>>1419123 I'm kinda interested, although I haven't looked deeply into the game.

>>1419123 >he e-celeb voice cast seemed like a terrible idea though. Crazy how the dev team is purposefully adding people who have a high chance of being outed as pedophiles in the next 10 years. Genuinely rolling the dice on that one...

>>1419123 I played it. It's weird I just randomly thought of it yesterday and discovered there was a demo. As someone who did kind of like Telltale back in the day I was interested. If it captures the tone of Tales From the Borderlands I figure it could be a good time. I liked it to a degree. It's pretty obvious the story parts are just webms. There's no actual rendering of characters going on nor will there ever be a section where you can walk people around (which even Telltale games had). This is probably how the game has such a tiny file size. It's just a bunch of movie files, voice clips and the dispatch interface. This does make dialogue choices feel a bit more awkward than old Telltale. Many times I felt the timer was too fast for me to process the choices and also pay attention to what the characters were still saying and I definitely think that's down to this just being video files. They want the animation to stay fluid and cinematic but the old system allowed for some lingering pauses that give you a bit more time to consider options. Maybe later ones will feel less awkward. The game itself seems kind of fun. Kind of a super hero version of This is the Police but with more established characters and story. I found it weird there were actual stat and level up mechanics and I kind of wonder if this will factor into the story at all or if it will just be window dressing. The demo stops right before you're about to get a story dispatch and I feel like that was a mistake. They probably should have shown at least one of those to get a more complete feeling of the game flow. Overall I'll probably pirate it. I wasn't too annoyed by anything in yet. Yeah, Chase says "fuck" too much but I like Jeffrey Wright as an actor and his delivery is good. The youtubers are playing the comic relief characters who seem to have the overall least to do with the plot, so whatever. There wasn't too much current year stuff just one or two things. Most of the women seem attractive with the traditional blond hero girl seemingly being the main love interest going by the trailer. The demo, I feel, probably didn't give as clear a picture of the game as it should have but for all we know it'll be like five hours long so I guess we'll see. I'll pirate it when it comes out and stop playing if it annoys me too many times.

>>1419123 >nigger Nah.

>>1437134 Just about to post this

>>1419123 Mechanically it sounds vaguely like the Superhero League of Hoboken. In Hoboken, you still play the superheroes - but it's more of an Adventure Game with some RPG elements tagged on. You control an entire team of superheroes and as situations arise you have to pick the best member to solve it. So instead of items to use to solve puzzles, you have seemingly useless "Mystery Men"-like powers to use in novel ways. So who you pick to be part of your team at any given time will determine what missions you'll be able to progress through.

So this is definitely getting pushed back to 2026 right? We are in September and there is still no release date.

>>1419123 I remember being strongly put off by the trailer and then promptly forgot about this until now. Concept is decent but the writing is gonna be shit, so why bother? >>1439238 What a lovable face this man has. Wish my aryan genes were that strong.

>>1437134 >>1439104 white fragility be real

Episode 1 is releasing October 22.

Mecha-man... Who he really is!?

>>1758880 Correction, it looks like episodes 1 and 2 are releasing on October 22. Then 2 episode will release weekly after that.

>>1759152 Shit game made by shit people with people made out of shit in it releases in a weekly format. These turbo retards could have just done a shit netflix series that no one would have watched instead and saved everyone some headaches.

>>1419123 Tried the demo, it was gay as fuck and most the characters are irritating.

>>1718552 dis nigga be like aight imma be like he be like uh uh he be like uh uh shiiiieeeet dis nigga be real fo'real frfr Hang yourself from the nearest tree.

>look at it on steam because im a sucker for these games >nudity I wonder who

>>1419460 I'm not surprised, I know that SEGA and Square Enix are already hiring ecelebs to replace proper VAs.

>>1873047 They hired some Korean-Venezuelan guy for one of the Yakuza games and he's embarrassingly terrible. For the songs, they had to pitch correct his voice so much he sounds like Daft Punk at points.

>>1873244 I know about Yong Yea. SEGA of America specifically casted him because of his YouTube following. Here's a good video going over the subject. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y6ptYx4xLU

>>1419123 After seeing how all telltale games end, Im not willing to suffer through another of choices not mattering I'd pay for the full game but not another episodic bullshit of episodes of differing quality written by different writers ending with a schizophrenic tone. I'm tired of mood whiplash for these things. Also once the full game is out I can sift through the reviews and see if the episodic story manages to stand together otherwise ima just sit on the sidelines and wait

>>1873376 >Im not willing to suffer through another of choices not mattering One of the few games I know of where your actions drastically affect the story is Detroit: Become Human, oddly enough. Another is Alpha Protocol. Both extremely flawed games.

>>1873423 But fun and less flawed than tell tale episodic stories

>>1419123 >nigger dropped

>>1873491 You're not in the game tho

I watched Archcast stream the game. It was a lot better than I expected, but still has plenty of things keeping me skeptical about it. Also generally has the vibe that it'd make a better tv series than game.

>>1876142 This really. Alot of the story department and cinematic actually worked in western animation. One guy worked on Bojack for example. I think they wanted to do a show but couldn't get the funding for it so made it a game instead.

>>1876154 >>1876142 I feel its too reliant on the cast rather than the narrative. Also the Blond Slut is a slut trying to cheat on her boyfriend.

>>1876167 Yeah, it's hard to tell what the story's message is going to be. The main character seems oddly competent for a white male in this kind of game, which is a bit refreshing even if they still have emasculating components. It's a private superhero company, but they have a realistic balance of people there doing good work and caring about the job with the ugly side that comes from for profit heroics. It's just really hard to judge so far. Blond slut is a slut, but that does make her entertaining to watch, even if the main character should not touch her with a 10ft pole. Getting princess carried at the end despite being able to fly herself made me laugh. Big things I'm looking out for going forward is that all the villains on the team need to get fleshed out well, and the company can't get revealed to be pure evil, it needs to stay in that grey area. Also should obviously focus on the super heroing over any romance plot, especially if it's with the blond slut instead invisibitch. I can't fix her but I can dream.

>>1876196 I would have liked if he seethed more about the villains. When I drop that guy off the ledge, let him die. I want to feel the MCs anger at those that killed his father, and I want to feel how this one goal is out of his reach. If they mde him hunger for revenge I think the main story would be more gripping. But overall, this game isnt as offensive as I thought it was going to be. I'm pleasantly surprised.

>>1876199 I don't need him to be the punisher to feel like his revenge quest is valuable. Still, if he had killed the guy, maybe he wouldn't have lost the fight. Still, I don't think the story is as much about revenge as it is about a man who lost everything trying to do the right thing. I actually would like it best if the company fails to restore the suit since I think that fits the theme better.

Can you fuck the demon musclegirl?

>>1876214 Im just thinking of a way to make the main narrative more engaging, it doesnt need to be the punisher 2.0. I was just giving an idea.

The game only came out yesterday and the endings are already leaking on youtube.

>>1876288 Where?

>>1876289 Youtube, the spoilers arent massive ones tbh https://www.youtube.com/@DispatchLeaks

>>1876336 That's extremely limited in what it shows but it looks like maybe you CAN fix Invisigirl and that's what denotes good and bad endings.

Finished episode 3 and 4. Fixing Invisigal seems to be the point. I picked spending time with her over blazer. Overall 3 and 4 felt better though I'm not sure I'm completely sold yet.

>>1419123 I admittedly purposefully overlooked this game since I saw "Critical Role" and its Telltale-wannabe aesthetic in the trailer and assumed it was gonna be hella gay. >>1873370 >ex Blizzard I swear, the rats fleeing that sinking ship are worse than when it was around - infesting multiple companies to turn them into equal shit rather than just sticking to one.

>>1876223 Seconding this, I want that experience but in a game slightly less gay than Baldur's Gate 3.

>>1718552 >>1833886 Lol all it took was not inflecting the copula to send the snow nigger chimping.

>>1419123 Saw a friend playing two first eps. Very strong AMERICAN HUMOUR. Wish the game let you focus on all heroes and their shit instead of focusing on invisible seamonkey and fake blondie.

Im tryna fuck the invisibitch!

>>1898935 If it wasn't a movie game, they could have done that and had a route for every character.

>>1898935 >Very strong AMERICAN HUMOUR Millenial humor. Or, zoomer humor maybe? Lame safe-edgy internet maymay humor at any rate.

>>1899284 How much control does she have over her invisibility powers? Can she make select parts of her invisible? So like, if you're fucking her, can she turn everything invisible except for her skeleton? That'd be pretty spooky.

>>1899907 >have a kid >kids only visible parts are the skeleton by default due to saved settings

>>1899907 I think it's full invisibility while she holds her breath. It's why she has an inhaler. Gone through eps 3 and 4. Kicked off Sonar cause I don't want Charlie and Coop has a decent VA with her gimmick. And didn't choose waterboy because he's just pathetic. Now the major part of 4 is Blaser vs Gal in who Robert has a date with. Blaser is really a brunette and Gal seems to lose some of her edge but is still voiced by Laura Bailey. I'm still interested in this and seeing where they take it.

QRD on the fake blonde. I can't care less about anything about whatever this thing is, but that blondie has my curiosity.

>>1901745 She is probably a loose bimbo and/or a cheater who fell extremely hard for the MC at first sight. The fact is, she would go for a kiss on the first night she meets the MC while dating the worlds Superman equivalent. Potentially she is the daughter of the villain that the MC is after. Either her or Invisigal is said villain's spy, though I'm less convinced on Invisigal due to actually having heroic inclinations. Either way, someone planted that bomb.

Kind of weird how civilians are pretty much only treated as a backdrop. Everyone kind of came off as really psychopathic with how self-centered they are rather than helping plebs; could be the writers trying to drive a point about celebs or something, though the Z-team being ex-cons does make it somewhat fitting for them, not so much the ones outside of them though.

>>1901999 It’s more than a little silly that some weenie 30 year old man has multiple girls fawning over him one of which previously dated a 6’7 gigachad. >>1876154 Functionally it is a show. The animation isn’t anything worse than what usually comes out these days.

>>1902285 >It’s more than a little silly that some weenie 30 year old man has multiple girls fawning over him one of which previously dated a 6’7 gigachad. Isn't he supposed to be an Iron Man type hero just with his suit in the shop?

>>1901745 Blondie whore cucks the MC,

>>1902285 >>1902764 That's basically just the story of Spider Man anyhow. People bitch about tropes being unoriginal, but it's fine honestly. They work for a reason. Superhero fans are stereotyped as being geeks, and it's a geek power fantasy. Same shit with harem anime. Loser blank slate boy ends up alone in a house with tons of hot chicks who get into hijinks while fighting over who gets to fuck him this episode. So it's not exactly like it's out of character for it to happen here either.

>>1902775 She's literally married, if anything the MC does the cucking, which is still godawful.

>>1902764 Except he has negative charisma.

>>1902820 Iron Man but he's not rich and doesn't even have the charm of Tony Stark, got you.

>>1902179 Noticed it too, could be some pretty smart foreshadowing to setup future dilemmas but I don't have high hopes. >>1902775 >cucking is when a married woman refuses to cheat on her husband with the MC What did he mean by this?

>>1419123 >e-celeb voice acting Part of the reason some telltale games had any value was the voice acting. If you're a modern VN and you don't even have good voice-acting, that's not good. Hell, it mightve been better to forgo voice acting entirely because bad voice acting can break immersion whereas text on its own can still have value if the writing is good.

>>1902285 I could see Invisigal being interested. He's a long time hero, probably multiple girls teenage crushes, shes into scars and the dude is covered in them. Plus, she knows he's a big deal helping "failures" like herself and her team. There's enough chemistry. Blonde Bimbo came out of fucking nowhere, with not nearly as much chemistry.

>>1902285 >previously dated a 6’7 gigachad A 6'7 gigachad who she couldn't fuck, didn't really know to talk to and didn't even really get her emotionally. I mean, picked Invisigal over Blazer and put Phenomeman on the team because I actually do get him but let's not pretend that was any kind of fulfilling relationship for Blazer.

>>1903342 >What did he mean by this? YOU ALREADY KNOW!

Im just going to wait 8 more days to get the rest of the chapters to play through the rest of it. I hate being fed morsels

>>1907497 >implying women care about any of that Meme.

>>1907577 Youve made the right choice, i started at relase and the wait is agonizing

I can't believe invisibitch killed chase.

>>1910202 >>1907577 Blatant shillposts

>>1911082 spoilers exist for a reason, retard

>>1911562 I do it for free

>>1911562 Hey I'm not telling you to buy it lol. You can play it without buying it

For me, its Blond Blazer [spoiler]I enjoy telltale slop and its scratching that itch.

>>1911772 Invisigal is way better than the unfaithful blonde bimbo

>>1876196 >main character seems oddly competent Its kind of a breath of fresh air. But I genuinely expected a dialogue tree where you could reject shitcanning the bottom-scorers since a competent manager wouldn't want that for their second day on the job. The only person on the team who probably doesn't care for heroism is Coupe. Its why I shitcanned her, but the pointed counterargument is that she's a deadly assassin whose being paid to work for "the good guys." Sonar is genuinely interested in self improvement and from the jobs in game has shown to be a good spokesman for whatever the fuck the SDC wants. He's also got a drug problem and fucks around. If I had a real choice, it'd actually be Prism or, funnily enough, Coupe. Coupe because she sabotaged teammates multiple times (including a unavoidable sabotage with Sonar before the dispatch section starts.) Prism because she also sabotaged the shit out of people during my dispatch calls and threatened punch-up in the middle of a pep-talk meeting. It really was just a piss poor plot point to create drama and setup a villain for later episodes.

>>1911934 Is there any reason, any at all, to think that invisigirl doesn’t have a body count that if measured in kms would be longer than the Union Pacific Railroad?

>>1913373 She didn't cheat on her husband literally 5 minutes after meeting some. If anything, based on her mannerisms, invisigal screams that she is mostly a loner. There were several chances invisigal could have kissed Mechaman yet they haven't even hit first base yet

>>1911772 Fucking cuckchan newfaggot fuck

>>1911772 >[spoiler] >slop

>>1917982 There's nothing wrong with the term slop you stuck up faggot. Slop is a good word for the shit being poured out into the normalfag paypiggies various entertainment troughs these days.

>>1419123 Alright, I've been through all eight episodes and I chose the romance option voiced by Laura Bailey. To be fair, you do see her character's tits a lot in the game. Guess my dick chose that one. Thoughts without that much in spoilers: I liked it. If I had a paycheck, I'd probably buy it. I would still be hesitant on Season 2 but its team proved itself here so I guess we'll see. Choices somewhat mattered. It's less so of choosing immediately what happens and more so of building up points. Do enough good options, you'll get good. There are some parts where the choices really do matter, but they're kind of obvious. (Kissing Blonde Blazer, going to the movies or dinner between BB/Invisigal, etc) I don't consider the romance options real spoilers but the only spoiler is that you do have to choose a romance. One of the heroines is integral to the good ending. Which has my gripe. It won't feel like your choices had a lot of impact if you're coming out with like 4 mostly static endings. But there's enough setup, and probably budget, for them to matter more for season 2, because the last two episodes had a lot of choices that seem to setup for a second season. Shroud was a good villain, there's a lot of discussion in the thread about him, but unfortunately he does drop the ball near the end, but it's not a matter of presentation. I'm not gonna use the spoiler asterisks for entire spoiler section. Just certain words that might pop out. You have free will, faggot, just stop reading. It does look that Invisigal was a spy. It also seems like it was a matter of Shroud both having the tech to predict everyone, and being good with tech. I guess a spy isn't all that important when you can just ask a computer what the chances of something happening. It's also a downgrade for him to just have one fight, one hissy fit tantrum with Dad Mecha Man, before he breaks down and shoots his ass. Might also be that the comics weren't as directed as the actual game. The writing, especially around Robert, feels really good. There's a few points where I disagree with the plot, like cutting sonar/coop or being unable to point out that Invisigal was probably trying to slot in the Astral Pulse. I also thought that Chase should've died, would've been more impactful, but that might be dependent on ending. I got the good ending with Invisigal, and I don't plan on replaying it, mainly because the gameplay part of the game sucks. I don't know if the Dispatch part of Dispatch actually really affects anything other than if you really fuck up versus not fucking up. It's also really simple and there's a lot of interactions you'd think would be there, but aren't. Since the strengths of the game are it's writing and visuals, I'd hope the gameplay would be augmented more with that, but it is not. I don't have much more to point out on this because there really isn't much to point out. It's more akin to a kinetic visual novel, but that's to be expected with a game made by the Telltale devs.

>>1929134 I went with Gal too thinking it would go somewhere. And it really didn't. If you go through again, pick Blazer instead. She seems kinda happy to not have powers. Plus those abs. Sonar was a dick, glad I kicked him. Coop is way more helpful and that +3 she gives combined with flying means she covers any physical situation really well. I was also right to pick Phenomaman over Water Boy, Water Boy's VA is terrible and his ability is to take up a spot if not sent out on a call. That grew really annoying. Plot wise Shourd was kind of a non-threat. Everyone showed up for the final fight despite being way outside the city or having been beaten before. Probably the thing I noticed the most besides the expletives was the grossout humor in episode 8. Hyping up this one guy who descended in an elevator only to go to the bathroom. Then the game forces you to put his dick away or have Visi do it. Eww. But yes, my opinion on this has soured quite a bit. I thought it had potential but it's just the word fuck every 3 lines of dialog, even from someone like Blazer and grossout that's weirdly out of place. The game got 10k positivie reviews yesterday with the complete season drop so I think an S2 is going to be made. I won't play it.

Status: fixed. I was satisfied with the ending. It wasn't perfect, but for Telltale this was pretty good. I'd pirate a second season or something else they made. >>1929191 >Sonar was a dick, glad I kicked him. I feel like Coop makes way more sense in the villain role than Sonar. She's actually threatening. Honestly the decision to let her back on the team seemed kinda BS. She didn't really do anything to redeem herself and she was hugely bad during the last two episodes, but, eh, fuck it. The ending was already so incredibly happy I figured I might as well make a clean sweep. >I went with Gal too thinking it would go somewhere. And it really didn't. Can't say I agree with this. Their relationship felt good to me and the ending was satisfying.

Evil masked guy seems cool

>>1929191 >I went with Gal too thinking it would go somewhere. And it really didn't. If you go through again, pick Blazer instead. Just found out you don't even need to pick. They don't even really get mad or bring it up. You just get both.

>>1929249 I thought the ending was good but was also a disaster typical of capeshit fashion. Like how the fact that you couldn't just kill shroud to stop him immediately as he holds the mutt hostage. It was my all means horrible and the only good thing about it was the "gameplay" and special effects

>>1922993 >I do not belong here Just leave.

I appreciated this reference.

>>1929485 Was this a British past time passed to it's colonies?

Enjoyed the game well enough, even if the story felt a bit sloppy at the end. Shroud's introduction at the bar was pretty cool. I really enjoyed the actual dispatching gameplay though. Especially in episode 8 where everything is going to hell. The map zoom out was one of my favorite moments. If there was a mode to just play that without having to replay the story I'd play the game more.

>>1929485 I soy'd out and started clapping irl (jk). Was hoping to see comfort Blazer option at some point.

>>1929327 I guess most people didn't bother trying cause didn't expect the game to roll with that.

Overall I really liked the movie. The things that bug me stand out the most though. >Final fight is a a haze of action shots without connection. You can't just show a montage the heros winning immediately ending with all the villains still standing with the upper hand. >Why the fuck did Robert Robertson go back to the villain bar which he knows is frequented by red ring members? Even if he was trying to get information, he went in with no plan for when the obvious happened. >The option to give Shroud both pulses is cool on the surface level, but what would they have done if shroud took both and retreated? He'd have all the time in the world to test both and find the real one.

>>1936207 >Final fight is a a haze of action shots without connection. You can't just show a montage the heros winning immediately ending with all the villains still standing with the upper hand. This is a capeshit problem in general. >Why the fuck did Robert Robertson go back to the villain bar which he knows is frequented by red ring members? Even if he was trying to get information, he went in with no plan for when the obvious happened. This is definitely odd. Shroud's introduction is cool but it is weird Robert would go to a place so dangerous that he got into a fight with his enemies last time. The only explanation I can come up with is he wanted trouble. He just didn't think he'd get that much. >The option to give Shroud both pulses is cool on the surface level, but what would they have done if shroud took both and retreated? He'd have all the time in the world to test both and find the real one. I have less problems with this one. Shroud's entire character is based on trying to remove luck and random chance from his life. Giving him a 50/50 coinflip is literally the worst thing you can hand him and he became irrationally angry from it. His henchman even SUGGESTS doing the smart thing and just taking both but he's so pissed from the situation he just picks one. It works with his character. I don't think it's bad writing to have someone act irrationally when confronted with what they hate most.

>>1936489 It's not really a 50/50 coinflip though. If he takes the delay, he 100% has the astral pulse. He talks big about game theory, but plugging one in blindly is the worst move.

>>1936510 Rationally yes. Though you could also argue without the hostage Shroud had to make a move to power up everyone right there or the heroes would turn the tables.

>>1936524 You could make that argument, but that isn't really shown because capeshit fight direction where none of the hits matter.

>>1936489 I agree. Also, why would Robert keep going to the same dump of a bar even though it caused him trouble a lot of trouble already?

Surprised milennial hipster capeshit is as popular as it is, even here. Don’t get me wrong, I can see there’s a lot of criticism in this thread, but I was expecting total hatred of it.

>>1939831 It's closer to a reconstruction of the superhero genre than the bullshit behind the MCU. Playing many tropes or character archetypes straight instead of making it edgy or making fun of it for the millennial crowd. It isn't constantly cracking jokes, and it respects characters. If certain characters had turned out to be what I and others expected, I think the game would've been far worse for it. And it would be fairly difficult for any millennial hipster-tier writer to actually write a character like Robert the way that he is. You know, mature, useful, knows what he's doing and good leadership/mentorship skills. In addition to resisting the urge to make fun of him and emasculate him at every turn. I think this is going to become more common in the genre, with how tired people are of the poison the MCU brought into basically every superhero IP.

>>1939831 If this was actual millennial hipster capeshit then Robert would be a wimpy, weak-willed doormat who was always wrong and shown up by his diverse and female colleagues. Instead, he's capable, levelheaded, gives as good as he gets, everyone on his team ends up respecting him and the two fully heterosexual female leads both want to fuck him. If you think Marvel would have done that at any point in the last ten years you have not been paying attention.

>>1939952 >It isn't constantly cracking jokes The characters do, though.

>>1940040 They do, but they're just regular jokes instead of the constant Whedon quip/snark.

>>1939831 I simply think capeshit is cool and find how it presents the stakes of the story to be refreshing.

I think it's a crying shame we never got to romance demon girl

>>1940790 Aesthetically she was attractive but she was one of the least developed z-teamers in practice.

>>1939831 Its a pretty good game storywise that takes itself seriously instead of being ashamed of the superhero genre, sure there are some lame jokes but theyre a minor issue more than anything my biggest problem would be that you are railroaded into kicking one of 2 specific people instead of anyone from the team

>>1939831 It got my attention because it looked like millennial hipster capeshit, but was way less millennial or hipster than I was expecting. The heros are heros. The villains are villains. The men are men and the women are women.