I haven't finished the game yet, so I might be in for a surprise later on but...
Did anyone else find the Black Dahlia killer tagged on and out of left-field?
It's cool it's someone you don't expect, but come on! "But he's the halfbrother(?) of a high profile person". Still nothing that rocked my socks off.
I know, I know, the game's not over yet, but I just thought I'd see what you guys think.
I knew that bartender had something to with it from the moment you meet him. Especially after the part when you go to the mexican bar and interview the other bar man and he mentions a temp guy working the night before.
Yorkshire is a place. Yorkshire is a state of mind.
Yeah, plus, every single case on the homicide involved you having to investigate a bar. And Lord Flashheart, I had a suspicion of him right away too and when when that other bartender mentioned that some temp guy was there the night before it furthered my suspicion.
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so who was the real killer?
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I heard one of the theories was that the killer was a Doctor or a medical student because the Dahlia was cut up so well or IDK.. gives me chills just thinking about it but the killer is dead now... Honestly was very disappointed with the ending of this case because I imagined something totally unexpected but I didn't even remember the bartender. Maybe because I played the game only on weekends and took me 6months to finish so didn't remember much about the previous case.
shareI knew that bartender had something to with it from the moment you meet him. Especially after the part when you go to the mexican bar and interview the other bar man and he mentions a temp guy working the night before.
I thought it felt tacked on and left-fieldish too, but for a different reason. I'm more willing to overlook the captain intervening at the end than I am to buy that Mason was actually behind all the presumed Black Dahlia Murders. They tried to pull a twist, which is always fun, but it really didn't make a whole lot of sense considering what you uncover during some of the cases. I had an especially hard time trying to understand how Mason would have figured into the Studio Secretary Murder. If you 5 star that case, the suspects give such specific and condemning information that it's really weird to later find out someone else was in fact the killer.
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I just finished this case last night(and what a NOT GOOD TIME TO PLAY THE END OF THIS CASE... EWW), and was quite surprised it was not a copy-cat murderer. Elizabeth Short's murder is so unlike any of these murders in the game, it seems to be a completely different M.O. in my opinion. But, I kind of had a feeling they would tie in the Black Dahlia case as it is one of the most famous un-solved murder cases of all time. This case was kind of a mix of the Red Lipstick Murder case and the Black Dahlia case I suppose.
shareGarrett Mason did try to make the M.O. for each case be only partially similar, which is a good excuse for the difference between Short's and the rest of the women. And Mason could have planted the evidence on Tiernan (One of the suspects for the Studio Secretary) while he was drunk, and dropped him on McCaffrey's doorstep. Moller also always maintained that he was set up, more evidence that Mason found out the lives of these women so that he could set up the most realistic fall guy.
shareIn terms of the actual Black Dahlia killer, it's also the more likely and realistic. You have to wonder how murders like that went unpunished. I think it's this admixture of actual historical incidents like the Black Dahlia case that makes the game so interesting (much moreso than GTA, IMO).
shareI also suspected the bar tender once they made reference to him being a temp.
What I really loved about the Black Dahlia part of this game was that it WASN'T the conclusion of the game. That final case when you finally bust him was so epic, and the culmination of so much of what came before, that you'd assume that that was the end. But I love that really the final Dahlia case is actually only the halfway point, with so much more to come. That's a big part of what made this game feel like a really extended, substantial experience.