Three Moves Ahead 513: 2020 in Review

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Rob, Rowan, Jon, and Len discuss the year in the rear view. 2020 was a year we'll never forget. But can we say the same about its strategy games? How good was Crusader Kings 3, really? What could our modern leaders learn from Soviet Concrete Simulator? Is RTS back, baby? Tune in and reminisce with us.

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0:00.0	Good evening, happy New Year. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakeney, joined this time by Rowan Kaiser.
0:07.4	Hello.
0:08.6	Len Hafer.
0:09.9	Hello.
0:10.9	And John Bolding.
0:13.8	You're kidding me.
0:16.1	John? John.
0:18.2	John, did you mute? Are you muted?
0:20.5	Oh, my God, he's asleep okay I heard damn it
0:24.3	okay I fixed it that was good that's funny I love 2021 it's a fucking great year already
0:32.6	yeah we're continuing the theme of, where is John?
0:38.1	You want me to pick up from my respond?
0:40.4	Yeah, let's, let's, you know, I can't tell you how to use your microphone.
0:44.8	You're going to have to figure it out on your...
0:46.5	And you might ask yourself, how did I get here?
0:52.7	Well, I, I guess the rest of this intro was pretty mooted.
0:56.1	I was going to talk about how it was a new year, new start, putting 2020 behind us,
1:00.8	and yet we're right back to the same stuff.
1:04.7	Nevertheless, we are going to look back at the year that was, talk about the year in strategy games and some of the
1:12.6	major trends running throughout it.
1:15.3	And I think one of the places to start is that while tactics games have been kind of a
1:21.7	staple ever since really XCOM helped make that, you sort of dust off that genre, and then we saw it become very trendy
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