Gotta love dunkey’s sense of humor, I loved when he said “Silksong is coming out this year” hahahah, classic dunkey. We all know it won’t be out until 2025
Repent to Jesus Christ “Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.” Luke 9:23-24 NIV U
A fair amount of Elden Ring players will be scratching their heads at Armored Core, but I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing. These moments are rare but they're what get us out of the typical AAA release monotony. If the audience is confused about the game but still enjoys it, they might stick around to see what else is in the market. That makes for a fertile ground for experimentation and exploration. Those moments are rare, but they get me excited.
Seeing Dunkey positive about future games fills me with hope. It's nice to see him get positive about something and tell us to look forward to what will be these amazing games!
I wasn't sure if I'd be interested in Armored Core VI, but as a huge fan of "funny birds have a sword fight with their beaks ROFL," this video convinced me to check it out. Thanks, Dunk
I’ve often the gameplay in Armored Core exists to test your mech building skills more than anything which sounds hella hype. Especially since the gameplay isn’t bad either.
As a newcomer to the Armored Core series, I am absolutely hyped for 6 this year. I already love the core game mechanics so I hope it's more of that just with a new polish to it.
The thing is, most people have NEVER played AC and they assume that it's like the Souls games. It's NOTHING LIKE the Souls games. People are going to have a shitfit when it's their own fault they made assumptions.
@@RabidDogma Like Sterling has said, people should stop deciding they love a game before they've even played it. There have been so many games where people hype it to hell and back and just assume they're gonna love it, and then get angry when it's not exactly how they imagined it.
@@RabidDogma literally all it takes is a google search to find out that AC is nothing like souls games. I'm sure people are more than smart enough to figure that out.
@@pokimanefartcompilation I'm sure you think that. Reality is a different thing. Also, so you can't run from it in a few years - this MF named himself "Pokimane Fart Compilation." Trying to tell ME about what people think or do.
DUNKEY THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PUBLISHING ANIMAL WELL!! when it was announced at e3 it seemed to go really under the radar. only a few thousand views on the trailer and the subreddit was nearly inactive. for a while it felt like me and my bf were the only ones who were REALLY excited for it. my 3rd most anticipated game of 2023 (behind totk and silksong)
The best thing about dunkey videos is that I walked into this video both expecting a serious video filled with predictions and 5 minutes about Donkey Kong being the best game of 2023.
@@glungusgongus I mean I replayed it not too long ago and I didn't run into any game breaking bugs like the ones maybe on release. What's not fixed about the game?
@@gagefen5822 There is still a fuck load. A FUCK LOAD of bugs. It not being game breaking (which some of them still easily cause softlocks so you're already capping) is not a good excuse. I played Elden Ring to 100% completion and ran into maybe 2 bugs. Thats what the standard should be.
It was heavily suggested that there would be, but we didn't know just how much Nintendo would focus marketing on the expanded creativity and player freedom.
i'm personally very excited to see the ghost trick remake for the switch. that game is probably in my top 10 games of all time and i'm sad that they never made more
Well, y'know, some people need time to get over the shock of being told to their face that a game dev thinks they're not gonna "get" the game's plot and themes. Endlessly entertaining moment in gaming history, that one.
@@Vulgarth1 that quote was misinterpreted. Kojima did that interview in Italy (i literally work for the people who did the interview, can prove it if needed) and he said, quote: "In NA, a lot of critics and gamers like fps games, and SOME of them saw death stranding as something very unusual. So maybe that's why they didn't give the game high scores". He was specifically talking about critics and never said americans couldn't understand the game. That was a mistranslation from VICE.
The most important thing that Breath of the Wild did, that they need to carry into Tears of the Kingdom, is the "Looks here's your tools, there's the problem, you figure it out" gameplay design. Other games usually expect you to solve problems in specific ways to progress, but BotW only cared if you found a working solution. For example, the shrine with the torches on the rotating cube. You could try to rotate the cube to move the lit torches around the water, or you could just toss down a campfire and light the torches with your arrows.
I'll never forget the time in botw where I couldn't solve an electricity based shrine because I thought I was missing a cube. I ended up dropping a longsword on the floor so that it would touch both wires, and it actually conducted. Stupid yet ingenious solutions being possible are what make the game as great as it is.
I love how you give each game its own little moment and description. Love your editing style Dunkey! I'm looking forward to this year's games and your reviews!
This is how insane Dunkey's knowledge of game music is: he puts "Alone In Town" and "Heaven's Night" from Silent Hill 2 in for like 4 seconds each and it works
This year is insane. Jedi Survivor, Hi Fi Rush, ToTK, Hogwarts Legacy, RE4, Dead Space, Atomic Heart have already released and are bangers. We still have Spiderman 2, Alan Wake 2, Tekken 8, MK 1, Street Fighter 6, Starfield, and FF16 to go. 2023 is the best year in gaming period.
Somehow, also containing some of the worst stuff: ForSpoken Redfall Gollum Bad PC ports (Last os Us Part 1, Jedi survivor, etc) So 2023 is kinda like a Best AND Worst Year at the same time. At least, that's what it feels like to me
SAME! it's part of what inspired me to be an engineer. i just hope they don't dumb down the level of customization and statistics to make the game more "accessible". sitting in the think tank in the garage was what made that game soooo fkn good.
@@GoodMorningHikers in an interview with Miyazaki and Yamamura they said the customization would be like past AC games and there would be "a wide variety of parts" so i'm sure it'll be just as technical as the old games. in fact throughout the entire thing the interviewer kept basically trying to bait them into saying it would be AC but soulsborne and giving them multiple chances to hype it up as a complete reinvention of the game and they just kept saying "nah it's just AC, it's gonna be what you'd expect from AC, there's no souls elements" lol. doesn't seem at all like they're trying to pander to anyone.
@@fullmetalfunk good. i love souls. but that is not what these games are supposed to be. they don't have to reinvent the wheel with AC. as long as the multiplayer elements are there because that's what has always hooked AC players like myself in for the long haul. I mean, I played chromehounds from release all the way till they shut the servers down. just an updated version of that classic style and I'm a happy guy.
Revisiting this while Baldur's Gate 3 is almost the surefire game of the year winner is... just surprises me how few people had it on their radar at all.
I bought AC entirely off the cover not knowing anything about it. It's one of my favorite games ever. Then I got the AC2 games and AC3 games. I hope they do the new one right.
@@empatheticrambo4890 Gameplay is basically you play as a mercenary piloting a giant mech (that your customize the hell out of), completing missions for money for various corporations, in a dystopian universe. Humanity is either on its way towards an apocalypse, or coming back from one. They were my introduction to FromSoftware and I’m beyond hyped that it’s coming back.
Well Konami’s doing what Capcom’s doing by remaking one of the greatest survival horror games of all time. I hope Silent Hill 2 Remake comes out this year
I've been a fan of Armored Core since Master of Arena on the PS1. Such a great series of games. It will be interesting to see what From Software does with it now.
I remember playing Armored Core: The Last Raven on Playstation 2. It was pretty fun, but for the life of me I was never able to complete any mission that required me to fight another AC, they were just far too mobile to hit and my boost gage was far too small to dodge the way they did. I did discover a bug tho, whenever I reset my progress, I always kept my money. So I would play the campaign, choosing only missions that did not pit me against another AC until they were the only choices, and reset until I had enough money to buy pretty much every single part, and I swear I had more fun building and customizing my Armored Cores than actually playing the game. And I don't mean that in a bad way.
It is bizarre to hear people constantly just unrepentantly dunking on AC6. Like, people have been shitting on FromSoft for years for making Dark Souls 7 times. Then Fromsoft announces something different people go '"where dark souls :(" EDIT: Not to imply this is what Dunkey is doing but damn. Sucks to be a fan of something for so long and then when you FINALLY get good news after 10+ years of radio silence, the worldwide reaction is either indifference or outright mockery.
Surprised Dunkey has yet to cover Pizza Tower, was an absolute hit that came out of literally nowhere for most people. One of the best indie platformers since Celeste, easily. Hope Dunkey gives it a try.
I'm so burnt out on platformers and fps games. I'm sorry but Pizza Tower does absolutely nothing for me, and I'm old enough to know what animation style it references. In other news, nothing 2d has come close to Hollow Knight since its release (I realize Hollow Knight is a metroidvania).
pizza tower really makes you feel like a balding middle-aged single stereotypical italian small business chef up to his eyeballs in debt who was threatened by a magical pizza demon with a death ray
@@thepancakemann I totally get that man, Pizza Tower isn't a game that's trying to reinvent the recipe, it just cooks it straight, and if you're not big on that original formula, then it won't be that enjoyable of a dish.
Dunkey I really enjoy the videos you make, even the one with the trains. There was something so relaxing and calming about that video, kinda like watching a Bob Ross episode. I really liked the one about the car commercial, really funny haha. I hope you keep making the type of videos you enjoy putting together, regardless of all the opinions out there. Also, I'm one of those crazy people who is excited to play the new silly robot game, hopefully it's good! And Pepper Grinder too!
I'm excited for a lot of the games listed in this video, but if I could add one to Dunkey's list, it'd be Alien Hominid Invasion. I played two of the demos for this game in 2020 and 2021, and it's looking more and more like AH:I could be the Behemoth's most immediate, gameplay-centric, mechnically diverse game yet, and it still has so much of the unique humor and expressive artwork that makes their games so memorable. Can't wait to play it.
'funny birds have a sword fight with their beaks ROFL' and 'Relaxing Space Safari' are two of my favourite videos. There is an artistry behind both of them that really illuminates the thoughtfulness of all of your work and they show you aren't afraid of taking risks and doing whatever you feel like on a site where that is usually considered heresy. I love how open for interpretation they are, I always thought the former was a reference to the plot and story structure of Death Stranding. Thanks for everything you do Dunkey.
That's great! It's also mine's as well. I remember waiting in line at my local Target store to get my copy of Breath of the Wild and a Switch console when it first launched. It was one the best days of my life! I even played BotW non-stop during that day. I'm definitely looking forward to Tears of the Kingdom!
That art book leaked made the game seem so much larger and more complex than the trailers have shown so far and it didn't even really spoil anything and honestly didn't even show a lot of things (areas, enemies, story elements).
Bro! Your videos have millions of views. Take the time to put in titles. It took me way too long to find Animal Well on Steam. I kept looking for Animal War and Animal Wall. But I'll still give u an upvote bc u are the first video I've found to mention upcoming Earthblade. Celeste had amazing physics. Challenging but fair. I had no idea the Celeste team was making a new game. Can't wait.
@@grooselegacy I have a PC and Steam Deck. I have no issues purchasing the game on Steam and playing there, but a console launch exclusive with no announced plans for players on Xbox or Switch seems like a miss for their first publishing effort. The game looks exciting and I'd love to see it be accessible to as many players as possible.
I swear for some inexplicable reason every person who plays Hollow Knight is required by some universal force to also play Celeste, and vice versa. I'm convinced the venn diagram or Hollow Knight fans and Celeste fans is just a circle.
Hades 2 is the first time I've gotten exited about a new game since 2015. Hopefully they keep the God mode, it's such a brilliant way to change difficulty and keep players motivated that everyone should take note.
I turned god mode on (cuz I was getting extremely bored of repeating levels) and I still didn’t finish the game. It’s so grindy and tedious and repetitive (and the last level is just a gimmick level), and the weapons don’t help to remedy that at all. But I respect your opinion about the game. My most hyped game this year is Spider-Man 2
Hi Dunkey! Please make another video for Mario day. I really enjoyed the one you made last year. I love all of your videos, but I miss seeing more videos of you just having fun playing games. Keep up the great work!
Really all I want from tears of the kingdom is the same feeling I had playing botw, “I don’t know what I want to do or where to go but I sure as hell am not doing the main story for a long time”
I cannot wait for Armoured Core 6! Really hoping FromSoftware knock it out the park. I'm tempted to pick up a fighting controller pad with all the new fighting games coming out!
get a stick. hitbboxes are unintuitive, if youre going from pad to something else you are gonna have a lot of frustration with a hitbox. yes, you can cheese and hold back and forward at the same time but thats about it.
@@thepjup4507 It's not about holding back and forwards (that's rarely useful) it's about your inputs being as clean as they can possibly be. It's only unintuitive if you've never used a keyboard's arrow keys before.
Mortal Kombat 12 was also confirmed for this year! This is NetherRealm's longest gap between games in a long time so I'm curious and excited to see what Boon and company have been cooking up.
Dunkey videos are the gold standard. So many good games I’ve played on his recommendations. I know that I’ll play at least 5 games in this vid. Always comes back to knowing what games your reviewer enjoys and responds to.
Man Dunkey, I’m always waiting for your anticipated games of the year video because none of these companies seem to want to sell me their product themselves. I had no idea half of these games were coming out this year
3:40 Big ups for using 3 AM from city folk as background music. That’s gotta be one of the best songs ever released in a Nintendo game and I’ll die on that hill
The best feeling in the world is saying to yourself "Dunkey hasn’t posted in a while" just to open up youtube to see him first on my recommend. Brings a tear to my eye and a wet spot in my pants.
I’m glad he’s being positive about a lot of these games, because the amount of remakes mentioned in this video is a bit sad. I would love if we could get more new games from AAA companies
Hearing the OST's to Armored Core after just having streamed them all was awesome, the soundtrack to the originals were amazing. I hope 2023 really is the year of great games!
I miss mortal kombat deceptions conquest. That’s an example of a fighting game with a good single player. I still have the game and will probably play it again
This year for gaming was already gonna be pretty crazy with the second ever strand-type game coming out, but now you're telling me the hit company big mode is making the first ever well-type game? Absolutely insane.
So many exciting games coming out this year. Happy to be here for all of them! Armored Core is probably my most anticipated, personally. Feel like it'll be different from anything else getting made today.
@@greenbitch6432 I don't think he was talking about how varied their "soulslike" titles are but the fact they have a certain feeling modern AAA games (that I've played at least) lack. While the combat is similar in all of these games besides Sekiro, many things were changed, added or got improved. I've recently played some DS1 and the combat feels very different from ER, try it yourself. And ER was supposed to be open world DS anyways. Fans love it, there's close to 0 competition for now and between DS3 and ER there was a pause of 6 years so it's not like they release these type of games very frequently anymore. In conclusion, when it comes to "soulslikes" I don't think they really need to fundamentally change their formula unless they want to appeal to a new audience while risking alienating it's current one.
As someone who’s on a journey to play every final fantasy game, I’m personally really excited to play FF16! i know it will be different, but as much as I enjoy the turn based combat (I know dunkey doesn’t) I am interested in how they handle the combat as well as story
out of all the modern jrpg franchises I still have the most faith in final fantasy to do something fun and interesting 15 has a super unique feeling despite the obvious par for the course gameplay that underlines it
You had me for a sec at the end there, but man I'm so stoked for Armored Core 6. FromSoft is such a top tier developer and the previous Armored Core games were incredible.
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It's very generous of dunkey to make all these games for us to play.
Can't wait for the next Dunkey Direct
Do you expect anything less from the man that invented Donkey Kong?
Big Mode
Yeah I don't know why dunkey doesn't get his Ubisoft staff in order. Make assassin's Creed great again.
uhhhhhhh actually he didn't make those games😎😎😎
This is what I like about Dunkey. Not afraid to demand more metal wolf chaos games, truly a voice of the people
From Software's greatest work.
yea man voice of the people 🗿
Featuring current US presidents
@@ponternal the leak said, the game is about the election, and will be open world game, and the map is based on USA
sex?
Gotta love dunkey’s sense of humor, I loved when he said “Silksong is coming out this year” hahahah, classic dunkey. We all know it won’t be out until 2025
Ik your joking but the fact that that release date is a possibility makes me depressed
Only 2025?
@@kha0ticdud3no it’s coming out this year
My uncle works on the dev team (seriously).. he's saying the team is now looking at a 2028 release schedule
@@cannabischannel actually my dad owns silksong inc. and says they’re pushing 2035 at this point (real)
I love how dunkey still uses that soundbite from the Jerry Rice interview. Tastefully executed and still funny almost a decade later, incredible.
"funny birds have a sword fight with their breaks ROFL" is actually the greatest dunkey video of all time
Real And True
exactly what I was thinking
Unironically my favorite short film
Nothing will ever be as groundbreaking, trendsetting and pantswetting as Super Donkey Kong Shake and that's a fact, all real Dunkey fans know this
Relaxing space safari will always have my heart ❤️
Hearing Dunkey genuinely say nice things about Metroid makes me feel good
He’s finally recovered from the Metroid Moment
Repent to Jesus Christ “Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.”
Luke 9:23-24 NIV
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@@ShuckleShellAnemia Mind if I ask,
*_What's the Metroid Moment?_*
Does he not like it or something? Metroid’s great, and I only just really got into it with Dread, so I don’t have some nostalgia thing for it.
@@taterboobCheck out his Metroid Dread video. It's mostly not serious but it's presented in a very serious way
A fair amount of Elden Ring players will be scratching their heads at Armored Core, but I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing. These moments are rare but they're what get us out of the typical AAA release monotony. If the audience is confused about the game but still enjoys it, they might stick around to see what else is in the market. That makes for a fertile ground for experimentation and exploration. Those moments are rare, but they get me excited.
When my friend sent me the announcement trailer I ascended to a higher plane of existence.
WE HAVE BEEN. WAITING.
Elden Ring sucks. Bloodborne is better.
@@WightEyes bloodborne on 30 frames might as well rinse my eyes in acid until it comes on pc
@@WightEyes Bloodborne sucks. Barbie Horse Adventures is better.
Great take, agreed. I have this same feeling for movies and books, gotta keep the audience guessing in order for good stuff to come out
Seeing Dunkey positive about future games fills me with hope. It's nice to see him get positive about something and tell us to look forward to what will be these amazing games!
I wasn't sure if I'd be interested in Armored Core VI, but as a huge fan of "funny birds have a sword fight with their beaks ROFL," this video convinced me to check it out. Thanks, Dunk
I’ve often the gameplay in Armored Core exists to test your mech building skills more than anything which sounds hella hype. Especially since the gameplay isn’t bad either.
Biggest moment of this video was being gifted a new hint toward answering the eternal question “Did Dunkey like Metroid Dread?”
I mean he put it on the top ten of his year review I’d say he likes it
@@personman2138 yeah not sure why people forget that one
It's amazing how his review on it left us more confused than before hahahaha
mental illness pfp
It was on his top ten in the year review, don't you have that memorized???
As a newcomer to the Armored Core series, I am absolutely hyped for 6 this year. I already love the core game mechanics so I hope it's more of that just with a new polish to it.
The thing is, most people have NEVER played AC and they assume that it's like the Souls games. It's NOTHING LIKE the Souls games. People are going to have a shitfit when it's their own fault they made assumptions.
@@RabidDogma Like Sterling has said, people should stop deciding they love a game before they've even played it. There have been so many games where people hype it to hell and back and just assume they're gonna love it, and then get angry when it's not exactly how they imagined it.
@@RabidDogma literally all it takes is a google search to find out that AC is nothing like souls games.
I'm sure people are more than smart enough to figure that out.
@@pokimanefartcompilation I'm sure you think that. Reality is a different thing.
Also, so you can't run from it in a few years - this MF named himself "Pokimane Fart Compilation." Trying to tell ME about what people think or do.
CORE mechanics? I see what you did there
DUNKEY THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PUBLISHING ANIMAL WELL!! when it was announced at e3 it seemed to go really under the radar. only a few thousand views on the trailer and the subreddit was nearly inactive. for a while it felt like me and my bf were the only ones who were REALLY excited for it. my 3rd most anticipated game of 2023 (behind totk and silksong)
What's totk ?
@@ShapraSingh use your brain, look at the thumbnail
What's a thumbnail?
@@ShapraSingh are you trolling?
@@_peepee_ what's a trolling?
The best thing about dunkey videos is that I walked into this video both expecting a serious video filled with predictions and 5 minutes about Donkey Kong being the best game of 2023.
Listening to Dunkey talk about video games makes me excited for video games again.
It really does, I feel like I want to play all of this stuff now. Dammit, my wallet...
Ik. Idk what it is but ever since I started watching him, he makes me wanna actually play and try out more games that I wouldn’t even think about.
Very excited for pikmin 4. Haven’t played since pikmin 2, but it still holds up to me as one of the most fun and memorable games I’ve ever played!
it seems like pikmin 4 is taking more after 2 in the same way pikmin 3 took more after 1, let us hope its good, pikmin 2 brother
Pikmin 3 was decent (though I expect more from 4), works well on emulators if you wanna try it on PC
Bro you gotta play pikmin 3 that game is a blast
I’m quite happy that you were so wrong about armored core, I was glad to see the fanbase receive with as much enthusiasm as me.
Imagine how much more excited dunkey would be for these games if he actually existed
@@letopfrank3838 Okay but imagine how much more excited dunkey would be for these games if he actually existed
@@letopfrank3838 Your comment would probably be pretty funny if you actually existed.
Wdym? Dunkey is real, he's an 80 year old black grandma from Brooklyn
@@adrianpadin1840 so that’s why I’m attracted to him
@@letopfrank3838 I'm sorry you had a rough life buddy. If you need a hug I'm here for you.
I really enjoyed the bugs and glitches from Cyberpunk, really hope more game companies decide to touch on those features
rest assured about that
But..."ThEy FiXeD It."
@@Doughboy1027 no cap too many people say they fixed it. They didnt. It's pathetic fanboyism
@@glungusgongus I mean I replayed it not too long ago and I didn't run into any game breaking bugs like the ones maybe on release. What's not fixed about the game?
@@gagefen5822 There is still a fuck load. A FUCK LOAD of bugs. It not being game breaking (which some of them still easily cause softlocks so you're already capping) is not a good excuse. I played Elden Ring to 100% completion and ran into maybe 2 bugs. Thats what the standard should be.
Kinda funny how Dunkey asked for more player freedom to do crazy stuff on Tears of the Kingdom and that's exactly what we got lol
It was heavily suggested that there would be, but we didn't know just how much Nintendo would focus marketing on the expanded creativity and player freedom.
i'm personally very excited to see the ghost trick remake for the switch. that game is probably in my top 10 games of all time and i'm sad that they never made more
I like how over time Dunkey starts to genuinely like Death Stranding more and more
Well, y'know, some people need time to get over the shock of being told to their face that a game dev thinks they're not gonna "get" the game's plot and themes. Endlessly entertaining moment in gaming history, that one.
It's because he's forgetting the details.
@@Vulgarth1 that quote was misinterpreted. Kojima did that interview in Italy (i literally work for the people who did the interview, can prove it if needed) and he said, quote: "In NA, a lot of critics and gamers like fps games, and SOME of them saw death stranding as something very unusual. So maybe that's why they didn't give the game high scores". He was specifically talking about critics and never said americans couldn't understand the game. That was a mistranslation from VICE.
I like his "This game sucks. Btw, its my 10th playthrough" vibe. haha
@@stephenkentperez7705 100 gecs fans
The most important thing that Breath of the Wild did, that they need to carry into Tears of the Kingdom, is the "Looks here's your tools, there's the problem, you figure it out" gameplay design. Other games usually expect you to solve problems in specific ways to progress, but BotW only cared if you found a working solution. For example, the shrine with the torches on the rotating cube. You could try to rotate the cube to move the lit torches around the water, or you could just toss down a campfire and light the torches with your arrows.
or instead of tilting the maze around to get the ball to the end, using the maze itself as a giant paddle to hit the ball where it needs to go 😗👌
I'll never forget the time in botw where I couldn't solve an electricity based shrine because I thought I was missing a cube. I ended up dropping a longsword on the floor so that it would touch both wires, and it actually conducted. Stupid yet ingenious solutions being possible are what make the game as great as it is.
@@dashlink6544 This is amazing
You just said what dunkey said in the video
@@Steak818 I don't think focused games like Elden Ring do it because they think players are dumb
I love how you give each game its own little moment and description. Love your editing style Dunkey! I'm looking forward to this year's games and your reviews!
As a patient gamer, I always buy games two or three years later, but it is still interesting to see what games are coming out soon
From Software could announce they're making the next Nintendogs and I'd STILL be hype to play it
Dog souls.
Where do you think they'd put the poison swamp?
@@MrAlex5775 The vets office
YOU PETTED
@@MrAlex5775 on the edge of the carpet, if you fail to clean up after the dog
This is how insane Dunkey's knowledge of game music is: he puts "Alone In Town" and "Heaven's Night" from Silent Hill 2 in for like 4 seconds each and it works
Yeah the SH2 tracks always hit
Akira Yamaoka is easily the greatest AAA title ost producer ever
botw 2 is going to suck
It's genius as well
I had to praise the lord real quick when Alone in The Town started bumping
1:30 It actually ran at 60fps on the GameCube too
This year is insane. Jedi Survivor, Hi Fi Rush, ToTK, Hogwarts Legacy, RE4, Dead Space, Atomic Heart have already released and are bangers.
We still have Spiderman 2, Alan Wake 2, Tekken 8, MK 1, Street Fighter 6, Starfield, and FF16 to go.
2023 is the best year in gaming period.
Somehow, also containing some of the worst stuff:
ForSpoken
Redfall
Gollum
Bad PC ports (Last os Us Part 1, Jedi survivor, etc)
So 2023 is kinda like a Best AND Worst Year at the same time.
At least, that's what it feels like to me
Space marine 2 dont forget
I’m excited to see this list, it just means that there are going to be lots of great new videos coming out in the future!
@@k.w.6626 EA Games.
@@mdihero Challenge Everything.
Loved armored core back in the PS2 days. Many many many hours played and cannot express how excited I am for a new entry in the series
SAME! it's part of what inspired me to be an engineer. i just hope they don't dumb down the level of customization and statistics to make the game more "accessible". sitting in the think tank in the garage was what made that game soooo fkn good.
Same, I never finished a game, but I liked customizing my mech and blowing stuff up lol
Especially since I’m a pc gamer nowadays and ain’t shit for AC games on pc big rip
@@GoodMorningHikers in an interview with Miyazaki and Yamamura they said the customization would be like past AC games and there would be "a wide variety of parts" so i'm sure it'll be just as technical as the old games. in fact throughout the entire thing the interviewer kept basically trying to bait them into saying it would be AC but soulsborne and giving them multiple chances to hype it up as a complete reinvention of the game and they just kept saying "nah it's just AC, it's gonna be what you'd expect from AC, there's no souls elements" lol. doesn't seem at all like they're trying to pander to anyone.
@@fullmetalfunk good. i love souls. but that is not what these games are supposed to be. they don't have to reinvent the wheel with AC. as long as the multiplayer elements are there because that's what has always hooked AC players like myself in for the long haul. I mean, I played chromehounds from release all the way till they shut the servers down. just an updated version of that classic style and I'm a happy guy.
Revisiting this while Baldur's Gate 3 is almost the surefire game of the year winner is... just surprises me how few people had it on their radar at all.
cant believe there's a new Zelda already, i've been waiting for a 60fps or 4k Switch to play the last one
Armored Core 1 is how I was introduced into Mecha as a genre, and I loved every moment of it.
Can we get some more love for the AC series in the comments goddamn
Never heard of it, what’s the gameplay like?
For me it was armored core 2 another age, on the ps2. I love this franchise, and the music is god tier!
I bought AC entirely off the cover not knowing anything about it. It's one of my favorite games ever. Then I got the AC2 games and AC3 games. I hope they do the new one right.
@@empatheticrambo4890 Gameplay is basically you play as a mercenary piloting a giant mech (that your customize the hell out of), completing missions for money for various corporations, in a dystopian universe. Humanity is either on its way towards an apocalypse, or coming back from one. They were my introduction to FromSoftware and I’m beyond hyped that it’s coming back.
I love how when he is talking about RE4 dunkey puts a song of Silent Hill. This guy is a genius.
Reminds me of how on his best of 2020 video he had hades music over the doom eternal portion
Well Konami’s doing what Capcom’s doing by remaking one of the greatest survival horror games of all time. I hope Silent Hill 2 Remake comes out this year
@@cloudshines812 when he mentioned ds2, he had mgs2 music too. :)
That's simply cos its the GOAT of game OSTs. Any excuse, even tangential, is more than enough reason to play it.
i am beyond exited for armored core. i played #4 when i was a kid and it was one of a kind. never seen a mech game as good. SO HYPED
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Dunky is the best game designer how does he go unnoticed after all these games he makes
I can't wait to finally have an excuse for my terrible sleep schedule and dark under-eye circles. Thank you, 2023 game releases!
Hifi Rush yas
Time to become Robert pattinson from “The Batman”
I lost days of my life to BotW back in 2017. Can't wait to lose a few dozen more to TotK
@@adrianpadin1840 that's my man right there
I'm so glad we're finally getting some quality single players again even if many of them are remakes
I've been a fan of Armored Core since Master of Arena on the PS1. Such a great series of games. It will be interesting to see what From Software does with it now.
Knowing them, it'll be true to the original series with minor tweaks to bring it to the modern age.
No you haven't stop lying
I remember playing Armored Core: The Last Raven on Playstation 2. It was pretty fun, but for the life of me I was never able to complete any mission that required me to fight another AC, they were just far too mobile to hit and my boost gage was far too small to dodge the way they did.
I did discover a bug tho, whenever I reset my progress, I always kept my money. So I would play the campaign, choosing only missions that did not pit me against another AC until they were the only choices, and reset until I had enough money to buy pretty much every single part, and I swear I had more fun building and customizing my Armored Cores than actually playing the game. And I don't mean that in a bad way.
It is bizarre to hear people constantly just unrepentantly dunking on AC6.
Like, people have been shitting on FromSoft for years for making Dark Souls 7 times. Then Fromsoft announces something different people go '"where dark souls :("
EDIT: Not to imply this is what Dunkey is doing but damn. Sucks to be a fan of something for so long and then when you FINALLY get good news after 10+ years of radio silence, the worldwide reaction is either indifference or outright mockery.
@@HangmanVa Yeah I can see how that sucks. I've never heard of the AC series before but it looks pretty cool so I'll definitely be checking it out.
I love the armored core games so much. I hadn't thought about them in years. Hopefully that'll be on the PC or something
Yeah, its on ps4 Xbox and pc
"But this year... This is the one, everybody."
And he was 100% right.
no matter how long a dunkey video is it never feels long enough
That's true, I wish all of his videos were much shorter so that I could wish that they were even longer than currently.
He says a lot with so little.
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Surprised Dunkey has yet to cover Pizza Tower, was an absolute hit that came out of literally nowhere for most people. One of the best indie platformers since Celeste, easily. Hope Dunkey gives it a try.
*platformers, not just indie
I'm so burnt out on platformers and fps games. I'm sorry but Pizza Tower does absolutely nothing for me, and I'm old enough to know what animation style it references. In other news, nothing 2d has come close to Hollow Knight since its release (I realize Hollow Knight is a metroidvania).
Spam this comment with likes. He'll notice it.
pizza tower really makes you feel like a balding middle-aged single stereotypical italian small business chef up to his eyeballs in debt who was threatened by a magical pizza demon with a death ray
@@thepancakemann I totally get that man, Pizza Tower isn't a game that's trying to reinvent the recipe, it just cooks it straight, and if you're not big on that original formula, then it won't be that enjoyable of a dish.
No one remembers the Silent Hill game on the first Wii console where you use the Wiimote as a flashlight. It was INCREDIBLE!
Damn. That is a really good picture of link in the thumbnail. Makes wanna pull the pad and magic stick and start drawing right now.
Dunkey I really enjoy the videos you make, even the one with the trains. There was something so relaxing and calming about that video, kinda like watching a Bob Ross episode. I really liked the one about the car commercial, really funny haha. I hope you keep making the type of videos you enjoy putting together, regardless of all the opinions out there. Also, I'm one of those crazy people who is excited to play the new silly robot game, hopefully it's good! And Pepper Grinder too!
So excited for Pikmin, my nostalgia 🥹
Pikmin is one of my favorite series of all time
got a recommendation on which Pikmin game to start with as an entry point. I've never played one but always been curious
Any of them tbh. Just get in and enjoy
@@TMV420 I agree with any of them. TinyKin is also a similar PC game
@@rexdub1040 thanks!
I'm excited for a lot of the games listed in this video, but if I could add one to Dunkey's list, it'd be Alien Hominid Invasion. I played two of the demos for this game in 2020 and 2021, and it's looking more and more like AH:I could be the Behemoth's most immediate, gameplay-centric, mechnically diverse game yet, and it still has so much of the unique humor and expressive artwork that makes their games so memorable. Can't wait to play it.
The first Alien Hominid is such a nostalgic and shockingly violent trip. I didn't even know I needed a sequel, and I'm grateful you mentioned it
Ayyy celeste soundtrack comes on at 0:53 again when dunkey talks about indie games
'funny birds have a sword fight with their beaks ROFL' and 'Relaxing Space Safari' are two of my favourite videos. There is an artistry behind both of them that really illuminates the thoughtfulness of all of your work and they show you aren't afraid of taking risks and doing whatever you feel like on a site where that is usually considered heresy. I love how open for interpretation they are, I always thought the former was a reference to the plot and story structure of Death Stranding. Thanks for everything you do Dunkey.
There a little something for everyone.
I agree!!! I liked Dunks top 100 list of movies too!!! And his break downs of movies!!
His analysis of The Shining was phenomenal and I've been waiting for him to do another video like that ever since
I hated it. It was such a blatant ripoff of Tolkien's Silmarillion that it makes me wanna puke.
@@pirojfmifhghek566 I don't think Tolkien is a youtuber
Can't wait for Tears Of The Kingdom! It's for sure my most anticipated game.
Hyped. Since they said they need more time. Great to see devs being transparent
Definatly getting pumped for that after Jedi Survivor and RE4 Remake!
That's great! It's also mine's as well. I remember waiting in line at my local Target store to get my copy of Breath of the Wild and a Switch console when it first launched. It was one the best days of my life! I even played BotW non-stop during that day.
I'm definitely looking forward to Tears of the Kingdom!
That art book leaked made the game seem so much larger and more complex than the trailers have shown so far and it didn't even really spoil anything and honestly didn't even show a lot of things (areas, enemies, story elements).
Tears of the Kingdom is going to be amazing!
Which reminds me... still need to pre-order.
Man these videos continue to amaze me even while I don't know about half of those titles
Bro! Your videos have millions of views. Take the time to put in titles. It took me way too long to find Animal Well on Steam. I kept looking for Animal War and Animal Wall. But I'll still give u an upvote bc u are the first video I've found to mention upcoming Earthblade. Celeste had amazing physics. Challenging but fair. I had no idea the Celeste team was making a new game. Can't wait.
Animal Well is legit one of my most anticipated games of this year. GO BIG MODE
Still bummed no Xbox or Switch versions have been announced.
@@PaulMatula you gotta start savin up and build a PC bro, you won't regret it
@@grooselegacy I have a PC and Steam Deck. I have no issues purchasing the game on Steam and playing there, but a console launch exclusive with no announced plans for players on Xbox or Switch seems like a miss for their first publishing effort. The game looks exciting and I'd love to see it be accessible to as many players as possible.
So hyped for Pepper Grinder. I wouldn't have found out about its unique mechanics and silky gameplay without your E3 coverage video.
Here after the street fighter showcase, and happy to say dunkeys dream is true, wow what a fleshed out single player mode.
I'm living for Tears of the Kingdom, and am unironically excited for the Banjo-Kazooie vehicle builder aspect of it haha
Celeste, Hollow Knight and Zelda are literally my three favorite games. I couldn’t be more excited for what each of thise studios has to offer next.
Same indie games are my favorite types of games
I too love the game "Zelda", and hope that one day they might make a second game called "Zelda 2"
@@drunyon214 Oops heheh. Well you know what I mean. BOTW
You have excellent taste 🙌🙌💙
I swear for some inexplicable reason every person who plays Hollow Knight is required by some universal force to also play Celeste, and vice versa. I'm convinced the venn diagram or Hollow Knight fans and Celeste fans is just a circle.
ARMORED CORE 6 HYPE!!! I've been waiting for so long and can't wait to see what they do with it to update things.
same cant wait
Idem!! Fingers crossed
I can't believe they're finally bringing armored Core to the modern age and couldn't be happier about it
I have no idea what the game is, but that song in the pv is fire, sends chills through me every time
Hades 2 is the first time I've gotten exited about a new game since 2015. Hopefully they keep the God mode, it's such a brilliant way to change difficulty and keep players motivated that everyone should take note.
I turned god mode on (cuz I was getting extremely bored of repeating levels) and I still didn’t finish the game. It’s so grindy and tedious and repetitive (and the last level is just a gimmick level), and the weapons don’t help to remedy that at all. But I respect your opinion about the game. My most hyped game this year is Spider-Man 2
I hope Tears of the Kingdom will have it's own special edition oled switch. I've been holding out for a while with my v1 switch
Very excited for a slew of new Well-type games after animal well hits it big
Insect well aka Hollow Knight
What are Well-type games? I never heard of that.
@@flooo3009 ya know welsh games
@@flooo3009 Issa joke my brudda
Dunkey continues to be the greatest content creator on the platform, maintaining his standard of having no dislikes on any of his videos
So how's gonna tell them?
I disliked it
@@wilfir2697 Ok, cool. But
13 July 2031,
22:52 +0 GMT,
Dismemberment and heavy blood loss.
There's 66 dislikes now. You only have yourself to blame for this..
@@ultimaxkom8728 what?
I’d add Bomb Rush Cyberfunk to the list of this year’s anticipated games. It looks like a lot of fun!
I'm really looking forward to tekken 13 and yes I agree I hope they have a good stand alone single player mode
The marketing budget for Tears of the Kingdom could get lost behind a couch cushion
I've been waiting years for new Armored Core game, i can't stress how gratifying this is.
For real. I fell out off my damn bed when it got announced.
Bless you for bumping “Alone in The Town” at 2:48
Hi Dunkey! Please make another video for Mario day. I really enjoyed the one you made last year. I love all of your videos, but I miss seeing more videos of you just having fun playing games. Keep up the great work!
Really all I want from tears of the kingdom is the same feeling I had playing botw, “I don’t know what I want to do or where to go but I sure as hell am not doing the main story for a long time”
That's why BOTW is basically GTASA Nintendo
Ok, but we all know that Super Mario Bros 2 is going to be the most anticipated game of the year, is truly a masterpiece.
GOTY contender for sure
Super Mario Bros 2 is actually coming out this year thanks to the Mario Advance port for NSO
Lovely outro music. This year *IS* actually looking like a treat.
Honestly forgot how many absolute bangers are in store this year, I'm excited as all hell~
I love dunkey's serious videos more than all the other of his contents.
All of Dunkey's videos are serious
This was disturbingly serious.
And of course he did not mentioned Starfield^^
@@nottarealguy3954 You know what i mean.
if you get his humor you easily know when hes joking and serious
i love everything cause its good
I cannot wait for Armoured Core 6! Really hoping FromSoftware knock it out the park.
I'm tempted to pick up a fighting controller pad with all the new fighting games coming out!
Get a hitbox
get a stick. hitbboxes are unintuitive, if youre going from pad to something else you are gonna have a lot of frustration with a hitbox. yes, you can cheese and hold back and forward at the same time but thats about it.
@@thepjup4507 It's not about holding back and forwards (that's rarely useful) it's about your inputs being as clean as they can possibly be. It's only unintuitive if you've never used a keyboard's arrow keys before.
Mortal Kombat 12 was also confirmed for this year! This is NetherRealm's longest gap between games in a long time so I'm curious and excited to see what Boon and company have been cooking up.
"Death Stranding 2 was revealed as Geoff Keighley's house"
never change, dunkey
Dunkey videos are the gold standard. So many good games I’ve played on his recommendations. I know that I’ll play at least 5 games in this vid. Always comes back to knowing what games your reviewer enjoys and responds to.
Hearing Dunkey talk about videogames is like a free trip to the sauna for your ears
Based
Man Dunkey, I’m always waiting for your anticipated games of the year video because none of these companies seem to want to sell me their product themselves. I had no idea half of these games were coming out this year
I was imagining that Animal Well was going to be half of the video before watching this, but we got barely 15 seconds 🤣🤣🤣
3:40 Big ups for using 3 AM from city folk as background music. That’s gotta be one of the best songs ever released in a Nintendo game and I’ll die on that hill
the callback to Armored Core + that train video is one of the deepest lore cuts dunkey has ever done and it's over in the blink of an eye
Mina the Hollower looks so good can't lie, Zelda the Minish Cap is one of my favourite games of all time and it looks a lot like that!
1:51 OMG THE THROWBACK!
The graphics that's really what this is all about
The best feeling in the world is saying to yourself "Dunkey hasn’t posted in a while" just to open up youtube to see him first on my recommend. Brings a tear to my eye and a wet spot in my pants.
I’m glad he’s being positive about a lot of these games, because the amount of remakes mentioned in this video is a bit sad. I would love if we could get more new games from AAA companies
Hearing the OST's to Armored Core after just having streamed them all was awesome, the soundtrack to the originals were amazing. I hope 2023 really is the year of great games!
Which song is it? Do you guys know?
@@iansotelo299 Hoggishness from the first game.
Imagine how good this list would be if Dunkey actually existed.
You the guy from the Joel vids?
Sooooo excited for silk song and Hades II, those games are my favorites of all time, and ofc Zelda. 2023 is seriously the year of excellent games
I miss mortal kombat deceptions conquest. That’s an example of a fighting game with a good single player. I still have the game and will probably play it again
I love hearing about Dunkey’s journey with Death Stranding. What a character arc
Who is this Norman Reedus tho I thought his name was Norman Deekus
This year for gaming was already gonna be pretty crazy with the second ever strand-type game coming out, but now you're telling me the hit company big mode is making the first ever well-type game? Absolutely insane.
i love when dunkey talks about indie games. a lot of indie games I've played are because I've seen dunkey mention them.
I put so many hours into Fantasy Life and that's definitely the sequel I'm most looking forward to this year.
So many exciting games coming out this year. Happy to be here for all of them! Armored Core is probably my most anticipated, personally. Feel like it'll be different from anything else getting made today.
That's cause its Fromsoft
@@SonKunSama fromsoft made the exact same demon souls combat like 6 times.
I wouldn't call them the kings of creativity.
@@greenbitch6432 then you don't understand what they did. Because they never made the exact game, they kept being creative about it.
@@greenbitch6432 my guy they only make 6 souls games over 60 unique games they made
@@greenbitch6432 I don't think he was talking about how varied their "soulslike" titles are but the fact they have a certain feeling modern AAA games (that I've played at least) lack. While the combat is similar in all of these games besides Sekiro, many things were changed, added or got improved. I've recently played some DS1 and the combat feels very different from ER, try it yourself. And ER was supposed to be open world DS anyways. Fans love it, there's close to 0 competition for now and between DS3 and ER there was a pause of 6 years so it's not like they release these type of games very frequently anymore. In conclusion, when it comes to "soulslikes" I don't think they really need to fundamentally change their formula unless they want to appeal to a new audience while risking alienating it's current one.
This video was like a love letter to anyone who’s been subscribed to Dunkey since 2017 or so
Dunkey u continue to show me why I should wake up everyday and live these videos are truly godsend ty my good sir
As someone who’s on a journey to play every final fantasy game, I’m personally really excited to play FF16! i know it will be different, but as much as I enjoy the turn based combat (I know dunkey doesn’t) I am interested in how they handle the combat as well as story
out of all the modern jrpg franchises I still have the most faith in final fantasy to do something fun and interesting
15 has a super unique feeling despite the obvious par for the course gameplay that underlines it
You had me for a sec at the end there, but man I'm so stoked for Armored Core 6. FromSoft is such a top tier developer and the previous Armored Core games were incredible.
Your mention of single-player adventures in fighting games is really interesting. I'd love if you talked about it more.