They said that in order to fully bring the character of Gollum to life, the entire studio acted like one during this game's production. Truly incredible
It's such a shame that you can tell there's a lot of work that went into this game, but just some key places where it fell apart that makes the whole thing collapse. Makes you appreciate how good games have so many moving parts that all have to work nearly perfectly
If you squint; Gollum also kinda looks like Edna Konrad (Edna & Harvey: The Breakout), if she went 80 years without eating or drinking. Humorously; ‘Keeping Up With The Daedalics’ shows that Edna doesn’t have a high opinion of Gollum - for obvious reasons.
What would Tolkein say? He wouldn't say anything because he's in his grave. However, if we got a turbine attached to his coffin, it would be spinning fast enough to rival cold fusion.
The gaming market really died when the Xbox arcade game market ended, it actually incentivized devs to make smaller games to release for low cost in between their big games, not everything was $50 plus back in the good days
suppose to be a younger version of gollum i guess, before he turned more into a grey color and ork-like. It's easier to see him as a different creature as you do in the movies instead of seeing him have more human tones
@@Yggdrasill8 this game takes place actually during the fellowship of the ring, Gandalf finds Gollum after he escaped when Gandalf leaves frodo after Bilbo's 111st birthday
That is the most unceremonious "Game Over" screen ever. No death scream, no theme, no nothing, just a menu. Even Doom (1993) had a dramatic death cry, red filter, and Doomguy's face melting.
My favourite part so far has been the fact that when you lose, and click "load checkpoint" the game asks you "are you sure you want to load last checkpoint?" as if it's saying "are you sure you still want to play this game?"
@@mutespeakerjack4668 Only if your options are "load checkpoint" and "continue", because loading a checkpoint instead of just continuing would cause you to lose progress. Here, "load checkpoint" is the choice that would mean losing the least amount of progress because the other choices are "restart level" and "main menu", so it feels strange for the game to ask for confirmation.
@Mute SpeakerJack at a game over screen? None I can really think of. I’m pretty positive I’ve only ever seen it if trying to load a checkpoint during gameplay.
Playing a game about a dude that lives alone in a dark cave, his best friend is a bit of cursed metal, and his best story is that his grandma literally sucked eggs a very long time ago… honestly I’d be incredibly disappointed if the game wasn’t literally either a bobbing for fish mini game, jrpg grindfest, mindless quest simulator, or alternatively… I’d kinda be down for a Golum dating sim where the options are rocks, fish, the cave, the ring, smeagle, and a reflection on the water.
I love how they were able to recreate that childhood experience of playing a minimum effort movie tie-in game from the late 2000s, but now with that early 2010s level of fidelity that we already had ten years ago!
I was watching it live last night when Charlie played it on twitch and when I se tthe quality to 360p, it literally looked like a PS2 game. Like quite literally, and everyone was saying the same, that it looks like a xbox or ps2 game lmao
The game literally lacks ambient occlusion/ contact shadows lol At 7:10 Gollum has no shadows Starship Troopers Extermination, a 1st person game, has player shadows
The character model looks like it was made back in the early 2000s and scrapped because of how bad it looked, and they finally brought it off the shelf, put it through an image sharpening program and called it a day.
To be fair to Jedi survivor it's not a bad game, it's just a horrible PC port with 0 optimization and bugs galore.... Once they fix all that I would imagine it would be pretty good.
It’s funny to me that people were so quick to label Forspoken as a terrible game, only for other broken pieces of shit to show what a bad game actually is.
The sound design team did an amazing job in this game, its unfortunate that their great work will be overlooked due to how the rest of the game is perceived.
There are some nice sound effects and okay music, but it seems overall an inconsistent and patchy experience sound design wise - at least from what I've seen. I think some reviewers were saying the sound is good just to seem like they had some positives to balance out the negatives
I want to imagine some innocent newbie sound designer happily putting this on their linkedin only to frantically delete their whole profile after the game released
I only now realized how much potential there was for storytelling with Gollum talking to himself. Imagine if instead of right-click or left-click decisions the game made you choose between Smeagol and Gollum and then you could have fully fledged dialogue with the other personality inside you, with branching paths a la The Walking Dead. Imagine having to convince the other personality to make choices and having to do so by selecting the dialogue options quickly because the other personality grows impatient. And this is what we got.
I always feel a little bad when this happens. I always imagine a team of developers working hard and making the best game they possibly can only to have everyone hate it.
I guess that's another way to look at it. I always imagine a team of developers being forced to put out a game on an unmovable deadline and getting tomatos tossed at them by the audience of gamers (actual players or not)... Or a team of morally dubious devs not caring if they put out a finished product because they're certain they can patch, update or just leave it as is without much problem.
Thats a soft as fuck way of looking at it. If you're a game developer you should be able to properly develop a fucking game. Especially after delays. Zero excuse.
@@REAPER3fitty I mean there is a lot more work behind the scenes that contribute to a game’s quality. It’s not always only because the devs are bad at their jobs. Time constraints, poor management and direction, lack of communication and dumb higher ups all could have contributed to the game being shitty.
I don’t know man. That’s not some failed passion project of a few indie devs. This franchise has money, they decided to go ultra cheap on development. Maybe it was frustrating for some of the devs that love the franchise but they got their pay and move on to the next thing.
The devs should have started the game as you being Smeagol and explain why he became Gollum by murdering his relative Deagol for the ring and getting an unnatural lifespan by it slowly changing the colorfull surroundings to grim and dark because of it.
My only defense for this game is the naming convention is probably supposed to be how smeagol remembers them which personally I think is one of the few nice touches the game has.
Wow. Vinny from Vinesauce crashed the game about 10 seconds after getting control of Gollum and I thought "boy, that's the fastest I've ever seen anyone crash a game!" I'm astonished that Charlie got it to crash while just sitting at the menu. This is a real... fine piece of work.
Jedi survivor crashed before I even got to the main menu. It was in the middle of loading the logo sequence when it froze and I got the unreal engine critical error, it wasn't even the windows UI it was the UE one
It could have been good if they went more through the journey of a man losing his mind bit by bit until he inevitably becomes a repulsive monster that cannot even remember who he is
It could have been a cool survival story driven game where you have to travel, fish and survive your way as gollum slowly becomes more and more unhinged until he becomes who we know him well as halfway through the game, the only moderately interesting part of this game is the negotiations between gollum and smeagol
@@thegodhoward8037 Yeah maybe do something like Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice with Gollum pursuing the ring in his head? Or maybe a Alice: Madness Returns style game transitioning from his crazed mind to the real world?
What I love in games is paying for locked features. It is a good way for games to be, having a full complete functioning game is just a little overdone. I like my games half baked and double the cost. . . Luxury 😇
@@D0ctorf0ster1Couldn't agree more, good sir. Don't even get me started on the absolutely abominable excuse for a sequel they put out. Can't compare to the likes of Bubsy 3D or the original E.T.
I can't stop giggling at the Game Over screens. The shot where Gollum just decides to fall flat to the ground and die even before the blast goes off is downright hilarious.
I'm glad that Crazy Frog is finally getting the attention that he deserves. It took far too long for him to jump from music to the video game world though.
As a lord of the rings fan even the first shot of gollum was a stab in my heart and then the game over screen showed and my soul officially left my body.
If I may ask what is so bad with how Gollum looks ? The quality is bad and it looks like a early PS3 title but is there any other reasons why LOTR fans hate the look so much ?
@@Gatorade69mate not even PS3. Search up "Gollum Shadow of Mordor", a 2017 LOTR based game. He looks perfect there, as he should look like a deformed psycho heremit, not like a goddamn tard Furby
@Gwaihir the Windlord hardcore fans can be sticklers and all the little problems build up into just straight up hating the model. He’s just made poorly. I think the worst part is his models hair, it renders over the particles and smoke. In Vinny’s stream, he had to ‘turn off hair’ to get it to run for more than 10 seconds. Like another commenter said, he doesn’t look like Gollum, he looks like some weird kid you went to school with.
I mean blizzards lead for d4 just asked how someone who had early access has an unfair advantage in a day 1 race over non alpha/beta testers. These people have literally 0 clue on how a video game even works.
This year has been both amazing and awful for video games at the same time. We've got some fantastic games already here or coming up, like RE4 Remake or Tears of the Kingdom, and then... we've got the Redfalls and Gollums.
I’m no game developer and have no idea how hard it is to animate characters, but it’s been really distracting to me recently when characters faces do that reset thing when they stop talking.
@@Jeren6924 at least Hogwarts Legacy has the excuse of being a big ass open world RPG kinda game with lots of side missions that require the use of limited real time dialogue cutscenes to actually come out on time, this game is like a linear 8/12 hour long game and they can't even make the fully scripted cutscenes look good, the scene where Gollum falls back after the explosion before seeing Sauron is embarrassingly amateur looking.
That or when the deliberately hide characters faces so they don't have to do lip syncing whatsoever. Or when they don't show the action being done, like putting text over, using freeze frames (Redfall/Babylon's fall), or move the camera so you can't see it. Or when they use a back and forth during a cutscenes with both characters awkwardly just standing there lifelessly. It's been really egregious how obvious a lot of these cheap-outs on animations have been in recent years.
Probably has more to do with bad technical animation. You usually automatically blend between expressions using code as you move from one to another, but they just aren’t blending it smoothly.
I live how they didn't want to animate plunking the red stone in the fire barrel at the end, they just shot his bck flexing and quirking for a bit while he's leant over the barrel lmao
Charlie looks so crushed after some of these deaths and I can't blame him. You are a champion for stomaching as much of the game as you did for our entertainment.
It's because of these untalented egostical writers that cant produce any vision for themselves so they try to hijack the success of real talent. So we just get bad fanfics with some budget.
We should archive all the corpo letter with these apologies and let an AI generate another generic corpo letter but everything is made out of the archived letters. Like in those collages where when you zoom in you see that the pixels are actually Filthy Frank eating maccaroni.
Man you lot are really spoiled. You’d be lucky to have a game you bought at the local shop work on your computer any more than 50% of the time. Games are now almost guaranteed to work on whatever computer or console you run them on, even if they run badly on first release. At least you’re gonna be able to get a patch rolled out relatively easily and for free within a day or 2 after launch that you can download rather than having to send off for a CD or floppy disk with the patch, or having to shut down your home phone line for hours as you wait for a patch to download over the dial-up. The problem isn’t that of the developers, its a problem with the economic system and the financing of the game industry. They rely on pre-orders and release-day purchases to be able to keep up work operations to be able to fix the game, otherwise they’d lose so much money and confidence from investors just keeping the studio running day to day and development ongoing that there’d be no game released at all, let alone a future for the studio developing it.
@@darcgibson5099 This game was straight up unfinished though, even the worst games prior to the era of updates and patches over the internet were at least finished, with like, 2 exceptions from the top of my head.
People arguing about the price of this game- Some say its worth 20$ only and some say 2$, and here I am thinking I won't even torrent this, waste my Internet and hard drive storage on this game.
If we want to have a new LotR game why not make a Tom Bombadill game where it's a farming sim where you have to save people from the Barrow Wights and keep his wife happy? That would be great.
Gotta love this peak modern gameplay with exciting features like: - climbing around on yellow painted cliffs - holding forward while listening to dialogue - slogging through obligatory stealth sections - solving random "puzzles" once in a while Other games like this at least also include nice combat mechanics and rpg elements. Without this this game seems like a pure snooze fest. Also, the heck is up with the animations sometimes? Like when he climbs a ladder it looks like the animation skips a few frames all the time.
Shadow's of morodor and war were fucking peak lord of the rings game. Fun combat. fun stealth. Interesting story and protagonists. And the orc system was awesome. I loved learning a warlords weakness and planning how would strike and kill him. This is just such a sad waste of a game in comparison.
I just found out that the voice for Gollum is the same VA as Riki from Xenoblade Chronicles, according to IMDB. So that's pretty rad if you're a fan of that series.
They said that in order to fully bring the character of Gollum to life, the entire studio acted like one during this game's production. Truly incredible
And together they had around a 4th of a brain cell
i guess making a good game was too "precious" for them
You say that as though there are many Gollums... Gollum? Gollumii?
This looks like a horrible remaster of a title from 2004
Oh! So thats the reason why is game like that
There's at least one developer that worked VERY hard on something in this game for years and I feel sorry for that one guy
My favorite ginger CZcamsr ❤❤❤
@@matthewhaslam1045 I prefer soundsmith but we all have our opinions
Gosh you’re so right :((
Probably the landscape/level designer. Was about the only enjoyable thing to look at in this "game"
It's such a shame that you can tell there's a lot of work that went into this game, but just some key places where it fell apart that makes the whole thing collapse. Makes you appreciate how good games have so many moving parts that all have to work nearly perfectly
16:25 I love how Gollum does his death animation *before* the explosion went off, that's subverting expectations is what that is.
I can't believe this game came out 20 years ago already. Time does fly!
yea it looks that old
Nah bro it's going to be 25 years old
Lol
@@-Poka- Nah it came out the same year as Toy Story
Man, the nights playing this on my old wii...
Gollum doesn't look like a man driven to insanity, he looks like the weird kid I went to elementary school with
Ate too much glue
If you squint; Gollum also kinda looks like Edna Konrad (Edna & Harvey: The Breakout), if she went 80 years without eating or drinking. Humorously; ‘Keeping Up With The Daedalics’ shows that Edna doesn’t have a high opinion of Gollum - for obvious reasons.
Looks like the type that sniffed pritt sticks and drank hand sanitiser.
one doesn't exclude the other.
surely youre from MA
This game is the literal definition of "Our expectations were low but holy shit"
What would Tolkein say?
He wouldn't say anything because he's in his grave.
However, if we got a turbine attached to his coffin, it would be spinning fast enough to rival cold fusion.
😂😂😂
@@bottyhammer*Tolkien
"You tricked me. I knew you was ass, but my word you stink." - Shaquille O'Neal.
If you wanna play a game about Gollum, you're better off just playing the sauna variant it seems...
$50 for this is wild. Back in the day this would be a $20 indie game you’d buy on the Xbox 360 marketplace
The gaming market really died when the Xbox arcade game market ended, it actually incentivized devs to make smaller games to release for low cost in between their big games, not everything was $50 plus back in the good days
20 is pushing it Id say 5
@@aspart2842 agreed
That you can get Diablo 4 for 60 or 70$ is fucking bonkers.
@@chinchilla415 what’s even more crazy is some people actually had to spend 60-70 on this game 😂
how the fuck did they make Gollum look more demented than actual Gollum??
suppose to be a younger version of gollum i guess, before he turned more into a grey color and ork-like. It's easier to see him as a different creature as you do in the movies instead of seeing him have more human tones
@@Yggdrasill8 this game takes place actually during the fellowship of the ring, Gandalf finds Gollum after he escaped when Gandalf leaves frodo after Bilbo's 111st birthday
nah he looks like a piss baby here, the real movie was way better.
@@michaeljeanrichard4111st
@@michaeljeanrichard4 *111th
That is the most unceremonious "Game Over" screen ever. No death scream, no theme, no nothing, just a menu. Even Doom (1993) had a dramatic death cry, red filter, and Doomguy's face melting.
Game companies should literally ask themselves: "would they rather play this, or Doom 1993?" before releasing anything. 😂
looks like something made out of watching a youtube tutorial
@@Kaiji... LMFAO FAX 🗣
I absolutely love how there's no music or even some sort of ambient sound effect. It just fades into the screen lol
The best part is a pit death just making you fall on the non existent floor.
the game crashing before even starting is just a great representation of modern gaming
Only in American video games
Cyberpunk 2077 crashes less often than this shit
That’s so depressing but true 💀😭
@@p-__ my potty is better than your potty
@@TrueTrickster2016the developers of this game are from Germany though?
What a great game with such interesting characters like, Cruel Woman and Frail Man.
To be fair, those names are not bad ideas since they're just names Gollum designates them as. Like how Sam's name was Stupid Fat Hobbit.
o my god. 🤣🤣🤣😀
Just figured out the lore, with Gollum slumping over dead a second before the explosion 16:36 clearly this is just a story about Gollum larping about
Its crazy that as every month passes we somehow get the newest worst game.
Ikr
Ikr
I wonder what the definitive worse will be
Ikr
Ikr
My favourite part so far has been the fact that when you lose, and click "load checkpoint" the game asks you "are you sure you want to load last checkpoint?" as if it's saying "are you sure you still want to play this game?"
My exact thought lmao
But were you really sure wanted to load that checkpoint to keep playing tho? 🤔
Instead of telling you you will lose unsaved progress it should say "You will continue to play this... "game". Are you REALLY sure?"
@@mutespeakerjack4668 Only if your options are "load checkpoint" and "continue", because loading a checkpoint instead of just continuing would cause you to lose progress. Here, "load checkpoint" is the choice that would mean losing the least amount of progress because the other choices are "restart level" and "main menu", so it feels strange for the game to ask for confirmation.
@Mute SpeakerJack at a game over screen? None I can really think of. I’m pretty positive I’ve only ever seen it if trying to load a checkpoint during gameplay.
the fact you can actually see him fall asleep at 9:59 is unreasonably funny to me
Playing a game about a dude that lives alone in a dark cave, his best friend is a bit of cursed metal, and his best story is that his grandma literally sucked eggs a very long time ago… honestly I’d be incredibly disappointed if the game wasn’t literally either a bobbing for fish mini game, jrpg grindfest, mindless quest simulator, or alternatively… I’d kinda be down for a Golum dating sim where the options are rocks, fish, the cave, the ring, smeagle, and a reflection on the water.
DDLC but the player is Gollum and Monika is the One Ring.
I'd like to know more about the grandma sucking eggs.
@@FryingWater I don’t know if the line made it to the movie or the game, but it was part of his story in The Hobbit book.
I love how they were able to recreate that childhood experience of playing a minimum effort movie tie-in game from the late 2000s, but now with that early 2010s level of fidelity that we already had ten years ago!
I was watching it live last night when Charlie played it on twitch and when I se tthe quality to 360p, it literally looked like a PS2 game. Like quite literally, and everyone was saying the same, that it looks like a xbox or ps2 game lmao
@@kimutone2970 except ps2 games didn't have the luxury of day 1 patches, so they had to function in order to be sold
Ah the nostalgia. Over the Hedge on gamecube still slaps
The game literally lacks ambient occlusion/ contact shadows lol
At 7:10 Gollum has no shadows
Starship Troopers Extermination, a 1st person game, has player shadows
Same PFP image lol
16:37
the way he just pathetically flops over like a sad wet noodle from an explosion miles away is so unintentionally hilarious to me
He also died before the explosion 🤣
my fav moment too. This game looks so incredibly rushed
When it got to that part I wheezed and cried, it's so bad it's good! 🤣😂
Family Guy death pose
lmao
the death to the explosion is one of the funniest things ive ever seen LMAO
Time stamp?
@@Fagnarok 16:37
Watch the start of his second stream, has a great death as well
Lmao dude had heart attack
11:44
The pathetic death noise folllowed by the immediate Game Over screen is so funny
The game over screen is so abrupt and anticlimactic that it just makes me almost laugh every time I see it 💀
The sponsor was less abrupt than the game over screen 😂
Ong i thought he pressed pause at first😂😂😂
It gives Xbox 360, y'know?
I always think there’s a bunch of dust on the left side of my screen when I see it
Never buy a game day 1
Ever .....ever.
Never pre order
The industry has failed or misled repeatedly.
The fact that the falling deaths are more violently abrupt than randomly getting decked in the noggin with no audio kills me
13:22 "oh hey! Heeeeeeey!"
@Anna.user723 GET REPOWTED
i salute the studio for being brave and not conforming to the high graphics standards that rock AAA games nowadays
Making 2012 graphics is stunning and brave.
The character model looks like it was made back in the early 2000s and scrapped because of how bad it looked, and they finally brought it off the shelf, put it through an image sharpening program and called it a day.
The fact that the game launched with a DLC button is truly so much
Thats so funny
The DLC is just a soundtrack, some Golem emotes, and making the elves all speak elvish
@@lukasg4807 Back in my day the goddamn elves would have spoke Elvish by default, now it's a fuckin DLC.
@@Omnischism like wtf 😭 it prolly was default but then they needed monezation
the only good dlc for this game stands for deleteing little content, which is the entire game. the game is garbage
There is literally nothing to do in this other than walk and fall off the map, truly the game of all time.
Climbing simulator 2023
@@PatLadsChan99can’t forget that you throw a pebble, truly a goty experience.
I'm thinking Balan Wonderworld might be a better game than this, which is honestly shocking to me
@@PastPositive I say we all vote for this game to be gotr just for the laughs and shock at the game awards
I'd rather play the sauna party game variant of Gollum honestly.
That's always bound to be atleast somewhat eventful.
Looks like a masterpiece after watching the Kong game
Everytime i see gollums face i feel like its edited or something and then i realize its not... gets me everytime
Its unreal we've already experienced like 4 "worst game of 2023" and the year isn't even half way through
To be fair to Jedi survivor it's not a bad game, it's just a horrible PC port with 0 optimization and bugs galore.... Once they fix all that I would imagine it would be pretty good.
@@Dragonk116 key word is once
It’s funny to me that people were so quick to label Forspoken as a terrible game, only for other broken pieces of shit to show what a bad game actually is.
@@Dragonk116 games shouldn’t be released in that state period.
@@Evanz111 doesn't make for spoken good. That's a garbage game as well
The way Sméagol just flops to the ground after a lethal fall is absolute gold
haha yeah. and its the same exact animation as when he dies to the invisible wall of the void
@Louis go to bed
@Louis if so can he lead us to damnation? I already feel like it's hell on earth so why not speed up the progress.
He looks like Walter White in that one meme where he falls.
Men
If anything, the team did a really good job at recreating an early 2000’s PS3 CGI game
The sound design team did an amazing job in this game, its unfortunate that their great work will be overlooked due to how the rest of the game is perceived.
Are you just referring to the music? The audio balancing is terrible and im hearing lots of odd, stock sfx (like the tea kettle).
There are some nice sound effects and okay music, but it seems overall an inconsistent and patchy experience sound design wise - at least from what I've seen. I think some reviewers were saying the sound is good just to seem like they had some positives to balance out the negatives
non suspicious warner sound design employee
same thing for the environements look, it looks so cool
I want to imagine some innocent newbie sound designer happily putting this on their linkedin only to frantically delete their whole profile after the game released
I only now realized how much potential there was for storytelling with Gollum talking to himself. Imagine if instead of right-click or left-click decisions the game made you choose between Smeagol and Gollum and then you could have fully fledged dialogue with the other personality inside you, with branching paths a la The Walking Dead. Imagine having to convince the other personality to make choices and having to do so by selecting the dialogue options quickly because the other personality grows impatient.
And this is what we got.
Interesting
I guess that'd be cool.
if you find that concept interesting, youd love disco elysium
@@shoeofobama6091 I need to go back and finish that game, but it's rough to play with the loading times on the Switch. Lol
@@shoeofobama6091 Yeah I was planning to buy it next time it goes on sale!
it's amazing how in 2023 there are still game devs who think that unskippable stealth sections that you fail automatically when spotted are fun at all
Maybe just stealth better noob
It's supposed to be a stealth game.
@@VitalVampyr that doesn't mean you should get a game over screen every time an enemy notices your toe lmao
@@VitalVampyr its supposed to be a boring game
@@VitalVampyr stealth games are piss
I always feel a little bad when this happens. I always imagine a team of developers working hard and making the best game they possibly can only to have everyone hate it.
I guess that's another way to look at it. I always imagine a team of developers being forced to put out a game on an unmovable deadline and getting tomatos tossed at them by the audience of gamers (actual players or not)...
Or a team of morally dubious devs not caring if they put out a finished product because they're certain they can patch, update or just leave it as is without much problem.
Thats a soft as fuck way of looking at it. If you're a game developer you should be able to properly develop a fucking game. Especially after delays. Zero excuse.
@@REAPER3fitty I mean there is a lot more work behind the scenes that contribute to a game’s quality. It’s not always only because the devs are bad at their jobs. Time constraints, poor management and direction, lack of communication and dumb higher ups all could have contributed to the game being shitty.
I don’t know man. That’s not some failed passion project of a few indie devs. This franchise has money, they decided to go ultra cheap on development. Maybe it was frustrating for some of the devs that love the franchise but they got their pay and move on to the next thing.
Not really dude some people work it's just a job not every developer wants to make the best game they can
That moment when the amount of grafts on Gollum’s thinning hairline is way more than the actual effort put into the game itself.
The devs should have started the game as you being Smeagol and explain why he became Gollum by murdering his relative Deagol for the ring and getting an unnatural lifespan by it slowly changing the colorfull surroundings to grim and dark because of it.
Yeah but then the game might actually be good lmao
That was the initial plan, but it needed 70GB of DDR9 RAM and 2TB of quantum drive space.
Too much work
It's funny how that never happened in the book.
We have 3 4 hour films explaining that and 3 books
This game genuinely feels and looks like it was made in the mid 2000's.
Plus that game over screen.
😃😐
I can't believe it is a new game it looks horrible
From the narrative, to the gameplay elements, to the graphics, it all sucks. They really didn't put the A-team on this one, huh?
@@BlueDrew10 look at it 😂 it literally is shit. Theres no incentive to play it
Idk what's worse, the art style, the gameplay, the bugs or the fact they couldn't bring back the original VA for Gollum.
Gollum's little "Why?" had me rolling 😂10:24
14:32 😂
Such incredible character names like “frail man” and “cruel woman” this is truly one of the stories of all time
The Frail Man looks suspiciously like Gandalf, that can't be me right.
"Oh middle aged man is in this? Oh they got Woman? I hate her"
My only defense for this game is the naming convention is probably supposed to be how smeagol remembers them which personally I think is one of the few nice touches the game has.
An all time Tolkien _CLASSIC_
Candle man 😂😂😂
Wow. Vinny from Vinesauce crashed the game about 10 seconds after getting control of Gollum and I thought "boy, that's the fastest I've ever seen anyone crash a game!" I'm astonished that Charlie got it to crash while just sitting at the menu. This is a real... fine piece of work.
Vinny playing this was too good
@@soakmydeck Convince gollum to breed orc
@@JordanU375 Convince gollum to breed orc
I think Charlie's game is glitched. He's missing his objectives
Jedi survivor crashed before I even got to the main menu. It was in the middle of loading the logo sequence when it froze and I got the unreal engine critical error, it wasn't even the windows UI it was the UE one
You know you're playing a great video game when you're struggling to stay awake and pay attention to it and have to get up and stretch.
We all knew a kid in elementary school who looked exactly like this version of Gollum.
I mean, I wasn't expecting a full game about Gollum to NOT be the worst game of the year.
Nobody was expecting it to be a good game lol.
It could have been good if they went more through the journey of a man losing his mind bit by bit until he inevitably becomes a repulsive monster that cannot even remember who he is
@@p-__prove it
It could have been a cool survival story driven game where you have to travel, fish and survive your way as gollum slowly becomes more and more unhinged until he becomes who we know him well as halfway through the game, the only moderately interesting part of this game is the negotiations between gollum and smeagol
@@thegodhoward8037 Yeah maybe do something like Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice with Gollum pursuing the ring in his head? Or maybe a Alice: Madness Returns style game transitioning from his crazed mind to the real world?
Just the fact it has emotes pack as DLC day one speaks volumes of the love they have for the fanbase.
"Iconic" emotes lmaoo
Why is there emotes in a single player game?
holy fuck i thought that was a joke
@@hand13932 me too. That was real?
What I love in games is paying for locked features. It is a good way for games to be, having a full complete functioning game is just a little overdone. I like my games half baked and double the cost. . . Luxury 😇
*When “Skull Island: Rise of Kong” releases*
Gollum: “Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary!”
xd
Gollum's head isn't even weight-painted correctly, it folds in on itself. It's like a baby's soft spot
the instant crash was way funnier than I think it was meant to be 😭
@@p-__ and yet his bowel movements put yours to shame.
@D0ctorf0ster bait moment
@@D0ctorf0ster1 You're trying too hard to get attention.
@@p-__no shit
wdym "it was meant to be"💀
The state of the game helps the player get into the dwindling sanity of Gollum. Truly, modern gaming is such a wonder.
They really nailed making the players suffer like Gollum did!
10/10 realistic pain
@@D0ctorf0ster1Couldn't agree more, good sir. Don't even get me started on the absolutely abominable excuse for a sequel they put out. Can't compare to the likes of Bubsy 3D or the original E.T.
@D0ctorf0ster awful bait
💀
I saw Gollum IRL the other day! He was trying to steal a catalytic converter off someone's van
My favorite part of this is Charlie calling Smeagol kawaii
I can't stop giggling at the Game Over screens. The shot where Gollum just decides to fall flat to the ground and die even before the blast goes off is downright hilarious.
BUT YOU CANT STOP GIGGLING AT THE WOLF TRACERS DINOSAUR ISLAND
it's so anti climatic that it's funny
This has to be unfinished and they just decided to release it anyway
Ayy MOO, what's good man
I mean it crashing in the tutorial definitely confirms it 😂
yet it was delayed multiple times oof
It was hopeless from day 1 when some delusional dev thought they could make a game around Gollum 😂
That's the era where in rush it out patch it later
14:34 if only Sauron put one of those above the lava in Mount Doom, then Frodo wouldn't have been able to throw the ring in
I loved the part where golum said "it's precious time"
And then precioussed all over the place
Cringe
I'm glad that Crazy Frog is finally getting the attention that he deserves. It took far too long for him to jump from music to the video game world though.
He had a racing game on the ps2 but this experience is far better
The old crazy frog racing game was fun asf
oh thats where I know him from, I though thats roger from american dad
So glad that ringtones are no longer a thing
@@braydenlittlewind6278 that racing game was my childhood way better than this
As a lord of the rings fan even the first shot of gollum was a stab in my heart and then the game over screen showed and my soul officially left my body.
If I may ask what is so bad with how Gollum looks ? The quality is bad and it looks like a early PS3 title but is there any other reasons why LOTR fans hate the look so much ?
@@Gatorade69 He looks like Dobby
@@Gatorade69mate not even PS3. Search up "Gollum Shadow of Mordor", a 2017 LOTR based game. He looks perfect there, as he should look like a deformed psycho heremit, not like a goddamn tard Furby
@Gwaihir the Windlord hardcore fans can be sticklers and all the little problems build up into just straight up hating the model. He’s just made poorly. I think the worst part is his models hair, it renders over the particles and smoke. In Vinny’s stream, he had to ‘turn off hair’ to get it to run for more than 10 seconds. Like another commenter said, he doesn’t look like Gollum, he looks like some weird kid you went to school with.
@Gwaihir the Windlord "not that bad" he looks terrible.
game had so much potential they should’ve done the gameplay like stray
As a Tolkien die hard fan this game made me cry of depression
The way Charlie’s hair gets more unruly as he fights to stay awake through this game is very cinematic
He's just a little guy
@@BamfIamone a small fella
Of all the things we wanted to do in the lotr universe, doing chores with gollum was probably the last
😂😂😂
I actually really loved gollum, but a GAME?? Seriously? The best option was what, a cave fishing simulator with advanced gore mechanics??
Ah yes, slave labour, the greatest thing to do in the LOTR universe
10:24 top tier facial animation right there
15:19 - WTF was _that!?_ 🤣
I love how Charlie just stares a hole into my soul as Matt sits there explaining the sponsor
@@p-__ prove it buster
@@p-__prove it stinky
@@p-__ no
@@p-__ prove it pooper
You guys are replying to a bot
Going prone and screaming *JUST THE WIND* is actually a peak stealth strat.
"Tony Lazutto? Bu-- hey what was that? Must have been my imagination. ... Tony Lazutto?"
@@bassetts1899Joel Haver reference :D
“Worst game so far…”. It was like a prophecy for the next messiah, Kong
Dude the orc killing you by just punching you in the back of the head is so fucking funny.
the deaths are so sudden and anticlimactic it’s actually hilarious
This year is turning out to be a great year for videogames. Cant wait to see which studio is gonna post their apology tweet next.
I mean blizzards lead for d4 just asked how someone who had early access has an unfair advantage in a day 1 race over non alpha/beta testers. These people have literally 0 clue on how a video game even works.
BUT WOLF TRACERS STUDIOS ISNT GOING TO MAKE AN APOLGOY TWEET
@@izaruburs9389they do, they just act stupid. At least i hope so
This year has been both amazing and awful for video games at the same time.
We've got some fantastic games already here or coming up, like RE4 Remake or Tears of the Kingdom, and then... we've got the Redfalls and Gollums.
@@cheeks_of_the_boreal_valley but WOLF TRACERS STUIDOS DOESNT ACT STUPID
I really wanna see just how gigantic Charlie’s steam games library actually is, gotta be hundreds of games
“It’s been 72 minutes?!”
It appears that the Eye of Sauron put Charlie in a genjutsu.
Dying from fall damage and remaining in the air instead of falling in the abyss, that's the mark of a quality game XD
Those damned invisible floors, they always get ya
That's some skyrim level developer work.
Reminds me of Action 52. Now THAT’S a game!
Reminds me of Skyrim horses and giants but Skyrim is flawless
i'm so glad that games made in Dreams are finally getting the respect and attention they deserve
i think you meant nightmares
Underrated comment 😭
@gamerxshadow6480 dreams is a ps4 game engine 💀 go look it up lol
@@ClavinZKL it was a joke bro use your brain
@@gamerxshadow6480 how am i supposed to know wether u know no need to be toxic..
21:45 New Friend! Haha the way you said it laid back on chair begging for excitement was hilarious 😂
Is it just me or do the graphics look really waxy? Everyone looks like a living wax sculpture
I’m no game developer and have no idea how hard it is to animate characters, but it’s been really distracting to me recently when characters faces do that reset thing when they stop talking.
Holy shit, Hogwarts Legacy has that. It was so distracting.
@@Jeren6924 I think that’s the game I was thinking of that I played recently. Mainly because the rest of the graphics were very good, it stood out.
@@Jeren6924 at least Hogwarts Legacy has the excuse of being a big ass open world RPG kinda game with lots of side missions that require the use of limited real time dialogue cutscenes to actually come out on time, this game is like a linear 8/12 hour long game and they can't even make the fully scripted cutscenes look good, the scene where Gollum falls back after the explosion before seeing Sauron is embarrassingly amateur looking.
That or when the deliberately hide characters faces so they don't have to do lip syncing whatsoever.
Or when they don't show the action being done, like putting text over, using freeze frames (Redfall/Babylon's fall), or move the camera so you can't see it.
Or when they use a back and forth during a cutscenes with both characters awkwardly just standing there lifelessly.
It's been really egregious how obvious a lot of these cheap-outs on animations have been in recent years.
Probably has more to do with bad technical animation. You usually automatically blend between expressions using code as you move from one to another, but they just aren’t blending it smoothly.
Charging $60 for this game should be a criminal record for Daedalic Entertainment
I thought it was 50
God damnit I bought RDR2 for less, this is outrageous
@@maskedlucario Looks like it was 60 dollars but they changed the price due to the backlash
Daedalic Entertainment? More like Icaric
@@pranavjayanthi LMAO
I live how they didn't want to animate plunking the red stone in the fire barrel at the end, they just shot his bck flexing and quirking for a bit while he's leant over the barrel lmao
4:35 i hate when the orcs get enough for the UAV kill streak
Charlie looks so crushed after some of these deaths and I can't blame him. You are a champion for stomaching as much of the game as you did for our entertainment.
Damn, the lord of the rings franchise can't take a break 😂
It's sadly getting the Star Wars treatment
@@elguacamgio good series i have fond memories of being drowned in shit media after shit media will never stop being painful
@@elguacamgio Funny how Tolkien and Lucas' work has dealt with garbage for a long time and it's nothing new.
We're definitely deep into the dark ages of the LOTR franchise.
It's because of these untalented egostical writers that cant produce any vision for themselves so they try to hijack the success of real talent. So we just get bad fanfics with some budget.
This video has wayy too many ads. And they're super long too
The fact when you “ambush” someone it says “throttle him”
The thing that I now expect from modern games is the developers apology letter for not having their game work immediately after taking our money
We should archive all the corpo letter with these apologies and let an AI generate another generic corpo letter but everything is made out of the archived letters.
Like in those collages where when you zoom in you see that the pixels are actually Filthy Frank eating maccaroni.
And of course they say we'll fix it classic crap game era we're in rush it out patch it later
what do you mean “our”? I’m not purchasing this shit
Man you lot are really spoiled. You’d be lucky to have a game you bought at the local shop work on your computer any more than 50% of the time. Games are now almost guaranteed to work on whatever computer or console you run them on, even if they run badly on first release. At least you’re gonna be able to get a patch rolled out relatively easily and for free within a day or 2 after launch that you can download rather than having to send off for a CD or floppy disk with the patch, or having to shut down your home phone line for hours as you wait for a patch to download over the dial-up. The problem isn’t that of the developers, its a problem with the economic system and the financing of the game industry. They rely on pre-orders and release-day purchases to be able to keep up work operations to be able to fix the game, otherwise they’d lose so much money and confidence from investors just keeping the studio running day to day and development ongoing that there’d be no game released at all, let alone a future for the studio developing it.
@@darcgibson5099 This game was straight up unfinished though, even the worst games prior to the era of updates and patches over the internet were at least finished, with like, 2 exceptions from the top of my head.
That "Why" at 10:24 is truly meme worthy.
game got self aware of his own existanced and poses that question
People arguing about the price of this game-
Some say its worth 20$ only and some say 2$, and here I am thinking I won't even torrent this, waste my Internet and hard drive storage on this game.
Can't wait for the gollum speed run
I swear to god, it felt like this video lasted an hour. The realization it was only 23 minutes made me question my existence in this universe
BUT WOLF TRACERS DINOSAUR ISLAND IS ONLY 40 MINUTES
This game feels like a step back in every way possible.
If we want to have a new LotR game why not make a Tom Bombadill game where it's a farming sim where you have to save people from the Barrow Wights and keep his wife happy? That would be great.
I got an ad at the explosion at 9:09 and I couldnt stop laughing
I love how Charlie just stares straight into our souls while Matt does the ad read
Really selling the held hostage for sponsorships vibe
I wonder if Matt is afraid Charlie might screw up a sponsorship
Or if he just does it to be kind
Or does Charlie just not want to read sponsorships
unrelated - but that guy is really cute lol
@@PlasticDoll. matt?
@@freddie_connor9202or Jesus h crist?
Gotta love this peak modern gameplay with exciting features like:
- climbing around on yellow painted cliffs
- holding forward while listening to dialogue
- slogging through obligatory stealth sections
- solving random "puzzles" once in a while
Other games like this at least also include nice combat mechanics and rpg elements. Without this this game seems like a pure snooze fest.
Also, the heck is up with the animations sometimes? Like when he climbs a ladder it looks like the animation skips a few frames all the time.
Shadow's of morodor and war were fucking peak lord of the rings game. Fun combat. fun stealth. Interesting story and protagonists. And the orc system was awesome. I loved learning a warlords weakness and planning how would strike and kill him. This is just such a sad waste of a game in comparison.
Stamina also
We had shit games back then too.
@@27Bayleefs so shadow of mordor can be considered lotr's best games compared to gollum?
@@hobi-wan True. But not this bad
I like how Shadow of War and Shadow of Mordor, which came out literally 9 years ago, unironically look better than this
I just found out that the voice for Gollum is the same VA as Riki from Xenoblade Chronicles, according to IMDB. So that's pretty rad if you're a fan of that series.
It blows my mind how games keep devolving. Like this looks like it would be right at home in 2004
Not a chance. Half-Life 2 came out in 2004. I just rewatched some of its facial rigging for comparison.
I believe this is their fird 3D high budget game. Until now they made beautifully drawn point and click games.
I was thinking the same thing bro not the graphics but the way the game plays feels like an early ‘00’s game
@@synrecho fucking Spyro looks better than this and that was made in 1998
@Louis thank you Louis, very cool
charlie is really the master of monetizing every second of his life. he's streaming, then uploading on youtube, then getting a sponsor for it.
Gotta afford to pay his esports team afterall
Genuinely if there was one person I’d love to see more of it’s gotta be Charlie
3:15 This makes me uncomfortable
Why no men stream
I wish i could live that way. Im nothing but jealous
10:24 - that delivery though! 😅😅😅
Hard to believe there's something worse than redfall so early in the year