I actually think they leaned into the shitty voice acting since I can hear Yuri Lowenthal and Brianna Knickerbocker in there and they're incredible VOs
When I first saw this video I hadn't heard that shenmue 3 was announced so when I watched dunkeys video and saw the "made in dreams" watermark in the corner I legit thought that this was a really impressive dreams game that dunkey was playing for a joke, oh how naive I was.....
The thing that gets me is that they *know* it's tedious. They know this is not a fun game to play. Nobody writes a quest where after you do a bunch of bullshit you *then* have to catch ten chickens on *three separate days* and has the guy introduce the task with 'you know what I want, right' with the biggest troll face in history and doesn't realise what they're fucking doing
Yeah, I think that is THE part where it becomes obvious that the developer fundementally dont understand video game storytelling and humour. If this had been a movie. That part could have been funny, since the tedious part is at the expense at the protagonist. He want to learn a move desperately and he constantly is denied, which is kinda funny. In a videogame on the other hand, the joke becomes at the expense of the PLAYER, because as a player we are essentially an extension of the protagonist and that joke is NOT funny, just annoying. The developer even admits he dont play videogames and christ does that part convey that completely.
@LKCV Actually it is a good point , because since he doesn't play game and wasn' tin the industry for so long (he was making mostly mobile phone game) he didn't witness or get involved in all the improvment games had in the past , story telling , mechanic all of that is outdated because he doesn't know about it. If you don't play games and don't get interested in it (which is what he said) and doesn't work in it either how can you comprehend and adjust or take into account what has been done and what have been understood since. The answer is simple : you can't. If that game was made 14yr ago it would have been okay-ish , nowadays it's just awfull.
@@moonbug7252 I'm new into the game, but yea i did. I mean if you have played The Witcher 1 you'd see it's same writer level. In 2nd is better than in 3rd is much better.
I've heard there's some site that a ton of game translators are being pressured on by a group that intentionally tries to ruin games coming over to NA. Even a ton of games journalists are on it too. They were responsible for Fire emblem on 3DS getting censored. Shit's fucky.
Shenmue 1 crawled on all fours so that Yakuza could walk Shenmue 2 stumbled around in a dark room so that Yakuza could run Shenmue 3 took 19 years and then fell down, dragged himself through the mud trying to get back up but then decided to stay there... At this point Yakuza was flippin' soaring the sky
Yeahhh Shenmue 3 probably killed the franchise... I mean i didn't know the franchise was so loved and people were waiting for an actual new game to come out but when i learnt that and now watching this video... I can't imagine ANYONE liked the game
@@Mysticfateee based off other reviews, it seems that many consider this a disappointment. this only exists because of crowfunding in the beginning of its development, so its highly likely Shenmue will actually be dead
Ok, Yuri Lowenthal, as well as some of the other voice actors in the cast are pretty talented. The reason the voice acting sounds like this has to be deliberate.
Direction accounts for like 50% of the quality in an actor's performance. Even the greatest actor of all time can't have a good performance with trash direction
Gabriel Silvério not even joking: I didn’t hear the news about it actually being released and took a double take when i saw the watermark because I actually thought this was made in dreams 😂
@@JohnFortniteKennedy_ The game Desperados III has a bad guy called... Frank. No surname is ever given. Characters just ask for 'the man named Frank' and people know who they mean instantly.
The fact that the voice acting is so bad despite bringing aboard a bunch of talented new big name voice actors leads me to genuinely believe that they were told to purposely make the voice acting sound bad so that it would feel like the other two games.
The voice acting isn't bad, the writing is bad. That is the consistent here. Good voice acting can't make bad writing good. Yu Suzuki is terrible at writing stories, any critical analysis of his previous projects shows this. It's either stuff without any deep plot (Virtua Fighters, Soul Caliber), or Shenmue.
having never played this series, knowing nothing about it, only learning today how long since the last game, I'm honestly shocked Dunkey's not MORE bitter. Those chickens really taught him the meaning of patience, I guess.
@THE NEWMAKER oh my you haven't played them. Yikes we have a dipshit down here thinking he can diss this game without actually experiencing the other two.
Fun fact: Yu Suzuki, the creator of Shenmue, has stated that he doesn't enjoy playing video games. Maybe he's just trying to convey that feeling through the Shenmue series and is actually doing an incredible job with it.
@@IkeOkerekeNews It really isn't. It was passable 20 years ago when most games didn't really have voice acting yet so it seemed pretty high production, but they were always a terrible chore to play. When people funded the new one I don't think they expected it to literally not improve anything since 1999 though...
@@FuzzyDlop Opinions are all subjective. It's not possible for an opinion to be objectively wrong, but if it was this would be one of the wrong opinions.
i dunno, the first game went by like a breeze in comparison to the 2nd and 3rd... and ofcourse it as F'ing 1999. I am a shemue fan, but as what it was and how special it was 20 years ago, not because i care to ever play through it again.
Its honestly on par with the first two games. Issue is that Shenmue 2 ends of a cliffhanger with no hope of a sequel. We wait 20 years for a sequel and Shenmue 3 ends on another cliffhanger. Either the creator has titanium nuts or he's actually mentally ill
@@demetriusturner7715 Just because Resident Evil had dogshit voice acting back in the 90's doesn't mean they carry that over for an aUtHeNtIc FeEl. Capcom, like many other developers, actually tried to move their franchises forward in the modern era, and the RE2 remake shows this amazing result more than ever (hopefully 3 as well). Shenmue 3 is an upscaled dreamcast game. ZERO effort was made to make this the definitive entry to the series not only in the ways of story, but also gameplay. They didn't take ANY advantage of 2019 technology to make this the series' best entry yet. It truly is pathetic when fans defend the voice acting and all the other lackluster elements of this game...
Woketube, gone by 2023 Damn, now why hadn’t I thought of that? It seems so obvious now. Stupid, stupid, stupid me. Its become clear to me that I need mental help, based on your reply to my UA-cam comment on a Dunkey video. You’ve truly restored the honour of my family name.
What's more amazing is that the producer thought he could string players for along for another sequel despite the fact that this game barely got made and it took at least 18 years to get made.
@@MrDevious88 Best part about what you said about Shenmue 4? It's going to be another Kickstarter campaign after the reception. Worst part about it they treated the PC users like crap by pulling the old switcharoo and changing it around. Was going on Steam at first but then they changed there minds and decided to go 1 years exclusive to the Epic fail store on the PC platform AFTER people pre-order/funded it (Never pre-order guys no matter how good the game is at first) and people was rightfully pissed! They only done it for that "88/12" cut even though they had more than enough money to make a "Decent" game by you know... KICKSTARTING! At this point in time I only see them getting fucked over and ultimately putting Shenmue down to rest, It had a good run... Now if you want to have a Shenmue successor go play Yakuza. I herd that series is FAR better than Shenmue!
I bought this game for 7.99 and honestly I still feel like I overpaid lol. Damn 19 year wait for this was a punch to the gut. Well another 20 years for shenmue 4
Well there aren’t large enough time skips for Ryo to actually cover any kind of experience gap in all reality. Ryo would never be able to go from half ass training to beating a guy that is portrayed on a “grandmaster” level. Then again the game isn’t very consistent about Ryo getting better and it seems he more or less is supposed to scrape by using specific techniques in canon no matter how badly your curb stomp a boss in the game mechanics. So even if you make Ryo a beast in the game, in the canon story I believe he’s always barely scraped by and only won a lot of fights out of purely having a technique to counter the person he is fighting, and not because he has become a better overall fighter. I mean he’s constantly losing and only wins after getting a specific move. I feel like Ryo is at the same level he was at in Hong Kong when he fights in cutscenes. He doesn’t seem to have gotten any better and still needs specific moves to beat guys he should be able to dodge and just beat the shit out of like that muscle guy from fist of the North Star in Bailu village. What in the fuck bro, you can beat that giant from Kowloon walled city but not this guy? Are you kidding me. Guy swings his arms around like a retard and Ryo goes down like he never even went to Hong Kong and got off the boat from Japan in Bailu. I don’t think Ryo is going to beat Lan Di. I mean it’s not even feasible in the story anymore. Ryo isn’t talented enough in canon to ever catch up to Lan Di Becoming 10th Duan is simply gameplay shit because it holds absolutely no weight in canon fights where Ryo loses all the time. The old grandmaster handled Ryo on that boat when they sparred and then told Ryo he was trash. So in this game old guys can be strong. Well Lan Di beat the shit out of Ryo pops. Ryo never beat a high level martial artist in canon like Lan Di stomped Ryo dad. Every time Ryo faces one he is utterly embarrassed
I've watched this video countless times, it's one of my favorites from Dunkey's channel. Only just now did I notice the "Made in Dreams" logo during the grandma sequence.
It's like Yu Suzuki literally doesn't know that it's been almost two decades since the second game. This feels like it should've been released in 2005 at most.
I've worked in localization, I can instantly tell they just had an excel file of Japanese dialogue and had it translated without any context (thus the "No, I havent" replies that make no sense) , then just had the voice actors read all the lines without any direction. At no point did a native English speaker Q&A... anything.
Yakuza had enough time to come out, have 4 more games, have a prequel, get remastered and have two more games while Shenmue went from 2 to 3 with archaic game mechanics.
@@aptspire Knowing how the Yakuza series director literally says the series exist thanks to his inspiration of Shenmue, you would think that Shenmue itself will reach perfection in 20 year+. "Enough time" my ass. More like sega completely dick the development
because it would have been one of many fan made games that you can play by purchasing dreams, which is itself cheaper then Shenmue 3, by the way. Also many people have been wating 20 years for this
What's funnier is Yuan is a VERY common Chinese name. Going around town and asking for a Yuan is like going around town and asking for a dude named Chris. You're gonna be searching for a while if all you got to find the person is a name
What even funnier is you say Yuan and all the other NPC immediately know what Yuan you're talking about, is just like all the Yuans has a big fight and only the last Yuan standing keep the name
@@larion2336 that's a bit different, it's like asking around for someone called Bill, no one will mistake you for asking around for dollar bills, what they will mistake you for is asking around for Bill Howitzer when your looking for Bill Bobson
*_"Body Check_* is a signature move, one of the eight big openings of Bajiquan" I never realised airport security was staffed with such masters of chinese martial arts
To be honest, if I got a capsule toy that looked uncannily similar to my foster mother or girlfriend, I would probably say "... what's this?" or something similar too
You know, when that guy said "it'll be years before you can face me", no one thought he meant that literally.
And that he actually meant decades
"Come back in ten years!"
He was probably playing Cho Gath
"If you wish to defeat me,train for another 100 years!"
@@azirul9311 man I sure hope my grandchildren will be the ones to get it right
Sounds like the voice actor still hasn’t found a reason to live since 1999.
Nah they just used the same Text-to-Speech program as the last two😹
@@AxxLAfriku you still alive and not ashamed of yourself
Are you sure....
It's ok. I didn't either.
I actually think they leaned into the shitty voice acting since I can hear Yuri Lowenthal and Brianna Knickerbocker in there and they're incredible VOs
I just realized there’s a “made in Dreams” watermark in the bottom corner. Dunkey knows how to be a funny UA-cam guy.
good eye :)
When I first saw this video I hadn't heard that shenmue 3 was announced so when I watched dunkeys video and saw the "made in dreams" watermark in the corner I legit thought that this was a really impressive dreams game that dunkey was playing for a joke, oh how naive I was.....
the made in dreams watermark had me loosing it the entire time
@@ryeb losing*
there isnt one?
3:11
I still come back to this to see a protagonist say a certain pig is “not his type” followed by the most genuine “what the fuck” ive ever heard
peter what are you doing
Peter
@@halionextracrack
“Was this made in Dreams?”
“No, I haven’t”
"Don't bother me!"
WHAT DO YOU WANT?!
No Idea
Atzoniz was it even made in dreams?
What?
"Will you buy this game?"
"No"
"Why?"
"No way"
"I feel like I could kick some ass!"
XD
@@jerubaal101 "No"
@@thegoldengaming1877 Clearly you haven't applied the sacred ointment, yet.
"No, i Haven't
The thing that gets me is that they *know* it's tedious. They know this is not a fun game to play. Nobody writes a quest where after you do a bunch of bullshit you *then* have to catch ten chickens on *three separate days* and has the guy introduce the task with 'you know what I want, right' with the biggest troll face in history and doesn't realise what they're fucking doing
Yeah, I think that is THE part where it becomes obvious that the developer fundementally dont understand video game storytelling and humour.
If this had been a movie. That part could have been funny, since the tedious part is at the expense at the protagonist. He want to learn a move desperately and he constantly is denied, which is kinda funny.
In a videogame on the other hand, the joke becomes at the expense of the PLAYER, because as a player we are essentially an extension of the protagonist and that joke is NOT funny, just annoying.
The developer even admits he dont play videogames and christ does that part convey that completely.
@LKCV He's the prime example of someone past their prime who doesn't have it anymore... >__>
@LKCV Actually it is a good point , because since he doesn't play game and wasn' tin the industry for so long (he was making mostly mobile phone game) he didn't witness or get involved in all the improvment games had in the past , story telling , mechanic all of that is outdated because he doesn't know about it.
If you don't play games and don't get interested in it (which is what he said) and doesn't work in it either how can you comprehend and adjust or take into account what has been done and what have been understood since. The answer is simple : you can't. If that game was made 14yr ago it would have been okay-ish , nowadays it's just awfull.
Wow almost like yu suzuki is actually a dumbass who has no business making video games
@@planescaped to be honest, the previous shenmue games weren't that great either
Don't cry because it happened, smile because it's over
I was actually pretty disappointed when the video eneded because it was so funny
this is the one. the comment that got me.
😂
shenmue 3 feels like your dad leaving for 30 years then coming back just for your kidneys.
aka the suffering of John Locke from Lost.
@@UnlistedAgain glad someone said it before me
Bishop Martin LMAO it’s exactly what I was thinking too
@@UnlistedAgain damn, you remember lost too?
You want your $40 back? I WANT MY KIDNEYS BACK!
"Are you gay?"
"No, I haven't"
Lol
Me learning english when i was 10
Yes, I don't.
I,never
4:45 Lao jiu literally means aged wine, so he basically said find me some aged aged wine. We got some real Oblivion stuff here.
My favorite is someone named liu, or 六，because they're pronouncing it wrong. This liu is the number 6
Isn't all wine aged? That's the point, no? That's like saying can you get me an old pensioner.
@@ajaxlewis7664 not all wine
@@backlogbuddies what wine isn't aged? That sounds awful
All wine is aged.
The grandma faking being deaf just to get you to compliment her is amazing and I love her.
I suppose it looks like to be an ironic nice part of the game lmao
Never thought of it that way lmao
And the developers purposely made story dumber just to have fun of suckers of buying the game.
@@thebufoon did you expect quality from a shenmue game
@@moonbug7252 I'm new into the game, but yea i did.
I mean if you have played The Witcher 1 you'd see it's same writer level.
In 2nd is better than in 3rd is much better.
"I'm looking for yuan."
"No, I haven't"
Sounds about the right level of English a typical Chinese person would be operating on
@@jackyan654 true.
I've heard there's some site that a ton of game translators are being pressured on by a group that intentionally tries to ruin games coming over to NA. Even a ton of games journalists are on it too. They were responsible for Fire emblem on 3DS getting censored. Shit's fucky.
He's is speaking the language of gods.
@@potatosordfighter666All I care about is martial arts. Leave me alone or give a source for this information, anime
Are they Making a shenmue 4 after this game?
No, i haven't
I'm confused...
"Are you sure?"
MrGameAndStuff actually watch the video
Yeah...she is...Yeah...you could say that
Better get those chickens!
Shenmue 1 crawled on all fours so that Yakuza could walk
Shenmue 2 stumbled around in a dark room so that Yakuza could run
Shenmue 3 took 19 years and then fell down, dragged himself through the mud trying to get back up but then decided to stay there... At this point Yakuza was flippin' soaring the sky
Best comment of the year
Idk man, talking simulator is pretty darn boring.
@@trendybistro thats what they said lol
Yeahhh Shenmue 3 probably killed the franchise... I mean i didn't know the franchise was so loved and people were waiting for an actual new game to come out but when i learnt that and now watching this video... I can't imagine ANYONE liked the game
@@Mysticfateee based off other reviews, it seems that many consider this a disappointment. this only exists because of crowfunding in the beginning of its development, so its highly likely Shenmue will actually be dead
Knowing that one day Shenmue might avenge his Father’s death before you die of old age, fills you with determination!
Get a gun
his name is not shenmue
@@moister3727 after Shenmue 3, Ryo's name is now Shenmue.
@@moister3727 r/woosh
@@okay8458 r/etarded
I didn't realize Shenmue 3 was made in Dreams.
Weird asf
Rita - I Love SЕХ too
It's basically the same quality
@@abedabed7009 Thats the joke...
It's ridiculous how accurate this is
I somehow missed that this game got released and genuinely thought this was a Dreams fan game when the combat started
Hey
Dont diss dreams
Same wtf
It’s awful so that’s understandable
But it is made in dreams aint it?
There's watermark that says "made in dreams" at the end, is that not true?
“Got-ta-get-da-mon-ey-shen-mue” gets stuck in my head ALL THE FUCKING TIME over the past two years 😂
“Got-ta-find-the-fuck-ing-to-kens”
Lol me too sometimes
I’m here watching again bc I remembered “gotta tell the shitty grand-ma”
Official shenmue theme lyrics
Ok, Yuri Lowenthal, as well as some of the other voice actors in the cast are pretty talented. The reason the voice acting sounds like this has to be deliberate.
It’s still impressive that, after giving off such rich performances in other stuff, they can just shut themselves off like that.
Direction accounts for like 50% of the quality in an actor's performance. Even the greatest actor of all time can't have a good performance with trash direction
@@enotsnavdier6867 the original Yakuza dub is exactly this
what? oliver swanick voiced this?
@@JackInABeanstalk98except for Mark Hamil who absolutely destroys as Majima
The dialogue in this game sounds like Tommy Wiseau's The Room
Dont even compare this shit to that actual masterpiece
You’re tearing me apart lisa!
Oh hai mark
You should have heard the voice acting in shenmue 1 if you think this is bad. It's part of Shenmue's 'charm'
0:40 Im looking for Mr. Urine
okai then
Knack: Cutscenes for jumps
Shenmue 3: Cutscenes for picking tokens
gaming.
Oh boy, can't wait for future games to have cutscenes for fighting instead of combat mechanics
@@ms_rifle_spiral well you got D4 but that game was really creative and unfinished bruh
cutscenes for fucking everything
telltale games make one big cutscene into game
Daddy of war: QTE for jump
This is a photo realistic and cartoonish looking game at the same time
it has that sweet uncanny valley effect written all over it
Well fits shenmue
This game made Dunkey laugh, cry, gain a gambling addiction, and age nineteen years. Truly one of the most moving games ever made in Dreams
“Do you have 4 kids locked in your basement?”
“Nope. All I care about is martial arts!”
Okay then
"No, I haven't."
Gotta keep some practice dummies around
"I see..."
''You f*ck young boys, Valdez?!''
''Nope. All I care about is martial arts!''
"I've waited 19 years to play this game, he couldn't even hit him once."
I am so sorry Dunkey.
Lol
That desperation in his laugh kills me
"the story goes on..."
Tbh though Lan di is more experienced than xiuying in shenmue 2 and ryo couldn't hit her either.
@@matabishippuden6965 at least they didnt wait for 19 years for the second game
my friend Miles once said, " Shenmue walks so that Yakuza can run."
More like crawls
Hopefully the long suffering Shemue fans stumbled onto Yakuza at some point.
@@ashikjaman1940 Twitches on the floor like a squashed cockroach
Alright Peter
@@ICantSplel They all played Yakuza, maybe even before you did.
I heard Yuri Lowenthal's voice in here but he sounded like they had sucked out his soul after putting him in a coma
Compared to roles like Ben Tennyson and Yosuke Hanamura, it’s still kinda impressive how he can just shut himself off like that.
@@paperluigi6132 wait hold up he did Ben 10
@@paperluigi6132 holy shit it was when he was a teenager right?
@@agentace1476 yep
When he showed the combat I actually thought it was made in Dreams.
it was
What is Dreams?
@@KisukeOboro its a game where you can make other games, donkey made 2 videos about it recently
More like dreamcast, am i right guys
@@HipDopeLord no
I love how shenmue 1 had revolutionary graphics for a dreamcast game. And now shenmue 3 looks like a dreamcast game with a fresh coat of paint lol.
Now looks like one of those cheap unfinished steam games. (okay maybe not that bad)
I thought the graphics here were pretty solid. The voice acting and combat on the other hand...
@@mattperaica7308 They tried staying a little too authentic to the originals with that design and voice acting
It should have just got modern graphics and realistic looking people.
No, I haven't.
I love how Dunkey just calls Ryo "Shenmue"
Shenmue and Assassin's Creed. The two greatest video game protagonists.
@@mr.shickadance4112 can't forget Metroid and Halo. I love those guys.
Link as a Zelda
1:10 I like how his delivery of the line makes it sound like he is unsure whether it’s appropriate for her to say that or not
Replayed that about 5 times 😂😂😂
Or he's not even sure himself his girlfriend is what anyone would consider pretty or not 😂
Ryo isn't the sharpest tool in the shed.
The "Made in dreams" watermark really complements this.
i didnt even fucking notice it because it fit in too well with the gameplay xD
Gabriel Silvério not even joking: I didn’t hear the news about it actually being released and took a double take when i saw the watermark because I actually thought this was made in dreams 😂
You mean to tell me this wasn’t made in dreams?? This was garbage😂
I legitimately thought this was made in dreams. Is this an actual game?
@@saliherenyuceturk2398 I've seen projects in dreams far more better than this
The developers really hated whoever this game was for.
This was the game they asked for though.
@@billbill6094 maybe it wouldve made a good xbox title?
Stix N' Stones that game is fateful to the original tho unlike this one
@@billbill6094 No one asked for the awful combat system.
@@billbill6094 'you ask to pay for this shit, don't say i didn't tell you before' - developer
The funniest thing to me is the fact that it’s been like 20 years and the quality of the dubbing has stayed exactly the same. Perfect
Dunkey singing "Gotta tell the shitty grandma" lives in my head rent free
Looking for someone named Yuan in China is like looking for someone named John in America
*im lookig for Mr.John*
@@JohnFortniteKennedy_ The game Desperados III has a bad guy called... Frank. No surname is ever given. Characters just ask for 'the man named Frank' and people know who they mean instantly.
In the islam world: "Iam looking for someone named Mohammed..."
@@JohnFortniteKennedy_ no, I haven't
@@SailorCheryl Lmao "Hey, is a Muhammad here?" _ten bewildered men turn around_
The fact that the voice acting is so bad despite bringing aboard a bunch of talented new big name voice actors leads me to genuinely believe that they were told to purposely make the voice acting sound bad so that it would feel like the other two games.
yeah of course
I honestly don't doubt it.
This game really feels like a Dreamcast Shenmue 3, haha.
Voice acting and voice direction is different. This result leads me to believe it was intentional for whatever reason.
The voice acting isn't bad, the writing is bad. That is the consistent here. Good voice acting can't make bad writing good. Yu Suzuki is terrible at writing stories, any critical analysis of his previous projects shows this. It's either stuff without any deep plot (Virtua Fighters, Soul Caliber), or Shenmue.
That was definitely some Walter White crawl space laughter at the end. I feel ya, Robert.
This video is infinitely rewatchable.
When dunkey starts hysterically laughing as he realized the game was actually ending and this is what we waited 20 years for lmfao
@@emoimo4171 it's a bot dude
having never played this series, knowing nothing about it, only learning today how long since the last game, I'm honestly shocked Dunkey's not MORE bitter. Those chickens really taught him the meaning of patience, I guess.
It's like every 3rd iteration of anything sucks ass. Like kh3 for example
@@dances_with_incels and spiderman 3
Reminds me of Duke nukes forever
This game feels like when a genie grants your deepest, happiest wish in a horribly twisted way that makes you regret everything.
Have you heard of a little story called The Monkey’s Paw?
CAMEO!!!!!!!
HAIL2U
@@thesalsaguy4395 i remember reading that in 8th grade lol
Like a million dollars but all in nickels
"Is there anything that shenmue 3 does right?"
"No, I haven't"
At 8:50, if you slow the audio down to .25, you can hear dunkey say fuck
This feels like a children's activity book stretched out over the length of the video game.
Welcome to Shenmue.
Try the big mac
@@VarietyGamerChannel come on, the previous games (released 20 years ago) werent like this!
@THE NEWMAKER oh my you haven't played them. Yikes we have a dipshit down here thinking he can diss this game without actually experiencing the other two.
@@matabishippuden6965 Oh no. We have someone who may not like what is considered a classic. Different opinions are not accepted in this household
Fun fact: Yu Suzuki, the creator of Shenmue, has stated that he doesn't enjoy playing video games.
Maybe he's just trying to convey that feeling through the Shenmue series and is actually doing an incredible job with it.
But I thought the Shenmue series was good?
Miyamoto from Nintendo also hates videogames.
@@IkeOkerekeNews It really isn't. It was passable 20 years ago when most games didn't really have voice acting yet so it seemed pretty high production, but they were always a terrible chore to play. When people funded the new one I don't think they expected it to literally not improve anything since 1999 though...
I played Shenmue 3 and it was by far the best game of 2019; currently the third best of the generation behind Persona 5 and BOTW.
@@FuzzyDlop Opinions are all subjective. It's not possible for an opinion to be objectively wrong, but if it was this would be one of the wrong opinions.
8:53 I can hear the hi-pitched “fuck” when he fast-forwards. 😂
I love the idea that Shenmue will never end. It will be an infinite tease, every 20 years reappearing to taught the world and then disapearing again.
Man, Death Stranding really did a number on old Dunkey
"Obligatory remark about how the game is secretly genius."
its the new knack
@@calebflores3389 it is a shame, I really quite like it.
Death Stranding is a relaxing game
Change my mind
Ben Mauss I honestly love the game
I don’t see any issues with it besides the game being repetitive towards the mid section
Yakuza's brain damaged cousin
israel the leg kick decision cringe bender Adesanya what are you doing step bro
Grandad. Shenmue is Yakuzas grandad.
@@tomhill3248 Who's yakuza dad then?
Super Monkey Ball?
@@dsl69 Yes.
@@ArukunMoon Hmmm I see.
7:43 “I’m done for the day. Go back and get some rest.”
Dunkey: “It’s 9 AM!”
I’m sure everyone felt that shit among other things…
5:11 i come back at least once a week to listen to you singing this. Its stuck in my head
They had 19 years and they are still able to deliver the exact same quality of brilliant voice acting as the other Shenmue games. Truly a masterpiece.
Lol
Glad they decided to keep the shitty voice acting, man feels like the past
i dunno, the first game went by like a breeze in comparison to the 2nd and 3rd... and ofcourse it as F'ing 1999. I am a shemue fan, but as what it was and how special it was 20 years ago, not because i care to ever play through it again.
Its honestly on par with the first two games. Issue is that Shenmue 2 ends of a cliffhanger with no hope of a sequel. We wait 20 years for a sequel and Shenmue 3 ends on another cliffhanger.
Either the creator has titanium nuts or he's actually mentally ill
@@demetriusturner7715 Just because Resident Evil had dogshit voice acting back in the 90's doesn't mean they carry that over for an aUtHeNtIc FeEl. Capcom, like many other developers, actually tried to move their franchises forward in the modern era, and the RE2 remake shows this amazing result more than ever (hopefully 3 as well).
Shenmue 3 is an upscaled dreamcast game. ZERO effort was made to make this the definitive entry to the series not only in the ways of story, but also gameplay. They didn't take ANY advantage of 2019 technology to make this the series' best entry yet.
It truly is pathetic when fans defend the voice acting and all the other lackluster elements of this game...
"Excuse _me_ ...
Gorgeous."
I literally don't think that line could have been delivered any worse.
What are you talking about?
That's some superior acting!
Really conveys the mood of the scene
Excuuuuuuuuuuuse me, Princess!
GRANNY!
“You like how grandma rides you?”
“Yes, that’s it”
That was the best line of the game!
This is really one of Dunkey's best. I've watched it numerous times and it never fails to give me a laugh!
This is the first game I’ve watched dunkey play where I genuinely had to think to myself "this can’t be a real game"
"I WILL avenge my father's death"
"Because I'm the president of the United states of America!!!"
dudw what is this from?? i cant remember... too high..
wait nvm i found it
Comparing this to the intentionally campy acting in Metal Wolf is actually insulting.
Too bad a cripple and an Italian executioner who are really into rectangles and spinning are gonna stop you
@@sirgentlebread7302 wrong video.
I'm crying. It's like one of those Chinese shirts with broken English was turned into an entire game.
🤣
Lmfao
This game is a fever dream
Perfect description
The guy who wrote the dialogue for this game also writes every Chinese product's instruction manual's translation to English.
There is a word for that: Engrish.
"I have to find Lan Di, I have to avenge my father" while he's watching a ball spin in a circle really sums up the Shenmue experience.
Whoever did the marble physics on the gambling game deserves a raise
Lan Di: "Come back in ten years."
More like 19 years, smh
Lan Di just dies of old age.
*20
@@spaghettienforcer4896 dude, spoilers
I haven't.
"Made in dreams"
This is why I love dunkey vids
If it actually were, this would be impressive. But it’s not so everyone is let down
soo it is the real shenmue 3?!?! xD
where does it say that
And here i was amazed during the whole video thinking "how tf did they made this in dreams ?!"
Jack H that would make this game much more impressive if it was made in dreams. it would actually be worth something and be an actual accomplishment
I thank God I never grew up with shenmue because getting this after 20 years would've been fucked
i am so sorry for absolutely everybody who waited 2 decades just for this game to come out and not progress the story
I like how this can apply to Half Life except that that was entertaining
@@zkme2734 even that progressed the story in the end tho, fundamentally changed the whole story
In 21 years, that wound on Ryo’s cheek still hasn’t healed...
nelly style
@Woketube, gone by 2023 what the hell is a tosspot
@Woketube, gone by 2023 mole person spotted
@Woketube, gone by 2023 simp
Woketube, gone by 2023
Damn, now why hadn’t I thought of that? It seems so obvious now. Stupid, stupid, stupid me. Its become clear to me that I need mental help, based on your reply to my UA-cam comment on a Dunkey video. You’ve truly restored the honour of my family name.
The game seriously ends with a fight you're supposed to lose. That's amazing.
What's more amazing is that the producer thought he could string players for along for another sequel despite the fact that this game barely got made and it took at least 18 years to get made.
Is the producer Tommy Wisseau?
@@MrDevious88 Best part about what you said about Shenmue 4? It's going to be another Kickstarter campaign after the reception. Worst part about it they treated the PC users like crap by pulling the old switcharoo and changing it around. Was going on Steam at first but then they changed there minds and decided to go 1 years exclusive to the Epic fail store on the PC platform AFTER people pre-order/funded it (Never pre-order guys no matter how good the game is at first) and people was rightfully pissed! They only done it for that "88/12" cut even though they had more than enough money to make a "Decent" game by you know... KICKSTARTING! At this point in time I only see them getting fucked over and ultimately putting Shenmue down to rest, It had a good run...
Now if you want to have a Shenmue successor go play Yakuza. I herd that series is FAR better than Shenmue!
@@haaxxx9 yakuza 0 is better than shenmue 1 and 2, that game is amazing I cant recommend it enough
@@nathangould9549 I second that motion.
I bought this game for 7.99 and honestly I still feel like I overpaid lol. Damn 19 year wait for this was a punch to the gut. Well another 20 years for shenmue 4
9:15 I don't know why but I laughed so hard at this song
I like how he calls the main character Shenmue instead of Ryo.
His name is shenmue
His name is shenmue
i see what you did there
Dunkey did the same thing in his Shenmue 2 playthrough. I missed when Dunkey did let's play of video games.
His name is shenmue
That laughter at the end... the laughter of a broken man who just cannot care anymore if he tried.
Or the realization that the 4th one will come out on ps7.
Did anyone else notice the “made in dreams” logo at the end there?
"you're laughing ... shenmue 3 ends on a cliffhanger and you're laughing"
cuts to Death Stranding
"This really isn't that bad."
I guess we can thank Shenmue for his new view of that game LOL
7:29 this is the moment that broke Dunkey
By the time Shenmue 4 arrives, Ryo's gonna fight Lan Di's grave and he still can't defeat him.
By then, you’re going to be able to hit him once.
@@thebeastwithin6978 not like you can even hit him anyways
Well there aren’t large enough time skips for Ryo to actually cover any kind of experience gap in all reality. Ryo would never be able to go from half ass training to beating a guy that is portrayed on a “grandmaster” level. Then again the game isn’t very consistent about Ryo getting better and it seems he more or less is supposed to scrape by using specific techniques in canon no matter how badly your curb stomp a boss in the game mechanics. So even if you make Ryo a beast in the game, in the canon story I believe he’s always barely scraped by and only won a lot of fights out of purely having a technique to counter the person he is fighting, and not because he has become a better overall fighter. I mean he’s constantly losing and only wins after getting a specific move.
I feel like Ryo is at the same level he was at in Hong Kong when he fights in cutscenes. He doesn’t seem to have gotten any better and still needs specific moves to beat guys he should be able to dodge and just beat the shit out of like that muscle guy from fist of the North Star in Bailu village. What in the fuck bro, you can beat that giant from Kowloon walled city but not this guy? Are you kidding me. Guy swings his arms around like a retard and Ryo goes down like he never even went to Hong Kong and got off the boat from Japan in Bailu.
I don’t think Ryo is going to beat Lan Di. I mean it’s not even feasible in the story anymore. Ryo isn’t talented enough in canon to ever catch up to Lan Di
Becoming 10th Duan is simply gameplay shit because it holds absolutely no weight in canon fights where Ryo loses all the time. The old grandmaster handled Ryo on that boat when they sparred and then told Ryo he was trash. So in this game old guys can be strong. Well Lan Di beat the shit out of Ryo pops. Ryo never beat a high level martial artist in canon like Lan Di stomped Ryo dad. Every time Ryo faces one he is utterly embarrassed
@@helmeilshshanshahla7585 i know this will get me cancelled but goddamn that is hella gay dude. You know way too much about shenmue
@@poposterous236 so someone is gay because they like a game franchise? How progressive of you.
"Have you heard of the high elves?"
"Bye"
"Have a good day"
@@random-wf6ok You n'word
"Hello"
That's what I thought. But oblivion is even better than this
I've watched this video countless times, it's one of my favorites from Dunkey's channel. Only just now did I notice the "Made in Dreams" logo during the grandma sequence.
It's like Yu Suzuki literally doesn't know that it's been almost two decades since the second game. This feels like it should've been released in 2005 at most.
He probably won't make another one
He made this game only for the fans and it was crowd funded also he did say he will make a 4th game but when it's another question only he knows.
I've worked in localization, I can instantly tell they just had an excel file of Japanese dialogue and had it translated without any context (thus the "No, I havent" replies that make no sense) , then just had the voice actors read all the lines without any direction. At no point did a native English speaker Q&A... anything.
zippo718 “had it translated” by whom is the question. im thinking by google. and no I haven’t
Zippo, you're our only hope. Give us Yakuza Kenzan and Ishin.
Most games
EdoloChannel Ishin translation is already in the works
@@kaiflood6061 source?
"Mom, I want Yakuza"
"We have Yakuza at home"
Yakuza at home:
hahahaha, funny joke!
*i’ll be seeing you in court next week. bring your lawyer. you are being sued for making me haha too hard.*
Charles Edwards it’s so ironic and funny lol
Yakuza had enough time to come out, have 4 more games, have a prequel, get remastered and have two more games while Shenmue went from 2 to 3 with archaic game mechanics.
@@aptspire Knowing how the Yakuza series director literally says the series exist thanks to his inspiration of Shenmue, you would think that Shenmue itself will reach perfection in 20 year+.
"Enough time" my ass. More like sega completely dick the development
@@aptspire so why didnt they make new mechanics
What a sly game.
Not really my type though
I swear, I quote Dunkey more than anything else. “Give me the BIG money!” “Go big mode!” “BEEG. BEEG. YOSHI.”
"Flower, Bird, Wind or Moon?"
Dunkey: "Green."
That had me dying.
No i haven’t
Don't bother me
The fortune teller did say his lucky color was green
yes that is indeed the joke he said
"Made in Dreams"
If this game was actually made in dreams, everyone would be praising it.
because it would have been one of many fan made games that you can play by purchasing dreams, which is itself cheaper then Shenmue 3, by the way. Also many people have been wating 20 years for this
I honest to god thought it was an extremely impressive Dreams game. This is actually Shenmue 3? what?
You have wait 20 years, development was like 3 le 4
@@porci751 Not just that, the thing is that it would also be fan-made, unlike Shenmue 3 that has a whole corporation behind it's back.
@@SirChris314 It's legit, Charlie/critical played it a while back
Graphically this game would run smoothly even on a PlayStation 3
There's actual PS3 games that look and run better than this.
I love how occasionally the dreams logo is in the bottom right corner! It really shows the quality of this game!
“Are you gay”
“I don’t”
Then who is gay?
No, I haven’t.
@@armanpamma9454 I see.
lol
I suppose not.
"I've got a question."
"No way."
Okay then
No, I don't
That's something straight out of Oblivion, LOL
Only 2 more Playstations to go until we get the epic conclusion to this series! The anticipation is killing me
More like half a dozen.
that "WHAT THE 𝙁𝙐𝘾𝙆" at 7:30 is so strong
"wHAT the FUCK" at 9:52 as well, pure shock
What's funnier is Yuan is a VERY common Chinese name. Going around town and asking for a Yuan is like going around town and asking for a dude named Chris. You're gonna be searching for a while if all you got to find the person is a name
What even funnier is you say Yuan and all the other NPC immediately know what Yuan you're talking about, is just like all the Yuans has a big fight and only the last Yuan standing keep the name
Well that, and Chinese Yuan is a currency
@@swisschese1323 there can be only one
@@larion2336 that's a bit different, it's like asking around for someone called Bill, no one will mistake you for asking around for dollar bills, what they will mistake you for is asking around for Bill Howitzer when your looking for Bill Bobson
@@iiiivvvv9986 The exception is for non-Chinese speakers for whom the name Yuan may be totally unfamiliar but the currency is.
What if you wanted to go to heaven but God said “try catching 10 of those chickens”-
You say "No, I haven't."
Look at all those chickens
@@tricksterhuaun Havent what? God requested simple task..
That's the one time i found one of these jokes funny XD
Yknow hell aint so bad
The real Lan Di was the chickens we caught along the way.
This is literally the only channel where Il watch something on a game I could not care less about, just because I know it will be funny as sh*t lol
*_"Body Check_* is a signature move, one of the eight big openings of Bajiquan"
I never realised airport security was staffed with such masters of chinese martial arts
And hockey players
5000 years of body checks outlander, no why
Hahahahhahah
Even the voice actors weren't interested in this game
No wonder the devs decided to screw their backers over some quick EGSpyware cash, this game is so bad that they had no other choice. LMAO
but they speaking like this is the only fun in shenmue 1 and 2
Pretty sure it was on purpose, the shit voice acting has always been part of the charm.
@@ShinjiTomi I thought the fun was in lucky hit where the actual game happens?
@@ianp5367 The fact that Shenmue fans are constantly saying that as an excuse just goes to show that they don't care about getting a quality game
someone really wrote all that dialogue and thought "yeah this is it chief"
It makes much more sense in Japanese, the English translation is garbage though
@@TheSilly6403the plot still dumb tho, japanese or not.
@@paperclip9558 agreed, but it at least makes somewhat more sense
To be honest, if I got a capsule toy that looked uncannily similar to my foster mother or girlfriend, I would probably say "... what's this?" or something similar too
That "made in Dreams" watermark in the bottom right is just perfect.
I agree, superintendent!
Time?
@@ftxnatsuz3z845 10:19
@@brennanboone1879 thanks
I was legit thinking it might have been made it Dreams because of that.
Love the “Made in Dreams” watermark. This seriously seems like a Dreams game
I was second guesing that shit everytime i saw it
It's not!?
wat??
Wait what??? I thought this was made in Dreams and Dunkey was just acting like it was the real game? This exists?!
Shit it WASN'T made in dreams?? I genuinely thought it was a real shenmue fan game
Omg how did i not notice lmao
I like how the only team he actually held down the button was when he was catching the kid.
it real was cutting edge that they developed Shenmue 3 in Dreams, maybe Shenmue 4 is being developed in Fortnite creative mode.