While Alec and I are going to try and wave a mike at each other tomorrow, I was thinking you chaps my be interested in another podcast. It’s a strategy-focused one, ran by Troy Goodfellow with a panel of talking heads in the form of Tom Chick, Bruce Geryk and Julian Murdoch. Three Moves Ahead has two episodes so far. The first was something of a technical mess, with poor old Julian’s voice not recording, but has been enlivened with Vic “Armageddon Empires/Solium Infernum” Davis as a guest talking about all thing devil-related. The second gets on an even keel and chats about Empire Total War, Demi-God, Sins of a Solar Empire and some console toy trinket. I’d recommend it to anyone who enjoys strategy yibber and warn away anyone who whines about our sound quality. You whiners.
Oh – snippet of info from the Vic interview: Armageddon Empires sold over 5000 copies. For thirty dollars a pop, not bad.
may i quickly ask if you guys have had many responses to the music competition thing? :)
Consider it listened to. As to chess moves, I claimed once in middle school chess club that I could think 8 moves ahead. I now believe that was a lie. Please try to make the discussion more about tactics and less about the current RTS games, because they are terribly uninteresting to me.
Whoops, read that as “we’re going to do the Three Moved Ahead podcast”. My mistake. Anyway, my recommendation stands.
A strategy game podcast?
I just screamed* “TERRAIN” on a packed bus in celebration.
That is a fucking awesome idea. To be honest i wish that more action-games-with-strategy-elements were subject to the same kind of discussion but WMGs alone will more than suffice.
*whispered
I prefer Turn-Based chattery, it’s so annoying when they’re all talking at the same time.
Real-Time Chattery is so much more immersive though.
with turn based chattery you get to think carefully before you speak, removing the need for awkward conversation in a podcast. Actually that would be awesome… your on to something :D
Turn-Based Chattery just means more awkward silences while everyone thinks about their next move.
This is when I know I’ve got a good pun.
KG
When I flog it like the dead horse that it is?
oh… good point :(
I want ama empires but $30 is too much for me. I spent less on gta 4 last month. Less on civ4 gold last year.
Too bloody much.
Great sound quality.
What Heliocentric said. But why is the first episode id3 tagged as “Polka”?
What’s wrong with polka?
It’s just one of the many things wrong with episode 1. It was a catastrophe that I did not want to do over, because Vic said some interesting stuff I didn’t want to lose. Also, I believe in the occasional spectacular failure to keep me honest.
Still learning as I go, though.
I hope you’re happy that you’ve spoiled the 2,931 song polka-free streak on my iPod.
I’d pay $30 for AE but not just buying it off a random website. It would have to be on Steam or Impulse. Or really preferably on a CD.
Helio: Good thing AE’s better than both of those games.
Cardigan: It hasn’t a hint of DRM and it’s 100MB. Carry it around on a pound store USB keychain if you want to be precious.
The 5000 figure depressed me just because more than 5000 people deserve to play AE, but then I remembered it’s a P-word-C game and that made me happy again. Sort of.
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