“Surrounded with trenches, Marius bided his time and paid no attention to the insults of the enemy. Publius Silo,who had the greatest authority and power among the Italians, once said to Marius, ‘If you are a great general, come down and fight us’; to which he answered, ‘No. If you are a great general, make […]
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 77: Starcraft 2 with Chris Remo
August 10th, 2010 · 13 Comments · Blizzard, Design, Podcast, RTS, Three Moves Ahead
Troy – suffering from a splitting headache – is joined by Rob Zacny, Tom Chick (hooray) and Idle Thumbs/Gamasutra star Chris Remo before he heads off to join Irrational Games. The topic: Starcraft 2. Why does such a competitive, sports structured game like SC2 have such wide appeal? Is the single player campaign really […]
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Starcraft 2: Some Thoughts
August 4th, 2010 · 27 Comments · Blizzard, RTS
A full review of Starcraft 2 will be written and published and elaborated on later. It is also the topic of next week’s podcast. I think that the commercial success of Starcraft and Blizzard’s ability to sell ice to Inuit has some lessons for the strategy game market. I’ve been avoiding reading other people’s reviews, […]
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 55: Starcraft 2 and Napoleon: Total War
March 9th, 2010 · 10 Comments · Blizzard, Creative Assembly, Podcast, RTS, Three Moves Ahead
Two games this week. First, Tom Chick and Troy Goodfellow report on their experiences in the Starcraft II beta. It’s an old school RTS that eschews fifteen years of evolution in favor of keeping things as they were in 1998. What do we like so far? What do we not like? Meanwhile, Rob Zacny asks […]
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Starcraft Single Player Campaign Preview
August 18th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Blizzard, Preview, RTS
I think that if you are using the word “fuck” four times in a preview that you really need to find another way of expressing yourself. And writing that something “screams Blizzard” isn’t very helpful considering they haven’t done an RTS in half a decade and I don’t see anything in the screenshots that scream […]
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Starcraft II Delayed?
July 13th, 2009 · Comments Off on Starcraft II Delayed? · Blizzard, Industry, RTS, Sci Fi
As Bryn Williams says, this would not be a surprise. I’ve long had doubts that Starcraft II would make Christmas 2009, and in one of our earliest podcasts I made the reckless prediction that we’d see Diablo 3 before we saw Starcraft II. Blizzard, of course, follows its own schedule. You can’t really put publishing […]
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