Why Making a Great RPG Romance Is Harder Than Ever

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.6 • 674 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2024

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Love is in the air; as long as the project roadmap has made allowances for it in the overall budget! Kat, Nadia, and Eric talk about the best and worst relationships in RPGs. How do you write a natural relationship in a videogame? Should relationships just be a means to an end? Will anyone bring up Sakura Wars? It's an S-rank Support Conversation on this week's episode of Axe of the Blood God! Also in this Episode: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Demo out now! The flames of the console wars are fanned once again Do platforms even matter anymore? The Last of Us theme park She Who Became The Sun book club! Dungeon Meshi / Delicious in Dungeon Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 10:248 - RPG Romance 49:04 - Random Encounters 1:07:32 - The Tavern 1:40:20 - Nadia's Nostalgia Nook Music Used in this Episode: Do Your Best! - [Breath of Fire III] A Curious Tale - [Secret of Mana] My Blue Sky - [Sakura Wars] 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 Blug God.
0:16.0	The Independent RPG podcast.
0:18.8	I'm your host, Kat Bailey, fresh off an airplane from Los Angeles,
0:22.8	straight into your iPod or whatever the heck you used to listen to Podcatcher's podcast these
0:29.5	days, feeling a little loopy because I was up at 4 a.m. because I care about you just that much.
0:36.3	I'm joined, as always, by my lovely co-host, Nadia Oxford.
0:40.3	There is nothing better than finding an old iPod that actually has all the music still on it.
0:45.5	And you're looking back and it's all the shit from that era. And it's just like, oh, man, I found a little capsule of love and time.
0:52.9	Those things are really heavy.
0:54.3	You could like clock somebody over the head with them.
0:57.4	Like you throw it at someone, they're dying.
1:00.1	And the battery lasted 10 years.
1:03.1	And I'm telling you right now, my battery for my iPhone right now, it's been like three years and it's just kaput.
1:08.7	It's absolute trash.
1:10.3	So I am just like so disappointed in New Apple.
1:15.0	You had cool bricks once.
1:17.2	I think iPods had like 300 megs at launch the first one and everybody went, 300
1:22.0	megs.
1:22.5	Oh my God.
1:23.2	I could put unlimited numbers of songs on here.
1:25.7	My first iPod was like, I swear to go out 30 megs.
1:29.1	Do you remember podcasts where you had to go on to iTunes?
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