Ultima and Teletype RPGs, Top 25 RPG Countdown #24: Tactics Ogre

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.6 • 674 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Our old friend Jeremy Parish returns to discuss the first entry in his new series about the history of RPGs, which covers Ultima, Teletype RPGs, and Richard Garriott's early programming experiments. Then we dive into number 24 on our Top 25 RPGs of All Time countdown: Tactics Ogre! We talk about its rich storyline, excellent tactics, and what sets it apart from its successor Final Fantasy Tactics (which is also great). Find out why Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together is yet another underrated RPG gem! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Axe of the Blood God.
0:02.7	Welcome to another episode of Acts of the Blood God, U.S. Gamer's official RPG podcast.
0:20.3	I'm your host, Cap Bailey, joining me as always, my lovely co-host, Nadia Oxford.
0:24.2	Hello, everybody, and a special hello to Mr. Parrish, her old friend.
0:28.8	I'm not lovely? So wounded.
0:32.1	I only get a lovely once in a while.
0:35.0	Jeremy Parrish is a very lovely man.
0:37.1	He is a loveliest man.
0:38.2	Yes, Jeremy Parrish is joining us to talk about, well, he's talking about his new series
0:44.4	that we have going on on US Gamer, and that is, well, it's basically kind of, do you want
0:50.6	to explain it, Jeremy?
0:51.3	I mean, it is your series.
0:52.8	I'm talking about RPGs, basically.
0:55.0	Oh, did you want more?
0:55.8	Sorry.
0:57.0	Yeah, so I guess this is going to be a 12-part series on the history and evolution of RPGs.
1:04.2	I kind of planned it out, and I'm also kind of making it up as I go.
1:07.8	I've been very fortunate that I've been able to talk to several RPG developers,
1:15.3	people who made formative RPGs in the past few months. So the timing on this all kind of lined up.
1:22.9	And the first part, an interview with Richard Garriott went up on US Gamer and as a Retronauts podcast
1:28.9	several weeks ago.
1:32.1	And I mean, Mr. Garriott's not super hard to get a hold of.
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