I feel like Colombo has the upper hand in both sides (criminal/detective). Monk is very socially inept and weak-minded so he wouldn't be able to handle Colombo's badgering for very long. Meanwhile Colombo's schlubby nature and cool-headedness would probably let him get away with just gas-lighting Monk over any minor detail. Though I will admit most of Monk's villains are just liars who bully the frick out of him so maybe he'll still pull through.
One of the missions literally has you picking between a widower father and a career criminal Irishman pedophile (ps everyone's happy when you choose the Irishman.)
>Persona 4
There's a mystery in the plot but everything is force-fed to you through exposition, you don't do any detecting or solving
But it was cool that there were a couple of dialogues you had to have the right answer for
The first one is by far the best one. The origional telltale trilogy is good, dont get the butchered remakes but those homosexuals skunk ape. The vr one is kind of poopoo
Robert Culp isn't in the military school episode, that's Patrick McGoohan, who also played multiple killers. Culp played the security guy, the subliminal advertising guy and the football team manager.
It's a good episode, but it feels like Columbo doesn't really solve the crime which I'm not too fond of. Pleasance's life seems like it just goes to such shit that he just turns himself in because he has nothing with his wine collection ruined and his secretary blackmailing him. I think I like A Friend in Deed, although I find the commissioner's plan a bit silly, and By Dawn's Early Light, because McGoohan is so good in it, the most.
>but it feels like Columbo doesn't really solve the crime which I'm not too fond of.
There's a fair amount of those
The evidence he finds in a bunch of episodes would barely get an arrest let alone a conviction if not for the criminal giving themselves up.
When I think of that episode I just think of how this Irish Unionist revolutionary calls Derry "Londonderry". Someone with that attitude would never call it Londonderry.
The BEST episode is the episode with the twins
The Columbo Formular is: you know who the murderer is right from the beginning
It’s just about columbo solving the case
But in the case with the twins you kinda know because it could have been either one of them and they are blaming each other
As if that episode wasn’t great enough it contains an innocent house keeper maid who is run into madness by Columbo leavening his cigar ash everywhere and eventually breaking her tv set
I played that voxel looking game, it's pretty good for the first 6-8 hours while you figure the many ways to figure how to find and catch bad guys, after that you start gaming the system
Disco Elysium
Return of the Obra Dinn
Kona
Fallout 4 DLC Far Harbor
Judgment
Lost Judgment
Every Danganronpa
The Painscreek Killings
Pentiment
Thimbleweed Park
That one old uppity b***h was completely right in screaming at Columbo for leaving cigar ash everywhere on the carpet. I expect that from a JRPG protag barging into an npc's house
Deadly Premonition if you haven't played it before. Never played anything like it since that has the level of charm that is has. It helps if you enjoyed Twin Peaks but it's not essential.
It counts if "you play as an extremely shitty detective" counts. The moment York reads Becky's note, it should become obvious the killer is someone important in the town, which leaves something along the lines of 2 suspects. And that's just one example.
Giga-based Matlock enjoyer
Sherlock Holmesgays who like Lawyer shows as well should watch the BBC adaptations of Rumpole of the Bailey; they're around on youtube and are quite good
in every single fricking european country gender is used for objects and that's it. english is quite literally the only language out there that built this moronic idea of people having genders you can use to describe yourself as if you want to try and override your sex at birth
I like Tommy Lee Jones but I always felt like he was miscast in this. I feel like all his most memorable roles he plays someone stolid or thoughtful, him being so quippy in this has always felt weird.
I think of him in No Country for Old Men whenever I think of him, and then after that I think of Men in Black and The Sunset Limited. The Fugitive's probably fourth behind them, but his character and demeanor is so much different in that movie from the other 3. Even with Men in Black being a lighthearted movie he plays a more dry and serious character.
oh yeah, Men in Black, I could see that. No Country is mostly memorable for Chigurh but I guess. Never heard of Sunset Limited but I see it's written by Cormac McCarthy, is it good?
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Yeah, I enjoyed it, Tommy Lee Jones directed it too so that's kind of interesting to see, but it's worth watching anyway setting that aside.
Poirot is an interesting character with his autism but I never liked the "suddenly every suspect is in a room and they're all sitting there ready to get owned by the detective" trope which all his episodes end with.
>I’m sorry to intrude on your private time Mr. Janitor >I know you’re busy so I won’t take up too much of your time >So this has been puzzling me for some time >Vidya Butts Anon’s body was found dead in a pruned vidya butts thread >During that time, you claim to have been on paid leave and were visiting a Heterosexual White Club on that night >That was your alibi, and it seemed off >I noticed a few details that just don’t add up >The Heterosexual Club is a very expensive and luxurious place to be, and very exclusive, Mr. Janitor >You need at least six figures and to not be a total fricking loser who spends all day on Ganker deleting threads, and also to also not be comically obese gay Black person >When we were talking before, I noticed your entire fridge is filled with nothing but Hotpockets and Diet Coke >Now as someone who looks like he’s homeless, I don’t want to judge. Now someone who makes 6 figures and isn’t a fricking loser could, unlikely but still could, eat nothing but the most disgusting microwave shit your find in the cheap grocery store >And likewise, you could weigh under 600 lbs while only drinking Diet Coke >But then I started to dig deeper, Janny >Turns out that your occupation as a Ganker janitor sees you work 18 hours shifts all for 0 compensation. You completely do this job for free. >And that’s another thing. The Heterosexual Club is 42 miles from your current residency >However, with a Black person who gets 0 income from his job and spends his EBT on Hotpockets, what kind of car could someone like you afford? >Only a Smart car sir. And as we all know, Smart cars immediately break down after traveling 15 miles. >But Mr. Janitor, there is one last thing that seals the deal >During our first conversation, I saw how repulsed you were at the sight of the real female body, and would stare intently at the male and troony pedestrians passing by, even making the comment “oh boy I really want to get pounded by trans wiener!”
>sorry to bother you but i just can't wrap my head around it. you see, while i was in your bathroom there, i noticed you had a bottle of finasteride there by the sink. now my wife, she told me about this stuff. you see she thinks i'm getting thin at the temples. now finasteride, that's a male pattern baldness drug, isn't it ms. janny? now why would a lady such as yourself need a drug like that?
How is Columbo so universally beloved? I've never seen a show, especially one this old, suddenly become so popular on every website. I get that it's got great writing, but many stories do. What is it about Columbo that draws in people from all walks of life, from all generations? Heck even Zoomers and younger love the show, how did they do it?
t. boomer
It's amazingly written. Unique in its execution. The main character is interesting, warm, and mysterious all at once. The villains hit the entire spectrum of remorseful to frightened and boastful and cruel. And though you could call it commercialization, Colombo's heap of little repeat-mannerisms are very easy to latch onto and meme, i.e, "Just one more thing."
Its just a comfy procedural show with a good character.
Colombo kind of lets people underestimate him as some schlubby moron who asks dumb questions, and then when the episode wraps up he puts together all the pieces and reveals who the killer is.
Columbo is a lot easier to get into than most other old TV shows because it's got a simple, interesting hook with absolutely no baggage attached. There's no continuity, no ongoing plot, no recurring characters besides Columbo and his dog, not even any recurring locations. If you have Columbo's shtick explained to you, you are fully prepared to watch any Columbo episode ever filmed.
Columbo was kind of ruined for me when I found out it was just written by leftists to propagandize poor people into hating rich people, which is why every single killer is a caricature of wealth, like a guy that run six wine vineyards or someone that has a garage full of European sports cars or a lady that's an international supermodel. The show is just an appeal to the ideal of the down to earth uncouth heart of gold everyman outsmarting the pompous and giving the privileged their comeuppance.
In a vacuum this is all fine, but when you realize that of course it's just a bunch of rich Hollywood execs and writers dangling a fantasy in front of people in order to grab their attention, it leaves a bad taste in your mouth.
>Columbo was kind of ruined for me when I found out it was just written by leftists to propagandize poor people into hating rich people >it leaves a bad taste in your mouth.
There's loads of content like this now. The Menu, Triangle of Sadness, The White Lotus, Parasite etc. It's a modern version of the Feast of Fools. People watch this stuff, get mad at the fake rich people, then don't do anything to them IRL. It's a release valve.
Anon if your /misc/brain means you can no longer enjoy Columbo because the villains are a bunch of upper-class bastards, it's time to stop listening to those fricking morons. Next you'll say Robin Hood was written by leftists, or that Jesus was a leftist because of Mark.10.21.
Robin Hood and Jesus are ages removed from the world we live in. With Columbo you can just watch the interviews with the creators talking about their mindset when writing the show, it's nothing alike.
Oh shut up you moronic homosexual, it's the same thing. The wealthy have always been the villains in all stories of all cultures, you're just another moronic American conservative that thinks if we just let the wealthy do whatever they wanted, we'd all be wealthy too. have a nice day.
>he looked up behind the scenes shit of something he likes
Well done, idiot.
Unlike most proverbs the proverb "Never meet your heroes" is actually good advice and not just empty words.
Oh shut up you moronic homosexual, it's the same thing. The wealthy have always been the villains in all stories of all cultures, you're just another moronic American conservative that thinks if we just let the wealthy do whatever they wanted, we'd all be wealthy too. have a nice day.
No, you moron. In reality I hate the wealthy too. But just like
There's loads of content like this now. The Menu, Triangle of Sadness, The White Lotus, Parasite etc. It's a modern version of the Feast of Fools. People watch this stuff, get mad at the fake rich people, then don't do anything to them IRL. It's a release valve.
says, it's a show written by the wealthy to capture the attention of the poor by taking advantage of of their anxieties and fantasies.
>A janny? You mean the janitor? The one who cleans up the mess everyone made after a crazy party? Yeah, my cousin is a janitor - works at the hospital. Jeez, the stories he tells me... Sorry, I'm getting off topic. This... uh... janitor, janny, whoever, you're telling me he works for free? No compensation whatsoever for his work? You're serious... Golly, if someone told me to investigate all day without pay, I oughta throw in the towel. For something like that, you gotta ask some questions, like, how does one end up like that? Really get my noggin' joggin...
What if an medieval inquisition game where witches and demons are real and player has to invistigate whats causing problems delve in archaict lore and witchcraft as well as use torture to reveal the demon?
i forget the name of it but there is a game currently developed on steam based on a polish book series called I, Inquisitor that has this type of content i believe, ill try and find the steam link
>Watch ~~*~~*that*~~)) episode >Think it's genuinely hilarious >Find out that it was basically a protest against Universal Studios by Peter Falk (again) and that the writer or director or something for the episode wanted to completely rip up the whole Columbo formula for no reason other than israeli subversion >Find out the general Columbo fandom dislikes it
What did you think Anon? Last Salute to the Commodore
Unironically yes. It has the most accurate portrayal of both Sherlock and Watson, as in the books they were not the flawless 300iq super detective they are made out to be in the show, but instead they fricked up a lot and in some of the stories they even got some facts and clues wrong until the big reveal
>Now what did you say your name was, Professor? Alba right? Now that's a proper Liberlian name, your parents musta been eager to migrate here. What's that? Oh you just look very North Ambrian to me is all. Anyway, I can't help but notice that all this weird stuff that's been happenin' lately always seems to occur right after someone spots you climbin' up to the top of those creepy-lookin' towers, whattaya callem, tetricycle towers? Might want to watch yourself professor, I'm sure a man of letters like you would have a tough time dealing with bandits or animals. What's so interesting about those towers anyway? I'm sure an archeologist has easy access to all the official survey records on file about them. You really think they mighta missed something with a whole team that you'll find on your own? Then again, my wife always tells me I shouldn't trust whatever I read in a case file until I get my own eyes on it, so I guess you can take everything I say with a grain of salt, eh professor? >Oh, and there's one more thing I wanted to mention... I checked the records at Jenis Academy and would you believe there isn't a single mention of a "Professor Alba" ever working for them? They'd never even heard the name mentioned before, not even their own archeology professor. Must be some kinda clerical error, might wanna get that looked into. I'll see you at church this sunday.
>>Now see Adachi, that's funny to me, cause I never mentioned that Namatame wasn't responsible for the first two killings, but earlier you told me there was no way you could be the "real" killer when I asked you about your meetin' with Ms. Konishi. But how could you know that Namatame didn't kill those two girls before his statement was taken? It just bothers me, that's all. Oh and one more thing, would you mind taking a look at this TV? My brother in law needs it fixed and I heard you're quite handy at these kinda things.
it got shilled pretty hard on social media when NBC started their Peawiener streaming site, which lead a lot of people to check it out and discover how kino it is
Columbo threads have been a thing on Ganker long before streaming services were a thing,
It was one of those shows that was syndicated to hell and back so it was always on television.
>Just one more thing Anon. Now, you told me that you couldn't be at the scene of the crime because you were playing games on your PS3. Now I'm not into the videogames myself, too violent for my tastes. But my Nephew, he is a big gamer and he tells me that the PS3 has no games. Now fancy that, how can you play games on a system that has no games?
I think a perfect modern day columbo episode would be a Streamer murderer who pre recorded a Stream to go commit murder. In fact I think that actually happened
Actual detective work, false leads, the ability to frick up the case and convict the wrong person.
Most of the time its just a matter of picking the right dialogue options that you can reference later in the mission, and matching the right evidence.
Disco Elysium
ive played it 3 times. im done with the tortured detective, now im goofy solve maxxing
Columbo vs Monk who wins?
>Columbo vs Monk who wins?
Monk is good but Columbo just has that coolness factor
Monk throughout the series or Monk at the end of the series? Generally I'd lean towards Columbo, but end Monk could pull it.
I feel like Colombo has the upper hand in both sides (criminal/detective). Monk is very socially inept and weak-minded so he wouldn't be able to handle Colombo's badgering for very long. Meanwhile Colombo's schlubby nature and cool-headedness would probably let him get away with just gas-lighting Monk over any minor detail. Though I will admit most of Monk's villains are just liars who bully the frick out of him so maybe he'll still pull through.
Columbo easy. Monk just notices everything, Columbo has great inuition and nows how to trick the bad guys.
monk is too tism for me. columbo is just cool
blade runner (1997)
it got an enhanced edition last year, it's pretty good.
l.a. noire
snatcher
LA Noire isn't fun because you can't play it like a real cop from the era (frame minorities).
One of the missions literally has you picking between a widower father and a career criminal Irishman pedophile (ps everyone's happy when you choose the Irishman.)
LA Noire is unrealistic because you actually solve crimes
The vast majority of crimes are never solved
>video game is unrealistic
Good
Actually, you don't. The homicide segment has a real suspect that never gets caught.
L.a noire, your choices are not that matters what a wasted potential
Persona 4
>Persona 4
There's a mystery in the plot but everything is force-fed to you through exposition, you don't do any detecting or solving
But it was cool that there were a couple of dialogues you had to have the right answer for
i would play it
this furry dude's columbo fanart is what got me to start watching columbo in the first place
glad I did, great show
Really is. Some terrific acting, writing, direction. Falk is perpetually lovable, his antagonist's deliciously devious. Sexy 70s babes and fashion.
does sam & max count
theres so many of those, which one should i play?
they're all pretty good
hit the road and the devil's playhouse are my favorites
I'm trying to play the telltale games, but every 10 seconds, Sam is like "jumping X on a Y with a Z, Max!" It's just not funny. 🙁
The first one is by far the best one. The origional telltale trilogy is good, dont get the butchered remakes but those homosexuals skunk ape. The vr one is kind of poopoo
>Tfw I played the butchered remakes by those homosexuals Skunk Ape
What did I miss out on?
For me, it's Any Old Port in a Storm
kino episode
do the funny wine sipping thing the waiters did every time I drink wine now
it really annoys my gf
one of the very best
I like Short Fuse.
>I like Short Fuse.
>this guy is extremely annoying, he belongs in jail
-me watching short fuse
I like the one with guy that runs the high tech security firm. I haven't seen many episodes.
Yeah, it's a good one. He famously plays the villain in 3 different roles. Don't care for the military school episode though.
I really like the opening montage where his clean up of the crime scene is reflected in his glasses. It what the kids call "kino".
Robert Culp isn't in the military school episode, that's Patrick McGoohan, who also played multiple killers. Culp played the security guy, the subliminal advertising guy and the football team manager.
Ah my bad, it's been a few years
Also, I just remembered, Culp also played the dad of one of the killers in Columbo Goes to College. I don't think he had any other appearances though.
Having it end with him and the killer enjoying one last cabernet sauvignon was great.
An Exercise in Fatality for me. Good taste tho
Great episode.
It's a good episode, but it feels like Columbo doesn't really solve the crime which I'm not too fond of. Pleasance's life seems like it just goes to such shit that he just turns himself in because he has nothing with his wine collection ruined and his secretary blackmailing him. I think I like A Friend in Deed, although I find the commissioner's plan a bit silly, and By Dawn's Early Light, because McGoohan is so good in it, the most.
>but it feels like Columbo doesn't really solve the crime which I'm not too fond of.
There's a fair amount of those
The evidence he finds in a bunch of episodes would barely get an arrest let alone a conviction if not for the criminal giving themselves up.
That's why Columbo's main strat is annoying the culprit to death
For me it's the The Conspirators. Not the best episode, but I always enjoy watching it.
When I think of that episode I just think of how this Irish Unionist revolutionary calls Derry "Londonderry". Someone with that attitude would never call it Londonderry.
KNEEL
The BEST episode is the episode with the twins
The Columbo Formular is: you know who the murderer is right from the beginning
It’s just about columbo solving the case
But in the case with the twins you kinda know because it could have been either one of them and they are blaming each other
As if that episode wasn’t great enough it contains an innocent house keeper maid who is run into madness by Columbo leavening his cigar ash everywhere and eventually breaking her tv set
Your first one is the special one. I watched it in a high school film class.
Return of the Obra Dinn
Swan Song is the best episode followed by all episodes with Patrick McGoohan.
The only episode of this i've skipped was the one with the kid and his robot. Did I make the right call?
Columbo cries wolf
Columbo cries wolf is really great.
I liked the episode with the paintings. Pastels, you know?
For me, it's the episode with the sand Black folk.
I also like the episode with the dementia-riddled lady.
For me, its Bye Bye Sky-High IQ
But in terms of the opening murder scene and the ending, nothing beats Make Me a Perfect Murder
Ace Attorney games
Ace Attorney is a lawyer game but you're so involved in the cases that it's basically a Columbo simulator anyway. Also pure fricking kino
I played that voxel looking game, it's pretty good for the first 6-8 hours while you figure the many ways to figure how to find and catch bad guys, after that you start gaming the system
That's the one
Columbo will be in an upcoming schizo jap porn game
Is it a "Columbo suddenly shows up while the killer is fricking and he keeps asking questions while telling you he's about to leave" episode
Hypnospace Outlaw
Shadows of Doubt is literally the perfect detective game.
>Procedurally generated
Aaaand pass
GHOST TRICK: PHANTOM DETECTIVE
motherfricker
you want some goofy ass detective game butthole
you play
GHOST TRICK:
PHANTOM
DETECTIVE
take it easy buddy, ill play ghost detective
Nice, you're acting smart and making sense, I like that.
Thanks me later
it'S reallY a Jungle out, there. MonK.
>they ruined the original OP and ED theme with that song.
The only good thing about that is that in one episode the did a joke about it.
now we have to do 100 more
Now we should go for 200.
Still can't believe Monk is Aradesh from Fallout
There will be in a few months.
Anon, you don't play the detective in that game, you play the crook.
You play as a respectable sinner hunter.
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments was surprisingly good.
yes it was! that game being free on xbox live made me fall in love with detective stories.
soon
>japanslop
Disco Elysium
Return of the Obra Dinn
Kona
Fallout 4 DLC Far Harbor
Judgment
Lost Judgment
Every Danganronpa
The Painscreek Killings
Pentiment
Thimbleweed Park
https://bloodinbaldursgate.larian.com/
Baldur's Gate 3 has some sort of murder mystery shill game before launch
>Monk in the morning
>Midsomer Murders in the afternoon
>Columbo at nights
I wish I could do this everyday.
play ff14 and just randomly accuse people in public of being paedophiles
Why do the Japanese love Columbo so much?
everybody loves columbo
there are two kinds of people
those who like colombo
and those who haven't watched it
>try to play Sherlock Holmes
>can't find any opium before my opium meter gets empty
That's why you'll never be a great detective
that was the real mystery all along
I keep getting sniped by some guy in the window across the street. I faked my death, but he still knows I'm there, wtf?
>You don't have to feel better about your husband being murdered
>You do have to eat all the eggs
Omikron: The Nomad Soul
Anachronox
That one old uppity b***h was completely right in screaming at Columbo for leaving cigar ash everywhere on the carpet. I expect that from a JRPG protag barging into an npc's house
well, which one was it.
The latter, I just had a sauvignon blanc when I ate out a few night ago, and mixed them up.
>No Mr. Monk game with DLC Sharona on bikini.
Wasted opportunity, they could made billions.
there was a time I thought about a rape detective game with Monk but Monk wouldn't touch his clients and even less rape them. Sad!
>Detective using his renown for being OCD and lacking personal space to grope witnesses and more
Revolutionary anon.
Is there any detective game that is multiplayer
Disney's guilty party. Is it good? If you're 12 maybe, but it is multiplayer.
among us
SS13, if you manage to get the detective role
I miss D20Station
Me too, anon.
Those were better days.
Town of Salem
Technically. I haven't played it in years but usually the sheer amount of moronation and gaslighting makes the detective part almost irrelevant.
Unironically Amogus
Beneath A Steel Sky is pretty fun.
OG one tho obviously. Pretty sure its free.
NOT Disco Elysium
Deadly Premonition if you haven't played it before. Never played anything like it since that has the level of charm that is has. It helps if you enjoyed Twin Peaks but it's not essential.
It counts if "you play as an extremely shitty detective" counts. The moment York reads Becky's note, it should become obvious the killer is someone important in the town, which leaves something along the lines of 2 suspects. And that's just one example.
Give him a break, he's been through a lot
Deadly Premonition counts?
For me, it's Kojak
>detective shows
Real men are lawyer enjoyers
Why can't we see your horns, again?
He doesn't hold a candle to Lancelot Link
Giga-based Matlock enjoyer
Sherlock Holmesgays who like Lawyer shows as well should watch the BBC adaptations of Rumpole of the Bailey; they're around on youtube and are quite good
Ladies and Gentleman
Denny Crane
columbo supports trans rights by the way!
Anon, Gianni couldn't not say it. He's a meme VA that still works on commission.
In the twittersphere he's basically got a gun pointed at his career if he doesn't follow the script.
correct
in every single fricking european country gender is used for objects and that's it. english is quite literally the only language out there that built this moronic idea of people having genders you can use to describe yourself as if you want to try and override your sex at birth
Ifyou think about it Columbo is the villain of his own show.
Need a game where you play as a criminal and have to avoid an unstoppable detective.
it's actually kind of scary when Columbo drops the act and gets serious.
you have no idea how long i have wanted a criminal and detective rivalry
I like Tommy Lee Jones but I always felt like he was miscast in this. I feel like all his most memorable roles he plays someone stolid or thoughtful, him being so quippy in this has always felt weird.
What role is more memorable than that one? That "search every out house, doghouse, waffle house" speech is his most famous lines.
I think of him in No Country for Old Men whenever I think of him, and then after that I think of Men in Black and The Sunset Limited. The Fugitive's probably fourth behind them, but his character and demeanor is so much different in that movie from the other 3. Even with Men in Black being a lighthearted movie he plays a more dry and serious character.
oh yeah, Men in Black, I could see that. No Country is mostly memorable for Chigurh but I guess. Never heard of Sunset Limited but I see it's written by Cormac McCarthy, is it good?
Yeah, I enjoyed it, Tommy Lee Jones directed it too so that's kind of interesting to see, but it's worth watching anyway setting that aside.
I will download that.
its so kino i cant believe it.
I got you anon.
to me, its about the puzzle
>tfw Columbo actually starts seething at Leonard Nimoy
He seethes the most at the guy in An Exercise in Fatality.
?t=98
ace attorney investigations 1 & 2
Return of the Obra Dinn
Case of the Golden Idol
came to say those two games, golden idol is great and not talked about enough
Yeah, just finished the DLC a few days ago, it's great
Obra Dinn is a great one, thanks for reminding me it exists
100 replies. lets keep it like that
>bought DVDs back in the days
>they came like this
They knew.
Just one more thing, Ganker
What is it, detective?
detective you have wasted enough of our time already
If I answer another one of your insipid questions, detective anon, will you finally leave me alone?
psychic detective
Yes, it's called Questioning the Holocaust
Contradiction
ENTER:
Is that a e-girl or a hag?
The dames trouble, thats all that maddahs/
>detective thread
>no herkules poirot
Murder, She Wrote is my agatha christie of choice
apparently there is a Murder, She Wrote video game, some creators of that series also made Columbo
Poirot is an interesting character with his autism but I never liked the "suddenly every suspect is in a room and they're all sitting there ready to get owned by the detective" trope which all his episodes end with.
crime dramas peaked with the Mentalist and they'll never top it
How has no one posted the greatest mystery of all time yet?
The mystery part is literally the worst aspect
How it frames and hides its mystery is one of the best parts.
Literally Ace Attorney.
Phoenix is pretty much Columbo alright. Not as goofy and intelligent but fair enough since the case is supposed to last 2-3 days.
Ironically Ace Attorney.
>I’m sorry to intrude on your private time Mr. Janitor
>I know you’re busy so I won’t take up too much of your time
>So this has been puzzling me for some time
>Vidya Butts Anon’s body was found dead in a pruned vidya butts thread
>During that time, you claim to have been on paid leave and were visiting a Heterosexual White Club on that night
>That was your alibi, and it seemed off
>I noticed a few details that just don’t add up
>The Heterosexual Club is a very expensive and luxurious place to be, and very exclusive, Mr. Janitor
>You need at least six figures and to not be a total fricking loser who spends all day on Ganker deleting threads, and also to also not be comically obese gay Black person
>When we were talking before, I noticed your entire fridge is filled with nothing but Hotpockets and Diet Coke
>Now as someone who looks like he’s homeless, I don’t want to judge. Now someone who makes 6 figures and isn’t a fricking loser could, unlikely but still could, eat nothing but the most disgusting microwave shit your find in the cheap grocery store
>And likewise, you could weigh under 600 lbs while only drinking Diet Coke
>But then I started to dig deeper, Janny
>Turns out that your occupation as a Ganker janitor sees you work 18 hours shifts all for 0 compensation. You completely do this job for free.
>And that’s another thing. The Heterosexual Club is 42 miles from your current residency
>However, with a Black person who gets 0 income from his job and spends his EBT on Hotpockets, what kind of car could someone like you afford?
>Only a Smart car sir. And as we all know, Smart cars immediately break down after traveling 15 miles.
>But Mr. Janitor, there is one last thing that seals the deal
>During our first conversation, I saw how repulsed you were at the sight of the real female body, and would stare intently at the male and troony pedestrians passing by, even making the comment “oh boy I really want to get pounded by trans wiener!”
Will it by murder mystery kino wrapped in a pile of shit overarching plot like DR or will it just be genuinely bad? Place ya bets.
Hoping for kino
>sorry to bother you but i just can't wrap my head around it. you see, while i was in your bathroom there, i noticed you had a bottle of finasteride there by the sink. now my wife, she told me about this stuff. you see she thinks i'm getting thin at the temples. now finasteride, that's a male pattern baldness drug, isn't it ms. janny? now why would a lady such as yourself need a drug like that?
How is Columbo so universally beloved? I've never seen a show, especially one this old, suddenly become so popular on every website. I get that it's got great writing, but many stories do. What is it about Columbo that draws in people from all walks of life, from all generations? Heck even Zoomers and younger love the show, how did they do it?
t. boomer
the children yearn for the episodic format held up by consistent characters.
It's amazingly written. Unique in its execution. The main character is interesting, warm, and mysterious all at once. The villains hit the entire spectrum of remorseful to frightened and boastful and cruel. And though you could call it commercialization, Colombo's heap of little repeat-mannerisms are very easy to latch onto and meme, i.e, "Just one more thing."
Its just a comfy procedural show with a good character.
Colombo kind of lets people underestimate him as some schlubby moron who asks dumb questions, and then when the episode wraps up he puts together all the pieces and reveals who the killer is.
Columbo is a lot easier to get into than most other old TV shows because it's got a simple, interesting hook with absolutely no baggage attached. There's no continuity, no ongoing plot, no recurring characters besides Columbo and his dog, not even any recurring locations. If you have Columbo's shtick explained to you, you are fully prepared to watch any Columbo episode ever filmed.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the Police Quest series yet. They were some of Sierra's best adventure games
>Detective Carey sets a troon on fire and gets a medal from the state
pretty based series
Columbo was kind of ruined for me when I found out it was just written by leftists to propagandize poor people into hating rich people, which is why every single killer is a caricature of wealth, like a guy that run six wine vineyards or someone that has a garage full of European sports cars or a lady that's an international supermodel. The show is just an appeal to the ideal of the down to earth uncouth heart of gold everyman outsmarting the pompous and giving the privileged their comeuppance.
In a vacuum this is all fine, but when you realize that of course it's just a bunch of rich Hollywood execs and writers dangling a fantasy in front of people in order to grab their attention, it leaves a bad taste in your mouth.
>Columbo was kind of ruined for me when I found out it was just written by leftists to propagandize poor people into hating rich people
>it leaves a bad taste in your mouth.
Shut up you fricking mongoloid
Sorry, should I have said "it leaves a bad taste in my mouth"? I didn't mean to project my feelings onto you.
There's loads of content like this now. The Menu, Triangle of Sadness, The White Lotus, Parasite etc. It's a modern version of the Feast of Fools. People watch this stuff, get mad at the fake rich people, then don't do anything to them IRL. It's a release valve.
Anon if your /misc/brain means you can no longer enjoy Columbo because the villains are a bunch of upper-class bastards, it's time to stop listening to those fricking morons. Next you'll say Robin Hood was written by leftists, or that Jesus was a leftist because of Mark.10.21.
Robin Hood and Jesus are ages removed from the world we live in. With Columbo you can just watch the interviews with the creators talking about their mindset when writing the show, it's nothing alike.
Oh shut up you moronic homosexual, it's the same thing. The wealthy have always been the villains in all stories of all cultures, you're just another moronic American conservative that thinks if we just let the wealthy do whatever they wanted, we'd all be wealthy too. have a nice day.
Sincerely hope you die, you barely sentient amoeba.
>he looked up behind the scenes shit of something he likes
Well done, idiot.
Unlike most proverbs the proverb "Never meet your heroes" is actually good advice and not just empty words.
Of course you're right.
>Anon is such a moron he thinks the only people that hate the wealthy are leftists
Jesus Christ the state of this fricking website.
No, you moron. In reality I hate the wealthy too. But just like
says, it's a show written by the wealthy to capture the attention of the poor by taking advantage of of their anxieties and fantasies.
This was the only good thing Rian Johnson made
I liked looper well enough if you just kind of ignore the stupid time travel plot.
And knives out was a solid comfy flick. I haven't seen the sequel
Sequel is shit, don't bother
>A janny? You mean the janitor? The one who cleans up the mess everyone made after a crazy party? Yeah, my cousin is a janitor - works at the hospital. Jeez, the stories he tells me... Sorry, I'm getting off topic. This... uh... janitor, janny, whoever, you're telling me he works for free? No compensation whatsoever for his work? You're serious... Golly, if someone told me to investigate all day without pay, I oughta throw in the towel. For something like that, you gotta ask some questions, like, how does one end up like that? Really get my noggin' joggin...
Shadows of Doubt
What if an medieval inquisition game where witches and demons are real and player has to invistigate whats causing problems delve in archaict lore and witchcraft as well as use torture to reveal the demon?
So an M rated Ace Attorney vs. Layton?
i forget the name of it but there is a game currently developed on steam based on a polish book series called I, Inquisitor that has this type of content i believe, ill try and find the steam link
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1880470/The_Inquisitor/
For me, it's Perry Mason.
Lego City Undercover
Also has a fricking Columbo character called DaMumbo, and is playable.
>Watch ~~*~~*that*~~)) episode
>Think it's genuinely hilarious
>Find out that it was basically a protest against Universal Studios by Peter Falk (again) and that the writer or director or something for the episode wanted to completely rip up the whole Columbo formula for no reason other than israeli subversion
>Find out the general Columbo fandom dislikes it
What did you think Anon?
Last Salute to the Commodore
Why can't new shows capture the old feel? Any one have the new Sherlock Holmes copypasta where its 200IQ jumps in logic bullshit?
Straight from reddit.
>tfw went into the american sherlock series not expecting much
>it was actually pretty solid
Honestly a pleasant surprise
so is this the best sherlock adaptation
Unironically yes. It has the most accurate portrayal of both Sherlock and Watson, as in the books they were not the flawless 300iq super detective they are made out to be in the show, but instead they fricked up a lot and in some of the stories they even got some facts and clues wrong until the big reveal
>Mfw no mid 2000's 6/10 Magnum PI GTA clone.
Is there anything more powerful than Columbo saying, "one more thing"?
Maybe Phoenix Wright saying Objection with cornered playing. But only maybe
>Ace Attorney
>Frogwares Sherlock Holmes games
>Return of the Obra Dinn
>The Case of the Golden Idol
>Professor Layton
thought of some more
>Detective Grimoire
>The ABC Murders
>The Sinking City
>Deadly Premonition
>Now what did you say your name was, Professor? Alba right? Now that's a proper Liberlian name, your parents musta been eager to migrate here. What's that? Oh you just look very North Ambrian to me is all. Anyway, I can't help but notice that all this weird stuff that's been happenin' lately always seems to occur right after someone spots you climbin' up to the top of those creepy-lookin' towers, whattaya callem, tetricycle towers? Might want to watch yourself professor, I'm sure a man of letters like you would have a tough time dealing with bandits or animals. What's so interesting about those towers anyway? I'm sure an archeologist has easy access to all the official survey records on file about them. You really think they mighta missed something with a whole team that you'll find on your own? Then again, my wife always tells me I shouldn't trust whatever I read in a case file until I get my own eyes on it, so I guess you can take everything I say with a grain of salt, eh professor?
>Oh, and there's one more thing I wanted to mention... I checked the records at Jenis Academy and would you believe there isn't a single mention of a "Professor Alba" ever working for them? They'd never even heard the name mentioned before, not even their own archeology professor. Must be some kinda clerical error, might wanna get that looked into. I'll see you at church this sunday.
GLASS HIM
>>Now see Adachi, that's funny to me, cause I never mentioned that Namatame wasn't responsible for the first two killings, but earlier you told me there was no way you could be the "real" killer when I asked you about your meetin' with Ms. Konishi. But how could you know that Namatame didn't kill those two girls before his statement was taken? It just bothers me, that's all. Oh and one more thing, would you mind taking a look at this TV? My brother in law needs it fixed and I heard you're quite handy at these kinda things.
Okay what is it with Millennials and Columbo?
Columbo is a period piece, it's good, and Columbo lends himself to some good memes.
it got shilled pretty hard on social media when NBC started their Peawiener streaming site, which lead a lot of people to check it out and discover how kino it is
Columbo threads have been a thing on Ganker long before streaming services were a thing,
It was one of those shows that was syndicated to hell and back so it was always on television.
>Just one more thing Anon. Now, you told me that you couldn't be at the scene of the crime because you were playing games on your PS3. Now I'm not into the videogames myself, too violent for my tastes. But my Nephew, he is a big gamer and he tells me that the PS3 has no games. Now fancy that, how can you play games on a system that has no games?
I think a perfect modern day columbo episode would be a Streamer murderer who pre recorded a Stream to go commit murder. In fact I think that actually happened
Who would be able to play a modern Columbo. I've seen people say that Charlie day has similar mannerisms.
There's an episode of Poker Face where someone pre records a radio show to do it
I found this
https://www.insider.com/youtuber-mccullagh-fake-livestream-alibi-murder-natalie-mcnally-court-2023-2
What'd you guys think of Poker Face? Reminded me of Columbo.
Every episode was good but the racing one. Theater episode was kino, so was the heavy metal one
anything you've always wanted to see in a detective game?
you detect your way into some dicky
Actual detective work, false leads, the ability to frick up the case and convict the wrong person.
Most of the time its just a matter of picking the right dialogue options that you can reference later in the mission, and matching the right evidence.
Shadows of Doubt sounds like right up your alley, from the little I have seen at least
wow Ganker really likes columbo huh
Ganker loves its nostalgia goggles, its SOVL and its kino, and Columbo has all three
Abc murders
good game
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2103350/Nick_Bounty__The_Goat_in_the_Grey_Fedora_Remastered/
Speaking of detective shows, anybody watched death in paradise? Is it any good?