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Three Moves Ahead

Three Moves Ahead 142: For the LoLs

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8532 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2011

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Julian hosts Bruce and editor-podcaster extraordinaire, Ryan Scott, of Geekbox and Comedy Button internet fame. They talk about the lure of League of Legends, whether these DotA / MoBA games are even strategy games, and how Valve's and Blizzard's attempts at the DotA genre will fare against the LoL powerhouse.

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0:00.0

Good evening. Welcome to three moves ahead, the official podcast of Flash of Steel.com. My name is Julian Murdoch, and we have an irregular crew. We're giving Rob Zakney a week off, and Troy Goodfellow won't be joining us, but I do have our good, calm, collected friend, Dr. Bruce Garrick. Hello gamers.

0:22.0

Yeah, see, that's calm.

0:24.3

That's actually creepy, but it's also calm.

0:25.5

That's how it's supposed to be.

0:29.5

And we have extra special guest from Geekbox, Ryan Scott.

0:30.6

I'm sure many of you know him.

0:31.4

Ryan, welcome.

0:32.4

Hello.

0:41.7

So we're here today to talk about the worst acronym in gaming, which is MoBA, which I... Really?

0:42.2

I don't even know what that stands for a massive online battle arena or something like that.

0:47.0

Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait.

0:48.3

We're talking about...

0:49.4

I thought we were talking about Moby.

0:51.7

I was like so psyched.

0:53.8

Little, little laid back electronica. That was where we thought we were headed. Well, I thought play was a great album. Highly underrated, actually. Yeah, nobody's really heard about it. I was way into it before all the cool kids got into it. Oh, yeah, 10 months later, yeah. So what does it actually stand for? Multiplayer online battle arena?

1:11.8

Dude, I have no idea.

1:13.4

Brian, what does it stand for?

1:15.3

So it's a definite corner of the strategy genre.

1:18.7

I think we've talked about it exactly once back in the day when Demi got launched.

1:23.1

But it's probably actually where more people are playing strategy games than anywhere else on all the games we talk about.

1:29.6

Because games like League of Legends and even the original Dota, defense of the ancients, get tons of traffic.

1:39.0

I mean, even sort of the second tier of these, which I would put Hero of New Earth in, gets, you know,

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