Three Moves Ahead 42: Epic Fails

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2009

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Rob Zacny comes to the plate as a pinch hitter, but we still manage to get three original panelists together for a long discussion about strategy games gone wrong. Ascendancy, MOO3, Road to Moscow, and other favorites.Road to Moscow preview at IGN Bruce’s Review of Squad Leader Tom’s review of Axis and Allies Troy’s Diplomacy Review Rob’s love of the old Total War games Troy’s review of SupCom for the 360 Chris Remo’s Top 5 PC Games of 2009 Jim Rossignol on ArmA Tom’s Review of Empire: Total War

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0:00.0	You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flash of Steel.com.
0:06.2	I am your host, Troy Goodfellow, and with me today is a new panel.
0:10.7	A somewhat new panel, half a new panel.
0:13.5	We have regular panelist, freelance writer Tom Chick.
0:17.3	Before we launch into this too far, I just want to ask one thing, that's whether or not I can
0:23.7	get you a cup of coffee.
0:27.0	I would love coffee, but I'm working on the Scotch first.
0:31.5	Hey, who's that?
0:32.8	Yeah, there you go.
0:34.7	The other voice is Mr. Rob Zakni,, who some readers of Flash of Steel might know because
0:42.1	he is contributing to the decade series.
0:44.9	He's written two entries in it already, as have I, and Bruce has written one.
0:49.5	Poor Bad Bruce.
0:50.9	He is a regular contributor to The Escapeist and maintains a blog at robzakene.com. Rob, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. We should also point out, by the way, that Rob is 12. Or something like, give or take a few years, Rob? Like, you're kind of a kid, right? Yeah, but I'm a precocious 12. I've got a very deep voice, so you can just pretend I'm in my mid-20s.
1:14.7	That works for me.
1:17.3	So, tonight's show, we're going to pick up something we talk about from time to time in passing.
1:22.5	We like to make fun of games that suck.
1:25.8	So we're going to devote an entire episode, really, to the issue of strategy games that didn't live up to their promise, failed strategy games.
1:34.3	Why games fail?
1:36.3	Why big games fail, especially, because it's really no fun to pick on the small failures of the world.
1:42.5	It's the big blockbusters that come down around your ears.
1:46.6	Empire Total War, for instance.
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