► WTF Is... - Sleeping Dogs ?

[@TheMayonator]

Revisiting this video almost 7 years later... god I miss TotalBiscuit.

[@Kokuyous3ki]

So many new games i would love him to review... if nothing else for some fun rage moments :) But I bet he would find many of the retro fps games great fun. I've always liked how he took a decent chunk of time just to focus on the options. Especially "professional" (ie. they believe themselves to be, eg. most games media people) reviewers tend to ignore that which is horrible.

[@planescaped]

@@Kokuyous3ki He covered a lot of really obscure titles that otherwise would never receive attention. And he did it in a way that made it enjoyable to watch and helpful as a critique. His untimely death really left a void.

[@liaminwales]

TB was the best, will always miss him.

[@ricknijm]

its bin 10 years now TB is stilll missed

[@Surgequake7]

I will forever revisit these videos so long they are up, even 20 years later. Love and miss John.

[@RandomGuitarist96]

Sleeping Dogs is so underrated. Great game.

[@Kokuyous3ki]

Was it? More like it was unknown, no? Yes, 6 years passed but everyone I know who has played it said it's "best game ever" or close. Especially the enhanced version. Was it that flawed that it was underrated? Too much time passed to check I guess :)

[@planescaped]

@@Kokuyous3ki It didn't sell very well initially, it did see a bit more success years later with the release of the definitive edition, but by then the damage was done and the devs who made it were basically gone. Square Enix scrambled to make a sequel after its posthumous success, but Sleeping Dogs 2 was canceled during development and the series is dead. So it was underrated definitely when it came out. It gained a bit of appreciation later, but it was too late.

[@MaskofPoesy]

2012?! fuck, I feel old.

[@MaskofPoesy]

...

[@miaben1212]

Don't worry you're not alone...

[@MarcSisco]

Still better than GTA V. Gta is getting boring.

[@geniusn8343]

No

[@chowderheadify]

This game is a lot funnier if you understand Cantonese.

[@joemuis23]

because of difference in contents in the non translated version or because you feel more closely related to the culture of what theyre saying?

[@PvEGamingChannel]

How?

[@LanceThumping]

*looks through the comments Am I the only one who noticed TB didn't wash his hands after using the bathroom?

[@Neilx14]

"What I would like to show you actually, is my cock" @ 47:38 I never ROFL'ed so hard. YMMD! (:

[@LateNightHalo]

i got this free on xbox live and i love it, i actual like it slightly more than GTA

[@HenryTownsmyth]

I got this game in 2013 but playing it now in 2022. Decided to check back on TotalBiscuit's take. It's still fun. He is missed.

[@JinGitaxias]

It's Cantonese. You can even turn on subtitles for only the cantonese parts.

[@Kyorororo]

It's a weird mix of Cantonese and Mandarin. Sometimes they speak Cantonese and sometimes they speak mandarin. Source: I speak Mandarin

[@JinGitaxias]

Hilaribad The more you know. I speak neither and guessed. Maybe the two languages have common words?

[@MC_DesmondSparrs]

Uncle QUiKSCOPEe Id guess its mainly done so for dramatic purposes(or maybe a mistake) but it sounds cool none the less for me who does not understand anything in chinese.

[@cfcheung]

It's both, but mostly Cantonese. Because in Hong Kong they mostly speak Cantonese but also mandarin as well sometimes.

[@NallePu83]

Not The Departed! The Departed is a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs

[@thehunterhanger]

i thought this game was hard to get into the first time round but once you get going the story really drags you in. the lack of guns makes it better imo as it means when you have a gun you appreciate it more + the combat is awesomely gruesome at some points...ice grinder anyone?

[@HaveButOneLife]

I love this game. Mainly because I'm a Square Enix fanboy and I'm not ashamed to admit it.

[@thefool8750]

Your honesty is remarkable.

[@Bodomi]

I'm all lost without you TB... :(

[@Cxs1a3]

Played it 9 years ago, played it again today, crazy how little games have innovated since then

[@DannyBirchTheAnimeLoverGamer]

I also remember this video so well way back when I first saw it on TotalBiscuit's channel.

[@KA1N3R]

I really, really love this game. Even the story is really good in my opinion. I also like that you dont really get a gun until half of the game

[@flameager]

I ordered it yesterday, luckily for me it was 60% off. And TB's singing wasn't terrible, it was coming somewhat close to good.

[@d.alexander875]

EEEPPPICCCCC

[@flameager]

That's right

[@jojikyre5470]

Been wanting to find some good games to try so im watching all his reviews but didnt make it that far because i started listening to his podcast. They were tallking about kingdom come and sea of thieves. Very great content damn shame hes gone now...

[@spwolftech]

RIP. Its 5/2022 and your still missed. (I wish youtube would stop making me change my memorial comment every 20ish videos or so. when did they implement this new annoyance?)

[@svartmetall48]

Your comments about the aesthetic of the game in terms of flashy financial areas juxtaposed with traditional markets, that's Hong Kong in a nutshell! Nice review - always enjoy listening to your views on games.

[@garply101]

This is my second favourite sandbox/open world game after GTA Vice City. In terms of gameplay, it's better than GTA IV - and has a much better soundtrack.

[@ikkeheltvanlig]

Been binging TB vids last couple of days, damn you're missed John. One of the greatest voices of KZbin, radio and TV of all time. Perhaps the most important personalities of the gaming sphere of his time. Definitely the most professional KZbin to date with unparalleled respect for his audience and his trade. Fuck, I miss this man.

[@Lucas02000]

Yeah I miss him too, I would've loved to have seen his reaction to Cyberpunk

[@75338]

Space Marine 2 @@Lucas02000

[@michaelhawkins7389]

Rip total Biscuit :( I wish he had a cure for all cancer and hopefully one day we will defeat it

[@WALZ97]

9:40 we now have them, they exist!

[@nukeclears]

you can catch people in chase sequences before they run in that alley ways, you just need to be quick or find a faster route.

[@emzedjiklool511]

"OOH A LOCKBOX!" "kills thugs then leaves lockbox" "lets go to the race" "next to a parking lot but decides to hijack a car"

[@RustyGumbo]

Love these 40m-1h videos man, thanks!!!

[@christopherstringer8079]

This game is true hidden gem I love this game

[@I-SHADOW-I]

Driving cars in that game is better than in watch dogs..

[@predator837]

miss your voice.

[@thegamefreak345]

Really good commentary one of the best commentaries i have ever seen. Kepp up the good work :D

[@blackktieguy]

I played through the entire game and didn't know you could run up a wall and dismount-kick until TB did it.

[@Henryandginger]

this was a very helpful review and I'm definitely going to buy this from the steam sale.

[@HerPerfect]

Complete edition is £7.49 on Steam. So worth it :')

[@clickingsensorthing]

Fun fact: The Departed is based upon a 2002 Hong Kong film called Infernal Affairs. See them both! Its that rare scenario where I love both the original and the remake wholeheartedly.

[@kaefwjuef5749]

why do people like dumbed down car physics? GTAIV's was nearly pefect IMO, and they totally ruined it GTA V.I know people like everything handed to them , so they don' have to learn it master anything, but comeon!

[@ncRustyS]

I know its an old argument (and a pretty bad one) but some people think there is such a thing as too much realism. In driving games, people want to feel like they are badass drivers, who can do anything. They don't want to skid around the corner and spin out, because it ruins the fun for them.

[@BaileyCallis]

Nah, they are better in gta 5, realistic without the frustration.

[@ncRustyS]

Bailey Callis Well, its just personal opinion, and everyone's is different. I, for one, like GTA 4 & 5. I play 4 if I want to have more realistic driving, and 5 for arcade driving. But, if I really want to drive realistically I will just play a simulator (which I hardly ever do).

[@ncRustyS]

***** GTA 4 is not on the same level of realism as simulators, but it's more realistic than going 100+ mph and then turning just fine.

[@mega17]

Because it's fun to just drive around really really fast. Nobody gives a shit about your realistic driving physics. This is an open-world game, not a racing simulator. They just want to go fast in a cool car.

[@tastychunks]

pissing gets your health back

[@christofu_]

Sleeping Doges > Watch_Doges

[@Chris.Davies]

TB, what you are referring to is "Keyboard Ramping". It has existed for years. Descent 3 had a setting for it for people who use the keyboard only. You set a time in milliseconds that it takes for the key to "ramp" to "maxvalue", so that it operates like a joystick input. It's just laziness on behalf of developers to exclude it.

[@devilgamerknight5486]

rip totalbiscuit

[@liquidorion9250]

What a shame that this one passed by on me, looks really nice.

[@colinschueren5553]

I'm sorry tb but the Chinese they speak is Cantonese

[@BomberKIP]

Ur the best narrator ever m8, and this was the far best video we've ever watched!!!! :) Thumbs up

[@mat92ish]

is it not cantonese?

[@QuilleLsus]

Cantonese is a spoken dialect. The characters stay the same for both Mandarin and Cantonese.

[@mat92ish]

Oh but they speak cantonese right?

[@ej2208]

rip

[@shafaquatazam1911]

You know, you don't sing that bad...

[@NathanJuK101]

Humble Bundle Store currently has Sleeping Dogs on sale for £3.74, prices vary depending on your location.

[@Horriblerandom]

This game is on sale now! 75% on steam :)

[@sophakingcool5532]

just bought it. love it

[@sunnyyang3259]

Should I be ashamed to watch these videos in 720P because my monitor and my internet don't support 1080P?

[@MichaelCutts7]

360p all the way. My internet is so slow that if someone else is on, I'd have to scale back to 240p :P

[@turgsh01]

For once, Angry Joe's review (which I usually agree with) seemed a bit off on the rating... so I checked this video out which normally I disagree with TB, and it's TB that made me buy the game this time... weird turn of events in my opinion. Though I only paid 8$ for the game and DLC collection, so I can't complain too much even if the game is shit.

[@kevinjustason]

actual the departed was inspired by infernal affairs which is a hong kong crome drama based on same story

[@keithealy]

Am I the only one who liked True Crime? (the first one I mean,forget about the other thing.)

[@Nobodyjbh14]

Am I the only one who after this, want to see SE do Grand Theft Chocobo? xD

[@planescaped]

I am legit amazed they haven't tried to make a Grand Theft Final Fantasy spin-off in the 7 years since you posted this.

[@PaulBlxck]

Imagine this Game with nVIDIA physx !

[@perry842]

Gotta agree. Not only that, but also that the storyline was just so immersive with great, realistic and likable characters. All of which is complemented with a beautifully designed environment.

[@MrTranzformer1]

Steam Sale.

[@brandonteoh5756]

*slap* it's cantonese.

[@JoeDirtHockey]

I like GTA 4's car physics a lot.

[@Dastion]

it felt a bit slow and hard to steer because of its realism. Still it's awesome somehow.

[@jigsaw117able]

except niko doesn't wear a damn seatbelt! guess that's what everyone does so it's more realistic but you think he would learn after going 35 mph and hitting a truck and go flying out the window.

[@visitor1023]

i put everything on extreme and i have nvidia geforce560ti and it lags like shit i needed to play on high and for some reason it runs on 120 fps but on extreme it is 25 WTF why is this happening

[@Sunborne187]

ew not going to wash your hands?

[@katarinalove8649]

Never finished this game. Was to generic. But love total biscuit

[@harrisdizdarevic5797]

Yeah sometimes TB was easily impressed. This thing slowly spiraled. Some parts looked ps2 quality. Too generic. There was potential but went nowhere. I'm not surprised it didn't meet sales expectations based on the quality. the story goes from deep and genuine and then just becomes dry unserious and boring. It spirals from quality to average. Nothing but something that could have been great here. It wasn't great.

[@BraedonLytle]

who else got sent here by Nerd³?

[@DiddntFindANameLol]

i came here by my on free will .-.

[@lorddrayvon1426]

First game I've ever seen where the Goddamn menu sliders are badly controlled.

[@lordwarblade]

Best ending ever so far on a WTF Is... Well done TotalBiscuit.

[@DigitalOberon]

When you really get the hang of shooting in the game, you will find it awesomely satisfying to slide into cover, jump over an obstacle to trigger slow-mo and then pull off headshot after headshot to keep the slow-mo going for as long as possible. Another tip: remember to aim (shift on pc) immediately after you disarm someone -- it gives you a few seconds of slow-mo time to pull off a headshot to keep yourself in bullet time. Later in the game you get some epic gunplay missions.

[@HappyHippie29]

3:50 Infact there is a skill that can bring you any car you bought from your garage to you location. Veryhelpful.

[@MedicalMechanica]

But the humidity and heat of the "concealed package" would benefit in the production of more bacteria versus a more aired out part of the body and I don't know about you, but I usually hold mine to aim when I use the restroom.

[@JAGUARCD32X]

The reason why the anti aliasing setting uses so much resources is because it uses super sampling. The game actually runs at 4K resolution internally and then shrinks it down to fit the 1080p screen resolution. This of course makes jagged edges 4x smaller and unlike traditional MSAA it also works of textures and alpha effects like leaves, grass, smoke, shadows etc. It's a setting for high end hardware only but looks gorgeous. Maxed out I think it rivals nextgen games for graphics and gameplay

[@F40LM]

When I'm talking about handling, I mean as in how the car drives not how the car shifts weight from one side to another.

[@ShadowmakersDrops]

I agree with pretty much everything you said here, the only thing I really disagreed with was just a small offhand comment about the car handling in GTA IV. After playing GTA IV I pretty much set the standard to all open world games involving vehicles to that of grand theft auto. I loved the realism of how the cars handle, that your car dosen't simply turn around corners in a fast motion. It actually spoiled this game for me, same with Just Cause 2 and the saints row series.

[@Egobyte83]

I just wonder... if this game is a refined True Crime version, are the things wich made True Crime stand out still present? I know TC was kind of a mixed bag considering quality, but one thing i remember which, to my knowledge, other crime-open-world games still have failed to keep alive was the multiple ending-mission threads; how in TC streets of L.A you could continue the story down three different ways based on your choices.. that was original and awesome.

[@willreaver1425]

Wow, an inprov OC Remix there at the end

[@gameman404]

Is this worth buying from steam sale for 16.99 euros`?

[@AlexLoveLizard]

You're not insta-killed by water in Prototype, you just automatically jump back out of the water towards land. You can kind of control the jump directionally, but it will magnetise toward the shore.

[@s1lverFoX]

First time seeing one of your reviews or whatnot and i have to say im subbed, very cool how u go through the PC options

[@zergbong]

developers are usually companies contracted on fixed fee to develop a game for publishers who at the end collect all the royalties from the sales. More importantly not every download is a lost sale, due to financial restrictions or not enough interest in the product to be worth 60 usd. Think of it as a public library where everyone can take a book, copy it incompletely on xerox paper and keep it at home, but if you really like it, you will buy it anyway.

[@mahtimonni97]

My mind was made in favor of this game at the point where the guy vaulted from the overpass and triggered a car alarm when crashing down on it. Funny as heck.

[@HardwareDog4543]

total biscuit how i fixes the crashes please help

[@TheInternetOG]

Well I'm very sorry to hear that. Almost every third-person game I play on my PC, I use my controller (except for Hitman: Absolution recently) and have never had a problem.

[@ricflairjrs4]

Great rundown of, in my opinion, the 2012 Game of the Year...or at least the most pleasant suprise of the year. I am a PS3 console weenie, (go ahead & throw the rotten eggs), but it's cool for me to see the console & PC versions look very similar. Your machine's specs are quite beastly so if the PS3 version looks close, if not identical most times, to the PC version I am quite happy. Great stuff, I will be checking out the rest of the channel...

[@ZoanBlade90]

36:16 At least in Infamous it made sense why water hurt Cole. The Blast core,and the fact watcher conduits electricity.

[@joecahill1053]

worth it on the steam sale?

[@NotLegato]

haha, he said it's worth the full price, and it's like 3,90€ right now, so yeahhhhh if you like this kind of game.

[@nlsupernovaable]

Hell yeah

[@planescaped]

I was playing this game so much when it came out that I can recall a day where, after having not driven for a bit, I went to the supermarket and legit became briefly confused as to which side of the street I was supposed to drive on. XD

[@MultiMediam]

Triple A Games are $100 in Australia at full price when they come out at the stores.

[@jamezbond45]

0:31:45 Actually, in Prototype, you just jump out of the water, not die. It's explained in one of the Web of Intrigue nodes that the virus doesn't do very well in water, I believe.

[@Trilithon]

Oh man.. I love you. This commentary was epic. My day made.

[@remitemmos9165]

2 major points for me, while not best in class for things like gunplay or less rich than GTA V technically, Nothing in sleeping dogs feels slow or boring.. everything is fast and to the point, for me every gmeplay was also fun and i never felt the repetitiveness or had the feeling i had to do something i didn’t want to. no frustration anywhere from bugs or bad design. all that and the fact they totally nailed the feeling of hk movies from bruce lee to infernal affairs via hard boiled or police story make it a truly unique game, far far beyond any GTA-like of the poor or HK GTA designation. i enjoyed and finished GTA V or SA but never had that much uninterrupted fun with game than with SD. if you like HK movies, you owe yourself to give it a try, and under 5 bucks it’s a steal. rest in peace united front!

[@NjGrizzly]

Can we take the time to appreciate the guy knocked down at 1:02:00 ? He got hit ONCE and was like "I give up." and like flawlessly flew away into the ground

[@JackSparrow-jm1fb]

Is this an good idea for a game every action and button are on the spacebar

[@libanx98]

you can dubble tap W to sprint as well so you don't have to use spacebar for that

[@BlenderHelixAlpha]

Wow, I'm so glad I watched your video! I wouldn't have given this game a second glance

[@Lawsondgage]

How would you hit any of the other keys if you aren't using WASD?

[@rikkiandsparkey]

To action Hijack correctly, you have to have the car on your right side (the side you hang out of) and wait for the arrow to turn Green, meaning you have enough time to jump. it explains it in one of the later missions, which is pretty stupid considering its like, the 3rd to last mission in the game, but once you do it the 1st time you pretty much figure it out. its a shame you cant action Hijack a bike.

[@reifsneider]

lol! I understand that, and not t mention the publicity and notoriety those game's achieved which in part helped with the production of sequels. Trust me i totally would love the idea of "one person purchased the game, then decided to share it with anyone and possibly everyone, and everything will be okay" but when someone purchases a game there is this unofficial agreement on the box that states you are the only one able to play this exact version of this game, serial keys add to that as well

[@Kijinn]

Melee combat gets more difficult as you progress through the game. Complexity is rising with enemies becoming more varied and heavily armed (firearms) at times. Your character also gains new abilities along the way, so combat does indeed become somewhat equal to what you get in "Batman: Arkham City". TB wasn't as far into the game as he thought. It was still the starting scenario. "Chapter 1" or "prologue", so to say.

[@Voxel8or]

Not really, i have steam, antivirus, skype, and alot of other programs right now and im only using a little over 1gb

[@mad0uche]

I'm surprised you haven't mentioned Uplay TB, I was expecting you to atleast mention it.

[@NaJeSiv]

Is there any upgradable stuff in this game? Can u upgrade anything, lvlup! anything i just want some nice openworld game with upgrade opsions in..

[@Jeff_S...]

Awesome video, beat up the three thugs and screw the lock box, very alpha. Also the car at 1:06 11 "is" a Koenigsegg, a Swedish supercar.