A Huge Week for RPGs: Reacting to Final Fantasy XVI, Harry Potter, and More

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.6 • 674 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2020

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Kat and Nadia react to a huge week for RPG announcements, breaking down Avalanche's Harry Potter game, Monster Hunter Rise, and the PS5 price announcement. Then it's time to talk Final Fantasy XVI, as Kat and Nadia analyze its announcement trailer, its connections to Final Fantasy 14, and its place in the long history of Final Fantasy announcements that have kicked off each new generation. It's a busy week for RPG news, so strap on your armor and join us! 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. I'm your host, Kat Bailey, joining me as always my
0:21.4	lovely co-host, Nadia Oxford. Hello, Kat. Welcome to RPG deluge week. Thank you very much.
0:27.9	We have a lot to cover this week, don't we? Yeah, a lot of surprise drops and not just like,
0:33.0	you know, the stuff we were expecting from Sony, but Nintendo is like, hey, guess what? We have
0:36.9	stuff too, so eat it.
0:39.8	We are once again reminded that RPGs are the greatest genre
0:44.4	because they seem to be riding at the forefront
0:47.0	of so much of what is happening in the next generation.
0:49.4	I mean, look at Xbox one has so,
0:52.0	or the new Xbox has so many different RPG studios and the PS5 is also going big on RPG exclusives.
1:00.2	It's mana from heaven for the blood god.
1:02.7	It really is.
1:03.5	As someone who like in like grade 9 was pointed and laughed at and said,
1:07.3	ho-ho nerd, I feel very vindicated lately.
1:09.9	I know.
1:10.7	It felt like in the 2000s,
1:12.3	it was all about action games and shooters and RPGs were completely on the outs. And now it's
1:17.9	all about giant open worlds with RPG elements. And it's not amazing. But on the other hand,
1:24.6	we're still getting great hardcore RPGs like Balders Gate 3,
1:27.9	so it feels like the best of all worlds.
1:31.1	It really does, and I know we've had like long, huge heated discussions about the status
1:36.7	of Dark Souls at an RPG, but Demon Souls coming out for PS5, that's a pretty big deal for
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