LA Noire - this made no sense to me. (Spoilers)

I stopped playing at the end of the homicide case. Why?

[spoiler] Well firstly I was disappointed that the killer wasn't really someone who had "been around" - I mean I met the guy once quickly and he seemed completely incidental, which is mostly fine I guess, but it kind of felt like a deus ex machina ending to the cases. If he had been a completely random and new character would it have made a difference? Absolutely not. I think that's poor writing imo. But secondly, and most importantly: I don't recall any of the previous suspects really saying they were innocent. A couple of them were antagonistic towards cops for other reasons (like being a pedophile), I'm okay with that; but most of them were antagonist for no reason at all. Despite the game telling me time and time again that there was a link between the cases, and that all of these people were innocent, they all acted as if they were guilty and were egging the police on to actually prove it. If someone accuses you of a crime you didn't commit you don't egg them on to prove you guilty you tell them "No it wasn't me!" and don't answer questions looking and sly and shifty. [/spoiler] Is it my imagination or was the writing just really stupid? (this is ignoring all the other silly things going on in interrorgrations)

I thought that it was a great game, except the last sequence. I didn't want to play as that other guy!

The main plots are of an episodic structure with a B-side story for continuity. That was my issue up until a certain point it just felt like random cases that was never really fully explored in detail. Still a great game though

It's not your imagination. The writing really did suck.

I stopped playing at the end of the homicide case. Why?

Is it my imagination or was the writing just really stupid? (this is ignoring all the other silly things going on in interrorgrations)

DigitalExile

It's not your imagination, L.A. Noire was pretty bad. It's a pity that the game turned out the way it did. It was an ambitious project that should have been a landmark game, but Team Bondi just couldn't pull it all together (which resulted in their demise). I'd like to see a revised version of L.A. Noire with its many problems fixed, but I don't expect that will ever happen.