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Are There Any REAL Detective Games?
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Rats. I was going to post this with box art and everything. Police Quest 2 was one of my favorite games as a young'un.
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Those games are VERY good. It (Dagger of Amon Ra) actually requires you to figure out who killed the people in the game. The coroner asks you questions to solidify the case against the murderer. It's the only game where having a notebook to write down clues helps.
Edit: shit, just noticed we were on page 2, and beat'd.
Looking it up, the one that I was thinking of was completely different. The one I played was the Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes, and there's apparently a second one as well. They seem to be the kind of thing that the OP is looking for, plenty of investigation and tracking down acquaintances and such.
This. I think I still have all 4 discs.
Someone really should take another shot at a Blade Runner adventure game w/ RPG elements.
Deus Ex has a fair amount of investigating, actually. Trying to figure out the background of UNATCO, the motivations of the NSF, etc etc. There is a lot of reading and piecing things together involved.
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The Last Express is on Gametap, FWIW. And it's pretty awesome.
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The Case of the Serrated Scalpel
Was the first and something about a Rose was the second. They looked not unlike LucasArts games but I think the graphics of them held up better than some of the older games. There is a lot of "interviewing" of witnesses and friends, a few point-and-click puzzles but I love Sherlock Holmes so I enjoyed the games.
It is a point and click adventure game. It was my first point and click in years and I really, really enjoyed it. The puzzles can be really difficult (fuck the lock picking puzzle) but they tend not to be mind bogglingly illogical.
The story, though, was pretty interesting, following all the clues was intriguing, and the game manages to be really, really creepy at times.
But still, it's good. The story is very interesting, though I must admit I never did complete it. I hear it has an absolutely retarded cliffhanger, so I haven't gone back to it. They just announced the sequel a few weeks back, however, so I should play through it one of these days. It's definitely one of the better point and click games of recent years.
Blade Runner.
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It is completely awesome.
Though I wish I'd found out about gametap before I bought a CD copy.
I have no regrets.
Okay you're right, it's completely awesome. I concur.
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You want a game where you're given almost no clues, and only the knowledge that you're in a situation you want to end? There are few (if any) that do this better than "Myst" (2-Uru only, Myst 1 ... not really) and games of that genre.
It generally doesn't involve interrogation or spotting inconsistencies in testimonies like you'd expect a "Detective" game to be like, (primarily because there's no other "people" to talk to for the most part) but DAYUM it covers the "investigation" tack perfectly.
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