Skull Island: Rise of Kong - The scam game used free assets...
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- The new game Skull Island: Rise of Kong is an absolute scam of a game, even going as far as using free assets.
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Skull Island: Rise of Kong - The scam game used free assets...
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Lizzies and Charlies.
It feels like this has got so much attention that it could end up making money from people wanting to see how bad it is.
@@stuartmorley6894it is lol even bigfry apparently bought the more expensive bundle for a vid. Maybe it ain't making a ton but it's sadly making some money. At least it's to show it's terrible which is a good cause xD
@@stuartmorley6894 I'd hope that most people buying it on Steam for that reason would refund it before they played it for too long.
He didn’t he got the clips from
mind pulp and didn’t credit them 😅
So the reason how they got to have King Kong's license is that the License for the character is WEIRD as all hell and is owned differently for movies, books, and other media. What the devs bought is actually the license to a 2005 book called "Kong: King Of Skull Island" rather than any of the more well known Monsterverse or Universeal studio movies.
So basically LOTR
So this is technically a tie-in game.
@Nerathul1
King Kong is actually in the public domain because the 1932 novel that was made using one of the early scripts for the 1933 film lapsed into the public domain decades ago.
When they put in less effort for a license than any other random studio does for a character on the public domain
@@UlshaRS King Kong is actually in the public domain because the 1932 novel that was made using one of the early scripts for the 1933 film lapsed into the public domain decades ago.
The game window itself is just called "monkey". Seriously. That's the level of care put into that "game". Oh, and it looks worse than my first, unfinished Unity project
To think a gorillia isn't even a monkey but an ape!
Wait a min, u can't be serious. Is it actually called monkey xD
No fucking way, that’s hysterical
It’s not even called monkey it’s called “monke” 😂
@@jauwn did not expect u to reply here. Love the vids man xD
Fun fact - the executable uses the default Unreal icon, and the game process is called "Monke".
Too bad there's no chance of a sequel, otherwise they'd be able to call the process "Return to Monke".
Another fun fact - the deluxe edition comes with a few film grain and other tacky looking post processing effects (you know - the stuff you can add for free through Nvidia Game Filter feature) and alternate King Kong color schemes (which look as bad as the default one, arguably even worse). This is even worse than the Gollum deluxe package.
I wonder how much of the game is stock Unreal store assets. I assume it could be most of the stuff. Also, what's up with the weird not-quite-Borderlands pseudo-celshading effect they used? It looks so out of place?
Leave society, be a monke
Man, seeing a good looking cel shaded game like Hi-fi Rush and the Guilty Gears games compare to THIS? Yeah, this looks rough, and that's the least of its problems.
I guess the OG models look like complete shit, so they added cel shade in attempt to improve it
I only knew this game existed due to the speedrun, and its a pretty fun dpeedrun to watch
@@thatonebritishidiot3037Yeah, the speedrun is the only saving grace of this game.
This is not King Kong, this this is Peasant Pong
Cling Con?
Pleb Kong
@@Lexo374 pleb pong
Fonky Bong
I'd also like to point out, from what I've seen:
1. The game doesn't actually have an icon, if you look at it in your taskbar while it's running, it's just the unreal's logo.
2. If you then hover over the tab for the game's window, it's not called Skull Island, or Rise of Kong, or anything of the sort. It's called "monke"
they should've just foregone the license and called it "monke"
When Billy Mitchell loses his case, the court should legally prohibit him from playing any video game, except this one
If this didn't have the license, it would be one of thousands of "meh" games out there.
Honestly, I think "Harambe Simulator" was a better monkey-smash game.
The irony is that the producer of this game is called "GamesMill" and they're no stranger to pumping out shovelware
Irony is when something does what it says on the label? 🤔
@@RarebitFiends The sad part is, it's not hard to grasp irony. Example: a porn star moves to Virgin, Utah.
Feel like I'm sitting down with my therapist who side jobs as a modern artist.
hahaha
If this game was a free or $2 game on itcio made by one dev then I could see this being kinda fun to play once. But this being a LICENSED game made by an actual studio in 2023, it is embarrassing that they actually released this. It legit looks like an early PS2 game
People who made PS2 and games for it would feel insulted if they read your comment...
Lego Batman for the ps2 had real time water reflections and smooth animations
Ps2 games tried way harder than this
Also Ico was an early ps2 game :P
It's funny you say that because there is a King Kong PS2 game that that looks better and is more fun to boot
@@sporeham1674 most water in this "game" look like animals have used water as public toilet... 🤢
@@watsonwroteexactly! Imagine a modern version of that game. It would be amazing
King Kong is public domain. That was famously determined in an early 80s lawsuit against Nintendo.
Who said asset flips are only reserved for indy games on Unity? AAA Unreal games can join the fun too.
As fun as pleasuring oneself with cactus...
This doesn't seem to be an asset flip at all, they were just lazy and used a default texture from the engine and using assets in a game doesn't make it an asset flip either
@@questioned54 When I make my first 3D game, I'll probably spend like 1000 hours on it and get called an asset flipper. 💀
Free assets aren't bad because they're free; they're bad because the time you aren't putting into making your own tends to be time you also aren't thinking about an overall artistic style. And not thinking about a basic aspect of a game you're making tends to end up compromising the end product even when it's not a very important aspect.
AAA? I don't even consider this publisher near that, so more like A or AA...
Apparently the reason they were able to get the King Kong liscensing is because this isn't actually Monsterverse Kong, but an entirely unrelated book called "King Kong Skull Island" or something
Yeah.
I doubt toho would allow something like this related to godzilla since the 1998 movie.
The only good thing to come out of that movie was the animated series.
Is Kong tiny in the books?
@@rexyjp1237 Still better than the one they marketed with Bryan Cranston only to kill him 10 minutes into the movie and the whole thing was a complete snoozefest. I'd watch the 1998 movie over any of the others. Any day.
Also Toho have the weakest claim out of everyone to the rights of King Kong. They were sold the rights to produce a movie by RKO, who didn't even own King Kong themselves. RKO had previously made two movies with the cooperation from the original character and stories creator (Merian Cooper), and instead of accepting a salary, he wanted to keep the rights to King Kong and the story. Basically, RKO still owned the rights to the MOVIES they had produced, but not the rights to King Kong or the story itself. Despite this, they approached Toho to make movies based on King Kong (the original character, not the previous movies). There was a big legal battle and it was ruled that RKO didn't even own the rights to their own movies and they had fallen into public domain, and the character King Kong itself they ruled was still owned by Cooper (the original creator). So they ruled that RKO and Universal (who released the 1976 movie stateside) would have to pay back Cooper for the money they had made on all the re-releases of the 1933 King Kong movie. They also ruled that Cooper was still the rightful owner of the character and story which was his argument for nearly 40 years. Eventually he died, and his son sold the rights to Universal anyway.
So yeah the King Kong 1933 MOVIE is public domain, but the character is not. Toho has no legal ownership of the property. Only of the movies they made. The same as RKO when they illegally licensed the property to Toho in the first place. The character and story is owned by Universal. You can still make your own King Kong games / movies / books but they have to be based on the public domain movies they can't be other properties or original stories that feature King Kong. How they judge that, I have no idea. But that's where it stands as of now.
Figured I'd point this out cause It got mentioned in I think Yong's video too.
The one, and I do mean /ONE/ point you can't directly fault the devs for is Kong's size. The game is supposed to be an origin story. He's small because he's young. He's not "King" Kong yet, he's just Kong. Hense the game's title. And he isn't REALLY the size of a normal gorilla. If you look at the size of the trees and the like that you pass directly by, he's standing probably a good four to five heads above the average person. When you take that into consideration, it would make a lot LESS sense for Kong to be as big as he is when he's "King" and fully adult, when he's just a kid.
Now: THAT SAID...
One MIGHT immediately begin to question the decision to make a King fucking Kong game, the franchise about the giant monke the size of buildings, where the giant monke the size of buildings is not a giant monke the size of buildings yet. LIke, people aren't buying a Kong game to play slightly chonky gorilla simulator. They want to play as the KING Kong. They want to smash buildings and desolate the military and kidnap helpless women and- wait.
that actually makes sense! however, all the assets are consistently the wrong size compared to kong haha
Kong doesn't look like child or even teen! No wonder people think he's supposed to be adult...
@@CallumUptonFor sure. Regardless of Kong's size some of the asset sizing, particularly in things like the treetops above you are... an interesting design choice, let's call it that.
@@valivali8104 He *is* an adult. This version of Kong is only 25 feet tall, which is how tall he was in the original film from 1933.
@@CallumUpton In 'Skull Island: Rise of Kong', Kong is actually an adult and is 25 feet tall, which is how tall he was in the original film from 1933.
We are officially back to my childhood - an age where games tied to known franchises were all buggy, badly made shovelware sold for AAA prices.
Right off the jump you've got two things wrong. First, this is not and was never a AAA game. Iguanabee is a small studio in Chile that makes budget games. Second, the legal history of King Kong is long and complicated (and Nintendo actually played a massive part in it funnily enough.) While technically there are 5 prominent King Kong franchises, anyone can make a game based on King Kong, because the Meriam C. Cooper novel is in the public domain and has been for a while now. The name "King Kong" can't be trademarked. This game is not based on the Legendary Monsterverse Kong from Kong: Skull Island and Godzilla Vs. Kong. It also isn't based on the Universal owned movies Peter Jackson's King Kong or the 1933 movie King Kong. It's also not based on the Toho productions King Kong that appeared in King Kong vs Godzilla. And it is also not part of the 1976 Dino De Laurentiis King Kong franchise. The game is actually based on the novel and comics series by Joe Devito which has nothing to do with any of the Kong movies listed above It's a semi-obscure novel and comic series that really only hardcore Kong fans know about. Not really defending this game. It's unfinished and too expensive (although it is not AAA priced). But just putting things into perspective because a lot of very wrong information is out there.
There's also a thing that everyone misses.
Game Mill purchases licenses, and THEN shops around for studios that can execute what they want for a pittance.
They are more like the "interns" in the KoE video, than the directors of the proyect.
Damn I hate seing this. Not because of the lack of care regarding this game. But because I have interviewed the head developer before regarding one of their IP's. He seems like a cool guy and really passionate about video game development.
Lets take this chance to celebrate indie game devs with games like Dave the Diver for being the true MVP of the gaming culture.
A-freaking-men. Preach it, brother! ❤
they are not indie.
In regards to forgetting the big monkey - on one hand, I could play a devil's advocate and say that the game takes place on the island of origin of King Kong, where everything is big (that's like the one defining feature of that lost island - everything's supremely big), so the scale checks out... but on the other hand, I'm 100% convinced that it's literally just a lucky coincidence and that the devs didn't give enough of a shit to actually consider the scale at all.
King Kong is actually in the public domain because the 1932 novel that was made using one of the early scripts for the 1933 film lapsed into the public domain decades ago. But, with that having been said, 'Skull Island: Rise of Kong' is actually connected to the 'King Kong' books by Joe DeVito.
That cutscene legitimately looks like placeholder art as part of an animatic (hence the static image at one point). Either they accidentally put the unfinished version in, or simply ran out of time.
Or they just don't care.
I think it's meant to be a flashback to Gaw, like a PTSD attack. So on other words, it's probably intentional, and is as it's meant to be for the most part, which is worse.
Just a small correction: this is not a AAA game. Iguanabee is a smaller studio in Chile. That and they were only given around a year to complete the project by the some company.
if it werent in this context, i would absolutely love to see a gorilla smashing the shit out of a warhammer tyranid. thank you for putting that image in my mind
Another notable glitch that you didn't mention.
If you run at a wall in a certain manner you can become LOCKED inti whatever frame of aniamtion you are in at the time and softlock the game. It own't take any more controller inputs of anykind.
I saw a streamer acheive this within the first 10 minutes of playing and a secondtime later on before they just made sure to avoid running directly into walls.
ALSO there are red stones that you get a power up in order to destroy. However they forgot to put collision detection of the red stones covering floors to block underground routes. So you can just ... fall through them and end up in late game areas that you can't get out of because you can't go back the way you came and you can't go further because the game expects you to have powers that you don't have.
Also these aren't glitches but
1. The map doesn't have a location indicator. So you have to figure out yourself where you are on the map just by knowing where you are.
2. The game does not feature a proper waypoint system and the closest it offers is a roar that makes lines appear in the sky. However these appear for not just quests but points of interest. So knowing where to go to progress the story is a nightmare unless you've beaten the game once already and just know where shit is.
3. Despite what I just said it's possible to beat this game within 5 hours on a first playthrough. Less than 2 if you speedrun it after knowing what you're doing.
They are charging $30 ... for a game you can potentially beat in 2 hours. and this isn't like ... a cinematic game. Cut scenes are sparse and it's mostly exploration and combat.
This version of Kong makes 2005's Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie look like the ultimate Kong game.
The devs only had one year to make the game with anywhere from 15-30 devs working on it. It was doomed from day one. The publisher is mostly to blame.
Less people have made better games in less time. That's no excuse. Regardless of how long it took, the game is not worth what they charged for it.
@@blobbertmcblob4888The thing you didn't mention is passion, yea a smaller team can make better games with less time because they have a vision and passion. This game had 0 passion behind it, all it takes is literally one person to play test this garbage to realize its gameplay is shit, but they didn't care...no passion, just doing it for a paycheck from the publisher.
the lack of style alone shows how much it was rushed by the publisher. it looks like a prototype build used to show the loose idea of a game before it gets its style and starts getting polished.
I'm confused, how is this a AAA game when this is just some backwater indie studio that made it?
It's a missinformed video
Fun fact: GameMill, the publisher behind this joke of a game are the very people behind Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, and that really puts things in perspective
I wish £30 was the average for that classic AAA experience mate.
I'm just reacting to the fact that Kong runs of two legs like a human, and not on his knuckles like a real gorilla, and it just looks so cursed that it almost distracted me from how cursed everything else looked.
@blondbraid7986
🤦♂️ With most versions of Kong, he more often walks bipedally than he does quadrupedally. Kong isn't simply a giant gorilla. Kong is a member of a prehistoric ape species that predates gorillas.
Finally someone else who noticed, lol. I don't care about the in-lore excuses for it, it just looks dumb and goes against what we've come to know about King Kong.
Mostly has to do with the source material. The game was based on an illustrated novel which served as a prequel to the original film from 1933, and in both of those Kong walked mostly upright. Kong never really walked like a real gorilla until Peter Jackson remade and expanded on the original film in 2005, because he was never really intended to just be a gorilla -- unlike Mighty Joe.
@@rachelwindsor850 You've clearly only seen the 2005 film. While that is the best version of the original story, they did a disservice by acting as though Kong is simply a giant gorilla.
This was like NFT fever dream. 😂
That cutscene is pure gold. Incredible.
To answer the question regarding how they managed to license it, the simple answer is they didn't. King Kong is in the public domain and has been for many years. As long as it's not an adaptation of another version of King Kong such as a recent movie, they can do what they like with the character.
I get what they were trying to do in that cutscene, to make it a flashback in Kong's head, but there's no excuse for it not being fullscreen.
That cut scene makes it look like you're supposed to feel like kong is attacking you instead of the monster
I've believed for quite a few years now that the products made by indy/bedroom Devs have far surpassed games made by AA/AAA studios. It's saved me quite a bit of money.
This is an Indie dev
Dude, my condolences to anyone getting either this or Gollum this holiday season.
6:33 The first time I saw this cutscene it immediately screamed previs/unfinished to me. I'm not sure why they left it like this, probably an oversight for whatever reason.
That cutscene is clearly just a dev blocking out how the cutscene should play out, it's basically one step beyond whiteboarding, and then someone (forgot? didn't give a shit?) and never came back to it.
i'm pretty sure they didn't have to purchase the rights to Kong from Universal. They hold the King Kong movie rights, but the charracter of Kong actually appeared first in a novelization of the film, and the rights to the story in that novel were not renewed so the novel is in public domain. This means that elements of the Kong story are in public domain, which is likely why this game takes place long before the events of the movie. They just used public domain elements is my guess.
That jpeg cutscene seems to indicate that the jpeg was probably ap laceholder in their cutscene editor and they never went back and actually added the animation that the placeholder was supposed to represent. This displays a total lack of quality control and testing.
This uses a very specific IP, from devito artworks. The sizing, designs, coloring of creatures are all straight from that source material. Which could be cool if it was the most popular version, but it isn't.. and some of the creature designs, like mammal like spiders and indistinct female characteristics kinda show in this game too. The game is also super tame in terms of violence, and most of the gruelling moves from CS's happen out of camera.
re: JPEG, yep. sad. "insert gaw flashback here".
Actually, the first thing I was thinking was "what do you mean AAA?!? _That_ was supposed to count as a AAA game??" but yeah, the grass texture was a close second
I can't believe this is real. I can't believe someone at the studio thought it was finished. I can't believe someone accepted it as finished and release it via their platform. I can't believe there are people paying for it.
I just can't.
Now the original King Kong book back from 1932 was never copyrighted so its public domain forever, so as long as you follow the book or the basic backbone of the story, you're legally fine.
But apparently, this game is not based on the original book or any of the movies from Universal/RKO, Warner Bros, Toho, or even Disney.
It actually ripped off a prequel novel by Sci-Fi author Joe Devito from back in the 2000s. With AFAIK no credit was given
Pretty sure Joe DeVito is mentioned in the credits
You keep calling it a AAA game, I think you're wrong this is a ZZZ game.
We should have a new rating system for this lol
LMAO!
At least a zzz game would be more likely to put you too sleep than kill a franchise. 😅
He's not even hitting the ground in the cutscene. He's hitting the bottom of the viewport.
There's nothing wrong with using free assets... But... well, assets not specifically for the game should be used carefully. If I remember right, Getting Over It was almost entirely using pre-existing assets. The Citadel's music was all pre-existing assets. And most DOOM Wads use tons of pre-existing free assets.
Anyway, I'm currently a solo developer, and don't plan on using pre-existing assets (outside of existing Godot engine features), but it is frequently a good idea to do that. With my game, it's music is the only part I can't make, but my sister can do that. Without her help, I'd need either investors or free assets. And I'm still considering doing some fundraising, as I want to pay her before release, and maybe get some more musicians on board before release.
The cutscene in the end reminds me of how those free video games that came in cereal boxes used to look like
I was waiting for this confirmation. I saw all the videos and just felt that i had seen a lot of the assets.
Sidenote: the background music in this video is too loud. It was hard to hear you speak in some areas. 😅
AFAIK, King Kong left copyright, so anyone can make a KK game. The Devs got rights to some derivative book from early 2Ks.
This is the first time I see this game and I will be honest...
I legit thought the footage shown at 1:50 was a mockup of the game just to laugh at it.
I did not realize that was the finished game.
The game legit looks... Old but also new?
Like someone took a PS1 era game and just made the textures slightly smoother?
It is hard to explain.
The background music is a bit loud.
Understatement 😂. Verry distracting to watch on a tv.
He has been making videos for months and can’t get the audio right…
@@HansFriedrich532 i mean it happens. Even much larger channels have some minor issues like this from time to time. I feel his quality is usually quite good.
The random jpg that pops up during the cutscene is Kong remembering the creature from his childhood. Yeah it should have been presented in a better way.
Music is too loud, next time lower it so your voice is not drowned in some parts of the video. 👍👍
I expected a lot more on the "used free assets" claim, frankly. It used the grass. Um, OK. Not to defend this game, but if that's the only "free assets" found in the game, I'm amazed. I'd be willing to bet most of the assets are paid assets, and there's nothing fundamentally wrong with that - if you make a good game. Using the grass Unreal Engine provides is fine... if it's shrunk to nothing, that's a matter of scale, right? I think the enemies were meant to be large monsters as well... but the problem with the game is nothing else is really provided for scale. How about a herd of deer? Some tiny wild boars? Small birds flying around like flies? Why not take some liberties and put some tiny humans running around, along with their camps and maybe some vehicles? They decided to go with an "art style" to hide the bad quality of the assets. Hiding bad assets only makes them more obvious. A game franchise using cel-style graphics like Borderlands starts with very good assets. Kong was done poorly at every level, but if you claim "free assets" - please bring the receipts instead of making it a central click-baity point in the title.
Billy Mitchell might also claim the world record highscore for this one.
Damn, you're spot on Callum! Esp, the musing on AAA games and the state of the industry.
Bro I'm loving the evil villain look, I hope you take over the world and make all the lizzies lol
That game has the audacity to charge half the price of the master piece that is Spiderman 2. Insane.
Peter Jackson's King Kong game: Detailed world, intense and emotional music, memorable characters, OG voice actors, actually a 25 foot Gorilla, weight behind Kongs attacks, and story that matches up with the movie.
Skull Island: Rise of Kong: * Big monke*
Elements of King Kong are in the public domain including the title. Anyone can make a generic King Kong adaptation based off those public domain works without license or approval.
background audio is a bit too loud, otherwise great video! To me it's more funny than depressing to see what the AAA industry has become. :D
People keep saying AAA but how would this qualify under that when seems like GameMill Entertainment only publishes low tier games.
Music is a bit loud
I think I spent more time mining coal to that soundtrack (Book of Spells), on that corner of Lumbridge swamp when I was a kid, than people making this game
It was bad because of the executives, it was done in one year with a team that would have at most 20 people working and when it was at minimum 2 people, and they were forced to improvise a lot of things becuse they werent given clear directions.
Thanks for mentioning that Kong is tiny in this game. The trees are like 10 times bigger than him lol.
Thanks for another great video, the backing track might be a bit too load on this one I was trying to find what tab the music was coming from lol.
It's not really a "free asset" it's just a default texture from UE4 so I wouldn't call this an asset flip
7:06 if you look at the other image behind the dinosaur it looks like concept art 😂
"How did they look at this and go, 'this is fantastic, let's release it. ' " 😆😂😄 4:08
6:50 that cutscene is like a clip from Beast Wars without the nostalgia goggles.
A Twitch streamer I watched played this at release and got it on the Nintendo Switch as he wanted to see it at its worst and he had to close and restart the game at least four times as the audio would start crackling and the only way to fix it was to restart the the game
Callum in here looking like a Tech bro CEO villain in a 2010's action film
This game is the embodiment of everything that is wrong with the gaming industry today. The only thing they're missing is a fully functional monetary scheme.
How did this actually get made...
I read a comment on Steam that said, "I bought this is a bit to laugh at with my friends and we all got pissed instead, not even worth a joke" *Product Refunded*
The game industry is so screwed, stuff like this comes out and bombs because nobody cared while making it and because of that passionate workers on amazing projects are having funding revoked
The targeting for jumping made King Kong look like he's peeing.
What makes Gollum better is that the devs really tried to make a good game and failed. Kong seems like a cash grab with zero effort other than using the license...
From what i've seen on the Net, that cutscene with a JPG is meant to be a flashback. I.e., Kong's mom (?) had been killed by this particular dino - and that pic is sort of a "that is my trauma / nemesis" realization 😅
I love this game 10/10! The story is both epic and compelling. The Mass Effect trilogy is now no longer my favorite game franchise. I wish a long life to the series !
This game does come across as seriously low effort but....we've brought assets on the Unreal store before and a month later Unreal then gave these same assets away for free.
Damn
This is weird because I sort of knew about the developer company for a while. The founders studied in the same university I did
i figured out whats so bad about the visual style of this game.
it has next to no texture fidelity, but the "texture-roughness" for the shading of texture-light-reflections is set to maximum.
You usually see when "texture-reflectivity" is set too high like in Morrowind or Fallout3, just because they could, to make it look good, like when bloom could be done in 30fps, every game added ALL the bloom bloom, BUT setting "texture roughness" too high is a new level if lazy dumb bad style.
This game is literally "cheap and rough" at any moment you look at it.
The reason Kong is so much worse than Gollum is that as awful as Gollum is, there's something so hilariously interesting about it. From glitches to the baffling story, Gollum is a bad game that is somehow still so entertaining. I tried to watch one of my favorite streamers playing Kong and it's so tedious and boring. There's nothing even funny about it.
Seeing this makes me want to dig out my old 360 and play that Peter Jackson's King Kong game. I bought it during the only a few years ago and never played it before, but from what I've seen of it, I know it isn't a very good game. Yet, it was still a game made with love, heck it looks better than this scam game just from the art direction alone. Peter Jackson's King Kong game aged like fine wine compared to this day old milk left out in room temperature.
I look forward to portaling directly to this game from my penthouse in Earth2.
Popeye would be the worse officially licensed shovelware game made by some tiny "developers" known for cheap calculators and almost only uses assets. Kong is very similar to Popeye in that sense. Why do companies do these for their beloved IPs? Don't they know basic quality controls and standard of the video game industry that they just gave their IPs to tiny unknown inexperience devs?
Theory - some big wigs thought it would be cool to have ChatGPT "co-pilot" building a game and they spent too much money on it and said, "ship it."
the main thing that really drops this beneath Gollum in terms of Quality is the story. sure, the story for Gollum is pretty bare bones, but there are characters who interact and have their own goals, however middling they may be, and they can fall back on the overarching LotR IP and lore Tolkein pumped out. it's not the best, but it does exist.
this game has no story, outside a bare bones revenge plot. but that's the whole thing, and the only dialogue is a narrator.
Im not sure how this counts as a AAA game. Other than the license i don't know what would justify it. The studio and its history doesn't, the price doesn't. That doesn't justify its terribleness, its just a blatant cash grab, but what defines a AAA game?
The things it most reminds me of are the host of awful movie tie in games shat out anywhere between 1996 and 2010. There were a tonne of games like this, its just that in most cases we've thankfully forgotten them.
I kind of almost like the semi-claymation look that it has sometimes, y'know? It makes sense as sort of a tribute to the old movies with their stop-motion dinos.
I was thinking the same thing, except I find it hard to believe it was done intentionally 😂
NGL, when I first saw a thumbnail I thought they were about a Transformers Beast Wars game. Dood looks straight up like Optimus Primal from the old CG show.
I'm at a loss as to how this actually got on PS5 and XBox One. This game is £35 on PSN.
Gamemill should be the ones punished for rushing their developers and trying to pull a king-sized Kong game out of their ass. The cat was let out of the bag that they only had 12 months to make it.
This is NOT a AAA game. Not even a shot, given the absolute nothing the developers are, looking more like devs that are a rung lower than AAA. (Then again with this, they're more or less asset flippers at this point.)
The more I look at this game, the more I wonder if this was actually someone's sick joke at the dev studio...a joke that costed a lot of people around $35 dollars (30 Pounds)...Or almost $60 for a special edition that the content is the equivalent of a wet fart.
I would say the only thing worse than buying this game would be investing in an NFT, but I think even that is ever so slightly more worth it than this game. Just slightly.
One last note: Is there anything from this game that even relates to any of the movies or media that came before it? Because, it just feels like they slapped king kong into a game that just has you knocking the taste out of massive animals.
Scam is the right word for this. It's an utterly ridiculous price for something beyond worthless.
I like the shirt!
Also, I'm looking for for a game with a png not stretched to the entire screen during a cutscene.😅😂
I could be wrong but I'm assuming the jpeg was supposed to be a flashback of Kong remembering that dinosaur who killed his parents or whatever. Because of the way he's facing the other direction, takes a moment to process, then explodes in anger. Terribly done regardless 🤣
Lets not forget that there is NO reason to fight the enemies between the bosses, you can just run right past them because they don't give you anything.