Crimson Desert, March AI Woes w/ Joseph Bradford

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.5 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2026

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Summary

With takes as hot as the desert sands, Eric, Nadia, Victor, and special guest Joseph Bradford discuss March's hottest RPG Crimson Desert. Does it work as a prequel to hit MMO Black Desert Online? Is it greater than the sum of its many many many parts? Does anyone like the main guy? All these questions and more answered on this sandy-but-not-as-sandy-as-you'd-think episode of Axe of the Blood God! Subscribe for bonus episodes and discord access at ⁠https://www.patreon.com/bloodgodpod⁠ and get merch at ⁠https://shop.bloodgodpod.com⁠ Also in this episode: Dread Delusion Animal Crossing City Folk The Ratline Dragon Quest X Greiga Master's Mega Man Battle Network: Phantom of Network PC Port I promise, I PROMISE, we will do our best to stop talking about how awful AI is but studios need to stop forcing our hand. We want to to be free from this curse. Timestamps: 13:08 - Main Topic - Crimson Desert 1:22:48 - Random Encounters - AI in Crimson Desert 1:50:08 - The Tavern 02:10:08 - Nadia’s Nostalgia Nook Music Used in this Episode: Do Your Best - [Breath of Fire III] Pub - [Lunar Knights] A Curious Tale - [Secret of Mana] Having Fun - [Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Acts of the Blood God an independent RPG podcast.
0:19.1	I get to drop it because it's my turn at the hosting station.
0:23.5	Yes.
0:24.6	It's confused.
0:25.4	What's this podcast about?
0:27.6	I don't get it.
0:28.4	There's history with the independent part.
0:31.2	There's notable.
0:32.6	And also, it's a good definition for people like myself who have a day job and need to separate it from said day job.
0:40.1	As Kat noted in our chat the other day.
0:43.4	I am one of your host, Eric Van Allen.
0:45.3	Joining me today, you might have heard his voice.
0:47.1	He's going to be working his way through this podcast.
0:49.9	Come hell or high water, it's Victor Hunter.
0:52.9	Oh, I got nothing. My allergies hit me like a truck this morning. I'm congested and itchy.
1:00.0	And oh, God.
1:03.6	Don't worry. We brought some extra people to make sure he doesn't have to talk. Of course,
1:07.2	there's always our other co-host, Nadia Oxford.
1:10.8	Victor, if you want to get rid of that, all I should do is come to Toronto
1:14.2	where it is like one degree right now and raining like hell.
1:18.2	That's true.
1:18.9	My allergies have always treated me pretty well when I'm in Toronto.
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