Three Moves Ahead 512: Per Aspera

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2020

⏱️ 81 minutes

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STORY SPOILERS! Skip ahead from 58:30 to 1:13:05 to avoid. Rowan, Jon, and Len discuss the new Mars colonization game Per Aspera, and how it weaves branching story into a classic colony builder.

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0:00.0	Good evening. You are listening to three moves ahead, and I am your host for this week,
0:04.4	Leona Hafer, and I am joined by our good friend, freelance writer, John Bolding.
0:10.1	Howdy.
0:11.9	And by Strategy Gaming's number one space exploration and colonization Stan, Rowan Kaiser.
0:18.4	Hello.
0:20.6	I don't like that word.
0:24.1	Okay.
0:25.0	Well, I don't go by Stan.
0:27.7	Okay.
0:28.5	That's got negative connotations.
0:30.3	All the other parts are good.
0:32.1	Yeah, you love space exploration.
0:34.4	You think we should be funding more of it.
0:36.7	How dare you? Bad mouth. Dido and Eminem.
0:40.8	Go to space immediately. Yeah.
0:44.7	I am respecting Eminem's original intent. You are not supposed to be Stan. Stan is a cautionary tale.
0:53.4	That's true. That's true. This is the original intent behind the, uh, the, uh, the message. Yeah.
1:01.6	Um, well, we're, we're here to talk about per aspera, which is a new, uh, Mars colonization
1:09.7	game that's a little bit different in that it kind of has a
1:14.2	discreet story that follows along with the sort of sandboxy gameplay of basically making
1:22.9	Mars habitable for human life.
1:25.1	John, since you were the one that kind of really were pushing for all of the rest of us to play
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