The interrogation stuff seems so unpredictable. I can never tell if someone is telling the truth or not. And then when you screw up so badly the game just gives you a result so you can keep going along with the story. I don't get what I am doing wrong. I pretty much get 0 on every interrogation. 

The trick is reading people

If they don't move alot or do any sort of nervous gestures, just put truth. If they are moving slightly nervously, put doubt. Also if they look like they are pretending to be guilty moving around during mocap, then put lie after looking over your evidence first.

It's not a perfect system, guessing the lie is difficult.

The trick is reading people

The interrogation stuff seems so unpredictable. I can never tell if someone is telling the truth or not. And then when you screw up so badly the game just gives you a result so you can keep going along with the story. I don't get what I am doing wrong. I pretty much get 0 on every interrogation. 

What is the "trick" that I am missing? 

Don't be alarmed. You are probably not suffering from an autism-spectrum disorder.

Concentrate on the face, particularly the eyes. If the eyes are moving around, face shifting- it's most likely doubt UNLESS you have a clue that directly contradicts what they said
If they are looking straight at you (no real movement going on with the face or eyes) or are looking worried for genuine reason (you told the neighbor lady the woman next door was murdered) it's probably truth.
Whatever their face looks like, if what they say contradicts a clue you have (select to see the list, read the descriptions too), it's a lie. Remember people can lie while looking you straight in the face and not flinching.

@VelvetLore04 said:

The trick is reading people

Thats not much to go on. 

I think I need to shelve this game for a while and start over. Im too annoyed to keep playing. 

The trick is reading people

@VelvetLore04 said:

The trick is reading people

I agree, but the issue is these people aren't real.  They are actors, and hence, they are inherently lying.   I just don't think any of the actors are that good that you can't tell they are acting and because of that it basically always seems like they are lying, or at least it can be hard to differentiate when they are lying versus when they are acting...which are one in the same.  Maybe the problem I'm having with the game is that I'm too good at reading people and hence I can always see them lying because they all are by virtue of the fact they are acting.  Make sense?That seems to be the problem I'm encountering anyway.

I think I need to shelve this game for a while and start over. Im too annoyed to keep playing. 

@VelvetLore04 said:

@Devil240Z said:

@VelvetLore04 said:

The trick is reading people

Thats not much to go on. 

Everyone has a tell. If someone looks like they are averting their gaze and whatnot, chances are they are telling a lie. Look over your evidence to see if you can prove their lie. Otherwise doubt them.

So does that mean there can be two right answers? 

Truth and lie would be enough for this game in my option, you still need to collect evidence and piece them together anyway.

This really is one of those 'Use more skill' scenarios.

@Devil240Z said:

I think I need to shelve this game for a while and start over. Im too annoyed to keep playing. 

@VelvetLore04 said:

@Devil240Z said:

@VelvetLore04 said:

The trick is reading people

Thats not much to go on. 

Everyone has a tell. If someone looks like they are averting their gaze and whatnot, chances are they are telling a lie. Look over your evidence to see if you can prove their lie. Otherwise doubt them.

So does that mean there can be two right answers? 

No. Doubt is just accusing of lying but without presenting proof. There's only one right answer.

@AlisterCat said:

@Devil240Z said:

I think I need to shelve this game for a while and start over. Im too annoyed to keep playing. 

@VelvetLore04 said:

@Devil240Z said:

@VelvetLore04 said:

The trick is reading people

Thats not much to go on. 

Everyone has a tell. If someone looks like they are averting their gaze and whatnot, chances are they are telling a lie. Look over your evidence to see if you can prove their lie. Otherwise doubt them.

So does that mean there can be two right answers? 

No. Doubt is just accusing of lying but without presenting proof. There's only one right answer.

That makes me think that Doubt and Lie are the same. I don't see the difference between the two. Other than the evidence part. Which I always seem to choose the wrong evidence. 

I just read the stuff in the instruction manual and I've been having some good luck so far. Missing maybe 1-2 questions per case since I did.

Some people in this thread must be aspergers, if not straight up autistic.

@Devil240Z said:

@AlisterCat said:

@Devil240Z said:

I think I need to shelve this game for a while and start over. Im too annoyed to keep playing. 

@VelvetLore04 said:

@Devil240Z said:

@VelvetLore04 said:

The trick is reading people

Thats not much to go on. 

Everyone has a tell. If someone looks like they are averting their gaze and whatnot, chances are they are telling a lie. Look over your evidence to see if you can prove their lie. Otherwise doubt them.

So does that mean there can be two right answers? 

No. Doubt is just accusing of lying but without presenting proof. There's only one right answer.

That makes me think that Doubt and Lie are the same. I don't see the difference between the two. Other than the evidence part. Which I always seem to choose the wrong evidence. 

If you think someone knows more than they are letting on, try using Doubt. When you accuse someone of telling a lie, Cole pretty much tells you what piece of evidence you need to bust out to back your claim up. You can always press 'Lie', review the evidence and then back out if you don't think you have the right thing.

Read their faces. Listen to how they talk to you. If you think they're telling the truth, they often tell you things straight up, without nervous 'uh's and 'er's. If you think they're lying, check your evidence. If you have nothing to prove they're lying, then just doubt them.

God I really sucked at the  interrogation stuff for one of the Vice cases recently. I still caught the main guy but I had to let a lot of his underlings go. Once I beat the game I'm definitely going back to try that case again, and probably a lot of the others as well.

Some people in this thread must be aspergers, if not straight up autistic.

@VelvetLore04 said:

@Devil240Z said:

@AlisterCat said:

@Devil240Z said:

I think I need to shelve this game for a while and start over. Im too annoyed to keep playing. 

@VelvetLore04 said:

@Devil240Z said:

@VelvetLore04 said:

The trick is reading people

Thats not much to go on. 

Everyone has a tell. If someone looks like they are averting their gaze and whatnot, chances are they are telling a lie. Look over your evidence to see if you can prove their lie. Otherwise doubt them.

So does that mean there can be two right answers? 

No. Doubt is just accusing of lying but without presenting proof. There's only one right answer.

That makes me think that Doubt and Lie are the same. I don't see the difference between the two. Other than the evidence part. Which I always seem to choose the wrong evidence. 

If you think someone knows more than they are letting on, try using Doubt. When you accuse someone of telling a lie, Cole pretty much tells you what piece of evidence you need to bust out to back your claim up. You can always press 'Lie', review the evidence and then back out if you don't think you have the right thing.

That's pretty much what I've come down to. I've screwed up he's-lying-but-which-do-I-push so many times because I failed to do this.

Also, here's what you need to look for: confidence. If they look confident; they meet Cole's gaze then you're nearly guaranteed a Truth, anything else is either a Lie or a Doubt.

@HandsomeDead said:

Some people in this thread must be aspergers, if not straight up autistic.

Thats not a very nice thing to say. 

@phish09: It is easy to over think it. The game presents itself in a way that makes you want it to be less mechanical than it really is. Once you get over that and see the system for what they are it becomes pretty simple.

@Devil240Z said:

@HandsomeDead said:

Some people in this thread must be aspergers, if not straight up autistic.

Thats not a very nice thing to say. 

That's true, but it's probably just his social anxiety disorder and depression causing him to post stuff like that, so it's best not to bug him too much,

Read their faces. Listen to how they talk to you. If you think they're telling the truth, they often tell you things straight up, without nervous 'uh's and 'er's. If you think they're lying, check your evidence. If you have nothing to prove they're lying, then just doubt them.

If you've ever had a normal conversation with a real life human being, this shouldn't be too hard.

@phish09 said:

@Devil240Z said:

@HandsomeDead said:

Some people in this thread must be aspergers, if not straight up autistic.

Thats not a very nice thing to say. 

That's true, but it's probably just his social anxiety disorder and depression causing him to post stuff like that, so it's best not to bug him too much,

Is that the long winded way of admitting I got to you?

The trick is reading people

@HandsomeDead said:

@phish09 said:

@Devil240Z said:

@HandsomeDead said:

Some people in this thread must be aspergers, if not straight up autistic.

Thats not a very nice thing to say. 

That's true, but it's probably just his social anxiety disorder and depression causing him to post stuff like that, so it's best not to bug him too much,

Is that the long winded way of admitting I got to you?

Not really...other than the fact that I do have a little cousin who is autistic...however, your reply does tell me that I'm right.

Its not all about reading people, you have to think about the evidence! Read your notebook!! Everything a suspect says is important, reread your chat log. Evidence is an easy way to eliminate truth or lie, doubt more for pressing people who look nervous.

Key word here is game. Remember that fact.  There is nothing in the game that you can not see patterns and how it works. And beat it. The actors are told to act in a very plain out way, in other words, they are not acting like they are trying to cover the fact up they just said a lie. 

Sometimes it can be hard to tell if a character is lying or not but that is usually only the case with characters that don't think like a normal person thinks but even with them there is a general rule of thumb: if they look at you without averting their gaze they are telling the truth. Of course there are many more complex tells but I've found this rule to be right pretty much all of the time. distinguishing doubt from the lie is also usually as easy as reviewing your evidence but sometimes the character's response and the correct response don't match. Sometimes Cole will lead the conversation one way but accuse the character of lying about a seemingly unrelated topic or evidence is more damning or less so than you thought. For instance, there was this one time I asked the husband about possible suspects, people who might have wanted to harm his wife and he said that everyone liked his wife but his gaze looked shifty. I didn't have any evidence to prove that someone in particular did not like his wife so I chose "doubt" but I was wrong. As it turns out I was supposed to accuse the husband of lying and in his accusation Cole clearly hints that the evidence he's gonna use is some rope that he found at the husband's house. I suppose you could try accusing a character of lying, listen to Cole's accusation for hints at the evidence he is looking for and back out of it if you don't have it but this way isn't very fast and you would wind up making a fool out of yourself when you back out of accusations.

I usually replay a segment until I get five stars anyways but it can get annoying.

Don't opt to call them a liar unless you have evidence to prove they're lying. I didn't really understand that mechanic for the first couple of interrogations. 

Don't be alarmed. You are probably not suffering from an autism-spectrum disorder.

@thehexeditor said:

Don't be alarmed. You are probably not suffering from an autism-spectrum disorder.

Ha, autistic duder here, nailing all the investigations.

Guessing a lie is the real bitch.