A Son Takes His Father on a Tour of His Boyhood Home—in a Video Game

When you introduce a video game to an older relative who doesn’t play them—a parent or a grandparent—and they realize they’ve underestimated how detailed, how immersive these things really are, the conversations you have after that really are special. If this hasn’t happened for you, ask anyone for whom it has. https://kotaku.com/how-to-dismantle-an-atomic-weapon-5248036 Or better yet, just go read Christian Donlan’s charming story of exploring Los Angeles with his father in L.A. Noire. The elder Donlan grew up in Los Angeles in the 1940s, and has a vivid recollection of the city in that time—where long gone landmarks were located, how wide the streets were, what sorts of things you’d see in a diner window.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"5952744","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"uncategorized","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"uncategorized","TAGS":"","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); L.A. Noire, a jewel box of a period piece, did profoundly well against his father’s memory, whose photographic quality probably comes from his father, a u31.com เข้าสู่ระบบ Los Angeles police sergeant. Donlan’s granddad had brushes with tabloid fame and deviations into petty graft, adultery and all the other pursuits that make for a good film noir cop. A colorful recounting of his career, including the only time he used his gun, opens the piece. It’s in the sightseeing tour of downtown Los Angeles where the real affirmation comes. Even minor landmarks seemingly there just to hold a city block together present some antecedent for Donlan’s father to remark on and marvel at. There are some details gotten wrong—an engine note in one car is off; too many of them have whitewall tires. But the fact his father praised the gloomy quality of lighting on the streets, at night, in the game is rather profound. It reflects a great credit on anyone who worked u31 ทางเข้า on this game—for all of its troubled history—for it to get this stamp of authenticity, even 18 months out. https://kotaku.com/inside-the-seven-year-labor-pains-of-l-a-noire-5815615 Donlan later asked his dad for a few thoughts on what he had seen. His reply concludes the essay, and it is well worth reading through to the end. But here’s a highlight. “This seemed a refreshingly thoughtful—almost intellectual—scenario that I would not have expected in something called a game.” u31 เข้าสู่ระบบ Night and the City [Eurogamer]