Three Moves Ahead 468: Same Thing, Different Place

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2019

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

The gang has been playing the Steel Division 2 beta and wow, things are different on the Eastern Front. That leads to a discussion of how familiar series and systems take on new life, or fail to, when adapted to new settings.

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0:00.0	Good evening, you're listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakeney.
0:04.2	Tonight, I'm joined by PC gamers Fraser Brown.
0:07.3	Hello!
0:08.6	And we also welcome back, Gamesbeats, Commandant of the Ostfront, Rowan Kaiser.
0:15.7	Hello.
0:16.5	Why is my intro so much more boring than that? That's not very fair.
0:21.0	Because Rob can never remember what my actual job is.
0:24.8	It's PC guest post editor, right?
0:28.3	Mm-hmm.
0:29.3	Boom, there we go.
0:30.5	But that's not a real job.
0:32.5	It's because I care.
0:34.3	That's not a real...
0:35.2	That's not a title.
0:37.0	Now, Comandant, that's a title title now com and don't that's a title that's a
0:40.5	I'll swap if you want to be PC gaming news added and I'll be common don't that would be fun
0:46.1	I actually get like nightmares about having you do news I just get day mares.
1:03.9	So today we're going to be talking about familiar games tackling new settings.
1:12.8	And I think this is prompted for the most part by an experience that at least Rowan and I had this past weekend as we started to dig into Steel Division 2, which was on its second or third battle weekend, I want to say, but I can't
1:20.2	really, I can't swear to it. It was the first time we'd played it, and we thought we were
1:25.1	pretty up to speed on Steel Division.
1:34.9	We knew how we were bad. Yeah, we, in familiar ways. Like, we understood the problems that we were routinely failing to solve. And then we fired up Steel Division 2, and it felt like a completely
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