Three Moves Ahead 583: Religion Revisited

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Len, Jon, and Ian kick off what is to be an ongoing series revisiting some big ideas in strategy games that we haven't covered since Ye Olde Podcast Days of Yore. This time around, we're taking a fresh look at religion, which we last gave its own show waaay back in 2009. How have strategy games changed their depiction of spiritual practices in the last decade or so, and how are they still stuck in certain ruts? We also discuss some of our favorite non-standard takes on religion like Frostpunk and Terra Invicta, and share some thoughts on what we'd like to see done differently.

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0:00.0	Good evening. You are listening to three moves ahead. I am your host for this week, Len,
0:06.7	and I am joined today by our good friend John Bolding.
0:11.4	Howdy.
0:12.6	And our good friend, Ian Boudreau.
0:15.9	Hello, everybody.
0:17.6	My only friends, you're the only I can I can truly count on to discuss
0:24.6	how strategy games should portray the the great schism of uh and and things like that um
0:36.7	the only ones you truly understand.
0:38.4	Right.
0:39.0	Yeah, exactly.
0:41.5	Yeah, Brett was actually busy.
0:43.1	He was interested in this show, too.
0:45.0	But maybe we can get, we can figure out how to get his thoughts on this topic at some
0:48.8	point later down the line.
0:49.9	But what we're doing this week is we are going to start revisiting some, like, big ideas in strategy games that we have done episodes on in the past.
1:02.5	But it was, like, more than a decade ago, which still boggles my mind to think that the show is more than a decade old.
1:12.7	Yeah.
1:13.4	Yeah, so because, you know, game design marches forward and, you know, there's a lot of
1:21.2	kind of no-brainer episodes that I think are worth another pass.
1:26.3	And this week, we're revisiting the idea of religion in strategy games, which last we talked
1:33.5	about in 2009, I think is what Troy was saying.
1:39.3	So it's a very, very different world.
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