Um, no dummy. The first strand type game was Super Mario Bros! But the formula wasn't truly perfected until it's sequel; SUPAH MARIO BROS TWOOO BAYBYYYYYY
@@baizuo_6246 Knack 2 is just a poor man's attempt at the limitless potential a strand type game has! Seriously, the fact you consider that to be superior to SUPER MARIO BRUDDAS TWO (BABYYYY) is insulting!
No the best strand type game is undoubtedly shenmue 3 now baybee, because it's the conclusion to the strand trilogy that is shenmue, which is a prequel to the new strand game death standing which is the newest strand type game from Hideo stranding Kojima.
Dunkey, what's wrong with staring into a corner of your room for hours until you go to bed? That's just an example of how the game masterfully emulates the average Japanese man's daily routine
@@AlexKidd They're both exploration brawling-heavy games set in a couple Japanese districts where you can interact with basically everything. Also, several people who made Shenmue made the Yakuza games.
@@DinsRune No. You can call the police, but Ryo ends up saying something about wanting to avenge his father on his own and doesn't want them involved. Actually, in the PS4 version that dunkey is playing here, calling the police awards you a trophy named "Appropriate Response."
It can't be worse than the Kung Fu movie fans who believe that China has ancient Martial Art's masters living on mountains and secretly training their disciples in some oddly named Kung Fu style. Then they go there, get ripped off by a fake "grandmaster" and pay massively more money than it costs to actually live in China. Oh, and nothing they learn actually works but they continue to live in this fantasy land where they are the successor to a "deadly" martial art, deadly to them if they try to defend themselves with it anyway... The Shaolin Temple (spoiler alert, it's not the real Shaolin Temple nor are they real Shaolin Monks) makes an insane amount off of people who pay to go train there, usually much more money than a Chinese person would pay (because they would call it out as a rip off haha). When I lived in China and studied with a local martial artist, his master used host an event where they brought people from schools in the UK over for a "dimak" (literally death touch in cantonese which was made popular by Shaw Brothers movies haha, the Chinese word is 点穴 or diǎnxué, based in Chinese acupuncture, which is also just a little BS) course, they paid thousands of pound's overall (each was probably spending at least 2000), more than I paid to get to China, and probably more than I spent during my entire time living in the rural city I was working in (and I would definitely not pay that much to go on a holiday there). I spent some time with them, and they were all fully buying into what they were being fed, and believed it all to be true, meanwhile the teachers were blatantly ripping them off and making a massive amount of money compared to both local exchange rates and just the cost they spent to set everything up (Chinese culture allows this sort of behaviour because many assume that anyone not intelligent enough to notice the con deserves to be conned, hence the overwhelming number of cons in China). Seeing people act like they were straight out of a movie or anime makes me embarrassed to be from the same geographic region as them sometimes...
I spent three months in Osaka, and I can confirm that this is 100% accurate. One time I caught the local Smeagol going through my stuff. Took me 19 years to get back at the little bastard.
@Munky Bidness Right! I was obsessed with training, once I saw his moves evolve after training them I couldn't stop. I trained every move to expert just to see if the animation changed. 👍🏿
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I'm playing this now for first time, and there's just something oddly charming about it even today. It has this laid back vibe and it's weirdly fun how authentically mundane elements of it are. You can see a lot of games like Animal Crossing in Shenmue. And agree 100% with Dunk, the game is appealing almost solely for its world. Exploring this authentic time capsule of 80's Japan is so cool.
It's not for everyone but for those who love exploration and stuff in games it won't be an issue. There's a lot to do between 8am and 3pm in Shenmue if you know where to look. lol.
It's great. I get how it could feel frustrating to have to fuck around town, talk to people, play darts and arcade games, whatever, when you JUST want to see the next part of the story - but that's part of what makes it so grounded, relatable and charming for me. It's like No More Heroes making you do part-time jobs inbetween the proper assassination missions, just to make Travis even more relatable as a nerdy-ass loser gamer who has to do stupid shit he doesn't like before he gets to focus on his interests. I don't want to make this sound like "this is REAL ART, you casuals don't get it!" because that's not it, it's just that I think relatability and those types of ups and downs are a valid form of game design and even if they're annoying at the moment, they just make you feel more for characters in the long run.
Its the perfect Game for Virgins just like the Yakuza Series but its realy not a good game in general. It think "tedious" is the perfect term to describe this Game. It works fine when you realy dont have a Life and can spend all day in this World, doing unnecessary shit, but if you realy want to play a real videogame, I would even recommended every Assasins Creed over this boring Shit
Blagno4 No we don't. dunkey has delivered so much insanely good content that I'm not against what he's doing right now. But you gotta admit that the past few weeks have been more quantity rather than quality. His "low effort" videos are still better than most of the stuff on this website but there's a noticeable difference to other recent videos like the dunkview on God of War for example.
Blagno4 I mean it’s true. The this is America parody wasn’t funny at all, and he’s clearly uploading more to pay for the wedding. He’s doing quantity over quality
I haven't seen a drop in quality at all. Its the same as all his other videos. People are just fucking complaining for nothing. Lets face it guys, the only reason why youtubers don't post a video at least once or twice a week is because they are lazy not because they are trying to make some masterpiece. There is no fucking way it takes fucking jontron 8 months to make a video. No fucking way.
@@Sparrows1121at least shenmue has actual life in it and isnt something for corporations to shit out every single year in hopes of making profit and not giving a singular crap about soul.
@@anatoliasmercenary. Well people may like it for the experience. I like Spyro 2 because of the atmosphere. But i still think a game needs to kinda have something to do is what i mean
dont make me cry man. 33 years old here spent Y2K New Years Eve locked in my bedroom with my brothers playing goldeneye on our n64. Waiting for the planes to fall
I mean you don't have to stare at the alarm clock. You can play games at the arcade, spar with Fuku San, go shopping, level up your techniques, etc. Forcing the player to wait probably wasn't the best design decision in hindsight. But I feel like at the time they were trying to show you how many other activities you could actually do in the game, which at the time was innovative.
Shenmue captured what a 'realistic' revenge story would be like, and I appreciated it so much for this. It's not like you're some tough protagonist or 20 something year old. In the real world, we have to wait for things to happen or information to come to us. We have to get money somehow to travel to said location if we don't have a car, and the character being 17, brings this concept even closer to home since how would we really have to navigate in the world in order to enact revenge? It's honestly why I like the game a great deal in addition to how intimate the village feels like, and capturing the atmosphere of adolescence.
@pachucodreams God-tier take. How awkward is it as a 17 year old to go on a quest for revenge when he knows nothing and does nothing. He just lost his dad and is thrust into this crazy world that is on the fringes of the real, boring one. Personally, I never had enough time in the world, because I just emulated what I was doing in the real world: wasting time playing games when I had important things to do, haha.
Agreed. Some character models especially look a lot better in a 20 years old games which is insane. Also the old ones have a much better atmosphere and gameplay is less tedious than in 3 which is hard to believe
No, the graphics in Shenmue 3 are a huge improvement over the originals. I think your complaint is that the characters in Shenmue 3 are weirdly stylized to have an unnatural and almost cartoony aesthetic, whereas in the originals they were at least attempting realism. Your gripe is with the art direction, not the graphics themselves.
@Why is the Rum gone? those high quality games you speak of all suffer from little to no actual gameplay or challenging combat. We're talking about revolutionary, great titles, not games that were just really good from *certain* points of view. And even if we'd still classify them (and some others I could mention myself) as revolutional, it's just a few titles at the end of the day. In the time I've mentioned previously, devs created stuff which current games are based on pretty constantly. They defined whole genres, they didn't just have some fresh ideas. Now it's mostly just extending already existing ideas at best, with better controls. And that wouldn't be so bad if current devs didn't force tons of simplifications just to comfort lazy people and casuals.
Peak gaming evolution happens only and exactly each time the industry decides they have to remove a bad game design element and then they don't forget it immediately. Any other (vg) evolution is lost with time like the dinosaurs.
I think the Yakuza games were the next logical evolution for shenmue. It takes a lot of shenmues ideas and refines them. Its fixes all the complaints you had about shenmue, and adds a whole lot more on top.
I never lived in Japan, I don’t know anyone from Japan, and my family’s history has nothing to do with Japan, but we always did the leaving the shoes by the door thing.
This was the game I used to show off to my PS2 owning friend. I couldn't get my hands on a PS2 because it was always sold out so I bought a Dreamcast. A week later, Sega announced that they were leaving the console and supporting the Dreamcast for one more year. Then, the price dropped A HUNDRED DOLLARS! It sucked but, for one year, no gamer in the world was happier than me.
I'm gonna be honest. Thank you dunkey, for first exposing me to this game, as well as displaying it to a much wider audience. Past the monotony, I've really enjoyed the time I'm spending with the remaster of both thus far. I've completed Shenmue, but I'm about a couple hours into Shenmue II. It's a lot of fun! Even if it isn't perfect, both games are a refresher (especially since I haven't really played a lot of compact open world type games.)
I was 7 or 8 years old when my mom bought me Shenmue II after I pointed out the xbox game at the store. I got stuck at some parts not understanding what I was supposed to do or who I was supposed to talk to, but the game taught me lessons for life that I wouldn’t realize at the time, but would be a great foundation for building good character - Practice every day, do the right thing without hesitation, etc. It’s rare, and I realize I’m 2 years behind when you originally made this comment, but knowing that you experienced the same feelings as I did when I first played the games over the years and still experience that same nostalgia like feeling when I play them now, it’s just heartwarming to know the game is getting new players to experience it. Best wishes.
Want to play a series like Shenmue that’s actually good also made by Sega? Then check out the Yakuza games. This is a recommendation for people in the comments since I know dunkey has played atleast Zero.
When it's 1998 and you're 10 years old this game is amazing af. You take care of cats, get the captchas, there's an entire functional arcade where you can pay using fake money. When you're about to continue the main quest of looking for sailors it rains. In terms of the amount of shit you can do I've never quite seen a game like shenmue. The rule of thumb for that game is: if you can think the average japanese person would do it, you can probably do it.
I think Ryo Hazuki is asking questions he already knows the answers to... 1. Do you know where sailors hang out? Gay Bars 2. Do you know a guy named Charlie? No. Nobody in japan is called Charlie. 3. Did you see a black car? Probably, there are a lot of black cars 4. Do you know where there''s a pay phone around here? It's 2018 use a smartphone 5. Mario would you teach me some Italian? No, Mario does not know Italian as he is actually of Puerto Rican descent 6. Do you know anything about the old warehouse district? Yes, it used to just be... the warehouse district 7. Do you know anybody who's familiar with the harbour? Refer the question 1 8. Do you know a cheap way to travel overseas? I dunno... Ocean?
@@FelixMarshFTW I'll have you know that it is actually set in vault 76 not 86. Ryo popped out into the wastelands and must rebuild japan as he remembered however his creations are very... well you've seen that town he's in
1:25 wow I was so surprised, I knew that I recognized that place, it’s the Entrance to the bar district in the city I grew up in, in Japan, it’s called The Honch and it’s right outside of the Yokosuka Naval base it really surprised me to see that, and it reminded me of my childhood and home :)
@@Daubi1990.... It's the idea of driving up to a drive thru. Saying what you want. Boom you're done. Or switch around. You're the cashier. Customer talks. He pays. They leave. It's that easy... The effort to voice act for this game was like ordering food through drive thru. You get me? You took it too literal.
MetalCrow448 Oh, is that so? Do you care to explain how you have come to this opinion? The story, philosophy, and moral teachings explored in this game transcend the game itself and are applicable to many aspects of life, due to the fact that many of these principles have been gathered from the pre-existing wealth of worldly philosophy and knowledge. Which, by the way, I also consider to be a part of my identity.
@MetalCrow448 So no movie, piece of music, piece of art etc etc has effected you in anyway then? Maybe you are just too dumb to understand these types of things?
@MetalCrow448 It is totally fine for you personally to not be effected by a video game that you played, but it isn't fine to tell someone who has been, that they're pathetic. What if your a novel writer trying to create stories and the story of Shenmue led to you having an amazing idea which led to the creation of a really popular book series, in that situation is it pathetic to have that game as part of your identity? What really shouldn't be happening is you telling other people barely know what should and what shouldn't be part of their identity.
I think the fact that most of the game play is going around and talking to people is one of the coolest aspects of this game. Someone killed your father, and all you have to go on is a description of the guy. It's actual dective work. You're not a police officer like inLA Noire interrogating people, and you're not Batman turning on detective mode and immediately finding the solutio, youre just going around and asking everybody what they know. I think it's awesome, and if only they had put in a "Wait" mechanic it'd be one of my favorite games.
It's cool because often times you'll know exactly who to speak to, without the game having to tell you. Earlier on in the game you search for some chinese people to ask them if they know anything about your father's murderer since he was chinese. This doesn't really go anywhere. But now you know almost every chinese person in town. Later on you get a letter written in chinese. Now you know where to look for someone that can help you translate the letter. The game has a lot of instances like that, where you'll remember that someone might be able to help you that wasn't able to help you before.
It's important for very very extreme games like Shenmue to exist. To push a concept to its limit. Shemue, Dwarf Fortress, Dive Kick, QWOP, games like these take a particular aspect of gameplay, design, or theory and fully explore how far it can be taken. They might not be the most enjoyable or even playable games, but with their examination of that aspect, they become both a work of art and a groundbreaking science experiment. Future games can then take and combine from their discoveries and experience to construct something more playable.
Adding to this: Shenmue comes from a time when computers and technology were this mysterious foreign magic that comes in a box to most people. Nowadays most people understand how computers work, so that sense of mystique that comes from a game making you wait real life time can never be replicated. Games like the talking fish with a human face, Hello Pikachu, Tamagochi, all of the Digimon franchise, and more made use of this lack of information in the general public in ways that cannot be understood today, with the objective to make the game feel like window on an actual digital world that lived and breathed with or without you. The fact that you have to wait real time in order to get to certain things might be dogshit game design today (which is debatable), but back then it was more than a selling point.
@@_Ikelos "Nowadays most people understand how computers work" I really must beg to differ, maybe people understand better than back then but the overwhelming majority of people, even people that use computers often, are in the dark a lot about how they work
The only thing it pushed was the graphics and music. The open world interactivity had been done better in games like Ultima 7 and 9 or Deus Ex. Sure, you'd never seen a game let you open every drawer or buy a soda from a vending machine and you liked it. Glad you found it entertaining in Shenmue, but don't pretend like it was something new and innovative for gaming.
This story is basically Japan's answer to Batman. Where Bruce Wayne coped with the murder of his parents in an unhealthy way by wearing a full body bat costume and engaging in acts of violence, Ryu processes his emotions more constructively by earning his forklift operator certificate and getting really into collecting Sonic figurines
Dunkey's Shenmue playthrough is probably his best series and definitely one of my favourite things he's ever made! Rewatching it now really brings back the memories of old, more intimate, more goofy Dunkey. Also makes me realize just how much has he evolved since then, both positively and negatively. I'm still waiting for that last episode though :(
One thing you have to keep in mind about many games of this era is that, unlike today, where gamers have easy access to huge amounts of Japanese and otaku culture related products, back then most anything from Japan seemed unique. In the late 90s/early 2000s I got into Japanese cinema through akira kurosawa movies and then became interested in Japan and Japanese culture. Playing a game where I got to see what a Japanese neighborhood looked like would have thrilled me. Now you can go on TH-cam and see countless hours of video on everywhere and everything in Japan. Hell, I remember slogging through hours of boring grind in the ps1 final fantasies just to see 15 second cgi anime clips, cause unless you were a rich kid, you weren't going to see much anime.
Okay, but that doesn't have anything to do with the video. I don't see what point you're trying to make here. Is because the game hs japanese themes that some how makes it better?
Honestly I liked going around and asking people questions. The atmosphere and seeing peoples daily routines made it worth it. I also don't remember being that irritated by waiting, because there was always some way in game that I could pass the time.
I'm glad that Dunkey isn't trying to make anyone happy with this. He's giving his honest opinion on something. I think Shenmoo is an amazing game, even though it's slow, but I like point and click adventure games, too. Yeah, you do have to wait a lot, but you also have a whole world to explore, so that keeps me entertained.
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I remember working in a warehouse driving a forklift all day, just to come home and play Shenmue... and drive a forklift. It was surreal.
splitz76 DUDE IM ACTUALLY LAUGHING THANK YOU
splitz76 holy shit! That's amazing!
5D experience
play the game while operating a forklift and you will enter some inception level of forklifting.
baudrillard's nightmare
In the 2018 HD Remaster, Ryo just Googles everything. I beat the game in half an hour.
i may sound dumb but i must ask if this is legit
lol no you can't Google anything. You do have Bing but that shit's useless. Won't help me find single sailors in my area.
@@kingdavid7516
*Yeah, but Ryo would be like 50+ yrs old.*
@@DoctorDocMD you sir have made me laugh thank you
@@potatonite2340 no
Ah, so this was the first Strand type game
LMAO yes
Um, no dummy.
The first strand type game was Super Mario Bros!
But the formula wasn't truly perfected until it's sequel; SUPAH MARIO BROS TWOOO BAYBYYYYYY
Jaden D. No it was knack 2 now wachu gonna do
@@baizuo_6246 Knack 2 is just a poor man's attempt at the limitless potential a strand type game has!
Seriously, the fact you consider that to be superior to SUPER MARIO BRUDDAS TWO (BABYYYY)
is insulting!
No the best strand type game is undoubtedly shenmue 3 now baybee, because it's the conclusion to the strand trilogy that is shenmue, which is a prequel to the new strand game death standing which is the newest strand type game from Hideo stranding Kojima.
0:32 "You can open individual drawers..." aged like fine wine after those tokens :)
I watched first his most recent video and then I watched this one. Couldn't stop laughing when I saw the drawer part 😂😂
I didn't know about the subreddit r/agedlikemilk until yesterday... seems appropriate here though.
@@c.f.bellairs1055 Wholesome keanu big chungus downvote
@@thefrub sure, what you said
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Dunkey, what's wrong with staring into a corner of your room for hours until you go to bed?
That's just an example of how the game masterfully emulates the average Japanese man's daily routine
Ok that is just absolutely misleading
It's the daily routine for the women too
I am a japanese man and I can confirm we do this
ecksdee I'm an American man and it's reasonably similar to my life as well
You fools... only logical thing to do is stare at the window. Not stare outside the window, but the actual window.
OP's comment was the best comment I read in a whole while, hats of to you, sir.
shenmue walked so that yakuza could run 😔✊
its nothing like Yakuza what so ever, Yakuza is a brawler, Shenmue is story based RPG
Arcade Perfect Shenmue was the building blocks for Yakuza
@@AlexKidd They're both exploration brawling-heavy games set in a couple Japanese districts where you can interact with basically everything.
Also, several people who made Shenmue made the Yakuza games.
@@AlexKidd actually the two are strikingly similar
@@yourrealdad9442 True. I tried Yakuza Kiwami when it was free on ps+ and It plays like Shenmue with arcade brawler element added
"Mario, would you teach me some Italian?"
- A man searching for the people who killed his father a few days prior
Does Ryo ever go to the cops?
@@DinsRune No I haven't
@@DinsRune No. You can call the police, but Ryo ends up saying something about wanting to avenge his father on his own and doesn't want them involved. Actually, in the PS4 version that dunkey is playing here, calling the police awards you a trophy named "Appropriate Response."
“I’ve never been to Japan, but I’m gonna assume this is exactly right.”
-Every weeb on the planet
Japan and China of 1987
Except here is actually is
@@commanderleo Especially the part with Smeagol.
It can't be worse than the Kung Fu movie fans who believe that China has ancient Martial Art's masters living on mountains and secretly training their disciples in some oddly named Kung Fu style. Then they go there, get ripped off by a fake "grandmaster" and pay massively more money than it costs to actually live in China. Oh, and nothing they learn actually works but they continue to live in this fantasy land where they are the successor to a "deadly" martial art, deadly to them if they try to defend themselves with it anyway...
The Shaolin Temple (spoiler alert, it's not the real Shaolin Temple nor are they real Shaolin Monks) makes an insane amount off of people who pay to go train there, usually much more money than a Chinese person would pay (because they would call it out as a rip off haha). When I lived in China and studied with a local martial artist, his master used host an event where they brought people from schools in the UK over for a "dimak" (literally death touch in cantonese which was made popular by Shaw Brothers movies haha, the Chinese word is 点穴 or diǎnxué, based in Chinese acupuncture, which is also just a little BS) course, they paid thousands of pound's overall (each was probably spending at least 2000), more than I paid to get to China, and probably more than I spent during my entire time living in the rural city I was working in (and I would definitely not pay that much to go on a holiday there). I spent some time with them, and they were all fully buying into what they were being fed, and believed it all to be true, meanwhile the teachers were blatantly ripping them off and making a massive amount of money compared to both local exchange rates and just the cost they spent to set everything up (Chinese culture allows this sort of behaviour because many assume that anyone not intelligent enough to notice the con deserves to be conned, hence the overwhelming number of cons in China).
Seeing people act like they were straight out of a movie or anime makes me embarrassed to be from the same geographic region as them sometimes...
I thought weebs were only American
Here from shenmue 3.
This one wasn't made in Dreams
shenmue 3 looks identical to this
main character doesnt look as creepy here tho
You see, this one was made in WarioWare DIY and Shenmue 2 was made in Mario Maker 1. Naturally Dreams was the next logical game engine
Should've been called Shamu and instead you play as a killer whale.
Boy you got something
「 OKAY 」 should have been called Esco and you play as THE COOLEST DJ IN THE WORLD
Should've been called apandah and you play as a good youtuber
Aztrosist could be called pablo and you can be a drug dealer
Or a samurai sword
I spent three months in Osaka, and I can confirm that this is 100% accurate. One time I caught the local Smeagol going through my stuff. Took me 19 years to get back at the little bastard.
Could you hit him once at least
How'd you get back at him??
Lucky you, when I was in Osaka I had the Kiryu Yakuza experience of people trying to beat me up every time I walked along Sotenbori
Lol
19 years? It took sauron 500 years to capture that sneak!
It makes you FEEL like a ... regular guy.
Always making questions because you don't know shit and always waiting the day to end.
Only sharp minded folks will understand this and realize that it's all part of the immersion. The uploader is obviously not very smart.
That's.......thats actually true, man.
@Munky Bidness Right! I was obsessed with training, once I saw his moves evolve after training them I couldn't stop. I trained every move to expert just to see if the animation changed. 👍🏿
Going to the arcade actually makes time go faster
Why not just do that irl
MARIO, WOULD YOU TEACH ME SOME I T A L I A N ???
when sega had nintendo beef
SEGA doing SEGA things, and it's glorious.
Porcamadonna ryo sto a lavora che cazzo ti insegno
Yes.. repeat after me: It's a me Mario!
*Speaks fluent Japanese* y e s
wait
Japanese
wants to know about a harbor
wants to know how to travel overseas
I am suspicious
Lol
Beegggg pearl marina
*nervous freedom bird screech*
Too bad the 3rd game
*bombed*
In Japan, heart surgeon. Number one. Steady hand. One day, Yakuza boss need new heart. I do operation. But, mistake! Yakuza boss die! Yakuza very mad. I hide in fishing boat, come to America. No english, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car, and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret: I kill yakuza boss on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!
0:33 After watching his Shenmue 3 video, I think Dunkey vastly regrets praising this feature.
hahaha
Kaworu Nagisa ha
Did you see a black car?
No
Black car?
Hey what are you doing here?
Ask me tomorrow.
I have literally never seen a black car ever, sorry Ryo
Years ago, I was Chinese.
Is that so? Thank you!
And now?
I see
and now he's asian
Years ago, I was actually a turtle!
*YOU CAN OPEN INDIVIDUAL DRAWERS*
Say no more
We have literally never advanced further.
In a lot of ways the Shenmue series is STILL at the cutting edge of immersion for a game.
we will have to wait at least 13 more years till we can pull the drawer itself out
Did anyone else click on "say no more" thinking it said "see more"?
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I'm playing this now for first time, and there's just something oddly charming about it even today. It has this laid back vibe and it's weirdly fun how authentically mundane elements of it are. You can see a lot of games like Animal Crossing in Shenmue.
And agree 100% with Dunk, the game is appealing almost solely for its world. Exploring this authentic time capsule of 80's Japan is so cool.
It's not for everyone but for those who love exploration and stuff in games it won't be an issue. There's a lot to do between 8am and 3pm in Shenmue if you know where to look. lol.
Geddy Cahoon kn
It's great. I get how it could feel frustrating to have to fuck around town, talk to people, play darts and arcade games, whatever, when you JUST want to see the next part of the story - but that's part of what makes it so grounded, relatable and charming for me. It's like No More Heroes making you do part-time jobs inbetween the proper assassination missions, just to make Travis even more relatable as a nerdy-ass loser gamer who has to do stupid shit he doesn't like before he gets to focus on his interests. I don't want to make this sound like "this is REAL ART, you casuals don't get it!" because that's not it, it's just that I think relatability and those types of ups and downs are a valid form of game design and even if they're annoying at the moment, they just make you feel more for characters in the long run.
Its the perfect Game for Virgins just like the Yakuza Series but its realy not a good game in general.
It think "tedious" is the perfect term to describe this Game.
It works fine when you realy dont have a Life and can spend all day in this World, doing unnecessary shit, but if you realy want to play a real videogame, I would even recommended every Assasins Creed over this boring Shit
ok weebo
"Excuse me, I'm looking for some gameplay." I laughed way to hard at this
Does Tom run the hotdog stand, or does he like it so much that he continues to dance until the end of time?
Yes
Daniel Sambar you were on the kwite video
Daniel Sambar The hotdog stand makes him FEEL like batman
Probably both.
Do you know anything about SIKOMANTIS?
"Do you know where sailors hang out?"
Um...
Are you talking about the... Uhh... S E A M E N?
+PraiseTheSun20
DO YOU EAT LOLLY JOHNNY??
I think sailors like to visit moons
I'm sorry, I only speak to sailors.
Is it the YMCA?
3:01 I like how he lowered the quality of the mic for this. Lol
@Akshath it was intentional for sure.
Hey mister let's play baseball
At least you don’t have to tell the grandma every single time you get a token
Bow down to the dunkmaster for all these videos we've been getting lately
Ya'll need to stop talking about money.
Blagno4 No we don't. dunkey has delivered so much insanely good content that I'm not against what he's doing right now. But you gotta admit that the past few weeks have been more quantity rather than quality. His "low effort" videos are still better than most of the stuff on this website but there's a noticeable difference to other recent videos like the dunkview on God of War for example.
Blagno4 I mean it’s true. The this is America parody wasn’t funny at all, and he’s clearly uploading more to pay for the wedding. He’s doing quantity over quality
I haven't seen a drop in quality at all. Its the same as all his other videos. People are just fucking complaining for nothing. Lets face it guys, the only reason why youtubers don't post a video at least once or twice a week is because they are lazy not because they are trying to make some masterpiece. There is no fucking way it takes fucking jontron 8 months to make a video. No fucking way.
Ive nutted 5 times today
"I'm looking for some gameplay" had me in tears. No exaggeration
go back to call of duty then if that's so fantastic for you
@@AlexKidd Atleast COD HAS gameplay
@@Sparrows1121at least shenmue has actual life in it and isnt something for corporations to shit out every single year in hopes of making profit and not giving a singular crap about soul.
@@anatoliasmercenary. Well people may like it for the experience. I like Spyro 2 because of the atmosphere. But i still think a game needs to kinda have something to do is what i mean
Playing this on a rainy day in 2001 is something I still think about often. It's a feeling I long for.
I hear ya 😢
dont make me cry man. 33 years old here spent Y2K New Years Eve locked in my bedroom with my brothers playing goldeneye on our n64. Waiting for the planes to fall
I mean you don't have to stare at the alarm clock. You can play games at the arcade, spar with Fuku San, go shopping, level up your techniques, etc.
Forcing the player to wait probably wasn't the best design decision in hindsight. But I feel like at the time they were trying to show you how many other activities you could actually do in the game, which at the time was innovative.
“Shenmue II on the other hand, IS A MASTERPIEEECE”
U can race as a duck! Fascinating!
excuse me i believe you mean MASTAAAAAPEEEECE
HERE COMES THE MONEEEEEEEY
BAYBEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I'm Duelin!
EHU!
Woah! Do they speak anime in Japan?
No, they speak Kim Jong Unn
don't you call me hun, hun
They speak sushi.
They speak Ramen.
It's like hiw we speak McDonalds
Shenmue captured what a 'realistic' revenge story would be like, and I appreciated it so much for this. It's not like you're some tough protagonist or 20 something year old. In the real world, we have to wait for things to happen or information to come to us. We have to get money somehow to travel to said location if we don't have a car, and the character being 17, brings this concept even closer to home since how would we really have to navigate in the world in order to enact revenge? It's honestly why I like the game a great deal in addition to how intimate the village feels like, and capturing the atmosphere of adolescence.
@pachucodreams God-tier take. How awkward is it as a 17 year old to go on a quest for revenge when he knows nothing and does nothing. He just lost his dad and is thrust into this crazy world that is on the fringes of the real, boring one. Personally, I never had enough time in the world, because I just emulated what I was doing in the real world: wasting time playing games when I had important things to do, haha.
Just think about how many capsule toys Dunkey has missed while waiting for time to pass by.
Shenmue really makes you feel like *BATMAN*
7.8/10 Too much water. Not enough dunkeys
Just like dark souls but in japan
Lucas what does it make you feel like ign?
I see -Ryo Hazuki
@@arixonanoir462 it makes me feel like Spider-Man
Years ago... i was Chinese.
Really? Is that so? Thank you.
Wait, I thought you were a letter.
Especially since you bought merchandise
Honestly the graphics in this game are better than the new shenmue
Agreed. Some character models especially look a lot better in a 20 years old games which is insane. Also the old ones have a much better atmosphere and gameplay is less tedious than in 3 which is hard to believe
At least in the first 2 games the people looked human. In Shenmue 3, they look like they strolled in from Fist of the North Star.
No, the graphics in Shenmue 3 are a huge improvement over the originals.
I think your complaint is that the characters in Shenmue 3 are weirdly stylized to have an unnatural and almost cartoony aesthetic, whereas in the originals they were at least attempting realism.
Your gripe is with the art direction, not the graphics themselves.
Mr. Battle Jesus man you Got too real i was just trolling👁👄👁
@@tobiaspedersen6608 Mr battle battled you bro 👀
1:51 Me trying to keep the conversation from dying
this was peak gaming evolution
and it has ended somewhere in 2009
The real peak of gaming evolution was Bookworm Adventure Deluxe: Battle Royale
@Why is the Rum gone? those high quality games you speak of all suffer from little to no actual gameplay or challenging combat.
We're talking about revolutionary, great titles, not games that were just really good from *certain* points of view. And even if we'd still classify them (and some others I could mention myself) as revolutional, it's just a few titles at the end of the day. In the time I've mentioned previously, devs created stuff which current games are based on pretty constantly. They defined whole genres, they didn't just have some fresh ideas. Now it's mostly just extending already existing ideas at best, with better controls. And that wouldn't be so bad if current devs didn't force tons of simplifications just to comfort lazy people and casuals.
Peak gaming evolution happens only and exactly each time the industry decides they have to remove a bad game design element and then they don't forget it immediately. Any other (vg) evolution is lost with time like the dinosaurs.
Persona 5. Mario Odyssey. Breath of the Wild.
I think the Yakuza games were the next logical evolution for shenmue. It takes a lot of shenmues ideas and refines them. Its fixes all the complaints you had about shenmue, and adds a whole lot more on top.
The yakuza games are actually the spiritual sequel to Shenmue, those games are made by some of the Shenmue and Jet Set Radio team
I've never drawn the comparison but it makes so much sense
Yakuza isn't like GTA at all...
yes. so much yes, op
Don't compare Yakuza to GTA. They aren't even close to each other.
"Years ago, I was chinese."
Is that so thank you
years ago i was chinese
Nice try, but shenmue is actually of Puerto Rican descent
Psycho mantis?
You’re that ninja...
Yeah.
Jay L SHADOW JESUS!!!!
A Hind D?
Whose footprints are these?
I never lived in Japan, I don’t know anyone from Japan, and my family’s history has nothing to do with Japan, but we always did the leaving the shoes by the door thing.
In Asia, most countries do practice this.
Yeah, I’m British and have always done this, no matter what.
2:15 Try asking Chinese people about Chinese
Thanks for the tip
Shenmue Is a bookworm adventures deluxe clone
Elzeta basically
No Sh*t Sherlock!
Yep
Ikr
Echo fighter*
This was the game I used to show off to my PS2 owning friend. I couldn't get my hands on a PS2 because it was always sold out so I bought a Dreamcast. A week later, Sega announced that they were leaving the console and supporting the Dreamcast for one more year. Then, the price dropped A HUNDRED DOLLARS! It sucked but, for one year, no gamer in the world was happier than me.
Yeah I remember the price dropping to $40
Hey man, Dreamcast library of games ain't nothing to sneeze at. Get yourself Powerstone and Sonic Adventure, and have a good old time.
PSA: As of this comment, Shenmue III free on Epic Games for the next 22 hours.
I'm gonna be honest. Thank you dunkey, for first exposing me to this game, as well as displaying it to a much wider audience. Past the monotony, I've really enjoyed the time I'm spending with the remaster of both thus far. I've completed Shenmue, but I'm about a couple hours into Shenmue II. It's a lot of fun! Even if it isn't perfect, both games are a refresher (especially since I haven't really played a lot of compact open world type games.)
PSA: As of this comment, Shenmue III free on Epic Games for the next 22 hours.
I was 7 or 8 years old when my mom bought me Shenmue II after I pointed out the xbox game at the store. I got stuck at some parts not understanding what I was supposed to do or who I was supposed to talk to, but the game taught me lessons for life that I wouldn’t realize at the time, but would be a great foundation for building good character - Practice every day, do the right thing without hesitation, etc.
It’s rare, and I realize I’m 2 years behind when you originally made this comment, but knowing that you experienced the same feelings as I did when I first played the games over the years and still experience that same nostalgia like feeling when I play them now, it’s just heartwarming to know the game is getting new players to experience it. Best wishes.
"Make you *FEEL* like a Japanese people" - IGN
When the montage of asking people questions started playing I had 06 flashbacks
"With the money you can shop in town"
I am a talking question mark
Want to play a series like Shenmue that’s actually good also made by Sega? Then check out the Yakuza games.
This is a recommendation for people in the comments since I know dunkey has played atleast Zero.
He also has a video on 3.
Yakuza isn't like Shenmue. Its mobster beat-em-up.
Seriously getting tired of people who never played Shenmue and keep saying it's worse than Yakuza lmao
Dunkey is right tho--this fucking waiting stops the game from being good.
Yakuza feels like what shenmue shouldve been
1:30 Fun Fact: Shenmue came before the LotR movie, so it was a mere coincidence that Chai looked like Smeagol
Wait this game is actually pretty sick graphic-wise for it's time...
When it's 1998 and you're 10 years old this game is amazing af. You take care of cats, get the captchas, there's an entire functional arcade where you can pay using fake money. When you're about to continue the main quest of looking for sailors it rains.
In terms of the amount of shit you can do I've never quite seen a game like shenmue. The rule of thumb for that game is: if you can think the average japanese person would do it, you can probably do it.
Kafke the yakuza series is probably the only game I can think of that has more stuff to do
more than "sick graphic wise". Astounding.
Yeah for 1999 it looks so good and puts mgs1 and half life to shame in graphics
@@tgdude6379 MGS1 graphics weren't as technologically impressive, but they aged fairly well tbh.
I think Ryo Hazuki is asking questions he already knows the answers to...
1. Do you know where sailors hang out? Gay Bars
2. Do you know a guy named Charlie? No. Nobody in japan is called Charlie.
3. Did you see a black car? Probably, there are a lot of black cars
4. Do you know where there''s a pay phone around here? It's 2018 use a smartphone
5. Mario would you teach me some Italian? No, Mario does not know Italian as he is actually of Puerto Rican descent
6. Do you know anything about the old warehouse district? Yes, it used to just be... the warehouse district
7. Do you know anybody who's familiar with the harbour? Refer the question 1
8. Do you know a cheap way to travel overseas? I dunno... Ocean?
Jamesoh why is this not top comment
Damaged Goods Ermm... I guess the lack of knack/bookworm adventures in the comment. Actually, that gives me an idea.
but the game is set in '86
@@FelixMarshFTW I'll have you know that it is actually set in vault 76 not 86. Ryo popped out into the wastelands and must rebuild japan as he remembered however his creations are very... well you've seen that town he's in
we going ocean, right
"excuse me. I'm looking for some gameplay."
That'd be 60$ for the "gameplay" DLC
"Im sorry, but can you ask me later?"
"Ha-ha-ha you're so cute."
1:25 wow I was so surprised, I knew that I recognized that place, it’s the Entrance to the bar district in the city I grew up in, in Japan, it’s called The Honch and it’s right outside of the Yokosuka Naval base it really surprised me to see that, and it reminded me of my childhood and home :)
What a cool coincidence!
2:43 yes we all felt the same way
It wasn't until half through this game I randomly held a button while walking and found out I could run.
Son... of... a....
No... Really?
Voice acting for this game would be like ordering drive thru from McDonald's
Easiest paycheck you could ever make
How do you get a paycheck from ordering drive thru
Because you get sick, then sue the company. That way, you make a nice "paycheck" just by getting some drive thru
?????
@@Daubi1990.... It's the idea of driving up to a drive thru. Saying what you want. Boom you're done.
Or switch around. You're the cashier. Customer talks. He pays. They leave. It's that easy... The effort to voice act for this game was like ordering food through drive thru. You get me?
You took it too literal.
Poor analogy
Boy: “ I think a good one is ready to come out of the machine. Please give me ¥100.”
Ryo: “Sorry I’m in a hurry.”
(Buys one for himself.)
You mean ryo
ImmortalKing2020 I just foundit funny... amongst several other funny parts.
Holy *SHIT* dude! It's almost like that bit was done on purpose for comedic effect! Man, you're so smart! Brilliant detective work!
This is cool!
Shenmue is my thing, man.
A big part of my identity.
MetalCrow448
Oh, is that so? Do you care to explain how you have come to this opinion? The story, philosophy, and moral teachings explored in this game transcend the game itself and are applicable to many aspects of life, due to the fact that many of these principles have been gathered from the pre-existing wealth of worldly philosophy and knowledge. Which, by the way, I also consider to be a part of my identity.
@MetalCrow448 So no movie, piece of music, piece of art etc etc has effected you in anyway then? Maybe you are just too dumb to understand these types of things?
@MetalCrow448 It is totally fine for you personally to not be effected by a video game that you played, but it isn't fine to tell someone who has been, that they're pathetic. What if your a novel writer trying to create stories and the story of Shenmue led to you having an amazing idea which led to the creation of a really popular book series, in that situation is it pathetic to have that game as part of your identity? What really shouldn't be happening is you telling other people barely know what should and what shouldn't be part of their identity.
If I could give this a 10/10 I would
*score* : 4/5
unknown Parade this better not be a spoiler for the ending pls
I give this game the lowest score possible. 8/10
*_Do YoU kNoW wHeRe My HeNtAi Is?_*
I burnt it
Just search it on pornhub
"im looking for some sailors", wait this isn't the matrix game
"Excuse me, i'm looking for some gameplay.". Holy duck in a race, i freakin love your content and your humor.
I think the fact that most of the game play is going around and talking to people is one of the coolest aspects of this game. Someone killed your father, and all you have to go on is a description of the guy. It's actual dective work. You're not a police officer like inLA Noire interrogating people, and you're not Batman turning on detective mode and immediately finding the solutio, youre just going around and asking everybody what they know. I think it's awesome, and if only they had put in a "Wait" mechanic it'd be one of my favorite games.
Except detectives do more than just ask random people a single question.
And how is that cool?
I'd just go to the arcade and play hang-on or darts. time flies beating that high score!
In shenmue 2 there is a wait mechanic
It's cool because often times you'll know exactly who to speak to, without the game having to tell you. Earlier on in the game you search for some chinese people to ask them if they know anything about your father's murderer since he was chinese. This doesn't really go anywhere. But now you know almost every chinese person in town. Later on you get a letter written in chinese. Now you know where to look for someone that can help you translate the letter. The game has a lot of instances like that, where you'll remember that someone might be able to help you that wasn't able to help you before.
This is just a game about a regular Japanese guy lmao.
“When my friend booted up Shenmue on his Dreamcast back in 1999”
You dirty liar. Shenmue was released in America in November 2000.
It's important for very very extreme games like Shenmue to exist. To push a concept to its limit. Shemue, Dwarf Fortress, Dive Kick, QWOP, games like these take a particular aspect of gameplay, design, or theory and fully explore how far it can be taken. They might not be the most enjoyable or even playable games, but with their examination of that aspect, they become both a work of art and a groundbreaking science experiment.
Future games can then take and combine from their discoveries and experience to construct something more playable.
Adding to this:
Shenmue comes from a time when computers and technology were this mysterious foreign magic that comes in a box to most people.
Nowadays most people understand how computers work, so that sense of mystique that comes from a game making you wait real life time can never be replicated.
Games like the talking fish with a human face, Hello Pikachu, Tamagochi, all of the Digimon franchise, and more made use of this lack of information in the general public in ways that cannot be understood today, with the objective to make the game feel like window on an actual digital world that lived and breathed with or without you.
The fact that you have to wait real time in order to get to certain things might be dogshit game design today (which is debatable), but back then it was more than a selling point.
@@jomsies we NEED music that is completely unlistenable. Because of Yoko we can say: "well now we know: that doesn't work."
@@_Ikelos "Nowadays most people understand how computers work"
I really must beg to differ, maybe people understand better than back then but the overwhelming majority of people, even people that use computers often, are in the dark a lot about how they work
The only thing it pushed was the graphics and music. The open world interactivity had been done better in games like Ultima 7 and 9 or Deus Ex. Sure, you'd never seen a game let you open every drawer or buy a soda from a vending machine and you liked it. Glad you found it entertaining in Shenmue, but don't pretend like it was something new and innovative for gaming.
@@sonnington1035 That's an incredibly dismissive way of describing it, but okay.
"Dunkey quote with zero thought into the actual video"
Jo Moo wow you are so different and unique
This comment is a MASTAPIECE!
Not even close baby!
"Quotes are for dumb people who can't think of something intelligent to say on their own" -Bo Burnham
@@MattMesha thanks 😘
Shenmue really make you feel like Shenmue
0:33
Little did Dunkey know, he was going to hate this later on in life.
why not come to japan? we have:
- capsule toy machines
- smeagol
- hot dog man
- cheap ways to travel overseas
And the graphics, that's what this is really all about...
Should've been called Shenmule and instead you play as dunkey's cousin, a mule.
Should've been called Shenmale and instead you play as dunkeys mom, a shemale
This story is basically Japan's answer to Batman. Where Bruce Wayne coped with the murder of his parents in an unhealthy way by wearing a full body bat costume and engaging in acts of violence, Ryu processes his emotions more constructively by earning his forklift operator certificate and getting really into collecting Sonic figurines
Dunkey's Shenmue playthrough is probably his best series and definitely one of my favourite things he's ever made! Rewatching it now really brings back the memories of old, more intimate, more goofy Dunkey. Also makes me realize just how much has he evolved since then, both positively and negatively.
I'm still waiting for that last episode though :(
Shenmue and Spaghetti and Meatballs
Who here remembers the shenmu 2 play through?
The OG
What happened to those videos??
You can still find them if you look them up via playlists.
How do you look them up I don't see it in his playlist totals
Me me me!
To this day shenmue is one of my favorite worlds in a game
since i played this... till today this is my favorite game!
During the waiting times you're supposed to train, or get collectibles, or play minigames at the arcade, or gamble, etc.
roller Exactly! I like everything else about Dunks video. Besides the great flaw if there being nothing to do but wait )))))): I crie evrytiem
there's things to do, but absolutely none of it is fun or engaging. sorry, Space Harrier can only keep my attention for so long.
I mean he's stated before that he hates it when games have waiting as a mechanic. So he was bound to dislike it a little
Exactly. One of the few times I've disagreed with the dunkmaster. Shenmue is one of my favourite games of all time.
I j I think you spelled "nuances" wrong. The way you spelled it makes it look like he needs to appreciate bad things more....
0:56
Remember Bean the Dynamite? He's back! in Capsule Toy Form!
Kreutz Warrior ironic since shenmue is set 10 years before sonic the fighters came out
Back then, even the waiting was cool
And yet with all this being said somehow its still the most magical game ever made
One thing you have to keep in mind about many games of this era is that, unlike today, where gamers have easy access to huge amounts of Japanese and otaku culture related products, back then most anything from Japan seemed unique. In the late 90s/early 2000s I got into Japanese cinema through akira kurosawa movies and then became interested in Japan and Japanese culture. Playing a game where I got to see what a Japanese neighborhood looked like would have thrilled me. Now you can go on TH-cam and see countless hours of video on everywhere and everything in Japan.
Hell, I remember slogging through hours of boring grind in the ps1 final fantasies just to see 15 second cgi anime clips, cause unless you were a rich kid, you weren't going to see much anime.
Okay, but that doesn't have anything to do with the video. I don't see what point you're trying to make here. Is because the game hs japanese themes that some how makes it better?
Yes. Read his comment again. Lol
Ocarina of time until the day have one of the best level designs, just compare it with actual games.
Pokemon.
Okay thanks for that cool story about you trying to see anime as a kid. That makes it okay for the game design to suck balls.
It’s pretty good.
mrmeatman it just works
Hi mrmeatman!
Dunkey copy. JK
Hey. Make new Jojo videos.
@rick the prick Lol
"Of course I saw a black car. It was being driven by a two-armed man."
When someone asks me what letter comes after P
0:46
this... is the greatest game of all time. 10/5
Dude I haven't seen you in so long how've you been?
Change that pic
shitty remaster
ohh you
2:00 Mario's reply: It's a me Mario! lol
This is one of my favorite videos of all time
For some reason I will never forget that time as a forklift driver… how did this mundane task become such a strong memory??
Honestly I liked going around and asking people questions. The atmosphere and seeing peoples daily routines made it worth it. I also don't remember being that irritated by waiting, because there was always some way in game that I could pass the time.
I'm glad that Dunkey isn't trying to make anyone happy with this.
He's giving his honest opinion on something.
I think Shenmoo is an amazing game, even though it's slow, but I like point and click adventure games, too. Yeah, you do have to wait a lot, but you also have a whole world to explore, so that keeps me entertained.
ZRDR thanks
Muoi
you're welcome, Dunkey.
Not Ben Stiller
lol how is giving an honest opinion on something crying for attention,
when this is a channel about games? Did he hurt your feelings?
Not Ben Stiller
you seem upset.
everything okay?
Not Ben Stiller
neat
Japanese Sméagol is very popular in each Japanese town. He’s considered a town pet everywhere
"I'm looking for some gameplay."
Probably something to say for most of the early access titles there is.
“Have you ever seen a grown man naked before?”
The real question is When's the dreamcast 2?
Joke's on you
Xbox original was the Dreamcast 2
Which means the Xbox One is actually the Dreamcast 4
“I don’t need my mom’s money!”
_Said no Shenmue player ever._
Is so true to Japan culture, when I visited my cousin, their neighborhood their own Smeagol