Adhoc Studios is still not sure if they will make a second season of Dispatch, their amazingly popular An adventure superhero comedy in the Telltale style, but they mean it very “seriously”. In short, they're not sure they can seal the zipper twice, especially if they want to release another season before 2032.
The first season of Dispatch took seven years to develop, thanks in part to thrown out by publisher halfway through. Discussing this harrowing development in a just-published interview with EurogamerRobert Perchese, game director Nick Herman, says that “there were no expectations—external expectations—from the first season. People just needed to come and enjoy it and not have a bunch of theories and stuff in their heads.”
Of course, this will not happen next time, and the developers are already finding the reason. enthusiasm to continue is a little daunting. “People are angry that we didn’t tell them what we were doing,” Herman told EG. “This is a new problem, isn't it? Like: are you doing this? You don't do this? We're a few days away from actually sitting down and getting time – because we needed to keep the game going – where we're going to really sit down and lay out these plans.”
In the same retrospective, lead writer Pierre Chorette drew a parallel with music, noting that “you have your whole life to write your first album, and then eight months to write your second. And there’s a little bit of that feeling in there.”
“We had so much time to do this: seven years is a long time,” he continued. “Anyway, it would be awkward if it was bad. I mean, you wasted a hell of a lot of time! We spend so much time in GTA 6 on this crap, you know it better be good. I know we won't have that much time for a second season because we want to meet demand.”
I would play another season of Dispatch, although I would like to change the main character. However, I also can't blame Adhoc for hanging up their capes, ditching their mystical amulets and trying something new. Seven years is a long time to think about someone like Waterboy.
