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Three Moves Ahead

Three Moves Ahead 572: Forever Games

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8532 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week, Len and Jon discuss the concept of the Forever Game: the strategy game you could keep playing from now until the end of time. Do they even really exist? What has come closest for us? And has the trend of continuous development brought them into existence only recently?

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0:00.0

Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead. I'm your host for this week, Lynn, joined

0:04.6

it once again by our very good friend John Bolding. Hey, y'all. And this week, we are going to be

0:12.4

discussing the elusive, mystical, maybe illusory concept of the Forever game.

0:21.6

Recently, Robin Rowan kind of touched on this in trying to find the perfect Civil War game.

0:30.6

But this is the strategy game that you could theoretically keep coming back to forever.

0:36.6

This is the last game you'd ever need.

0:39.5

This is the game that if you had to be locked in a nuclear bunker with a PC, with only

0:44.3

one game installed on it, you think you'd be okay if you had this one, this one magical game.

0:57.7

One single game for all time.

0:58.7

Yes.

1:08.4

And I feel like I've kind of had multiple games throughout my life that I thought might have been my Forever game.

1:09.8

But, John, what do you feel about the concept?

1:14.6

I think it's really complicated idea because obviously, like, a lot of what's your favorite

1:19.8

video game things, my dog will walk in the room and make, like, a lot of noise.

1:24.8

Oh, yeah.

1:25.3

It's three moves ahead.

1:26.4

There's going to be dog mayhem.

1:28.2

That's part of our brand.

1:29.7

Here we are.

1:31.0

All right.

1:31.3

Well, I think as with a lot of games and preferences,

1:37.1

one person's forever game will not be another person's forever game.

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