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Players

Squidge

Jay

Chief

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Show Notes

This week we have a slight departure from the norm

although what we consider

as not only is Chief back with us, but we let him take the lead in picking the conversation topic: RTS games.

RTS and RTT games

Real Time Strategy and Real Time Tactics, respectively

are something that Chief is an expert on, so it seemed only natural to have him discuss them on the show. It’s his first time back on the show in a long time

psst. click on his image in the

in fact, the last episode that he was on was “Some Qs and Some As” back in March of this year. But the last time that he was the only guest

we had multiple guests on Some Qs and Some As

was back in June of 2018, in “Time Cast Pod Machine Part Three”

Before we get onto the topic at hand, I make a point of showing off the new website design to Chief. It really is a fantastic design, right? Let us know what you think of it in the comments

But before we could talk about RTS and RTT games, we needed to find out which games Chief (and indeed Squidge) had been playing recently. Because one of Chief’s recent games was Pro Evolution Soccer, I wanted to know what the difference between it and the FIFA games was.

Chief's Avatar Chief

FIFA has the licenses, but PES has the gameplay. Well, that’s my feeling anyway

Which leads us into a discussion on how it’s an accepted thing that football players not only take dives, but they make them more theatrical than the average John Woo movie. We also discuss the proper etiquette for eating cake, and how it’s meant to be eaten with a fork

some say that I’m a little too passionate about how to correctly eat cake

I say that I’m not passionate enough

Then Chief tells us about how he introduced his niece to Persona 5, and has nearly finished it before he has had the chance to finish it. Then again, he makes a point of playing on the hardest difficulty setting.

It’s over to me next, and it seems that I’ve just been playing the one game this month: Resident Evil: Revelations 2 - specifically the “Raid” mode.

Then Squidge laments that he hasn’t got much time in the coming month to play new games like Borderlands 3 before we head to EGX in October this year.

Quick side bar on that: as we mentioned last time, we’re planning on creating some content during EGX. This may take the form of episodes of the pod, or it might be blog posts, or both. We haven’t decided yet. Either way, we’ll keep you posted. Check our Twitter and Facebook for the most up too date info on that.

We’ll also have swag to give away at EGX, so seek us out if you’re going to be attending, and you could get free stuff.

Real Time Strategy & Tactics Games

After the catchup session, we handed the reins over to Chief and he decided to talk to us about RTS games - a genre whose golden age has long since passed.

We start with a discussion of how the early Dune games (especially Dune 2) came out before the drag box

click and drag to select a number of units

as such, you had to issue commands to individual units.

I interject with a controversial question:

Jay's Avatar Jay

Are the likes of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Fornight RTS adjacent?

Then Chief brings up the original Command & Conquer game, to which I relate a story about how whenever I’m writing software and I have to interrupt the compilation process, I hear the

Unable to comply, building in progress

line in my head. It also then leads to a discussion around this wonderful XKCD comic:

Click for source

We then discuss the live action segments - especially the ones from Red Alert ow-nards

including such amazing stars as Ric Flair

which may or may not be a tease for an upcoming blog post

And Squidge then comes up with quite possibly the greatest video game challenge ever:

Squidge's Avatar Squidge

We have to jerry rig something where you have to play Command & Conquer [for Playstation] with a dance mat

We also bring up the topic of Westwood Studios - the OG creators oof many of the best RTS games - disappearing from the gaming industry shortly after EA bought them, which also brought about the end of the golden age of the RTS game.

This is a topic which Arcade Attack brought up on a recent episode

here’s a link directly to that episode

I’d recommend that anyone who wants to learn more about the collapse of Westwood Studios gives that episode a listen.

Chief’s Recent Games

  • Dragon Age: Inquisition
  • Pro Evolution Soccer 2020
  • Persona 5

Squidge’s Recent Games

  • Final Fantasy VII
  • Torchlight 2
  • Ace Attorney (series)
  • River City Girls
  • Diablo III

Jay’s Recent Games

  • Resident Evil: Revelations 2

Music

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Games Covered

We mentioned 29 games in this podcast. In the following order, those games where: