Three Moves Ahead 103: Community

Three Moves Ahead

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Strategy, Games & Hobbies, War, Strategy Games, Games, War Games, Video Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2011

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Rob turtles up for a free-for-all discussion of RTS multiplayer gaming with Tom Chick and Chris Remo. What really powers the Starcraft II community, and why can't other RTS games match it? It looks unstoppable, but does a challenger arise with League of Legends? 3MA favorites Supreme Commander II and RUSE depress the panel with their multiplayer front-end, but Chris cheers himself up by building a cathedral in Dawn of Discovery.

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0:00.0	Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead. I'm your host, Rob Zakney.
0:04.4	With me tonight from Corder 3 is charter panelist Tom Chick. Tom, it's good to have you back.
0:10.4	Thank you. It's great to be here, and I love how official you sound. I'm expecting to hear something about the unrest in Egypt now.
0:18.3	That was like the McNeil-Lear News Hour or something.
0:20.6	That's so awesome, Rob.
0:21.6	You have the proper amount of gravity for a strategy gaming podcast.
0:27.5	Well, see, I'm actually going to slowly evolve it into a video games and foreign affairs podcast.
0:33.7	So I'm working up to that.
0:36.0	It's beautiful.
0:37.6	Thank you. I'm so glad to be back. And I'm glad we to that. It's beautiful. Thank you.
0:38.2	I'm so glad to be back.
0:39.3	And I'm glad we're talking RTSs instead of these weird little war game things that you have Bruce Garrick come on to talk about.
0:48.1	Also joining us tonight is Irrational's Chris Rimo.
0:51.0	Chris, welcome back.
0:52.3	Thanks.
0:52.8	Thanks for having me.
0:54.0	Thanks. I'll just say thanks a lot.
0:56.0	Excellent.
0:57.0	That's why you have me on the show.
0:59.0	I just want you know you haven't won anything.
1:01.0	I don't need an excuse to say thanks. Thanks.
1:04.0	For reminding me I haven't won anything.
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