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Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

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Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast · November 24, 2025

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was a a feeling at the time of these things are not the dominators that they used to be and persona 5 did help change that clear obscure i think has solidified that cemented that assured that alongside the likes of metaphor and balder skate 3 we are now definitely back but there was an era where i think action mechanics uh gears of war style stuff design ideas art direction was very influenced by what the 360 did and what was popular on the 360 and i think in some ways we still reckon with that although i do…

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... era for rpg development and especially for what we consider to be the grand scale rpgs that eventually i do think led to this sort of uh faux renaissance around persona 5 and clear obscure where people are like well turn based rpgs are back and then they they were always there but i do think there was a a feeling at the time of these things are not the dominators that they used to be and persona 5 did help change that clear obscure i think has solidified that cemented that assured that alongside the likes of metaphor and balder skate 3 we are now definitely back but there was an era where i think action mechanics uh gears of war style stuff design ideas art direction was very influenced by what the 360 did and what was popular on the 360 and i think in some ways we still reckon with that although i do like the ways in which we've kind of evolved from that too i think the the more recent trend of going to nordic nordic inspirations but not necessarily going for the drab skyrim look but like east proud nordics which feels very inspired by the likes of vinland saga and things like that really does imagine a viking world that is not all just draugr caverns so i love it for that but yeah yeah it did i legitimately had a moment where i was like ...

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