Three Moves Ahead 397: Meta Campaigns

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2017

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Rob, Fraser, and Rowan look at the game outside the game. What are the ways that strategy and tactics games contextualize our actions and decisions, and which approaches do we tend to prefer. The conversation runs long but takes an exciting turn as the crew realize they've likely solved strategy games.

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0:00.0	Good evening, you are listening to Throozo Head, and I'm your host, Rob Zakene.
0:03.0	Joining me today, we have our friend, freelance writer, Fraser Brown.
0:07.1	Hello.
0:08.6	And we also welcome back our friend, freelance writer, Rowan Kaiser.
0:13.1	Hello, I'm not just a freelance writer anymore.
0:16.4	That's right. You are the PC gaming correspondent for GameSpeat.
0:21.4	Guest Post Editor.
0:23.5	Well, that sounds less exciting than PC gaming correspondent.
0:28.5	Today, we bring you the latest from PC Gaming.
0:32.1	Our Intrepid man on the scene, Rowan Kaiser, has been playing the new X-Com.
0:38.8	I watched the trailer of it.
0:40.9	It's a thing.
0:43.6	Fantastic.
0:44.4	That's what I want to hear.
0:46.7	To be fair, I am really curious because I was a little bit in a blackout today because
0:53.2	I was at another event.
0:55.0	What did we learn about the new XCOM?
0:57.3	We'll have a brief E3 discussion right now on the air.
1:00.7	What did we learn about the new XCOM?
1:02.2	I think XCOM, too, is particularly relevant to our discussion today
1:06.6	because the campaign mode on that was problematic.
1:10.9	I hated it.
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