Remember when Sonic 06 was literally beaten to death for over a decade for being an unfinished, buggy game, and was literally bashed so bad it made it profitable to trash other Sonic games for no reason other than “06 = bad, so Sonic must = bad,” because that was such a extreme oddity at the time?
Because back then once a game shipped that was pretty much it, you couldn't really push updates after launch (it wasn't strictly impossible but it often cost more time, effort, and money than was worth it, especially regarding console titles). So you had to fix every bug you possibly could before launch or else they would just be in the game forever. Nowadays due to live services and digital releases games can be updated after the fact with little hassle. This means games are released earlier, at a point when they're playable rather than fully polished, and then the polishing and final bug fixes happen in the weeks after launch. This actually is _better_ a lot of the time, since the entire public playing the game is a great stress test for multiple different hardware and software configurations, which leads to those games actually having less bugs after that month or so of polishing than it would if the game had just released a month later. Of course, this sometimes backfires and you get games that it turns out needed a lot more than just a few weeks of further development, but a lot of the time you just gotta wait like a bit. That said, with this game in particular that isn't an excuse. A lot of the issues with this game aren't unintended glitches or strange behavior, it's just poorly made. Like those low framerate walking guys, that's either that their walking animation is just unfinished, or the model itself is a placeholder that was never swapped out. That's not a bug, that's just poor development.
@@ClonedGamer001 thank you for that balanced explanation; it is a shame that this process has become the standard, but it was also inevitable. No Man’s Sky certainly would never have gotten its second wind without the existence of post-release updates.
Gollum is an one of a kind game, because noone managed to collect all of badly implemented shit mechanics from the entire game industry in one product before
Man, when I heard that this game was so bad that it caused the developers to stop developing games, I didn’t quite believe it. But now I fully understand and believe that this game is so bad that the developers were like: “You know what, maybe we should rethink what our company vision is.”
@@Supaserrin I just googled it and a quick search proved that they aren't developing games anymore and purely focusing on the publishing aspect. They'll still publish games and such, but not make them.
1. 4:08 “convince yourself/the voices in your head” this is gonna be a mechanic for a very good indie game that is gonna get sued because this game exists(? 2. 5:29 the objective text even shakes like “there is no way you are failing this” xd
On the one hand it's sad the devs got forced to kill their adventure game studio making something they clearly shouldnt. On the other hand it is REALLY hard for me to feel bad for anyone involved after learning they seriously made saying "my precious" paid dlc. And btw if you want a game that has funny goblin stealth jank but is also actually fun to play, the Styx games have been here for a while.
Fun fact those first shadow figures were actually doom revenants, they have the walk cycle and everything. The dev ripped Doom 2 assets and painted thier sprites black to make them look shadowy. Edit: Revenants were added in Doom 2 so I changed that from Doom 1
10:17 i cant believe they let the idle animation have this much clipping. shows how little the team actually thought about the ingame character design and animations
Soundsmith playing Lord of the Rings Gollum? A surprise, to be sure. But a welcome one. now we just need to get him to play a good LotR game to purify his soul after being subjected to this 'game' Edit: I love how he actually made the "now convince Gollum/Smeagol" part actually a bit tension filled XD
This is one of THOSE videos that is just a CLASSIC. Always makes you laugh, and the first time you watched it made you laugh so hard that you were happy for the rest of the hour.
The fact that Gollum is 60 bucks and came out this year and Middle Earth: Shadow bundle featuring Shadow of Mordor *and* Shadow of War is 70 bucks with both games coming out in 2014 and 2017 respectively and both older games are substantially better just goes to show that people don't know what they are doing now.
It was so crazy when Spoiler!!!!: When gollum ate 5 pounds of gunpowder and uranium to turn himself into a bomb then threw himself at Gandalf as hard as he could. Truly the game of the year
There's something enjoyable about watching the funny shovel man absolutely abuse a creature close to intelligence and longevity as a scout but not feel forced to do so
i've never seen lotr, but gollum himself was intriguing to me that mt search history is just full of queries like, "who is gollum," "what is gollum," "why is gollum like that," etc.
Suffering from an itchy, swollen eyelid, so seeing SoundSmith suffering through/enjoying the mess that is this game, it’s most certainly a decent way to distract myself
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Remember when Sonic 06 was literally beaten to death for over a decade for being an unfinished, buggy game, and was literally bashed so bad it made it profitable to trash other Sonic games for no reason other than “06 = bad, so Sonic must = bad,” because that was such a extreme oddity at the time?
However unlike 06, I doubt this game will ever have a dedicated enough fan base willing to remaster it
Maybe if we bully people for making good games that’ll become common too
It’s pretty much standard now for a full priced game to be released unfinished.
A pretty
sad world we live in
Because back then once a game shipped that was pretty much it, you couldn't really push updates after launch (it wasn't strictly impossible but it often cost more time, effort, and money than was worth it, especially regarding console titles). So you had to fix every bug you possibly could before launch or else they would just be in the game forever.
Nowadays due to live services and digital releases games can be updated after the fact with little hassle. This means games are released earlier, at a point when they're playable rather than fully polished, and then the polishing and final bug fixes happen in the weeks after launch. This actually is _better_ a lot of the time, since the entire public playing the game is a great stress test for multiple different hardware and software configurations, which leads to those games actually having less bugs after that month or so of polishing than it would if the game had just released a month later.
Of course, this sometimes backfires and you get games that it turns out needed a lot more than just a few weeks of further development, but a lot of the time you just gotta wait like a bit.
That said, with this game in particular that isn't an excuse. A lot of the issues with this game aren't unintended glitches or strange behavior, it's just poorly made. Like those low framerate walking guys, that's either that their walking animation is just unfinished, or the model itself is a placeholder that was never swapped out. That's not a bug, that's just poor development.
@@ClonedGamer001 thank you for that balanced explanation; it is a shame that this process has become the standard, but it was also inevitable. No Man’s Sky certainly would never have gotten its second wind without the existence of post-release updates.
i was watching this stream and my all-time favorite chat message was "gollum looks like he microdoses on drowning"
Gollum is an one of a kind game, because noone managed to collect all of badly implemented shit mechanics from the entire game industry in one product before
Gollum is an one of a kind game (only one person hasn't refunded)
Having Gollum say the funi line being DCL made me physically wince from the sheer amount of bruh moment.
It’s not even on command
Those words in that order would kill a child from the 1800s
downcoadable lontent
This comment makes me want to do bad things to good people
DownCoadable Lontent
Sauron seriously sent 1/3rd of the entire world's supply of Ringwraiths to catch a single pathetic gremlin man.
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Gollum was his best lead on the location of the One Ring. It might not have been overkill to send all 9
soundsmith lost the argument
soundsmith now has to play lord of the rings: gollum
@@thirtytw0"thank you sargeant"
gollum is a masterpiece in the same way the pipebomb i’m sending to your mailbox is an “Improvised Explosive.”
@HeisenbergIsHereit's about damn time it does
So gollum is a masterpiece then…?
No
@HeisenbergIsHere Finally, sweet release.
Just like how what I did in 09’ is “vehicular manslaughter”
The fact that the game devs had to give the player an apology letter at the beginning
and the fact that the apology even got the game's name wrong
Man, when I heard that this game was so bad that it caused the developers to stop developing games, I didn’t quite believe it. But now I fully understand and believe that this game is so bad that the developers were like:
“You know what, maybe we should rethink what our company vision is.”
I don't think they stopped making games. They are Daedalic. They will make another point and click adventure and get back on their feet.
@@Supaserrin I just googled it and a quick search proved that they aren't developing games anymore and purely focusing on the publishing aspect. They'll still publish games and such, but not make them.
1. 4:08 “convince yourself/the voices in your head” this is gonna be a mechanic for a very good indie game that is gonna get sued because this game exists(?
2. 5:29 the objective text even shakes like “there is no way you are failing this” xd
Damn I can't believe Soundsmith quit TF2 permanently to become a full time Gollum streamer
The fact thT the voice actor for Riki in Xenoblade chronicles does Gollum here is such cursed knowledge
Riki still have outstanding debt to villagepon 😔
This game needs to be a case study in what not to do when making a game. Or more importantly, *why you shouldn’t rush them or abuse the dev team.*
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My god can this channel please just become you and Sabs playing the most busted bad games, this was fuxking hilarious
I love that whenever gollum dies his head sinks to the fucking floor like an anchor
Can confirm that Gollum is one of the goblin'est games to exist, Bless Soundsmith and his goofy endeavors.
On the one hand it's sad the devs got forced to kill their adventure game studio making something they clearly shouldnt.
On the other hand it is REALLY hard for me to feel bad for anyone involved after learning they seriously made saying "my precious" paid dlc.
And btw if you want a game that has funny goblin stealth jank but is also actually fun to play, the Styx games have been here for a while.
Devs only work on the game. They have very little power in the monetization of the game. Higher-ups are the cause of those shitty DLCs, not the devs.
@@phoenixmarktwo ☝️☝️
Fun Fact: the creator of Lord of Ring: Gollum recently filed for bankruptcy, resulting in this masterpiece staying for eternity in this state
That's very funny
Aren't they just getting away from developing games and fully focused on publishing?
the team said they are working on an update
or they said they were 29th of june
Yippee
Fun fact those first shadow figures were actually doom revenants, they have the walk cycle and everything. The dev ripped Doom 2 assets and painted thier sprites black to make them look shadowy.
Edit: Revenants were added in Doom 2 so I changed that from Doom 1
Doom 1?
what the FUCK
there was one that was added by the editor for the joke.
Also revenants were added in DooM II.
@@Nothing92849no :(
And pinkies what the hell
0:03 The sounds I make when someone offers me a free sausage (it wasn't actually a sausage) ((I still _really_ liked it though)).
i like how the editor added a silhouette of a revenant from doom II with the vanilla low quality distant silhouettes and i only just noticed now
the concept of this game is like if you had to play a game of casual ctf as the spy except you have no invis watch and backstabbing takes 15 minutes
No
actual gibberish
lol someone commented gibberish in another language so now it looks like i’m being insulted lol
@@bungofungusI was confused and reread your comment like 4 times because I thought I was dumb for not seeing the grammar mistakes
@@chrise76776 my phrasing was def not the best i will be honest
0:54 even in other games...
He will always find the funni ragdolls...
I recently learned the phrase: "asset flip"
And tbh this might be it
valefisk viewer?
10:17 i cant believe they let the idle animation have this much clipping. shows how little the team actually thought about the ingame character design and animations
10:00 had me in tears i swear to god
I don't know what Sound and Kat mean, this is clearly the peak of gaming, not even TF2 can compare to such pure beauty.
tf2 actually put some effort into the summer update because they feared all the players would flock to gollum
I don’t think there’s a single word to accurately describe this game. It’s truly incredible.
This has to be the best TF2 update
Even better than gun mettle balance changes
The best part of this game is the funny ragdolls on the big torch things
The revenant snuck into the bit about the low frame rate characters is amazing 5:13
Gollum, breeding halls NOW.
5:10 THE TOP RIGHT SHADOW SILHOUETE IS LITERALLY A DOOM 2 REVENANT DOING THE IDLE ANIMATION LMFAO
Yeah I thought it was lol
I went into this thinking this guy was gonna defend this thing boy was I wrong
I see the title, I know this game's reputation.
This is gonna be great.
Deadelic, the studio behind gollum, decided to close after this game
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This game is better than the reviews led me to believe.
Not by a lot, but I do gotta give it this: the controls are occasionally functional.
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Soundsmith playing Lord of the Rings Gollum? A surprise, to be sure. But a welcome one.
now we just need to get him to play a good LotR game to purify his soul after being subjected to this 'game'
Edit: I love how he actually made the "now convince Gollum/Smeagol" part actually a bit tension filled XD
Lego Lotr
5:11 one of those is playing the Doom Revenant idle cycle.
This is one of THOSE videos that is just a CLASSIC. Always makes you laugh, and the first time you watched it made you laugh so hard that you were happy for the rest of the hour.
I love how the title of the video sounds like a title of 3 hours long video essay abou this game released like 5 years from now
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That Revenant at 5:11 is absolute perfection.
Holy crap new video from ginger guy that specializes in sound
Gollum is a masterpiece, because after playing it, your expectations are at their lowest and everything feels fun
The fact that Gollum is 60 bucks and came out this year and Middle Earth: Shadow bundle featuring Shadow of Mordor *and* Shadow of War is 70 bucks with both games coming out in 2014 and 2017 respectively and both older games are substantially better just goes to show that people don't know what they are doing now.
Small indie game studio trying to bring out a AAA title. They never did anything like this before and thought they could do something lmao
@@SvendOfficial Their overconfidence was their weakness.
Yes, I would watch more of this, thanks for asking!
Jesus crismass crist
This is the morbius of videogames
No even morbius dosent get to this level of ... greatness
so no setting for motion blur, but GOLLUM HAIR SIMULATION can be changed, what a masterpiece
One of the games ever made. Truly an experience to behold. I love when Gollum said “it’s grumble time” and then grumbled all over the place.
No
5:12 top right one looks like a doom 1 revenant
"A surprise to be sure but a welcome one."
Just one minute of this video already made my day better
5:09 revenant sprite from doom? I see something.
It was so crazy when
Spoiler!!!!:
When gollum ate 5 pounds of gunpowder and uranium to turn himself into a bomb then threw himself at Gandalf as hard as he could. Truly the game of the year
Best game ever lol
10:33 Gollum: "Oh god I love eatin' dirt"
i love the editing on this video
Now this is the quality gaming content i subscribe for
God I can’t stop snickering over this. Bless you, sir.
Thank you Mr. Soundsmith for some more excellent _funny ragdolls_
We appreciate it
The fact that gollum isn't a light class peeves me
This is definitely a Modern Gaming™ moment
I like the part where he says it’s lord of the rings time and lords of the rings all over the place
Finally, I’ve been waiting for this masterpiece of a video and game
sond smit snorted too much glue
Poor miserable thing to throttled to completion.
How far he’s fallen 😔
On one hand we have shadow of Mordor, a masterpiece. Then we have this…
5:11 - 5:13 That's the Revenant walking animation from classic Doom...
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You can see the duct tape that's holding this game together.
thank you for the content mr.soundsmith
What in the name of heck is this, i love it
We need a part 2, this game is truly a game
Only you guys could make Gollum seem funny Sound.
Great job.
There's something enjoyable about watching the funny shovel man absolutely abuse a creature close to intelligence and longevity as a scout but not feel forced to do so
6:11 It’s like a cane came in from the side to drag Gollum off the stage. lmao
Can't wait for soudsmit team f two to figure out a way to market garden in hit game Gollum
Gollum is truly one of the greatest games ever made. It's my favourite 100%, just how my favourite movie is birdemic!
5:11 lol revenant from doom
I actually thought this video was actually gonna be serious, not just le funny broken animations lmao
5:12 is that a freaking Revenant? lol
That thumbnail is funny
Please do more Gollum Gaming, this was epic
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these non tf2 videos have been really good! some of my favorites you've uploaded!
this is some insane level of editing
5:10 hey! I see that Doom Revenant, what’s he doing there?!
i've never seen lotr, but gollum himself was intriguing to me that mt search history is just full of queries like, "who is gollum," "what is gollum," "why is gollum like that," etc.
3:14 WEEPING ORCS 🤣🤣🤣
Great video as always, I love the fast paced editing style.
I wish I could send photos through comments, because the single frame before it fades at 5:38 is so fuckign hilarious.
I gotta see what soundsmith would do with my summer car
Suffering from an itchy, swollen eyelid, so seeing SoundSmith suffering through/enjoying the mess that is this game, it’s most certainly a decent way to distract myself
every time i watch someone play gollum i see them find a new hilarious bug
The fact this could’ve been a TOTK video is the worst part of this lol
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Andy Serkis would gmod ragdoll if he ever saw this game.
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5:11 Ah yes, Revenant, my favorite Lord of the Rings character
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Those 2 fps guys look like an idel animation from a 16-bit rpg
Chat's 5-sec-too-late sound fx will never replace the editors.
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I'm scared for my safety just looking at this.
The Lord of the Ring Gollum Game of the Day
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