General gaming discussion

Finished Dispatch last night. Absolutely loved it. The story, the characters, the writing… it was just a really fun time.

I still think the general 'dispatching' gameplay was great, but there were some frustrations in the final episode. There can sometimes be a mission restriction where you'll fail a mission if you send heroes whose skills exceed a certain value (eg. you fail if your heroes points are more than 8 in Combat), but to succeed in the mission, you also probably need to get your points close enough to that to give you a better spread. The trouble is, when you've been min-maxing your skill points for different heroes along the way and the final stretch of gameplay is so hectic that half your heroes are resting or busy, you end up either easily exceeding it (which would be a definite fail) or being nowhere near it and likely failing. It wasn't so bad in the earlier episodes, but it really hampered me in the final episode.

Still though, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Far fewer choices than previous Telltale games overall, but the writing is so damn good that it really doesn't matter, you can really just enjoy the ride. And even without the writing and story, I'd love a DLC where you can just do the dispatching, sort of like Inscryption's Kaycee's Mod.