Three Moves Ahead 396: Endless Space 2

Three Moves Ahead

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2017

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

It's a giant-sized gulp of Three Moves Ahead as Rob, Rowan, Fraser, and Sean "The Game Horatio" Sands discuss Endless Legend 2. Amplitude Games brought a competent - if not a bit bland - entry into the space 4X pantheon with Endless Space and followed up with the brilliant Endless Legend. Does Endless Space 2 continue their march toward greatness? Amplitude have expanded their writing and storytelling but unfortunately neglected the "QA" section of the tech tree in favor of ballistic weapons.

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0:00.0	Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakeney.
0:03.4	Joining me today is our friend, freelance writer, Fraser Brown.
0:07.0	Hello.
0:08.3	We also welcome late of Games Beat now, is it, Rowan?
0:13.9	Yep.
0:14.7	Still a freelance writer, but with a steady gig.
0:18.4	Yeah, it's the best of both worlds for now.
0:22.3	We'll see.
0:24.1	But yes, I am the PC guest post editor at Games Beat,
0:27.9	which means that people send me their things about
0:30.1	what kind of VR is going to make the most money.
0:32.4	And I say, please add an example to your first paragraph.
0:37.2	Outstanding.
0:38.4	And you also heard the rich laughter of the Game King himself, Sean Sands.
0:45.7	Hello.
0:46.9	So today we're going to be talking about Amplitudes, Endless Space 2.
0:52.2	And before we sort of dive into a discussion of the game's merits and what it's doing
0:59.6	and what's cool or not cool about it, we should probably just address the elephant in the
1:05.0	room, which is that no matter where we come down in this game, we're probably not
1:08.8	recommending you buy it today.
1:12.2	Probably not.
1:13.6	Because a non-trivial number of us, like there's four of us here, and at least two of us
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