I beat GOLLUM so no one else ever has to 

I swear those "emotes" were just idle animations made to be in the game normally, but were ripped out to be sold

Something about the term ‘Gollum speedrunning community’ is so funny to me

Sméagol didn’t accidentally fall into Mt Doom, he did it on purpose to redeem himself for Gollum the game

Gollum is the sort of game that would get bundled with cereal boxes.

My 3 favorite LOTR characters: 1. Aragorn 2. Sam 3. Girl Gollum

This game captured the endless pain of being gollum a little too well.

I feel like the art designer didn't remember if they were supposed to make Dobby or Gollum and they were too afraid to ask, so they made something in between and hoped nobody would notice

Ending is basically: - Gollum: Saves elf girl again - Elf girl: friendzones him again - Bird: *"Why do i hear boss music?"*

Gollum is if the gaming industry all of a sudden forgot 20 years of experience

Gollum jumps so high that he could have just joined the NBA if he wanted a ring that bad.

This is a game of such high quality that you'd think it was put on steam by a single Bulgarian man for $6.99 after making it in a free and open source game engine.

Okay, but hear me out: a plotless Gollum simulator/survival game where you build makeshift huts, kill orcs for food, and wreak havoc on Middle Earth in the style of Untitled Goose Game would slap.

The only time Oboe plays a new game is if it is universally panned 😂

I cant believe they made a game with oboe in it.

No wonder Gollum went insane if he had to put up with all of this.

Gollum is the Morbius of games.

Finally, the long-awaited GOLMEN playthrough.

Can’t believe obo didn’t finish the quest to restrict the blood flow to Gollum’s throat

“Talk to the Candle Man in his office.” The writing in this game is truly inspirational, indistinguishable from Tolkien.

This game looks like an indie game slapped together in unreal engine in like a week

I love how all the orcs in armour look like they're in really bad cosplay, why is the armour so comically big

"you're getting some lore, which you get in most games for free" made me laugh a little more than I should of

This feels like a game Gollum would make if he had a computer

"New objective, destroy the source." "If only i could destroy the source code for this game" had me dead

"Lets make Gollum a more relatable character by having him raise a cute? bird." Gollum is def a character I want to relate to teehee

So, my Sindarin is VERY rusty, but... The first one has a word that I've never seen, but it goes something like "A ghost, there is a ghost there" The second one is DEFINITELY making fun of you. It says basically "Oh, there is a stinky rat"

The first person I've seen to actually play the game past Mordor. That's an impressive feat.

the part were gollum said: "its gollum time" and gollumed all over the place was truly inspiring

"This is the world's first Gollum-type game" - Hideo Kojima

This is hands down the best chore simulation game ever made

Drinking game: every time he says Gollum you stop and think about your life.

The quest design, game-play, font and overall jank remind me of a game project I worked on at university. We were extremely proud of our accomplishment, even though it was rough and not necessarily fun to play, but for a student project with very limited time, experience and resources it was really impressive. Gollum is not a student project. It sells for 69,99. Using a Triple-A IP. How?

Not surprised!! Even when all the trailers for it first came out I was like, “and who asked for this game to exist? You’re telling me ‘gollum the game’ will exist before an open-world RPG set in middle earth will exist? Who’s the one who made that call?” The only reason I might’ve considered is if the art style/graphics were different and allowed for actual Andy Serkis to voice Gollum, but even then. I want a LOTR Skyrim game first

I don’t think I’ve ever heard oboe so legitimately angry at a game before

I have to admit, I'm kind of in awe of Gollum. It's been ages since we've had a game that wasn't just disappointing, wasn't just a mediocre 5/10 experience, didn't just have a rough launch that was ironed out with patches, but well and truly SUCKED with gusto in nearly every department - we're talking Ride to Hell territory here. And it's a bad licensed game too, something we mostly left in the 360/PS3 era. Why, it's almost nostalgic.

"I would rather play ten hours of bad combat than 'Uncharted' climbing." Somebody get this man a copy of _Ride to Hell._

I know it was a small team but this game had 4 years of development. That's more than enough time to make a decent enough game. Maybe not a great game but one I won't mind buying on sale or something that also fucking works.

"This isn't nice guy's adventures in the animal sanctuary" had me rolling omg

I can't believe we're witnessing the birth of the gollum-like genre

Gollum is a game entirely made by AI. You cannot change my mind.

Nobody knew, that He, He the slayer of bad single player games would ever be so brave and try his luck on Gollum…

The game peaked at gollum getting robbed by an orc for his lunch money

It just baffles me how this game ever came out as it was. It's like they had no playtesting done, and if they did, they outright ignored all the feedback. How even the devs put it out and said "This is fine" is beyond me.

Thank you! I've been wondering why they had made Gollum "kill the orc" and Smeagol "betray the elf". It just seems odd to me and you're the first reviewer that's even mentioned what an odd choice that is.

I love how Oboe just sneaks in Bionicle memes every now and then

This game is ahead of it's time, if it was early 2000s 😂

8:36 - "Gordh nauthad, ae thosta be nar" looks like someone didn't do their research when they wrote the script for this game. As best as I can figure, he's making fun of the way Gollum smells. He's saying something along the lines of "I can hardly conceive of a stinkier rat".

4:38 People in Middle Earth have offices? Do Orcs gossip around the water cooler when they're on a pillage break?

You're very brave playing this ps2 game, I hadn't even heard of this, the graphics are pretty decent considering this was what, a 2005 release by the looks of it?

"This game is better than Dolmen." You better put those filthy words back in your mouth and wait for the Dolmen: Game of the Year edition.

Replacing words with Gollum is the funiest thing to come out of this game

I think they missed the chance of adding more locations and settings, other than Mordor and Mirkwood, Gollum visited the cities of Dale and Esgaroth searching for information on Bilbo, the urban setting to walk around on the streets at night avoiding the pedestrians and guards, thieving stuff, overhearing conversations, hunting for info, also other places like Dead Marshes (one could have even add a switching into Aragorn as he hunts and captures Gollum :) at least it would be fun....GTA character switching hahaha) the Dead Marshes would be fun, the "candles of corpses" with their mesmerizing effect, the ghost evil spirits to avoid and phantoms, flashbacks to Gollum/Smeagol origins, his live among river folk after murder of Deagol, using the power of the Ring, the flashbacsk to his life in the caves under Misty Mountains, near Goblin-town: "But from hints dropped among the snarls I even gathered that his padding feet had taken him at last to Esgaroth, and even to the streets of Dale, listening secretly and peering. Well, the news of the great events went far and wide in Wilderland, and many had heard Bilbo's name and knew where he came from.' ... 'Then why didn't he track Bilbo further?' asked Frodo. 'Why didn't he come to the Shire?' ... 'I think Gollum tried to. He set out and came back westward, as far as the Great River. But then he turned aside. He was not daunted by the distance.... No, something else drew him away. ... 'The Wood-elves tracked him first, an easy task for them, for his trail was still fresh then. Through Mirkwood and back again it led them.... The wood was full of the rumour of him, dreadful tales even among beasts and birds. The Woodmen said that there was some new terror abroad, a ghost that drank blood. It climbed trees to find nests; it crept into holes to find the young; it slipped through windows to find cradles." These nasty rumors would make a game much darker :) press x to kill and eat a newborn, maybe going too far, but still...hell if one wanted to and other studio was doing it, this could have been a sort of survival horror game :), there would be longer sections of his life underground with various creatures and monsters to avoid: "There are strange things living in the pools and lakes in the hearts of mountains: fish whose fathers swam in, goodness only knows how many years ago, and never swam out again, while their eyes grew bigger and bigger and bigger from trying to see in the blackness; also there are other things more slimy than fish. Even in the tunnels and caves the goblins have made for themselves there are other things living unbeknown to them that have sneaked in from outside to lie up in the dark. Some of these caves, too, go back in their beginnings to ages before the goblins, who only widened them and joined them up with passages, and the original owners are still there in odd comers, slinking and nosing about." The sneaking and thieving (Thief game series were nice stealth games :)) and Gollum IS an insane murderer and cannibal: "He liked meat too. Goblin he thought good, when he could get it; but he took care they never found him out. He just throttled them from behind, if they ever came down alone anywhere near the edge of the water, while he was prowling about. They very seldom did, for they had a feeling that something unpleasant was lurking down there, down at the very roots of the mountain. They had come on the lake, when they were tunnelling down long ago, and they found they could go no further; so there their road ended in that direction, and there was no reason to go that way-unless the Great Goblin sent them. Sometimes he took a fancy for fish from the lake, and sometimes neither goblin nor fish came back." Gollum in that time also murders and eats orc babies :). "Gollum used to wear it at first, till it tired him; and then he kept it in a pouch next his skin, till it galled him; and now usually he hid it in a hole in the rock on his island, and was always going back to look at it. And still sometimes he put it on, when he could not bear to be parted from it any longer, or when he was very, very, hungry, and tired of fish. Then he would creep along dark passages looking for stray goblins. He might even venture into places where the torches were lit and made his eyes blink and smart; for he would be safe. Oh yes, quite safe. No one would see him, no one would notice him, till he had his fingers on their throat. Only a few hours ago he had worn it, and caught a small goblin-imp. How it squeaked! He still had a bone or two left to gnaw, but he wanted something softer." ... "“My birthday-present! Curse it! How did we lose it, my precious? Yes, that's it. When we came this way last, when we twisted that nassty young squeaker. That's it. Curse it! It slipped from us, after all these ages and ages! It's gone, gollum.” The Shelob relationship should have also been more explored, him worshiping her, talking with her, her using her powers on him: "Already... Gollum had beheld her, Sméagol who pried into all dark holes, and in past days he had bowed and worshipped her, and the darkness of her evil will walked through all the ways of his weariness beside him, cutting him off from light and from regret. And he had promised to bring her food. But her lust was not his lust. Little she knew of or cared for towers, or rings, or anything devised by mind or hand, who only desired death for all others, mind and body, and for herself a glut of life, alone, swollen till the mountains could no longer hold her up and the darkness could not contain her." The Two Towers, LoTR Book 4, Ch 9, Shelob's Lair

07:11 The backwards jump prompt is a visual bug, its actually displaying the Playstation Button Layout while you are using an XBox button layout. Only happens on wall runs when you need to reverse jump when you reach the top. I know cause it happened to me during every single one of these.

The basic idea, stealth and climb shenanigans, reminded me of Styx. I believe thats what its called. You play a goblin assassin and it's leagues better developed.

"At least bad combat is combat" some warrior ancestor he has is looking down and 100% felt that fr 10:56

this game really makes you feel like its 2007 not 2023

This game feels like the only reason it exists is for RU-vid videos about how stupid the idea was

The illustrations they paired with the end credits are actually fantastic. Its a shame we didnt get that game instead. When this game was announced I was confused and a little sad. I desperately want more games set in Middle Earth and this...this is what we got. I had hoped that maybe it was a strange idea that would be well executed. Those hopes have been dashed. This game is exactly the game I thought it would be.

The jumping in the white goo pit and seeing fish was clever reference to "hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy". It was "goodbye and thanks for all the fish". Such clever Gollum game!

It's astounding to me that even in the year of our Lord 2023, developers cobble together a game like this and say "Yep, this is ready to ship."

before uncharted climbing bad games usually had really bad platforming like the section with the spider but like the entire game was like that where they just expected you to guess where you were supposed to jump, I have played a ton of games like that, and I swear it doesn't ever stop being absurdly frustrating.

I really don't know why, but saruman bit made me hysterically laughing for like ten minutes

As a forest fire fighter in northern Canada right now, living in the dark, eating raw fish and not showering for days was extremely relatable 😂

Based on the thumbnail... I am surprised that many people completed the game... I also have now seen that they have a deathless achievement... which to me means that the true boss of the game is the controls...

5:12 this is my kingdom come

When Oboe shows so many clips of himself being baffled by a game you know you have a winner.

The fact that you had enough patience to beat this game makes you a better man than most.

Thank you for doing a lore-accurate playthrough.

This is truly a Dolmen of the LOTR-licensed games. Gollmen, if you will.

Holy shit respect for slogging through that

Gollum has inspired me to the core, when AAA games can come out not only broken or unfinished, but you also don't have to put anything interesting at all, no longer do designers need to worry about things like "is this fun", but instead can focus more on "what can I lock behind the pre-order" to make sure to LOCK IN those sells numbers before its even released. The future truly is now!

Just came across your channel for the first time, I'm only at the three minute mark but I'm laughing myself to tears at the Bohrok bit. Please never stop making videos.

Jesus Christ, why does Gollum look like Tak and the power of juju? 😂

Worse than Amy is quite an achievement

4:48 the infamous Shrek walk

“There’s ‘Renegade’, there’s ‘Paragon’ and there’s ‘a’. You want Renegade you’re gonna have to watch someone else” that got me 🤣🤣🤣

I swear, every time I see someone play this game, it feels like morbid car crash happening

I can't imagine how excited you were when the game soft lobbed the Bionicle reference to you with the Borocs.

What a time to be alive! This is truly one of the games. My favorite part was when the main character yelled: "It's Gollum time."

Fun fact: Oboe says “Gollum” 102 times in this video

A gollum game would be really cool if it was a strand-like where you just walk around and observe shit and do some dastardly gollum stuff, that would be cool

These youtubers videos are going to end up making this game actually financially successful

You got a new sub my friend! I love this!!

【Shades Finnish Pirates】2:41 Actually getting Gollum bagged is lore friendly ultimate insult, think about Frodo who lost his cool and gave into his gamer rage, Gollum played so hard that the mouse finger of Frodo got hurt and Gollum was very happy to win smiling and just hugging his precious...Frodo on the other hand turned to self pity thinking he's not a gamer and finished his uncles boring book that no one... i mean no one in they right mind would ever never read not me no no i have not read it xD (well maybe someone, maybe i did read it) and then due to being Gollum bagged (and having the last name Baggins to remind him of the even forever) Frodo decided that he was done with middle-earth and off to the Gray Havens he'd go to get comforted by Manwë (Leader of Ainur, Gandalf example is a Maiar spirit and the difference is like archangel & angel according to J.R.R Tolkien) that's what getting Gollum bagged does to you, tha'ts what the ultimate insult does to your spirit you just can't leave it behind. 5:32 you don't get to eat the bird, you don't get to name the bird, this was not option for Sméagol or Gollum this was option for Melkor "literal Middle-Earth Satan" or Sauron Melkor's liutnant... come on do these people even know what kind of character Gollum is as he was ready to eat a Ðildo Baggins...Ðildo surviving the encounter just by using the "Riddle me this, Golluman" phrase and since he got Gollum thought he was so egoistic that the answer to riddle would be "Ðildo's got a rocket in his pcket" that day Gollum's bags were left avoid of the head of a Baggins... I am a christian, so i just imagine Gollum got into MIddle-Earth christianity and the bird is The Holy Spirit helping us to solve the game quicker. Sometimes true mercy comes in quicker game completion times... Shelob made even Melkor cry out of pain so you better run Crash, i mean Gollum Bandicoot...dang. Let's all thank the one pop song to rule them all and into darkness bind them, Puddles Pity Party, "Chandelier" by Sia the clown always makes the songs great thought :) 1, 2, 3 drink goo, Goooolluuuummms gonnna swiiinggg... from the chandolier The chandolieeer!!" The clown sings it beautifully Puddles Pity Party, "Chandelier" by Sia The Missing action actually is hurting the most, Gollum's strangle wont cut it, it's just stealth mechanic and Middle-Earth is about adventure & combat against adversary blocking the adventure. If i bought Gollum, you came to my house to beat me i would roll on my side like dog and do the Gollum beg option to make it more pathetic. Just remember Gollum if that moment ever comes, commence the beating until Gollum is out of my system (computer, body and soul & spiri) That "Smauuuugggg" yell should have been in the movie before he is shooted by the black arrow. Why would Gollum wait years to kill bird, Gollum hungry now :S

I still don't know who thought that making a game about Gollum Is a good idea

Why would they think people wanted a gollum game

As a big Lord of the Rings fan, I was curious about this game but saw so many bad reviews. Thanks for taking one for the team and playing through this to give us an overview. (Also, I nearly lost it at "Girlum." LOL)

This is the first vid ive seen from this channel. Subbed instantly at the bohrok reference.

I love how the second he said "I'm going to award this game with something I've never done before" i IMMEDIATELY knew he was going to say something about Amy

I’m so excited to play a game about Gollum! Said no one ever… Who the hell thought this was a good idea?!?

You earned a subscribe and thumbs up from me just for the awesome tommy waseau reference and impression. Top shelf review.

„If you buy Gollum, i come to your House and beat you up“ Best Line 😂

“ITS GOLLUM” should be the next oboe catchphrase

Only 2 people I know that aren't full playthrough channels that have fully finished Gollum (2023). Penguinz0 and Oboeshoes

This is my first time seeing your videos. Just the Bionicle reference alone would be worthy of an algorithm comment, but you're also quite funny. Keep up the good work.

man, i had forgotten i was capable of having an uncontrollable chuckle, tysm

Love how he was so devastated by Amy to the point its become a standard of lowest of the low

Gollum is the Dark Souls of games nobody asked for.

I love how the end credit slides depict a way more interesting game that you would've rather played.

genuinely funny as hell, great vid