Worst Game of the Year So Far

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  • @CrizzyEyes
    @CrizzyEyes Рік тому +3193

    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.

    • @Kaiji...
      @Kaiji... Рік тому +413

      Game companies should literally ask themselves: "would they rather play this, or Doom 1993?" before releasing anything. 😂

    • @DajuSar
      @DajuSar Рік тому +147

      looks like something made out of watching a youtube tutorial

    • @spike5499
      @spike5499 Рік тому +13

      ​@@Kaiji... LMFAO FAX 🗣

    • @KingDoopse
      @KingDoopse Рік тому +121

      I absolutely love how there's no music or even some sort of ambient sound effect. It just fades into the screen lol

    • @lefishe5845
      @lefishe5845 Рік тому +64

      The best part is a pit death just making you fall on the non existent floor.

  • @hahanamegobrrr6667
    @hahanamegobrrr6667 Рік тому +6379

    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

    • @preyscalling
      @preyscalling Рік тому +227

      And together they had around a 4th of a brain cell

    • @devinmcgroot7560
      @devinmcgroot7560 Рік тому +107

      i guess making a good game was too "precious" for them

    • @cephon6198
      @cephon6198 Рік тому +64

      You say that as though there are many Gollums... Gollum? Gollumii?

    • @SuccMunkey
      @SuccMunkey Рік тому +47

      This looks like a horrible remaster of a title from 2004

    • @amirhusin3579
      @amirhusin3579 Рік тому +2

      Oh! So thats the reason why is game like that

  • @anyanyany7091
    @anyanyany7091 Рік тому +5725

    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?"

    • @cornbread7263
      @cornbread7263 Рік тому +91

      My exact thought lmao

    • @MisterPancake778
      @MisterPancake778 Рік тому +60

      But were you really sure wanted to load that checkpoint to keep playing tho? 🤔

    • @nahuelkid
      @nahuelkid Рік тому +63

      Instead of telling you you will lose unsaved progress it should say "You will continue to play this... "game". Are you REALLY sure?"

    • @highTranscendant
      @highTranscendant Рік тому +26

      @@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.

    • @Goldmaaaaan
      @Goldmaaaaan Рік тому +3

      @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.

  • @stalkholm5227
    @stalkholm5227 Рік тому +431

    16:25 I love how Gollum does his death animation *before* the explosion went off, that's subverting expectations is what that is.

  • @ZeroNeedsCoffee
    @ZeroNeedsCoffee Рік тому +14926

    The game over screen is so abrupt and anticlimactic that it just makes me almost laugh every time I see it 💀

    • @littlelogan34
      @littlelogan34 Рік тому +520

      The sponsor was less abrupt than the game over screen 😂

    • @lilknox2225
      @lilknox2225 Рік тому +297

      Ong i thought he pressed pause at first😂😂😂

    • @trinitydraco4698
      @trinitydraco4698 Рік тому +88

      It gives Xbox 360, y'know?

    • @RedShirt00000
      @RedShirt00000 Рік тому +49

      I always think there’s a bunch of dust on the left side of my screen when I see it

    • @bottyhammer
      @bottyhammer Рік тому +96

      Never buy a game day 1
      Ever .....ever.
      Never pre order
      The industry has failed or misled repeatedly.

  • @Patterrz
    @Patterrz Рік тому +6603

    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

    • @matthewhaslam1045
      @matthewhaslam1045 Рік тому +26

      My favorite ginger UA-camr ❤❤❤

    • @wundurr
      @wundurr Рік тому +89

      ​@@matthewhaslam1045 I prefer soundsmith but we all have our opinions

    • @rosekirk
      @rosekirk Рік тому +80

      Gosh you’re so right :((

    • @arsalananwari4377
      @arsalananwari4377 Рік тому +334

      Probably the landscape/level designer. Was about the only enjoyable thing to look at in this "game"

    • @thesnazzmaster
      @thesnazzmaster Рік тому +163

      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

  • @bloodydragon
    @bloodydragon Рік тому +2014

    The fact that the falling deaths are more violently abrupt than randomly getting decked in the noggin with no audio kills me

  • @DEADN8
    @DEADN8 Рік тому +1145

    $50 for this is wild. Back in the day this would be a $20 indie game you’d buy on the Xbox 360 marketplace

    • @burtreynolds8030
      @burtreynolds8030 Рік тому +33

      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

    • @aspart2842
      @aspart2842 Рік тому +85

      20 is pushing it Id say 5

    • @Missingno7
      @Missingno7 Рік тому +11

      ​@@aspart2842 agreed

    • @chinchilla415
      @chinchilla415 Рік тому

      That you can get Diablo 4 for 60 or 70$ is fucking bonkers.

    • @tellyg47
      @tellyg47 Рік тому +3

      @@chinchilla415 what’s even more crazy is some people actually had to spend 60-70 on this game 😂

  • @6athcat
    @6athcat Рік тому +30817

    the game crashing before even starting is just a great representation of modern gaming

    • @TrueTrickster2016
      @TrueTrickster2016 Рік тому +279

      Only in American video games

    • @DarkStarCoreX
      @DarkStarCoreX Рік тому +557

      Cyberpunk 2077 crashes less often than this shit

    • @Cryotri
      @Cryotri Рік тому +123

      That’s so depressing but true 💀😭

    • @kartikahluwalia8356
      @kartikahluwalia8356 Рік тому

      @@p-__ my potty is better than your potty

    • @likemysnopp
      @likemysnopp Рік тому +16

      Ikr 😂 i recently bought elden ring and it still freeze every now and then and its been more then a year 😂 like the f Are they doing

  • @Zarden02846
    @Zarden02846 Рік тому +3318

    This game is the literal definition of "Our expectations were low but holy shit"

    • @bottyhammer
      @bottyhammer Рік тому +141

      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.

    • @popshot8898
      @popshot8898 Рік тому +8

      😂😂😂

    • @danm8004
      @danm8004 Рік тому +1

      ​@@bottyhammer*Tolkien

    • @PalaceDude
      @PalaceDude Рік тому +29

      "You tricked me. I knew you was ass, but my word you stink." - Shaquille O'Neal.

    • @jondoe7036
      @jondoe7036 Рік тому

      If you wanna play a game about Gollum, you're better off just playing the sauna variant it seems...

  • @AMan-xz7tx
    @AMan-xz7tx Рік тому +3591

    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!

    • @kimutone2970
      @kimutone2970 Рік тому +114

      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

    • @MarioMonte13
      @MarioMonte13 Рік тому +124

      ​@@kimutone2970 except ps2 games didn't have the luxury of day 1 patches, so they had to function in order to be sold

    • @kukuzi
      @kukuzi Рік тому +31

      Ah the nostalgia. Over the Hedge on gamecube still slaps

    • @The_Viktor_Reznov
      @The_Viktor_Reznov Рік тому +26

      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

    • @vincentoconnor5640
      @vincentoconnor5640 Рік тому +1

      Same PFP image lol

  • @EC-mg4gb
    @EC-mg4gb Рік тому +1309

    I can't believe this game came out 20 years ago already. Time does fly!

  • @Surya112
    @Surya112 Рік тому +3484

    Gollum doesn't look like a man driven to insanity, he looks like the weird kid I went to elementary school with

    • @badabingbing474
      @badabingbing474 Рік тому +233

      Ate too much glue

    • @EdnaKonrad4MVS
      @EdnaKonrad4MVS Рік тому +35

      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.

    • @irrationalreasoning6368
      @irrationalreasoning6368 Рік тому +20

      Looks like the type that sniffed pritt sticks and drank hand sanitiser.

    • @mariokartrom7829
      @mariokartrom7829 Рік тому +4

      one doesn't exclude the other.

    • @rehabV12
      @rehabV12 Рік тому +2

      surely youre from MA

  • @softjasper543
    @softjasper543 Рік тому +2775

    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

    • @sandro327
      @sandro327 Рік тому +291

      He also died before the explosion 🤣

    • @bungofungus
      @bungofungus Рік тому +74

      my fav moment too. This game looks so incredibly rushed

    • @elitadream
      @elitadream Рік тому +51

      When it got to that part I wheezed and cried, it's so bad it's good! 🤣😂

    • @taurinetrashmann259
      @taurinetrashmann259 Рік тому +59

      Family Guy death pose

    • @ultimaxkom8728
      @ultimaxkom8728 Рік тому

      lmao

  • @comradecatbug5289
    @comradecatbug5289 Рік тому +2811

    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.

    • @mrgodzillaraptors8632
      @mrgodzillaraptors8632 Рік тому +28

      Interesting

    • @thanman6584
      @thanman6584 Рік тому +17

      I guess that'd be cool.

    • @shoeofobama6091
      @shoeofobama6091 Рік тому +141

      if you find that concept interesting, youd love disco elysium

    • @coltonallan
      @coltonallan Рік тому +17

      ​@@shoeofobama6091 I need to go back and finish that game, but it's rough to play with the loading times on the Switch. Lol

    • @comradecatbug5289
      @comradecatbug5289 Рік тому +7

      @@shoeofobama6091 Yeah I was planning to buy it next time it goes on sale!

  • @michaeljeanrichard4
    @michaeljeanrichard4 Рік тому +876

    how the fuck did they make Gollum look more demented than actual Gollum??

    • @Yggdrasill8
      @Yggdrasill8 Рік тому +35

      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

    • @michaeljeanrichard4
      @michaeljeanrichard4 Рік тому +53

      @@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

    • @Lou-yf1jo
      @Lou-yf1jo Рік тому

      nah he looks like a piss baby here, the real movie was way better.

    • @Jimbo292
      @Jimbo292 Рік тому +2

      @@michaeljeanrichard4111st

    • @Godsecution
      @Godsecution Рік тому +3

      @@michaeljeanrichard4 *111th

  • @Loregasmo
    @Loregasmo Рік тому +1585

    The way Sméagol just flops to the ground after a lethal fall is absolute gold

    • @tree_alone
      @tree_alone Рік тому +13

      haha yeah. and its the same exact animation as when he dies to the invisible wall of the void

    • @thejackal313
      @thejackal313 Рік тому +16

      ​@Louis go to bed

    • @DrCrazyEvil
      @DrCrazyEvil Рік тому +4

      ​​@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.

    • @jcnot9712
      @jcnot9712 Рік тому +1

      He looks like Walter White in that one meme where he falls.

    • @g.u.c5942
      @g.u.c5942 Рік тому

      Men

  • @OodDoodelic
    @OodDoodelic Рік тому +7188

    Its crazy that as every month passes we somehow get the newest worst game.

  • @FatalKitsune
    @FatalKitsune Рік тому +2645

    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.

    • @soakmydeck
      @soakmydeck Рік тому +33

      Vinny playing this was too good

    • @JordanU375
      @JordanU375 Рік тому +8

      @@soakmydeck Convince gollum to breed orc

    • @MCisnotreal
      @MCisnotreal Рік тому +4

      ​@@JordanU375 Convince gollum to breed orc

    • @DACrowley
      @DACrowley Рік тому +3

      I think Charlie's game is glitched. He's missing his objectives

    • @mythical_pizza
      @mythical_pizza Рік тому +10

      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

  • @culturalliberator9425
    @culturalliberator9425 Рік тому +725

    What a great game with such interesting characters like, Cruel Woman and Frail Man.

    • @benjamintin136
      @benjamintin136 Рік тому +84

      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.

    • @CalebTheOwlBoy
      @CalebTheOwlBoy Рік тому +2

      o my god. 🤣🤣🤣😀

  • @PastPositive
    @PastPositive Рік тому +2025

    There is literally nothing to do in this other than walk and fall off the map, truly the game of all time.

    • @PatLadsChan99
      @PatLadsChan99 Рік тому +71

      Climbing simulator 2023

    • @PastPositive
      @PastPositive Рік тому +77

      @@PatLadsChan99can’t forget that you throw a pebble, truly a goty experience.

    • @ncrveteranranger4454
      @ncrveteranranger4454 Рік тому +20

      I'm thinking Balan Wonderworld might be a better game than this, which is honestly shocking to me

    • @fearlessgaming5877
      @fearlessgaming5877 Рік тому +12

      @@PastPositive I say we all vote for this game to be gotr just for the laughs and shock at the game awards

    • @jondoe7036
      @jondoe7036 Рік тому +2

      I'd rather play the sauna party game variant of Gollum honestly.
      That's always bound to be atleast somewhat eventful.

  • @shadeitplease7383
    @shadeitplease7383 Рік тому +2111

    Such incredible character names like “frail man” and “cruel woman” this is truly one of the stories of all time

    • @bobafett4265
      @bobafett4265 Рік тому +35

      The Frail Man looks suspiciously like Gandalf, that can't be me right.

    • @fakenamerealchungus9851
      @fakenamerealchungus9851 Рік тому +32

      "Oh middle aged man is in this? Oh they got Woman? I hate her"

    • @MonticueGaming
      @MonticueGaming Рік тому +77

      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.

    • @Lucaz99
      @Lucaz99 Рік тому +6

      An all time Tolkien _CLASSIC_

    • @MattyP650
      @MattyP650 Рік тому

      Candle man 😂😂😂

  • @daybloomie3564
    @daybloomie3564 Рік тому +1343

    The fact that the game launched with a DLC button is truly so much

    • @JustBonesYT
      @JustBonesYT Рік тому +17

      Thats so funny

    • @lukasg4807
      @lukasg4807 Рік тому +77

      The DLC is just a soundtrack, some Golem emotes, and making the elves all speak elvish

    • @Omnischism
      @Omnischism Рік тому +99

      @@lukasg4807 Back in my day the goddamn elves would have spoke Elvish by default, now it's a fuckin DLC.

    • @juggernogsoda4515
      @juggernogsoda4515 Рік тому +18

      @@Omnischism like wtf 😭 it prolly was default but then they needed monezation

    • @TheAdhdGaming
      @TheAdhdGaming Рік тому +3

      the only good dlc for this game stands for deleteing little content, which is the entire game. the game is garbage

  • @War5aw
    @War5aw Рік тому +83

    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

  • @infinitsai
    @infinitsai Рік тому +1047

    Its unreal we've already experienced like 4 "worst game of 2023" and the year isn't even half way through

    • @TheHipisterDeer
      @TheHipisterDeer Рік тому +87

      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.

    • @seidious
      @seidious Рік тому +115

      @@TheHipisterDeer key word is once

    • @Evanz111
      @Evanz111 Рік тому +40

      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.

    • @fortyjarsOjello
      @fortyjarsOjello Рік тому +100

      @@TheHipisterDeer games shouldn’t be released in that state period.

    • @fighteraircraft4576
      @fighteraircraft4576 Рік тому +128

      ​@@Evanz111 doesn't make for spoken good. That's a garbage game as well

  • @MunchingOrange
    @MunchingOrange Рік тому +3101

    This has to be unfinished and they just decided to release it anyway

    • @raburto8984
      @raburto8984 Рік тому +13

      Ayy MOO, what's good man

    • @zaristophanes
      @zaristophanes Рік тому +143

      I mean it crashing in the tutorial definitely confirms it 😂

    • @shevrett2658
      @shevrett2658 Рік тому +16

      yet it was delayed multiple times oof

    • @KT-ki6gz
      @KT-ki6gz Рік тому +124

      It was hopeless from day 1 when some delusional dev thought they could make a game around Gollum 😂

    • @kobra6660
      @kobra6660 Рік тому +8

      That's the era where in rush it out patch it later

  • @DonmenDragon
    @DonmenDragon Рік тому +1427

    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.

    • @donnyprocs
      @donnyprocs Рік тому +411

      Yeah but then the game might actually be good lmao

    • @DracoHandsome
      @DracoHandsome Рік тому +211

      That was the initial plan, but it needed 70GB of DDR9 RAM and 2TB of quantum drive space.

    • @user-zm7zl9lc6j
      @user-zm7zl9lc6j Рік тому +36

      Too much work

    • @al112v4
      @al112v4 Рік тому +3

      It's funny how that never happened in the book.

    • @Akgn_
      @Akgn_ Рік тому +9

      We have 3 4 hour films explaining that and 3 books

  • @UnnamedCarapace
    @UnnamedCarapace Рік тому +289

    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.

    • @error-try-again-later
      @error-try-again-later Рік тому +30

      DDLC but the player is Gollum and Monika is the One Ring.

    • @FryingWater
      @FryingWater Рік тому +12

      I'd like to know more about the grandma sucking eggs.

    • @UnnamedCarapace
      @UnnamedCarapace Рік тому +9

      @@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.

  • @blueshit199
    @blueshit199 Рік тому +2593

    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

    • @nathanszatkowski3774
      @nathanszatkowski3774 Рік тому

      Maybe just stealth better noob

    • @VitalVampyr
      @VitalVampyr Рік тому +31

      It's supposed to be a stealth game.

    • @blueshit199
      @blueshit199 Рік тому +308

      @@VitalVampyr that doesn't mean you should get a game over screen every time an enemy notices your toe lmao

    • @scr3am273
      @scr3am273 Рік тому +145

      @@VitalVampyr its supposed to be a boring game

    • @namazu5976
      @namazu5976 Рік тому +15

      @@VitalVampyr stealth games are piss

  • @Kenosaurus
    @Kenosaurus Рік тому +839

    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.

    • @Gatorade69
      @Gatorade69 Рік тому +16

      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 ?

    • @roryheaslip8260
      @roryheaslip8260 Рік тому +104

      @@Gatorade69 He looks like Dobby

    • @skyper8934
      @skyper8934 Рік тому

      ​@@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

    • @candy-stars
      @candy-stars Рік тому +40

      @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.

    • @thanman6584
      @thanman6584 Рік тому +10

      ​@Gwaihir the Windlord "not that bad" he looks terrible.

  • @TheYodelingViking
    @TheYodelingViking Рік тому +1559

    Just the fact it has emotes pack as DLC day one speaks volumes of the love they have for the fanbase.

    • @Pekology
      @Pekology Рік тому +145

      "Iconic" emotes lmaoo

    • @numbersbubble
      @numbersbubble Рік тому +236

      Why is there emotes in a single player game?

    • @hand13932
      @hand13932 Рік тому +168

      holy fuck i thought that was a joke

    • @ghostguch1007
      @ghostguch1007 Рік тому +26

      @@hand13932 me too. That was real?

    • @joefatso111
      @joefatso111 Рік тому +47

      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 😇

  • @josephshepherd2351
    @josephshepherd2351 Рік тому +39

    the fact you can actually see him fall asleep at 9:59 is unreasonably funny to me

  • @darcy-99
    @darcy-99 Рік тому +2140

    I mean, I wasn't expecting a full game about Gollum to NOT be the worst game of the year.

    • @Dusty-69420
      @Dusty-69420 Рік тому +93

      Nobody was expecting it to be a good game lol.

    • @thegodhoward8037
      @thegodhoward8037 Рік тому +266

      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

    • @Anvent_not
      @Anvent_not Рік тому +26

      ​@@p-__prove it

    • @magolor152
      @magolor152 Рік тому +90

      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

    • @tonts5329
      @tonts5329 Рік тому +39

      @@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?

  • @Shunieeez
    @Shunieeez Рік тому +755

    The state of the game helps the player get into the dwindling sanity of Gollum. Truly, modern gaming is such a wonder.

    • @GravitasZero
      @GravitasZero Рік тому +44

      They really nailed making the players suffer like Gollum did!
      10/10 realistic pain

    • @miguelarnaldo8522
      @miguelarnaldo8522 Рік тому +9

      ​​​@@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.

    • @Brother-Martell
      @Brother-Martell Рік тому +1

      ​@D0ctorf0ster awful bait

    • @ElAchach
      @ElAchach Рік тому

      💀

  • @GlassesnMouthplates
    @GlassesnMouthplates Рік тому +334

    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.

    • @NigerianCrusader
      @NigerianCrusader Рік тому +1

      BUT YOU CANT STOP GIGGLING AT THE WOLF TRACERS DINOSAUR ISLAND

    • @arieldesjar
      @arieldesjar Рік тому +3

      it's so anti climatic that it's funny

  • @Crikiit
    @Crikiit Рік тому +20

    11:44
    The pathetic death noise folllowed by the immediate Game Over screen is so funny

  • @wildudyr
    @wildudyr Рік тому +719

    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.

  • @CJD8982
    @CJD8982 Рік тому +800

    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.

    • @braydenlittlewind6278
      @braydenlittlewind6278 Рік тому +23

      He had a racing game on the ps2 but this experience is far better

    • @JessePinkman-JP
      @JessePinkman-JP Рік тому +3

      oh thats where I know him from, I though thats roger from american dad

    • @batmanonabike3119
      @batmanonabike3119 Рік тому +2

      So glad that ringtones are no longer a thing

    • @elijahmckenzie9207
      @elijahmckenzie9207 Рік тому

      @@braydenlittlewind6278 that racing game was my childhood way better than this

    • @richie404
      @richie404 Рік тому

      Agreed! Great to see him getting the recognition he deserves 👏

  • @mongomanproductions1049
    @mongomanproductions1049 Рік тому +1031

    I love how Charlie just stares a hole into my soul as Matt sits there explaining the sponsor

  • @Aussie_Jesus_Christ
    @Aussie_Jesus_Christ Рік тому +69

    i salute the studio for being brave and not conforming to the high graphics standards that rock AAA games nowadays

    • @macrons593
      @macrons593 Рік тому +8

      Making 2012 graphics is stunning and brave.

  • @alexkeeton2800
    @alexkeeton2800 Рік тому +350

    Going prone and screaming *JUST THE WIND* is actually a peak stealth strat.

    • @bassetts1899
      @bassetts1899 Рік тому +4

      "Tony Lazutto? Bu-- hey what was that? Must have been my imagination. ... Tony Lazutto?"

    • @Samagachi
      @Samagachi Рік тому +1

      @@bassetts1899Joel Haver reference :D

  • @sosamma090
    @sosamma090 Рік тому +1560

    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.

    • @izaruburs9389
      @izaruburs9389 Рік тому +55

      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.

    • @NigerianCrusader
      @NigerianCrusader Рік тому +2

      BUT WOLF TRACERS STUDIOS ISNT GOING TO MAKE AN APOLGOY TWEET

    • @cheeks_of_the_boreal_valley
      @cheeks_of_the_boreal_valley Рік тому +13

      ​@@izaruburs9389they do, they just act stupid. At least i hope so

    • @manyachievables
      @manyachievables Рік тому +21

      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.

    • @NigerianCrusader
      @NigerianCrusader Рік тому

      @@cheeks_of_the_boreal_valley but WOLF TRACERS STUIDOS DOESNT ACT STUPID

  • @ImmortalNaitsirhc
    @ImmortalNaitsirhc Рік тому +659

    This game genuinely feels and looks like it was made in the mid 2000's.

    • @The-rr8ze
      @The-rr8ze Рік тому +48

      Plus that game over screen.

    • @dumbnuggetsw
      @dumbnuggetsw Рік тому

      😃😐

    • @tepigeon
      @tepigeon Рік тому +9

      I can't believe it is a new game it looks horrible

    • @BlueDrew10
      @BlueDrew10 Рік тому +7

      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?

    • @juggernogsoda4515
      @juggernogsoda4515 Рік тому

      @@BlueDrew10 look at it 😂 it literally is shit. Theres no incentive to play it

  • @maxhines5744
    @maxhines5744 Рік тому +907

    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.

    • @elkathedeer
      @elkathedeer Рік тому +112

      Are you just referring to the music? The audio balancing is terrible and im hearing lots of odd, stock sfx (like the tea kettle).

    • @chipmo
      @chipmo Рік тому +61

      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

    • @thomasvaillan8673
      @thomasvaillan8673 Рік тому +69

      non suspicious warner sound design employee

    • @Leoplix-id5tu
      @Leoplix-id5tu Рік тому +5

      same thing for the environements look, it looks so cool

    • @seekittycat
      @seekittycat Рік тому +41

      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

  • @notrelatedbyblood7957
    @notrelatedbyblood7957 Рік тому +597

    The way Charlie’s hair gets more unruly as he fights to stay awake through this game is very cinematic

  • @frommi_
    @frommi_ Рік тому +735

    the instant crash was way funnier than I think it was meant to be 😭

  • @JorgeF69
    @JorgeF69 Рік тому +521

    Of all the things we wanted to do in the lotr universe, doing chores with gollum was probably the last

    • @danielmccarthy2278
      @danielmccarthy2278 Рік тому +9

      😂😂😂

    • @chistinelane
      @chistinelane Рік тому +10

      I actually really loved gollum, but a GAME?? Seriously? The best option was what, a cave fishing simulator with advanced gore mechanics??

    • @hunterprt1274
      @hunterprt1274 Рік тому +2

      Ah yes, slave labour, the greatest thing to do in the LOTR universe

  • @ThaPugster
    @ThaPugster Рік тому +87

    the death to the explosion is one of the funniest things ive ever seen LMAO

    • @Fagnarok
      @Fagnarok Рік тому

      Time stamp?

    • @lolwutizit
      @lolwutizit Рік тому +5

      @@Fagnarok 16:37

    • @bigblue207
      @bigblue207 Рік тому

      Watch the start of his second stream, has a great death as well

    • @Mcsnickers_7
      @Mcsnickers_7 Рік тому

      Lmao dude had heart attack

  • @TauCetiAurora
    @TauCetiAurora Рік тому +498

    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
      @Jeren6924 Рік тому +52

      Holy shit, Hogwarts Legacy has that. It was so distracting.

    • @TauCetiAurora
      @TauCetiAurora Рік тому +12

      @@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.

    • @ginogatash4030
      @ginogatash4030 Рік тому +35

      ​@@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.

    • @steamfeuver
      @steamfeuver Рік тому +8

      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.

    • @Purplesquigglystripe
      @Purplesquigglystripe Рік тому +5

      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.

  • @greendoritoman2464
    @greendoritoman2464 Рік тому +1534

    i'm so glad that games made in Dreams are finally getting the respect and attention they deserve

    • @Badgameplay69420
      @Badgameplay69420 Рік тому +117

      i think you meant nightmares

    • @yheti3584
      @yheti3584 Рік тому +16

      Underrated comment 😭

    • @ClavinZKL
      @ClavinZKL Рік тому +13

      ​@gamerxshadow6480 dreams is a ps4 game engine 💀 go look it up lol

    • @Badgameplay69420
      @Badgameplay69420 Рік тому +47

      @@ClavinZKL it was a joke bro use your brain

    • @ClavinZKL
      @ClavinZKL Рік тому +4

      @@Badgameplay69420 how am i supposed to know wether u know no need to be toxic..

  • @harveydjent_
    @harveydjent_ Рік тому +398

    the deaths are so sudden and anticlimactic it’s actually hilarious

  • @EF-fc4du
    @EF-fc4du Рік тому +793

    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.

    • @Xadaj127
      @Xadaj127 Рік тому +279

      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.

    • @REAPER3fitty
      @REAPER3fitty Рік тому +57

      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.

    • @amrealhuman4718
      @amrealhuman4718 Рік тому +192

      @@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.

    • @Chillerll
      @Chillerll Рік тому +52

      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.

    • @amaliosaenz23
      @amaliosaenz23 Рік тому +16

      Not really dude some people work it's just a job not every developer wants to make the best game they can

  • @hwpneon8801
    @hwpneon8801 Рік тому +251

    That "Why" at 10:24 is truly meme worthy.

  • @TheDahaka1
    @TheDahaka1 Рік тому +487

    Dying from fall damage and remaining in the air instead of falling in the abyss, that's the mark of a quality game XD

    • @KaaneDragonShinobi
      @KaaneDragonShinobi Рік тому +17

      Those damned invisible floors, they always get ya

    • @thanman6584
      @thanman6584 Рік тому +9

      That's some skyrim level developer work.

    • @precoius
      @precoius Рік тому +4

      Reminds me of Action 52. Now THAT’S a game!

    • @sleepisthecousinofdeath7395
      @sleepisthecousinofdeath7395 Рік тому +1

      Reminds me of Skyrim horses and giants but Skyrim is flawless

  • @Populon993
    @Populon993 Рік тому +660

    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.

    • @27Bayleefs
      @27Bayleefs Рік тому +33

      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.

    • @tbonea1sauce
      @tbonea1sauce Рік тому

      Stamina also

    • @hobi-wan
      @hobi-wan Рік тому +1

      We had shit games back then too.

    • @starvader6604
      @starvader6604 Рік тому

      ​​@@27Bayleefs so shadow of mordor can be considered lotr's best games compared to gollum?

    • @Agent-57
      @Agent-57 Рік тому

      ​@@hobi-wan True. But not this bad

  • @carolinecowan8702
    @carolinecowan8702 Рік тому +92

    Gollum's little "Why?" had me rolling 😂10:24

  • @archyzz
    @archyzz Рік тому +278

    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

    • @NigerianCrusader
      @NigerianCrusader Рік тому

      BUT WOLF TRACERS DINOSAUR ISLAND IS ONLY 40 MINUTES

  • @nathanpalmer1568
    @nathanpalmer1568 Рік тому +481

    I love how Charlie just stares straight into our souls while Matt does the ad read

    • @danskyder1564
      @danskyder1564 Рік тому +37

      Really selling the held hostage for sponsorships vibe

    • @thedudecalledalan9095
      @thedudecalledalan9095 Рік тому +4

      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

    • @PlasticDoll.
      @PlasticDoll. Рік тому +2

      unrelated - but that guy is really cute lol

    • @freddie_connor9202
      @freddie_connor9202 Рік тому +2

      @@PlasticDoll. matt?

    • @callumdobson8637
      @callumdobson8637 Рік тому +2

      @@freddie_connor9202or Jesus h crist?

  • @johndoefpv
    @johndoefpv Рік тому +823

    Damn, the lord of the rings franchise can't take a break 😂

    • @elguacamgio
      @elguacamgio Рік тому +107

      It's sadly getting the Star Wars treatment

    • @randomperson093
      @randomperson093 Рік тому +28

      ​@@elguacamgio good series i have fond memories of being drowned in shit media after shit media will never stop being painful

    • @al112v4
      @al112v4 Рік тому +13

      @@elguacamgio Funny how Tolkien and Lucas' work has dealt with garbage for a long time and it's nothing new.

    • @ginogatash4030
      @ginogatash4030 Рік тому +14

      We're definitely deep into the dark ages of the LOTR franchise.

    • @outlastingflame1614
      @outlastingflame1614 Рік тому +21

      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.

  • @Ch1l1C0nCarnag3
    @Ch1l1C0nCarnag3 Рік тому +28

    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.

  • @ShaquilleOatmeal849
    @ShaquilleOatmeal849 Рік тому +178

    Charging $60 for this game should be a criminal record for Daedalic Entertainment

    • @maskedlucario
      @maskedlucario Рік тому +1

      I thought it was 50

    • @skimmedmilk5520
      @skimmedmilk5520 Рік тому +3

      God damnit I bought RDR2 for less, this is outrageous

    • @pranavjayanthi
      @pranavjayanthi Рік тому +2

      @@maskedlucario Looks like it was 60 dollars but they changed the price due to the backlash

    • @saninorochimaru2
      @saninorochimaru2 Рік тому +1

      Daedalic Entertainment? More like Icaric

    • @hinasakukimi
      @hinasakukimi Рік тому

      @@pranavjayanthi LMAO

  • @dr.deadpool5959
    @dr.deadpool5959 Рік тому +522

    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

    • @servit0r
      @servit0r Рік тому +23

      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.

    • @kobra6660
      @kobra6660 Рік тому +4

      And of course they say we'll fix it classic crap game era we're in rush it out patch it later

    • @saycap
      @saycap Рік тому +8

      what do you mean “our”? I’m not purchasing this shit

    • @darcgibson5099
      @darcgibson5099 Рік тому

      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.

    • @centricthemedic1517
      @centricthemedic1517 Рік тому +12

      @@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.

  • @henrijs1733
    @henrijs1733 Рік тому +867

    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.

    • @steamfeuver
      @steamfeuver Рік тому +97

      Gotta afford to pay his esports team afterall

    • @fuzzypeaches7625
      @fuzzypeaches7625 Рік тому +30

      Genuinely if there was one person I’d love to see more of it’s gotta be Charlie

    • @grusolosanyverse8279
      @grusolosanyverse8279 Рік тому +6

      3:15 This makes me uncomfortable

    • @g.u.c5942
      @g.u.c5942 Рік тому

      Why no men stream

    • @IDoABitOfTrollin
      @IDoABitOfTrollin Рік тому +4

      I wish i could live that way. Im nothing but jealous

  • @longlivejah7821
    @longlivejah7821 Рік тому +28

    Everytime i see gollums face i feel like its edited or something and then i realize its not... gets me everytime

  • @squirrelthegamer8483
    @squirrelthegamer8483 Рік тому +461

    10:24 Gollum’s face animation for this conversation knocked me off my feet. How do you make it that bad!? 🤣

    • @ethank6406
      @ethank6406 Рік тому +56

      WHY DID THEY MAKE HIS PUPILS SO BIG FOR A SEC?!

    • @ginogatash4030
      @ginogatash4030 Рік тому +63

      There isn't even any smoothing on the animation, but that's still not as bas as this 15:39

    • @Manticorn
      @Manticorn Рік тому +7

      My guess is that they programmed a pouting facial expression for the emotion conveyed in the question, but the question was also one word long.

    • @manwhatdoiputhere
      @manwhatdoiputhere Рік тому +10

      Plus the way he says why too, its just so fucking perfect

    • @augustbeck30
      @augustbeck30 Рік тому +6

      17:17

  • @The8thblock
    @The8thblock Рік тому +109

    1:32 fun fact, what they are actually asking is if you really want to keep playing. they are actually surprised that someone wants to load a checkpoint after playing.

    • @T_Dude
      @T_Dude Рік тому +4

      “Do you seriously want to keep playing? Your game definitely crashed by now, are you sure you want to suffer?

  • @Aidez
    @Aidez Рік тому +654

    I can't stop laughing because they made a whole game about real life goblin sightings

    • @Wernershnitzl
      @Wernershnitzl Рік тому +17

      Is this some goblin sighting thing I’m too clown sighting to understand?

    • @StonerWaifu
      @StonerWaifu Рік тому +31

      @@Wernershnitzl Everybody who saw the goblin say "yeah"

    • @Paqcar
      @Paqcar Рік тому +5

      @@StonerWaifu yeah

    • @cc-bk3tx
      @cc-bk3tx Рік тому +3

      @@StonerWaifu yeah

    • @shindeiru8299
      @shindeiru8299 Рік тому +3

      ​@@StonerWaifu yeah

  • @AppleGamer258
    @AppleGamer258 Рік тому +80

    That moment when the amount of grafts on Gollum’s thinning hairline is way more than the actual effort put into the game itself.

  • @magicalpenguin9360
    @magicalpenguin9360 Рік тому +612

    This is an insane depiction of what the latest hardware can get you nowadays! Truly amazing

    • @Rosskles
      @Rosskles Рік тому +19

      Didn't know they were still making mid games for the ps3 tbh.

    • @berthamcdurtha8554
      @berthamcdurtha8554 Рік тому +5

      @@p-__ merch when?

    • @USSAnimeNCC-
      @USSAnimeNCC- Рік тому

      Can't wait to get my PS3 on my birthday with mw2

    • @aerus3446
      @aerus3446 Рік тому

      I remember playing The "Up" and "Ice Age" games for the PS3 when I was a kid and having a lot of fun, then I look at this Gollum game and im like TrollDespair 2023 Aware

  • @StealthyDead
    @StealthyDead Рік тому +534

    It blows my mind how games keep devolving. Like this looks like it would be right at home in 2004

    • @MegaChickenfish
      @MegaChickenfish Рік тому +54

      Not a chance. Half-Life 2 came out in 2004. I just rewatched some of its facial rigging for comparison.

    • @Slaggedfire
      @Slaggedfire Рік тому +12

      I believe this is their fird 3D high budget game. Until now they made beautifully drawn point and click games.

    • @synrecho
      @synrecho Рік тому +7

      I was thinking the same thing bro not the graphics but the way the game plays feels like an early ‘00’s game

    • @karthiktirumala1773
      @karthiktirumala1773 Рік тому +9

      @@synrecho fucking Spyro looks better than this and that was made in 1998

    • @bouclechocolat
      @bouclechocolat Рік тому +2

      ​@Louis thank you Louis, very cool

  • @UnfunnE
    @UnfunnE Рік тому +180

    This game feels like a step back in every way possible.

  • @DanielJoseMP
    @DanielJoseMP Рік тому +30

    Looks like a masterpiece after watching the Kong game

  • @willvrtist
    @willvrtist Рік тому +499

    Nearly fell asleep watching this, Charlie's humour was the only thing keeping me going through this😂

    • @lauren9284
      @lauren9284 Рік тому +28

      charlie DID fall asleep playing it! LMAO 😭

    • @Anakin_1234
      @Anakin_1234 Рік тому

      It's like watching LOTR again!

    • @mikael5079
      @mikael5079 Рік тому +1

      Well I did fall asleep watching this. Oh my

    • @willvrtist
      @willvrtist Рік тому +2

      @lauren9284 well yeah but he seemingly kept me awake regardless😂

    • @willvrtist
      @willvrtist Рік тому +1

      @keineken_3281 facts bro 😂😂

  • @the_arma
    @the_arma Рік тому +67

    this feels like an old obscure discount store video game that my parents would buy for me to play when I was a child. I have no idea what is happening with the gaming industry.

  • @Phasmania
    @Phasmania Рік тому +459

    Charlie struggling to stay awake playing is way funnier than it should be

    • @pastpresence8173
      @pastpresence8173 Рік тому +9

      the way his hair just gets messier as the video progresses too lmao, he is absolutely out of it

    • @ulipeterson6112
      @ulipeterson6112 Рік тому +11

      He is slowly turning into Gollum himself.

    • @NigerianCrusader
      @NigerianCrusader Рік тому

      BUT NOT AS FUNNY AS WOLF TRACERS DINOSAUR ISLAND

  • @midgematic8659
    @midgematic8659 Рік тому +27

    If anything, the team did a really good job at recreating an early 2000’s PS3 CGI game

  • @Reflecter16
    @Reflecter16 Рік тому +362

    This feels like one of those PS2 greatest hits games that no one ever talks about, you would always see it in a retail store display case (FULLY STOCKED) and grab it just because it was cheap.

    • @Dalton_Boardman2000
      @Dalton_Boardman2000 Рік тому +68

      Inaccurate. In general PS2 games (especially Greatest Hits) are always finished products with rare exceptions. Even the shittiest games in it's library beat this game 10× over.

    • @Zephyr_The_Robot
      @Zephyr_The_Robot Рік тому +2

      Why is this so accurate?

    • @Apollo-iq1vx
      @Apollo-iq1vx Рік тому +8

      Final Fantasy XII unironically looks better than this game does lmaoooooo

    • @pukemaid54
      @pukemaid54 Рік тому +5

      ​@@Zephyr_The_Robot its the most inaccurate comment on this game

    • @willchurch8376
      @willchurch8376 Рік тому +11

      Name a single PS2 greatest hits game that isn't an absolute banger.

  • @Zephyn
    @Zephyn Рік тому +658

    That was the longest 20 minutes of my year. Watching that game actually gave me a slight headache lol. Props to Charlie for giving it a whirl instead of immediately getting a refund.

    • @Chizuru94
      @Chizuru94 Рік тому +9

      And for around 3h at that also and without falling entirely asleep. I didn't think creating a game like this was at all possible.

    • @avocado3-in-182
      @avocado3-in-182 Рік тому +5

      @@Chizuru94 I’m honestly impressed. Watching the wet paint to dry is more entertaining than this game.

    • @stopthecapp3067
      @stopthecapp3067 Рік тому +3

      I was gonna workout after watching the vid but now i’m just gonna go to bed. it’s actually impressive and magical how this game can make you tired

    • @danirfan5452
      @danirfan5452 Рік тому

      Redfall was slightly worse imo but they’re both pretty shit

    • @jajasking9652
      @jajasking9652 Рік тому +5

      ​@@danirfan5452 i think this Game is somehow even worst than redfall
      Both of them at release are a 0/10, which i don't put lighty at all, but at least redfall, if the Ia of the enemies is good and the map has more encounters, then It might be even less bad than forspoken, but this one is a catastrophe not only in a technical level, but on every single Game foundation

  • @leaauh
    @leaauh Рік тому +221

    I like that you put "So Far" in the title, gotta keep those expectations low so the disappointment doesn't hit as hard

    • @bluenited9524
      @bluenited9524 Рік тому +5

      Yeah Starfield is next.

    • @baraness24
      @baraness24 Рік тому +1

      @BlueNITED95 I'm neutral about Starfield. Its a new IP, and they seem passionate about it. Plus, anywhere they slack, the modding community will pick up the pieces. It's the great thing about Bethesda games tbh. Even an okay game becomes amazing thanks solely to community passion. Like even if it's trash, modders make it good.

    • @Stormwolf1O1x
      @Stormwolf1O1x Рік тому

      I mean the way it's been going, it would not be surprising if this year shits out some even stinkier games moving forward. That seems to be the trend.

    • @Rhagzom
      @Rhagzom Рік тому +8

      @@baraness24 They are using a 12 yo game engine for Starfield, there is absolutely no chance its going to be good.

    • @corbinwitz9073
      @corbinwitz9073 Рік тому +3

      @@Rhagzom I honestly feel like that's what it has going for it. Rather a 12 year old game engine than something like the garbage we're currently watching

  • @wesleyward5901
    @wesleyward5901 Рік тому +20

    Idk what's worse, the art style, the gameplay, the bugs or the fact they couldn't bring back the original VA for Gollum.

  • @nehtia7996
    @nehtia7996 Рік тому +238

    I am legit sad about how bad the game turned out. I do not care much about the game itself, but the studio behind it is dear to my heart for producing some of my childhood games. But love will never make me cope past this abomination

    • @ArtistryofDebauchery
      @ArtistryofDebauchery Рік тому +24

      On the other hand, the devs who made some of those older, beloved games likely were not a part of the team responsible for this trash.

    • @EveTheRaviolo
      @EveTheRaviolo Рік тому +9

      Agreed! I cherish Daedalic so much, their Deponia series and The night of the rabbits are games that I still cherish deeply, I only wish this little studio to succeed

    • @macrons593
      @macrons593 Рік тому

      Can you give some examples?

  • @caitlinwithacbt3
    @caitlinwithacbt3 Рік тому +204

    I like how one of the objectives is to "wait in the cage" 🤣

  • @adamzientek2154
    @adamzientek2154 Рік тому +388

    "Why'd they make him look so silly"
    "He's just a silly little guy"
    That exchange was better than the entirety of the game itself.

  • @IgnatiusAlpha
    @IgnatiusAlpha Рік тому +14

    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.

  • @elpolodiablo5486
    @elpolodiablo5486 Рік тому +144

    I like how you have to put "so far" in the title. The game companies are surely on a competition to make the worst game possible.

  • @scah_to
    @scah_to Рік тому +336

    For every ToTK, there must to be a Gollum to balance the scales.

    • @iiequinox8044
      @iiequinox8044 Рік тому +39

      For every ToTK, there must be 20 games like Gollum to balance the scales more like lol.

    • @youtubesucks1821
      @youtubesucks1821 Рік тому +4

      ​@@iiequinox8044for every 20 games like Gollum, there's 20 more

    • @Calebvelasquez117
      @Calebvelasquez117 Рік тому

      @@youtubesucks1821for every 20 more gollum games there are 40 more

  • @Iminyourcloset10
    @Iminyourcloset10 Рік тому +91

    I like how he says "my game crashed already" as if he was expecting it to crash

    • @A-Ner2
      @A-Ner2 Рік тому +10

      in the current climate of PC gaming this is the status quo

    • @HeavyhandedDame
      @HeavyhandedDame Рік тому

      In his video about the pc requirements for this game, he guessed that it was going to come out crashing. His guess was spot on.

  • @WinxJedi
    @WinxJedi Рік тому +16

    We all knew a kid in elementary school who looked exactly like this version of Gollum.

  • @TheJuanamador
    @TheJuanamador Рік тому +86

    "The only good thing I can say about this game that wasn't $70." What a quote.

  • @cvrclangaming8526
    @cvrclangaming8526 Рік тому +106

    5:05 That was the most calm throttling to death I have ever seen. Very immersive little tarzan game

  • @Gungrave94
    @Gungrave94 Рік тому +289

    This game was too ambitious for that small studio .. they usually make very good point and click adventures like Deponia. This was their first attempt for a AAA game and it definitely shows

    • @DracoHandsome
      @DracoHandsome Рік тому +23

      Deponia's shit even by point and click standards

    • @crecs5362
      @crecs5362 Рік тому +2

      ​@@DracoHandsome and why? Can you please give some arguments?

    • @richardhunter9779
      @richardhunter9779 Рік тому +9

      ​@@crecs5362 Chainlike lock-and-key puzzles, unlikable characters, boring stories? I mean, they are not the worst games I have played, but it's still a far cry from Monkey Island 2 or Grim Fandango.

    • @jinx8624
      @jinx8624 Рік тому +13

      Point and click to tripple a isn't just a huge leap its an astronomical launch to another planet
      Which exains why they failed so miserably

    • @crecs5362
      @crecs5362 Рік тому

      @@richardhunter9779 ah I can understand the point of view with the mini games. I think this game is more attached to me because it was a strong game in my childhood memories. Also some german youtuber played it, and this is one another reason. But I understand your arguments really good

  • @Howlingburd19
    @Howlingburd19 Рік тому +5

    *When “Skull Island: Rise of Kong” releases*
    Gollum: “Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary!”

  • @FrostConner
    @FrostConner Рік тому +115

    Charlies ad read felt like a forgotten about school project done in the hallway right before class. Fits right in with the quality of the game.

    • @thekamotodragon
      @thekamotodragon Рік тому +5

      Honestly it looked like both of them were being held at gunpoint lol, like it even had the perspective of a kidnapping ransom video, where they force the captives to talk into the camera.

  • @lazylemon9877
    @lazylemon9877 Рік тому +378

    Never have I struggled to watch a Charlie video without sleeping up until now. Charlie is a brave man for torturing himself to play this game.

    • @michaelmartin1532
      @michaelmartin1532 Рік тому +10

      I know the feeling man the game looks really boring kept wanting to pause and find another video

    • @mr.dumbum8209
      @mr.dumbum8209 Рік тому +9

      @Michael Martin
      he's do it for us, he plays so that we don't have to...

    • @michaelmartin1532
      @michaelmartin1532 Рік тому +1

      @@mr.dumbum8209 Frl man I know I wouldn’t play that

  • @rezzoflansch2936
    @rezzoflansch2936 Рік тому +216

    Daedalic Entertainment, a German developer with a strong focus on adventure games, is responsible for the game. While they have produced notable titles such as the "Deponia" series and "Edna & Harvey," it's worth noting that they are not a AAA studio. They have often worked with IPs like "The Dark Eye," a German pen and paper role-playing game. However, it seems that tackling the Lord of the Rings IP might have been too big of an IP for them.

    • @evilcow2114
      @evilcow2114 Рік тому +20

      They have made some seriously amazing games, sad that a majority of people will associate Daedalic with this game now.

    • @rezzoflansch2936
      @rezzoflansch2936 Рік тому +28

      @@evilcow2114 Daedalic Entertainment's greatest accomplishment undoubtedly lies in their Deponia series, where their storytelling prowess shines. However, since the departure of their Creative Director, Poki (Jan Müller-Michaelis, now Baumann), there has been a noticeable decline in their creative output.s took a downfall for sure.

    • @themurmeli88
      @themurmeli88 Рік тому +4

      Holy crap, I actually recognized the "Edna & Harvey" from that list. It was pretty good.

    • @Logan-zp8bi
      @Logan-zp8bi Рік тому

      I didn't even know they made Deponia, it makes a lot of sense. Although the only thing notable about that game was its fixation on a certain Goal...

    • @nomit4hd552
      @nomit4hd552 Рік тому

      @@rezzoflansch2936 I can't describe how much i love deponia, it's so so so great

  • @GioTheVax
    @GioTheVax Рік тому +9

    Gollum's head isn't even weight-painted correctly, it folds in on itself. It's like a baby's soft spot

  • @Harry2339_
    @Harry2339_ Рік тому +144

    i love that charlies "playing bad steam games" series is just playing new triple A games

    • @onesmileybaldy8303
      @onesmileybaldy8303 Рік тому +2

      This is triple A?!?! No way,I refuse to believe this

    • @santanacorr3880
      @santanacorr3880 Рік тому +5

      @@onesmileybaldy8303 it’s got a triple a budget but it’s a triple f effort

    • @KyoukoYamabiko
      @KyoukoYamabiko Рік тому

      This is published by Nacon, so AA

  • @cosmickal9920
    @cosmickal9920 Рік тому +565

    This is a great proof-of-concept! I'm hyped for the actual game

    • @tellyg47
      @tellyg47 Рік тому +1

      @@AnmolMishra946 they aren’t the same company

    • @CalebTheOwlBoy
      @CalebTheOwlBoy Рік тому +3

      Who's gonna tell him? 🤣🤣

  • @TheToonpimp
    @TheToonpimp Рік тому +331

    This would've been an A-okay game for 2003-2005.🤣😂

    • @toi_let954
      @toi_let954 Рік тому +38

      I don't think there is a time where this game would ever pass for 50 dollars

    • @CoolGuySpyro
      @CoolGuySpyro Рік тому +16

      The classic LOTR games are too goated. Makes me want to boot up BFME or The Third Age again instead of witnessing this mess

    • @FauxRegard
      @FauxRegard Рік тому +35

      Not even. At that point you had absolute gems like KotOR 1 and 2, Battlefront 1 and 2, Jade Empire, Mercenaries, Halo 2, Republic Commando, etc. This game would be a laughingstock back then too lmao

    • @ethansprague2005
      @ethansprague2005 Рік тому +7

      @@FauxRegard you're taste in gaming is amazing

    • @robertwoodson1701
      @robertwoodson1701 Рік тому +1

      @@CoolGuySpyro LOTR CONQUEST BABYYY

  • @maxsanchez764
    @maxsanchez764 Рік тому +310

    My favorite part of the game is when Gollum said “ its gollumin’ time” and just gollumed all over the place. One of the most games ever of 2023!