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Three Moves Ahead

Three Moves Ahead 265: Tally Me Bananas

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8532 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2014

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Pork sandwiches. Salsa music. Awesome hats. Politically motivated murder. Tropico is back again and Polygon's Charlie Hall is here to talk to Rob and Troy about the latest installment in the long-running series. Has the well been tapped? Is the series still going strong? How awesome would Rob look in a white linen suit and hat?

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0:00.0

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

0:03.1

Joining me today, after the E3 Madness is finally over, is my co-panelist, Troy Goodfellow. Troy, welcome to the show. It's Goodie back. It's been a month. And I was not at E3, and I did not miss it one bit. Well, I missed you, Troy. I missed everyone. I missed the people, but my God, do I not miss, standing there in a room, checking my appointment

0:25.6

book and wondering why somebody is not there.

0:28.3

That's very true.

0:29.2

Or getting to an appointment and then discovering that nobody actually wrote the appointment

0:33.0

down.

0:33.8

That's excellent when you booked a whole mess with a whole mess of appointments with 2K, and you've missed all of them.

0:39.7

Oh, you're kidding me.

0:41.1

No, it got straightened out, but it was, it made for a lousy day.

0:45.3

As did the hallucinogenic 2K booth at E3, by the way, this calm of red LEDs that was just like, it was like a fever dream just standing near this booth.

0:55.1

Anyway, we also welcome our old friend and Polygun Features writer, Charlie Hall.

0:59.8

Charlie, welcome to the show.

1:01.3

Hi, guys.

1:01.9

Thanks for having me.

1:02.5

It's really good to talk to you.

1:04.0

How was your E3, Charlie?

1:05.0

Did you have a blast?

1:06.3

You know, honestly, we said a whole ton of people to E3, and I did.

1:09.7

It was much lighter schedule, I think,

1:12.4

than I was anticipating. And I, the only thing that drove me nuts was the tiny human-sized

1:18.5

chairs that I had to sit on, being six and a half feet tall. That's always a humbling experience.

1:24.1

Yeah, that's, you know, it's interesting. It's rather like, smaller people can, like, get in a tall chair and, like, they'll be fine, but I can only get so short.

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