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Three Moves Ahead

Three Moves Ahead 141: Failing Basic

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8532 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2011

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Rob summon Troy and Julian for an emergency therapy session about how many strategy games simply cannot get their acts together when it comes to basic standards. The panel discusses busted cameras and mouse controls, disastrous campaigns, and nonexistent endgames. The beginning of the Subversion saga

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0:00.0

Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zackney. With me tonight

0:05.1

are my regular crew, freelance writer Julian Murdoch. Hello, hello, full of piss and

0:10.5

vinegar, ready to roll. And also joining us for what promises to be a happy, positive show

0:16.6

about strategy gaming is Troy Goodfellow. Troy, how are you?

0:23.7

I think we're doing motorcycle racing sims today.

0:26.1

I thought it was Football Manager, actually.

0:29.0

I shouldn't tease that because the moment I say that,

0:32.2

I'm going to get like a dozen emails from UK listeners being like,

0:34.7

you know, you really should do a show on Football Manager.

0:38.6

You would have to do a show on fantasy football first, right?

0:39.5

Oh, fuck you.

0:43.1

Your team's as good as mine, eh, Rob?

0:47.7

Oh, my God. It's, it's beyond embarrassing, and I think the... You're actually eliminated.

0:50.2

Yeah, shut up.

0:51.3

Me too. I'm eliminated. I mean, my team won nothing.

1:11.9

I mean, screw you, Phil Rivers, for sucking this year. I don't know. I do not know why I just, like, I drafted, I was able to draft Brady. I don't know why I went for running back instead of getting Welker right away. But that one decision destroyed my year. And the tone was set The tone was set in week one

1:13.3

When I lost to you, Julian but that one decision destroyed my year.

1:15.0

And the tone was set, the tone was set in week one when I lost to you, Julian,

1:21.5

despite Brady passing for over 500 yards, because you had walker. And so we had this game.

1:24.0

It was like, you had like 250 points.

1:26.5

I had like 200.

1:44.3

And that was really the start of just an endless downward spiral. It was the beginning of the end. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, but we won't want to talk about our miserable fantasy football team at least. No, we won't. Oh, man, but I'll tell you later this year we should do a show on fantasy sports games. It's not a bad idea.

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