{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/611ae865d62db90012cd2c2a/6926fa19e85b4ee0f9145bd4?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"052 - Dispatch – The Superhero Telltale Successor We Didn’t See Coming","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/611ae865d62db90012cd2c2a/1764162043578-0a7ea43c-2c2f-48f0-80a7-ca1a775db748.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>In this week’s episode of&nbsp;<strong>Unskippable Dialogue, the Irish gaming podcast for gamers who prefer their heroics with a dash of chaos and a hint of Buldak hot sauce. </strong>Conor takes the lead and reviews&nbsp;<em>Dispatch</em>, the new superhero narrative adventure from&nbsp;<strong>AdHoc Games</strong>, built by former&nbsp;<strong>Telltale</strong>&nbsp;devs and rescued from oblivion by&nbsp;<strong>Critical Role</strong>. Across 7 hours of sharp writing, deeply cursed characters, messy romances, and a dispatch system that’s basically&nbsp;<em>Coffee Talk</em>&nbsp;meets&nbsp;<em>XCOM</em>,&nbsp;<em>Dispatch</em>&nbsp;absolutely floored us and Conor explains precisely why this choice-driven story has instantly become one of the best narrative games in years.</p><p><br></p><p>From</p><ul><li>Robert Robertson’s washed-up post-superhero midlife crisis,</li><li>to the Z-Team of reformed villains (including a tiny Irish man whose entire personality is punching people in the dick),</li><li>to the phenomenal voice cast (Aaron Paul, Matt Mercer, Alanna Pearce, MoistCr1tikal, JackSepticEye),</li><li><br></li></ul><p>We also derail into:</p><p>– cursed AI “cup buck” lads,</p><p>– which sauces are the sauciest,</p><p>– four-chan as a character-creation engine,</p><p>– romancing tall women with enchanted amulets,</p><p>– and why the UNREAL amount of dog hair in Connor’s throat is absolutely a supervillain origin story.</p><p>I</p><p>f you love:</p><p><strong>gaming podcasts</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>narrative games</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Telltale-style storytelling</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Critical Role</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>indie game reviews</strong>, or&nbsp;<strong>two Irish lads laughing until they nearly die on mic.</strong></p><p>This episode is&nbsp;<em>unskippable</em>.</p><p><br></p><p>Join the Discord, send us your voice notes, and fight us about which superhero we should have romanced.</p>","author_name":"Unskippable Dialogue"}