The Best RPGs of 2016 (So Far) | 07/01/2016

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.6 • 674 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2016

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Kat, Bob, and Nadia discuss Final Fantasy's latest turn on mobile and review the new Star Ocean (15:40) before moving on to discuss the best RPGs through the first half of 2016 (33:56). Odin Sphere, Dark Souls, Fire Emblem Fates, and more! 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,
0:16.5	US Gamer's official RPG podcast.
0:19.2	I'm your host, Kat Bailey.
0:23.2	With me today is my co-host, Nadia Oxford,
0:30.0	as always. Hello. And of course, Bob Mackie, who is returning to us. We are going to be talking about a lot of things. Final Fantasy, Brave X-Fias, whatever the heck that means, is now
0:36.7	out on mobile.
0:37.8	We're going to talk a little bit about that.
0:39.6	I'm going to talk about Star Ocean, which Bob reviewed, and we're going to talk about
0:44.9	the best RPG so far in 2016, so we head into the heat of summer and on into the fall.
0:53.1	But I think the first thing we should start with is,
0:56.1	I think we should start by shedding a single tier, Nadia,
0:59.5	a single tier for the Final Fantasy franchise.
1:02.0	Because they have truly sold out with Final Fantasy Brave X-Veus.
1:08.1	I mean, it breaks my little heart a little bit.
1:10.1	I got to give Squariness credit.
1:11.6	Let's face it, they do a lot of mobile stuff, but they still do a lot of console PC stuff as well.
1:17.0	Sure, sure.
1:18.1	I understand where you're coming from, though, because Brave X-Vus, if you do not like
1:22.0	free-to-play mechanics, you will not like this game.
1:24.5	If you dig, say, record keeper, you'll love it.
1:36.0	And I think Square has been doing mobile games for over a decade, long before we were, as a country, into mobile games. There's a lot of Final Fantasy stuff on mobile, but it was before
1:40.5	the free-to-play model, I believe. Like that...
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