Audience consumption
- Who is the target audience for LA Noire?
- 18+
- What enjoyment do audiences get from playing LA Noire?
- They get the the feeling that they are actually in the game mainly because the physics are so life like and the facial expressions on the characters faces are far greater than the previous releases from rockstar.
- How do Rockstar encourage their audience to interact with both the game and institution?
- They open up blogs or forums on the internet (rockstar website) , doing this means that the players of l.a noire can talk about their gaming experience and talk to each other about what they have done on the game.
- How does the game appeal to a wider demographic?
- Because unlike the previous games, which have been released by rockstar l.a, noire makes you use your head during the gameplay so that you can get better results from the cases, this would appeal to more people particularly people who would like more of a mental challenge from a game.
Issues around Audience
- To what extent are audience’s beneficiaries or victims of change within the videogames industry?
- People who have played rockstar games in the past e.g. GTA or Red dead redemption would expect future rockstar games to be filled with violence , however since l.a noire has toned down on the violence and introduced a new mental feature to it some of the rockstar fans may struggle to adapt to this because of the massive amount of crime and violence which was in the previous rockstar games , making them victims of change.
- What are the wider issues audience issues surrounding video games – consider media effects theories.
- Some of the possible issues that could be surrounding video game would be the long term effect on children’s minds , for example if they grow up watching violence in video games they may chose to do acts like it in their future life.
- Discuss the +/- of gatekeeping
- The positives of gatekeeping are that it keeps children’s minds away from such things as violence and crime , however the disadvantages of it would be that because 18+ games are advertised in so many places for example on posters or billboards and even television , this makes it almost impossible to keep younger children away from this because they are exposed to it so often.
