E;R appreciation thread

[Oilspill Battery]

i haven't seen a more blatantly astroturfed game

The reason dispatch is popular is because it actually does something uniquely in that its earnest. Yes there is snark and there are marvelisms here and there, but the core underlying story, characters and themes are earnest and take themselves relatively seriously instead of hidding beneath 20 layers of meta irony jokes.

There are silly moments and serious moments and the serious moments are given time and weight to rest.

There are some death scenes in dispatch that have more emotional weight on their own than last 10 marvel movies + shows put toogether because they have both setup and the payoff is allowed to quietly sit.

The story itself is relatively cookie cutter, nemesis, downfall, revenge, found family, blah blah blah, but its done competently and earnestly with a relatively likable cast of memorable characters and a good soundtrack.

Dispatch isn't a masterpiece, but in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king, and in the land of irony, earnesty is king.

 

[Chocolate Rain]

The reason dispatch is popular is because it has it's and waifus

That's all you had to say man. Anyone try to make this game seem more than it is reminds me of all the mouthbreathers who glaze Invincible or The Boys for being "subversive".

 

[Oilspill Battery]

That's all you had to say man. Anyone try to make this game seem more than it is reminds me of all the mouthbreathers who glaze Invincible or The Boys for being "subversive".

If you think any of what I said is wrong feel free to point which part instead of blindly following your edaddy's opinion on everything.

 

[God of Nothing]

the intro alone has capeslop speak, even though the protagonist is on a revenge spree for his dad

 

[Kit Marz]

I'm somewhat frustrated by his analysis of "oh, I just let all the minigames fail because I thought that would be funny and that gave me a bad score but everything else I did should have given me the good ending ergo bad game design waaaaah." Yeah, dog. Turns out of if you skip every day of math class, you ain't gonna graduate at the end of high school with a 4.0 average (unless you're black, I mean).

I took his complaint to be more that those mini games within the narrative have no bearing on his relationship with Invisigal. That while he chose the correct options with her, she still got the villain ending because he didn't feel like doing mini games. That would be like your girlfriend becoming evil because you don't want to play warioware

 

[Chocolate Rain]

If you think any of what I said is wrong feel free to point which part instead of blindly following your edaddy's opinion on everything.

You didn't present anything in favor of the game being any better than the average capeslop you just vague post because you're too ashamed to admit you were enthralled by something with everything people slam the genre for now.

 

[Oilspill Battery]

You didn't present anything in favor of the game being any better than the average capeslop you just vague post because you're too ashamed to admit you were enthralled by something with everything people slam the genre for now.

The thing I presented in favour of the the game is its earnesty. The story takes itself seriously without constantly undercutting itself with bathos. It follows a standard plot from tip to toe without subversion or deconstruction, its classic formula executed well.

I like it specifically because it doesn't do what the rest of the genre does.

You don't have to be subversive to be good. Sometimes the good guys are good and the bad guys are bad, and the stakes are city level about a gang taking over a city, not ultragods deleting universes. I don't see why that's a bad thing.

 

[Meth Until Death]

The reason dispatch is popular is because it actually does something uniquely in that its earnest. Yes there is snark and there are marvelisms here and there, but the core underlying story, characters and themes are earnest and take themselves relatively seriously instead of hidding beneath 20 layers of meta irony jokes.

There are silly moments and serious moments and the serious moments are given time and weight to rest.

There are some death scenes in dispatch that have more emotional weight on their own than last 10 marvel movies + shows put toogether because they have both setup and the payoff is allowed to quietly sit.

The story itself is relatively cookie cutter, nemesis, downfall, revenge, found family, blah blah blah, but its done competently and earnestly with a relatively likable cast of memorable characters and a good soundtrack.

Dispatch isn't a masterpiece, but in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king, and in the land of irony, earnesty is king.

Yeah righto mate, the game was dull as dogshit and as complex as two bricks tied together with string. The draw that had everyone clapping and cooming was pretty women. That simple.

Anyways champion, are you in the get-pegged-by-the-mystery-meat-bpd-nosering camp or the fake-blonde-muscle-mummy-pop-my-head-like-a-grape-between-those-thunder-thighs camp?

 

[Chocolate Rain]

You don't have to be subversive to be good.

Nobody is saying that we're just saying that its literally no different from what passes as entertainment nowadays so knocking on capeshit while glazing what's capeshit with tits and waifus is just hypocritical.

 

[Oilspill Battery]

Nobody is saying that we're just saying that its literally no different from what passes as entertaining nowadays so knocking on capeshit while glazing what's capeshit with tits abd waifus is just hypocritical.

Since when is capeshit earnest when the #1 complaint with capeshit is bathos?

 

[Chocolate Rain]

Since when is capeshit earnest when the #1 complaint with capeshit is bathos?

What do you mean by earnest though? If you mean to say that Dispatch doesn't have "well that just happened" milienial writing than I don't know what else to say.

 

[Oilspill Battery]

I took his complaint to be more that those mini games within the narrative have no bearing on his relationship with Invisigal. That while he chose the correct options with her, she still got the villain ending because he didn't feel like doing mini games. That would be like your girlfriend becoming evil because you don't want to play warioware

The minigame is dispatching villains and slowly showing them that they can be heroes by helping people. His girlfriend turned into a villain because she never got the opportunity to be a hero which is the whole point of the dispatch minigame.

What do you mean by earnest though? If you mean to say that Dispatch doesn't have "well that just happened" milienial writing than I don't know what else to say.

I said what I meant 3 times by now. It doesn't do batbos. Tragic moments are not undercut by meta jokes or self referential humor. The story takes itself seriously even if it does have silly jokes.

Have you actually played the game?

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

Idk, i don't like glorified visual novels, like all Telltales games.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

That's all you had to say man. Anyone try to make this game seem more than it is reminds me of all the mouthbreathers who glaze Invincible or The Boys for being "subversive".

I haven't played the game (probably will at some point) but seemingly people like it for just being a decent game that doesn't hate the player for playing it or getting off the rails, which is an achievement in the modern state of gaming. And also not overusing memes since it doesn't trust itself to carry on the game or has too much diversity.

It is probably slop, but slop is nice once in a while as long as it's not goyslop. As for waifufagging, it means the writing is good enough for people to give a shit since there are no shortage of T&A gacha to coom to instead.

 

[Oilspill Battery]

I haven't played the game (probably will at some point) but seemingly people like it for just being a decent game that doesn't hate the player for playing it or getting off the rails, which is an achievement in the modern state of gaming. And also not overusing memes since it doesn't trust itself to carry on the game or has too much diversity.

It is probably slop, but slop is nice once in a while as long as it's not goyslop. As for waifufagging, it means the writing is good enough for people to give a shit since there are no shortage of T&A gacha to coom to instead.

The fact that he's shitting on the game for being subversive like invincible or the boys is proof he hasn't played it, seen it, or has any idea what its even about because one of the main praises it gets is literally specifically that its NOT subversive and plays itself straight.

Absolute self report.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

Just watch it on youtube fools!

 

[Chocolate Rain]

I said what I meant 3 times by now.

You've just been vague posting

Tragic moments are not undercut by meta jokes or self referential humor. The story takes itself seriously even if it does have silly jokes.

Again this isn't unique or special. Thunderbolts released last year had literal child murder and there was no jokes or meta humor to undercut the serious aspects of the situation. Superman also didn't have anything you mentioned either. Praising something for "taking itself seriously" is dumb.

Have you actually played the game?

I did hence why Im calling you out.

but seemingly people like it for just being a decent game that doesn't hate the player for playing it or getting off the rails, which is an achievement in the modern state of gaming.

Its barely even a game since despite the marketing your choices really dont matter and most of the gameplay amounts to quick time prompts and an optional mini game. A lot of the praise is mostly towards the writing and story which to the credit of Ad-Hoc and Critical Role doesn't have much to complain about other than being bland and obnoxious at times. Really Robert not being a loser beta cuck and the willingness to have attractive female characters is the main reason why the usual grifters didn't talk about it and why it was a success.

As for waifufagging, it means the writing is good enough for people to give a shit since there are no shortage of T&A gacha to coom to instead.

People literal waifufag anything with an attractive design hell one of the most popular characters in Dispatch has next to no screen time but people goon hard to the design.

The fact that he's shitting on the game for being subversive like invincible or the boys is proof he hasn't played it,

Nigga...

That's all you had to say man. Anyone try to make this game seem more than it is reminds me of all the mouthbreathers who glaze Invincible or The Boys for being "subversive".

Are you illiterate?

 

[Kit Marz]

The minigame is dispatching villains and slowly showing them that they can be heroes by helping people. His girlfriend turned into a villain because she never got the opportunity to be a hero which is the whole point of the dispatch minigame

I'm genuinely asking because I don't know. If you did engage with the dispatch mini game only when Invisigal can succeed, will that be enough to get the hero ending? Just focus on only her successes, dispatching other teams shouldn't count, since she's not involved. Of course still pick the correct dialog options for her. Ignore the hacking mini game since that should have no bearing on their relationship or if she decides to be a hero or a villain.

 

[Chocolate Rain]

I'm genuinely asking because I don't know. If you did engage with the dispatch mini game only when Invisigal can succeed, will that be enough to get the hero ending? Just focus on only her successes, dispatching other teams shouldn't count, since she's not involved. Of course still pick the correct dialog options for her. Ignore the hacking mini game since that should have no bearing on their relationship or if she decides to be a hero or a villain.

You can literally max her out in the mini game and still not get the hero ending.

 

[Oilspill Battery]

You've just been vague posting

How much specificity do you want? A beat by beat breakdown of the entire plot?

Again this isn't unique or special. Thunderbolts released last year had literal child murder and there was no jokes or meta humor to undercut the serious aspects of the situation. Superman also didn't have anything you mentioned either. Praising something for "taking itself seriously" is dumb.

Superman is full of meta humor and bathos not to mention the writing is complete shit. Remember when I said "dispatch is about some street level hereos taking on a gang instead of multiversal worldeating gods"?


Remember how superman ends with a multiversal reality tearing rift threatening to erase reality while superman and his buddies crack jokes?

I did hence why Im calling you out.

So why are you lying about it?

Are you illiterate?

Are you? I said multiple times the game is a simple story told well, you're the one shitting on it by comparing it to "subversive" shows.