Three Moves Ahead 31: Episode 31

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2009

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Majesty 2 becomes the starting point about the pluses and minuses of surrendering control. Troy, Tom and Bruce talk about the origins of Majesty, other games with the detached czar motif and whether or not the game is repetitive. Listen as Bruce schools Tom on the subtleties of his new favorite game and find out which game Tom thinks is about sex and death. Also, listen to the worst contest ever. Bruce Geryk’s original Majesty review Erik Wolpaw’s rebuttal Troy’s Majesty 2 review Tom’s Majesty 2 review Dwarf Fortress Tom on Halo 3:ODST’s Campaign and on the firefight mode.

Transcript

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0:00.0	You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flash of Steel.com, and not the first strategy podcast on the Internet.
0:10.8	I am your host, Troy Goodfellow, and with me today is freelance writer Tom Chick.
0:16.6	Hello, if I can get anyone a coffee, let me know.
0:20.9	And Dr. Bruce Derek.
0:22.8	What's that thing about not the only what?
0:25.3	Yeah, I want to hear about this too.
0:26.6	What's going on?
0:27.2	I thought we were first.
0:28.8	Apparently, there was an RTS-themed podcast last year,
0:33.0	ran through for 19 episodes.
0:36.4	Wasn't I alerted?
0:37.6	Who was doing this?
0:38.7	I can't believe someone was doing this without me being there.
0:41.7	Who were these guys?
0:42.6	A bunch of nobody's.
0:44.3	I mean, they're fans.
0:45.9	No, they're their fans.
0:47.3	It was called Shift Q RTS podcast.
0:51.2	I think Shift Q was a pretty good name.
0:53.3	Not as good as three moves ahead, but Shift Q is not bad.
0:57.0	A bunch of RTS fans, pretty much command and conquer people.
1:00.5	But we were not the first. And they were in for 19 episodes.
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