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Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.6 • 674 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2017

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Friend of the podcast Steve Tramer returns to have an honest discussion about Persona 5's flaws and extol the virtues of NieR Automata (12:26). Then the pair dive into this episode's main topic: battle systems! (27:00) Kat and Steve discuss the evolution of RPG battle systems; what defines them; notable systems throughout history, and of course, their favorites. Read more at http://usgamer.net! Follow us on Twitter and Facebook at @usgamernet! Have comments or questions about the show? Email us at [email protected]. We may read your letter on the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Axe of the Blood God.
0:02.9	Welcome to another episode of Axe of Blood God,
0:18.1	US Gamer's official RPG podcast.
0:20.4	I'm your host, Cap Bailey. With me today,
0:22.7	as always is my lovely co-host, Steve Tramer. That's right. I'm here just like I am every week.
0:28.2	Hi, everybody. You're not Nadia Oxford. No, not today I'm not.
0:33.7	I mean, you could be. You just might be, could be Steve Tramer.
0:38.0	I don't know, whatever.
0:39.3	I'd be super weird if I was Nadia, though.
0:42.3	Nadia is out.
0:43.9	She is at Otocon, like a nerd, presumably getting dressed up and cosplaying.
0:50.9	Wish of the best.
0:51.7	She'll be back next week.
0:53.1	But this week, I thought this was a good chance to catch up with our old friend, Steve,
0:58.1	who was last here during GDC for our annual, let's drink too much beer and, like, talk about
1:05.2	a lot of RPG-related things.
1:07.6	Steve contacted me, I don't know, back in like April probably and was like, oh my God,
1:13.3	Cat, near Atomata, I got to talk to you about it. And he also wanted to rant a little bit about
1:19.2	percent of five, because I guess you're not a big fan of Persona Five.
1:23.6	Since I finished it, I've been spending some time thinking about it. I think it's maybe better than I initially gave it credit for, but I still don't think it's super great.
1:34.6	But yeah, so, I mean, you and Nadia have probably talked a lot about both these games already, right?
1:39.6	To have probably done plenty of chatter about NIR and especially Persona 5.
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