Three Moves Ahead 329: Civilization: Beyond Earth - Rising Tide

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🗓️ 5 November 2015

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Civilization(R): Beyond Earth(TM) had a bumpy start. Despite Firaxis's's...s attempts to distance Beyond Earth the from the venerable Alpha Centauri, the game was inevitably compared to the genre favorite and found to be wanting. A new expansion is here and special guest Martin Glaude - best known for his Let's Play videos on Youtube as quill18 - joins Rob and Troy "There's Always Money in the Banana Stand" Goodfellow to discuss the latest addition to the Civilization franchise.

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0:00.0	Good evening, you are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zackney.
0:03.6	Before we get into tonight's topic, I want to extend my gratitude to those of you who have donated to the Three Moves Ahead Patreon. It's been live for less than a week as of recording, and we're nearly at 600 a month. It's a huge help to us, and they reliefs me personally to be able to count on Three Moves Ahead as a small source of revenue. You know, I'm a full-time freelancer, which already means my income can be a little unstable
0:24.9	or a lot unstable due to the vagaries of freelance work and client payment schedules.
0:30.3	So backing 3MA helps cover the time I spend hosting and organizing the show, and it also gives
0:35.7	me some much appreciated peace of mind. So please know you have
0:39.2	my personal gratitude as well as the gratitude of all of us who work on the show. If this is the
0:44.0	first you're hearing about this, you can find our Patreon at patreon.com slash 3M.A. But, you know,
0:50.3	people aren't just backing us to hear our gratitude. So with that, we turn to today's show, where once again, I'm joined by Three Moves
0:56.6	Ahead founder, Troy Goodfellow.
0:58.1	Good evening, everyone.
0:59.8	We also welcome our friend Martin Glode, who some of you may know as Quill 18 on YouTube.
1:05.8	Hey, folks.
1:06.9	Good to be here.
1:08.0	So today we're going to be revisiting civilization beyond Earth in light of the new Rising Tide expansion.
1:14.7	Beyond Earth got kind of a rough ride when it came out, and I certainly wasn't much of a fan myself.
1:21.1	So the question, oh God, this is unforgivable, but you'll have to forgive me.
1:24.9	The question is whether Rising Tide can really float our boats. Oh my God. I'm so sorry. Is that what we're going to do today? I'm just going to go shut down the Patreon actually right now. This is why no one asked you to review the game, right? Because they knew you would say that. Exactly. Exactly. Well, somebody did, actually. And I just turned in a thousand words of nautical puns.
1:47.8	Oh, God.
1:48.1	And I haven't gotten work since.
1:50.0	So, Martin, you've probably put in more time on Rising Tide than we have since I think
1:54.7	I saw you were playing at pre-release.
1:58.2	So before we dive into our reactions, you know, can you tell us a little bit about like,
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