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Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

2019 RPG Recap: The Best and Worst in the Year of RPGs

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.6674 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2019

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Kat and Nadia are joined by Caty to recap the year that was 2019 in RPGs! They discuss all the big stories, the big trends, and the biggest games, including: - The Year of the Switch Port - BioWare's Struggles - The Year Long National Pokedex Obsession - Fire Emblem: Three Houses being just great - Outer Worlds being... good? - Disco Elysium changing how we think about character progression - ... And much more! It all adds up to the Blood God's Pick for the Best RPG of 2019! Join us as we wrap yet another amazing year in RPGs! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to another episode of Acts of the Blood God, US Gamer's official RPG podcast.

0:18.9

I'm your host, Kat Bailey.

0:20.0

Joining as me, as always. It's my lovely

0:21.8

host, Nadia Oxford.

0:23.6

Hello, Kat. How are you today? I'm doing very well. And also joining me is my senior editor,

0:28.6

Katie McCarthy. Hello, I'm happy to be here for the, I guess this is the game in Europe,

0:33.8

technically, kind of. Yeah, so we're going to do two episodes, actually.

0:38.1

So we're doing the RPG wrap-up of the year first, and then we're going to do what we did last

0:43.4

year, and we're going to do an end-of-the-year extravaganza, where we get the entire team

0:47.8

together to talk about all of the games that came out this year, which will be...

0:52.1

I had a lot of fun doing that last year.

0:57.9

We got some new faces this year who will be able to contribute, so it's going to be a good time, I think. Yeah, I'm looking forward to it.

1:00.6

And also, as of this podcast, the Game Awards

1:03.8

will have already been done.

1:06.2

I have no idea is going to win because we're recording this on a Wednesday,

1:09.4

or Thursday, Thursday,

1:16.4

because I'm flying out to England on Friday. I'm going to make a prediction that's going to look bad in hindsight and say that Destra ending is going to win. Yeah, that's definitely a safe bet.

1:24.3

I think it's going to be control. I think control is going to take it. I think control could end up taking it. That's... It's either control or death stranding. Those are the top two.

1:33.8

Yeah, that sounds about right. I think control was less divisive than death stranding was. I think

1:40.1

this death stranding still like, they're both divisive in their own ways,

1:44.6

but I feel like control was, like, less so.

1:46.8

So I can see that being the one that takes it.

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