Headscratchers / Police Quest 4: Open Season

• What is the point of the chocolate bar in 4? You don't get any points for getting it or giving it to Linder. Though it's good for laugh if you try giving it to Hal.
• The game has quite a bit of these. For instance, why does the narrator repeat sentences like "You loosen the slug from the wall," up to 16 times?
  • Bad gameplay design.
• Open Season has one point in which John Carey gets in a shootout. At that point, the game requires him to put on the Kevlar Vest he received from Hickman's wife. So...why didn't John put on the vest immediately after receiving it and before the shootout? Putting on the vest in the middle of a shootout leaves you wide open to getting shot.
  • Also, John was not necessarily safe hiding behind the car. Some guns are capable of shooting through cars. He has to get a shotgun from the trunk, but wouldn't that once again leave him wide open to getting shot?
    • This is strictly in Rule of Cool to allow the shoot-out to take place. Also, putting on the vest isn't strictly necessary: if you're fast enough with your handgun, you can take everyone out without getting shot. If you go for the shotgun, though, you'll inevitably be hit, requiring the vest.
• When John confronts Dennis Walker the Neo-Nazi, you can get a dialogue that goes like this: "Don't touch my [Nazi] flag, man! It ain't illegal!" "Yeah, it is." Except...the game is taking place in Los Angeles, California, USA. Possessing a Nazi flag is not illegal there, but it is in bad taste.
  • Also, when John turns off the radio so he can have a discussion with Walker, Walker just runs off. Why would he do that? John said that he just wanted to ask some questions, not arrest him. If Walker didn't want John talking to him, why did he let him in?
  • Why did Walker's Nazi girlfriend try to stab John? It's a very bad idea to kill a cop.
  • Later, when John is at City Hall where a press conference is taking place, Walker actually pops out of the crowd to attack John. Why would Walker do that? Attacking a cop in the middle of a press conference is firmly in the category of Stupid Evil.
    • I'm pretty sure the implication there is that Walker and his girlfriend are Stupid Evil: they're mentally unbalanced, or at least not the most forward-thinking people. Maybe they didn't do anything wrong, but they weren't terribly smart about their actions.