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My Thoughts on LA Noire [PC Version]

Why is everyone so short?  [Originally written on 27th June 2020] I turned to this game because I wanted a change, a departure from action packed, shoot-em-ups like Far Cry 4 or sport heavy games like FIFA. I knew you had to solve cases in this LA Noire, and you would have to actually employ your mental abilities for this, but I had no idea I would have so much control over the investigations. It’s 1947, and you play a detective named Cole Phelps who’s working in the LAPD. The game felt simple enough at first. Simple, but amazing, because I realized I’ll have to judge the truthfulness of suspects and witnesses from their facial expressions. I wondered if artificial NPCs who are nothing but lines of code, would be able to communicate enough information from their faces for me to establish the validity of their accounts, but when Cole Phelps’s interrogation actually began, I was amazed at how effective the NPCs’ facial expressions were, almost like an actual human was sitting t...