The Gateway Guide to Roguelikes: 4/10/2015

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.6 • 674 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2015

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Guest Steve Tramer joins Kat and Jeremy to talk Roguelikes on the occasion of the release of Etrian Mystery Dungeon in the latest episode of our RPG podcast. What makes a good Roguelike? Why are Roguelikes suddenly so prevalent? And where should a curious newcomer get started? The answers lie within! (Answers contingent on successful item check). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Axe of the Blood God.
0:02.8	Welcome to another episode of Acts of the Blood God,
0:17.8	US Gamer's official RPG podcast, where we satisfy our Darkmaster
0:22.9	by talking about all things related to the role-playing genre. Joining me today is our editor
0:29.4	and chief Jeremy Parrish. Yeah, hi. So I was wondering about this Darkmaster. That's actually
0:35.9	news to me. Am I, am I like binding a contract
0:39.9	here that I didn't know about? Too late. Didn't you know that when you were slicing your finger
0:44.6	and putting your blood on the contract that you were offering blood to the blood god?
0:48.6	I knew I shouldn't have cut veggies with that mandeline. Analysis for the blood god, whatever you
0:54.0	wanted to say.
0:55.0	Also joining us today is my friend and rogue-like expert, Steve Tramer.
1:00.6	Hi, everybody.
1:01.6	I'm Steve Tramer, and I'm cool with, you know, having made this dark pact with the blood god
1:07.0	because I probably made it a while ago.
1:09.3	Well, the blood god likes you too steve great
1:11.8	you're pals yeah we're best friends today we're going to be talking about rogue likes which is why i
1:19.3	have steve on the show um been kind of a a big week's actually been a big few years for rogue likes
1:26.0	um and this week jeremy wrote his gateway guide to rogue likes,
1:31.6	and also he posted his review for Etriam Mystery Dungeon, which we'll be getting to in a little bit.
1:37.2	A few years back, Steve was on active time battle,
1:41.7	and actually that was my introduction to roguelikes.
1:45.3	I knew next to nothing about the genre at that time.
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