Three Moves Ahead 16: Episode 16

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2009

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Bruce shows up late, but we do get a full panel to talk about The Sims 3 and the franchise in general. Tom gets all artsy, Julian makes an odd comparison and Troy is a cheater. One of the four panelists hates The Sims, by the way. No prize for guessing who.And be sure to check out Crispy Gamer for Tom's Sims 3 RTS Challenge. Can you turn his loser into a success?Robin Burkinshaw's sad story of Alice and Kev

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0:00.0	You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flash of Steel.com.
0:07.1	I am your host, Troy Goodfellow, and with me today are two-thirds of my colleagues.
0:14.2	We have freelance writer, Tom Chick.
0:16.3	Hello, everyone.
0:17.0	If anybody needs a coffee, let me know.
0:18.6	My kitchen has been restored from the disaster
0:21.5	two weeks ago. And Sylvia, my espresso machine, she's working fine. So let me know if anyone
0:28.1	wants a coffee. You named your espresso machine? No, Rensilio is an Italian company, and they,
0:33.5	each model is named after a famous woman, like a strong female woman. I think Sylvia is named after some, I don't know, Italian prime minister or something. Sylvia Plath. You know what? I like the Sylvia Plath, I think. Let's go with that. That's much better. And that is the other person, freelance writer Julian Murdoch. Hello, hello. I missed you guys. I really have.
0:56.9	Well, you should have joined us.
0:58.2	Like, you were all traipsing about E3?
1:01.2	You have only yourself to blame.
1:03.2	Games journalists. I mean, you know, hookers and blow, right? That's what it was all about.
1:07.9	Ah, what booth was that at? I knew I missed.
1:11.6	Dang it.
1:13.2	I don't know.
1:15.4	Is gathering of developers still there?
1:16.7	Oh, no.
1:21.8	But that was the last time I went there was the infamous dwarf tossing gathering of developers.
1:28.2	Julian, I think Troy will agree with me in that you did not miss much from a strategy gamer's perspective.
1:29.0	No. It was not a prominent feature at E3.
1:32.4	Yeah, I trolled as hard as I could and couldn't find much that I was excited about from that angle.
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