For anyone who slightly cares, Twitch Prime (now Amazon Luna (still Prime)) is giving out codes for NEW Tales from the Borderlands for Epic Games Store.
So... yeah.
I still own a PS4 copy when it went on sale randomly for like 13$ on amazon once. Still haven't played it. Saving it for a really dark and rainy day. Maybe.
They spent around two years working on that project — a live-action version of what would become Dispatch — and were about to start production in March 2020. Then a pandemic came along and shut it all down.
Fortunately they had a fallback option — a gig with their old company, Telltale Games, to make a title called The Wolf Among Us 2. (Technically, Telltale had shut down in 2018, but the brand was later purchased and revived by a different company.) They spent months writing an 800-page script, building prototypes and shooting cut-scenes. But they ran into some disagreements with Telltale and found themselves frustrated as work-for-hire staff, where they would never get the final say. “We saw a future where we were gonna be there for a long time if we try to stick it out, and we didn’t want to do that,” Herman said. “So we had to make a tough decision.”
Well, we got an interview with Adhoc on Dispatch and some details on their breakup with Telltale.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletter… mores/2025-11-14/the-turbulent-seven-year-saga-behind-hit-game-dispatch?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MzE0MzM2NiwiZXhwIjoxNzYzNzQ4MTY2LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNVFBMDdHUEZIUlYwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJCMUVBQkI5NjQ2QUM0REZFQTJBRkI4MjI1MzgyQTJFQSJ9.fNOncm0D1BfbWI9RAgwCB6j8SI8mW9RhRD76EEz1TYo
They spent around two years working on that project — a live-action version of what would become Dispatch — and were about to start production in March 2020. Then a pandemic came along and shut it all down.
Fortunately they had a fallback option — a gig with their old company, Telltale Games, to make a title called The Wolf Among Us 2. (Technically, Telltale had shut down in 2018, but the brand was later purchased and revived by a different … [view original content]
For anyone who slightly cares, Twitch Prime (now Amazon Luna (still Prime)) is giving out codes for NEW Tales from the Borderlands for Epic … moreGames Store.
So... yeah.
I still own a PS4 copy when it went on sale randomly for like 13$ on amazon once. Still haven't played it. Saving it for a really dark and rainy day. Maybe.
For anyone who slightly cares, Twitch Prime (now Amazon Luna (still Prime)) is giving out codes for NEW Tales from the Borderlands for Epic … moreGames Store.
So... yeah.
I still own a PS4 copy when it went on sale randomly for like 13$ on amazon once. Still haven't played it. Saving it for a really dark and rainy day. Maybe.
There was another interview they did recently on youtube where they say pretty much the same thing, but they also mentioned that it seems like a really big issue was Telltale was way too slow and they even mentioned Telltale was also disappointed how slow they were going. Basically they were always ready to work but Telltale just never was and they didn't really like how they were acting like contractors and ultimately didn't have complete control of the project and their company by just working on someone else's stuff.
Well, we got an interview with Adhoc on Dispatch and some details on their breakup with Telltale.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletter… mores/2025-11-14/the-turbulent-seven-year-saga-behind-hit-game-dispatch?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MzE0MzM2NiwiZXhwIjoxNzYzNzQ4MTY2LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNVFBMDdHUEZIUlYwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJCMUVBQkI5NjQ2QUM0REZFQTJBRkI4MjI1MzgyQTJFQSJ9.fNOncm0D1BfbWI9RAgwCB6j8SI8mW9RhRD76EEz1TYo
They spent around two years working on that project — a live-action version of what would become Dispatch — and were about to start production in March 2020. Then a pandemic came along and shut it all down.
Fortunately they had a fallback option — a gig with their old company, Telltale Games, to make a title called The Wolf Among Us 2. (Technically, Telltale had shut down in 2018, but the brand was later purchased and revived by a different … [view original content]
I'm a big fan of the Like a Dragon series, which I'm sure is not a surprise to a lot of people on this forum.
I just found out about the Yakuza Restored and Yakuza 2 Restored patches which bring the English PlayStation 2 versions in line with the original Japanese versions.
I'm playing through Yakuza Restored now, and holy carp is it incredibly well done. The English voice acting was terrible, so I never finished the PS2 version. With the Japanese voice acting and correct names of the characters it's like playing a whole new game. It is done so well I immediately became as immersed in it as I was in Yakuza Kiwami.
I doubt that there's anybody here that's as big of a fan of the series as me, but if you ever were interested to see how Yakuza and Yakuza 2 differed from the Kiwami remakes, I highly recommend the Restored versions.
how's it goin gang? i haven't popped in for a while, but i thought about wolf season 2 the other day and went "i bet those good ol telltale forums folks are still sinking into insanity waiting" lmao
I liked Kiryu's original English VA Darryl Kurylo then his current English VA YongYea. I like YongYea but I'll be honest his voice doesn't fit well with Kiryu, and that's me being nice about it. I think the only English VAs that were good in the PS2 version were for Kiryu and Majima, though it was funny hearing Micheal Madson as Shimano lol.
I'm a big fan of the Like a Dragon series, which I'm sure is not a surprise to a lot of people on this forum.
I just found out about th… moree Yakuza Restored and Yakuza 2 Restored patches which bring the English PlayStation 2 versions in line with the original Japanese versions.
I'm playing through Yakuza Restored now, and holy carp is it incredibly well done. The English voice acting was terrible, so I never finished the PS2 version. With the Japanese voice acting and correct names of the characters it's like playing a whole new game. It is done so well I immediately became as immersed in it as I was in Yakuza Kiwami.
I doubt that there's anybody here that's as big of a fan of the series as me, but if you ever were interested to see how Yakuza and Yakuza 2 differed from the Kiwami remakes, I highly recommend the Restored versions.
how's it goin gang? i haven't popped in for a while, but i thought about wolf season 2 the other day and went "i bet those good ol telltale forums folks are still sinking into insanity waiting" lmao
Wassup, my fellow squad.
It has been a long hiatus and there are a lot of things I wanna discuss here. But for now, I'm glad to see you all happy with Telltale again. Just not in the sense that we expected.
nice to see you too! dispatch looks pretty good, definitely wanna check it out at some point. I'm replaying LiS and Minecraft Story Mode with a close friend rn because those are the only Telltale style games she has any interest in 😭 going well so far! she's having fun so i am too. (we saved kate btw i made her take notes so she didn't goof it up)
Takaya Kuroda gives Kiryu a fitting complicated, and emotional voice. You're right though that Kiryu had a fitting voice actor with Darryl Kurylo in the English dub. You're also right that it's better than Yong Yea.
Majima is a tough one for me. Mark Hamill brought all of the Joker energy to the role, but I'm so used to Hidenari Ugaki's Kansai-tinged insanity.
The one I really enjoyed the most was Bill Farmer as Makoto Date. It was pretty much the voice he used for Sam the detective dog half of Sam & Max, but it gave the character a film-noir feel. This worked well for an international version of the old fashioned Japanese detective archetype that Date embodied.
Those three definitely brought their A game, so I think it's just preference for them as opposed to being outright awful. The excessive swearing was so out of place though, it pulled me right out of the experience.
I just bought $10 Hello Kitty earbuds at Five Below to replace my JVC earbuds. The JVC ones were great but they didn't fit. I have to get child-sized earbuds because my ear canal is tiny.
Everything on me from my teeth to my internal organs are smaller than average. Though, I guess it's not too weird because I had two 2 millimeter cysts on my pituitary gland when I was a teenager. The doctors caught it early and it, thankfully, was treatable with octreotide.
I'm glad that it was caught early enough that I'm only 183 cm, or 6 feet, tall. I wish I wasn't that tall though. I can't help but wonder how small I would be if it weren't for my gigantism.
I liked Kiryu's original English VA Darryl Kurylo then his current English VA YongYea. I like YongYea but I'll be honest his voice doesn't f… moreit well with Kiryu, and that's me being nice about it. I think the only English VAs that were good in the PS2 version were for Kiryu and Majima, though it was funny hearing Micheal Madson as Shimano lol.
i've always felt that kurylo isn't a fitting voice for kiryu at all. kiryu is stern and gruff but he's not full action hero, which is what kurylo's performance feels like. i just never got the sense that he has the range to portray kiryu in the way kuroda can. i'm definitely not a huge fan of yong yea's performance but i think he gets closer to capturing the pain behind kiryu's voice as well as his softer and kinder tone when he's speaking to someone in a more casual situation.
i can't hear kurylo giving mitsuo (bad) advice on how to attract girls or worrying over taichi's asthma affecting his future or warmly conversing with nagumo and the gang after a long day. it's a very important part of kiryu's character to have that softness and weakness, arguably moreso than him just sounding cool #imo
Takaya Kuroda gives Kiryu a fitting complicated, and emotional voice. You're right though that Kiryu had a fitting voice actor with Darryl K… moreurylo in the English dub. You're also right that it's better than Yong Yea.
Majima is a tough one for me. Mark Hamill brought all of the Joker energy to the role, but I'm so used to Hidenari Ugaki's Kansai-tinged insanity.
The one I really enjoyed the most was Bill Farmer as Makoto Date. It was pretty much the voice he used for Sam the detective dog half of Sam & Max, but it gave the character a film-noir feel. This worked well for an international version of the old fashioned Japanese detective archetype that Date embodied.
Those three definitely brought their A game, so I think it's just preference for them as opposed to being outright awful. The excessive swearing was so out of place though, it pulled me right out of the experience.
I just bought $10 Hello Kitty earbuds at Five Below … [view original content]
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Speaking of... Stranger Things animated series.
And it looks kind of like the designs were ripped right from Telltale's original concept designs.
Alright so it's not just me that thought that lmao
For anyone who slightly cares, Twitch Prime (now Amazon Luna (still Prime)) is giving out codes for NEW Tales from the Borderlands for Epic Games Store.
So... yeah.
I still own a PS4 copy when it went on sale randomly for like 13$ on amazon once. Still haven't played it. Saving it for a really dark and rainy day. Maybe.
Well, we got an interview with Adhoc on Dispatch and some details on their breakup with Telltale.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-11-14/the-turbulent-seven-year-saga-behind-hit-game-dispatch?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MzE0MzM2NiwiZXhwIjoxNzYzNzQ4MTY2LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNVFBMDdHUEZIUlYwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJCMUVBQkI5NjQ2QUM0REZFQTJBRkI4MjI1MzgyQTJFQSJ9.fNOncm0D1BfbWI9RAgwCB6j8SI8mW9RhRD76EEz1TYo
Straight up found a way to fix Crowd Play lmfao.
I really hope that 800 page script gets released if Wolf 2 never comes out. What a shame.
Damned by faint...phrase?
Imagine being the guy who just finished Dispatch and then plays New Tales to follow up lmao
There was another interview they did recently on youtube where they say pretty much the same thing, but they also mentioned that it seems like a really big issue was Telltale was way too slow and they even mentioned Telltale was also disappointed how slow they were going. Basically they were always ready to work but Telltale just never was and they didn't really like how they were acting like contractors and ultimately didn't have complete control of the project and their company by just working on someone else's stuff.
I'm a big fan of the Like a Dragon series, which I'm sure is not a surprise to a lot of people on this forum.
I just found out about the Yakuza Restored and Yakuza 2 Restored patches which bring the English PlayStation 2 versions in line with the original Japanese versions.
I'm playing through Yakuza Restored now, and holy carp is it incredibly well done. The English voice acting was terrible, so I never finished the PS2 version. With the Japanese voice acting and correct names of the characters it's like playing a whole new game. It is done so well I immediately became as immersed in it as I was in Yakuza Kiwami.
I doubt that there's anybody here that's as big of a fan of the series as me, but if you ever were interested to see how Yakuza and Yakuza 2 differed from the Kiwami remakes, I highly recommend the Restored versions.
how's it goin gang? i haven't popped in for a while, but i thought about wolf season 2 the other day and went "i bet those good ol telltale forums folks are still sinking into insanity waiting" lmao
I liked Kiryu's original English VA Darryl Kurylo then his current English VA YongYea. I like YongYea but I'll be honest his voice doesn't fit well with Kiryu, and that's me being nice about it. I think the only English VAs that were good in the PS2 version were for Kiryu and Majima, though it was funny hearing Micheal Madson as Shimano lol.
Nice to see you on here again!
It's fine, Dispatch has helped hold off the demons for now
Wassup, my fellow squad.
It has been a long hiatus and there are a lot of things I wanna discuss here. But for now, I'm glad to see you all happy with Telltale again. Just not in the sense that we expected.
nice to see you too! dispatch looks pretty good, definitely wanna check it out at some point. I'm replaying LiS and Minecraft Story Mode with a close friend rn because those are the only Telltale style games she has any interest in 😭 going well so far! she's having fun so i am too. (we saved kate btw i made her take notes so she didn't goof it up)
Takaya Kuroda gives Kiryu a fitting complicated, and emotional voice. You're right though that Kiryu had a fitting voice actor with Darryl Kurylo in the English dub. You're also right that it's better than Yong Yea.
Majima is a tough one for me. Mark Hamill brought all of the Joker energy to the role, but I'm so used to Hidenari Ugaki's Kansai-tinged insanity.
The one I really enjoyed the most was Bill Farmer as Makoto Date. It was pretty much the voice he used for Sam the detective dog half of Sam & Max, but it gave the character a film-noir feel. This worked well for an international version of the old fashioned Japanese detective archetype that Date embodied.
Those three definitely brought their A game, so I think it's just preference for them as opposed to being outright awful. The excessive swearing was so out of place though, it pulled me right out of the experience.
I just bought $10 Hello Kitty earbuds at Five Below to replace my JVC earbuds. The JVC ones were great but they didn't fit. I have to get child-sized earbuds because my ear canal is tiny.
Everything on me from my teeth to my internal organs are smaller than average. Though, I guess it's not too weird because I had two 2 millimeter cysts on my pituitary gland when I was a teenager. The doctors caught it early and it, thankfully, was treatable with octreotide.
I'm glad that it was caught early enough that I'm only 183 cm, or 6 feet, tall. I wish I wasn't that tall though. I can't help but wonder how small I would be if it weren't for my gigantism.
i've always felt that kurylo isn't a fitting voice for kiryu at all. kiryu is stern and gruff but he's not full action hero, which is what kurylo's performance feels like. i just never got the sense that he has the range to portray kiryu in the way kuroda can. i'm definitely not a huge fan of yong yea's performance but i think he gets closer to capturing the pain behind kiryu's voice as well as his softer and kinder tone when he's speaking to someone in a more casual situation.
i can't hear kurylo giving mitsuo (bad) advice on how to attract girls or worrying over taichi's asthma affecting his future or warmly conversing with nagumo and the gang after a long day. it's a very important part of kiryu's character to have that softness and weakness, arguably moreso than him just sounding cool #imo
Ema just told me the very recent status of Wolf 2
