L.A. NOIRE (Zero Punctuation)

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This week, Zero Punctuation reviews L.A. Confiden... err sorry L.A. Noire.
Fast-talking Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw reviews a new game each week in this animated series that combines informed critique with cutting humor. Watch the next episode of Zero Punctuation a week early, only on The Escapist.
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[@laughingjack845]

"It's not clear if 'doubt' means to raise a single disbelieving robot eyebrow or to accuse them of secretly masterminding the Cuban Missile Crisis." Gets me every time.

[@laughingjack845]

Stop fucking liking this my notifications are fucking swarmed

[@revolverocelot4905]

Laughing Jack MUAHAHAHA

[@flxfaber]

The original options were something like "Coax", "Intimidate" and "Proof" which makes so much more sense when you consider their outcomes. Apparently they wen't simple enough though, so they were changed to the confusing set we ended up with.

[@aaronking2020]

Haha get notified, nerd.

[@Angrymonkey2489]

And now we have Good Cop, Bad Cop, and Accuse.

[@SparrowwithaMachinegun]

"More assholes than a donkey in an iron maiden" It took me a few seconds to get that joke.

[@09Santanico20]

Hah, me too. I like that one.

[@Shadybish]

Kfor Kira I knew it immediatl, donkeys are called *ass*.

[@DerichndofCoomland]

Yup.It's one of his funniest,and it took a sec or two to get it :-)

[@zeboris5848]

Kfor Kira Would you please explain it to me, Im kinda retarded :(

[@zeboris5848]

Lol ok thanks :D

[@minieyke]

"more ass holes than a donkey in an iron maiden" what a way with words

[@POTUSJimmyCarter]

I'm replaying LA Noire right now, and I'm having so much fun playing Cole as an unpredictable, psychotic monster. Sure, I don't deliberately botch interrogations and stuff, but I do things like -Express nothing but giggling contempt for traffic laws, going so far as driving up to crime scenes backwards at full speed -Repeatedly shoulder check anybody who dares speak to me on the sidewalk ("You're that cop from the pape*WHUMP*) -Stand outside houses and stare in the windows for a while before going in to interview people -Make really shitty comments and wish my character would say them ("Mrs. Black, your paintings are terrible.") -Play around with people's stuff for way longer than necessary, including (as the player) making all the sound effects as I wave around a model airplane in front of the grieving widow My favorite was when the watch captain commended me for my "good public presence" after I spent over thirty straight seconds kicking said widow's watering can all around her front yard for no reason.

[@TeamIONDarius]

Well done.

[@POTUSJimmyCarter]

One of the Homicide cases made the horrible mistake of leaving a small window in which I had my gun out but was not in a shootout. I ended up deciding on writing my name in bullets on the suspect's house.

[@jaxonnobles]

That reminds me of my Fallout New Vegas Dickhead play-through, I wasn't evil as-in I didn't side with Caesar, but at any point I had the opportunity to be a dickhead, I would. One of my favorite parts was when Raul told me his entire family died in an arson attack, to which I told him "They probably had it coming anyway".

[@micah9639]

Reminds me of Skyrim where someone says "May the skies watch over your battles, friend" as you walk all over their dinner table kicking all their food onto the floor and then deliberately running into them at full sprint

[@ss33988]

HOly shit, this is what they meant by "weapons grade Autism"

[@1Duegon]

Somebody help me! I'm trapped in the Zero Punctuation playlist

[@Egalitariat-likesecretariat]

Stop, drop your phone, and roll over it on a steamroller!

[@qualivia]

Sacrifice a goat

[@alexg.1764]

+HellChuggapri1 What if he's on a PC.

[@Egalitariat-likesecretariat]

Grell Sutcliff Someone help that poor woman! She's trapped in a square!

[@Hendlton]

I just found the channel, it's half past 6 am, I've been doing this for 4 hours and I don't plan on stopping, HELP!

[@MrUltimategamer44]

Change my mind but whoever made Detroit: Become Human probably made Connor’s entire character based off this video

[@ivyssauro123]

Yess, I just replied someone saying exactly that

[@edwardhernandez6668]

Change your own fucking mind, you twat.

[@wewliusevola]

Chance would be a fine thing!

[@lavetissene339]

Detriment: be coom man

[@lavetissene339]

@@edwardhernandez6668 bri'ish

[@lowhp_comic]

_"And accused her of secretly being Mrs Hitler"_ Gets me every time xD

[@TeamIONDarius]

"Madam, you are Eva Braun!"

[@RS250Squid]

I can't think of LA Noire anymore without thinking of; "I like your ass!" "You're *Iying* Morgan!"

[@ivyssauro123]

Same hahahahha

[@GPhipps]

"This is America!" "Let's change the subject." "This is Germany?" O rly head nod.

[@lionguardant5468]

I’ll have you know there’s no pusseeeee

[@crimsondynamo615]

I just want my baseball

[@midlifecrisi]

The big thing the game did wrong with questioning is that, in the early stages, "doubt" was called "press", as in "press for more information". Idk why they changed it to "doubt", since "press" is far more accurate as to what you do. If someone says something like "Ask Dave, he'll know better than me", then that's a truth, and out of "true, doubt, lie", you'd go true. However, out of "true, press, lie", you'd go for press, as you'd be fairly confident that he is either hiding something, or isn't taking this seriously, and pressing him for more will get more, than accepting what he is saying.

[@rfp415]

Yea your right.

[@Cultureghost]

Truth if you know it's true, doubt if you think it isn't true but don't have evidence to prove it, and lie if they directly contradict a piece of evidence.

[@MorshTalon]

Maybe because it's "press" in phoenix wright and naming it press there too would make people want to play PH instead.

[@Ward1706]

Well, in the remastered version, it's "Good cop, Bad cop or Accuse." Which makes more sense to me anyway.

[@bushmg1061]

Not “press,” it was *”Force.”* The difference is less than subtle

[@Huvpalto]

It took years of learning English for me to finally understand the "more assholes than donkey in the iron maiden" joke and it's genius.

[@RTbongo]

By the way in development the word force was changed to doubt. That why cole freaks the fuck out when you doubt someone.

[@timlaffin6758]

wineandforgive Its those issues that stopped me from doing the investigations and i just started driving around doing nothing at all really. After about 4-5 hours i gave up the game, Rockstar has had ONE (1, single, solitary) good idea and they have been coasting off it sense when ever the hell GTA3 came out. They need some originality.

[@thecriticalgamer8462]

tim Geddes what about red dead redemption? or bully? or Max Payne?

[@justincanu9153]

TheCriticalGamer Same game different set dressing and max payne is not a rockstar IP they just nicked it after the developers closed the book on the series.

[@thecriticalgamer8462]

how can you say that LA noire and bully are the same game?

[@thecriticalgamer8462]

the gameplay for la noire isnt the same as grand theft auto. most of la noires gameplay revolves around puzzle solving and finding clues with a small percentage similar to that of a gta games. i wont deny theres similarities between core mechanics of say red dead and gta but thats such as cover based shooting but thats not specific to rockstar. theres other games which have more similarities to a rockstar game than they do to eachother but i dont see anyone saying that saints row for example is the same as red dead

[@midlifecrisi]

I must agree on the last mission. It is like they just decided: "you know what, I am right fed up with investiations, lets just make a third person cover shooter!"

[@chrisjones5949]

One thing I love about rewatching old ZP episodes is occasionally catching a joke I didn't previously. For instance, this time through, I only just now got that "Johnny Suspect" and "Barbara Witness" have puzzle boxes for heads, because the interrogations are a puzzle game. And I somehow also missed that challenging Hitler at Pictionary includes a drawing of a pair of testicles...with an arrow pointing at only one of them. xD

[@beep-beep]

2:39 - 2:45 That's the problem I had with the game. Like for example, on the first real investigation you do where you uncover a murderous Jew, on the first witness lady I clicked on doubt because her eyes were darting back in forth like she was having a seizure. Instead of replying with to her claims with snide skepticism as I had expected, Cole yelled "YOU'RE LYING!" and she starting bawling. I flopped that first part of the investigation and the game made damn sure to tell me how much I fucked up.

[@Thatguy7242]

Well they do explain that "Doubt" was if you think theyre lying but dont have proof.

[@beep-beep]

Thatguy7242 Oh. So basically, it's the "Blind Accusation" button.

[@Thatguy7242]

The Hiphopopotamus Lol yeah, just about. (But it is effective in getting information)

[@Requ1escat1nPACE]

Lol yeah... Cole has legit multiple personalities, but it comes in handy !

[@OverbearingUrge]

The original choices were, "coax, force, and lie," instead of, "truth, doubt and lie." So, that's why it seems like Cole is always going off when he "doubts" someone. He's not actually supposed to be doubting them, but intimidating them. ' "When we originally wrote the game, the questions you asked were coax, force and lie," says Brendan McNamara, who headed the project for the now defunct Team Bondi. "It was actually force because it was a more aggressive answer. That's the way we recorded it. But when the game came out, it was truth, doubt or lie. Everyone always says [Phelps voice actor] Aaron [Staton] on the second question is a psycho. So that's not his fault." '

[@ultranerdprime7468]

"combining combs with shoelaces to make makeshift grappling hooks." Self-deprecating much, Yahtzee?

[@pjbutton3396]

I'll say this: There are a lot of good things about L.A. Noire, but there's also a lot of bad things. But for the most part, the good outweighs the bad.

[@Mycatsnameiswednesday]

They fucked up their own character...

[@nuclearfist420]

@@Mycatsnameiswednesday Rockstar games have a tendency to lean towards what I call, "Flawed Protagonists," I used to hate Cole Phelps after the last vice case but then I later learned that the main character isn't always hero material I started to appreciate LA Noire a lot more.

[@vsiglister2115]

@@nuclearfist420 Reason why Cole cheated on her wife is because of the war. The war fucked up his head. He searched for the attention he wanted. After he joined Vice, Roy also didn't like him being a good detective. So he sold him out of Elsa. Elsa gave the attention Cole wanted. And Cole sacrificed himself for them (Jack and Elsa).

[@augustdenger8231]

@@vsiglister2115 Cole never had the control over his life that he wanted. He wanted to be a glorious officer, but his men didn't respect him and he made a series of really bad calls. He became the rising star of the LAPD and found (with the player's help - meta, I know) that he had the control and respect he deserved. With his newfound inflated ego came the desire for more in his personal life, so he banged Elsa. The whole 3rd act of the game is Phelps attempting to redeem himself with the help of Kelso.

[@SuperMiracleMan]

Wait a minute, aren't sewers filled with methane, a highly combustible gas? So if you go running around with a flamethrower, let alone a gun, wouldn't you end up blowing yourself to kingdom come and make manhole covers fly because of flame geysers?

[@candy-ass4915]

Hush, child. Do not question the logic of video games. Unless the gas is visible, it is not flammable.

[@SuperMiracleMan]

I challenge the logic of video games. Also in real life many highly flammable gases are invisible and odorless.

[@slingshotmcoy]

Wait a minute, do you really care?

[@vicegirlsusa]

Shadow_Plays There's usually not usually enough methane in sewer gas for it to be explosive, especially not in a combined sewer like there'd be in LA in the 40s. The volume of the sewer lines and amount of inflow from greywater and storm drains would have maintained constant wastewater movement so the solid waste couldn't stay in one place to oxidize and release methane. Sewers are separated nowadays, though, so it's quite possible for the smaller wastewater lines to contain enough methane to combust (if they're improperly vented), but those lines are almost always too small to hold a person, much less two people and a flamethrower, and those people would probably be too busy vomiting and crying because they're swimming in shit to use a flamethrower. I never thought my experience working at a sewer inspection company would ever come out on KZbin, much less a video game review, haha. Ah, the memories of watching hours and hours and miles and miles of piping.

[@jaytonhawkins2872]

MYTHBUSTERS GOOD SIR

[@ilyasasilgaly2744]

Considering that Cole Phelps is a WWII veteran and a trained policeman, it doesn't surprise me that he is not shaken off by naked bodies.

[@darkartsdabbler2407]

Naked and horrifically murdered bodies

[@ZanathKariashi]

guy sat in a hole for 8 hours covered in the remains of a fellow marine, while what was left of them was smeared over the side of the fox-hole. I think something broke, honestly.

[@TheGrumbliestPuppy]

@@ZanathKariashi You'd think it'd give him horrible flashbacks, but I could see him breaking the other way (totally shuts down/dissociates when triggered)

[@doriphor]

A robot? So Cole Phelps is Ryan Gosling?!

[@SuperLordGaming]

+Olivier Doriath Driver 2 confirmed.

[@Haikuss123]

It would be cool if they game ended by some sort of long wits battle between cole and some mastermind like in AAI.

[@EPiiCx5587]

AAI? Ace Attorney Investigations?

[@Haikuss123]

EPiiCx5587 Yup

[@mattengarde7503]

Loved that game. Though I preferred T&T.

[@MegaZeta]

That would be hack and cliche. There's a reason why Moriarty, supposedly Sherlock Holmes's arch-nemesis, never appears in Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories until the story where he dies: Doyle understood the commercial appeal of the character as a means to bury his creation, but he was a better writer than the sort who would actually turn the series into a march toward a showdown between Holmes and a single crook.

[@niltrocercud819]

There definitely should be a mastermind interview before the sewers

[@HailHydrant]

"More arseholes than a donkey in an iron maiden" I laughed so hard I had to spend 2 weeks in hospital

[@mrCeal]

"More assholes than a donkey in an iron maiden" has to be one of my favorite Yahtzee quotes of all time

[@ivyssauro123]

4:18 I remember exactly what mission he is talking about and it left me pissed as well haha

[@dusksentry5836]

a game about a detective robot would be awsome

[@ivyssauro123]

I come from the future to tell you that they made your wish come true and believe me it was better if they didn't

[@Edgewalker001]

The one thing about this game I hated is the fact that when you first see the murderer that everyone is talking about, I immediately said "This is the guy right? It has to be this guy that's the killer because of exhibit A: Backstory plot detail 1" and then the characters completely fail to connect the dots, despite the fact that he's wearing a lampshade on his metaphorical head. By the time Cole actually figures it out it isn't a satisfying conclusion, it's me going "No shit, Sherlock, do you want a cookie now?". It didn't even give me the satisfaction of being able to say "I told you so."

[@TuyuqVampram]

You know... I'm a little tempted to wonder whether or not it really took Yahtzee until he was writing his review to realize the true, utter ridiculousness of that ending, or if it was something that dawned on him during gameplay itself. Just a curiosity.

[@semvision]

+TuyuqVampram 100% accurate

[@WardyLion]

Apparently “doubt” was initially “force” (bad cop) and so was acted thusly by Aaron Staton. This was later changed to “doubt” but no other changes were made, which may explain Phelps’ oddly aggressive manner when picking that option.

[@icarusty6481]

So, this game is Ace Attorney with action segments. Good to know.

[@TheCrimsonIdol987]

Except without the clever writing, interesting characters, and personality. The Ace Attorney games give you clues as to when you should ignore a piece of testimony, press for more info, or to contradict the witness's testimony. In LA Noire, it's ambiguous, and you often have to make guesses, which is more of a guessing game than a mystery game.

[@MegaZeta]

Thumbnail for the video looks like Cole Phelps arresting Yahtzee's little cartoon self. This satisfies me

[@MeansofIntrigue]

'But no, the game just ends with an action sequence where you run around sewer tunnels blasting gangsters with a flamethrower' Yahtzee perfectly captured my bemusement with the final part of the game right there. It was so bloody jarring.

[@Hagunemnon]

I play Phelps as an obsessive-compulsive alcoholic who checks each and every beer bottle, thoroughly, for something to drink, even if its a bit of stagnant rain water or hobo piss. And I mean *EVERY* liquor bottle.

[@thomasraines1396]

Amazing

[@VizIchi23]

It is so true that sometimes when you select "doubt" in an interrogation, Cole pretty much says "Stop bullshittin' me!" rather than saying "Are you sure about that?"

[@benhoward3004]

Just...one...more...Yahtzee...videeooo....plz...XD

[@Nightmare9797]

I know that feeling, when I first discovered him I marathoned his videos for hours.

[@mysterymastermind175]

I still marathon then while I am suppose to be studying XD

[@Spongeman25]

My issue with the game is that sometimes you would have two clear samples of evidence that could contradict what the witness was saying, but only one would work. Sometimes it was the item that would be least important. Second mission I was interragating this one guy. "You have no proof that I'm involved!" Ok... here. What about this rape tape I picked up that you clearly had some sort of involvement with. "I'm not talking anymore." Wait what? Um.. ok... how about these pills that we found? "Oh! You got me!" So rape tape < pill bottle when it comes to evidence? Wth?

[@AzureKite]

Yeah it seems like Rockstar didn't plan for people having multiple ideas on how to solve things.

[@TubbierWombat]

Azure Kite You mean Team Bondi.

[@AzureKite]

Tubbier Wombat Whatever.

[@POTUSJimmyCarter]

To be fair, I know which one you're talking about; you didn't ACTUALLY have the footage, that one in particular was missing so all you had to go on was the label on the tin. But yeah, it does that a lot. "What proof do you have that I know about this numbers racket!?" Uh...how about the numbers racket ticket I found in your hidey hole? But then I realized there were three damn listings for numbers racket tickets in the clue book, without much information on which was which. So I ended up using the existence of the numbers racket I had told him about as evidence that he was aware of the numbers racket I had told him about. Beautiful in a tautological sense, but apparently not the right answer.

[@anon9579]

Was there really a fight in a sewer with a flamethrower at the end?

[@capejedi2048]

Yep

[@Cunnysmythe]

themutantlizard the flamethrower is optional But you'll pick it up because it's the only one in the game

[@AzureKite]

+Cunnysmythe I don't remember the flamethrower, I think I missed it ):

[@kendromeda42]

+Azure Kite If someone shoots your back, you explode. :-S

[@jakeenglish4165]

so I watch a lot of these in one sitting. Has anyone else gotten tired of that PS4 shop ad. I've all but memorized it.

[@supasaiyajinjay5387]

I don't think it's really fair to describe Phelps as a robot. They're are plenty of hints to a complex personality. He seems to get very impatient and aggressive when people don't cooperate. To me, it feels like he was almost having a bout of depression and longing for a companion, which would explain his actions later in the game. Cole is actually a very complex character. You just have to dig

[@bakerdoze]

Kind of hard to want to dig when he just gets killed by incoming sewer water at the end of the game.

[@byeah4277]

+Lian Vesdan well your digging at the funeral so youll find something

[@nicholaslaw8673]

+supasaiyajin jay Well as a detective he should know to stay cool and press when needed.

[@Nuvendil]

Nick Law ah, but he wasn't always a detective. He was a soldier first. WWII veteran. So he has a different side, a different skill set, and a different disposition that could interfere at times. Being a soldier is a vastly different mindset from being a detective.

[@brunogonz86]

Yeah the ending was just kinda bad... Tried to pull off a Red Dead again but it wasn't nearly as good, nor did it fit the character's arc

[@EldritchAugur]

This game is fantastic though, it's not perfect, but when it works, man does it work. It's a big AAA game that actually makes you think instead of just mindlessly shooting the same enemies over and over again, and that's to be commended.

[@obermegalutschoar]

***** But in a lot of cases you have to guess in order to get the correct response, which is sort of intentional, I think, since you're supposed to go on "intuition," but the end result is that you often have to take a shot in the dark, which isn't really a test of real skill. Often it is ambiguous whether you are supposed to doubt or believe someone. And in the end your skills don't amount to anything except how many points you get, except a select few cases where you get yelled at in case you did badly, which still does not affect the overall story. It also has serious flaws as a crime investigation game, since often there is no real thought or logic involved in figuring out who is the perpetrator. You just follow a trail of obvious clues, and sometimes the real perpetrator is not even introduced until the very end of the case. The entire homicide desk is the worst, since there is no way to figure out the perpetrator until the final mission, and there practically no ties to the previous cases, except that you feel confirmed in your feeling that the cases were all shaky and there was a lot of evidence unaccounted for, which renders pretty much all your investigation up until that point irrelevant.

[@bigguyhuh]

(X) Doubt

[@hoodedman6579]

What a fucking low bar that is then.

[@steveachealo89]

Hooded Man What do you mean?

[@Vysard]

The ending makes absolutely no sense, though. The rest of the game was pretty good for its time!

[@Superellysan]

1:56 is truly a work of art if you just pause the video and look at it.

[@Buretsu]

Best Adventure Game combination EVER: Rope + Banana + Knife = FISHING ROD

[@byeah4277]

I love this game to bits, and I sort of understand why Cole is so hard and unforgiving in accusations, he's a war veteran that's seen some traumatic shit, I don't think he's gonna play tootsie foot fuck around with the boarding home owner because she doesn't want her reputation spoiled. I did have a problem when somebody actually didn't really answer the question, and I still had to see if they were lying or not, so I could only sit there like.."er..doubt?"

[@09Santanico20]

I like LA Noire. Yeah, it had it's shortcomings, but it gave me a much higher respect for policemen and veterans in the end. I also get why people are frustrated with it, though. You kinda have to make your fun in that game, too. Pro Tip: Push people down stairs.

[@Sonicracer100]

Make your own fun? I don't understand...I mean I love the game quite a bit with the flaws mostly revolving around interrogations, but it legitimately kept me guessing and you do have to pay attention. (It hurts when you get a question wrong). I love the setting(mostly because I'm a history buff so there's bias) and the city is really authentic. I do wish there were more to it, though. All that space, all these buildings, and you can't do much extra stuff. Also, it makes driving a chore.

[@TheGamingCathedral]

"More assholes than a donkey in an iron maiden" That one was too funny.

[@TornToRibbons]

What I found weird was they spent ages building this through line of the serial killer you were hunting, and I was super satisfied when I finally caught him and assumed the game was going to end. But then it turned out it was only half way through.

[@cathallynch8269]

Apparently they cocked that up and the serial killer was meant to run through the entire game but for some reason got haphazardly changed. I was always baffled by how quickly they swept the serial killer under the rug with the relation to a highly elected official.

[@blackshadow-ps3fx]

I love how yahtzee double taked at how absurd it was.

[@SalmonOfK84]

God I love this man. :-D

[@electric4354]

i like his hat :3

[@SalmonOfK84]

It's a damn fine hat. XD

[@riquelme3764]

Bewbs Something about your name with that comment made me laugh. Im not sure what it is, but it did.

[@ristilukki]

If I've understood correctly, reason Cole goes batshit insane when doubting is because Doubt option used to be something like Intimidate and it was later changed to doubt, while Coles reactions still go with Intimidate option.

[@TheArnold002]

love the videos, hate how they are always at such a low resolution

[@edwardkenway4975]

YOU'RE LYING MORGAN.

[@DILFDylF]

Gamer Poop?

[@edwardkenway4975]

No it's an actual line from the game lolololol.

[@rutger5510]

I like your ASS

[@GrimImpaler]

L.A. Noire was supposed to be a homage to a genre of films (almost entirely set in the 1940-50s) in which everything is shades of grey. That's why they tried bulling you into picking the pedophile instead of the husband (who, although there was reason to doubt it was him, but the case was a little more convincing.) to give you a feel for the police force at the time. And the ending was pretty much how all those movies ended. Massive shoot out, the "bad guys" are dead, and the "hero" is dead, dying, behind bars, or even more pessimistic about life than Kurt Cobain.

[@spaceawesome22]

Uh, being badgered into accusing the pedophile isn't really all that morally gray, but yes, it does draw you more into the setting and establish the somewhat odd logic that the police dep't of that era ran on.

[@GrimImpaler]

Wait, so letting a murderer go free to put another morally reprehensible person in jail is morally gray? That's black and white to you?

[@spaceawesome22]

GrimImpaler Moral ambiguity is about characters doing bad things for good reasons, or doing good things for less than noble reasons, or instances where both sides have good reasons for conflicting with each other. None of that applies here, though. This isn't a case of the police choosing the lesser of two evils; this is the police (sans Cole) letting their own biases influence their judgment. Simply being flat-out bad at your job has nothing to do with morality.

[@GrimImpaler]

It is picking between two evils and by the numbers, the lesser of two evils was let free. They let a killer go t get a repeat child molester of the streets and locked up for good. How is that not moral ambiguity?

[@spaceawesome22]

GrimImpaler Okay, after a glance at the LA Noire wiki, I can see I just remembered the case wrong. For some reason, I remembered it as the cops just jumping to conclusions and basically saying, "Eli's a child molester? Well, clearly he's also the killer!" I forgot about when Rusty points out to Cole that it's "better for everyone" if Eli is the one charged. My bad.

[@chaosDEJhead]

Holy shit he referenced Captain Scarlet

[@therealunledstudios]

The "doubt" button was originally called "force" that would explain cole yelling at a young girl in a hospital that didn't know why she was there in the first place. :D

[@Torguish]

Assholes... ...donkey... ...iron maiden... FUCKING. GENIUS.

[@robertmuir4356]

This is still my favorite Yahtzee review because he nails exactly what is wrong with this game. Yes, it does seem like it favors detective work over straight gunplay at first, but so many plot and character developments are so nonsensical that it all falls apart by the end of the game. A strange, yet interesting development in modern game design.

[@bentaro9743]

wow, his tip about the accuse them of lying first really helped me out.

[@waffleless]

4:21 I remember that part, it was actually quite clever, one of the suspects had more proof against him, while the other was the one the higher ups wanted taken down. It evoked this feeling of "You can't do everything right no matter what".

[@KrazyEngima]

I actually liked this game a lot but yeah that ending was a disappointment...I definetly didn't see it coming though

[@LSPD1909]

You do make good complaints,but i still love this game and think (with the aamazing things theyve done with gta 5) rockstar could improve a possible sequal.

[@speedyblupi]

I do remember it. It was some time last year. I wasn't around when the games were made, so I did lots of catching up with the awesome old stuff quite recently. There was lots of good music and funny stuff.

[@AandM1234]

that whole glasses thing is EXACTLY what happened to me.

[@Bloodpasta97]

i am both sad and grateful you didn't talk about the hell that was the development of this game.

[@Daniel-Rosa.]

Hm, what did they go through? And did Rockstar use the behind-the-scenes story as some advertisement grab?

[@steveachealo89]

Daniel Rosa Read about the Team Bondi controversies, a big factor in why the studio was shut down. And I don't know, probably as everything Rockstar (and others) releases has some promotional edge behind it.

[@liamf2300]

Oh my god, Yahtzee completely missed all the nuances of coles character

[@mikenike429]

This is the best conversation ever!

[@christater5540]

The WOO WOO WOO WOOO WOO above his character whenever he spots me just gets me every time/

[@BrawlYoshi]

And the driving controls are terrible!

[@TheTrueRedStapler]

great add-on, absolutely great

[@Hispanic_at_the_disco717]

I love how much Yahtzee uses a picture of his brother.

[@leoechoirl9412]

after I played L.A. Noire I kept seeing the same actor that played Mickey Cohen on TV

[@edwardhernandez6668]

"I'm fighting a different kind of war."

[@gabrielrutherford4324]

They should have made it so that doubt and lying tie in. Like if somebody is lying and you hit doubt, it should open up a new lead, one harder to follow than the one you would get if you correctly called out a lie, and your case rating is affected.

[@justincanu9153]

That would be what doubt is supposed to be and yet it was just a worse way of calling someone out on a lie, pissed me right off first time round when I tried the doubt option and cole decided to rip the suspect a new one -_-

[@tooawesomepeoples1]

The Gerry Anderson joke made me laugh for like 5 minutes straight. Holy crap.

[@usurper70]

...activated wild accusation circuits. gold.

[@MrIrishLee]

Doooooood you need to do more video, i'm having withdrawal symptoms!

[@MenwithHill]

We call them Imps. They were made in Zero Punctuation very first antique episode to represent the monsters the main characters could conjure, but then they just became integrated to represent enemies, sometimes NPCs, and generally anything you want.

[@joesilver72]

lmao "why are they calling me a cigarette?"

[@ToastyMozart]

Funnily enough, since they aren't going to include a rumble-enabled keyboard with the PC version, I noticed that the lack of rumble feedback made crime scene searching a lot more intuitive because it wouldn't go nuts whenever you passed a cigarette carton.

[@AifosViruset]

Ah, the imagery was really good in this one. Some very amusing metaphors. I did lol, indeed.

[@elliew6765]

he's asking if you need help to build something in a melodramatic way, genius.

[@Contra7311]

In the development of L.A. Noire, "doubt" was originally titled "force". which makes so much more sense why Cole has an anger seizure when you pick "doubt".

[@Aetohatir]

Its like saying I have a giant talking apple as pet but its invisible

[@clammaster4]

i think you could detect his sarcasm by the hawaii part

[@wayVier]

Cyberwolf, you are wrong. Present Perfect Tense is indicated by the "every time" bit. It also indicates FrogSpatula re-watches ZP ep's, which I do too.)

[@Sonnyrazer]

working on our little yahtzee and a speech bubble saying it lol unless they happen to sell one but im too lazy to check

[@Cavef]

0:30 My cursor was up there, and he pointed at it, haha.

[@surupman]

using fragments of your enemy's skull as an ash tray? that's bad ass

[@treksez]

my kingdom for the name of the music at the start?

[@gustavo13k]

I have watched and liked every single video of Zero Punctuation 2007 - 2011. Now I'm starting to feel the results...

[@MrSoniK]

After watching Yatzee review's, Now i'm reading all the comment with his voice in my head.

[@klumpos]

More assholes than a donkey in an iron maiden is one of yahtzees best lines

[@robschn]

"Just one more video and I'm going to bed.. OH LOOK LA NOIRE!"

[@RossMirage]

"WRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHHHHTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT" * Goes Super Saiyan* :D

[@onelaststand1]

You're making me melt in my pants

[@TripleThreatKris]

An ash tray, probably the best use of a duchebags skull ever. Execpt maybe a toilet bowl.

[@soren7550]

I only now just realized that PH31-P5 is 'leet speak' for Phelps. -_-'

[@Metal_Auditor]

He's a guy from Thomas Ruff's photograph collection of expressionless faces.

[@stopbeingsucha]

Uh, it's clearly there. Uploaded March 21 to the Escapist's Zero Punctuation gallery.

[@macpotty]

I'm so glad I wasn't the only one who called her a liar for the glasses.

[@adampoole948]

it it wasn't for the issue of the game crashing ps3 consoles i would try it out regardless of it's problems

[@ZacKariahSheridan]

I can't argue with such an awesome creation

[@757reaper]

I was almost mad... and then.... you spoke undeniable truth