Just finished pic related.
What did you guys think of it?
I'm reading critic and user reviews and they give it unanimous praise but I had a million problems with it. I would describe my experience with this as slow-paced, deeply flawed, but with a triple A budget.
Its a great game, flawed but very good. I went in knowing it was a flawed game so I really liked it for what it was.
Can't help but praise the devs just because of the shitty conditions they were forced to work in
I didnt like it. It purported to be a noir detective game but at the end if every single investigation there was a massive shootout where I had to kill like 40 guys. It just detracted massively from the feel and atmosphere and turned it into GTA.
I love it, it can be a fucking drag at times though. I don't think there will be another game like this for a long time.
You fuck young boys, Valdez?
>needlessly open world
>side missions are often quite far away when the dispatch call prompts you to accept/decline, so I don't bother most of the time
>flawed interrogation system. During dev, they changed "Coax" and "Force" to "Truth" and "Doubt". Fundamentally, you're using verbs that the system was at best only partially designed for. Even if the original verbs remained, choosing between Force and Coax would have been too vague. I can see why they tried the change in that respect, it's just that the system wasn't designed with those verbs in mind from the get-go
>In light of the change from Force to Doubt, Cole now seems weirdly confrontational whenever you Doubt someone
>Facial animations are an unreliable indicator of whether someone is lying or witholding info
>When you press Lie, you are not typically calling the person out for what they just said. Instead, the Lie you are actually pressing the person on is developed after the prompt. This is one of the most ass-backwards and unintuitive things about this game.
>Slow ass menu-navigation and crime-scene investigation
>Forced to incarcerate people for crimes you (as the player) know they did not commit because of dramatic irony. Hard to play the role of Det. Cole when inherently have access to a set of information that he as a character does not
>Extremely abrupt plot-twists (below)
>The ending was enormously bitter. It was like you were being read a detective story, and then at the end the storyteller suddenly goes "And then Cole died, and the world was shit. The End." I have no qualms with a dark ending, it's just that it really came out of nowhere.
>Picking options out of the order the game expects you to (locations/dialogue) results in either arbitrary loss of case rating, or extremely inconsistent dialogue
>Inconsistent tone: characters appear jovial at the end of a discussion which was extremely heated during a question option a few seconds before
>Doubt
You left-wing-leaning parasite, you expect me to sit here and listen to your drivel?
MADMAN COLE
cont.
>Suffers from the standard adventure game problem of having to guess the logic of whoever wrote the case thought you should do. You can have someone dead-to-rights, know exactly what you want to say, but can't, because the game won't let you, or needs to keep it open to players who didn't get the evidence you did.
>Some of the evidence presented to reveal a lie is extremely tenuous. There were plenty of moments where I'd check my answer with a walkthrough and be dumbfounded as to why the real choice "worked" so to speak
>Maybe I'm a dumbass but there were plenty of times where I struggled to retain all the characters in a case in my working memory. The final case on Traffic, where someone's first name is Guy really fucked with me
>Very lengthy game. If you play with the DLC it drops a final portion of DLC in a place that really breaks the dramatic tension. Literally one of the worst places it could be stuck
All this being said, this game went through dev hell. Fair play to the devs for sticking it out and finishing what they started, I'm sure they're all aware of this shit but there's really fuck-all you can do about a lot of this in the reality of a dev-environment, especially one like that
It's a neat tech demo.
Driving/gunplay is meh, writing is decent.
Care to elaborate?
>You pinko bastard
>The fuckin' Reds dropped an H-Bomb on us
>Next you'll be saying Nixon is a lying crook
The weirdest bit was everyone getting extremely mad at Cole for cheating on his wife
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>Team Burly Red
or
>Team Skinny Akimbo Blue
which do you pick
>Left side
>"The delegates Dahnald...hand them over."
ERIOIOIRE is a born killer, with a body count of at least two.
LAMAL is just a dual-wielding waifu fag.
>LAMAL is just a dual-wielding waifu fag.
>implying that isn't also a body count of two
keep talking shit about LAMAL, just don't be surprised when you wake up dead fucker
t. LAMAL
ERIOIOIRE is coming for you, LAMAL.
fuck you you lying scumshit ratbastard pileoftrash
pfff watever
*loads .45s*
..heh
u scared, tuff guy??
The ending sucked dick, and I generally didn't like the progession of him cheating on his wife. Since it was largely off screen it practically felt out of character
Gameplay is pretty boring. It's like they tried to make an Ace Attorney game but left out the development of characters and the fun. Gun fights are terrible as is melee combat. You can't switch between the two styles either.
Also it's hard to kill pedestrians.
FACT: this game is dogshit and you have objectively shit taste if you like it
prove me wrong
protip: you can't
wow p rude tbqh familia
Boring characters, boring story, needlessly dull open world environment.
In what world can a person be demoted for cheating on their wife, why would anyone care? Also, major events important to the story happen off screen, or you need to collect newspapers to find out, which is always shit.
>what world can a person be demoted for cheating on their wife
i think this might have been a thing in the 40s
some cases are good, others are mediocre
good game overall
Who'd win?
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the ending was like a swift kick to the balls