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    Offworld Trading Company

    Game » consists of 2 releases. Released Apr 28, 2016

    A purely economic RTS game from Civ4 designer Soren Johnson.

    The Gist Of It: Unfinished: Offworld Trading Company 02/19/2015

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    Edited By eccentrix

    The Game:

    RTS Monopoly in space

    The Unfinished: Running time: 32:47, Starring Alex Navarro and Vinny Caravella

    Alex plays a single-player quick match at the third tier of difficulty against three bots. He explains most of what he's doing, but a lot of it he does without explaining what he's doing or why and there are a few concepts that go unexplained entirely, but he can be excused for not explaining every move fully while playing the game and Vinny does a good job of filling in some of the gaps. It seems like Alex fills out pretty much the whole tech tree, including the coveted Pleasure Dome, for which he fails to secure the Virtual Reality patent. Ultimately, his company is bought out by his eternal rival, Mr. Upgrade, and Alex nets a cool $3,000,000,000 from this transaction.

    There's a discussion of Trading Places amidst the economic espionage of the game and Vinny talks about a thing he saw recently where the potentially confusing ending of the movie was explained.

    Alex said the game looks neat and Vinny, inspired by the half-hour it takes to place a single game, suggests it's probably a good game to play in the morning with a cup of coffee and a newspaper.

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    This was a hard one to write because there's not much to talk about outside of the specifics of the game which is just numbers. Also, I felt talking about how the match ended gave some closure to this, but you might consider it a spoiler or something, so let me know about that.

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    There's something very enjoyably comical about reducing conversations and game events to matter-of-fact text.

    "Ultimately, his company is bought out by his eternal rival, Mr. Upgrade, and Alex nets a cool $3,000,000,000 from this transaction."

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    So having watched this on the Unfinished this is straight up Sid Meier's Railroads! Which makes me happy that is one of my favorite games and was great multiplayer. Its a bummer because that game's multilayer broke when gamespy died.

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    There's something very enjoyably comical about reducing conversations and game events to matter-of-fact text.

    "Ultimately, his company is bought out by his eternal rival, Mr. Upgrade, and Alex nets a cool $3,000,000,000 from this transaction."

    Yeah I was thinking the exact same thing when reading that specific sentence...

    you do a good job with these though, I just watched this QL and you do a good job in summarizing it while also offering a bit of your own personality in the descriptions.

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    @hammondoftexas: I'm not going back and doing all 10,000 Quick Looks, but I haven't yet patented describing what happens in an internet video, so anyone can start that project if they want. As for future videos, I'll try to do as many as I can, but there'll be some I won't be watching until I finish the games in question.

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    Neat idea duder, I appreciate these! Keep it up!

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