The Console RPG Quest: PlayStation 3

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.6 • 674 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2021

⏱️ 106 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Axe of the Blood God’s noble Console RPG Quest continues, and this week we dissect the RPG legacy of a very interesting system: The PlayStation 3. Sony’s first HD console was hobbled right from the start thanks to derisive memes, awkward accessories, programming troubles, and good old fashioned arrogance. To make things worse, the popularity of game consoles was on a major downswing in Japan, and JRPGs were regarded as tragically uncool in the west. How did everything turn out for Sony in the end? We break it all down. Also in this episode: We talk about the trailer for the next Final Fantasy 14 expansion, Endwalker, Persona 5 Strikers is about to take your heart, and CD Projekt Red is dealing with a massive cyberattack at the worst possible time. Well, there’s never a good time to deal with a cyberattack, but in this particular instance... yeah. It’s bad. Enjoy the pod? Check out our Patreon! New episodes are available a week early and ad free to subscribers at the $5 level and up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	You know, Welcome to another episode of Acts of the Blood Guide, an independent RPG podcast.
0:50.4	I'm your host, Kat Bailey.
0:51.9	Joining me, as always, my lovely co-host, Nadia Oxford.
0:55.8	Hello, Kat.
0:56.5	I hope you are keeping warm because most of North America right now is in the grip of a really severe cold snap.
1:03.2	I don't know how you're doing over on the West Coast, though.
1:05.7	I'm constantly cold.
1:07.1	It's chilly, chilly 60 degrees over here.
1:13.3	Yeah, you're getting off pretty lucky. I'm pretty sure I'm seeing people from the south who have no idea how to deal with these temperatures
1:17.8	are complaining about temperatures that are like 10 and lower in Fahrenheit.
1:22.3	That's incredibly rough and terrible, and that's why I don't live in the north anymore. I live
1:26.1	in California. The whole continent practically is in this really weird cold snap. Like, it's actually not too
1:31.9	bad in Toronto, but I'm seeing, the one thing that's good about this cold snap is people are
1:36.8	sharing pictures of their cats who are being very cuddly because they need to be warm. So there's
1:41.4	all these cats pictures of like cats cuddling up to their
1:44.2	owners, cuddling up to each other, even though they usually fight, cuddling up on blankets.
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