Three Moves Ahead 356: Ashes of the Singularity

Three Moves Ahead

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2016

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Ashes of the Singularity is hard to pin down. It's not fast, like Starcraft. It doesn't have the same swagger as Grey Goo. The single-player campaign leaves much to be desired. Yet there are still some interesting mechanics that make it a point of interest on the RTS map, a giant ball of string that, while not as much fun as Mount Rushmore, was good for at least one fun picture.

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0:00.0	Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zackney.
0:03.9	Today, I'm joined once again by our friend Sean Sands.
0:07.6	Hello.
0:08.5	And we also welcome back, freelance writer T.J. Hafer.
0:12.0	Hello, hello.
0:13.9	So today we're going to be talking about Ashes of the Singularity, the sort of Supreme
0:20.1	Commander meets Kohan RTS from Star Doc.
0:23.8	I've been, I've had this topic sort of penciled in for a while, but it turns out that if you
0:29.1	try to get a real-time strategy game topic done on the show, and it's not named like StarCraft,
0:36.3	things get really tough.
0:38.7	I think you can actually sort of chart the downward trajectory of RTS games based on
0:44.5	like how many weeks of attempts it takes me to get a panel for it.
0:50.6	Because I basically, Sean, I basically like was reduced to pleading
0:54.5	right you really weren't
0:55.9	yeah no we we've been talking about this
0:58.7	it was still
1:00.8	when we brought this up no it was it was
1:03.3	I was still probably had a Christmas tree up now to be fair
1:05.9	that could have been March I'm not
1:07.8	sure but yeah
1:10.2	TJ I know you reviewed the game for IGN. Why don't you talk us through,
1:14.7	like, what is Ashes of the Singularities hook, right? So it's a real-time strategy game. I threw out a
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