Good evening, and you're listening to Three Moves Ahead.

I am your host, Troy Goodfellow.

Rob is indisposed this week.

So once again, I am taking over a lead chair.

And just by myself with two other guests, two frequent guests, who are favorite guests,

to talk about endless legend, a 4X game that has been, you know, kind of burning up my Twitter feed for a bit from Amplitude Studios,

from the people who made endless space. We have with us from, we have two freelance writers.

I guess, Fraser, you're not a freelance game's End exclusively, right? Yeah, no freelancing anymore.

Oh, that's a shame.

Fraser Brown, of course, you all know very well.

And a freelancer writes for IGN and also is Lee editor of a very great Game of Thrones site called

Winter Is Coming. Our friend Rowan Kaiser.

Hello.

So, Endless Legend, I guess I should begin by asking, did you guys put in time to Endless Space?

Yeah, I actually reviewed it back when I was still writing for Destructoid.

I really liked it, but it had some massive flaws, and it lacked, it lacked personality, I think, was the thing it lacked the most.

You had all this kind of great backstory, but none of it ever came into play in the game, which is completely different from Endless Legend, which is just oozing personality

from every pore. Rowan? Yeah, pretty much the same. I didn't play too much in the space. I got

in a steam sale later, but found it to be sparse, and the way that they had their tech tree set up was

pretty, I don't know, it was like a bunch

of fictional things that took two turns to research and I just, you know, got overwhelmed by choice

and could not care about any of it.

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