GameSpy: "Rockstar's made a relatively safe bet in developing a face-reading game mechanic. In real-life, people are naturally "face experts." From the time we're born, specialized regions of our brains are tuned in order to process faces quickly and effectively, despite the wide variability between different faces and the subtlety of many facial expressions.
That said, Rockstar's risk lies in the reliance on gamers to be interested in reading and reacting to faces. The social skills emphasized in L.A. Noire, such as empathy and emotion perception, are not typically skills that are valued in games. We all passively read the emotions of game characters, but these performances are often caricatured, and we experience these story elements in a very passive way. Many people habitually skip story elements in games, but Rockstar is counting on players to invest heavily in these aspects of L.A. Noire."
Members of the original development team behind Rockstar Games' LA Noire are working on a new psychological thriller called Sowden House.
Hopefully McNamara is as far away from this as possible he set up shop in Australia then did nothing but complain about Australian labour laws while trying to make his workers live at the office working 24/7 on la noire punishing them for leaving at 3 am and being 10 minutes late to work at 9am the next day.
It's astonishing that none of the workers went to the fair work ombudsman as the studio would have been fined astronomical numbers
Brendan McNamara is a brilliant writer and director but he should never, ever be in charge of a studio. What he did to those devs was far beyond "crunch", and it went on for, what, 7 years? That's insane.
But I'm glad to see some of that team have come together again to create something new. A psychological thriller sounds right up my alley.
BLG writes, "Do you ever get that feeling after you’ve finished a game that you just wish there was more? Or do you spend years hoping and praying for a sequel that never comes?
This list compiles some of the top games we desperately want to get a sequel. Please give us more of our favorite games!"
Would love to see a sequel to the 7th gen FPS campaign SINGULARITY from RAVEN Software..
L.A. Noire is coming to the library of free games available to GTA+ Members on Thursday, May 2.
I was creeped out for a bit at first just how real their faces looked when I was talking to them lol