Three Moves Ahead 196: Grunt's Eye View

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2012

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Rob is joined by Shawn Andrich, Evan Lahti, and Phill Cameron to talk about Planetside 2 and the past and future of the large-scale shooter. At what point does the scale start to turn a shooter into a strategy game, and does Planetside hit that level? Everyone suspects that Planetside would be more strategic if only there were a commander role, and Rob and Shawn are reminded of the old Battlezone games. Evan is impressed by how diverse the experiences and battlefields are in Planetside 2, but everyone has doubts about the F2P economy and the progression system. The group also talk about the ArmA series and Natural Selection 2's blend of RTS and FPS.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host Rob Zackney.
0:03.4	Joining me tonight is my friend and the host of the Gammers of the Jobs podcast, Sean Andrich.
0:10.3	Hey, it's an honor to finally be on Three Moves Head.
0:14.2	I've been slowly filtering you guys through one by one. And I hesitated there for a second
0:18.3	because I'm so used to you being on the podcast and just
0:21.3	sort of walking me through the introduction that I was like okay I should probably just shut up
0:24.8	and let Sean take over yeah no please don't please don't make me do that uh we're also joined
0:31.6	once again by our friend Evan Lati from PC Gamer hey Rob I miss hockey you miss hockey oh my god you know, my God. You know what? Let's do a three moves ahead episode where you and I just like sport hunt Batman. Like we set him loose in the woods. It'll be like the hunter. I've got Winnipeg Jets season tickets. So yeah, I miss a hockey a little bit too. Oh, no. That's a new arena and new team.
0:54.8	Oh, yeah.
0:55.3	It's excellent.
1:12.8	It's awesome. I'm sorry. But you didn't pay for those, like for this season, right? There's no money you've spent. That's the funny part. My business actually owns them. But they actually make you pay for them for this season if you want to keep them. And then what they'll do is they'll pay interest on the money that you've given them.
1:13.8	Oh, my God.
1:29.5	And carry it over to keep them. And then what they'll do is they'll pay interest on the money that you've given them. Oh, my God. And carried over to the next year is what they're doing. It's brutal. Oh, my God. All right, well, that's infuriating. But set it aside, have to put away my anger, put it in a little box. As I introduced, my next guest, we welcome back.
1:31.1	Freelance writer, Phil Cameron.
1:32.3	Phil, welcome back to the show.
1:33.0	Thanks.
1:36.9	I'm completely flabbergasted by the ice hockey.
1:38.3	I have no idea what you're talking about.
1:42.4	It's a shameful scandal.
1:44.6	It's a shame of the Western I'll like to appropriately appalled then
1:46.6	so we've got a little bit of an unusual show for you this week
1:50.0	you know coming off the Thanksgiving break
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