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Three Moves Ahead

Three Moves Ahead 245: Auld Lang Zerg

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8532 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2013

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Tom makes the bold claim that the traditional RTS is dead by the hands of MOBAs. Troy still likes Civ and Rob discusses his space minivan as well as pushing through the less savory parts of SimCity.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good evening, you are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakeney.

0:03.4

Join me tonight, once again, is Three Moves Head founder, Troy Goodfellow.

0:06.9

Troy, welcome to the show.

0:08.4

It is nice to be back and it's the greatest of holiday seasons.

0:12.4

And we also welcome back our old buddy, quarter to three blogger, Tom Check.

0:17.2

Hello to everyone listening and I guess to 2014.

0:22.5

Is it 2014 yet? I guess to 2014. Is it, is it 2014 yet?

0:27.8

It's almost 2014. The hour of the new year approaches.

0:33.7

I have my goofy hat on. I'm ready with the confetti. And I have one of those, what do you call those little blower things that unfurl and make a noise? There's a word for those. I've got one.

0:38.1

And a noisemaker.

0:39.3

Is that really all they're called?

0:54.9

That's all I've all called. And they probably have some, there's probably a variety of them. Either way, I think we can assume that our listeners are gathered around at their New Year's parties listening to the show. because really like how can your party be a hit unless you're jamming to the sounds of Because really, like, how can your party be a hit

0:54.9

unless you're jamming to the sounds of three moves ahead

0:58.6

with all your closest buddies?

1:00.9

So happy New Year, everybody, and drive safely tonight.

1:05.2

You know, I want to talk a little bit about both what some of our favorite

1:09.7

or at least most memorable moments of 2013 were and then maybe

1:14.3

get into next year a little bit and discuss what we're looking forward to if anything so tom i

1:21.5

figured we'd start off with you we haven't heard from you a little while and i know that on quarter

1:25.6

to three you know you talked about your most disappointing games. So you've certainly been thinking about the last year in retrospect.

1:33.2

What are some of the standout moments for you? Well, I did mention both on my disappointing

1:38.6

and overrated lists, some really notable RTSs that came out in 2013, including Company of Heroes 2, Rome 2,

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