LA Noire Best of Cole Phelps and partners

[@louvieoned8062]

You f#** young boys Valdez is hilarious and I will never forget that line. Phelps can be funny as heck

[@eriksanchez1721]

If I was there, I would’ve busted out laughing from the seer bluntness and unexpectedness of it

[@sans-was-taken-.]

@@eriksanchez1721 Don't worry I did it for you.

[@alentjanestetico3014]

They should've included Valdez's reaction

[@ariazeweri2594]

Cole Phelps: Danny, Ben, Miguel, Tristan, and Teddy…. full lips.

[@jameswolf3302]

@@sans-was-taken-. What were you doing there bro?

[@ariazeweri2594]

“Hey I know you!” “No you don’t.” Best comeback line ever!!!

[@michaelburke9137]

Wish I could say that in Skyrim.

[@Harry2339_]

​@@michaelburke9137 frfr

[@MeatisMagic256]

"I'm Chris Hansen." "No, you're not." - Mike Manzi.

[@XOPOIIIO]

"Wait... I know you" "You're making a mistake" "There's no mistake. You're a wanted man, Arthur Morgan"

[@mitchiranger]

@@michaelburke9137 probably a mod out there for it.

[@TheDiggity42]

What we know about Cole Phelps - Likes blondes - Married - *Hates* child molesters - Angry

[@firefoxsimplyred]

Ideal man

[@alfalldoot6715]

Most based man on Earth

[@ShadowCompany01]

Things going against him: him having an affair

[@LS1056]

Man with values

[@chriscormac231]

also a silver star coward

[@Genny207]

19:39 - Underratedly accurate response

[@analysissel]

my favorite moment in the whole thing

[@zekromyveltal78]

I can’t stop cryin, that was funnier than it shoula been

[@porc1429]

Yeah it felt so real

[@Archedgar]

Yep. Not over-done. Not under-played. Just right.

[@DimT670]

Also you instantly know that dude ain't the murderer hes so taken aback

[@wafflewagon347]

2:53 Best interaction in the game.

[@Stiggs-bu2fz]

Hey I know you!

[@dajanicki]

@@Stiggs-bu2fz No, you don’t.

[@JBSauce]

@@Stiggs-bu2fz No you don't.

[@base21]

@@Stiggs-bu2fz No you don't.

[@lastprimaris7914]

@@Stiggs-bu2fz no you don’t

[@lukethelegend9705]

That “You’re going to the gas chamber, Edgar” is so goddamn brutal because, not only was Edgar Jewish, but the Holocaust had only ended two years prior.

[@sunsetman22]

no special treatment for a killer

[@reddeaddude2187]

It is pretty brutal. But the harshest crime deserves the harshest punishment.

[@_zigger_]

Based Cole

[@laurentweet9254]

holy fuck

[@NA-AN]

@@_zigger_ Please become illiterate this second so I never have to read something like that again.

[@digimonrockers6732]

16:00 Rusty: "This is probably another sad sack who lost his temper with a broad who wouldn't put out." Cole: " Are you a suspect, Rusty?" Think this might be as good as Valdez

[@Wildcat82164]

Red Dead redemption 2 Arthur you see that fellow over there he's naked as a jaybird Arthur: is that why you like the spot so much Best Rockstar line of all time

[@vinnyc1163]

22:26 *crashes car* “Nice car, Roy” that shit has me reeling

[@Haytam450]

"If you wreck this car, I'll have you back in Patrol by the morning."

[@MrLoverman7134]

Reminds me of that one moment in re7 where Jack yells that same thing to Ethan "NICE CAR ETHAN!"

[@MCPunk55]

You press "Doubt" and Phelps turns into an asshole. You press "lie" and Phelps calls people pedophiles. That's PTSD taken to the extreme.

[@MCPunk55]

@Ed M I do not remember asking for your personal take.

[@MCPunk55]

@Ed M As you should. Just don't expect politeness from everyone.

[@echo_ironside8006]

@Ed M deleted your original reply. Hm

[@emmiebunny04]

@@MCPunk55 what did they say??

[@MCPunk55]

@@emmiebunny04 He deleted it. Ask him.

[@Louis-Souness]

28:14 Eminem been real quite since Phelps dropped this

[@themanwiththeplan728]

Phelps just dropped the biggest single of 1947

[@KanaTowa16]

The bartender's "oh shit" got me really good.

[@arteonyx]

19:43

[@loganbutler9752]

​@@arteonyxDoing the Lord's work

[@FatherDinny]

The facial animations for a game this “old” is actually so good holy shit

[@ScorpioTheScorpion1503]

The tech they used for the facial captures was really good, but also highly impractical from what I remember.

[@landlockedcroat1554]

nice pfp

[@SebaztienHawke-ci5hm]

I couldn’t play this because I couldn’t read the expressions and you couldn’t go back to older lines of enquiry, iirc … so maybe their facial tech was good, but the game was also low res 720p and 30frames and that display matter too much.

[@MasterBetty69]

@@SebaztienHawke-ci5hmmaybe you couldn't decipher lie vs truth? I could see their expressions but it was hard knowing if they were guilty for me. Still loved it, you just had to learn the games expressions vs real life. If that makes sense. Much earlier second time around, too bad the mystery is gone

[@marcuswalters8093]

Not animations, these were captured directly from the actor's faces. That's why no other game has such great facial expressions as this.

[@jasonian2339]

4:53, is still great to laugh at

[@delbrorlni6676]

Valdez: Are you a madman!?

[@lapine.mp4lapine.mp350]

22:27 *immediately crashes car* "Nice car, Roy."

[@toasteroven7683]

this was the funniest moment for me

[@livecarsonreaction]

21:41 "Why didn't you report the body Jamison?" sounds like Phelps is playing Among Us

[@idisplaypace2411]

"I thought that you all would think I'm self reporting" "You're lying Jamison, TELL me the TRUTH!"

[@muhammadsabah6527]

A random person: Hey! I know you Cole: No, you don't

[@thatboyakira4202]

Cole is just a chad.

[@saxtonturner2240]

I've never played this game, but at 12:51, holy shit the partner popped off! God damn!

[@VincentVincent_89]

He’s my favorite partner and in my opinion the overall best, every other partner after this has their faults that can bring them into a negative light (I liked rusty cuz he was funny though)

[@spencers5898]

​@@VincentVincent_89 I don't remember Biggs having any major flaws- he seemed to be the most "wholesome" of the group, though Stefan is definitely my favorite too.

[@darklord884]

That's one Stefan Bekowski. Sassiest, funniest and undeniably best partner in the whole game. He even has an arc of his own and gets promoted to Homicide not long after Phelps gets promoted out of there.

[@kennymccormick9973]

Stefan and Rusty are my favorite partners in the game

[@VincentVincent_89]

@@spencers5898 biggs was a downer until he really bought into what was really going on, if Cole was the optimist then Biggs was a pessimist.

[@donttrustem13]

19:38 most realistic reaction honestly

[@windflier1684]

and if you know what he did you would be surprised

[@estebanquinones5918]

Cole: "I like blondes I guess" Also Cole: *has an affair with a brunette* Setfan: "DAMN IT COLE WATCH IT"

[@Obamavrat671names]

It's Stefan

[@canadian__ninja]

Not only that but his wife is a brunette. Elsa must have been blonde originally, otherwise it makes no sense

[@Bolzmann13]

I’d say Elsa is dark blonde, his wife is brunette. Statement checks out!

[@ncopictures7182]

Cole: *fucks Elsa* Stefan: USE THE SIREN!!!

[@herschelschueler]

Elsa is blonde 🙄

[@Arthur-xr1vk]

13:18 Cole: *breathes profusely with blood on his eyes* Partner: Uuuhhh... Cole? *proceeds to rear the car and smash the mob car* Partner: *shivers in fear* Cole: Now we can go. *smiling*

[@k-boi420]

Let’s see 'em chase us now!

[@dinokitty214]

No one: Not a single soul: Roy: YA LIKE JAZZ

[@denisdenis3358]

Do you like huey Lewis And The News?

[@kwc0435]

@@denisdenis3358 hell yes

[@AlastorTheNPDemon]

Upvote 666!

[@Omardelatorr1]

13:34

[@ericplante546]

19:55 "ehh a bunch of these guys, ask around" proceeds to gestures to the 1 person

[@PhatBoiLotto]

29:28 "Wow" -- Roy's sarcasm made me chuckle XD

[@ZeFluffyKnight]

Love to hate Roy, such a good character.

[@Milty2001]

I love how confident Cole can easily make a calm comment that piss people off 😂

[@T42oqq]

Don't we all want that superpower

[@nickbarsoum352]

“You like jazz?” Slapped me like a ton of bricks

[@enclaveofficerz3245]

Tbh i was not expecting that at all when i heard that, had to do a double take.

[@Omardelatorr1]

13:34

[@BlueSpams]

28:14 WHY DID HE SAY IT LIKE THAT

[@graduatedpinksnowball668]

Cuz he's a rapper.

[@GroovyAsh04]

Cuz it rhymed

[@TheManinBlack9054]

he wanted to show off his freestyle skills

[@idrisnobody]

Officers phelps and dunn, what can you tell us about this gun?

[@errolpletcher9186]

Sounds like the actor stumbled a bit over that line.

[@thegreatnahwhaile]

funny thing about this game, Cole never has a warrant, so all the suspects could just tell him to piss off and he'd legally have to

[@ladycarmillasanguina]

Back then? Not really. Hell, they didn't have the miranda warning until 1966. Around that time is when people realized that cops had to play by certain rules because of the constitution. Not to mention Mapp vs. Ohio.

[@Mr_Bones.]

Yeah, it was different back then. Cops today compared to cops back then are like Boy Scouts you can sue in to the ground. Back then police beatings were quite regular.

[@sanich0811]

Good luck to them in this, given the fact of the commentator above, there is still a burden to convince someone at a time when it was still impossible to film or record something illegal on a voice recorder. The police will just beat the shit out of you and force you to plead guilty under torture.

[@mojabaka]

In 1940? Good lick with that. Even nowadays cops break the law everyday just to quickly close an investigation.

[@DimT670]

​@@sanich0811 to be fair they still do this, the cameras just magically malfunction

[@gerardwaysway5999]

My favorite rockstar game, even though it's technically not %100 rockstar

[@trumpsbutt1497]

pretty sure rockstar just funded it

[@thebigzan]

@@trumpsbutt1497 Company went bankrupt before finishing it and Rockstar got interested in the project and funded/helped them finish.

[@trumpsbutt1497]

lol

[@Fidelitye]

@@thebigzan wait what company was it??

[@pale96_47]

@@Fidelitye team bondi

[@Psyrus88]

"I like your ass." "You're lying, Morgan!"

[@ryanchatham9971]

Oh god what video is that from

[@Psyrus88]

@@ryanchatham9971 It's in the outro for just about every Gamerpoop video from mans1ay3r, but it first featured in his series about L.A. Noir.

[@douglasweiss5583]

“Don’t tell me you jerk off, Phelps.” “Ayyyyyy I love to jerk off.”

[@weirdcat8373]

22:26 C R A S H *Nice car, Roy*

[@MariusBoss11458]

Same vibe as "Nice car Smoke" after Smoke said "Aw Motherfucker my car!"

[@explosiveass_bum5340]

NICE CAR, E T H A N

[@gamingsergeant6632]

Nice car, Smoke.

[@engineergaming4788]

Three different games 😂. L.A. Noire, Resident Evil Biohazard and GTA San Andreas.

[@synthtoaster]

Just recently 100% the game

[@bucketboy1351]

Nice!

[@synthtoaster]

@@bucketboy1351 thanks man

[@lifeonmars03]

Is it good? Is it for pn or xbox?

[@synthtoaster]

@@lifeonmars03 I have the Xbox version

[@charliemaneh]

@@lifeonmars03 it's an amazing game!

[@atlasreborn7221]

"Turn out your pockets, Eli" "Now why would I do that?" "Because I'm about to break your fucking skull, Eli" Rusty is fuckin' unhinged, Jesus Christ

[@CH33ZA]

Eli is a pedo though, so Rusty’s comment is completely justified

[@ajc0072]

The same guy that has murderous tendencies about his ex-wives yet doesn't follow through

[@NeoDaxtoChief17]

Meh it's the least Eli deserves for being a stalker and a pedo

[@hypemugen]

It's as if the more Phelps got promoted, the worst his partners became. Except for Bekowski I think. He was a pretty wholesome friend.

[@artusanctus997]

I liked Rusty also. Bekowski was definitely his friend, but Rusty was pretty wholesome. Plus, he was funny.

[@BunnyBounce161]

@@artusanctus997 drunken wife-beater? Very wholesome indeed

[@artusanctus997]

@@BunnyBounce161 Rusty makes up for it for being hilarious. It's his redeeming quality.

[@BunnyBounce161]

@@artusanctus997 I mean, I guess. Not like he was rare anyways, back then. At least he got humour

[@lealius588]

My order of best partnee is Bekowsky Biggs Galoway Ralph Any other person Roy

[@minesonic8101]

21:16 Based Rusty

[@synthtoaster]

My thing rusty as ever done

[@ChodeMaster]

Ponyfåg

[@brysonkuervers2570]

Chode Master ᛉ lol

[@christopherwall2121]

"Shut up and take your beating like a man!"

[@emmiebunny04]

Phelps us so unnecessarily rude I love it

[@saintroddy]

Man has absolutely zero chill

[@minneeagle]

I love the Valdez scene. It went from 0 to 10 in an instant!

[@Jaeger_89]

This game has, by far, some of the best written characters and dialogue ever...

[@ad-sd-vids5332]

If they make an LA noire movie, it could the best comedy of the decade by having the acting and dialogue be as over the top as the game, but play it totally straight

[@lThebigsauce1l]

5:21 bruh I’ve laughing for the past 5 minutes

[@GroovyAsh04]

I feel he would actual do that lol

[@firelord699]

4:52 made me nearly spit take.

[@thedemoman88]

-“Do you mind if we look around?” -“Why would you want to do that?” -“Because we say so.” -“Well, I guess you can” Quickest. Argument. Ever.

[@ZeroTheHunter]

Gotta love how cole phelps casually roast people like if that was part of his job lol

[@oWallis]

Man, Bekowsky is a cool dude.

[@libRteedude]

He's like the lazy guy in class that only sporadically contributes to class discussions and projects, but absolutely nails everything he participates in because he knows exactly when and how to act.

[@michaeltriola3978]

“YOU FUCK YOUNG BOYS, VALDEZ?!” That caught me so off guard the first time I heard it, I laughed for 10 minutes

[@rabidraccoon5157]

Police trick number one when questioning the suspect always make it seem like your on their side Phelps: “you fuck young boys valdez?!”

[@toasteroven7683]

22:26 Now THIS, for some unknown reason, was the one to make me laugh. There were better jokes, there were better teases, but a car crashing followed by "nice car" made me laugh

[@RAY296]

man, I did not expect the driving at 10:40 to make me laugh the hardest

[@alrecks619]

1:27 that's quite the foreshadowing...

[@aceshighdueceslow]

Bekowski was a great partner, it's too bad we leave him and only really get to see him later and he's been promoted from Traffic to Homicide, all those years in patrol finally paid off!

[@thedemoman88]

I love that officer after arresting the first guy. He’s like “Yeah we did it teamwork :D”

[@MariusBoss11458]

Everytime the Okinawa Assault from the War is mentioned I think of this game. Cole didn't even wanna kill em.

[@johnhw4709]

when roy say’s ‘lets find out who’s been over seasoning the soup in this place’ in the Parnells Soup case should have been included

[@josephsmith6603]

4:53

[@tudorstavila9211]

Yes he does

[@JohnSmith-mk5jt]

"ARE YOU A MADMAN!?"

[@fiacradoyle7474]

I remember they said the games facial movements were unbelievable....

[@abilio3873]

At that time it was.

[@steelbear2063]

@@abilio3873 Even today they're great honestly.

[@Tendenciess]

@@steelbear2063 some parts are okay and it's definitely better than most games but it looks weird

[@waltworks8389]

@@Tendenciess the bodies are what makes them weird. Quite disconnected from each other. They just recorded heads after all. Still an achievement in on itself

[@GroovyAsh04]

Still are

[@kAY-yl5en]

30:09 that's why you should always park your cars away from windows

[@AgentJaffacakes]

21:31 "No ferb, not yet"

[@broadkiwi6882]

"Nice car Roy." *Smashes the fuckin thing*

[@greendude7650]

"How many Janitors carry a gat?" Old man practically killed himself reaching for his gun and his draw was slow as $#!+.

[@michaeloverton04]

4:54 Cole Phelps: 0 - 100.

[@herschelschueler]

This game is something else man. Still my favorite. I heard about it out of the blue in Rockstar's Developer series a few weeks before it dropped and got my mom to buy it for me back in 2011 when I was 11 years old. Played through it so many times.

[@zionharris9432]

This game...my dad played this and I had no Idea how cool this would be to play and I still gotta get to it. The acting is just so 👌🏾

[@Ducks4lif3]

10:26 jesus cole lmao

[@65firered]

4:53

[@GroovyAsh04]

Reality check

[@BunnyBounce161]

10:09 tho

[@Eyeofthetiger69]

His voice crack as he said "marry".

[@chrisidoo]

Damn. Cole says "fuck" more than once. I did not know that.

[@MemesAndStuff]

25:50 the little cough at the end is so good for some reason

[@sethstronguncut]

21:13 Lol at the dramatic sting

[@Dogue83]

Man playing this as 14 a lot of the story and themes went completly over my head.

[@rgb1996]

Same! But it sure helped my english

[@Dogue83]

@@rgb1996 media raised my english to such a level that I literally sleeping through English class in school and scored nearly perfect in the school exams with 0 study or sleep lmao.

[@rgb1996]

@@Dogue83 yep, same here. Also Xbox Live with americans helped a ton haha

[@rgb1996]

My country was too small to warrant a translation for anything besides biggest movies, so to enjoy games it was sink or swim pretty much.

[@Sigmundfries]

10:16 cutting the scene right when Phelps makes that face is just legendary 😂

[@christophertee4975]

I wish they made a sequel of this game, it was so good

[@conall9415]

4:47; "We do a lot of presuming here in the United States, Consul General. It comes with the turf." "You fuck young boys, Valdez?"

[@epj0211]

ARE YOU A MAD MAN!?

[@RadioactiveSherbet]

20:06 "Mind if I ask you some questions?!" Said with the volume and tone of "that's not a question, and I'm already having a bad day, so no funny stuff."

[@cheydinal5401]

0:27 That smile. That damned smile

[@rakusin]

5:00 Hey I can tell Anna's voice actress is hispanic and her accent is crystal clear. I'd say mex or arg. The first time she says Gabriel she sounds mex, the second time she sounds arg.

[@TwinkieCakey]

Bruh! Cole Phelps is my man lmao what a fuckin bro that character is.

[@gsczo]

Kinda crazy that this technology isn't used in any new game. Despite being super outdated, L.A. Noire still has better facial expressions than any game. I don't know how they rendered this but it looks like real people with a filter on, it doesn't look rendered and uncanny like every single game with realistic graphics. This game was so beyond its time.

[@shiniyo_pere]

TRUE

[@dimitrijetucovic1307]

Super outdated?

[@gsczo]

@@dimitrijetucovic1307 The game is over 12 years old, have you seen the graphical improvements of new games? They have gotten a lot better, yea... however even then 2023 triple A games still have stiff and fake expressions, they are still very robotic, unlike LA Noire.

[@dimitrijetucovic1307]

@@gsczo Super outdated is like 2004 ish games, this is just outdated. Still looks decent to me.

[@spencers5898]

It actually *is* real people with a filter on. They used facial capture. You can recognize actors from this game in live action productions. I once saw Roy's actor in an episode of Parks and Rec and it took me a moment to figure out why I had such an instant seething hatred for the guy.

[@alfiembutitstonymontana9964]

25:39 Jim Boy aint got nothin on this man

[@halooverlord6961]

"We do alot of presuming here in the United States Consul General, it comes with the turf" Cole's inner monologue: I'm boutta end this man's whole career

[@mattfabbs]

2:40 *Press X to Doubt*

[@TheBeird]

Man, THIS game is now ten years old? How time flies. Great game

[@tom4208]

"you keep lying to me and i'll send you and your baby to jail" has me laughing too god damn hard lmao

[@JackGriffin745]

The part where Rusty just decks Ferdinand will always be my favorite scene

[@talos111]

“I saw [person] today” “Good… how was he?” “A little pale” DAMN

[@bigmyke2008]

Gotta love how all the people being interrogated demand a lawyer and keep talking

[@Officer_James911]

Still watching 2025 lol

[@NameNick-ro6oz]

“hey… I KNOW YOU!” “noyoudont”

[@SuspectXX]

"HEY I KNOW YOU!" "...no you dont"

[@Unclejack328]

Gotta use that one 😂😂😂

[@falcon1378]

The Lip flaps for this game are crazy good man. Ahead of it’s freaking time.

[@zombieslayer02gjustzombies85]

Ya like jazz Cole? -Roy 😂

[@dhartn]

28:14 BARS

[@Hidalgoes]

calling someone a "left-wing *Leaning parasite" is so much more hilarious in how oddly discerning it is than just simply calling someone a left wing parasite lmao. underrated Phelpsism

[@Jonnyboque]

I’m gonna use that one myself

[@maxshumylo1921]

"I found two syrettes in his jacket pocket" "W o w" - Roy Earle, 1947.

[@carljohnson621]

Cole is an absolute savage. When you press doubt or lie you'll never know if he would encourage people to think harder without heavy feelings or he'll say the most insane shit you've ever heard.

[@Attam0604]

"Nice car, Roy" *smash*

[@Vishnuu_arts]

7:46 Cliff: "I ran cause I got some wacky backy in the glove compartment." Cole: "How much?"

[@TechnicalSpecter]

Is anyone gonna talk about how weird it is to see a rockstar game where you play as a genuinely good man?

[@Near_Void]

4:54 completely caught me off guard

[@johnaustin209]

"YOU F*** YOUNG BOYS VALDEZ?" 🤣

[@Massivecarcrash]

I love how Phelps just talks to everyone like they're deaf "IM DETECTIVE PHELPS MIND IF I ASK YOU A FEW QUESTIONS!!!!!!"

[@arkanjoteixeira]

"I like your ass" "You're lying, Morgan!"

[@christophermartinez4819]

The young boy line always gets me 😂😂😂

[@DarkJak]

"Hey I know you!" "No Luis, it's not me. You're mistaken."

[@BufusTurbo92]

*BLAM* "You killed a cop, and it's the electric chair" Well, not with that amount of lead in his system

[@chaosreborn5988]

Rusty was always my favorite for a reason 😂

[@roddydykes7053]

Like a Norm Macdonald as a cop