What came from him in Part 2 was the same standard of writing from his character.

good comment.

I’d be surprised but also not entirely if they do remaster part 2 the way Sony has been milking this series lately

@@mechamonster no doubts...launch title for ps6

Part 2 is a prequel and Joel DIES in it. I hear ppl didn't like that and the whole time machine thing to bring him back to life.. I didn't play it but I would hate it too

This is like eating pizza at Neil Drunkman's house

Love this lmao, i think abt that scene everytime I see a scene of a character holding another character in the same way stg

truly peak anime

For me it is when he says to Tess I guess this is the last of us and puts on his sunglasses at the title drop and says it is clicking time.

This reminds me of Kingdom Hearts: Days when Xion dies in Roxas' arms and he says "Who will I eat ice cream with?"

Damm Bill predicted the future

Why😣 he's gonna make it won't he? Tell me the giraffe didn't do anything to him

@@zendariun101 he makes it to the end of the first one, but gets beat to death with a golf club by a girl in the beginning of the 2nd

@@wilsonarmstrong3008 cap

@@wilsonarmstrong3008 you would never just spoil the game for me like that so you're lying

Watch his original review of the game. There goes your consistency.

pretty sure people are allowed to change opinions after 10 years, holding people to their initial opinions and thoughts on a product, while important is not the end all, be all of what they think and what they have to say about said product. Look at both of his Death Stranding videos, he makes it clear that the problems in the first review are still things he takes issue with, but now he highlights strong points, and this review really is no different, especially when the initial one was less than 2 minutes of actual criticism. *also this was pre-leaving league of legends dunkey we’re talking about, so yeah.*

I think he gives The Last of Us part 1 too much credit, The Walking Dead Game Season 1 already did all these themes first and done better without purposely creating a polarizing self-destructive sequel meant to divide fans into being at each other's throats. He mentions it but I get the feeling he hasn't even played it.

@@mikecabrera7393 he literally has a video on it dawg im sorry but that games writing was not consistent after season 1

@@deadprank243 Nah. It's pretty consistent. The Clementine focused seasons were basically perfect with far superior writing and character development imo with an actual meaningful pay off not a dismal end making everything that came before it pointless because nothing was gained. It's a depressing ending simply for the sake of it then calling it a "deep" or "profound".

thank you Pablo Escobar

spaghetti and meatballs

spaghetti and meatballs

Issa classic, absolutely

Aaaaaayyyyyyy!

LIGHT LIGHT LIGHT

@Fabian Felsinger. *Little tear drop glistens off the box art* .

with *LiGhT*

dark souls

This is the Dark Souls of filling my soul with light

Except it was done so badly lol, at least they should've let a clicker get him

@@haruyanto8085 Yeah, a random death over a character-driven murder. That’s …sure compelling.

​@@haruyanto8085 i've never seen more brain-dead people than u tlou haters

@@haruyanto8085 thank god you're not a writer

True af. Joel’s death was always the plan from the beginning.

I actually thought you were being serious ahahaha

Who said he wasn't

And super mario brothers 2

oh my god you have the humor of a toddler give it a rest with the same joke ad nauseum

And now he wants to destroy all video games by (checks notes) producing them. How dare he.

If he was really passionate about this game he would have played it blindfolded and used a usb steering wheel to beat it.

I discovered dunkey long ago and for me he was just funny but not much else. but one day I saw the dundertale video and I discovered a new way of enjoying his videos, not only funny jokes, but joy and passion for videogames. He is the greatest.

I loved that scene in The Last of Us Part 2 where Joel looks into the mirror and says “what have I become?” And there’s a flash of lightning and for one frame his face becomes that of Jeff Goldblum.

@@videogamenostalgia LMAOOO IM DEAD the imagery of this bruh 😭

@@videogamenostalgia HAHAHAHA

What’s funny is that Troy Baker loves doing his Jeff Goldblum impression.

huh, where'd everyone go

Wtf? Even Highlight Heaven is here

Shame they butchered the story for the sequel

Collab of my two most watched youtubers?

WOAH Highlight Heaven commenting on Dunkey's video? EPIC

@@thorbjrndalsgaard5199 Fuck.

@@thorbjrndalsgaard5199 No excuses

Shouldn’t you be finding science memes to post

Sup Kyle

who are you

KYLLLEEEE33

It's the physics Jesus

When the dark souls walked in and filled light all over the screen my theater went silent.

And when he said "it's time for the last of us to go" that was such a powerful moment

It‘s lasting time

@@MamadNobari And then the second part of Slave Knight Neil's theme played? Chills brother

@@peterk.2108 and then that Clickerslayer Ornstien and Exebloater Smough boss? Game of the year, I tell ya.

You can work on multiple projects without sacrificing every one of them. Dunkey tells the big publishers they are doodey, and then inevitably starts funding the small projects he believes encapsulate great games. A publishing manager may be working on over 3-4 dozen projects because each one doesn't need to be actively worked on by them. The artist is writing the book, the manager just keeps the timeline on schedule and networks where needed.

Wish he’d talk about somethin new tho. Like the mouse simulator game that came out

Dunkey does that really well. Making jokes while talking about serious topics without seeming facetious.

big mode isn't just a company it's a way of life

Jeff Goldblum was the perfect amount of levity and Kingdom Hearts’ diss was scarily accurate

Can’t blame him for still being salty

Yea, its funny that the second game was on my mind when he said it. I haven't played either of them, is the first a self contained story? Don't want anything to do with the sequel after what I've heard about it.

@@bfffggffdfd dunkey actually likes the sequel

@@prw56 After 3 virsions of the last of us 1 you still haven't played it? Do you even play video games lol

@@prw56 first ones a self contained story but the sequel is an amazing game and worth playing. The gameplay is way better than the first

YES! mediocre media conditioned me to expect a dramatic monologue from a dying child. instead it’s a few moments of animal anguish and terror as physiologic shock sets in, and you can almost feel her feeling silent blackness swallow her up… and then the whimpering just… stops. off screen. D E V A S T A T I N G

That doesn't make any sense, Joel was a good guy when Sarah was alive, keeping in the past would have mean he never change, but he did

@@estacion7386 they didnt say Joel wasnt a good guy, but that he is stuck with the trauma of watching his little girl die in his arms as he watches helplessly. That key traumatic moment defines Joels story for the years that come afterwards, it was the moment he lost his humanity

When Ellie asked "hey who played that guy in Jurassic Park again? No not the old guy the other one" and Joel said "fuggedaboutit" it really cemented how far gone he was.

Jeff Goldblum deserved better.

Jeff Goldblum is in an ad for Raid: Shadow Legends

​@@CJWproductions yeah and he made me download the game

I think Jeff did a really good job with voicing the clickers; especially the line ”oooohhh im listening... and im.. im going to eat you”

The film came out in 2009, the same year development on The Last of Us started. I bet there was some influence there.

literally just watched that movie like 20 min ago with my dad. we were saying the same thing about how similar it is to tloa, but we were also laughing at how depressing that movie is. like there is no upside during the whole thing except when they find that bunker and even then they had to leave it. it's almost funny how dark it is. very good movie though, acting was almost too good. the kid's crying was too real and vigo did fantastic in that role

There's even a literal road in the game. Way to hit us over the head with the symbolism Kojima.

Why is there no Blood Meridian video game?

There’s a reference to The Road in the game actually. One of Ellie’s joke books is called “To Get to the Other Side” which shows a chicken crossing a road and is written by Kathryn McCormac, an anagram to Cormac McCarthy.

how did you watch the whole thing

You didnt watched the video yet bro

@@mateusoliv880 you can comment that on every video and it's always true, no need to watch this one to comment that

Literally re-wording a generic comment you see on every dunkey video for likes 👍

I miss the old Dunkey, straight from the 'Go Dunkey Chop up the soul Dunkey, set on his goals Dunkey I hate the new Dunkey, the bad mood Dunkey The always rude Dunkey, spaz in the news Dunkey I miss the sweet Dunkey, chop up the beats Dunkey I gotta to say at that time I'd like to meet Dunkey See I invented Dunkey, it wasn't any Dunkeys And now I look and look around and there's so many Dunkeys I used to love Dunkey, I used to love Dunkey I even had the pink polo, I thought I was Dunkey What if Dunkey made a song about Dunkey Called "I Miss The Old Dunkey, " man that would be so Dunkey That's all it was Dunkey, we still love Dunkey And I love you like Dunkey loves Dunkey

But remember he used to say NOT EVEN CLOSE BUHBYYYYYY

He really knows his shit. I truly am thankful for the gems Dunkey has shown me over the years

Dunkey: makes a regular ass video with jokes and commentary His fans: this is literally the most impressive thing I have ever seen

Among us

That comment seems inciteful, but I still suspect you are BeefStew...

Or disrespect, sometimes

Yeah this game sucks

And... the rest of the video too. The video also does that.

@@CesarDaSalad The video sometimes feels like it. But then the end card reveals it was all sarcasm. Dunkey can be sneaky that way.

@@W4ldgeist I feel like you should be able to tell whether he's being sarcastic well before the end card hits.

Alan wake is awesome and so many gamer played stop it dunkey! Yanıtla

Unlike game journalist were the first paragraph always has this sentence: *this game will make you feel like xxxx*

Yeah his joke videos are great but his serious ones are even better

Yeah i sometimes rewatch his reviews because they're so well made.

@@roob2221 this video was in my recommended and I could see that I had viewed it already but here I am watching it again anyway

The only problem is he talks stupid and isn’t funny.

It's crazy, he snagged Jeff up right after he did that Raid Shadow Legends commercial.

Big MOOOOOODDDDDDEEEEEEEEEEE

Jeff has come a long way to finally make it into a Dunk vid

Niel Hamburger was the real star powered cameo

@@shticks9152 He did a, great job!

Love it.

last of us is probably the video game my mom knows best because when i got it for christmas, my mom sat and watched me play all the way through to Sam and Henry (and my mom at the time was pretty against violence and hated swearing, she's lightened up now, but at the time, its surprising that not only was riveted, but she actually really enjoyed where the story was going.) my next plan is to sit down and watch the series with her when its out

I remember talking with my brother in law about how it was really hard for me to play it for more than an hour or two at a time because of how intense it got. He was like haha whatever so we played it together. After an hour or so he was like "okay yeah I see what you mean."

Replayed the game recently so my gf could watch the story and she cried at that part. It's heavy!

Lol you cried for a video game, and your gf saw it.

Goofy ahh story

@@waffelmeister9477 ong

dont listen man, W story

Good story 🥲 many people have had amazing moments with this game

Thank you for sharing this.

that and shootin' basketballs

@@thomdowny Literally

Maybe soul crushing working conditions for devs are a good thing.

What was it???

@@Stale_Buns end credit music from The last of us part 2

@@nv_deleted7843 desolation?

@@Stale_Buns yep

And just like that, I feel old as fuck now. Thanks :*(

I subbed for the league content. I haven't unsubbed yet bc i'm lazy

Subbed for 2 years

The strangest part is knowing that this person could write that whilst actually being old enough to have a KZfaq account... Although, not quite old enough that they could have been old enough to have it from the start. Account go bye-bye now.

You're 5 years old?

I still think he was right about that and generally right about the game the first time.

I remember that first video, Dunkey is so intelligent about stories in films, but when it comes to video games I always found it odd how he reverted to a goopy brained gamer who didn't care about the nuances of a story, but it seems in recent years his opinions have changed to being more open minded about video games having the story be the centerpiece over the gameplay

​@@greyfox4838 I just think it's because he matured a lot as a person. A lot can happen to a person in a decade and he stated once in his recent videos of how he is starting to appreciate the "works of art" within this world.

Eh, both points are accurate. Even for it's time the gameplay was nothing special, not terrible just not great. It's noteworthy that he compares it to films because that's what it's trying to be.

@@thesnatcher3616 With that in mind I can’t wait to get his opinion on Peggle 3

The main problem is gamers seem to have incredibly low artistic literacy. The concepts presented by Dunkey in this video are actually pretty trivial and rudimentary in good storytelling; setting up character arcs, engaging with themes and ideas repeatedly, usually in different contexts to examine them from a new perspective (ie. The photo of Joel and his daughter; examined 3 times - once with rejection, once with embrace, once with loss). This stuff is everywhere, it's all around us, it's in good TV, good film (NOT marvel), it's in your very own life if gamers actually start looking. Can you find an object that's important to you? What does it mean to you now vs what it meant to you back then? How does its change of meaning reflect upon you? What does your changed perspective on a static object, theme or idea say about who you are and how you've grown as a person? I wish media literacy was taught more in schools. There's so much beauty to be found, but it seems that people blindly wander through stuff, they can't articulate why they like something or dislike something, they miss the point of things, they miss things outright. And gamers are chronic at this. TLOU2 is a near perfect proof of this exact fact.

​@@Raecast Love your comment mate And agreed. Don't wanna sound like a boomer, but yeah it seems people today have 0 media literacy

@@Raecast Well it certainly doesn't help that most games dont have this basic and rudimentary story telling that you speak of. I think that was dunkey's point, TLOU does this extremely well in an era of games that could barely tell a story. And for it to be re-released 3 times and still hold up shows that.

​ @Raecast you kind of contradicted yourself there. you imply that predominantly gamers dont have media literacy and that good films and good tv are more consistently artistic, then say (NOT MARVEL!). not that I disagree, but clearly it isn't just gamers, most people don't have media literacy because most people aren't as interested in media as others. it would be like someone who was super interested in fitness saying "people have low fitness literacy when it comes to body parts and how to efficiently exercise them without injury, why aren't they taught in schools." because the truth is as important as exercise and art are, you only need a low amount to reap the main benefits, schools mainly teach an umbrella of sciences because they are the basis of how society operates, hoping that it will spark an interest in some for people to pursue and contribute in a more conventionally “helpful” way, whereas arts and sports etc are more so ways to enjoy life and appreciate it (to an extent of course). going back to my (semi) main point, I believe sturgeon's law might be an underestimate, especially in art, it's just much easier to see the trash and peoples opinion on it today than yesterday. look through the most popular films in terms of box office sales of the past (even in years when now stone cold classics were released) most of the top movies will be fairly lowbrow conventionally enjoyable light movies and not these highly respected art pieces. on top of that games have been a medium for a much shorter time than say literature (a medium which was shunned when it was first introduced as inferior to poetry), which is so developed that blood meridian was published and ignored years before TV producers (much less video games) opposed to Tony soprano killing even a single person on screen and they've been a *story telling* medium for even less time! and yet games like pathologic, turgor and Kentucky route zero have been released not long after games first blossomed as a viable artistic outlet. This is not even considering the way in which pure gameplay can be its own artistic expression (for example a game like ape out or shadow of the colossus) similarly to how the prose in, say, the lime twig can create a bleeding feeling of negative space. I think dunkeys comparison to the godfather is an apt one: a work that is respected and appraised by critics for being so tightly well written and well executed but overall is not the best representation of what that medium can truly do, isolated from the need of a story. Like you said these ideas are present in *good* films and *good* tv, not mediocre tv (unless i misunderstood and you were agreeing with him on its merits) Sorry if this is a scattershot of ideas but I dislike when people say “this generation is x” or “this medium is x” when i dont think an inferior medium exists. It's all in the humans that create it and humans as a whole are never really more or less intelligent, just more or less knowledgeable. Give it time and gaming will produce a significant gallery as the sieve of time sifts through the lesser works and people start rediscovering hidden classics.

@@Raecast Art and by extension media literacy is ironically becoming a lost art. It starts early, with an acute focus on income & stem related fields. The creatives are stifled in the traditional school system, and set up for failure with a distinct lack of funding for programs that will allow these individuals to flourish. I'm not that creative, but I don't know if I ever would've been either. It's a failure of the western world, specifically in NA though. Social media doesn't help at all, although with KZfaq & TikTok I think we actually are seeing a bit of a resurgence, albeit in a different form.

You were *shaken*? I hope one day you find that as sad as it actually is.

@Will lmao you clearly didn't play the game if you think Abby is trans

He went big mode on this one

@@TheQuiet94 Hey man it's kind of odd to gatekeep what makes people feel things. It's like when people hate on a band that someone likes. Get over it.

@@uncleurda8101 Nobody is gatekeeping anybody. OP is allowed to feel however they want, but being shaken by somebody's video game analysis is either an overexaggerstion or an overreaction. If you can't swallow that.. well that isn't my problem either. So in the words of some other dumbass I just interacted with: get over it.

Wtf its tdt. I love your vids

@@clad3133 hello fren

Right? Dunkey making us worried.

It's because he's still trying to formulate a PR response to people making fun of his game studio idea

yo tdt, your vids are gas

Let's hope his bad actions have no consequences 😰😰

@@roundabout468 He didn't deserve it. But Ellie and Abby deserve to have their arms and legs cut off. Their eyes can go too.

Let's hope he has a plot armor and won't face the natural consequences of his actions.

joel sure is a great character. lets hope no hack writer gets ahold of the sole rights of the game and make a shitty game with him

@@mitchhamilton64 and thank goodness they didn't.

Was blocked in U.S. Because it used music from the last of us which is now an hbo show so technically it used music from warner bros. its why music in outro was replaced

Probably the outro, as you can hear the TLoU theme for a second before the goofy music comes in

was wondering what happened there

Hell yea

For me it's really the minecraft wednesdays

Of course, that's what she used the rocket ship for

what a mary sue

I tried this once like a year ago and got bored pretty quick. The walk heavy gameplay was a bit mid. But I watched the pilot of the show with my dad the other day and was pretty intrigued. I feel like I should give it another try, considering I've come to appreciate gaming narratives a bit more

The links awakening one surprised me with how profound it was !

I would honestly say that his Tlou2 review was just as serious. Man is very diverse in his presentation.👌

@@L0rd_20 His LaLaLand/Whiplash video was also very serious

@@L0rd_20 The only difference is that he was wrong about TLOU2.

@@RenegadeShepTheSpacer cant be wrong about a subjective opinion dummy boi

An awful day for rain.

😢😢😢

it does indeed :'(

Hits like a golf club 😭

Bill jinxed Joel

I shed a tear

For real though. Can we just appreciate how Dunko keeps the party up front and business in the back? I can consistently count on him to balance such passion with jokes in such a flawless way.

@@mlgblunts6759 fucking well said, MLG Blunts

I just found out about him

Yea Joel was kinda fucked up now that I think about it

The irony is that Joel’s actions didn’t really change anything. The Fireflies couldn’t have cured the virus - imagine trying to manufacture and distribute a cure or vaccine on a global or even national scale, when what you have at your disposal is a single rundown hospital and a bunch of dirty, secondhand equipment. The conceit of the whole first game is very cleverly making you believe any of it matters, but really their grand plans were all doomed from the start. TLoU is a great tragedy.

That's never talked about enough. She had faith that he would do the right thing, which would be bigger than him. It's sad that she doesn't know it was all in vain.

@@Punk-Mask yeah but he did what he had too bruh

@@Just_a_viewer how can a take be so thought out and so incredibly wrong?

Which makes it so much kore powerful when they choose to do good. They choose to be good, not seeking any reward, knowing punishment awaits, because they truly are choosing to be good.

Ummm actually the internet told me that Last of Us 2 is bad so you’re wrong.

One of the criticisms of the game was always "Joel would never do that," which always annoyed me because that argument is clearly devoid of context. The whole series is about how that is (literally) the last of all of us. Hints are shown at the beginning of part 2 that Joel has let his guard down and softened up. Any basic level of common sense (and evidence from in game) tells us that Jackson takes people in, and that's what he was trying to accomplish. He also clearly by the opening shot feels very guilty about what he did to the fireflies. The decision of helping Abby and joining this group was not "out of character," it's character development. I'll never understand why critics of part 2 live under the assumption that characters must stay exactly the same and never change for their entire life.

@@20tetsuo77 exactly. And to add on to your point, we even saw Joel softening up in the first game. Sure he still ended up killing the doctor and more fireflies after he started to soften up, but by the end of the first game joel is already a much different person than he was in the beginning of the same game. People seemed to think that in part II they needed to compare him to the version of Joel that he was at the moment we picked up playing as him at the first cut to 20 years later in the first game, but really he should be compared to the end of the first game if anything. Which you still need to take into account the fact that he lived in a good civilization for 5 years and likely was bringing in new people to that civilization very often.

@@20tetsuo77 Ye, people probably just hated that Joel pretty much wasn't in the game. However, I must admit I too was slightly annoyed with Abby parts and the ending felt weird to me. Like the flashback and ohmigod what have I done I can't kill my 1000th enemy in the game just wasn't it for me. I would welcome a very dark ending where she finishes her revenge and THEN realizes nothing really changed que the scene at the house at the end. Maybe even a suicide scene. Maybeeee even INTERACTIVE suicide scene tho It may be too drastic but implied suicide with fade to black would be acceptable I think. To be clear I'm a sucker for happy endings but the theme of the game just begged for such a devestating ending.

yup, video game characters aren't real people, who knew

@@hulkamania5071 What Sorus meant, I think, is that reaching suspension of disbelief with an AI character is difficult and rare. AI companions are still mostly buggy, glitchy, poorly written, poorly animated, idiotic, annoying, artificial garbage. To not feel that way towards an AI character is an achievement.

omfg, no theyre not. jesus christ you people are so easily fooled. the ai is not good because it doesnt go with the gameplay. it adds literally nothing. this is still a video game

@@mitchhamilton64 exactly, it adds nothing gameplay wise so it doesn’t have the opportunity to be buggy and annoying. Your suspension of disbelief is heightened because of the ai. That’s what a good video game is, An immersive experience where you are absorbed by the narrative, and ai like Ellie, sully, Dina, Tess, bill, Chloe, sam, lev and so on and so forth enforce the idea that these are supposed to be real characters, not just elements of a game. The fact that I could name all of them off the top of my head says how important they are to a game like this, and how memorable the experience is because of it.

And then ellie is almost invisible for enemies, she cant stop talking like the lady of death stranding but for some reason, dunkey like this one

ya his insight is great. People too often only look at games skin deep. The game was good and emotional but many only think that far. Taking it for all of its subtext and depth is something that only comes often when playing a second or third time of a game. Even though it isn't hiding the intended emotional response there are layers to it.

The replay is even better than the first go round on this one

You should play it again

@@Somepointwhocares nah what the gameplay is better than most games still today

@@Somepointwhocares Gotta say I disagree, the gameplay loop surprises me every time with how well set up it is. Only part that sucks is on high difficulties when you have to spend too much time looting in order to survive at all.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

What game was this?

​@@gianni_gabheavy rain

If you're into this kind of thoughtful analysis of video games, check out Ambiguous Amphibian. He's very fun to listen to, but very profund

Nobody asked

yeah he's really got some good writers

​@@gallick0060 ask bofa

it felt at least like 20 minutes, i dont know how he makes it

Unfortunately many such a cases

I check u out time to time, glad to see ur on the come up from 3-4 years ago

shouldn't you be busy bleeding your viewers dry for stream reactions or something ?

@@kingkoolkattz thank you! 😭

Hi Brad :)

Jesus Jesus Joelnesus

Dark Souls

This was both. It was a love letter to the original Last of Us. And a huge slap on the remaster. He doesn't explicitly say it but he means the following: Last of Us is one the greatest games ever made because of the writing and real-life characters. Not because of the graphics. So remastering this game is fucking pointless.

@@-KFAD- Yeah, was just complimenting Dunk's coverage lol

@@kurtweeks6812 Sorry I missed that. Dunk really nailed it with this video. Probably his best "review" so far.

@@-KFAD- It's really astounding seeing his growth as a creator over the years. Hell, if I remember right, the first couple "Dunkview" episodes were mostly goofy non-sequitors and tangents.

Great comment

@@xplodax not as good as knack tho

Well put!!

The Knack of Dunk

Knack: "It's time to Go ... Big Mode, Dunkeeyy!!"

Don't worry, it will probably release on PC within 6 months. We don't have to wait long until a new release of this wonderful game. Thank God. But then the wait starts again.😢We need 8K Joel. I can see him now, with wrinkled, baggy eyes sharper than shivs. It's glorious