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Or is it just one of Adam's balls in my throat?
Dispatch writer regrets cutting sex scenes
Dispatch writer Pierre Shorette regrets cutting sex scenes from AdHoc's episodic superhero workplace comedy.
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Speaking with Inverse, Shorette acknowledged that many Dispatch fans were especially invested in the game's relationship and romance options, and despite there only being two to pursue, they became a "meaningful" part of the experience.
In Dispatch, players can choose to date either Blonde Blazer or Invisgal (who has a rather steamy dream about your character, Robert), though neither of these story lines is the main focus of the game. However, the team wasn't expecting the reception to Dispatch to be as "ravenous" as it has been, and that's "probably why we didn't plan for more romance options".
Shorette continued: "One of my secret shames is I think I default to romantic comedy in my writing and my whole life. I'm trying to pull out of that and make things more serious. Even in Wolf Among Us or Tales From the Borderlands, there's some romance."
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The writer said he doesn't "know that Dispatch is any one thing", adding that seeing streams of the game has allowed him to see what has worked. "So if we can have people freak out at seeing a wiener on screen, laugh at a fart joke, and then somehow cry at the end of all that. I'm happy it's working, but I also don't think we made a 'gooner game,' and people know that now if they've played up to Episode six," Shorette said. "It's interesting to see the community switch up real fast, and lock in."
And, well, we now all know that the romance parts of Dispatch definitely worked. But, alas, some of those moments didn't make the final release. "We definitely cut some sex scenes. Which, in retrospect, we shouldn't have," Shorette laughed, teasing we may yet "get to see those one day".
