Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zackney.

With me tonight, after many travels and travails in the wine country of California is Julian Rabbit Murdoch.

I'm here, and I'm loaded for bear.

And we also have with us, at least until the Witcher 2 finishes downloading, Troy Goodfellow.

That Witcher 2 is all downloaded. It came down pretty easily and smoothly for me.

It did eat up a lot of my internet cap.

Thanks Canada for screwing me there.

But it's all downloaded and ready to go.

I might even dig into it tonight.

And I'm happy to be here because I'm with Julian again.

I haven't been with Julian on a show in

forever, and I missed it. Later, we're going to dance. We are. It's going to be hot. But only 3MA

subscribers who can get behind our paywall. We'll see that video. So tonight we're going to be

looking at some troubled, promising games from last year that have received some major patches since we last discussed them.

We're also going to be talking about, you know, what can be patched out of a game?

How much improvement can you expect to see from a game in the month's following release, and how much should you expect to see?

So let's start with, I don't know,

where do you want to begin, Troy, Elemental or Siv? Let's begin with Elemental, because I think

it's a game that is certainly worth revisiting, and I think if an endgame very interested in,

what Star Doc's doing, it's worth taking a look at how the patches have

changed the game, what they thought was important, because it's kind of a weird, it's still a weird game,

and I still get a weird feeling when I play it, but I kind of liking the direction.

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