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Three Moves Ahead Episode 133 – We Built This City

September 8th, 2011 · 12 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead

Tropico 4 gets Rob, Troy, and Julian talking about city-builders and their quirks. Why are their politics so artificial? Troy notices that videogames say the business of cities is business, but at least they give strategy gamers something to look at. Soren joins midway through, because he can’t stay away, and Julian wonders where the […]

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Three Moves Ahead Episode 132 – Age of Level-Grinding Empires

September 1st, 2011 · 7 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead

Soren Johnson and Tom Chick join Rob for a discussion of Age of Empires Online. Tom opens by short-listing the game for “worst RTS ever made” and it’s rough-sailing from there. Soren marvels at the disastrous interface, while Rob wants to napalm those cutesy Smurf villages. Then the panel talks about how AoEO could be […]

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Three Moves Ahead Episode 131 – Splendid Little Wars

August 25th, 2011 · 7 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead

Soren Johnson kicks off an extended visit to 3MA by joining Rob, Julian, and Bruce to talk about smaller-scale strategy games, and how they compare to their more traditional cousins. Julian thinks they let developers play to their strengths, while Soren worries about their potential to be ephemeral. Bruce suspects that if great games are […]

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Three Moves Ahead Episode 130 – Character Issues

August 18th, 2011 · 16 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead

Troy takes a victory lap after finishing his National Character series, and together with Rob delves deeper into some of the themes he brought up in the series, and considers some stray ideas that didn’t quite make the final cut. Can stereotypes ever really be escaped, and do we even want to escape them when […]

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Three Moves Ahead Episode 129 – The Combat Missions

August 11th, 2011 · 15 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead

Irrational Games’ Ken Levine join Rob and Troy for a discussion of the Combat Mission series, realism, WEGO turns versus continuous time, and what we’d bring back to the future. Tim Stone on “Ignorance Is Bliss” Listen here. RSS here. Subscribe on iTunes.

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Three Moves Ahead Episode 128 – Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Topics

August 4th, 2011 · 15 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead

Freelance writer Phill Cameron joins Rob and Troy for a discussion of the games they’ve been playing that haven’t quite fit into recent writings or podcasts. New Men of War DLC, Troy and Rob’s changing views on Panzer Corps, RTS time-traveler Achron, high-level Blood Bowl, Out of the Park 11, and racing games all come […]

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