Forum Overview :: What Are You Playing Right Now? :: Dispatch (demo)

[quote name="uh oh....oh??? Oh!"]<img src="https://shared.fastly.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/2592160/ss_e821251aca2d2f5a6ac255b788cbf6c02904f379.600x338.jpg?t=1750781695"> <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/2592160/Dispatch/">Dispatch</a> Plays exactly like those 911 emergency dispatcher games, except it's superheroes. You play son of not-Ironman who inherited the suit, got it destroyed, and now you're just a deadbeat schlub whose only career path is being a dispatcher at superhero HQ. Since you suck, you get assigned to the Z team not-Suicide Squad. I started to panic when I saw not only the Telltale Games style conversation responses, but that some former Telltale writers were part of the team! I nearly force quit when I saw a "(character) will remember that" bubble. But...holy shit the writing is actually good? It's going for the same style of quirky Whedon writing except it's funny?? It's like you're expecting David Ayer's Suicide Squad but it turns out to be James Gunn's. ! You expect your depressed and jaded protagonist to give the laziest sarcastic responses to everything, but he ends up giving the proper "fuck you"s you've always wanted to give to annoying Whedon and Gearbox characters. ! You expect the even more burned out and jaded old Sam Jackson character to be an unfunny person's attempt at Sam Jackson, but he's even better at telling the characters to fuck themselves. ! There's a ton of varied and custom chatter on dispatch. I actually kept wishing there was a pause button so I could listen to it without the timers going down. ! The first hacking mini game you do is a panicked call about a malfunctioning bidet <a href="https://caltrops.com/article0032.php">spraying shit everywhere.</a> ! My favorite little joke is a hero named Coupé with feather wings who throws knives. It's supposed to be the French word for cutting and the ballet dance move, but the cast is too dumb to know that so everyone says "Coop" and assume she's meant to be a chicken. So if you go in not expecting more than a Telltale meets emergency dispatcher game with great writing, you'll like it. My one complaint about the gameplay is a lot of the emergencies are unclear as to what attributes are needed and can end up being unintuitive. I get a call about a kid's balloon stuck in a tree ("You must REACH high up in the tree") so I send a mobility hero but it turns out the stats checked are Combat? What? I'm picking it up when it comes out. I've got to wonder though, where the hell were these writers hiding their talent during their Telltale run? Did Anthony Birch and Randy Pitchford keep blocking their good ideas? No wonder they ditched.[/quote]