It's nice of Dan to give visual and audio cues to make it easier to make this hell compilation in the future. Too bad the game industry can't be this generous.

This is why I love Gigaboots, look at them effortlessly look at the data and go "oh, consoles aren't growing huh?", something that people are only just realising now.

Absolutely crazy that this all started KZ was still on the podcast and it still hasn't technically resolved yet

o o f I forgot that 'Press F to Pay Respects' episode had a 2 HOUR segment that was all this dire. Whoooooo boy

Holy God Hats of to you, this must have been a beast to compile. Thank you for your service o7

Kris in 2022: "We just have to wait two years for the Xbox Era to actually start." Everyone in 2025: Cole McWojak

oh dear

It is still extremely funny that their first part "what's astrobot, is that even going to ship" ended up being the answer to their "what is Sony even bringing to the table, the cinematic games are tapped out" The solution is a Japanese game because of course it is, weebs stand triumphant

2:45:00 now theres a poorly aged hope.

You know, this might seem like 5+ hours of various clips, comprised of audio and video which sounds like words. But it is in fact the Anti-Life Equation, played uninterrupted, for the length of an entire podcast.

2:40:00 Hello, Intergalactic!

i'm sure you get this comment a lot... a 5 hour "part1" sent me. i know this last year was dire, but dam.

I forgot this happened when KZ was on. man

really appreciate this comp! hope that someone does one for the xbox acquisition segments too. I feel like that ones also important for historical records

4:34:40 This one might be the worst. Not in terms of scope but in petty corporate scum-fuckery reaching new, innovative lows.

A little over 5 hours? Yeah, that's pretty bad, but I'm sure it's not terri- *sees Part 2's runtime* ...what are we even doing here, man

The absolute dire picture being painted with the boys being like "Ain't no way Concord is coming out" for 2 straight years. When you don't think execs and suits could get anymore delusional, they find a way to break new ground Actually fucking brain dead

No BTD last week so during my job then and right now I'm currently enjoying reheated BTD leftovers. Thanks for the walk down memory lane!

Hi Mhee

My god... Five hours. *Sees the second part in the recommendations* Despair. Absolute despair.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

This is an insane undertaking. Very glad you made this.

1:38:21 I want to highlight this conversation, because exactly what the Gigabois didn't want ended up happening. Microsoft's summer conference regained it some lost ground despite everything it did a couple months beforehand. Like Aggro said earlier in this video or late in the last, this industry has been unable to learn anything for the past ten years. Unfortunately, it's gonna' take a failure even more publicly painful to drill in Kyle Bosman's "Xbox will never win" mantra. And like it or not, that's gonna' happen.

Man, I always wanted to listen to Dan yell for 5 hours straight.

HELL YEAH

man, i forgot how funny the Big Aggro segment was

I was wondering when we were going to get to that first segment. As another comment noted, smart split right there. All the foreshadowing and "oh right, that happened" and "oh right, we really thought that" in the first part was fun to revisit, though. What a year.

The first segment (with the mock-up military funeral background) is why I found and subscribed to Gigaboots. Following Xbox's closure of Tango Gameworks, I scoured the internet for an answer as to what happened, and Gigaboots were the only people who had a explanation for why it happened and how Xbox got here in the first place.

Thank you for reminding me how upset I got when they said the studio that was making the Last Ronin TMNT game got gutted

By the by, there's a black screen that lasts from 4:38:15 to 4:38:31.

1:30:39 Poor Bob

oh my god it says part 1

I still dont agree with them on the Dead Rising Remake. It was basically a post grad project to get new hires fully understand the RE Engine by using a pretty simple game. Like its not that hard to get. Im also really glad Capcom didnt delist the original.

NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE

Nearly 22 hours of this for the past two years. Good lord. Everything is dead and nothing matters. Also, glad I could help!

Oh god

The true special guest arrives at 3:56:00

I am glad to have helped contribute to such a historic document. Know that with every timestamp I wrote, my despair at the state of this industry increased.

Good looking out with this one.

o7 to you, Mhee!

Thanks Mhee! And it's only going to get worse...but what if it kept getting BETTER, INSTEAD?! PLEASE?! WE'RE BEGGING YA, GAMING INDUSTRY!

Good god

Part 2 is Here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pqS0aXubgMitqZo

Thank you for doing this. *OH NO.*

Just a bit of advice, the black on that shade of red is really hard to read. Still, great job compiling this soul crushing amount of horrible things that happened to the industry this year.

Well this will make work tomorrow fun

Thank you for this reminder of an awful year for the game industry

14 total hours of this, my god…

Hey Bob

5 hours my god so much happened this year