Three Moves Ahead 567: Two Point Campus

Three Moves Ahead

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Len and Jon are joined once again by Fanbyte's Mike Williams to talk about their semester abroad in Two Point Campus. Is the humor a bonus or a drawback? How is it, really, as a management game? And what exactly does the Scientography machine... do? We have written a thesis on all of these topics and are ready to defend it.

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0:00.0	Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead. I'm your host for this week, Len Hafer, who just started the show about a completely different game that is not the game we're talking about today. But with me today is our good friend John Bolding.
0:15.2	Hey, y'all. How you doing? And fanbytes Mike Williams.
0:19.6	Hello, folks. How's everybody doing today?
0:22.5	And the game we're actually talking about today, which is not the one I just spent
0:26.3	20 minutes going over notes for, is 2Point Campus, the second game from 2Point
0:32.1	studios, follow up to 2 Point Hospital, and sort of in the lineage of successors to Theme Hospital,
0:41.3	the old old, that was the 90s, right?
0:45.3	I'm not.
0:46.3	I can't remember the 90s anymore.
0:47.3	Yeah, the theme games were definitely the 90s.
0:49.3	Yeah.
0:50.3	Okay, gotcha.
0:51.3	Yeah.
0:52.3	I'm batting zero today as far as like having my head screwed on straight, so we'll see what happens.
0:58.1	But, yeah, it's a management game where you run a college, which can be anything from like a fairly semi-normal, I guess, sort of educational institution up to you
1:16.0	can have, like, knights and like the Department of the Dark Arts and stuff.
1:23.3	Mike, how have you gotten on with Two-point Campus so far?
1:26.8	Pretty good. I feel like you leave the normal normalcy pretty early on.
1:34.1	Like even the first like course that you can unlock is like Scientography, not like science.
1:42.0	And maybe gastronomy and general knowledge are pretty normal but the rest of them
1:48.5	it's like the VR class wizarding archaeology you know spy stuff you like most of them
1:57.1	are weird like they're not trying to say anything about, uh, college, uh,
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