u/GriveousDance21

I really believe the complete recordings of the phone ARG AdHoc ran before the game's launch last year should be released officially, at least on YouTube or on their socials. There are obviously a lot of new players who are unaware of the ARG being a thing and international players who obviously don't have access to US phone lines that missed out on the timed campaign.

Is it possible at all for AdHoc to release the full ARG at some point? I know it's a dated advertisement campaign for the game, but new players are curious to know about it, especially as the ARG confirmed Blazer's birthday. Plus it's a fun little less-known tidbit about the game.

Forgive me if this post seems a little too long and technical.

So I've finished all 4 seasons of Telltale's Walking Dead and noticed an interesting gameplay mechanism in the final season, which is the mentoring relationship between the protagonist Clementine and her adopted brother Alvin Jr.

SPOILERS AHEAD FOR WALKING DEAD SEASON 4:

In that game Clementine is tasked with teaching her adopted brother Alvin Jr. (or AJ) what's right from wrong, which is the mentality to make tough decisions whenever needed. In many times the game will notify the player about AJ's mental status, which he seems to be nurturing from the events he witnesses (e.g. people dying, or bad guys needed to be killed). At the final stage of that game, AJ will significantly alter its ending by >!either saving or sacrificing Clementine's romance interest, !<based on what you, as Clementine, has taught him throughout the whole game.

Dispatch seems to be following a simplified but a more hidden and subtle approach to the mentoring system for Visi. However unlike TWD, there is no notification or obvious markings or arguments between Visi and Robert at random points in the game about the morality of being a hero. Alongside just pep talks, the player needs to keep her active on Dispatching segments and train her to get the "good ending".

However, I found Visi and AJ's final actions based on their learnings to be somewhat similar. In both cases, the games take control away from the player and let those characters decide how they want to approach. >!AJ either kills his best friend to save Clementine's romance interest or let them both be killed by zombies!<, while Visi saves Robert or kills Shroud.

Forgive me if my post seemed a bit complex, but this was an interesting similarity I found between the two games.

To those at AdHoc's Discord or those who went to the panel, were there any announcement or hints given at a possible sequel? I know I shouldn’t expect anything huge like a Hall H stuff like Marvel or a AAA game here, but still would've loved to know.

I find it weird that we're pretty deep into summer now, yet there has been no announcement on the release date for the Xbox port. Yet yesterday out of nowhere, devs announced an Amazon Luna drop of the game.

I mean, is cloud gaming really a popular way to play indie games like Dispatch? I get live service AAA titles like EA FC might find some players on that medium, but I don't think anyone was asking devs for a cloud gaming support for Dispatch. Looking at the comments under their tweet, most people are kinda baffled by this announcement.

I know they've been saying that the Xbox port is coming in "Summer 2026" but it has been four months since that indication and not a real date since. I've mentioned this before, but AdHoc did miss out on two major summer games events like the Summer Game Fest and Xbox Showcase which would've been perfect for an announcement.

As the remaster is set to release in December, is Telltale going to delist the 2013 original from Steam?

I saw a thread on r/delisted where the possibility was being discussed, and it could be a possibility given how some publishers tend to do that for their old games when they usually remaster or remake them. I don't know the logic or reason behind this trend, but it is what it is, I guess.

The biggest example being the original GTA Trilogy when Rockstar delisted them from Steam six months after they released the Definitive Edition in 2021. And also Obsidian delisting the original Outer Worlds 1 a couple weeks ago in favor of the remastered Spacer's Choice Edition.