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Sleeping Dogs didn't fail, we failed Sleeping Dogs.

Literally every person that has played Sleeping Dogs says they love it, it's baffling how still underrated the game is

*"A man who never plays Sleeping Dogs, is never a whole man"* It was _Wei_ better than everyone expected xD

I have replayed this gem just recently and I must say it has aged amazingly well. Still an absolute blast. Makes you want pork bun in your hand.

I'm glad everyone is on common ground with how awesome this game actually was. I used to always wonder why it didn't go anywhere, huh.

Sleeping Dogs is an underrated masterpiece. The combat and story are top-tier. Wei Shen is probably one of my favorite open-world protagonists this side of Arthur Morgan. The studio and the franchise deserve(d) another real chance.

Great video! I worked on this game earlier in my career another interesting tidbit : Activision really wanted us to push the Rush hour angle so bad they hired the director Brett Ratner to come to the studio and “help with the game “ and by that we mean he made a lot of insane suggestions about shit to add into the game that made zero sense for the tone of the game we were trying to make. Of course we didn’t act on any of it and it definitely harmed the relationship with Activision. This game got very little attention but I’m glad people that played it loved and appreciated it flaws and all because we really believed in it and saw it through to the end

In a world filled with too many pew-pew open world games, sleeping dogs was a breath of fresh air with it's focus on melee combat. Still my favorite open world game of all time. Gone but not forgotten.

This game was the first game I ever demo'd at an E3. Easily one of my favorites on the 360. GTA meets Yakuza in all the best ways. I still pray for a sequel. Thanks for the ep Matt.

This game is criminally underated and we need a sleeping dogs 2

I honestly enjoyed Sleeping Dogs more than any GTA, really tightly crafted game without too much needless padding

Sleeping Dogs was an incredible game. 10/10. I really loved this game.

This game is so great, with actually great movie quality story, well done action, and all star banger cast. With so many prominent Asian actors. Like Will Yun Lee, Kelly Hu, Chin Han, Robin Shou, Ian Anthony Dale, Ron Yuan (I just named a bunch of actors who are in Mortal Kombat properties lol), Byron Mann, Lucy Liu and James Hong with a steadily rising superstar, Emma Stone... As a side plot love interest, what a gem of a game, hell, was close to platinuming it a few years back. Oh yeah, that sick main theme too.

A highly underrated open world crime drama game that deserved a sequel.

I genuinely love this game, I've bought it three times now, and actually recently played through it again. It's incredibly underrated, and deserved so much better. I think Sleeping Dogs is leaps and bounds over any GTA game.

12:54 Square Enix has a long history on blowing ungodly amounts of money on the PR department with launch parties, expensive dining, and every other unnecessary expenditure you could imagine and then blaming the lack of profit on the game not selling, despite the numbers being decent in any other context. The amount of money they waste like this would make your head spin. Its why Deus Ex Mankind Divided was considered a commercial failure despite doing well in the sales department and why we havent seen a new title since then.

So sad that we won't ever receive a sequel. The story was really solid, and the world was beautifully done, aside from gameplay being fun. If they went with the copy and paste Activision wanted or the lowbrow comedy, I would've ignored it on the spot. Look at what Saints Row became...

I got Sleeping Dogs FOR FREE not long after launch, and I felt like I had robbed someone because I'd have shelled out full price easily

Now that you've mentioned it, we definitely need a What Happened for the Driver series. Driver SF was so good and a love letter to the 70s chase movies. It's a shame Ubi moved the team to work on the forgettable (and now probably dead) The Crew games instead...

One of the most underrated games of all time. More people should've definitely played this

Damn I loved Sleeping Dogs, such visceral action and I generally loved the story. Here’s hoping we see a sequel in the future.

I remember this game. Still surprised to this day that one of the members of the Sun On Yee was voiced by Robin Shou. Hilarious seeing Lui Kang going after Kung Lao so hard calling him a cop, especially if you dressed Wei Shen in the police outfit for cutscenes. The outfit was an unlockable, I recall.

Replaying this game for the first time in over six years, and I am having the time of my life. This game is the definition of "underrated gem".

United Front Games was such a talented studio, Sleeping Dogs, Modnation Racers, it's a real shame about the studio's stroke of bad luck with publishers.

Sleeping Dogs was such an awesome game. More importantly, as someone from Hong Kong, I felt represented getting to drive around the streets of Hong Kong in a video game that was also being appreciated by the global gaming community! I was really devastated seeing the sleeping dogs getting put down. :(

Bought the game on a whim and part of my love is the sentimental value of seeing Hong Kong rendered in such detail (not from there but been there so many times especially as a kid) and it helped give it appeal over the western-styled maps. Still holding out for hope for a sequel, or heck a Yakuza-style game since it already has a martial arts focus.

I think I enjoy the story behind games that were crappy and failed more than ones like this that were legitimately good but handled poorly by the parent studio. Ones like this are interesting but make me sad in the end. I hope Donnie Yen can get a movie made and it jump starts the series again.

One of the best games I've ever played, and certainly had a story and premise far more interesting than almost every modern GTA or open-world game. Also loved it as a practitioner of martial arts, and the setting of Hong Kong and Chinese culture being fascinating. The original True Crimes had a great foundation for a series, so it was sad to see that only Sleeping Dogs came out after TC: Streets of New York City. Thanks for this video, and the memories.

"[WESTERN-DEVELOPED GAME] sold below expectations" is like SquareEnix's motto.

This game was soo much fun, I wish there was a sequel!

I actually was in the Triad Wars closed beta, and I wasn't super impressed by it. When I first started playing it, they had managed to merely transplant the gameplay from the original game into a format more suited to mobile games, where you had to wait several hours for your burgeoning criminal empire to upgrade and fights largely consisted of the same base assault done over and over again. What made it even more boring was the fact that if you brought the basic pistol with you on those missions, you could headshot every single enemy (including the boss) and easily win, making the whole game cycle feel super weak. I stopped playing after about a week of this. Smash cut to about 3-4 months later, and I decide to boot it back up again to see what's changed. A lot, as it turned out: they had implemented a LEVEL-BASED power system that solved the difficulty problem by making your basic Level 1 starting pistol incapable of taking down the Level 10 thugs beating you down. Couple that with aggressive micro-transactions (I remind everyone that this game was still in CLOSED BETA), and it's clear in retrospect that SE's GaaS dealings far pre-dated Avengers. I stopped playing for good soon afterward, but not before encountering a hilarious bug where I crashed a car into the interior corner of a building and got flung out straight through the wall and out of bounds.

"Man who never eat pork bun is never a whole man!" (Side note) Imagine a live action Sleeping Dogs starring Simu Liu as Wei Shen!

This was one of my favorites during that generation, glad to see it getting love

So unfair no sequel, this was one of the best sandbox games in a long while, loved the mix of shooting, fighting and great story too. This should have been a great franchise.

The pork bun guy was my favourite npc line of dialogue!!!

+1 for Sleeping Dogs being a criminally underrated masterpiece! I'm really picky about the games I like but this one was a blast from start to finish, I hope some day Squenix get's their heads out of their asses and get another one out.

Started playing this game at the recommendation of a childhood friend and was so surprised and pleased with it that it's one of several games that I've platinumed. The story is visceral, the combat is hard hitting and satisfying, the driving is great, the only problem I have is with how short it is.

Sleeping Dogs was such a great surprise for me when I rented it back in the day. I was hoping for a sequel not just because I liked the characters, but I would have liked to have seen them build upon the cop/criminal system; it was a solid start and I was excited to see how they could have expanded upon it. I guess I could say that about the entire game, really. Total bummer that a sequel never got made.

Loved playing a game that was literally an interactive Hong Kong action movie. Shame we never got to see that 2-player story sequel

This game is still an underrated gem to this day. I remembered playing it on PC years back when it was announced and I had a lot of fun with its story and characters. I hope that someday this game gets a true sequel. Thank you for covering this Matt! People need to know more about this game.

"A Man Who Never Eats Pork Buns, Is Never A Whole Man"

An underrated masterpiece. Been playing this again recently after getting it on sale.

I just discover your channel with this video and you are doing great work. Keep that up man!

Great to see this game get it's dues. Its still an amazing game. So hard to believe its 10 years old. One of my favourite games of all time.

I'd always wondered why there was never a sequel to this game. It was so fun!

I played this game years and years ago. A few years after it was released there was an amazing deal on it and I think I got it for a few dollars or less. I really enjoyed playing even though it was weird to play. Specifically the hand to hand combat. It was really fun especially the karaoke. The karaoke was the best part and I absolutely loved playing it.

This game was so much fun back in the day. Loved it.

Easily one of my favorite games of all time. Amazing such a great product can come from such chaos!

I'll always look back fondly on this game, I loved getting lost in the world and the combat was so fun. It was sad seeing the fate of this game, it really deserved more.

This game is so brutally underrated, such a good story, if square enix coulda brought in the right people to ad to a more immersive open world experience there coulda been an amazing second installment to the franchise because in my opinion the story telling was there.

One of my all time favorites. I'm familiar with the turbulent history of this game and the fate of the studio but I'm still looking forward to Matt's breakdown.

I underappreciated Sleeping Dogs when it came out. I replayed it last year (2 times) and had such a blast. It truly is underrated. Very fun combat system and overall solid gameplay. Great story, voice performances, soundtrack and a refreshing setting

just replayed it, still holds up today one of my favorites

I was about to replay this! Crazy u just made this vid ! Such a legendary game

Absolutely adored this game and would crowd fund a sequel in a heartbeat

Had no idea True Crime NY was such a failure Omg I logged so many hours into that game and loved it as a kid. I still watch the story like a movie 😂

Oh my god! I haven't seen this game since the PS3 days. For years, I've been trying to remember the name of it, but now I do and I'm so glad to see you guys having uploaded this! Thank you so much

Had to restart the video 5 mins in because i realized i was bumping hard to the background menu music instead of listening to what Matt was saying 😫. Always happens with this OST

Played this less than a year ago for the first time. I absolutely loved it. Game holds up pretty well and the story was really well done. I recommend this game to everyone I know.

I honestly had no idea I missed out on what is a masterpiece in gaming (To be fair I wasn't loaded with cash back at 2012 and was just picky with what to go for) I was one of the groups that took a chance with a sequel then anything new.

I just beat this game today and started editing my finale video and got on KZfaq and this popped up in my recommendations (I been Subscribed tho it's just funny that you were working on this video while I was playing the game this whole time)

Nice work, great video, I actually just got this one not to long ago

Can't believe it underperformed! I swear to god every single human being I shared this game said the loved it.

What an underrated masterpiece. Even if we never get a sequel i hope some company seize the opportunity to feel the void. There was nothing like SD before it came out and there's nothing like it now.

I SUPER love how you used Chun Li's street fighter EX3 soooong!!!!

Squeenix is supposed to have a Thief movie in production too, so that's two movies they have that exist in a weird purgatory.

One of the most underrated games. Though can something that sells over a million be underrated? Would love a sequel.... just not sure about the vision they had. Would have loved to see them dig more into Wei being both a high ranking triad and cop.

One the best and intense storylines I've ever played. 🖤

The fact that Sleeping Dogs never got a sequel is heartbreaking. I love that game.

Good goddamn. You got me good with this “the style at the time” twist.

I lovee sleeping dogs. It's open world and combat felt so fun and fresh compared to all GTA clones. It had a decent story too

This game was everything back in the day. I was so sad that the sequel never happened

This was such a good game, with a really incredible story! I remember when they made an online version for pc triad wars or something like that where you were a triad member rising up the ranks, running rackets and so on. Think it had a story of some kind too, but since it wasn’t on consoles and only limited to pc it didn’t last very long and didn’t even leave beta! I wish they’d bring it back as it’s own game like on consoles cause I feel like the whole triad idea isn’t used in many open world games like other gangs and such.

Just finished this game a couple days ago. Awesome game with some awesome creative details. Tire irons in the trunk, people people in the trunk, using environment to beat people up, jumping out of car into another car. Just great content

This game was better than GTA and Saints Row. I will die on this hill.

This probably the most underrated game of all time in my opinion. I was 7 years old when this game came out and I enjoyed every single second of this. It’s a damn shame that this game never got a sequel. Combat: 10/10 Story: 9/10 Shooting: 8/10 Soundtrack: 9/10 Sadly we will never see sleeping dogs 2

Thank you for using Arashi no Saxophone from KoF 95. One of my favorites. I still have the game for PS1

I had so much fun with this during lockdown. My husband is from Hong Kong and he loved seeing the sites and the random Cantonese expletives from the NPCs

I love Sleeping Dogs. One of the most underrated games out there, and it's a damn shame that we won't get a sequel.

Awesome video Matt! I don’t have any insight into why SE set the targets they did for the Eidos acquisitions but I always felt they were far too lofty. Have you considered doing anything on Hitman Absolution? The development of that was an interesting mess to follow at the time (firing and rehiring voice actors, changing established style to match Kane & Lynch, etc) and while it built on the momentum of previous games to sell better than any of them, I’m pretty sure the brand damage caused by cynical attempts to make the franchise more cinematic and marketable played a role in IO’s rebooting Hitman 2016 and its subsequent poor sales. I’d love to know why it wound up being so radically different... Further info not mentioned in the vid re: Triad Wars is that the game was cancelled very far into development, UF conceded after beta testing that it just wasn’t fun to play which was understandable considering it seemed to be built around trending buzzwords at the time like “F2P” and “microtransactions” (I think they were even intending to charge for firearm ammo?). They also had a comically disastrous Reddit AMA where they gave smarmy PR-spun answers to things they knew would be unpopular, like omitting playable female characters for vague reasons.

Underated master peace and I wish there was a more content, but based on the story line it would be super hard to make a part 2 because there wasn't really anything to continue on.

loved this game from the first time I picked up the controller. Great voice cast, story, amazing martial arts and use of environment for combat, and the extras(new styles, outfits etc) absolutely didn't suck. Not going forward with a sequel was a mistake. Ironically, when I first played, I said it felt like everything the True Crime games wanted to be, but leveled up hard. Was told it was originally supposed to be one. Now everything makes sense. Great video Matt! Thanks!

I straight up loved this game! Rough ending, but it did enough different to stand out from GTA.

This game is great! And it's always on sale, picked it up for 2 dollars I believe.

I replay this game often and my last play through I did a "jackie chan" run where i rushed to earn the jackie chan rumble in the bronx outfit and only used environment moves and parries against the enemies while shouting "i dont want no trouble".

I always wanted a remake or next part of this!!

Sleeping Dogs was one of the first games I platinumed on PlayStation. Such a good game. So sad we didn't get a sequel.

Can’t wait for the Sleeping Dogs spin-off: Awake Dogs

I did not expect such an in-depth Futurama reference just thrown into this video. Bravo, Matt.

Thanks Matt, thanks to remind me a painful wound that I thought I was healed and forgot... Man I loved Sleeping Dogs back in the day on PS3!, it was a perfect mixbag of everything that I liked and done properly, even I bought the game again when was re-released again on PS4 (it was pretty much the same again but at least with a different trophy/achievement list that involved the DLCs too). Not counting also that I loved the other stuffs that UFG (United Front Games) made like ModNation Racers and LittleBigPlanet Karting, really was sad to me when I heard that the studio shutdown... Anyway, like always I enjoyed your video and show, keep with the good work!.

Honestly one my favorite games tbh. Criminally underrated.

Absolutely LOVED this game! It’s definitely in my Top 10 games thanks to its fighting mechanics within the open world sandbox alongside its full embrace of Chinese culture and extended DLC support. Totally underrated! 💪🏽

Thanks!

Honestly I could have just guessed that this is how this happened this is kind of usually how these stories go but more than anything I'm just glad you reminded me if Nosgoth because I've been trying to remember the name of that for so long now

Absolutely loved “Sleeping Dogs” back in the day. If they ever make a sequel, I’ll buy two copies.

Square Enix still trying to sell games like Marvel's Avengers but ditched United Front. I can tell they never ate a pork bun

I loved this game. But how have I never found your channels videos before? I watch so many game analysis videos I'm surprised I've never found yours before. But I'm so happy I did. I'm about 10 videos of yours deep today and still going strong.

I just beat sleeping dogs for the 3rd time since it came out. Such an underrated classic, if only we’d got a sequel. So glad Matt covered it!

Would 100% buy a sequel. My expectations for sleeping dogs were low but I was surprised how much it was slept on.