You'll see what I mean later... I lied. THREE things. 3. The game threw me for a loop when it made commentary on the current war in the Middle-East. It didn't break character or anything; it just surprised me that they were able to tie that issue up with problems of the past.

3rd disc in. Story bomb dropped. SHIT JUST GOT REAL.

Most of the open-world stuff is driving around, finding landmarks. The side crimes are handled in an interesting fashion; you'll get a call on the radio, and if you want to take it, you hit A and follow the new marker. You drive up and start the side crime missions. I haven't played much of them, but the ones that I have boiled down to gunfights/foot chases/car chases. It's pretty fun, though other than that, there isn't really anything else to do in the city. I don't really mind, but I'm sure some people do. Also, it's really weird that I'm getting specific achievements for completing different parts of the GameStop pre-order case. Is it impossible to get the full 1000 without having all the bonuses?

It'll most likely be coming to consoles, anyway. Everyone who's tried it with a controller has said that it works splendidly.

As soon as I read that, Ron Burgandy popped up in my head. "Milk was a bad choice!"