Ever wonder what would happen to a show where Tom Chick didn’t show up to ask annoying questions? This is the answer. PCGamer’s role playing game authority Desslock sits in with the remaining panelists to talk about how RPGs and strategy games overlap. Where is character advancement more important than story? Does Dominions 3 count […]
Entries from September 16th, 2009
Three Moves Ahead Episode 30 — Role Playing and Strategy Games
September 16th, 2009 · 18 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
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Majesty 2 Review
September 15th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Crispy Gamer, Review
Now up at Crispy Gamer. I like Majesty 2, but I can’t really recommend it unequivocally to any audience. There is a difference between frustration because you are still mastering a system and frustration because your puny units keep dying stupid deaths. This game is the latter, and that – with the repetitiveness – is […]
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Pacing the RTS Campaign in Majesty 2
September 15th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Design, RTS
I’m putting my final touches on my Majesty 2 review now that the review embargo has been lifted. I’ll have more to say on the final evaluation of it once that review goes live. I am struck by how Majesty 2 paces the campaign. This is a real time strategy game that is all about […]
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Operation Babarossa Released
September 10th, 2009 · 10 Comments · Matrix, Wargames, WW2
Yet another war game I don’t have time for. Operation Barbarossa: The Struggle For Russia is probably as uncreative a name as you can imagine, but how many options are there? I like the range of campaigns, scenarios and tutorials they promise – including a tutorial specifically on the use of paratroops, something that is […]
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 29 – Getting Started
September 8th, 2009 · 21 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
This week, a full panel deals with the question of getting started in strategy gaming. Should people approach the genre from first principles (The Murdoch Method) or through a topic they are interested in (The Goodfellow Approach)? How important is the visual immersion compared to the mechanics? Bonus: Everyone is called an idiot by someone […]
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Seven Questions
September 3rd, 2009 · 8 Comments · Me, Podcast
Why seven? Who knows. It’s one of those magic things, I guess. But the latest Gamers With Jobs conference call had a discussion about what seven questions gamers consider when they decide whether or not to keep playing a game. You have to skip past the as-usual interminable but part-of-deal talk about what everyone is […]
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