Three Moves Ahead 23: Episode 23

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2009

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes a last minute topic change actually goes somewhere. Troy, Tom and Bruce have a long and detailed conversation about the challenges wargame and strategy game designers face when they try to capture the essence of an historical moment. How do you model insurgency? What makes WW2 the default combat model if not the default topic? Why are Tom and Bruce still scarred by Combat Mission Shock Force? Also a discussion of reading material, how Twilight Struggle works, and whether Balance of Power is a terrible game. Troy also manages to confuse two Middle East themed games. (Here’s the one Tom was talking about, here the one Troy was thinking of.) Then a long update on Dominions 3 and why Bruce is afraid. Norm Koger’s current project The new version of Dragoon Battlefront GDW’s Assault Tom’s Call of Duty 4 review

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0:00.0	You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flash of Steel.com, and I am your host, Troy Goodfellow.
0:16.0	With me today, our freelance writer Tomchick.
0:19.0	If anyone needs a coffee, let me know. I've wrangled Sylvia into shape, and she's working more or less right now. And Dr. Bruce Garrick. Hey, I'm really excited to be on today. I've been playing a game for the last week. It's called Brutal Legend. And I want to talk a little bit about that. also a game called Demon Souls that I don't think is out in the U.S., but I've been playing a lot of that game too.
0:42.3	And I think that's what we're going to talk about today, right?
0:45.3	Brutal Legend and Demon Souls.
0:46.3	There are strategy aspects to both, both of them.
0:49.3	Brutal Legend actually has strategic level controls and army management for the multiplayer.
0:56.9	And I'm not making either of those out.
0:58.6	Bruce is making up the fact that he's playing that.
1:01.2	He doesn't even know what that is,
1:02.6	but what I just said is not invented, is actually true.
1:06.0	Really?
1:06.3	There you go.
1:07.0	Yeah, very true.
1:08.0	Their multiplayer has strategic management and strategic level gameplay and army management.
1:14.4	That's the selling point for the multiplayer support.
1:17.5	Of course, fact of the image.
1:18.9	Name one celebrity who is involved besides Eric Wolpa, one celebrity involved, however peripherally, with brutal legends.
1:29.0	Go.
1:29.2	Black.
1:30.2	Whoa!
1:31.7	You, my friend, have your finger on the pulse of contemporary pop culture.
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