phelps ruined his own image by cheating on his wife. shoulda just gotten that divorce and get it over with. i understand its hard because both phelps and the german woman been through alot of shit and have way more in common with eachother, but still.
@@deathrager2404 youve got your perspective blinded by modern day sensibilities. phelps trying to divorce his wife and the mother of his children to run off with a foreign harlot would have ruined his career anyway, that would have been a *major* scandal in the 40s and 50s.
for some reason this scene brought a huge emotion over me, I think its because Cole finally bends the rules as he sees that the world isnt this pretty thing he thought he could make perfect. He also was attached to his corpsmen more than he cared to admit and seeing Sheldon die like this was almost like losing his son.
He didn't want to see him like Roy and maybe others saw him as another druggie who O.Ded Depsite Sheldon's events in the game getting swept into things he couldn't handle himself Cole still saw him as a soldier who fought for the country.
Phelps sees himself modestly because he had a lot of time to reflect on how much of a coward he was in the war and comrades that gave him a lot of spite like Sheldon had more courage than he can ever admits.
Cole was this extremely calm character throughout the game but when he went off in this scene i was actually taken a back to how real it felt. Excellent writing and acting.
@@ferbthe2gadgetguy and for Courtney to being murdered by the one man he trusted throughout the madness, "the good doctor" Dr. Fontaine, it goes to show that the plywood-based corrupted Redevelopment neighborhood is THIS fucked up beyond belief.
One thing to note is that when Phelps gets to the "One more word" the part of his speech he fumbles the line a bit. Funny thing, real realistic and matches Phelps' personality, he's not used to outbursts and someone who isn't usually fumbles words when they raise their voice to a level they aren't used to using, and the adrenaline from the anger fucks with pronounciation if you're not used to it. Excellent scene, great acting.
Too bad bro. the developer (Team Bondi) has bankrupted for making this game. It takes 6 years. But fortunately, Rockstar game has helped this game by publishing it. I hope there is a Developer who can buy this franchise and continue this awesome game with Kelso as the main character
The only reason people thought LA Noire 2 would never be a thing is because everyone was confused about who exactly owned the rights to LA Noire, but now Rockstar releasing a Re-master i think LA Noire could very liekly be a thing
I can assure you it wasn't. When Cole ordered for a hospital cave to be burned out, Sheldon took his chance and shot Phelps in the back. Kelso ordered Sheldon to SAVE Phelps.
Cole is remorseful for all the shit he got his guys into. He was a completely different person after WW2 and he probably doesn't even blame Sheldon for taking that shot at him.
With this scene you realize how strong the sense of justice is for Phelps, Courtney literally shot him in the back but he's still defending him because he knows he is just a victim in this history. It's unclear if Phelps moved on and forgave Courtney for what he did but now you know it's not the death of his ex comrade who angers him but why he died.
Phelps had no reason to speak so highly of Courtney, so whether he forgave him or not, or if he ever really understood the grievances of his men, is shown here to be beside the point. Despite everything, the guys he served with were his brothers, likely the closest he'd ever been with anyone. The war ended, his men hated him & he moved to the suburbs & into a whole new life. very nuanced portrayal
"You know, Phelps - you're not the worst asshole going round." I always loved that line. Not only is it a great line for the character, showing begrudging respect, it's also a great audience-surrogate line. I, at least, was thinking much the same way after that outburst; "Ay, Phelps isn't a complete dickhead after all."
For me it's kinda like in Red Dead Redemption where Irish tells Marston "you're an angry and feck-ugly man, but you're not a bad one." One of the few halfway-nice things anyone ever says to John during the whole game.
That line coming from Herchel comes from the fact that he was a Marine himself, having served in the battle of Belleau Wood during WWI. It's not begrudging respect, it actually is respect. Different war, same creed: Semper Fidelis.
Right? I remember thinking even at the time "The facial animation is so good yet I've seen better character models in PS2 games" Personally I think it just adds to this game's charm... you can really tell they went all in on the mocap but couldn't really afford the budget or time to polish the character models to the point of other games coming out at the time. Same with the clunky driving and boring shooting mechanics - the point of the game isn't supposed to be about shooting bad guys and getting into high-speed chases... If you're doing those things as a detective, then you've probably already screwed something up. La Noire is one of the only games where instead of going "ugh just let me shoot something" in the dialogue scenes, you go "ugh I just wanna yell at these guys" in the shooting scenes.
@@trainknut also, high staff turnover rates due to the poor working conditions at team bondi made it difficult to make progress on the game. it’s hard to properly animate all these character models when there’s constantly people leaving or just joining and having to get caught up on everything. there’s a video on here called “la noire- what happened?” that does a much better job of explaining everything than i can lol
@@Wh40kFinatic well at least I would say it’s exactly what’s happened after. Cuz Fontaine was murdered by Ira, Monroe I don’t really know what happened with him but I guess he got busted as like as Benson and the only once’s who was left are Chief and Mayor
One thing I've noticed is that this is the only time I can think of where Cole sweared. Seriously, I don't think I've ever heard him drop the f-bomb in any other part of the game, being that he was always trying to be the proper and upstanding cop. Makes it all the more serious.
Well yeah right that was LA Noire's whole gimmick though. Didn't they like overlay live action facial expressions over character models or something like that?
@@Solarstar10 LMFAO, This is from a game made around 2008 and it has more realistic facial expression than MOST triple A games out now, only one to rival this type of realism is Rockstar themselves and maybe some others.
Not really. La Noire pioneered the use of motion capture in video games, but all modern games use that technology now. It is easier for people to act out a scene rather than hand animating everything. This is first generation stuff.
@@EOtekk LA Noire didn't pioneer the use of motion capture in video games. Games have been using motion capture since the PS2 era. And no motion capture is more expensive than animating movement without it. You don't know what you're talking about
@@bern9642 Motion capture of the face, not body movement. LA Noire was the first video game to ever use facial capture. And no, it is not more expensive than animating, or at least it no longer is as of now. Facial animations are complicated and take more labor hours to do than anything else. Every large title game since then has converted to MotionScan because it is significantly easier to integrate over frame by frame animations of every mouth, tongue, eye, nose, and skin movement for every syllabal a character speaks.
@@EOtekk it's not easier or cheaper. 😂. First motionscan (not just motionscan, but also other techniques) is a proprietary technology. You need to use proprietary software and the proprietary hardware. All of which are expensive. There is licensing and all that. It's not a 1 time purchase. Then you have to do detailed facial scans of all the actors. Then process that data and so on. You have to work with a huge amount of data. You need a huge amount of motion capture. A huge amount. Then it's not compatible with traditional animation work, that is you can't edit scans like you would a normal 3D scan. Very few games use facial motion capture and it's almost exclusively for AAA games. Using a 3D then animating that is cheaper and faster. This answer on quora deals with it well. www.quora.com/Why-havent-new-games-used-the-L-A-Noire-facial-animation-method-Also-what-really-is-the-method-I-was-never-sure-how-they-made-it-look-that-good?top_ans=211819404
Phelps rarely cursed but he was so sick of the corruption in the LAPD and the disrespect to Courtney who served his country and got tricked into being a fall guy for a bigger conspiracy.
1:15 I love how you can see Roy struggling to keep up his act of confidence. He even struggles to turn his back when he starts losing face. It's the soup can incident all over again.
While Roy tries to play it cool, you can tell that Phelps got to him. Roy has a habit of smiling awkwardly when he's shaken. You first see it in Refer Madness when Phelps opens a can and something jumps out (think those joke cans of peanuts where a spring loaded plastic snake pops out when you unscrew the lid). Roy pokes fun at Phelps for "jumping like a girl" but the camera hangs on him for a moment and you can tell it startled him too.
They used some kind of unique mo-cap technology to film actors' faces from every angle, turn them into 3D models and paste the video on. Impressive stuff.
I beat the game 3 times yet I still come back from time to time to scenes like this. Acting and dialogue here is just superb and honestly when I'm bored with the story in most games I'm really bored but if I feel engaged like in L.A. Noire I want more and can watch many scenes repeatedly. I just love how I still feel satisfied when Cole told off Roy with such a convincing passion ("finally lost it") about the whole crooked circle, it's so extremely rewatchable and memorable it never gets old. And Roy still has that smuggness to say "I've got better things to do than argue the rub with you" because he knows he will get away with it. Engaging stuff this and it's really the type of game I want to play more tbh so I won't be bored with the storylines so much.
Courtney Sheldon, at the end, was just a man who wanted to help his comrades to have a better life, yet he was misguided about it. On the other hand, he was also a man who would impulsively do something and then beg for others to clean up his messes.
I know the face scan/animation turned into a bit of a meme but I found them so immersive. I felt like they were real people talking. Bring it back Rockstar!
It did? I finally got to playing LA Noire after I beat RDR2 (admiteddly not at the best graphics, but still with a GTX 1650 running it), and the face animations in LA Noire blowed me away much more than RDR2's. Maybe because this time we really had to pay attention to it, but hey.
The most impressive part of this game is the actors delivering amazing performances while being in that awkward barber chair and 100s of cameras surrounding them.
I think Cole’s journey though Okinawa plus knowing how brave and loyal Courtney was to Cole was remarkable even though Courtney sometimes gets mixed in with the wrong crowds who are taking advantage of him throughout the storyline. Whatever made Cole Phelps a bad lieutenant during the war made him an great officer/detective in LA Noire. LA Noire is a masterpiece and I really admire it and love it!
I wonder how Aaron Staton felt after saying this, behind the scenes 1:01. I've never seen Cole lose it all like that, all through the game. O_O He seemed to be gentile, and very much of a polite, critical-thinker. He went rant-style in this scene.
Pretty amazing that a game from 2011 had such emotive and well-animated facial expressions. The next closest game candidate for "best facial expressions" for me would be The WItcher 3, and that came out way further in 2015. Amazing! :O
Terrific performances in this game and the facial capture stuff, whilst a little bit spooky looking at times, is still very impressive. Wonder why it's not implemented more in games.
"You say one more word about him and I will blow your #$+&ING HEAD OFF!!" Jesus Christ, Phelps! That got extremely hostile really fast. I know it was justified, but the poor guy sounded like he was going insane! Kinda makes you feel sad for him honestly
@@Gage_Brumley true, he was a combat veteran, he was in the Marines and likely stuck in Iwo Jima or worse Okinawa, meaning he had to see some fucked up stuff down there! The guy has been through a lot in both of his careers, and clearly he's just doing all of this for the right reasons. And then he has to deal with both the criminals, but also his own allies who are both complete jerks to him. And then comes along this red coat over here, constantly being sarcastic at the worst of times, Cole doesn't really care too much up until right now where he finds a buddy of his from the American Invasion of Japan... Laying there on the ground with bullet wounds in his body. And what does this red coat do? He accused the poor guy of being a drug trafficker, and a traitor. Honestly I would've cracked him aswell but still Phelps pulls a gun on him and starts just losing it! So I kinda feel bad for the guy what can I say?
This scene shows his tenacity and the fact that he never wanted fame, as people would like to believe. He just wanted to get the job done as efficiently as possible
“I’ve got better things to do than to argue the rub with you”-Roy…I love how confident/condescending he said this and as he’s turning away you can see the I smart ass smile drop and the I just shut my pants face pole it’s head out
This game has the best story ever written for a videogame, hands down. I love and hate Phelps, and I throughly enjoyed getting to know him and his backstory. Jack also serves as a perfect mirror for Phelps. Truly wonderful, the two of them.
Phelps is tired of Roys shit, especially after he backstabbed him and ruined his image
@LucidXguonder Phelps shouldn't have cheated on his wife though.
@@bloodstone1992 I agree he shouldn’t have cheated, but Roy only ratted on him to shift the heat from Ad Vice’s corruption.
phelps ruined his own image by cheating on his wife. shoulda just gotten that divorce and get it over with. i understand its hard because both phelps and the german woman been through alot of shit and have way more in common with eachother, but still.
When I found out about Cole losing his position I was sure Roy was behind this
And I was right
@@deathrager2404 youve got your perspective blinded by modern day sensibilities. phelps trying to divorce his wife and the mother of his children to run off with a foreign harlot would have ruined his career anyway, that would have been a *major* scandal in the 40s and 50s.
My favorite scene in the game.
Shut your FUCKING mouth.
@@SolidSonicTH Hey Detective! can we back it up a notch.
There’s a time to talk and a time to shut up, now is the time to be quiet son.
Everyone's favorite scene!
Same here brother :')
for some reason this scene brought a huge emotion over me, I think its because Cole finally bends the rules as he sees that the world isnt this pretty thing he thought he could make perfect. He also was attached to his corpsmen more than he cared to admit and seeing Sheldon die like this was almost like losing his son.
He didn't want to see him like Roy and maybe others saw him as another druggie who O.Ded Depsite Sheldon's events in the game getting swept into things he couldn't handle himself Cole still saw him as a soldier who fought for the country.
Phelps sees himself modestly because he had a lot of time to reflect on how much of a coward he was in the war and comrades that gave him a lot of spite like Sheldon had more courage than he can ever admits.
It’s how war is those guys are brothers and they spend more time with each other then they do their own families
Exactly
If you release something like this in India, then they would bark at you for "ruining their image"
Preach
Cole was this extremely calm character throughout the game but when he went off in this scene i was actually taken a back to how real it felt. Excellent writing and acting.
Except when you're "Bad cop"
It does feel like a proper outburst!
Calm? Lol he freaks out at pretty much everyone he interrogates.
@@TheIrland09 depends on what options you choose
@@MariusBoss11458 Cole would never even joke about shooting someones head off
His anger is warranted
His last vice case he saw 4 of his fellow corpsmen get killed by gangsters over stolen morphine
Death by Konami marines*
Not only that but one of his own corpsmen was almost killed with a bus full of civilians.
@@ferbthe2gadgetguy and for Courtney to being murdered by the one man he trusted throughout the madness, "the good doctor" Dr. Fontaine, it goes to show that the plywood-based corrupted Redevelopment neighborhood is THIS fucked up beyond belief.
plus he feels guilty for everything that happened in Japan
A corpsman is a marine medic who is actually navy. The rest of those soldiers would just be marines
Can’t help but be amused at the beat cop’s reaction to Phelps pulling his gun out. He was like “Shit I ain’t being paid enough to deal with this.”
Nice Mafia 2 Reference.
wouldn't fire anyway unless the hammer was pulled back.
@@TannyWanny it's a fucking 1911, it's double action.
@@thallan The original 1911 was single action only. Most still are today, the hell are you talking about?
@@Skulgar321 wait really? Fuck, I even did some light research on this once, I could've sworn that the 1911 was double action.
One thing to note is that when Phelps gets to the "One more word" the part of his speech he fumbles the line a bit. Funny thing, real realistic and matches Phelps' personality, he's not used to outbursts and someone who isn't usually fumbles words when they raise their voice to a level they aren't used to using, and the adrenaline from the anger fucks with pronounciation if you're not used to it. Excellent scene, great acting.
"Mone more word"
@@thatboyakira4202 lol
@@bloodyidit4506 that's it, right?
@@thatboyakira4202 yep
@@bloodyidit4506 ok thx
Morphine- Ad Vice
Throat slit- Homicide
Neither of two explain why Arson is there
Mike O'Moran
The killer was a RUclipsr seeing how easy a hot knife could go through things.
You obviously missed the fire coming from that sick roast of Roy Earle.
@@ColtsPacers1 lmao
The suburban redevelopment fund, idiot
TjMANiAC789 Tokegang
No u
If theres an LA NOIRE 2 in the 70's, I hope you finally get to knock off roy
Shaun Zafar I think Roy will likely be killed before 1970's. And Team Bondi, the developed of LA Noire is defunct, so LA Noire 2 will never be a thing
Too bad bro. the developer (Team Bondi) has bankrupted for making this game. It takes 6 years. But fortunately, Rockstar game has helped this game by publishing it. I hope there is a Developer who can buy this franchise and continue this awesome game with Kelso as the main character
The only reason people thought LA Noire 2 would never be a thing is because everyone was confused about who exactly owned the rights to LA Noire, but now Rockstar releasing a Re-master i think LA Noire could very liekly be a thing
@@thorbjrnmadsen4984 Rockstar owns the IP so there is still hope for a sequel
@@thorbjrnmadsen4984 hey fuck you.
Considering that Sheldon is the one who shot Phelps and got him sent home with a Purple Heart, Roy really must have struck a nerve.
actually it was Kelso who shot him
I can assure you it wasn't. When Cole ordered for a hospital cave to be burned out, Sheldon took his chance and shot Phelps in the back. Kelso ordered Sheldon to SAVE Phelps.
@@andrewthai9486 it was sheldon. i just finished the game for millionth time last week.
@@SirSpinalColumn cap
Cole is remorseful for all the shit he got his guys into. He was a completely different person after WW2 and he probably doesn't even blame Sheldon for taking that shot at him.
I'm going to take a wild guess and say that the 'certain crooked cop' is Roy
yeah, he's on the suburban redevelopment fund payout list
Plankton: CORRECT!
Yep and out of all of the bastards on the fund, hes the last crumbling tower still standing, least untill Peterson gets to him.
Nah, probably not.
Exactly, Roy is an example of a corruption
With this scene you realize how strong the sense of justice is for Phelps, Courtney literally shot him in the back but he's still defending him because he knows he is just a victim in this history.
It's unclear if Phelps moved on and forgave Courtney for what he did but now you know it's not the death of his ex comrade who angers him but why he died.
to be fair, Phelps deserved to be shot by Courtney and think he knew that.
Phelps had no reason to speak so highly of Courtney, so whether he forgave him or not, or if he ever really understood the grievances of his men, is shown here to be beside the point. Despite everything, the guys he served with were his brothers, likely the closest he'd ever been with anyone. The war ended, his men hated him & he moved to the suburbs & into a whole new life. very nuanced portrayal
Phelps hates himself. He probably knew he had that bullet coming.
"You know, Phelps - you're not the worst asshole going round."
I always loved that line. Not only is it a great line for the character, showing begrudging respect, it's also a great audience-surrogate line. I, at least, was thinking much the same way after that outburst; "Ay, Phelps isn't a complete dickhead after all."
For me it's kinda like in Red Dead Redemption where Irish tells Marston "you're an angry and feck-ugly man, but you're not a bad one." One of the few halfway-nice things anyone ever says to John during the whole game.
That line coming from Herchel comes from the fact that he was a Marine himself, having served in the battle of Belleau Wood during WWI. It's not begrudging respect, it actually is respect. Different war, same creed: Semper Fidelis.
Fr whoever wrote the game deserves props, so much character building
that's because Biggs is a WW1 marine vet himself and seeing Phelps stand up for his fellow marine made him respect him.
@@MrEvan312ay you're a legend for remembering that line after 12 years
His partner is Joshua Graham in Fallout: New Vegas. Knew I recognised his iconic voice.
Are you familiar with bird law?
goddamn, I didnt even notice until I listened to his voice line again. He sounds so different here, but its definitely him
wait what? thats awesome
WE CAN'T EXPECT GOD TO DO ALL THE WORK
He is also the Harbinger from Mass Effect
The mocap is still beyond its era, but the models are so dated. What a contrast!
Right?
I remember thinking even at the time "The facial animation is so good yet I've seen better character models in PS2 games"
Personally I think it just adds to this game's charm... you can really tell they went all in on the mocap but couldn't really afford the budget or time to polish the character models to the point of other games coming out at the time.
Same with the clunky driving and boring shooting mechanics - the point of the game isn't supposed to be about shooting bad guys and getting into high-speed chases... If you're doing those things as a detective, then you've probably already screwed something up.
La Noire is one of the only games where instead of going "ugh just let me shoot something" in the dialogue scenes, you go "ugh I just wanna yell at these guys" in the shooting scenes.
@@trainknut also, high staff turnover rates due to the poor working conditions at team bondi made it difficult to make progress on the game. it’s hard to properly animate all these character models when there’s constantly people leaving or just joining and having to get caught up on everything. there’s a video on here called “la noire- what happened?” that does a much better job of explaining everything than i can lol
@@j.ourneyWhy do you have red eyes, ma'am?
@@j.ourneyAre those real eyes, ma'am?
This is the best scene in this game.
By far. It's amazing. Great acting.
That zoom into Phelps face as he goes off is one of the most impressive displays of facial animation I've seen in gaming history.
0:33
This, and the scene in WW2 where he shouts ‘Stop, screaming!’ and his voice cracks are so good. He very rarely gets angry and it makes it so better.
I like that herschel becoming more and more close to phelps as they both started in the kind of a wrong foot.
I like how with the exception of Roy Earle, Cole warmed up to and became good friends with all his desk partners
This was justified. Anger issues, my ass.
I agree Cole. This was very justified
@ashy How dare you question my authority!
How can I help detective?
The saddest part is Roy got away with his crimes
So did the Chief and Mayor. Made off with all that money.
Noires man
@@Wh40kFinatic well at least I would say it’s exactly what’s happened after. Cuz Fontaine was murdered by Ira, Monroe I don’t really know what happened with him but I guess he got busted as like as Benson and the only once’s who was left are Chief and Mayor
Because The Chief and The Mayor were able to make a deal with Petersen by securing him as the new DA in exchange for keeping their corruption a secret
I mean they were forced to claim that his fall from grace was all a fraud.
One thing I've noticed is that this is the only time I can think of where Cole sweared. Seriously, I don't think I've ever heard him drop the f-bomb in any other part of the game, being that he was always trying to be the proper and upstanding cop. Makes it all the more serious.
"You fuck young boys, Valdez?" -Cole Phelps, Badge 1247
*ARE YOU A MADMAN*
"You better give me something or I'll break your fucking jaw, Hopgood."
You are such a weak fucking sister, Jacob!
Cole always sweared in this game tho
“Since when does a bag man work a case?” Underrated line
For real. That cut HARD.
For real. That cut HARD.
the facial expressions rival modern AAA games
Well yeah right that was LA Noire's whole gimmick though. Didn't they like overlay live action facial expressions over character models or something like that?
@@coleharrison3171 yeah they had advanced meshes tied to motion captured dots on the actors faces
If by rival, you mean look more comically awkward and dated, then sure.
@@Solarstar10 youre speaking out your ass. Its super realisitic
@@Solarstar10 LMFAO, This is from a game made around 2008 and it has more realistic facial expression than MOST triple A games out now, only one to rival this type of realism is Rockstar themselves and maybe some others.
Oh god dammit. I finished the game missing one news paper and it happened to be this one.
I had the same ass problem 🤣
You know he's very serious when he swears
*twice*
Facial animations are still leagues ahead of the shit we have today.
A lot of the time they head into weird, uncanny valley territory though. Cut-scenes are also better animated than the rest of the game.
Not really. La Noire pioneered the use of motion capture in video games, but all modern games use that technology now. It is easier for people to act out a scene rather than hand animating everything. This is first generation stuff.
@@EOtekk LA Noire didn't pioneer the use of motion capture in video games. Games have been using motion capture since the PS2 era.
And no motion capture is more expensive than animating movement without it. You don't know what you're talking about
@@bern9642 Motion capture of the face, not body movement. LA Noire was the first video game to ever use facial capture.
And no, it is not more expensive than animating, or at least it no longer is as of now. Facial animations are complicated and take more labor hours to do than anything else. Every large title game since then has converted to MotionScan because it is significantly easier to integrate over frame by frame animations of every mouth, tongue, eye, nose, and skin movement for every syllabal a character speaks.
@@EOtekk it's not easier or cheaper. 😂.
First motionscan (not just motionscan, but also other techniques) is a proprietary technology. You need to use proprietary software and the proprietary hardware. All of which are expensive. There is licensing and all that. It's not a 1 time purchase.
Then you have to do detailed facial scans of all the actors. Then process that data and so on. You have to work with a huge amount of data. You need a huge amount of motion capture. A huge amount.
Then it's not compatible with traditional animation work, that is you can't edit scans like you would a normal 3D scan.
Very few games use facial motion capture and it's almost exclusively for AAA games.
Using a 3D then animating that is cheaper and faster.
This answer on quora deals with it well.
www.quora.com/Why-havent-new-games-used-the-L-A-Noire-facial-animation-method-Also-what-really-is-the-method-I-was-never-sure-how-they-made-it-look-that-good?top_ans=211819404
Holy shit the acting in this game is so good though.
I wonder how Sheldon would feel about this scene
I think that despite their differences, he would be proud, even encouraging his former superior to stop the SRF
Even Cole dropped an F-bomb in this scene.
He Dropped The F-Bomb In The Traffic Case "The Fallen Idol"
Cole always swore
Spikey Senju not really
"You fuck young boys, Valdez?"
"ARE YOU A MADMAN?"
Phelps anger is totally justified but it’s Biggs who I appreciate the most here
My god that was an excellent delivery, felt so real
Ah, this brutal and sad scene gives me such warm memories :')
Biggs is my favorite in this. Also, welcome to the real world Earle. Bout time you woke up.
"you said one more about him, I WILL BLOW YOUR FUCKING HEAD OFF"-Cole Phelps 1920-1947
He died way to young
I’ll still never get over how good the face expressions and animations are in this game
Had to be. One of the main game mechanics was reading facial expressions to determine how to interrogate suspects.
The textures/models may look a little dated but the facial expressions/movements are still some of the best ever in a video game
Phelps rarely cursed but he was so sick of the corruption in the LAPD and the disrespect to Courtney who served his country and got tricked into being a fall guy for a bigger conspiracy.
This game was just so good and SO underrated.
My favourite scene with Roy and Cole.
Second favourite?
'Thank God I didn't park there'
“I have anger issues (not really, my reaction was totally justified)” is my motto
you gotta admit, the animations have aged like wine
*”can you tell me about the suburban redevelopment fund”*
The way he says PICNIC is so satisfying
"Now is the time to be quiet son." Thank you Biggs! Best partner in the game.
1:15
I love how you can see Roy struggling to keep up his act of confidence. He even struggles to turn his back when he starts losing face. It's the soup can incident all over again.
While Roy tries to play it cool, you can tell that Phelps got to him.
Roy has a habit of smiling awkwardly when he's shaken. You first see it in Refer Madness when Phelps opens a can and something jumps out (think those joke cans of peanuts where a spring loaded plastic snake pops out when you unscrew the lid). Roy pokes fun at Phelps for "jumping like a girl" but the camera hangs on him for a moment and you can tell it startled him too.
graphics are not the best but they surely nailed the facial expressions
They used some kind of unique mo-cap technology to film actors' faces from every angle, turn them into 3D models and paste the video on. Impressive stuff.
at the time it was top-notch
I beat the game 3 times yet I still come back from time to time to scenes like this. Acting and dialogue here is just superb and honestly when I'm bored with the story in most games I'm really bored but if I feel engaged like in L.A. Noire I want more and can watch many scenes repeatedly. I just love how I still feel satisfied when Cole told off Roy with such a convincing passion ("finally lost it") about the whole crooked circle, it's so extremely rewatchable and memorable it never gets old. And Roy still has that smuggness to say "I've got better things to do than argue the rub with you" because he knows he will get away with it. Engaging stuff this and it's really the type of game I want to play more tbh so I won't be bored with the storylines so much.
Courtney Sheldon, at the end, was just a man who wanted to help his comrades to have a better life, yet he was misguided about it. On the other hand, he was also a man who would impulsively do something and then beg for others to clean up his messes.
I know the face scan/animation turned into a bit of a meme but I found them so immersive. I felt like they were real people talking. Bring it back Rockstar!
It did? I finally got to playing LA Noire after I beat RDR2 (admiteddly not at the best graphics, but still with a GTX 1650 running it), and the face animations in LA Noire blowed me away much more than RDR2's.
Maybe because this time we really had to pay attention to it, but hey.
honestly that's literary my attitude when I feel like someone accuses me of the wrong thing
How many fan fics are just karma catching up with Earle...?
Maybe too many to even keep track of them
Moemura
The most impressive part of this game is the actors delivering amazing performances while being in that awkward barber chair and 100s of cameras surrounding them.
I think Cole’s journey though Okinawa plus knowing how brave and loyal Courtney was to Cole was remarkable even though Courtney sometimes gets mixed in with the wrong crowds who are taking advantage of him throughout the storyline. Whatever made Cole Phelps a bad lieutenant during the war made him an great officer/detective in LA Noire. LA Noire is a masterpiece and I really admire it and love it!
I wonder how Aaron Staton felt after
saying this, behind the scenes 1:01. I've never seen
Cole lose it all like that, all through the game. O_O He
seemed to be gentile, and very much of a polite, critical-thinker.
He went rant-style in this scene.
he tells a jewish person they're going to the gas chambers in the tutorial lol
He's usually stern but fair.
The thing is Roy was really crossing the line more than he ever was before so Cole finally decided to stop tolerating it.
@Sanctus Paulus I think California still has the gas chamber.
@@alexs5744 Lmao no they call it hotboxing there
1:01
The acting in this game is downright phenomenal. Love Cole Phelps' actor
The mouth movement is so good, gawd damn
Me:Can I use the bathroom
Teacher: 0:16
LOL
It be like that
man the acting is legendary, how much emotion in that lines
Picnic
1:01 my favourite part
1:03 the anger is so strong his head jitters for a sec
“There’s a time to talk, and a time to shut up.”
Dem footsteps are so satasfying
oh that's the 'picnic' people keep talking about 0:40
That’s is a good one
For the game being as old as it is the face tracking is phenomenal
This scene goes from 0 to 100 immediately and it works so well
Pretty amazing that a game from 2011 had such emotive and well-animated facial expressions.
The next closest game candidate for "best facial expressions" for me would be The WItcher 3, and that came out way further in 2015.
Amazing! :O
This game was so damn good
Without doubt this is one of the best scenes made for video games ever.
especially in terms of acting
Whoever voiced Cole did an amazing job
Terrific performances in this game and the facial capture stuff, whilst a little bit spooky looking at times, is still very impressive. Wonder why it's not implemented more in games.
my most favorite moment =)
"You say one more word about him and I will blow your #$+&ING HEAD OFF!!" Jesus Christ, Phelps! That got extremely hostile really fast. I know it was justified, but the poor guy sounded like he was going insane! Kinda makes you feel sad for him honestly
This was just the straw that broke Cole's back
@@Gage_Brumley true, he was a combat veteran, he was in the Marines and likely stuck in Iwo Jima or worse Okinawa, meaning he had to see some fucked up stuff down there!
The guy has been through a lot in both of his careers, and clearly he's just doing all of this for the right reasons.
And then he has to deal with both the criminals, but also his own allies who are both complete jerks to him.
And then comes along this red coat over here, constantly being sarcastic at the worst of times, Cole doesn't really care too much up until right now where he finds a buddy of his from the American Invasion of Japan... Laying there on the ground with bullet wounds in his body.
And what does this red coat do? He accused the poor guy of being a drug trafficker, and a traitor. Honestly I would've cracked him aswell but still Phelps pulls a gun on him and starts just losing it! So I kinda feel bad for the guy what can I say?
*"You say one more word about him and I will blow your f/cking head off!"*
*HOW has this NOT become a meme yet??*
1:01
The fact that Rockstar never made a sequel for this masterpiece is more criminal than GTA.
The Suburban Redevelopment fund is still going on to this day
9 years ago, still the best animated facial movements.
I never wanted to shoot Roy Earle so badly after this. I mean, I tried!!
This scene shows his tenacity and the fact that he never wanted fame, as people would like to believe. He just wanted to get the job done as efficiently as possible
Roy doesn’t even deny being a part of the Suburban Redevelopment Fund lmao
“I’ve got better things to do than to argue the rub with you”-Roy…I love how confident/condescending he said this and as he’s turning away you can see the I smart ass smile drop and the I just shut my pants face pole it’s head out
The best scene/cutscene in this game…
The faces are still well done to this day even better than rdr 2 fave tracking
Oh I need to start playing this game
This was my favorite scene. Amazing performance from Aaron.
It's a powerful scene. So much character
Some of the best animation and it's like 15 years old
dang, the facial movement is really good
god damn Ive seen very little of this game but that performance was amazing
Favorite moment is when Herschel teaches the rookie an important lesson on when to talk.
I love that Hershel backed the officer away, it shows how their relationship has grown and how Hershel is good guy.
I thought he had anger issues, but then I realized his reaction was totally justified.
The best acting for video games
Probably the best acting in a videogame
Yo that’s some good ass voice acting
The sudden “Shut your FUCKING mouth” killed me
This game has the best story ever written for a videogame, hands down. I love and hate Phelps, and I throughly enjoyed getting to know him and his backstory.
Jack also serves as a perfect mirror for Phelps. Truly wonderful, the two of them.
Man he really went for it in this scene