Gollum is way worse than even our lowest expectations (Review)

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@craig3642 Год назад

15/10 Gollum voice. Actually beats Andy Serkis.

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@rod1028 Год назад

Gollum looks like he’s addicted to a lot more than just the one ring.

@natesnarrations7215 Год назад

Lol 🤣🤣

@berkant.11 Год назад

Haha. 🤣

@Celmi90 Год назад

Holy 🤣

@ewjiml Год назад

Well his heritage is pot smoking hobbits so…..

@randomchannel323 Год назад

Gollum looks me me getting under 6 hours sleep

@Nevarro_ Год назад

I can't believe they had the balls to release this as a full price title

@DeltaAssaultGaming Год назад

Redfall emboldened them.

@DarshanBhambhani Год назад

50$ USD is full price? Bro get your facts checked

@DrViperVideos Год назад

And the “Precious” edition which locks away the elf lanuage behind a paywall

@subject8776 Год назад

@@DeltaAssaultGaming Emboldened by the flames of... GREED

@DarshanBhambhani Год назад

there was some idiot called me a dipshit for saying this game is not full price then deleted his comment after realizing he's wrong, just putting this comment here to forever shame @Junii Senpai @juniisenpai3777 for being a thick brain

@vsf_dave811 Год назад

As a world renowned Tolkien scholar, I can confirm that Tolkien did in fact intend for Gollum to wall run but knew that the world wasn’t ready for such a groundbreaking innovation so it wasn’t included in the books

@mrlaz9011 Год назад

he feared too many readers would have their minds melted at such a shocking feature.

@mafata4200 11 месяцев назад

Yes. After all, unfortunately, during Sir Tolkien's lifetime people were not able to experience the greatness of Titanfall 2.

@KABLAMMATS 11 месяцев назад

@@mafata4200 Sir Tolkien actually a titan pilot that stranded here because of time travel, trust me bro

@sagegg5018 11 месяцев назад

As tolien himself (faked my own death) this is true

@shockgames23 11 месяцев назад

@@sagegg5018 who’s Tolien?

@rodrigocarmona9827 11 месяцев назад

21:56 The fact Gollum can't easily get out of a body of water shows the developers didn't ask for Tolkien expert (or whatever) because Gollum is a Stoors Hobbit, and his people was known for swimming and boats

@mori6434 10 месяцев назад

You don't even need to know that specific piece of Tolkien lore, just have seen any of the movies. Gollum was living at an underground lake when Bilbo found him and in one of the original trilogy (Two Towers I think) he was diving in a pond for fish and having the time of his life

@serraramayfield9230 9 месяцев назад

@@mori6434 see what I expected was a survival-horror game, but this is so close to the edge between "game" and "proof of concept" that this shouldn't have even been sold for FREE.

@DolanDarker Год назад

It looks like a PS3 game with facial animations from a PS2 game, truly a masterpiece of all time

@orwhynotrandom3593 Год назад

Gday funny goose man

@tenaar Год назад

3+2=5 right?

@SkillUp Год назад

Oh hai Dolan

@MaxiChannel16 Год назад

I’m so glad the Tolkien Estate is so defensive of the IP and only allows the best projects to go ahead! Right?

@Tibovl Год назад

You shouldn't diss the PS2 & PS3 like that.

@stevena105 Год назад

The inconsistent controls is just the game immersing you in Gollum's descent into madness.

@thrace_bot1012 Год назад

Verisimilitude at its finest

@bindair_dundat Год назад

Yeah. Gollum's other personality is wrestling with the player for control. :D

@Vagrant7z Год назад

@Telleva The game really makes you feel like Gollum

@hildagrauls5138 Год назад

Hahahahahha....noooooooo See, I just did a Ryan Johnson. Noo yes noooo

@hildagrauls5138 Год назад

@@thrace_bot1012 heeeyeey I should do my job and kick you in the feels. Super eyepatch wolf is my boss aswell

@Herr_Gamer Год назад

I know like seven guys and two women that can do a near movie accurate gollum voice. How could they not have found someone with a decent gollum impression?

@slayerd357 11 месяцев назад

I think it would have been awesome if they just had Sylvester Stallone do Gollum's voice for no good reason.

@NewNoobie 11 месяцев назад

@@slayerd357 I bet they would make Gollum suddenly able to use bow complete with exploding arrow, just like Rambo

@slayerd357 11 месяцев назад

@@NewNoobie "Lore accurate"

@SomeRPGFan 11 месяцев назад

That's... an oddly specific skillset in your friend group. I've never heard anyone do a Gollum impression. ;)

@Xx_d4ydr34ming_b4t_xX 11 месяцев назад

I know several people who can do gollum impressions too, I think it’s kind of a common impression for people to attempt buh idk

@stevenshea990 Год назад

21:58 this especially funny when Tolkien specifically points out that Smaegol's people are uniquely good at swimming for hobbits.

@jordinagel1184 Год назад

Not to mention he has webbed feet iirc

@naluzoniro 8 месяцев назад

Yep, they're river folk. RIVER FOLK

@orange_turtle3412 7 месяцев назад

He’s literally a river hobbit. His people’s entire culture revolves around water. Yet somehow he cant swim

@artyjnrii Год назад

Hopefully this kickstarts the Gollum-like genre which involves making anything you like, but having you play as Gollum.

@michaelplatt1959 Год назад

I’d pay good money for a Gollum-like boomer shooter.

@gsc8713 Год назад

@@michaelplatt1959 ULTRAGOLLUM

@extraplain2412 Год назад

The developers weren't creating a game. They were creating a meme. I understand now. Genius!

@sticklyboi Год назад

gollum stranding

@adrikboyd9942 Год назад

Animal Crossing: Gollum

@Warbec Год назад

Remember, for every game like this, there was a room full of people that approved it.

@inthefade Год назад

Tolkien’s estate approved this. That is a travesty. But we already got the Rings of Power, so no surprise.

@dustyyyyyyyy7 Год назад

A room full of people who aren't game devs xD

@MrREAPERsz Год назад

They're so out of touch with gamers. I get trying something new I guess.

@legoapocalypse3073 Год назад

I'm pretty sure AAA companies will copy from this game the paywall for lore and shit.

@adams3560 Год назад

It’s really not a bad game concept. It’s all about the execution, and unfortunately they fumbled it. I think the project was too ambitious for the developer, they’re not a large company. They’ve made many smaller games that were quite successful.

@ButrScochMonks Год назад

“Gollum eats birds he doesn’t raise them” is so real and says it all

@AwakenedAvocado 11 месяцев назад

As someone who eats birds i understand

@Nuclearsnow Год назад

Gollum doesn’t escape, he’s set free… they even got that wrong 😂

@gorgolyt Год назад

tOLkiEn eXPeRtS

@toxiceagle19 Год назад

Ommgg spoilers. How could you do that 😢😂 (Joke)

@Catchi1989 11 месяцев назад

Did they.... Give him a sock?

@leadpaintchips9461 11 месяцев назад

Except in the books, he was set free.

@ianlittle1653 11 месяцев назад

@@leadpaintchips9461that's what he is saying. In the game he escapes

@SteveElOtaku Год назад

Gollum in canon: "What's it got it in its nasty pocketses?" "WE HATES THE BAGGINSES" Gollum here: "I must perform taskeses for Lord Bezoses, or else no bathroom breakses, gollum..."

@psterud Год назад

"What has it got in its PayPal accountses?"

@aegisScale Год назад

"I mustes pays the rentses"

@Aldrnari956 Год назад

@@aegisScale I love how this comment implies that the current middle earth economy has precluded Gollum from home ownership and so he lives in an apartment. Morgoth mortgage rates are just too high these days.

@aegisScale Год назад

@@Aldrnari956 cost of living in Middle Earth has been getting terrible recently, you can't even be a mutated wretch in a cave without selling your soul anymore.

@ryanm.8720 Год назад

⁠@@aegisScale “You get your rentses when you fix this cursed door!”

@frankiefrank6850 Год назад

"Hopefully non canon" is one of the more casually brutal notes I've heard in a review

@RobleViejo Год назад

If Tolkien didnt write it is not canon, thats a FACT Everything that came after his death are just attempts to piss off his Spirit enough to rise him from the dead Corpo scum are always eager to piss on his grave

@JamesMadisonsSpiritAnimal Год назад

It is non canon. The Tolkien estate is pretty open about 3rd era media and it all being nonncanon accept the movies

@m1x0 Год назад

of course is not cannon, the only things that are cannon are the sacred texts, not even the peter jackson movies are cannon, they get as close as you can get in a movie setting but still not cannon.

@yannatoko9898 Год назад

@@m1x0 *canon

@Hugsloth Год назад

I think they tried really hard to find a point in the story where it could be arguably canon (though what Gollum did between Baradur and catching up to Frodo is not really a thing anyone was wondering). If the game were good, maybe it could've been up for debate.

@LionmaneElsie08 Год назад

I’m convinced that the reason this plays so badly and is so broken and unpolished is because people couldn’t bare to play it more than once when they were ‘testing’ it, so they were just like “yep… that-that’s fine!”

@generalalduin9548 5 месяцев назад

Or they were reduced to silence and the devs thought it was a good sign

@LionmaneElsie08 5 месяцев назад

@@generalalduin9548 probably 😅

@vtubersubs3803 11 месяцев назад

Gollum didn't even have to escape from Mordor in the first place. After Sauron got the info about Baggins and the Shire he let Gollum go, because he knew Gollum would inevitably go after the ring and could unwittingly help Sauron in locating it

@Dodgelayne Год назад

Whoever convinced the Publisher to send out review copies deserves some kind of medal

@itsnodee4612 Год назад

They truly are a person lookin out for us.

@Tyrian3k Год назад

This doesn't just look unfinished, this looks like they just made a proof of concept build and shipped that as a final product.

@joekerins9772 Год назад

To be fair, they couldn't have pitched this as a proof of concept, because they'd have been told to fuck off and start again

@jwberry23 Год назад

That's nearly all games lately.

@sambmortimer Год назад

@@jwberry23 Nearly all games since the start of games, the bad ones are just forgotten about

@cortster12 Год назад

@@sambmortimerNo, AAA games used to have more quality to them. Even the bad ones usually seemed finished in most respects.

@kalodawg8297 Год назад

people keep buying, so they keep releasing crap

@rileymcphee9429 Год назад

They could've given Gollum an arc where he starts more hobbit-like while doing all that stuff but goes through a transformation into the Gollum we know over the course of the game. But no, that would've made too much sense.

@imperiallarch7610 Год назад

But he was already mostly the Gollum we know when Bilbo stole the ring from him, and that happened before the events of the game. He's maybe a *little* more volatile during The Lord of the Rings, but in The Hobbit he was already a reclusive murderer who talked to himself and ate raw fish that he caught with his bare hands.

@OrstedBitch Год назад

@@imperiallarch7610 He probably talking about before The Hobbit, when gollum found the Ring.

@DrRyan82994 Год назад

I think he's supposed to look less corrupted? he has more hair and his face is fuller, but it just looks really bad and yeah he doesn't change

@globalincident694 Год назад

To be fair, it's a little bit tricky to tell a story that lasts for the necessary duration, which would be several decades. But not impossible.

@DarioCastellarin Год назад

That would actually take centuries.

@dah3071 Год назад

Those mine tasks could have easily been used for gollum to passively gain information he uses against other prisoners for favors or grabbing and hiding items away to use later for his escape, using smegul to make himself seem meek and none threatening to tougher sorts and gollum to manhandle the weaker ones into doing what he wants until he practically starts a riot and blows up a load of tunnels to slip away in the confusion

@ryanhutchinson4467 11 месяцев назад

That would’ve been a thousand times more interesting, and it would’ve fit with Gollum’s character a lot better. When I saw the previews for this game, I imagined that Gollum would be using his cunning to eliminate his enemies. Hell, in the trailer we see Gollum pour a cauldron of hot lava on a group of enemies and kill them! I’d hope that kind of thing would be in the game. Instead, Gollum can only kill a handful of enemies by using the stealth takedown animation, and nothing else. So much missed potential.

@generalalduin9548 5 месяцев назад

Why weren’t you on the dev team? That would’ve made the story more bearable

@fraserjurock7724 Год назад

Those lore bits are 100% AI generated

@enriquemeza2568 Год назад

I believe AI can write 10x better than this

@lamikal2515 Год назад

You misspelled "leftists"

@manjackson2772 Год назад

@@lamikal2515 What is wrong with you

@blinkx1070 Год назад

@@lamikal2515 Judging by how many failed actors, comedians, and writers on the far right I highly doubt that

@happymealchiz Год назад

@@lamikal2515 when you’ve consumed so much rage-bait that you instantly blame anything bad on your one and only scapegoat:

@ThatPurpleGirl81 Год назад

I think canon Gollum would have just eaten the raw eggs, not hatched a bird companion. 😅

@jordinagel1184 Год назад

At most he would’ve waited for the bird to hatch, so he would have smg more “crunchy” to eat

@matguimond92 Год назад

devs: nooooo! gollum can go through a redemption arc like everybody else! everybody else: this game sucks.

@nathanielreichley4640 11 месяцев назад

@@matguimond92but it's also a pre-redemption arc, the best kind of redemption haha

@mastermind4499 11 месяцев назад

Also... they hatch cute little birds in Mordor?

@fawnieee 11 месяцев назад

In the books it's even vaguely suggested he's been eating human babies lmao. A brief mention of a shadowy creature that's been snatching babies for them never to be seen again. Maybe he just wanted his own human baby companion. Jk They don't understand this character, truly "forlorn wretched and ruinous". If you're going to make a game about a character like this, might as well go all the way instead of trying to redeem him or give him a more sympathetic perspective.

@Froggsroxx Год назад

I feel like the character animation highlights why they only showed short shots of gollum moving around in the movies, because him crawling over anything flat just looks painful and bizarre.

@planetofthegapes Год назад

Almost like why humans are bipedal for a reason.

@FaeChangeling Год назад

Gollum himself is in this weird spot of having early 2000's textures and lighting on a 2010-2015 polycount while looking like 90's movie CGI, meanwhile the environments look great and it all just clashes in such an uncanny way.

@Chicky_Lumps Год назад

I was gonna say I feel bad for the environment artists because they're clearly passionate, talented, and the only ones who gave a rip. They didn't deserve working for a team making this diarrhea.

@ArariaKAgelessTraveller Год назад

The enviroment is made using the already existing resources from the engine itself, those realistic terrain are all generated While Character animation that is not like stock generated human requires actual skill to make Which clearly the developers lacks by huge margin

@Chicky_Lumps Год назад

@@ArariaKAgelessTraveller Epic's texture and asset libraries do not automatically create good art direction and environment design.

@PrimeNPC Год назад

I was utterly convinced that someone had warped the face and made a meme out of it when I first saw it. The fact someone gave that face the green light is insane

@Commodore22345 Год назад

Except the environments don't really look great either. At least not when you compare the environments in this game to other similarly priced games. I don't care how small your budget or your studio is, if you are going to charge triple A prices for your game like these devs did, then I expect triple A graphics to come with it.

@benprescott1415 Год назад

I just don’t understand how things like this happen? How did this idea even make it out of the idea phase?

@lucien4980 Год назад

Cash grab. developers that really dont care about any sort of player base and design games by going through the steps laid out for them and nothing more.

@Mojavekight17 Год назад

Devs don't set the prices... low IQ take lol

@fuuwad Год назад

@@Mojavekight17 some games are independently published tho, but publishers do set prices and the devs do work with them to set that price

@EldenLord. Год назад

I honestly would like a developers releasing this garbage getting punished of some sort. A game like this, with once again terrible optimization, should NEVER be released to the public. Maybe you think about making a game centered around Gollum when you are drunk, but only then.

@theblobconsumes4859 Год назад

There's probably some kind of development hell that happened.

@70rn Год назад

There's no way book Gollum wouldn't have eaten the bird, instantly. Hell he'd probably have just eaten the egg. Gollum as a video game character probably would've better served as some kind of masochistic survival-horror where by you have to run around gathering worms and lizards to stay alive whilst travelling across middle earth trailing the ring: evading wargs, orcs , giant spiders trying to turn you into a chewy snack.

@spaghettisploitation1029 Год назад

.... THIS! Take my money!

@shaneferrier7693 Год назад

Absolutely agree bud! Ill fund your Kickstarter👍

@TheMarauderOfficial Год назад

shit man gollum canonically stole and ate babies

@kabeltelevizio Год назад

I honestly thought that's what the game was going to be, a prison escape stealth game with a descend into madness as you look for the ring. This looks like an snl sketch of a game.

@leopereira4718 Год назад

This is legit what I thought this game was gonna be. I can’t imagine gollum working in any other game genre- at least not as the protagonist

@JerkyMurky Год назад

I think it's important to note that they sold the game as a stealth platformer where you escape Mordor, end up in murkwood where you escape again and do other adventures. They hid the fact that the front half of the game is overloaded with shite mini games in prison. They never mentioned that the majority of the game would take place in the exact same location.

@jonathansalazar4630 Год назад

You know you gotta give this game credit it makes you feel what it is like to be gollum in a prison boring, tedious, and you rather do anything else so in that area it really succeeds.

@webbedshadow2601 Год назад

I give it a solid "You couldn't pay me to play this" out of 10.

@RemusGT Год назад

They would need to offer me a fortune

@Dethflash Год назад

$100 an hour seems fair for all the mental anguish this game will cause anyone playing it.

@FangsofYima Год назад

This is inspiring. We should all aspire to have this level of confidence in our lives to actually release something like this as a paid product.

@mad_max21 Год назад

At AAA game price even.

@CorvoFG Год назад

Well, if it’s good enough for Bethesda…

@Wahid_on_youtobe Год назад

That's one way to put it :v

@mingyuhuang8944 Год назад

@@mad_max21 The fact that this game was "made" and the money was not donated to cancer research, should be counted as fraud. 😢😢😢😢

@cafuneandchill Год назад

@@mingyuhuang8944 I understand that the game is terrible and that you like cancer research, but you don't have to tell about it under every comment here lmao

@solgerWhyIsThereAnAtItLooksBad Год назад

I think that the DLC was part of the base game, but ripped from it and sold as DLC to make it cheaper because they hoped that making it 10 dollar cheaper would make people buy it

@Chicky_Lumps Год назад

That actually sounds plausible once they saw the turd volcano starting to approach eruption.

@wildguardian Год назад

What seems to be the most weird thing about this game is that Gollum should be a miserable character in a dark and miserable world, having a miserable experience doing horrible things to survive.. eating raw fish, killing them with rocks, swimming on mud and shit, in the dark.. avoiding rocks.. like.. I feel more like Gollum when I'm walking on the wastelands of death stranding or when I'm playing a game from fromsoftware.. Elden Ring is more gollum than gollum with this ridiculous pokemon bird..

@thesardonicpig3835 11 месяцев назад

What you just described is the Gollum game I would have wanted to play. You know, a gritty, miserable survival horror game set in Middle Earth, with a protagonist who is pathetic and crazy. That's one hell of a good premise. (Don't include player choice for Gollum's actions though - you shouldn't have the option to make Gollum into a "good person.")

@wildguardian 11 месяцев назад

@@thesardonicpig3835 exactly.. although... I would absolutely LOVE and laugh as a maniac if I had a "smeagol" moment if I had a single moment do to a choice to be a "smeagol" good guy.. just like when gollum chose to be a good guy and helped frodo and sam.. but in the end it backfired and didn't made any difference and drove him even further into madness like it did in the movies.. like a easter egg making fun of such games and at the same time being just like it had happened with gollum in the books and the movie.

@lordofdarkness4204 10 месяцев назад

@@wildguardian Remember, with Frodo and Sam he is forced to help them, he does not do it willingly.

@TheReZisTLust 8 месяцев назад

Ancestors the gollumkind oddysey

@AesirUnlimited Год назад

Seeing Gollum do chores absolutely baffles me. I don’t even think he’d remember what chores are, let alone being adept at completing them.

@mikkelolesen6292 Год назад

What's choreses Precious??

@bimapringgo Год назад

Maybe at one point this started as a Dobby game.

@TheLilmuzzy Год назад

Looks like chores are back on the menu boys

@gman7497 Год назад

It's like they realized at some point in making it that being Gollum means for the most part you can't fight, no one wants to talk or interact with you, and you don't have any armor or gear to go after, so what you left with? Chores, I guess.. lol

@traviswilson36 Год назад

This reviewer needs to do chores instead of playing games all day.

@JamesTheDominator Год назад

The development history behind this is going to be a fascinating read

@user-nj3xc8xp7j Год назад

What happened?

@Jolis_Parsec Год назад

It’s. Just. Bad.

@DomitriCervantes Год назад

I can already see mcmuscles covering it xD

@bo5935 Год назад

Tbh, I have no idea who would want to play a game as Gollum in the first place

@rometherevenant8749 Год назад

@@DomitriCervantes i honestly cant wait for a What Happened episode of this

@0Lottee0 Год назад

NGL I am kinda obsessed with the idea of Gollum raising chickens. Just in general. Imagine watching LOTR and the entire time Gollum just has a whole ass chicken under one arm and sometimes he gets it to go knock a bottle off a shelf. Maybe they should just make a game where Gollum makes friends and raises birds.

@Mike-os3pt Год назад

Villain Redemption Simulator 2023.

@thesardonicpig3835 11 месяцев назад

And he named the chicken "Baggins", so every time he orders it around Frodo feels awkward as hell

@sydneyslaughter7163 7 месяцев назад

LOTR; Gollum’s Farm, Parallel Universe 27 expansion!

@jameshart2622 3 месяца назад

Mordor Valley!

@winterland3253 Год назад

They may have created an accidental masterpiece with this one, it gives me 90s adventure game energy for some reason. Can't wait for Mandalore to review this in 10 years

@user-hb7py7xy7b Год назад

Nice to see that PS2 games are still being developed.

@sunlitsonata6853 Год назад

Hi-Fi Rush to this is the biggest flirting versus harassment difference of all time

@igaovieira Год назад

Only this time they require 24GB of vram somehow

@SaithMasu12 Год назад

@@igaovieira with DLSS activated

@akamikeym Год назад

That's not fair PS2 games were well optimized.

@danielsmid3777 Год назад

It was great era, I will always pick up PS2 game

@TiakOSRS Год назад

That intro clip of him doing the absolutely worst "Gollum, Gollum" possible has me in fucking tears. Who greenlit that?!

@captainsatire9628 Год назад

Genuinely surprised this is the first comment I've seen criticizing the VA work, I know so many people who can do a better 'Gollum' than whoever it is they've got

@celestialdancer6293 Год назад

Oh my god you're so right. It sounds forced in the most artificial way possible. Andy Serkis' "Gollum Gollum" had so much force and vitriol thrown in it and this meanwhile sounds like a guy nervously showing his friends his half-baked gollum impression

@barretxiii27 Год назад

@@celestialdancer6293 It really sounds like the kind of impression you'd do as a joke when referencing the Jackson films at a party or social gathering, complete with stifling the laughter that bubbles up because you're so drunk that every dumb little thing seems funny.

@Olorune Год назад

Sounded like a Pokémon

@darkhawk5231 Год назад

also whats with this weird accent Gollum got sometimes in this video? Gollum speaks way too normal in most scenes lmao. There was one scene in this video where he was like "got some food ,eh?" i mean.. what the fuck is this Gollum supposed to be??

@j.b.5422 Год назад

I loved it when Gollum said "It's Golling Time!" and golled over everyone.

@doccerdewm6039 11 месяцев назад

That meme died ages ago

@CreativeUsernameEh 11 месяцев назад

@@doccerdewm6039 memes never die, they can only be forgotten

@trevorhaddox6884 11 месяцев назад

@@doccerdewm6039 This game should have died before release, just like Morbious should have. Shovelware, absolute shovelware.

@Howlingburd19 9 месяцев назад

Truly one of the games of all time. The story was, the characters were, the gameplay was, the level design was, the progression system was, and the graphics were

@Dr.UldenWascht Год назад

After half an hour, I could hear Tolkien banging on his coffin lid wanting to come out and punch someone. It was a vivid experience.

@darkpromeathean937 Год назад

💀💀💀

@WafflezDay Год назад

It's really sad to see such a lore-full IP like LotR being wasted like this.

@UebelstGutenZeug Год назад

This guy was a literal genius, it's a fcking shame that they did this to him

@Free-4554 Год назад

This feels like the type of game I'd pick up as a kid, and only play 30 minutes of after getting annoyed over the controls or getting stuck

@dandewsnap2677 Год назад

Alone in the dark vibes.

@rustyshackleford234 Год назад

That’s how I kinda was with the oddworld series, however, those are actually good games I just sucked at back then lmao

@sephikong8323 Год назад

For real It really looks like one of those old cheap PS2 3D Platformer (or maybe Beat Them Up in a rarer occasions) licensed games Everyone who experienced one of THOSE things know exactly the feeling. The cutscene at the beginning alone brought back some memories and sensations I thought were lost in time

@peefmcgoose2908 Год назад

It definitely looks like one of those movie tie-in games that like your mom buys you for the wii because she saw you liked the movie

@akmal94ibrahim Год назад

Feels like one of those movie tie-in PS2 games that my mom bought randomly because she recognized the title.

@ChewieLewis Год назад

It’s really sad this game is as bad as it is because the idea of wrestling with his split personalities and forcing one to convince the other to make a particular decision as a gameplay mechanic is actually a really unique and interesting concept

@alessandrodelpierojuventus8156 6 месяцев назад

DID YOU PLAYED IT ?? IT IS GREAT AND UNIQUE

@inkmime Год назад

It really does feel like a throwback to like, that era of cheap PS2 tie in games you'd see on the lower shelves of a gamestop or tucked away unassumingly in a modern day used game store. It just so happens to have a more modern technological budget.

@TheHumbleHollow Год назад

This actually feels like a £2 indie game you'd find on a Wicked Wizard video and never hear about again

@RadioactiveBlutonium Год назад

Nice to see a mention of Wicked Wiz!

@Future_Doggo Год назад

The part where Gollum stared directly at the screen and told me the exact date and time of my death was wild. 10/10

@ActualBottleman Год назад

Also, I've said it before and I'll say it again: in a universe with so many characters, who in the hell ever actually wanted to play as Gollum's creepy ass?

@613aristocrat Год назад

It would be really great if this was treated as a horror game with Gollum as the horror villain and the orcs as the guilt free slaughter victims.

@albireo1533 Год назад

You COULD have a really neat game playing as Gollum, it's just that this game utterly failed in every regard to make it

@Wolfsschamane 11 месяцев назад

Plenty of ways to make playing gollum interesting, not every game needs to be about heroes. Playing as a vile creature sneaking through the shadows that is willing to do anything and backstab everybody to get to his addiction can be cool if exectued right. Just because you play as Gollum doesn't mean the main story foucs needs to be on him, make him follow and spie on other parties as means for him to find what he wants and tell middle earth stories through that. He never escaped Barad-Dûr himself anyway, he was set free after he had nothing new to tell (and where is the torture in game? Like... why is, so instead Sauron counted on his obsession to make him seek out the new ringbearer and thus make it easier for Sauron's men to find the ring. There is nothing wrong with the premise, just everything else is just terrible, starting with completely ignoring lore and character traits. This is the year of badly written Tolkien spinoffs that make you miss when they refused to give out licenses at all.

@thesardonicpig3835 11 месяцев назад

@@Wolfsschamane I think Gollum is an extremely playable character. He's morally bankrupt and great at parkour, what more do you need? Little Nightmares nailed the "frail, starved amoral protagonist traverses hostile world" premise, so it shouldn't be that hard.

@facundomoralesdiorio3802 Год назад

The controls were made that way to make you understand how it feels to be controlled by the One Ring.

@grntmuir1 Год назад

Not only did Gollum live on a lake in a cave for a few hundred years, but *Smeagol* spent his entire previous life as a river folk hobbit! Dude should be hitting the pool on his days off.

@CruelestChris Год назад

So Sauron's true evil was forcing his prisoners to endure daily radiant quests until the sweet embrace of death takes them.

@Tangence_ Год назад

Sounds like real life... hold up

@sinjin8576 Год назад

I didn't see Preston Garvey as Sauron coming ngl. They got me

@mingyuhuang8944 Год назад

@@Tangence_ The fact that this game was "made" and the money was not donated to cancer research, should be counted as fraud. 😂😂😂😂

@JewTube001 Год назад

@@mingyuhuang8944 why do you keep spamming this comment? go touch some grass

@trceb Год назад

Imagine creating one of the greatest literary works of fiction and then having a bunch of greaseballs milk your life’s work for every penny it has. Sad.

@karlhendrikse Год назад

Wow, it said "Sméagol" on the way into the dialog mini game, and "Smèagol" inside the mini game. An intense lack of care shown by a studio very lucky to be working with such a big franchise.

@Painjusu Год назад

It's the same 💀

@thesomethingthatisntathing514 11 месяцев назад

@@Painjusu No it's not.

@mastermind4499 11 месяцев назад

Does Gollum even remember his actual name until Frodo tells him? Or it's just the movie?

@DeathEatsCurry Год назад

$70 for Gollum with a lore archive, or $70 for Tears of the Kingdom. Tough decision.

@Painjusu Год назад

Or 60 for Diablo 4, farming 5 classes over months and slaying bosses with some friends 😴 But nah, g l o l l U m G a a m e

@nintendovirtualboywastakenfsr Год назад

I love how the stealth in this game combined with the enemy patrol pathing makes the entire stealth system a game of red light green light.

@pursueme5986 Год назад

They tried to recreate the systems from A Plague Tale but did not even come close.

@jasonporter5912 Год назад

@@pursueme5986 when I heard about this game my immediate thought was "oh so it'll be like A Plague Tale but as Gollum." Guess that was too much to ask

@Deivid-bn6yw Год назад

Still better stealth than the past 2 assassins creed games

@jasonporter5912 Год назад

@@Deivid-bn6yw AC games still have stealth? Could've fooled me

@jarongreen5480 Год назад

You know what would have been cool? In the books Aragorn actually tracks Gollum with Gandalf for years to try to find him. His journey takes him from the lonely mountain right to the very walls of mordor. Finally he manages to capture Gollum and bring him back to Gandalf for questioning. THAT should have been the game they made. How cool would it have been to play as Aragorn traveling middle earth and facing who knows how many dangers and amazing set pieces along the way? Hell in the expanded lore it's mentioned that he actually served in the Gondor army as a commander against the Corsairs of Umbar before receiving the call from Gandalf. All of that could have been an amazing game.

@corruptangel6793 Год назад

Because they knew no player would survive the escort mission of bringing Gollum to Thranduil.

@billedefoudre Год назад

There's a whole fan film about that. And it is good material indeed!

@christian_aspen Год назад

Never knew that. Actually would’ve been pretty cool

@Icetea-2000 Год назад

Is that how Gandalf found out about Gollum telling mordor about baggins and shire?

@leichtmeister Год назад

Dude, this is a German studio. They just don't have the skills to serve the modern market in the 3D action genre.

@ryanhampson673 Год назад

Have to love the explanation when it says game over. (Gollum falls from super high) Game over “Oh gee I wonder why?” You died “WHEW, thanks game, wasn’t sure what happened there.”

@thenumberquelve158 11 месяцев назад

I'm with you as far as the level of judgement/expectation based on the game's starting price point. If their expectation of us is to spend the full sixty bucks, we should have expectations of them. I love how properly confounded you are with the bird-hatching puzzle. Like, actually WHAT were they doing with that? I don't know what kind of game that WOULD work in, but they did that for GOLLUM???

@Und3rWh3lm3d_ Год назад

This truly looks like some weird licensed b side game from the mid 2000s. What’s astounding is people in a room played this, nodded their heads at each other, and green lit this.

@lordsysop Год назад

They probably thought it would be like thief

@eval_is_evil Год назад

Yes and supposedly the devs said if they make it right nobody will be able to make a Gollum game again, that's almost a direct quote. Also Middle Earth Enterprises OK'd this project, apparently they were thrilled in 2019. Bets on wrong horses comes to mind.

@MyNameIsSalo Год назад

what probably happened is that it was never QA tested in the first place, only some devs checking it out in their spare time, and any feedback they gave was ignored. The devs likely tried to push it back because they all knew it was bad, but management said no because daddy publisher needs their paycheck once the game goes live. And the reality is that it's more profitable to push out a shit game than it is to fix an already shit game. Like if they kept working on this over the next year, compared to releasing it when they did, they would have made so much less money. So from a business point of view it's better to just ship it and cash out on all the suckers who preordered, and then cut your losses and move on. For that, I blame consumers, Stop preordering

@Aliens1337 Год назад

@@MyNameIsSalo Bugginess is the least of this game's problem. The problems are: 1. Nobody wants to play as Gollum. Nobody asked for this. Why not a spin off game about a beloved character like Legolas, Aragorn or Gandalf? Why Gollum? 2. The gameplay is atrocious. People will put up with bugginess and unfinished games if they the devs nailed the concept and the core gameplay was good, because they know eventually it will be a good experience. See Skyrim, or Cyberpunk. Even if this Gollum game came out extremely bug-free, it would still flop since they failed to capture people's interest and the core gameplay is shit. There first mistake was making a product nobody wants. There second mistake was half-assing it.

@sonnyankau9239 Год назад

modern game development! just people working a job like any other 9-5.

@alexwalker9737 Год назад

19:53 They're asking for $60 DOLLARS MINIMUM, and that's the death animation??? I can't think of a more fitting example of "Something being funny that's not supposed to be". That's hilarious, no exaggeration I actually laughed out loud

@Infamousbob24 Год назад

Same the death animations had me dying

@Correc7edAura Год назад

LMAO! I clicked on the timestamp and didn't expect that at all. I laughed so loud i woke mu girlfriend up. Wtf was that!?

@Gamespud94 Год назад

@@Infamousbob24 Were you also floating awkwardly as you died?

@Kamyuyon Год назад

same, the one where he fell and it sounded like someone dropped a wooden plank also had me giggle heavy

@CrispyHulk1 Год назад

I didn’t laugh and this game deserves no semblance of a positive reaction, even at its expense. It’s disappointing and exploitative. That’s it.

@RHaenJarr Год назад

When you said "technicals" I imagined gollum escaping mordor on the back of a pickup truck with a machine gun

@sgtkeebler Год назад

Gollum/Smeagol talks so weirdly in this game. It's just someone making a weird voice. It sounds like at some points he ends up with a slight accent like he wants to speak a foreign human language. When I look up my beard points upwards magically as well, so this is valid part of the game.

@asmodeusml Год назад

Gollum is such a weird choice for a protagonist. The reason he worked so well in the books and the movies is precisely because he has a support role, and all that shatters when you put him in the forefront and make him do ridiculous bullshit to justify his role. It would be the same if a Star Wars game came out about R2-D2, where he breeds banthas and engages in conversations.

@elliotjames1273 Год назад

Yeah but let’s be fair. The problem with this game is that it’s devoid of artistic and technical talent. A great studio could make that R2D2 idea work brilliantly.

@TrueUnderDawgGaming Год назад

Or a Star Wars game making you play as Jar Jar

@magolor152 Год назад

I think with good devs the idea they were going for could have been executed miles better than this

@Eli_Guy Год назад

Based on the sht Chopper does, Id kill for a game as a chaotic astromech

@magolor152 Год назад

@@Eli_Guy let us play through that one comic where r2d2 basically solos an army inside of an imperial ship to rescue c3p0

@GravityTrash Год назад

I wasnt even aware that this was a real game, the initial render straight up looked AI generated. I will say though, its nice to get a Classic Bad game, not some boring live service battle royale that has literally no functionality and gets shut down in 6 months -- this is a classic spot #8 on the Top 10 Worst Games of 2012 type of game, and it almost feels nostalgic to see this type come back.

@wetalkinb0utpractice Год назад

All facts

@1sonicthe Год назад

Yeah! I hadn't really thought of it but you're absolutely right. It's really refreshing to get a straight up laughably bad game. This is 100% the type of game you'd see in those classic ScrewAttack's "top 10 worst games" lists

@Greenleaf_ Год назад

Yeah people always complain like "why does every game get a 7/10" and it's because really bad games just don't make it to release anymore, but this one is the exception. Straight 2/10

@SteeZy644 Год назад

@@1sonicthehavent seen garbage this blatant since The Quiet Man a few years back

@zach7 Год назад

@@Greenleaf_ This is too true, and it's kinda been this slop of mediocrity. It also makes what people critique as "a bad game" feel wrong because a lot of the stuff that people end up hating on is very passable and okay at worst. it's shifted a lot of our perspectives. So when something actually awful comes out it's almost endearing? like wow this is more memorable than a dozen hero shooters and crafting games I've seen that I'll never remember the name of. I'll at least say it stands out.

@Sir_Bone-Head Год назад

First time I saw anything about this game was in a best of from Vinesauce. First I thought it was some indie game where someone wanted to make a gollum game, but the best part was Vinny basically breaking the game immediately by going into the menu.

@Electric0eye 11 месяцев назад

Call me optimistic, but I think Gollum might be the E.T. of our time for the AAA industry. And I think that's hilarious.

@trickymarigold Год назад

This feels like a game that would come out in the PS2 and you’d find at a pawn shop 10 years later for 8.00 bucks

@stanb1455 Год назад

Nah, only for a pound.

@Krexel Год назад

Nah. 2.99 at most.

@machina188 Год назад

$8?

@bigdongkong1854 Год назад

More like 2 months

@ChronSoss Год назад

This is the kind of ps2 game that would get you 50 cents of store credit at gamestop XD

@ItsNaberius Год назад

Those lore entries were written by an AI 100%

@MomoWax1000 Год назад

holy shit, its depressing that that might actually be true...

@Allorius999 Год назад

AI would have managed better I tell you.

@oliverdavis4642 Год назад

the co author of this game has a phd in tolkien

@gamerrant Год назад

@@Allorius999 No. It has proven your weak defense incorrect many times.

@elvickRULES Год назад

AI made the whole game 🧐

@spacer0247 11 месяцев назад

The Emote-DLC should be the default idle animation for when gollum stands still for some time

@Caladras Год назад

It's a real shame this game turned out the way it did, because Daedalic Studios have made some really great games in the past. They focus on 2D point-and-click adventures and they've been really good at this genre. If you're into that sort of stuff, I can definitely recommend Chains of Satinav and Memoria. Great story, beautiful hand-painted visuals, costs only a few bucks. Daedalic probably bit off more than they could chew by setting out to make Gollum. They're a small German indie game devoloper, not a major AAA studio.

@elanorniennandilme3292 Год назад

their Edna & Harvey and Deponia series are also great, though I've heard the English translation isn't that great, sadly

@smithywerbenjagermanjensen Год назад

I'm glad someone else is saying this, a lot of people are treating this like another example of a big corporate dev trying to screw the gaming community, but that's not the case here. Daedalic is a small german studio that has made some real niche cult classics in the past like Edna & Harvey: the great escape. They're not activision or EA, these are just devs that had a great opportunity to pull off something big but then found themselves extremely out of their element, completely lacking the expertise to pull off the vision they had in mind. It's sad more than anything.

@dandylionwine Год назад

My favorite part was when Gollum told the Greshneg, "I'm institutionalized." A moment that will live forever in memory. What the hell were they thinking.

@Tyler_W Год назад

I was waiting for a Shawshank reference in the comments.

@K4inan Год назад

You are joking right? I could see this game would be garbage from the get go but damn.

@ivpopov5990 Год назад

I laughed at this harder than I should have

@phattjohnson Год назад

@@K4inan When you're right you're right!

@YellowDogWithCone Год назад

All he wanted was a Pepsi, just one Pepsi

@deolux9563 Год назад

Gollum really makes you FEEL like a 500 year old degenerate

@DeltaAssaultGaming Год назад

The exaggerated swagger of a shriveled up hobbit.

@WILLINGLYWILD Год назад

😂 😂😂

@shinken6636 Год назад

using literal buzzwords from 1930s germany in casual jokes is how youre either a fundamentalist nutjob or some kd who watched to many of them without noticing

@bigboydancannon4325 Год назад

Wow. Finally I can feel like Joe Biden!

@MissBeloved__ Год назад

@@bigboydancannon4325trump as well, truly a president simulator

@TaintedBlood30 Год назад

A wise man once said “if a developer can’t be bothered to finish their game, why should I?” This looks like a nightmare.

@quasarone3083 Год назад

Dude the bird flying around stiff as a board with that goofy look on it‘s face is insanely funny

@regex2660 Год назад

It really reminds me of those PS2 movie adaptation games where the game just creates arbitrary challenges and levels just so you can call it a 'game'

@MastaRavenkroft Год назад

We played that shit as soon as it came out too even tho we knew

@ElTequilla Год назад

It sure has some uncanny PS1 Harry Potter vibe going here.. Only those games, were for KIDS!!

@NF_Redux Год назад

the last one of those i played was Peter Jackson's King Kong on Xbox 360

@THEdarkmonkey678 Год назад

@@NF_Redux And what a game that was, I remember the fire mechanics blowing my mind as a kid

@neoshenlong Год назад

And ironically I remember the LotR movie games being actually kinda decent.

@Uppernorwood976 Год назад

If Gandalf saw this game, he’d have hurled himself off the bridge before the Balrog even appeared.

@Funko777 Год назад

Bruh.... Lmao

@noelklein3870 Год назад

Bonus bug: Gollum puts on fullbody blackface when in shaded areas like at 19:45 and 20:45. Unless that's actually an intended visual effect to denote him being in 'stealth', which would be a million times funnier if so.

@Darkmaster257 Год назад

The bird breeding thing reminds me so much of doing the old cod zombies easter eggs with the many convoluted steps XD

@Rawbone73 Год назад

His swing animation is to show off his mad core strength, hence his nickname "Swollum".

@DeadheadYates Год назад

Ok you got me with this one 😆

@mingyuhuang8944 Год назад

@@DeadheadYates The fact that this game was "made" and the money was not donated to cancer research, should be counted as fraud. 😂😂😂😂

@thatoneguy58609 Год назад

Dude can you shut up and stop spamming your joke that isn't even that funny

@Hawk7886 Год назад

@@mingyuhuang8944 spammer

@RichardPlaysStuff Год назад

That death animation with the orc, holy shit. Less of a kill, more of a horny bonk.

@bigbalticbox Год назад

"Quit yer bonering, ya mangy git!" *bonk*

@Chicky_Lumps Год назад

The environment artists really were the only ones who gave a single rip.

@nothingisawesome 11 месяцев назад

I'm trying to figure out why they left this audio in 0:30

@hotfightinghistory9224 Год назад

Gollum is one of the most complex and nuanced characters in the story. His lack of redemption is what saved everyone, in the end. We saw Gollum's anger and spite and guile in the movies. If this game showed more of the grief and torment and self-hatred that had become his only companion after claiming the ring, it could have added such a new angle to the overall story. We never saw Gollum really cry except for trying to avoid being beaten, and when losing the ring, but the books eluded to the inner pain he carried with him. Imagine if this story started with that. It would have made him a far more sympathetic protagonist for this game.

@LolaKlein Год назад

Exactly. I see people mocking the choice of character, but I find Gollum such an interesting and deep character. It's a shame they didn't take the opportunity seriously. It could've been a brilliant game with so much to tell. It's really a shame.

@Shyknit Год назад

Imagine if you started as him when he was a hobbit, that would have been fire

@JohnJacobJingleheimerSchmidt7 Год назад

I mean, TWO DIFFERENT HOBBITS who found him deeply repulsive and evil both wavered on the precipice of killing him, but ultimately took pity on his wretchedness and his self-loathing. He is, metaphorically, every negative pitiable human trait - and yet that is what gives him his humanity. He is not redeemed bc that element of humanity is irredeemable, but even the wretchedness of humanity plays an important role in the end. And yet the game somehow missed that this is all the ENTIRE POINT OF HIS CHARACTER

@iwantgoals1566 Год назад

Exactly. You could even have some nightmare/flashback scenes of the horrible things he did as he was transforming from Sméagol to Gollum only for him to wake up to daily torture whilst in the captivity of Sauron. Almost like he has PTSD from all the things his addiction to the ring made him do but it’s too late to undo those things.

@davidjsaul Год назад

Well apparently the story was written by "experts" so they seem to have a different perspective on Gollum from most other people

@Apoc2K Год назад

I'm really interested in the autopsy of this game. How on earth did this ever see release? Who kept pumping money into it? What drove the studio to even go down this road in the first place?

@DiscusvissenRocken Год назад

Guess they thought they could pull an EA and release a broken piece of trash...

@thatladfromsheffield Год назад

The studio is a very small, un-noteworthy studio in Germany that somehow got bought out for a heck of a lot of money to make this game. Just an all round bizarre situation.

@eldenthugshaker Год назад

Even worse, the German games fund has given them more money (2 million) to work on their next LOTR game. This has got to be the worst thing that the German government's ever done...

@vario6492 Год назад

GOLLUM! GOLLUM!

@watertrooper Год назад

Higher ups. We have to release this game for earnings report.

@niet4252 Год назад

Thinking they can make an original story from JRR Tolkien's works was the first red flag. Dude wrote a storied history of fantasy cultures spanning hundreds of years and AA/AAA game devs think "the ringwraiths killed my wife" will hook people interested in lotr.

@PrimeNPC Год назад

It's crazy that this game costs that and is so bad. I recently bought 3 games for 20 each, albeit early access, yet they are absolutely amazing and I would have happily paid more for each

@Jordo246 Год назад

How in the hell out of all the millions of people that can do spot on Gollum impressions did they manage to hire someone that sounds absolutely nothing like him?

@truesoupplay Год назад

What do you mean "sounds absolutely nothing like him?" lol what does Gollum sound like? Do you mean sounds nothing like Andy Serkis? Gollum is a character from a book. He should sound however the author describes, and even then, that allows for a lot of artistic interpretation. This isn't a the Lord of the Rings: The Movie game, he's not going to sound like Andy Serkis' rendition. One could argue this voice is more accurate.

@Sneedmeister Год назад

@@truesoupplay please stop, you're embarrassing yourself

@Jdb63 Год назад

@@truesoupplayHonestly that's an interesting point. Has it been stated if this game is in the world of the books or the movies?

@2HandHangerDunksOnly Год назад

@@Sneedmeister game sucks, but he’s right. The movies blow anyway

@ryno4ever433 Год назад

Hes right though

@spencercox4092 Год назад

I am actually crying at candle man. He's not big enough for his armor, he's craning his neck so his mouth sticks out of his helmet, his lil dangly beads are smackin him in the forehead😂😂

@TheL0ngbeard Год назад

I saw that and I had to stop the video and go back and look again. I have no idea who designed things for this game, but I am not sure they even knew what game is it for...

@jackhazardous4008 11 месяцев назад

Its like they build the outfit seperate from his body

@danthovict381 10 месяцев назад

Previous candle man was bigger, and Sauron dont want to buy a new armor. And just force him to wear that armor because Sauron is Totalitarian.

@iielysiumx5811 Год назад

I have to agree, when a game comes out costing £60 plus, regardless of the size of the team or the studio that worked on it they are fair game at that point. I honestly didn’t have high expectations for this game, it could have been an interesting personal story about Gollum showing his travels and how the ring consumes him but I guess it just wasn't to be. As you said it almost feels like they were developing another game and attached the Gollum aspect of it right at the end

@j-starchaser Год назад

"Someone called the Mouth of Sauron" my poor dude has been watching the theatrical editions... smh

@paulgonzalez7610 Год назад

The Precious Edition is probably the greatest name for a deluxe version of a game 😂

@brucevandermescht6957 Год назад

And ironically there's nothing precious about it at all.

@YEY0806 Год назад

Meta 😂

@Elwaves2925 Год назад

If they knew what they were doing, it would have been called the Preciousss Edition.

@kukuc96 Год назад

If the game was any good, that would have been actually cool.

@amerlad Год назад

this game is the living epitome of ''our expectations for you were low but HOLY FUCK''.

@DM-qd7gw Год назад

Totalitarianism low to be specific

@kjdee140 Год назад

Me with Biden

@scrubbingdoubles8585 Год назад

Jesus loves you John 3:16-17 Romans 8:35-39 Luke 23:42-43

@Mr_megido Год назад

@@scrubbingdoubles8585 while I agree with the message I do not believe this is the place for that my friend

@feralforlorn 11 месяцев назад

it couldve probably been a decent game if they just had a good vision. i mean imagine a stealth game where you use tactics, murder and deceit to turn npcs on eachother (perhaps using the npc rank system from that other lotr game) and to control the enviroment with a mix of mind corruption trough choices to decide the ending and who lives and how much of gollum/smeagol you are at the end of the story.

@mattwilkinson5605 Год назад

It pisses me off to no end that game companies play test the game and think “yep that’s fine, ship it” when it’s clearly broken.

@aidangordon2713 Год назад

Gollum: a game _one guy_ was looking forward to, *AND THEY STILL FUCKED IT ALL UP.*

@bufosp Год назад

one guy is one man too many for this game.

@mejrikais6002 Год назад

😂

@Volyren Год назад

Hey. That one guy has pasty, loose skin, is always in pain which makes him antisocial, and his only posession is a plastic spider ring the first girl who didn't scream on sight gave him. Feel good about yourself now? He deserved a good game. Poor dude.

@bigtony4177 Год назад

That guy was Jerma lol. No joke, he said it in a recent stream, I forgot which.

@chamako9 Год назад

True LOL, honestly who the fuck wanted a Gollum game💀

@abritishguy4713 Год назад

I can’t believe Gollum of all characters ended up with his own game.

@ttdttd4211 Год назад

Lmao. I wouldn't want to play as that gay ass character anyways

@xbeastxable Год назад

Exactly!

@JackFromAbove Год назад

Actually in concept this all seems great, but terribly implemented. Playing a game like Styx but as Gollum, and being a grimy slimy little jerk sneaking around middle earth could be fun.

@izawa9211 Год назад

@@JackFromAbove look up the 1st and 2nd age and tell me any of characters from there wouldnt be better It could be a cool concept i wont lie but whan there are 100times better characters too play as it fucking sucks

@josejoaquim4344 Год назад

@@JackFromAbove Sneaking around, killing orcs by biting their necks or pushing a large boulder to crush them and eating random birds and fish you to restore HP while avoiding patrols and wild warg packs. I can see the potential, how could they screw it up that bad?

@miguelgarcia6170 11 месяцев назад

Update they shutdown

@Joe-fq6bz Год назад

I think the problem was they had alot of the game done before realizing NOBODY WANTS TO PLAY AS FCKING GOLLUM

@Calipered Год назад

This game could've easily been a stealth survival game where you are sneaking across various Middle earth setpieces, stealing food to eat while avoiding the various peoples, from elves to dwarfes, following Frodos footsteps and ending the game when they meet. Like why isn't this the game they made?

@11235Aodh Год назад

I would play that!

@thegheymerz6353 Год назад

like an Abes Odd World type game. That format would work well too because gollum really should be avoiding enemies at all costs.

@kylemedbery9060 Год назад

I'll be honest, I was under the impression that was going to be what this game was lol

@Eilanzer Год назад

dude you just got yourself a better game than this in seconds in a youtube video...How they could cook something this stupid is amazing to be fair~

@IndianTelephone Год назад

Well for starters, there is this huge iron wall named "Tolkien Estate" standing in the way of media and the books being adapted. If even Amazon, who spent billions to get the rights, couldn't get rights to Silmarillion, that literally holds the history of entire Middle Earth, and had to invent their own stories to make Rings of Power, then how would a small publisher/dev get rights to make a faithful adaptation of one of the most iconic characters in the tolkien-verse? I am sure thats why they hired "Tolkien Experts" to write a story, but these "Experts" might just be wannabe fan fiction writers.

@luca_lwls Год назад

Btw that Mouth of Sauron isn't an original character. If you watched the extended edition of Return of the King it's that guy that comes out of the black gate that says that Frodo and Sam are dead and gets his head chopped off by Aragorn after like a minute

@fantasywind3923 Год назад

" And thereupon the middle door of the Black Gate was thrown open with a great clang, and out of it there came an embassy from the Dark Tower. At its head there rode a tall and evil shape, mounted upon a black horse, if horse it was; for it was huge and hideous and its face was a frightful mask, more like a skull than a living head, and in the sockets of its eyes and in its nostrils there burned a flame. The rider was robed all in black, and black was his lofty helm; yet this was no Ringwraith but a living man. The Lieutenant of the Tower of Barad-dûr he was, and his name is remembered in no tale; for he himself had forgotten it, and he said: 'I am the Mouth of Sauron.' But it is told that he was a renegade, who came of the race of those that are named the Black Númenóreans.... And he entered the service of the Dark Tower when it first rose again, and because of his cunning he grew ever higher in the Lord's favour; and he learned great sorcery, and knew much of the mind of Sauron; and he was more cruel than any orc. He it was that now rode out, and with him came only a small company of black-harnessed soldiery, and a single banner, black but bearing on it in red the Evil Eye. Now halting a few paces before the Captains of the West he looked them up and down and laughed." Yep, he is quite interesting character, a diplomat, herald and ambassador of Mordor, lieutenant of Barad-dur, a sorcerer, a Black Numenorean. His steed is also extremely interesting, one wonder what sort of 'horse' it was, some creature twisted by dark powers maybe?

@georgekornarakis524 Год назад

I was about to say it

@achka Год назад

Uhhh I'm sorry sweaty but he meant original as in "cool" o "bussin" as young people say. Believe me, Im kind of a Tolkien Scholar 😌

@drxym 11 месяцев назад

There are ways they could have done a Gollum game, perhaps by just recounting his story. Plenty of opportunity to tell his story in episodes with some pathos, stealth mechanics, ring addiction, rage, killing etc, from the moment he found the ring all the way to the end and significant events leading there. But that requires effort and clearly this game didn't want to bother with any of that.