History YMMV / Videogamedunkey

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Dunkey's video style changing drastically in mid 2018 from his comedic videos to more seriousness analytical videos, complete with reviews and more. Some older fans of Dunkey have argued that he went from a funny content creator to a more typical video game analyst creator, and that he just gives surface level criticism and lost what made him unique. He still makes the comedic videos, but they slowly have been overshadowed in views by his more serious Dunkviews or straight up reviews.

** Dunkey's video about game journalists, and his points about the inherent flaws of the industry, became this when only a short time later he began focusing on what are basically bog-standard game reviews like what he discussed in the video.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Dunkey's video style changing drastically in mid 2018 from his comedic videos to more seriousness analytical videos, complete with reviews and more. Older fans of Dunkey have complained about how he went from a funny content creator to a nearly bog-standard video game analyst creator who doesn't take it further and actually analyze the games he plays but instead just gives surface level criticism, and lost what made him unique. He still makes the comedic videos, but they slowly have been overshadowed in views by his more serious Dunkviews or straight up reviews. It's to the point that many older fans feel he basically has become another youtube game reviewer without anything unique to make him stand out.

** His "The Jontron Rant" video, especially the "Fuck you Dunkey, I do not watch your videos because you are black" joke become a lot less funny when {{WebVideo/Jontron}} spoke openly about his controversial political opinions.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: dunkey's deadpan delivery and general understated silliness can cause even some of the most grim moments to become hilarious.

** Whether if this is considered to be HarsherInHindsight, Dunkey's quotes about how 2020 is "where the shit goes down" and that 2019 was the calm before the storm during his best video games of 2019 video became more relevant as people began to understood how burdening (and awful to many) the year has been.

** Whether if this is considered to be HarsherInHindsight, Dunkey's quotes about how 2020 is "where the shit goes down" and that 2019 was the calm before the storm during became more relevant as people began to understood how burdening (and awful to many) the year has been.

** Whether if this is considered to be HarsherInHindsight, Dunkey's quotes about how 2020 is "where the shit goes down" and that 2019 was the calm before the storm during his best games he played in 2019 video became more relevant as people began to understood how burdening (and even awful to many) the year has been.

** Whether if this is considered to be HarsherInHindsight, Dunkey's quotes about how 2020 is "where the shit goes down" and that 2019 was the calm before the storm became more relevant as people began to understood how burdening the year has been.

* HarsherInHindsight: His "Bill Cosby" video, in which he played a game in which Cosby kills people and must hide them from neighbors and the police. This got much darker after hearing of Cosby's rape and sexual assault allegations.

** Inverted and PlayedForLaughs again in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y9CLWJvia8&t=603s "Dunkey's Best of 2016"]]; upon putting ''[[VideoGame/CallofDutyModernWarfare2 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2]]'' on the list, [[RunningGag his suscriber count immediately drops to 15 again]].
** Some of the more extreme reactions to his ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'' video were along these lines.
** Played straight with his ''VideoGame/OctopathTraveler'' video. Dunkey's take on the game was not very well received by a sizable number of viewers, especially either fans of the game or fans of the genre, who accused him of deliberately failing at the game in order to justify giving it a bad score while also taking elements out of context to misrepresent the game, such as Ophelia's chapter and her repeated use of the word "Your excellency". His reddit post made in response to the negative feedback didn't help either, where he admitted to only playing ten hours of the game, which made his arguments seem hollow, and in general admitted that he was not really paying attention during it.
** Zig-Zagged with his ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' dunkview. While many viewers disagreed with him giving the game such a low score (A 1/5, the lowest dunkview score he's given unironically), the overall consensus was that they found his complaints and points about the game's style over substance and KudzuPlot to be valid, even if they still enjoyed it personally. Indeed, the general consensus was that Dunkey was right that the game's story, characters, and dialogue were not great, especially in the back half of the game, but they disagreed when it came to a lot of the gameplay elements, which were some of the most praised aspects of the game.

** Inverted with his review of ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUsPartII''. He gave it an overall 4/5, said it had a good story and praised its brutal gameplay. This did not go down well with the vocally angry {{hatedom}} the game had developed in the wake of plot leaks, general culture wars and review bombing that accompanied its game launch.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Dunkey's video style changing drastically in mid 2018 from his comedic videos to more seriousness analytical videos, complete with reviews and more. Older fans of Dunkey have complained about how he went from a funny content creator to a nearly bog-standard video game analyst creator who doesn't take it further and actually analyze the games he plays but instead just gives surface level criticism, and lost what made him unique. He still makes the comedic videos, but they slowly have been overshadowed in views by his more serious Dunkviews or straight up reviews.

** Whenever Dunkey reviews a traditional RPG, or a game with Japanese storytelling and game mechanics, he will rarely if ever give the game a good score. He has always been up front about hating aspects like turn-based combat, cliche anime story-lines, and "anime-noise" grunting & exclamations characters will do to fill gaps in a conversation. His fandom remains divided on whether he should review these games knowing his distaste for their mechanics [[BiasSteamroller colors how much he enjoys these games]], or if he is fine reviewing them because of the possibility of him revealing he actually really likes them (such as Persona 5). Some also enjoy seeing him tear into a genre they dislike as well, which only furthers the debate. This issue is brought up and sarcastically {{Lampshaded}} in [[https://youtu.be/_tsFZ8F_qcY his mixed but overall positive review]] of ''VideoGame/DragonQuestXI'':

** Whenever Dunkey reviews a traditional RPG, or a game with Japanese storytelling and game mechanics, he will rarely if ever give the game a good score because in his own words he "has no fucking patience" for them. He has always been up front about absolutely hating mechanics like turn-based combat, cliche anime story-lines, and "anime-noise" grunting & exclamations characters will do to fill gaps in a conversation. His fandom remains divided on whether he should review these games knowing his distaste for their mechanics [[BiasSteamroller colors how much he enjoys these games]], or if he is fine reviewing them because of the possibility of him revealing he actually really likes them (such as Persona 5). Plus some enjoy seeing him tear into a genre they dislike too, which only furthers the debate.

** "It has a little something for everyone."[[note]]Yet another phrase from his second video on game critics, criticizing how reviewing websites like IGN often give popular games high reviews which averts gamer backlash. The quote in question comes from an IGN review of ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosU''.[[/note]]

** "The first strand type game."[[note]]From his scathing review of ''VideoGame/DeathStranding'', mocking Hideo Kojima's use of the term and comparing the "genre" to ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'', which Dunkey jokingly calls the first "true" strand type game.[[/note]]

** "It has a little something for everyone."[[note]]Yet another phrase from his second video on game critics, mocking how reviewing websites like IGN often give popular games high reviews which averts gamer backlash. The quote in question comes from an IGN review of ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosU''.[[/note]]

** "It has a little something for everyone."[[Yet another phrase from his second video on game critics, mocking how reviewing websites like IGN often give popular games high reviews which averts gamer backlash. The quote in question comes from an IGN review of ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosU''.]]

** "It really makes you feel like X."[[note]]In his video on game critics, he criticises the stale nature of professional game reviews by noting how many reviews of VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum claim that the game makes the player "feel like Batman". Expect to see many variations of this phrase in the comments of his videos and those of other online reviewers in particular, IGN.[[/note]]

** [[https://youtu.be/dVQcZa4O01A "Discussing Last of Us 2 with Youtube Comments"]] largely consists of rebuttals and TakeThatCritics responses to various Website/YouTube comments, but he also acknowledges some criticisms of the game as valid (such as characters being MadeOfIron and other [[ContrivedCoincidence contrivances]]).

* AuthorsSavingThrow: His videos on ''VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee'', in particular the ''Pikachu'' video, can be seen as one of these for his controversial ''VideoGame/OctopathTraveler'' video. The ''Pikachu'' video, which is very much PlayedForLaughs, overexaggerates Dunkey's criticisms of the game and has many of them play into his personal distaste for anime-style [=JRPGs=], which reflects much of the criticism towards his points in the more serious ''Octopath'' video.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjzgbZL12VI I'm Done With League of Legends]]. People hated the fact that his video was essentially saying that being an asshole is not only acceptable, but one of the few things he found fun about the game. Interestingly, a group unrelated to League players, the FGC (fighting game community), who are notorious for trash talking, defended him on the grounds that as long as a person has the skill to back up their words, a person should have the right to be toxic if they want to. He was also defended by people regarding the specific situation that resulted in the ban, as Dunkey had abused a team mate who had decided to throw the game before it had even started as he wasn't happy with what characters the other players picked.

** Inverted with his review of ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUsPartII''. He gave it an overall 4/5, said it had a good story and praised its brutal gameplay. This did not go down well with the vocally angry {{hatedom}} the game had developed in the wake of plot leaks, general culture war nonsense and review bombing that accompanied its game launch.

** Inverted with his review of ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUsPartII''. He gave it an overall 4/5, said it had a good story and praised its brutal gameplay. This did not go down well with the vocally angry {{hatedom}} the game had developed in the wake of plot leaks, general culture war nonsense and review bombing that accompanied it's game launch.

* NeverLiveItDown: Dunkey's BlackBestFriend Sky Williams is now known commonly as the guy Dunk beat in ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Smash]]''.

* AcceptableTargets: ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' and its fans.
** Mainstream Game Journalists and the websites they appear on.

** Whenever Dunkey reviews a traditional RPG, or a game with Japanese storytelling and game mechanics, he will rarely if ever give the game a good score because in his own words he "has no fucking patience" for them. He has always been up front about absolutely hating mechanics like turn-based combat, cliche anime story-lines, and "anime-noise" grunting & exclamations characters will do to fill gaps in a conversation. His fandom remain divided on whether he should review these games knowing his distaste for their mechanics [[BiasSteamroller colors how much he enjoys these games]], or if he is fine reviewing them because of the possibility of him revealing he actually really likes them (such as Persona 5). Plus some enjoy seeing him tear into a genre they dislike too, which only furthers the debate.

** Whenever Dunkey reviews a traditional RPG, or a game with Japanese storytelling and game mechanics, he will rarely if ever give the game a good score because in his own words he "has no fucking patience" for them. He has always been up front about absolutely hating mechanics like turn-based combat, cliche anime story-lines, and "anime-noise" grunting & exclamations characters will do to fill gaps in a conversation). His fandom remain divided on whether he should review these games knowing his distaste for their mechanics [[BiasSteamroller colors how much he enjoys these games]], or if he is fine reviewing them because of the possibility of him revealing he actually really likes them, plus for some they enjoy seeing him tear into a genre they either dislike.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: Very frequently.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Dunkey's video style changing drastically in mid 2018 from his comedic videos to more seriousness analytical videos, complete with reviews and more. Older fans of Dunkey have complained about how he went from a funny content creator to a nearly bog-standard video game analysis and lost what made him unique. He still makes the comedic videos, but they slowly have been overshadowed in views by his more serious Dunkviews or straight up reviews.

** Whenever Dunkey reviews a traditional RPG, or a game with Japanese storytelling and game mechanics, he will rarely if ever give the game a good score because in his own words he "has no fucking patience" for them. He has always been up front about absolutely hating mechanics like turn-based combat, cliche anime story-lines, and "anime-noise" grunting & exclamations characters will do to fill gaps in a conversation).
*** There ''are'' several exceptions, such as ''VideoGame/Persona5'' where he sings its praises. However, games such as ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'', ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' (which has its own entry below), and ''VideoGame/OctopathTraveler'' that were generally-acclaimed were all games Dunkey absolutely hated, and his fandom remain divided on whether he should review these games knowing his distaste for their mechanics colors how much he enjoys these games, or if he is fine reviewing them because of the possibility of him revealing he actually really likes them. Even Dunkey himself brings this up in his first Game Critics video.