{"id":8682,"date":"2011-09-02T14:48:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T21:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=8682"},"modified":"2011-09-02T14:50:42","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T21:50:42","slug":"the-innovative-and-unfriendly-delorean-of-real-time-strategy-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/09\/02\/the-innovative-and-unfriendly-delorean-of-real-time-strategy-games\/","title":{"rendered":"The innovative and unfriendly DeLorean of real time strategy games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"8682\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Archon_vs_Achron.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Archon_vs_Achron.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Archon_vs_Achron\" width=\"600\" height=\"417\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8683\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note that it&#8217;s not <em>Archon<\/em>.  Like that game up there, which is a whole other way to travel through time.  It&#8217;s <em>Achron<\/em>.  Like Ohio.  This time travel RTS is challenging in terms of saying the name without thinking of the classic battle chess game or the Ohio city.  In terms of graphics, gameplay, and its drawn-out tedious campaign.  In terms of wrapping your head around its cool ideas.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;unfortunately, cool ideas don&#8217;t sell games until they&#8217;re implemented into cool games.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamepro.com\/article\/reviews\/222574\/review-achron-pc\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I did some math.  The Gamepro editor who stuck the editor&#8217;s note at the top of the review, which kind of spoils the joke by explaining it, thinks Blizzard is going to publish one Starcraft sequel every two years for the next decade.  That&#8217;s a good one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The innovative and unfriendly DeLorean of real time strategy games - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/09\/02\/the-innovative-and-unfriendly-delorean-of-real-time-strategy-games\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The innovative and unfriendly DeLorean of real time strategy games - 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