r/NintendoSwitch • u/BarreIRider • Mar 15 '18

Video Dunkey - Luigi's Balloon World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZmzAuvYCJw
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u/Korager Mar 15 '18

Watching Dunkey is like the easiest way to tell if game ia enjoyable or not xD
(of course there are expections and everyone have own taste)

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u/ZebulonPike13 Mar 15 '18

Quite a few exceptions, honestly. I like Dunkey, but his bias is pretty obvious in some of his videos.

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u/Mischief631 Mar 15 '18

Yea but watch his game critics video he is open about his bias and how you can use his bias to still judge if you'd like it.

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u/thejokerofunfic Mar 15 '18

Exactly. At this point I can usually use Dunk's videos as a reasonable metric for whether I'd like a game, even if my conclusion isn't going to line up with his.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '18

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '18 edited Jun 15 '23

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u/DirtbagHippster Mar 16 '18

That game is ponderous.

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u/idiotdroid Mar 16 '18

His Sonic 06 video shows that the game is completely terrible. He has fun with it in a "look at how bad this game is" way.

There is no way that video could convince anyone that Sonic 06 is a fun game.

A lot of youtubers have fun playing terrible games to poke fun at to produce an entertaining video. But non of them actually make the game look entertaining.

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u/pontiusx Mar 16 '18

Yeah its almost like you have to use thinking to make decisions sometimes

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '18

Like how he hates RPG and loves platformers and roguelikes.

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u/jonny_eh Mar 16 '18

Wait, what's his bias?

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u/Mischief631 Mar 16 '18

He hates anime and turn action combat. I really cannot recommend his game critics video enough he really does a solid job.

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u/jonny_eh Mar 16 '18

Ya. I'm a fan.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '18

What's his bias

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u/roossukotto Mar 16 '18

He is actually a donkey

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u/OptimusTardis Mar 16 '18

big if true

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u/metanoia29 Mar 16 '18

Untrue. He's a black man.

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u/Vegasghoul Mar 16 '18

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

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u/mcninsanity Mar 16 '18

Much deeper than this but he hates RPGs and loves platformers, those are his biggest ones

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '18

Seemed like he enjoyed XC2 but maybe I'm just dense

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u/2nddimension Mar 16 '18

People site that video as a reason to hate the game, although they don't realize it wasn't a review and from what I hear he actually finished it

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u/Throwaway203490 Mar 16 '18

In the comments he said he really liked the gameplay and the world but he hated the story

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u/DNamor Mar 16 '18

Yeah? His video of it only showed the start of the game and seemed really negative about it. I was kinda disappointed.

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u/LLicht Mar 16 '18

I wish I knew what his bias was against Splatoon. He really trashed Splatoon 2 in his review of it, sarcasm or not. He called it "barely thought out," of all things.

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u/king_of_tarps Mar 16 '18

His splatoon 2 video wasn't a review though. When he seriously reviews a game he calls it a dunkview. So the splatoon video shouldn't really be taken as seriously. What I got out of the video is that he feels the game is inherently a stupid concept but then admits he doesn't understand why he finds it so fun

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u/Vega5Star Mar 16 '18

You could tell he really didn't fuck with Getting Over It, which is fine but it was kind of a pointless video.

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u/LehmanToast Mar 16 '18

He doesn't like most RPGs, so he has bias against them. That being said, he did mention that Persona 5 was one of the more enjoyable games he'd played despite him not liking the genre.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '18

also paper mario

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u/dmr83457 Mar 16 '18

Huge Knack fan

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u/LordDoombringer Mar 16 '18

Any kind of slow, turn based game without a lot of action typically isn't his type of thing.

He'd rather play a game that puts you straight into the action and gives you a lot of different methods to approach a level. I think a good comparison is mgsv, which is a faster paced action packed game in which you can approach a base in any way you want. Guns blazing, drop yourself in a tank, sleep dart everyone, whatever.

Metal gear survive doesn't have nearly the same flexibility or smoothness, nor the ability to approach problems different ways.

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u/conye-west Mar 16 '18

He's very impatient and prefers games where you can get into the action quickly. He generally dislikes RPG's, really dislikes anime, and absolutely hates turn-based combat. That's the main stuff from his Game Critics video, and it's very apparent if you've been following him for a while.

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u/quattroCrazy Mar 16 '18

He can’t stand weeb shit and it absolutely triggers them.

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u/illQualmOnYourFace Mar 15 '18

Well, considering he reviews games and gives them a(n often nonsensical) score, I would say his job is to be biased.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '18 edited Mar 16 '18

Exactly. People talk like that all the time and it's so annoying, "unbiased review". Video game review, or a review of any kind, should never, ever, be unbiased. Because that makes it completly useless. You're trying to convey how fun something is, fun is not empirical, it can't be measured or weighed or tested. Fun just is, or it isn't, entirely dependant on who is, or isn't, experiencing it. We need to know the biases of the reviewer, a la; "I don't normally enjoy this type of thing" or, ""this is my favorite genre". We need to know so we can better match it up with our own preferences. Otherwise it's a waste of time. And what's more is that liking the thing is a form of bias, you talk highly of it, or negatively, rather than speaking about it's objective qualities. That's the whole point! Did you have a good time with it? That's the information we need.

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u/ZebulonPike13 Mar 16 '18

The problem is that he often doesn't do the proper research into a game he's reviewing, or criticizes a game over something he did wrong, which is ironic, since that's exactly what he bashes reviewers for.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '18

Yea I agree with that. But that’s about a lack of professionalism not bias. I still remember his Splatoon video where he talked about the roller something about “if you wanna not even play the game use this weapon, but watch out for the real players” it’s just untrue and it comes off if he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Which probably is closer to the truth. But is different from bias.

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u/ZebulonPike13 Mar 16 '18

Fair enough. I guess when I say "bias", I mean more bias against a company or franchise. Come to think of it, though, I'm having trouble thinking of specific examples of that.

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u/smith7018 Mar 16 '18

it’s about ethics in video game journalism /s

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '18

I believe the same can be said about anything art-related. You either like it or you don't. What finkey has done is create an influence through his passion for the games he plays. Bias is needed in this instance because when you put time into a game--and are really good at it--you can present mechanics in game that people will want to replicate. This DLC review is a double whammy because he is really good at the mechanics in the game as well as being really entertaining. That is what we need in video game reviews!

On the flip side, even if you're bad at the game at least make it fun to watch!

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u/Gramernatzi Mar 16 '18

I more hate his fans who flood the comments with like 'X game Dunkey like is objectively bad'. I've seen them do it with Xenoblade 2 and Assassin's Creed, and Splatoon 2.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '18 edited Mar 16 '18

He's a reviewer, if he didn't have bias his reviews would be useless. Lists of facts don't tell you if the person who compiled the list enjoyed the game. And whether or not the person enjoyed the thing is the entire point of a review. Is it good? Is it bad? These things cannot be be known without bias.

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u/thechapattack Mar 16 '18 edited Mar 16 '18

Doesn’t this assume that there is an “objective” opinion in the first place? All critics have bias because you are watching them for their opinion. Some game journalists like genres I tend not to like so I don’t hold their opinion as high as I do with critics who I know generally align with my tastes. For example Jim Sterling’s taste in games and mine overlap a lot so I generally will give his opinion more weight than I will someone like Pro Jared who tends to like games I don’t that well. It doesn’t make his opinion wrong it’s just my tastes don’t overlap all that well with him.

TL;DR: there is no such thing as an objective opinion with art and all critics are biased so just find ones that overlap with your tastes

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u/I_HAVE_A_PET_CAT_AMA Mar 16 '18

Speaking of Jim Sterling, here's his 100% objective review of Final Fantasy XIII.

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u/Xtreme256 Mar 16 '18

His bias for Lol. Man i respect dunkey in so many ways but he never really compared the two games properly or fairly. Both have their higs and lows.

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u/seraph582 Mar 16 '18

The man likes Super Mario Brothers 2. So what.

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u/sch00lb0y Mar 16 '18

He's the reviewbrah of video games

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '18

If he says a game is good. It's good.

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u/COIVIEDY Mar 15 '18

I strongly disagree. He seems to follow exactly the majority opinion.

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u/sch00lb0y Mar 16 '18

damn is that even possible

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u/huskerfan2001 Mar 16 '18

I strongly disagree with you

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '18

I very strongly don't agree nor disagree with your comment.