#ReccetearSweep

[@ultrapyrusbrawler]

0:01 A Strifeful Beginning 0:36 "Do we need to?" 1:01 Windows 11's Ephemeral Emminence 2:50 PsiloSybil 10:49 Ninja Theory's un-ninjaness 12:45 Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 13:44 "Just make a regular video game!" 18:54 Back to Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 20:29 Getting Matrix-pilled; what happened to James Bond? 25:40 Red One (Spoilers from 28:00 to 31:31) 31:53 BritBox and Doctor Who 34:07 RATSHAKER 38:09 Mouthwashing 44:29 On refunding games 48:51 What games are the boys aiming to play for Game of the Year? 51:02 The Plucky Squire 57:06 Abathor 1:03:09 Dan's PC Pandemonium 1:06:21 Finishing up on Abathor 1:06:37 Back to Dan's PC Pandemonium 1:10:26 Legendary Tales 1:27:33 Final Fantasy VII Rebirth 1:33:58 Kero Quest 64 demo 1:35:26 Helltaker 1:35:54 Back to The Plucky Squire ( Spoilers from 1:36:19 to 1:36:54) 1:36:54 Back to Helltaker 1:39:26 Awaria 1:40:54 Dan's Barrel Breakthrough 1:41:17 Back to Awaria 1:43:13 The Big Catch: Tacklebox demo 1:46:05 Nine Sols 1:49:49 Alan Wake 2: Night Springs DLC 1:52:51 Alan Wake 2: The Lake House DLC 1:54:24 Fortnite Festival 2:03:42 Back to Alan Wake 2: The Lake House DLC 2:04:20 Back to Final Fantasy VII Rebirth 2:07:33 Maybe Square and Sony will learn one day? 2:09:57 Minishoot' Adventures demo 2:13:55 Tekken 8 2:20:15 The problem with crossovers 2:22:00 The Thaumaturge 2:23:41 Back to Minishoot' Adventures demo 2:24:22 Back to The Thaumaturge 2:32:56 Aggro finished Tactical Breach Wizards 2:37:11 Finishing up on The Thaumaturge 2:37:41 Balatro 2:38:58 "Eat the cheese banana." 2:43:01 Donatos Disappointment 2:44:22 Metaphor: ReFantazio 2:53:57 Returning to Final Fantasy VII Rebirth 2:55:45 Cornbread Pockets' Conundrum 2:56:51 Rabbit and Steel 3:00:05 Reese's Red Velvet Milk Chocolate Miniatures Peanut Butter Cups 3:01:26 Kris finished YIIK I.V. 3:04:56 Axyn's Adventure 3:08:22 What streams are next 3:13:44 Results of the food pool 3:14:24 Back to what streams are next 3:14:43 THE NEW OLD PODLORDS 3:26:53 Switch 2 leaks reveal system specs and magnetic Joy-Cons: who cares 3:29:51 Blur Busters releases authentic CRT simulator shader for high refresh OLED and LCD screens 3:36:35 Final Fantasy VII Rebirth combat settings 3:38:37 Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale HD Edition announced for PC 3:40:51 Bright Memory: Infinite coming to iOS, Android on January 17th 3:42:11 The Fantastic Four are coming to Marvel Rivals 3:43:28 Venom and watching movies during the holidays 3:45:18 Game Science CEO Feng Ji says Black Myth: Wukong's delay on Xbox caused by optimisation issues on Series S 3:47:33 SNK Corporation establishes KOF Studio 3:47:54 Ys vs. Trails in the Sky: Alternative Saga coming west in 2025 for PS5, PS4, Switch, and PC 3:50:25 Zeon's Pitfalls 3:51:07 Sea Of Thieves & Banjo-Kazooie developer Rare drops a new art piece for Everwild after a three tear silence 3:53:05 Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter getting e new English dub; Nihon Falcom handling the PC port in-house 3:55:27 No GigaBoots news recap (thank God); watch mhee12's Gigaboot's Industry Burning Block Supercut 2024 3:57:11 Hey, how 'bout them AAA western games? 4:05:59 THE TRACE WAR STARTS NOW 4:07:31 Unknown 9: Awakening is a stupid name 4:09:12 Outro

[@ultrapyrusbrawler]

Please count the times Dan interjects with something about Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. I found it funny how obvious it was that he was playing it while doing the podcast.

[@truest0rmofdg41]

Somehow, y'all rewatching the Bount Arc with Aggro will make the Kariyalords stick around till 2030, at the VERY least!

[@nickcasillas1618]

I WAS THERE FOR DAN’S FLUBBED INTRO IN THE LIVE STREAM. I KNOW THE SECRET!

[@RougeMephilesClone]

Are you ready for the new you?

[@WhaleNamedJonah]

Bob has never been more wrong about a game than about Nine Sols. I'm not even a big fan of the game but the entire system of parrying and paying off damage is among the best any 2D platformer has ever done it. I don't know what the game could have done "better" to make him like it, unless he just hates any parry that doesn't instantly end the enemy. Also I know it takes a long-ass time to develop, but the story is pretty good. Some really engaging worldbuilding, and a surprisingly unique main character.

[@heartlesshealer]

Yeah, I think it was just not a very 'Bob' game is all, like those parts didn't gel with him.

[@android19willpwn]

yeah Nine Sols has maybe the best combat of any 2d game I've played. The non-combat aspects are just okay imo, but that's all they need to be when the fighting is that strong.

[@masterxl97]

Bob (and Dan to a lesser extent) is very bad at criticism. He speaks very declaratively, and uses very overly spiteful language, even when he didn’t actually hate the game that much. He refers to anything he doesn’t like as “terrible” and “horrible” instead of just going “I didn’t like it” or “It was not for me.”

[@SenpaiMD]

I’m surprised he even played it because given the elevator pitch it’s definitely not the type of game. Bob would like inherently.

[@CrispBaker]

The parry system is absurdly unforgiving, especially with how fragile the MC is, and it has the standard indie problem where the game is overtuned early on but is far more forgiving later. No player should be facing off against mooks that can twoshot them before they've even got used to the controls. The centaur, especially, was a totally ridiculous first boss and I can absolutely see why people would bounce, especially as well much of the powerset building tools were locked behind beating him. It would be like blocking gear purchases and rune leveling behind Margit. Everybody would hate that and be right to do so. The way it handled death and regeneration was pathetic, too. You could lose resources from chests and other one-time loot points forever. That is something From carefully avoids in their games: the currencies you can lose only come from the monsters that regenerate when you rest. Nine Sols devs didn't understand that, or why it works that way. Doesn't help that the in game economy is so extremely cash-starved. Great core idea, but trash QA, probably because they expected players to just put themselves in Baby Mode if they banged against the game's lack of a decent flow curve.

[@nevvil]

Every week is a new thing Dan describes about Windows 11 that fills me with dread about having to 'upgrade' to windows 11 eventually... NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE

[@nevvil]

Bonus: Dan talking about the AMD board RAM issue is something i talked with my best friend just the other day as he is building his PC and having the same issue with his RAM not clocking high enough with the XMP profile... god we are just universally fucked.

[@SnackCanary]

37:18 Incredible Ratshaker demo

[@happytrees9414]

Kirs, people didn't get mad at you for calling Red One fascist. People got mad when they asked how you responded with lol go watch it for yourself and find out.

[@Batterskull]

2:21:27 Actually Akuma was marketing, but he was late/repurposed. His appearance in Tekken 7 is the remnants of the collab deal that would have resulted in Tekken X Street Fighter, which never happened (not to be confused with CAPCOM’s Street Fighter X Tekken which was part of the same deal).

[@delerium025]

Its sad to heard that Bob isn't Tao-pilled 😢

[@daspotato]

Did see Red One. Not sure how much it links into 'Fascist', but that sure is The Rock turning to the camera in a Christmas Movie and going "The War on Terror was, is and always will be morally defensible and justified."

[@stoike3958]

I can't believe Bob hates Jack, Yoshimitsu, Alisa, Zafina, Victor and Nina

[@MasterEm243]

Bob hating something? Unheard of!

[@stoike3958]

@@MasterEm243 Yeah, the two Videogames are like Yin and Yang, Dan contains ALL the hate within himself and focuses it on TAA and Executives and Bob contains all the joy and love.

[@professorbadvibes695]

I AM INCAPABLE OF SLEEPING GAMERS

[@2la84me]

Please sleep...

[@Maguspwns2]

I thought Nine Sols was fantastic so I'm really shocked Bob hated it. I've never had an issue with the pickup button not working so I'm curious what's causing it. I don't agree with most of his criticisms but I def see where he's coming from in terms of boss difficulty spikes though. Also unless we have different definitions of bosses, I got to the first one around an hour in so I'm surprised it took him over 2.

[@tnzwelk]

Given the way he was explaining things and how he was saying enemies took forever to kill, I think he was trying to play it like Sekiro and not nine sols. That being, he was just parrying and using the talisman, not swinging his sword at all. A lot of the complaints that didn't really make sense suddenly make a lot more sense if he was never using the sword. It's.... baffling how he'd end up playing like that, but I'm not sure what else would explain it.

[@Prommythean]

@@tnzwelk seems like an extremely bob thing to do. sets expectations before engaging with the product, refuses to ever adjust expectations, judges it by those initial expectations. every time bob makes a product review it's always literally "i formed this idea of a perfect god thing in my head and it doesn't quite match up to the perfect god thing I imagined so it's [1-6/10]. he also always performs this bit to fucking crickets and it's amazing how he hasn't realized he's the problem yet

[@tnzwelk]

@@Prommythean He's never really solo covered a game I cared much about before so I didn't really notice it, but looking back on past stuff after this and yeah.... that's pretty much it.

[@Prommythean]

​@tnzwelk Bob's childish review ethos is my biggest problem with GB content, and it's especially bad because he is awful at articulating himself. I would ballpark his success rate of actually being able to tell you why he doesn't like a thing at around 15%. Everything else is just sweeping statements of "it's bad"

[@pedropablopicasso]

@@Prommythean I mean he's by far the worst player whenever GB plays through something on stream. Dan and Kris seem to get through things just fine while Bob frequently has trouble with things that are either clearly stated or usually obvious. I appreciate his insight on things he does enjoy, and he usually has more to say in those situations anyway. The "you made it wrong" mentality he frequently trots out though is tiring; you got filtered Bob, move on and take the L.

[@RougeMephilesClone]

It was the same in 2019 as it is in 2025. This podcast has takes you will not hear anywhere else in the gaming industry. I hope this year _doesn't_ hurt, at least for devs with their jobs at risk.

[@GatorMilk]

I do, fuck em lol

[@Dasaltwarrior]

Unfortunately, Microsoft still exists, and Herman Hulsts is still doubling down on their live service push (cue the silent hill pachislot "HIT THE LEVER" Sound Bite)

[@SenpaiMD]

Sorry bob Nine Sols is good, skill issue

[@geossi]

Windows 11 more like reinstall Windows 11 times

[@masterxl97]

Bill Gates absolutely writhing from that burn, sir.

[@DarkQueenSara]

Dan mentioned that he's never seen Minishoot Adventures. I know he actually has. Everyone on the podcast has. It was in Asmongolds Showcase last year that everyone blocked out of their memory.

[@GigaBoots]

All I saw was red.

[@99hit]

re: Nine Sols, idk if this is bob just not paying attention to the main mechanic (like I did for a good portion of the start of the game) but you have to hold the button to detonate talismans. it's a huge damage difference and probably the reason why it feels like everything doesn't take much damage to him currently. there's also 3 different potential "first bosses" so I don't really see the limited path thing he mentioned unless he just flat ignored another path since it's not some like speedrun tech or prior knowledge required for the others.

[@Confussed-Oddish]

28:43 I'm confussed, so is it a charcoal Gryla or propane Gryla?

[@LordlyWeeb]

The Fantastic 4 are a package deal, either put them in all at once or not at all. Being drip fed them feels bad.

[@GigaBoots]

Nah, just Johnny Storm.

[@qeridexis8604]

Yes Dan, we hear you, but did you considered that you can go to hell?

[@happytrees9414]

They are putting all 4 in at once

[@GigaBoots]

@@qeridexis8604 one moment, thinking about it.

[@qeridexis8604]

@@GigaBoots Its okay Dan, We understand that Windows 11 reinstall in the closest a man can come to feeling a living hell on this plane, so as a reward why dont you go and reinstall it 5 more times! I am SURE it will work out better! One more, Dan! JUST ONE MORE!!!!

[@MasterEm243]

I'm disappointed that Dan and Bob forgot to talk about Shadow Generations.

[@RougeMephilesClone]

To be fair, it's been a while, and that bad Crash Bandicoot game kind of overwrote all the other stream discussion topics.

[@borederlands5387]

wasn't that last big think?

[@MasterEm243]

@@borederlands5387 Nope, last big think was Dan promoting the Sonic x Shadow Generations stream.

[@Kuma5655]

2:30:02 I appreciate Aggro’s ability to say all sorts of eloquent phrases. And then just say this

[@jakedge3]

wild how we had three weeks out of an entire year where nothing bad happened

[@RougeMephilesClone]

End of year buff before the end of fiscal year debuff.

[@churchfan1]

Gonna have to strongly disagree about the Nine Sols talk, I’ve gotten about as far into it as was discussed, maybe a bit further, and I can’t say I’ve seen all that much repetition. There’s certainly similar theming to areas but there’s not much overlap to the environment, it’s a very pretty game. The combat also wants you to attack and parry, with proper timing you can dish out multiple attacks at basically the same time. There’s also items that give you “souls” and a trader you can find around the time of that first proper boss.

[@rude-buster]

really dont understand the complaint about all the enviroments all being samey when shit like the apeman processing plant has unique animations and flourishes for each step in the harvesting procedure and having a big ass red petal garden in the center, the game thrives in enviromental design. this is the first episode ive seen of this podcast other than the 13s review so im assuming bob is the gameplay first arin hanson archetype of gamer

[@CrispBaker]

He's likely only got to the first boss and dipped after the insane difficulty spike. Nine Sols was beautiful but with miserable balancing. Because that's what happens when you think "story mode" is One Neat Trick to get out of running proper playtests.

[@CrispBaker]

Also the game is miserly with the "souls" items to the point that it's almost a sick joke. They were TERRIFIED of players outleveling the parry mechanic, to the point that they gatekept the dash until long after you'd have wanted it.

[@omegasmesh]

kris comment about fighting games is literally part of why i finally got a prebuilt pc.

[@erikferal]

waking up at 3:45 like the gamer i am

[@ashplaysgames7695]

I'm from the uk and aggro saying he watches Sharpe made my day.

[@ShinyMew888]

3:17:00 I was doing some research and came across the Canadian Lynx and I am obsessed with these silly guys and their silly snow shoe paws

[@jakedge3]

I can't wait for you guys to be viscerally upset that GTA6 plays nothing like a GTA game somehow.

[@Prommythean]

Bob really needs to learn the difference between "this thing is of poor quality" and "this thing is not for me" I have never in my life seen someone so proudly and confidently be like "yes i am the taste arbiter this game is not the things i like and its a huge piece of shit actually arent i worldly and clever *squidward ass laugh*"

[@CrispBaker]

Nah, Nine Sols had miserable balancing and clearly not anywhere near enough playtesting. This was their first action game and it clearly showed.

[@Prommythean]

@@CrispBaker skill+taste issue

[@CrispBaker]

@@Prommythean The combat balancing was busted, it needed more QA, cope harder.

[@genuineculter5640]

Abathor has an Elric of Melnibone style demon-sword mage? SOLD.

[@NormalLee67]

Oh my god I just got a new windows 11 laptop and it is ALSO DOING THE SAME SHIT DAN DESCRIBED WHERE SOUND JUST WON'T PLAY FOR LIKE A SECOND IF NO SOUND HAS PLAYED FOR TEN SECONDS. I spent hours trying to troubleshoot it and could not fucking find a solution that worked so I just gave up and it's something I'll just have to live with I guess. In the process of troubleshooting I discovered that you can no longer meaningfully set your laptop's power plan in the control panel because "balanced" is the only option! It's so cool how windows decided I don't need a better power plan that won't arbitrarily turn off shit I need, like FUCKING SOUND! There are so many ways in which Windows 11 feels like something that should get Microsoft tried in court. It's such an inexcusably obtrusive and non-functional operating system.

[@ultrapyrusbrawler]

Andrew Dice (@SpaceDraceCF) and Carpe Fulgur are doing perfectly fine, actually. They helped with Super Robot Wars 30 and Trails Through Daybreak. They also retweeted the Recettear HD announcement, so safe to say that we will be getting an English version eventually.

[@ultrapyrusbrawler]

Also, the game that nearly broke Carpe Fulgur was Trails in the Sky SC. They are doing much better now.

[@beefbarf8280]

That explains some of the horrifically bad lines in those games.

[@Kuma5655]

Every time Unknown 9: Awakening is mentioned, I think it’s that Western turn based rpg I can’t remember.

[@pocketbelt6139]

every new issue Dan discovers/reveals about Windows 11 further convinces me to ride this 10 box out as far as it'll go and then just toss a coin for one of those M4 Mac Minis or going Linux, I've sworn off upgrading my shit beyond increasing drive capacities as is

[@RougeMephilesClone]

I'M SORRY, IS THIS REALLY HOW I'M FINDING OUT THAT A YS PSP ARENA FIGHTER IS BEING LOCALIZED THIS YEAR WITH LOCAL PLAY AND ROLLBACK?! I am almost every demographic that would like this game rolled into one human, and somehow I missed this news for weeks. My mind is blown.

[@ultrapyrusbrawler]

Join us in the Trails hellpit.

[@amurter19]

I think I heard somebody high up on metaphor and Daybreak were talking to each other. Sharing ideas about the action into turn based thing.

[@TheBabbager]

We know a few concrete things about Rebirth's sales: It's selling about half as much as much as Remake. Kitase said that it's sales aren't anything to worry about, BUT, they won't be shipping their games with console exclusivity anymore. It's just not a viable option. So they're going to be crunching down that third game for 2witch for sure. Whatever dev costs a Sony deal might have covered for them isn't worth a complete lack of domestic presence and half the install base of the PS4. If the game's safe despite only having half the sales of the original it might cost less than anyone assumed- they did manage to almost completely retain the staff of the first game. 85% if I remember correctly. It's a remake and a sequel at the same time so preproduction would have been incredibly fast and dirt cheap. Kitase could have been talking out of his ass so investors don't get scared but if he's telling the truth I have to imagine they just have their shit together in a way that few teams do.

[@bruno17289]

Did I hear that right, Is this the only podcast who dlidnt like Moutwashing?

[@rott-end5095]

HELL YEAH

[@cartooncritic7045]

Why tf are we putting spider faces in the Podlords when we’ve got at least one openly arachnophobic cast member?

[@shanebonnell]

we're getting to the point where Dan gets mad & pops off during good news, I get the decision to not bring back The Rant Is Go now that the rant never ends

[@omegasmesh]

im so up its still 360p

[@qeridexis8604]

I am lowkey pissed Kris didnt walk into podcast saying that YiiK i.v is a great game like a wrestlemania character and got punched by Dan in a cage match. Granted, if we are talking srs, I get that Dan does NOT have the energy or desire to have that conversation, but looking back and listening to how Kris was apparently (I heard someone say that) calling someone names on stream for saying that whole irl thing in YiiK with irl woman's death was actually a normal thing to do, I would watch a talk on it. YIIK SPOOILERCAST WHEN

[@Ninteny]

getting this mad that someone doesn't hate a video game enough is weird. calm down.

[@Limit02]

Maybe I just didn’t use it as much as I thought, but Merchant didn’t feel that broken economy wise in Metaphor? I was pretty consistently draining my funds on gear and never felt like I outpaced the economy for the entire game, only had like 15k when doing the final boss

[@3s7acad0]

3:20:25 no

[@ToastyMozart]

So Mouthwashing is to walking sims what Ace Attorney is to visual novels?

[@qeridexis8604]

No because Ace Attorney is a detective type game at its core that LOOKS like Visual Novel Mouthwashing is a walking sim trough and trough

[@jessemartin7718]

buff kon is forever apparently

[@ShinjiSixteen]

3:18:45 Sorry not sorry

[@kennethphillips6006]

I will cross no Rubicon!

[@ShinjiSixteen]

Gamers, are you awake?

[@HamSlammer456]

Yeah, I'm sure Alan Wake 2 will run great on the new Switch...

[@catalyst-uz6lz]

Doctor who is really good and really gay everyone should watch it

[@scifimisc9191]

Space Marine 2 is twice as expensive as it should have been. That is not a $70 game. Its also GAAS slop, it released with less in it than the first game and all that content, plus all the visual customization for money, is coming later

[@SnackCanary]

First? First.