Three Moves Ahead 43: Episode 43

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2009

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week, Tom Chick makes the case that strategy gamers need to have a console to truly appreciate the range of games out there. He calls Bruce and Troy “dinosaurs” for clinging bitterly to a fading gaming platform, even though it is at the moment best suited to the deep games that all three love. What is the present condition of strategy gaming in the console arena? Are independent strategy game designers making a mistake by focusing on the PC?

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0:00.0	For those who have been missing Bruce Garrick's musical outro's, that was Bruce Garrick again with his fresh tunes.
0:24.1	You're listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flash of Steel.com.
0:30.3	And with me today is the Master of Music, Dr. Bruce Garrick.
0:35.1	Oh, hello. Hi gamers.
0:39.5	That never gets old.
0:42.6	Unlike freelance writer Tom Chick.
0:46.8	Can I get anyone a coffee?
0:49.2	So that does get old?
0:50.7	How dare you?
0:51.5	By the way, that music that Bruce was playing was a lot
0:56.4	less, should I say, ethnic than what Bruce normally plays. That reminded me, that sounded
1:04.7	like southern fried rock. Well, when you live on a steady diet of glen back and rash limbaugh the ethnicity gets beaten out of you
1:14.0	no you mean jeff back yes it's right it was like that sounded like 38 special or or molly hatchett or
1:22.9	something what was that that was awesome yeah as That's a Richie Blackmore's Rainbow.
1:29.1	I have no idea who that is or what that means, but I approve.
1:31.9	Oh, man.
1:32.6	This is, okay, so I think the next podcast should be us reading all the emails from the listeners writing in about how Tom doesn't know Richie Blackmore's Rainbow.
1:44.4	Okay, so we're going to talk about how all console gamers should play Richie Blackmore's Rainbow on their rock band or something.
1:51.4	We're going to talk about Green Day rock band.
1:54.3	One of the worst ideas ever, no.
1:58.6	This week, we are going to pick up a topic that we've been kind of dancing around for the last eight months,
2:06.3	and that is the transition of strategy gaming from PC environment to the console environment,
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