Sleeping Dogs - What Happened?
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Music List:
Sleeping Dogs - Theme A, B, C, D
Street Fighter EX3 - Spinning Bird (Chun-Li's Theme)
Sonic Adventure - Calm After the Storm
Payday 2 - The Gauntlet
The King of Fighters '95 - Arashi no Saxophone (Arranged)
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Kane & Lynch please
Love you man keep doing what you're doing!
Do EA Sports big
NEO TWEWY. The guys who made that game clearly poured their hearts out into delivering what the fans wanted, but Square didn't have any faith in them.
Elder gods, that still hurts my heart of darkness to think of....
Sleeping Dogs didn't fail, we failed Sleeping Dogs.
He’s right guys.
@Paul Tidd Sadly the only thing we are going to get related to Sleeping Dogs is the movie adaptation that will star Donnie Yen. Square Enix just cannot risk another huge financial flop like Marvel’s Avengers game.
Honestly kinda felt that way after buying the Definitive Edition last year on PS4 at a bargain. I wished I had supported this game when it needed it the most (I lost interest once it seems True Crime Hong Kong was cancelled). Hopefully the TV show will come into fruition.
This sums up the AA Market and Sleeping Dogs in particular, to a T.
@@splitsidez9778 that wasnt a bargain, that was freaking giveaway
*"A man who never plays Sleeping Dogs, is never a whole man"*
It was _Wei_ better than everyone expected xD
“Why don’t you have a copy of sleeping dogs in your hand!”
lol that quote i always hear it when i go buy food
Plays great on the Steam Deck
I'm glad everyone is on common ground with how awesome this game actually was. I used to always wonder why it didn't go anywhere, huh.
I mean, I don’t know about you, but running full bore down the street just to roundhouse kick someone I saw walking down the road while texting and keep running because a local beat cop may or may not be currently hunting me down and suffering no gameplay or story penalty is amazing. I just wish my crap driving didn’t hurt me as bad as it does in that game.
Me too wish they had made that sequel the game had so much potential for a trilogy like GTA
@@Deriv44technicaly sleeping dogs was part of a trilogy, it was the third game in the true crime series before the studio was bough by square. was originaly was supposed to be true crime: hong kong
@@thejoker420xp Yea but I was talking more about doing a sleeping dogs series since the true crime connection was let go once square acquired the game IP
@@Deriv44 for sure💯
Literally every person that has played Sleeping Dogs says they love it, it's baffling how still underrated the game is
It’s ok
@@denimchicken104 damn
@@denimchicken104 L
I don’t really like the genre of game it comes from like at all and I LOVED Sleeping Dogs. This story is quite tragic honestly
Hong Kong is a wonderful City for an open world game
Sleeping Dogs is an underrated masterpiece. The combat and story are top-tier. Wei Shen is probably one of my favorite open-world protagonists this side of Arthur Morgan. The studio and the franchise deserve(d) another real chance.
Yeah unfortunately a lot of the dlc ruin the immersion for me. Specifically that without the dlc the game does the a great job at showing escalation of gang violence. Having guns in the beginning of the game ruins that for me.
Sleeping dogs review when ?
Since its Dumbsville, I don´t know if he´s being sarcastic or not.
Common Dumbsville W
I’m with ya on that, the only things I didn’t like was the driving and how the story felt like it was missing some scenes
I have replayed this gem just recently and I must say it has aged amazingly well. Still an absolute blast. Makes you want pork bun in your hand.
A man without a pork bun, is never a whole man!
Never leave home without a pork bun...
Due to pork buns and karaoke, I ended up making up a new line to the song" I fought the law"
I needed money for a Pork Bun.
I fought the law, and the law won.
@@seanwallace9269 As a huge fan of The Clash I must thank you from my heart for this.
Time to pork your buns ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
This game is criminally underated and we need a sleeping dogs 2
For real!!! This game came out almost 10 years ago and I’m still playing the game. We need a sequel.
Agreed. This game absolutely ruled.
@@wreslinggod05 HELLO, DO A KICKSTARTER OR PETITION to bring sleeping dogs sequel back on track
@@rolando90s down with that
@@rolando90s Petitions, especially for games, never really achieve anything
Great video! I worked on this game earlier in my career another interesting tidbit : Activision really wanted us to push the Rush hour angle so bad they hired the director Brett Ratner to come to the studio and “help with the game “ and by that we mean he made a lot of insane suggestions about shit to add into the game that made zero sense for the tone of the game we were trying to make.
Of course we didn’t act on any of it and it definitely harmed the relationship with Activision.
This game got very little attention but I’m glad people that played it loved and appreciated it flaws and all because we really believed in it and saw it through to the end
Yes I’m glad they loved our game and saw its potential. Let’s go for a sequel.
I just started it a few days ago on ps5 and it really is awesome
the game is fenomenal
Loved your work, played it on xbox 360 back in the days with my best friend at 14yo and we were amazed by the mechanics, the story, it was such a cool mix of games we used to play like GTA, true crime,Wet, Stranglehold, and a strange vin diesel game ( wheelman ) where you could also jump from one car to another and bump into them, 😂 and still you managed to have your own identity and even surpass competition imo, i still it play to this day on xbox series x, I've finished in every single console since Xbox 360 💣💪 your game rocks.
This game was the first game I ever demo'd at an E3. Easily one of my favorites on the 360. GTA meets Yakuza in all the best ways. I still pray for a sequel.
Thanks for the ep Matt.
Thanks so much Lani!
I always liked the Yakuza series more than GTA.
@@carlosrodriguez-di3bs Same. So much more charm.
Sleeping Dogs was an incredible game. 10/10. I really loved this game.
This game is so great, with actually great movie quality story, well done action, and all star banger cast. With so many prominent Asian actors. Like Will Yun Lee, Kelly Hu, Chin Han, Robin Shou, Ian Anthony Dale, Ron Yuan (I just named a bunch of actors who are in Mortal Kombat properties lol), Byron Mann, Lucy Liu and James Hong with a steadily rising superstar, Emma Stone... As a side plot love interest, what a gem of a game, hell, was close to platinuming it a few years back.
Oh yeah, that sick main theme too.
Also the Ninja Tune soundtrack that still sounds fresh today.
I was so happy to find out Will Yun Lee was in Yakuza 7 (Like A Dragon) Dub as Ryo Aoki
Also Tom Wilkinson, who sounds satisfying when swearing.
Emma was the love Interest....Thats why I liked that character kek
@@MrXabungle I can’t hear Tom Wilkinson’s name without thinking of him in Batman Begins. “Begged. Like a dwawg.”
In a world filled with too many pew-pew open world games, sleeping dogs was a breath of fresh air with it's focus on melee combat. Still my favorite open world game of all time. Gone but not forgotten.
So sad that we won't ever receive a sequel. The story was really solid, and the world was beautifully done, aside from gameplay being fun. If they went with the copy and paste Activision wanted or the lowbrow comedy, I would've ignored it on the spot. Look at what Saints Row became...
Honestly the most surprising fun I had was with the Car combat and driving experience!
Honestly, I think I wouldn't mind seeing a kung fu movie open game set in the past or a fantasy realm.
The last time that came out was Jade Empire I think?
This is how I thought about True Crime 3. I’ll keep my hopes up
It's supposed to be coming out with a movie even though they already did a movie with Donnie Yen. But it's supposed to be a movie related to the game
@@fugitiveunknown7806 Jade Empire is such a great game, wish we'd get a HD remaster or a new one.
I got Sleeping Dogs FOR FREE not long after launch, and I felt like I had robbed someone because I'd have shelled out full price easily
I honestly enjoyed Sleeping Dogs more than any GTA, really tightly crafted game without too much needless padding
It's better than gta v. Less childish.
This is a way better game than GTA if you ask me
It definitely feels like a more polished GTA, with a dope setting to boot.
much better then gta 5 but gta 4 is unbeatable
I genuinely love this game, I've bought it three times now, and actually recently played through it again. It's incredibly underrated, and deserved so much better. I think Sleeping Dogs is leaps and bounds over any GTA game.
Amen
A highly underrated open world crime drama game that deserved a sequel.
Yes
It was goin too but since it flew under the radar they didnt bother
It might get a return if it tickles Microsoft's fancy
currently playing it now. I didn't get the privilege when it came out. pretty damn fun
Overlooked: maybe
Underrated: not
Now that you've mentioned it, we definitely need a What Happened for the Driver series.
Driver SF was so good and a love letter to the 70s chase movies. It's a shame Ubi moved the team to work on the forgettable (and now probably dead) The Crew games instead...
The Crew Motorfest is actually pretty good tho, some would say it's kinda like what Forza Horizon used to be, but with better progression
Damn I loved Sleeping Dogs, such visceral action and I generally loved the story. Here’s hoping we see a sequel in the future.
United Front Games was such a talented studio, Sleeping Dogs, Modnation Racers, it's a real shame about the studio's stroke of bad luck with publishers.
100%. those are easily two of my favorite games of that generation, and that i spent the most time playing.
I think I enjoy the story behind games that were crappy and failed more than ones like this that were legitimately good but handled poorly by the parent studio. Ones like this are interesting but make me sad in the end. I hope Donnie Yen can get a movie made and it jump starts the series again.
One of the most underrated games of all time. More people should've definitely played this
I would say underappreciated
Started playing this game at the recommendation of a childhood friend and was so surprised and pleased with it that it's one of several games that I've platinumed. The story is visceral, the combat is hard hitting and satisfying, the driving is great, the only problem I have is with how short it is.
I did the same thing. If I'm lucky, I will finish to completion, maybe 2-3 games a year (adulting blows). Sleeping Dogs I not only finished but platinumed.
I actually was in the Triad Wars closed beta, and I wasn't super impressed by it. When I first started playing it, they had managed to merely transplant the gameplay from the original game into a format more suited to mobile games, where you had to wait several hours for your burgeoning criminal empire to upgrade and fights largely consisted of the same base assault done over and over again. What made it even more boring was the fact that if you brought the basic pistol with you on those missions, you could headshot every single enemy (including the boss) and easily win, making the whole game cycle feel super weak. I stopped playing after about a week of this.
Smash cut to about 3-4 months later, and I decide to boot it back up again to see what's changed. A lot, as it turned out: they had implemented a LEVEL-BASED power system that solved the difficulty problem by making your basic Level 1 starting pistol incapable of taking down the Level 10 thugs beating you down. Couple that with aggressive micro-transactions (I remind everyone that this game was still in CLOSED BETA), and it's clear in retrospect that SE's GaaS dealings far pre-dated Avengers. I stopped playing for good soon afterward, but not before encountering a hilarious bug where I crashed a car into the interior corner of a building and got flung out straight through the wall and out of bounds.
Such a shame it became a cash grab when the SD base game was such a quality product
An underrated masterpiece. Been playing this again recently after getting it on sale.
12:54 Square Enix has a long history on blowing ungodly amounts of money on the PR department with launch parties, expensive dining, and every other unnecessary expenditure you could imagine and then blaming the lack of profit on the game not selling, despite the numbers being decent in any other context. The amount of money they waste like this would make your head spin. Its why Deus Ex Mankind Divided was considered a commercial failure despite doing well in the sales department and why we havent seen a new title since then.
Now that Eidos is sold maybe we can finally get the sequel we deserve
+1 for Sleeping Dogs being a criminally underrated masterpiece! I'm really picky about the games I like but this one was a blast from start to finish, I hope some day Squenix get's their heads out of their asses and get another one out.
One of the best games I've ever played, and certainly had a story and premise far more interesting than almost every modern GTA or open-world game. Also loved it as a practitioner of martial arts, and the setting of Hong Kong and Chinese culture being fascinating. The original True Crimes had a great foundation for a series, so it was sad to see that only Sleeping Dogs came out after TC: Streets of New York City. Thanks for this video, and the memories.
Sleeping Dogs was such an awesome game. More importantly, as someone from Hong Kong, I felt represented getting to drive around the streets of Hong Kong in a video game that was also being appreciated by the global gaming community! I was really devastated seeing the sleeping dogs getting put down. :(
Yeah. I think one of the reasons why I liked Vice City was playing in the setting of fictional Miami. Sleeping Dogs def stuck with me because of being able to whizz around digital HK and playing in a HK action movie setting. It is very rare but well executed that if you are into it, you are instantly hooked.
I commented of the neat feature of the ambient chatter from the locals. Made the Hong Kong sandbox feel like a live city. It kinda surpasses the GTA franchise on that alone.
@@meligoth that is definitely true and I appreciated that too. I have to admit though that some of the Cantonese chatter voice acting were pretty mediocre, which gave me a good laugh
Replaying this game for the first time in over six years, and I am having the time of my life. This game is the definition of "underrated gem".
I remember this game. Still surprised to this day that one of the members of the Sun On Yee was voiced by Robin Shou. Hilarious seeing Lui Kang going after Kung Lao so hard calling him a cop, especially if you dressed Wei Shen in the police outfit for cutscenes. The outfit was an unlockable, I recall.
Hey, I just did that the other day!
Lmao i try so hard not to break the lore and use the vigilante outfit in certain missions and gangster outfit in others xDDDd
It was Conroy. OG Liu Kang voiced Conroy
Squeenix is supposed to have a Thief movie in production too, so that's two movies they have that exist in a weird purgatory.
This game was soo much fun, I wish there was a sequel!
Can't believe it underperformed!
I swear to god every single human being I shared this game said the loved it.
Bought the game on a whim and part of my love is the sentimental value of seeing Hong Kong rendered in such detail (not from there but been there so many times especially as a kid) and it helped give it appeal over the western-styled maps. Still holding out for hope for a sequel, or heck a Yakuza-style game since it already has a martial arts focus.
Played this less than a year ago for the first time. I absolutely loved it. Game holds up pretty well and the story was really well done. I recommend this game to everyone I know.
Sleeping Dogs was such a great surprise for me when I rented it back in the day. I was hoping for a sequel not just because I liked the characters, but I would have liked to have seen them build upon the cop/criminal system; it was a solid start and I was excited to see how they could have expanded upon it. I guess I could say that about the entire game, really. Total bummer that a sequel never got made.
Let us not forget one of the greatest NPCs in gaming history: Pork Bun Guy
''Man who never eats pork bun is never a real man''
"[WESTERN-DEVELOPED GAME] sold below expectations" is like SquareEnix's motto.
Honestly I could have just guessed that this is how this happened this is kind of usually how these stories go but more than anything I'm just glad you reminded me if Nosgoth because I've been trying to remember the name of that for so long now
I underappreciated Sleeping Dogs when it came out.
I replayed it last year (2 times) and had such a blast.
It truly is underrated. Very fun combat system and overall solid gameplay.
Great story, voice performances, soundtrack and a refreshing setting
i wish they made a sleeping dogs 2 such a underrated classic.
Had no idea True Crime NY was such a failure Omg I logged so many hours into that game and loved it as a kid. I still watch the story like a movie 😂
I wish the sequel still became a thing. I can just imagine it having multiplayer using the class based system with the enemies making your character focus on grappling, offense, or being agile changing the way your character looked via size and the all out gang wars with running your own bang and various underground businesses.
So unfair no sequel, this was one of the best sandbox games in a long while, loved the mix of shooting, fighting and great story too. This should have been a great franchise.
Sleeping Dogs is underrated imo. Melee combat was fun and the radio had straight up bangers if you're in the know. I also liked the karaoke lol
This was one of my favorites during that generation, glad to see it getting love
Loved playing a game that was literally an interactive Hong Kong action movie. Shame we never got to see that 2-player story sequel
Easily one of my favorite games of all time. Amazing such a great product can come from such chaos!
If some Square Enix producers had an appointment with the guys at RGG Studio, I bet they could come up with some awesome ideas to give Sleeping Dogs the boost it needs.
Great to see this game get it's dues. Its still an amazing game. So hard to believe its 10 years old. One of my favourite games of all time.
I had no clue we were so close to not having sleeping dogs. Gotta do my 3rd play through soon
This game was so much fun back in the day. Loved it.
I'm running off of an hour of sleep and an 8 hour shift, and the words "Dozing Doggers" just made my day worth it.
Awesome video Matt! I don’t have any insight into why SE set the targets they did for the Eidos acquisitions but I always felt they were far too lofty.
Have you considered doing anything on Hitman Absolution? The development of that was an interesting mess to follow at the time (firing and rehiring voice actors, changing established style to match Kane & Lynch, etc) and while it built on the momentum of previous games to sell better than any of them, I’m pretty sure the brand damage caused by cynical attempts to make the franchise more cinematic and marketable played a role in IO’s rebooting Hitman 2016 and its subsequent poor sales. I’d love to know why it wound up being so radically different...
Further info not mentioned in the vid re: Triad Wars is that the game was cancelled very far into development, UF conceded after beta testing that it just wasn’t fun to play which was understandable considering it seemed to be built around trending buzzwords at the time like “F2P” and “microtransactions” (I think they were even intending to charge for firearm ammo?). They also had a comically disastrous Reddit AMA where they gave smarmy PR-spun answers to things they knew would be unpopular, like omitting playable female characters for vague reasons.
I just beat sleeping dogs for the 3rd time since it came out. Such an underrated classic, if only we’d got a sequel. So glad Matt covered it!
"A Man Who Never Eats Pork Buns, Is Never A Whole Man"
I went looking for this comment, glad I'm not the only one who remembers
Sleeping Dogs is truly a diamond in the rough. Probably the most underrated game.
Absolutely adored this game and would crowd fund a sequel in a heartbeat
The biggest issue is who owns the IP and if they're willing to allow a sequel to be produced also the original studio doesn't exist no more!
Yakuza fighting physcs and karaoke+gta freedom and driving=Perfection=sleeping dogs
Good goddamn. You got me good with this “the style at the time” twist.
I'd always wondered why there was never a sequel to this game. It was so fun!
The guys who cancelled the sequel never ate pork buns.
I lovee sleeping dogs. It's open world and combat felt so fun and fresh compared to all GTA clones. It had a decent story too
Tanner from Driver my dude, "Driver" & "Driver 2: Back on the Streets" were great games.
I played this game years and years ago. A few years after it was released there was an amazing deal on it and I think I got it for a few dollars or less. I really enjoyed playing even though it was weird to play. Specifically the hand to hand combat. It was really fun especially the karaoke. The karaoke was the best part and I absolutely loved playing it.
I still listen to the soundtrack of this great game.
This game is great! And it's always on sale, picked it up for 2 dollars I believe.
Love how 100k + came together to appreciate such a good game one of my all time favorites
I'll always look back fondly on this game, I loved getting lost in the world and the combat was so fun. It was sad seeing the fate of this game, it really deserved more.
The combat in this game was so fun. That Enter The Dragon Fight Island DLC was great.
Would 100% buy a sequel.
My expectations for sleeping dogs were low but I was surprised how much it was slept on.
I just beat this game today and started editing my finale video and got on TH-cam and this popped up in my recommendations (I been Subscribed tho it's just funny that you were working on this video while I was playing the game this whole time)
One of my all time favorites. I'm familiar with the turbulent history of this game and the fate of the studio but I'm still looking forward to Matt's breakdown.
17:27
Oh God, I forgot all about Driv3rgate. Now that would be an episode I would love.
Would also be sweet if you got Larry Bundy to guest star in it.
This game is so brutally underrated, such a good story, if square enix coulda brought in the right people to ad to a more immersive open world experience there coulda been an amazing second installment to the franchise because in my opinion the story telling was there.
Sleeping dogs is the game that got me into collecting achievements. They were so fun to complete. I might just dust off my copy and play it for old time sake.
One of the most underrated games. Though can something that sells over a million be underrated? Would love a sequel.... just not sure about the vision they had. Would have loved to see them dig more into Wei being both a high ranking triad and cop.
I played the crap out of this on my PC and PS4. That music takes me back so hard.
I honestly had no idea I missed out on what is a masterpiece in gaming (To be fair I wasn't loaded with cash back at 2012 and was just picky with what to go for) I was one of the groups that took a chance with a sequel then anything new.
I was about to replay this! Crazy u just made this vid ! Such a legendary game
This game is still an underrated gem to this day. I remembered playing it on PC years back when it was announced and I had a lot of fun with its story and characters. I hope that someday this game gets a true sequel.
Thank you for covering this Matt! People need to know more about this game.
13:17 literally LOVED all of those games lmao
This game was better than GTA and Saints Row. I will die on this hill.
Sleeping Dogs used to be my go to game after a stressful day of school.
It amazes me how Squeenix is always too happy to dumb on it's Western releases for not selling seventy million copies but it's going to bat for Babylon's Fall with a player base you could probably count in your head.
11:42 waw wasn’t a expansion, it was a Easter egg
"Man who never eat pork bun is never a whole man!"
(Side note) Imagine a live action Sleeping Dogs starring Simu Liu as Wei Shen!
Sleeping Dogs will always be one of my top favourite games. Sure, it's got its flaws, but it's incredibly fun and engaging. If you play on PC at 4k, it also looks immense
Square Enix still trying to sell games like Marvel's Avengers but ditched United Front. I can tell they never ate a pork bun
Remember those two part Watchmen Tie in games, Watchmen the End Is Nigh? Now that’d be a good game contender for What Happened.
Square enix really screwed us
I remember buying this not knowing anything about it, I just thought the box art looked cool and heard the combat was vaguely like the Arkham games. Very quickly, I began to love this game, and I would easily consider it one of my favourite games for the PS3/360 gen.
It's a crying shame that it didn't sell as well as expected. It really deserved better.
Absolutely LOVED this game! It’s definitely in my Top 10 games thanks to its fighting mechanics within the open world sandbox alongside its full embrace of Chinese culture and extended DLC support. Totally underrated! 💪🏽
1:22 not to be confused with blue box, or A.K.A scam-o’clock
Oh my god! I haven't seen this game since the PS3 days. For years, I've been trying to remember the name of it, but now I do and I'm so glad to see you guys having uploaded this! Thank you so much
Sleeping Dogs is a great game. Would be even better if the game was longer.
This probably the most underrated game of all time in my opinion. I was 7 years old when this game came out and I enjoyed every single second of this. It’s a damn shame that this game never got a sequel.
Combat: 10/10
Story: 9/10
Shooting: 8/10
Soundtrack: 9/10
Sadly we will never see sleeping dogs 2
I played and beat this game for the first time in Sept/Oct 2020. I was surprised at how well it held up since it's release, and how much it really feels like Hong Kong. UF absolutely nailed the setting and atmosphere in Sleeping Dogs. Thanks for covering this one!