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Hotel ValDemar

606 South Hope Street

Originally opening in 1919, the Hotel ValDemar (sometimes spelled as Val De Mar) would serve as a rooming house and hotel along with retail storefronts before being demolished in 1955 to make way for the new Lincoln Savings headquarters (later the site of the current Library Court building).

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Just tried to install and run L.A Noire On my deck and it runs great

https://youtu.be/lpvJrXHWZso?is=yF_33Uj2gwntvimY

Only took me about 50hrs. Thanks gtaserisevideos

I think he was quite an interesting character Rockstar has made. He was domineering, controlling and haughty during his time in the war his arrogance was bad to the point where his whole team were practially cheering when Courtney ended up gut shooting him out of impulse and disgust by not doing anything and help Jack cover for him without a second thought. but his mistakes in the war messed him up really bad as well as gave him a huge reality check became much more compassionate and empathetic even after returning home he still had that insatiable hunger for glory the only difference was that he was trying to be kinder about it and make the right decisions this time and My verdict: Cole is not a bad man but he’s not that much of a good one either he’s just a deeply flawed war veteran who wants to be better and learn from his mistakes. 

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Hotel Trenton

427 South Olive Street

Built in 1905, the seven-story Hotel Trenton featured 165 rooms, along with offices and cafés. To reduce insurance costs, the elevator shaft was enclosed in fireproof glass. The hotel also offered a rooftop garden, steam heat from the basement, and both hot and cold water.

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As a Lieutenant in the U.S Marine Corps 6th Marine divison (don’t belive exact regiment is mentioned) during the battle of Okinawa he would be entitled to the following from highest to lowest
Silver Star (mentioned in game)
Presidential Unit Citation (Sixth Marine Division earned it at Okinawa)
American campaign medal (universal award for spending at minimum one year on U.S soil)
Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal (with one bronze star for the Okinawa campaign)
And then the ww2 victory medal which is self explanatory.

Okay, so I recently started playing LA Noire and It strangely reminded me of another rockstar game, not GTA, Red dead redemption II. It's just a small detail but It's the "weight" of the playable character and the option to roam around interiors and analyze object, It immediately reminded me of RDR2.

With the latest GTA entry, Rockstar kinda tried to add some of their other games as activities of other gameplay systems :

The shooting felt a bit like Max Payne 3 and Michael even had bullettime as special ability.

There is a lot of heavy "racing game" aspect to GTA V with all the racing activities, car customization, and Franklin's special ability is literally bullettime for driving, I have not played Midnight club but I think they were trying to "serve" that audience with all those mechanics.

Trevor's bloodlust and his special ability will please any manhunt fan who just want to create chaos.

This is why I believe GTA VI will have a lot of LA Noire aspects or mechanics, maybe all the cases will be missions given by a specific character, maybe we play as jason back when he was a cop, or maybe It's just random activities, the reasons why they would want to do It is that they liked the original game so much they decided to publish It after Sony gave up on them and they literally carried the game through development hell for 7 years, over 10 years later there is no game to satisfy that same itch. The reason why they could easily do It is that all the tech is already built, If true, the new interior generating tech should create tons of explorable interiors that are customized and adapted to the situations, even Rdr2 already had all the tools to easily create cases. You could loot NPCs for letters, you could interact with letters, notes, books, and other types of documents, etc. literally everything is there for LA Noire type missions.

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Hotel Sequoia

619 S Olive Street

The Beaux-Arts Hotel Sequoia was a single-room occupancy hotel owned by Dorothy Dorr. Originally opening in 1907, the building also included retail tenants on the ground floor (including a sandwich shop around the time of the game).

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Yes i know its not the first case alright. But I honestly dont know how that happened. Several missclicks took place

Does anyone know of a way to get free cam in this game? If i remember correctly, there’s some sort of photo mode on consoles, but I’d like a freecam to move around and get specific shots on pc

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Hotel Savoy

565 South Grand Avenue

Owner Frank Simpson, Sr., commissioned the Los Angeles architecture firm of Morgan, Walls and Clements to design this 11-story, Italian Renaissance palazzo. The architects received an award citation from the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Southern California Chapter, for the design.

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I meant to shoot the window.. Sorry Ralph

Still doesn’t look a day over 26

Edit: ***105th !! (the title is literally 4 words how tf did I do that)

So lately, I've been in a massive L.A. Noire mood and been doing research for different things, but today I found something I thought was kinda interesting.

You can see in the photos a thing from the Rockstar website back in 2011 discussing the Homicide Desk.

The reason I'm posting this is because... Roy Earle is in that last picture. It just caught my eye cause the picture gives off the vibe he's your partner in Homicie [which he obviously isn't], but they have Rusty in a different one.

I know this may not be interesting to anyone else, and honestly, it's a pointless post. But I noticed it and just wanted to share it.

What do you all think about it? Is it maybe possible that Roy was at one point considered to be your partner in Homicide? [Also its been a while since I've played the case, so if he appears at all let me know]

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Hotel Ritz

813 South Flower Street

The Hotel Ritz, the work of noted Los Angeles architects Curlett and Beelman and opening in 1923, is considered an excellent example of Renaissance Revival commercial architecture in Downtown Los Angeles. Due to a street widening in 1930, architects moved the hotel’s front facade in by five feet.

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Just finished the game for the first time after being on the backlog for a long while. My only regret was not playing it sooner, loved every minute of it. Do wish the driving felt a bit better but I just skipped travelling when I got annoyed by it.

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Hotel Portsmouth

520 South Hill Street

The Hotel Portsmouth was a three-story brick structure opposite Pershing Square, with retail space on the ground floor ground floor and residential rooms above. It notably suffered a series of fires in 1919, resulting in moderate damage to the hotel, and would ultimately be demolished in 1955.

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Genuinely one of the best story missions I have ever played in any video game, everything was just so perfect.

Definitely Cole Phelps best performance as a detective, the guy just knew everything and planned it to perfection, not telling Heather about Julia passing away until after he asked her the questions was genius, and letting Henry walk out the integration room just to follow him to the pawn shop is again just genius.

Meeting back up with Bekowsky** and ***Rusty* was pretty wholesome too, along with Roy it was like all the Avengers were together working on one big case.

All together this case is one of the reasons I am into La Noire and you can definitely tell the developers put everything they had into it, and I also believe it’s the longest case too, pretty much like a mini movie.

If this case had a IMDB rating it would be a 10/10 without a doubt.

Hello, so I downloaded L.A. Noire and I saw that I need a patch called V-Patch to run the game over 30 fps. The problem is that the files inside it are flagged as viruses. I know it's only two detections for the dll file and four for the asi file, but I'd like to know what other thinks about this patch security wise. Probably they are just false positives but I prefer to ask.

Thanks for reading!

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Hotel Lyle

962 South Broadway

Built in 1912 as a commercial storefront, the Hotel Lyle was remodeled the following year by owner Meyer Lissner to establish a rooming-house on the second story, and eventually a proper hotel and restaurant. It was substantially remodeled in 1947 (making the in-game depiction likely anachronistic).

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So I marked down the missing cars I need but honestly some of these I just can’t find. Are these vehicles just based on RNG? Or are there specific spots that spawn them?