Comments on: Three Moves Ahead Episode 19 — Looking back, looking forward 2009

By: Erez

Erez — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:30:12 +0000

“L’esprit de l’escalier” is what Tom is looking for at about 16:20. Stairwell, uh, wit? thought?

By: Dectilon

Dectilon — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:27:14 +0000

Personally I’m excited about Starcraft 2 BECAUSE it’s more of the same. Perhaps I’m simply nostalgic, but Starcraft 1 is one of the few strategy games I actually played regularly (I finished all the campaigns; I didn’t even do that with Red Alert).

To me, this is simply a chance to play Starcraft with better graphics, a far superior UI and an even greater focus on the competitive side. Sure, it’s a bit cheap to make the same game twice, but Blizzard is nowhere near the worst offender.

Will we be able to follow the Dominions-game somewhere? I’m currently reading this LP (http://dom3.servegame.com/wiki/User:Matryx/Guides/Dominions_3_Newbie_Game), originally posted on the Somethingawful forums, but I’m coming towards the end of it and I need more! Seeing as how you guys don’t seem very well-versed with the game, but at the same time highly competitive it seems like it could turn out great, in every respect.

By: John

John — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:51:49 +0000

I noticed that no one mentioned Tales of Valor on the podcast as (what I would assume to be) a major disappointment. I was really looking forward to it since it was the third installment in my favorite RTS series. I guess the omission was in itself a statement on the state of the game. Your thoughts?

By: Troy

Troy — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:35:53 +0000

Yeah, the demon summoners that have monkey soldiers and demon summoning monkey priests. Lanka have it all.

Early Ages, so we have magic being more important.

By: legowarrior

legowarrior — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:34:36 +0000

I’m curious, are the Lanka the demon summoning Monkeys or the normal monkeys.
And I was annoyed that no one in the podcast talk about which Era you were playing in. This really seems to make a huge difference in the game play I found.
Good luck to everyone.

By: Benjamin Ferrari

Benjamin Ferrari — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:46:05 +0000

@LintMan:

Heroes & Items are not in the multiplayer/skirmish part of the game, but they are part of the editor and maybe we see some of this stuff in the campaign.

“How is a game like Supreme Commander not in the “classic RTS” genre?”
Don’t know, I heared only good things about TA/Supreme Commander, but never played any of them. I just made up the term “classic RTS genre” so I can differenciate Starcraft from games like Dawn of War or World Of Conflict, which play very different. So if Supreme Commander has all that stuff it should be in the list of course.

““Brood Wars 2″ with a graphics overhaul.”

I think I see it the other way around: Imho Relic should have given Dawn of War 2 a different name, because it is not very similar to Dawn of War. I remember Relic had lots of annoying angry people screaming in the beta because the gameplay was so different. They could have avoided that if they had simply chosen a different name for the new game.

Anyway, that’s just names. I would be exited about Brood War 2 as well ;).