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Okay, best soundtrack.

We've got Lumines Arise, Mugenics, Mixtape, Crimson Desert, Dispatch, and 007 First Light.

I think it's going to be 007 out of those ones.

Honestly, I'm not sure.

They have Liam McIntyre as Wolverine in Marvel's Wolverine.

Patrick Gibson as James Bond.

Aaron Paul as Robert in Dispatch.

Angela Santalbano as Grace in Resident Evil 9.

Trying to think of what visual novels I like.

Does Telltale Ones count? And does Dispatch count and all of that? Because if those count, then they would be in there.

Zero Escape didn't do anything for me when I played it.

many years ago.

Yep, yep.

Well, to briefly touch on a game that was out last year that I played this year, Justin, you said you've returned to Dispatch.

Yeah.

I started, um...

I, I like to have, like, a couple games going at once.

Like, my main game and then, like, a lean back, like, you know, kind of a second game.

And I went back to Dispatch because I didn't...

Dispatch went out episodically, right? It was released episodically.

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Hello, and welcome to Play, Watch, Listen, which is a game development podcast from myself, Mike Bithell, and Austin Wintory, though Austin is unavailable this week, and we are instead joined by two of the wonderful people who worked on Dispatch to celebrate the year anniversary.

This episode was supposed to go up about a week ago and is the first episode in such a long time where we do not have full video.

I really did my best to fix this, like I put hours and hours and hours into trying to make this functional.

I don't need to give you the technical details, but basically there is a weird encoding problem where the audio desyncs with the microphones every like 1.5 seconds.

So in order for me to actually manually fix this, I would have to make a cut every 1.5 seconds or so, which would take me... genuinely a very, very, very, very long time to edit.

You'll notice it at the beginning where I did do it for the intros, certainly and perfectly, but then for the rest of the episode I just decided to put some Dispatch gameplay up, so apologies for that.

This show is brought to you by our supporters on Patreon who did get this episode last week and they got an extra, I think, 10 minutes of discussion on this one.

Well, I haven't been playing anything like we mentioned before.

But I did remember that we forgot to talk about the Dispatch update that came out this week, which if you bought the Deluxe Edition before, you get it for free, basically.

What is it? They added two more modes to the game.

One is a cast and crew commentary mode, so you can hear a commentary track.

back and experience that.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, I've been looking for an excuse to play Dispatch again.

Just haven't really found the time because I'd like to play through it and see some different story.