Is there any game where you play as a cop and actually help someone?

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Lokarin
03/17/2024
10:32 PM
#1
Even one person, other than yourself of course.
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ParanoidObsessive
03/17/2024
10:44 PM
#2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_Quest
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funkyfritter
03/17/2024
10:45 PM
#3
The new robocop game.
And with that... pow! I'm gone!
Muscles
03/17/2024
10:47 PM
#4
Why would you want something so unrealistic?
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agesboy
03/18/2024
01:25 AM
#5
LA Noire, I assume he does at least some helping between the doubting

Also in a way Disco Elysium, but it's a different form of government and the kind of cop the main character is is quite different. Also, helping people is optional

Wasn't Leon a cop in the earlier Resident Evils?
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Lokarin
03/18/2024
02:11 AM
#6
agesboy posted...
LA Noire, I assume he does at least some helping between the doubting

if I remember correctly only ONE person is helped in the entire game, and it's Kelso that does it (which might be part of the narrative)

agesboy posted...
Also in a way Disco Elysium, but it's a different form of government and the kind of cop the main character is is quite different. Also, helping people is optional

I can get on board with that - you can help loads of people
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ParanoidObsessive
03/18/2024
02:21 AM
#7
Lokarin posted...
if I remember correctly only ONE person is helped in the entire game, and it's Kelso that does it

Sure, if you completely narrow your definition of "help".
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Lokarin
03/18/2024
02:23 AM
#8
ParanoidObsessive posted...
Sure, if you completely narrow your definition of "help".

Assistance that doesn't involve calling the Ambulance and Coroner.
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ParanoidObsessive
03/18/2024
04:33 AM
#9
Lokarin posted...
Assistance that doesn't involve calling the Ambulance and Coroner.

ParanoidObsessive posted...
Sure, if you completely narrow your definition of "help".
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LaggnFragnLarry
03/18/2024
07:43 AM
#10
funkyfritter posted...
The new robocop game.
this. it has a lot of action too
Sufferedphoenix
03/18/2024
08:02 AM
#11
Played some indie game called beat cop. You are working a case about some stolen jewels but you still gotta do you daily job of being a beat cop. It involved giving parking tickets to chasing down thieves I think I did a thing involving a missing child.

Was a neat concept but I hate games with a time limit. You basically had a window of time to collect evidence on your main mission but you gotta do the regular basic cop shit too or else you don't get paid
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pionear
03/18/2024
11:51 AM
#12
Plenty...

  • remember the 'True Crime' open world games? They are like the reverse GTA...
  • Streets of Rage you play them
  • ES.W.A.T. (throwback SEGA arcade game) you play one in a Mech suit
  • Robocop (as mentioned)
  • Resident Evil 2 as Leon
Just a few off the top
kind9
03/18/2024
12:27 PM
#13
The whole SWAT series probably.
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JoeDangIt
03/19/2024
08:41 AM
#14
You can be a cop that helps people in Streets of Rogue, or you can break people out of prison just to pad out your arrests.
Sahuagin
03/21/2024
12:48 AM
#15
ParanoidObsessive posted...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_Quest
this although tbch I can't specifically remember an instance of helping someone, though I'm sure I could find examples if I looked it up.

things I do remember include: taking a shower, stopping someone for speeding, getting stuff from my locker, having to learn poker and win a poker match, being in a shootout, having a flat tire every single time you don't look at all four tires before driving somewhere, and a few other things that don't involve helping people.
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josh
03/21/2024
01:42 AM
#16
swat 4

... after bean bagging 20 other guys in the crotch
So I was standing still at a stationary store...
josh
03/21/2024
01:43 AM
#17
Sahuagin posted...
this although tbch I can't specifically remember an instance of helping someone, though I'm sure I could find examples if I looked it up.

Sonny helps himself by saving his girlfriend from the murderous jessie bains!
So I was standing still at a stationary store...
agesboy
03/21/2024
03:14 PM
#18
if you broaden your definition of game to include visual novels, there's some more

428 (detective), AI (detective), Meteor World Actor (detectives), Fullmetal Daemon Muramasa (pretends to be a cop but is way higher up), EVE: Burst Error (one protagonist's an ex-cop turned unofficial detective, other's a secret agent which is basically a supercop), and technically maybe Sharin no Kuni (more of a dedicated parole officer policing social taboos, and it's debatable if that's helping considering the government is villainous)
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faz
03/22/2024
08:00 PM
#19
There was that game based on the show "Worls scariest police chases"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Scariest_Police_Chases_(video_game)
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