Next-Gen RPGs: Imagining New Settings, Reactive Worlds, and More

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.6 • 674 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

With the next generation of consoles nearly upon us, Kat is joined by Reviews Editor Mike Williams and Senior Editor Caty McCarthy to discuss the future of the genre. What surprises do the PS5 and Xbox Series X hold for RPGs? Will it all be Destiny-likes and Witcher 3 clones? Or will we be treated to new settings, A.I. innovations, and other fascinating changes? We discuss! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Acts the Blood God U.S.
0:16.2	Official RPG podcast.
0:18.4	I am your host, Kat Bailey.
0:20.5	And joining me as always is nobody because Nadia is
0:24.0	on vacation and I don't have another guest. However, we do have Mike and Katie coming on a little bit
0:30.9	later to be talking about what we want from next gen RPGs. And it's a really good conversation.
0:36.8	We just wrapped it up.
0:38.0	We talk a lot about what we are expecting from the genre,
0:43.2	what we wouldn't mind seeing from things like AI,
0:46.5	how it can get past some of the baseline conventions,
0:50.5	like the need for combat.
0:52.1	If you enjoy the show,
0:53.1	can I recommend that you leave us a review
0:54.8	over on iTunes or the podcatcher of your choice? It definitely helps with the visibility of the podcast.
1:02.6	Also, follow me on Twitter at the underscore catbot. Nadia is at Nadia Oxford. And follow our other
1:10.3	podcast hosted by Jeff Green. It's called Branching Narratives.
1:14.1	I had a really cool conversation with Jeff Green where we talked about his career and working
1:22.1	his way through the games industry and he has a lot of great old stories about working in print.
1:26.5	We have a newsletter that
1:27.5	comes out every single Wednesday. I handled it this week. And I touched on a topic that has been
1:33.3	talked about on this podcast in the past. That is, can fable and avowed carry the Xbox series X?
1:42.2	I think that with RPGs being more popular than ever, I mean, all you have to do
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