Three Moves Ahead 57: Supreme Commander 2 and Command & Conquer 4

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2010

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Troy, Tom and Julian devote the hour to dissecting the surprisingly good Supreme Commander 2 and the disappointing Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight. Why does SupCom 2’s deviation from the franchise formula make the game better? Why is it like Sins of a Solar Empire and Demigod? Do we want to gain experience points in our RTSes? When good design meets bad design in the same package, what wins? And come hear how disorganized we are for PAX! Tom Chick’s review of SupCom 2 Tom Chick’s review of C&C 4 Troy Goodfellow’s review of SupCom 2 Quarter to Three Community podcast on SupCom 2 The Flash of Steel Store

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0:00.0	You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flash of Steel.com.
0:06.3	I am your host, Troy Goodfellow, and with me tonight are two of my panelists, freelance writer Julia Murdoch.
0:13.0	Hello, hello.
0:14.2	And freelance writer Tom Chick.
0:16.7	If I can get anyone a coffee, let me know.
0:18.8	I'm actually coming to you live from my living room,
0:23.3	and Sylvia is right here.
0:33.0	Yes, it was very fresh coffee since Tom was entertaining us with a symphony of kitchen noises before the show. Here, by the way, she was accused of sounding like a didgeridoo.
0:35.8	Here is Sylvia coming to you live.
0:41.7	There you go.
0:43.1	Beautiful thing.
0:44.1	I think she's got something in her throat.
0:48.1	Tonight's show we're going to talk about the two big real-time strategy games to come out this month,
0:53.8	two yearly awaited sequels to quite large franchises.
0:57.9	We have Supreme Commander 2 from Gas Powered Games and Square Enix.
1:03.5	The sequel to Supreme Commander 1, which was the spiritual successor to Total Annihilation,
1:09.7	and Supreme Commander 2 kind of throws the total annihilation legacy,
1:15.2	I would argue, aside for something completely both retro and new.
1:20.1	And we also have Electronic Arts Command and Conquer 4,
1:23.6	which is even a more radical shift away from, well, RTS design in general, and the Command and Conquer, I would argue some of those are very core mechanics in particular.
1:35.0	One, I think, that's a good job. One, I think, is an abomination.
1:40.0	Care to place your bets early, maybe you don't know?
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