Pressing Reset, Saga Frontier & E3 Predictions w/ Jason Schreier

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.6 • 674 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

This week on the Axe of the Blood God RPG podcast: Education! Sort of. Esteemed games journalist, writer, and reporter Jason Schreier joins Kat and Nadia to talk about his book, Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry. The conversation veers towards the myriad problems with the games industry, particularly the creative process therein...but rest assured the discourse touches on good, hopeful things going on, too. Once the serious stuff is out of the way, the gang veers towards heavy conversation on--what else?--JRPGs, including the Saga series, Final Fantasy XIV, and Dragon Quest, Dragon Quest, Dragon Quest. Speaking of rocking the dragon, Kat and Nadia go over the Dragon Quest XII and Dragon Quest III 2D-HD trailers in excitable detail. Also in this episode: E3 is on the horizon, and Microsoft is getting ready to show off what Bethany Esda has been up to. (e.g. Starfield. Surely.) 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 an independent RPG podcast.
0:20.0	I'm your host, Kat Bailey.
0:21.8	Joining me, as always, my lovely co-host, Nadia Oxford.
0:25.7	Hello, Kat. Want to hear something funny?
0:28.3	Yes, I do. I always want to hear something funny, especially from you, Nadia, because you're a very
0:32.6	funny human. Oh, that's nice, but this isn't actually funny so much as it's sad. It was snowing today.
0:38.6	Wait, which one is it? Is it funny or sad?
0:42.0	It's funny, but not ha ha funny. It was snowing. It was flurrying today. And we had just come off like literal summer weather.
0:49.6	And I woke up this morning and it was raining. And it was like there were flakes mixed in with the rain. with the rain and said you know what I would go back to bed if that was an option but it wasn't an option so I just kind of had to deal with the sad gray sky and the snowflakes Nadia it is Sunday or it's not Sunday it is May it's not Sunday. It is May.
1:13.1	May is different from Sunday.
1:14.8	It is May.
1:16.9	It's not allowed to snow in May.
1:20.4	It is in parts of Canada. Sometimes you just get a really, really bad unlucky day.
1:24.3	So I like Sunday as a month, though.
1:26.5	What is the month of Sunday? Well, it's funny as I have a recording on a Friday. So I like Sunday as a month, though. What is the month of Sunday? Well, it's funny
1:29.6	is that we're recording on a Friday, so I don't even know where that came from. I, I, we are so
1:36.0	mixed up with like days and times right now. See, you have a full-time job. You have no excuse
1:40.3	for not knowing what day it is. I don't care. Well, the nice thing is I have a holiday
1:45.5	coming up, so at least I can have some relaxation. Oh, good for you. You deserve that.
1:51.3	Indeed. Well, Nadia, this week on Acts of the Blood on, we have a special guest. It is
1:56.7	Jason Schreier from Bloomberg, formerly of Kotaku, Reporter Extraordinaire. He wrote a book.
2:02.6	We're going to talk to him about that book. We're also going to talk to him about various
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