these games have a lot of nostalgic love
none of them hold up
1: awful driving, but thankfully the vga version saved me from typing in commands... pretty standard drug bust cop story, nothing special, nothing TOO offensive, but definitely never would've made it through without a guide
2: thank god no driving! unfortunately, also no vga remake, so we're typing in commands and... this game is cartoonishly more racist than the first one, but only in one-off jokes (why the egyptian terrorists on the plane?) and not as much in the main plot, so that's something i guess
3: we're back to vga! and... back to driving, but somehow even worse... and now there's a satanic cult! because that definitely happened for real and wasn't a bunch of bullshit! yeah it's fiction but this is fiction that's claiming to show what real cops go through, and... well, besides the somewhat interesting beginning to pq1 and the middle of this where you actually roleplay a traffic cop, it's... just being sensational bullshit
4: and now, the infamous introduction of DARRYL GATES as the author of the story! gone are the somewhat (barely, but somewhat) light hearted days of barry bonds and the fictional city of lytton! now we're in REAL LA where REAL CRIME HAPPENS and the only defining feature of the serial killer is CROSS DRESSER
every game in this series (and, indeed, almost every game in sierra's click em up catalog) is defined by obtuse puzzle solving and punishing you for experimentation, and i would've never made it through any of these without a guide, and although i tried very briefly in pq1, i'm glad i didn't continue trying... the games just are not good enough to warrant the effort
thank god whenever i get around to king's and space quest i'll at least be living in a world of fantasy and sci-fi instead of DARRYL GATES
i do admire at least the first game's attempts at committing to Procedure, like having to walk around your car to inspect it before getting into it, or the order you do things when writing a ticket... it's just a shame all my goodwill toward that aspect faded as the games stopped caring about it and got progressively worse
none of them hold up
1: awful driving, but thankfully the vga version saved me from typing in commands... pretty standard drug bust cop story, nothing special, nothing TOO offensive, but definitely never would've made it through without a guide
2: thank god no driving! unfortunately, also no vga remake, so we're typing in commands and... this game is cartoonishly more racist than the first one, but only in one-off jokes (why the egyptian terrorists on the plane?) and not as much in the main plot, so that's something i guess
3: we're back to vga! and... back to driving, but somehow even worse... and now there's a satanic cult! because that definitely happened for real and wasn't a bunch of bullshit! yeah it's fiction but this is fiction that's claiming to show what real cops go through, and... well, besides the somewhat interesting beginning to pq1 and the middle of this where you actually roleplay a traffic cop, it's... just being sensational bullshit
4: and now, the infamous introduction of DARRYL GATES as the author of the story! gone are the somewhat (barely, but somewhat) light hearted days of barry bonds and the fictional city of lytton! now we're in REAL LA where REAL CRIME HAPPENS and the only defining feature of the serial killer is CROSS DRESSER
every game in this series (and, indeed, almost every game in sierra's click em up catalog) is defined by obtuse puzzle solving and punishing you for experimentation, and i would've never made it through any of these without a guide, and although i tried very briefly in pq1, i'm glad i didn't continue trying... the games just are not good enough to warrant the effort
thank god whenever i get around to king's and space quest i'll at least be living in a world of fantasy and sci-fi instead of DARRYL GATES
i do admire at least the first game's attempts at committing to Procedure, like having to walk around your car to inspect it before getting into it, or the order you do things when writing a ticket... it's just a shame all my goodwill toward that aspect faded as the games stopped caring about it and got progressively worse