This is Actually the Worst Game of the Year

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  • Опубліковано 16 лис 2024

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  • @Boris-lq8fs
    @Boris-lq8fs Рік тому +37472

    It's actually impressive how the devs made a game where you play as King Kong and they designed the worldspace to make it feel like you're just a regular sized gorilla

    • @ithewho6603
      @ithewho6603 Рік тому +4248

      Not even regular sized. It looks tiny on some parts.

    • @tikkng
      @tikkng Рік тому +2992

      ...its not just a regular gorilla? i thought at the end he would turn big or something lmfao

    • @aeoligarlic4024
      @aeoligarlic4024 Рік тому +2534

      Your comment made me realize that this is supposed to be king kong and not donkey kong

    • @chadschmaltz9790
      @chadschmaltz9790 Рік тому +516

      Exactly. From what I remember from the movie, the trees and stuff were normal sized.

    • @ZeroXSEED
      @ZeroXSEED Рік тому

      It was the weight and motion. Monster hunter managed to make small looks big and heavy, and big things looks absolutely enormous. It's because the environment respond to monsters. The environment is WEAK. Show it!
      In this game, you're a giant ape that somehow at the mercy of environment instead. What a chod.

  • @asdffdsa8885
    @asdffdsa8885 Рік тому +5859

    This entire game looks like an out-of-bounds area that you're not supposed to see

  • @AndreAlessiCastro
    @AndreAlessiCastro Рік тому +5667

    imagine having a king kong game, but you're just playing a regular-sized gorilla simulator that for some reason knows kong-fu

    • @billbill6094
      @billbill6094 Рік тому +171

      King-Chun

    • @warlordofbritannia
      @warlordofbritannia Рік тому +121

      Clearly a bunch of people who have never heard of King Kong made this game and had to guess what he is

    • @syleedlibra0712
      @syleedlibra0712 Рік тому +85

      This king kong legit just has DK's moveset from smash slapped into it

    • @Geneolgia
      @Geneolgia Рік тому +27

      Kung Fu Kong sounds like a silly but fun idea for a game, shame they messed everything about this game.

    • @abikarizma3826
      @abikarizma3826 Рік тому +15

      Everybody is Kung Fu fighting 🎶

  • @insanerambling
    @insanerambling Рік тому +2865

    This looks like a game you'd get for free when you buy cereal

    • @LowTierFallout
      @LowTierFallout Рік тому +33

      Chex quest negs

    • @lordofsandvich3630
      @lordofsandvich3630 Рік тому +40

      could have sworn they were better

    • @ledernierutopiste
      @ledernierutopiste Рік тому +23

      Dude, i remember getting Crazy taxi and Starsky & Hutch when i was young, these games were fire, far better than this !

    • @anon3631
      @anon3631 Рік тому +26

      But those games were actually good.

    • @checkmarkdatter1785
      @checkmarkdatter1785 Рік тому +1

      Amazon Trail babyy

  • @The_Pikaboi
    @The_Pikaboi Рік тому +10823

    This game would be a masterpiece if the enemies were balloons and you could throw darts at them

    • @cirocamoletto03
      @cirocamoletto03 Рік тому +332

      KKTD6

    • @warcraftlake7
      @warcraftlake7 Рік тому +322

      Super dart monkey getting a king kong upgrade when?

    • @ninthee7113
      @ninthee7113 Рік тому +97

      i dont have enough skill points to upgrade to triple darts 😔

    • @HenryTheCringeGuy
      @HenryTheCringeGuy Рік тому +46

      you forgot a blimp and a literal god

    • @StickyCat398
      @StickyCat398 Рік тому +98

      Don’t insult BTD6, a genuine masterpiece, by comparing it to whatever this shit is

  • @Kindfifth
    @Kindfifth Рік тому +4006

    The fact that king Kong is only a few feet larger than a small bird is already a masterpiece

    • @lemonad836
      @lemonad836 Рік тому +88

      those are terror bird, which were around 7 feet tall, so king kong is like what? less than 20 feet at best?

    • @christosdoesthings
      @christosdoesthings Рік тому +14

      @@lemonad836 Arent the biggest ones like 10 feet?

    • @ItsGiantCookie
      @ItsGiantCookie Рік тому +31

      ⁠@@lemonad836i believe his size in the movies was about 45 meters, not sure how much that is in feet, still, the difference to the game is baffling

    • @G4rfield
      @G4rfield Рік тому +1

      @@lemonad836nah he was absolutely massive

    • @LordDeathAku
      @LordDeathAku Рік тому +17

      That's not king Kong its just a random gorilla

  • @robsolf
    @robsolf Рік тому +4241

    I'll never quite understand why game developers make massive characters look normal sized. Kong seriously looks about 4 foot tall.

    • @fartexplosion4480
      @fartexplosion4480 Рік тому +225

      Kong's code was probably ripped straight from one of their other games

    • @SillyBilly456.
      @SillyBilly456. Рік тому +130

      I think the game devs were gorillas, not sure tho...

    • @pigflatus7434
      @pigflatus7434 Рік тому +104

      It’s really hard to get that kind of scale right. Armored Core gets scale like that right but it still looks super goofy because instead of your mech looking massive, buildings just look like tiny dollhouses to me.

    • @johnathangiesler3869
      @johnathangiesler3869 Рік тому +57

      The flowers are half his height

    • @DamageMaximo
      @DamageMaximo Рік тому +11

      foot?
      americans really don't know how to measure height huh

  • @gardnereric10
    @gardnereric10 Рік тому +1267

    They really flipped the script by making your health bar green and stamina bar red.

    • @tfcbioshock
      @tfcbioshock Рік тому +76

      Ingenuity at its finest

    • @LeumazDnazor
      @LeumazDnazor Рік тому +54

      True innovation

    • @Ryu1ify
      @Ryu1ify 7 місяців тому +6

      Elder Scrolls Daggerfall type beat

    • @seanghh726
      @seanghh726 6 місяців тому +1

      makes sense

    • @ggaccentc
      @ggaccentc 2 місяці тому

      Insane

  • @ZZMonkeysUncleZZ
    @ZZMonkeysUncleZZ Рік тому +3251

    They really asked themselves, “How can we get attention for our game?” and the answer they came up with was “Make it worse than Gollum.”

    • @ariwanrz9140
      @ariwanrz9140 Рік тому +33

      Pretty effective i'd say

    • @MutedAndReported3032
      @MutedAndReported3032 Рік тому +1

      King Kong is Obi-Wan’s nephew?

    • @extrage3061
      @extrage3061 Рік тому

      @@MutedAndReported3032 Hey.. Obi wan was actually a good series I liked it, like it maybe wasn't amazing but it wasn't bad either.

    • @Tony_Baloney_69420
      @Tony_Baloney_69420 Рік тому +4

      Lmao 😂😂😂😂

    • @Shinglez_
      @Shinglez_ Рік тому +1

      @@extrage3061i was so hyped for it and fucking hated it

  • @trackertom
    @trackertom Рік тому +748

    If this was someone's first solo project I would be impressed. The fact a studio developed this is seriously embarrassing.

    • @krishvids608
      @krishvids608 4 місяці тому +4

      I genuinely thought it was an overly ambitious project and indie developer fumbled badly but I can barely believe a studio made this 💀

  • @9amlol
    @9amlol Рік тому +3347

    This looks like the type of game you’d play at the dentist office before your appointment as a kid

    • @kuraibaka9771
      @kuraibaka9771 Рік тому +104

      My dentist had Mario Kart

    • @hunterprt1274
      @hunterprt1274 Рік тому +76

      @@kuraibaka9771 I used to go to a hair salon that allowed you to play LEGO Batman while getting a cut

    • @DudeAwesome912
      @DudeAwesome912 Рік тому +49

      Come now, that’s an insult to the dentist office.
      One I went to went to when I was little I played Super Monkey Ball & another one had Battle for Bikini Bottom.

    • @leonardobuesst4247
      @leonardobuesst4247 Рік тому +31

      My dentist had God of War 💀💀

    • @OD_Plays
      @OD_Plays Рік тому +3

      Bruh i remember that shit back in the day my dentist had ps2 lined up

  • @georgewashington1581
    @georgewashington1581 Рік тому +1037

    My favorite thing about this game is the $15 DLC that is literally just 8 different filters you can put over the gameplay. Absolutely gorgeous.

    • @ahmadkhairul337
      @ahmadkhairul337 Рік тому +125

      They have dlc? Like you're actually not joking?

    • @regretgames5580
      @regretgames5580 Рік тому +89

      ​@@ahmadkhairul337They are dead serious

    • @kgmc29
      @kgmc29 Рік тому +10

      Holy hell

    • @SwordfighterRed
      @SwordfighterRed Рік тому +32

      Peak modern AAA gaming.

    • @jaegerwhatifs4679
      @jaegerwhatifs4679 Рік тому +21

      @@SwordfighterRed This isn't a triple A game. The best way to tell is by seeing if it has a battlepass :)

  • @AzoreMusic
    @AzoreMusic Рік тому +4117

    You know the game is going to be a masterpiece when there is no intro, no cutscenes or anything, and the game just drops you right in.

    • @trocoplaytv1254
      @trocoplaytv1254 Рік тому +81

      Lmao to be fair if you have amnesia in the story or something akin to that it would make sense to do that. Buuuut yeahhh..... not the case here.

    • @birdboy16
      @birdboy16 Рік тому +13

      Isn’t that kinda the standard for most AAA games now?

    • @rejected260
      @rejected260 Рік тому +54

      well not really the case there is some backstory cutscene which as not shown in the vid but yea still dose not make the game any better

    • @Zachebi
      @Zachebi Рік тому +4

      @@trocoplaytv1254yeah, also if kong was doing some kind of dark descent it couldve worked

    • @trocoplaytv1254
      @trocoplaytv1254 Рік тому

      @MrZachebi I actually meant in general not with this specific game , but yeah exactly man good point

  • @victorthebard240
    @victorthebard240 Рік тому +4060

    For people who are curious, this game has been developped by IguanaBee, a small studio that has made about 5 games that clearly are not anywhere near what you would call "AAA" titles (more on the side of mobile games actually). And it has been published by GameMill, a publishing company that base their economic model on selling licence games for the sake of generating profit.
    From my understanding as a junior artist who has worked in a similar type of games studio here in France, under greedy publisher, you can be sure it's basically a command...
    The publisher say "hey can you make that soulless game idea about King Kong that no one asked for? Here's some money." and the studio accept because they need it to grow as a company to actually make their own passion games, then they may have about one year to finish it, with a team mostly composed of interns and people who do not always have the experience on next-gen games (working with open areas, bigger scope, ...) and they send it to the publisher, who sells it for 40 bucks, which we can all agree, is absolutely shameful and outrageous...
    So yeah, this side of the gaming industry really sucks, and I do hope it gets better.

    • @doubledog5187
      @doubledog5187 Рік тому +279

      Thank you for clarifying and adding a bit more background to these kinds of situations for these kinds of games.

    • @MegaMiquelon
      @MegaMiquelon Рік тому +107

      that's nice insight. Thanks for the story

    • @zenksren8206
      @zenksren8206 Рік тому +21

      Was that French publisher Microids by any chance?

    • @victorthebard240
      @victorthebard240 Рік тому

      @@zenksren8206 Yup that's the one!

    • @sudanemamimikiki1527
      @sudanemamimikiki1527 Рік тому +74

      from personal experience, this game could also be a case of "i know we only have 2 coders and like one and a half artists on our team, but im pretty sure we can develop a functioning mmo rpg pvp pve crafting base building and exploration game with a gripping storyline with the budget of 500 euros and 3 months development time!"

  • @papayer
    @papayer Рік тому +1070

    'there's invisible walls even out of bounds'
    this game came straight from hell

  • @philippemontambault1494
    @philippemontambault1494 Рік тому +408

    This could genuinely be a 2007 wii game you’d find at costco next to the hunting game that comes with a plastic rifle to fit in the remote

    • @MidniteMeatBus
      @MidniteMeatBus Рік тому +32

      Now THIS is a spot on description. It would be sitting in a 4 dollar walmart bargain bin right next to Wii Ultimate Duck Hunting.

    • @grthjryrd7552
      @grthjryrd7552 Рік тому +3

      Now THIS is reddit like!!!! Edit: thank for updoodles

    • @mikehawk6918
      @mikehawk6918 11 місяців тому

      @@grthjryrd7552 Now THIS is like reddit!!!! Edit: thank for updoodles

    • @Kjorf2009
      @Kjorf2009 9 місяців тому +1

      nah bro wii games are better

  • @sparrow_solas
    @sparrow_solas Рік тому +2615

    I love how they thought of every speedrun strat to patch out, but couldn't even be fucked to put a dot on a map

    • @Agueroooo
      @Agueroooo Рік тому +189

      The funny thing is that could’ve been the one redeeming quality of this game. Maybe if it was $3 and had a bunch of speed run potential it wouldn’t be that bad.

    • @pootzmagootz
      @pootzmagootz Рік тому +63

      Damn the bots are getting about as uncreative as these developers

    • @daniellourenco2651
      @daniellourenco2651 Рік тому +8

      @@pootzmagootzahahahah

    • @FaeAvalon
      @FaeAvalon Рік тому +23

      Wtf kinda bot comment is that anyway? 💀 Is that supposed to attract me to your content? 😂

    • @pootzmagootz
      @pootzmagootz Рік тому +13

      @@FaeAvalon well they said it was "superior content," so they can't possibly be lying 🤷‍♂️

  • @juances
    @juances Рік тому +937

    A bunch of people had to sit in a meeting room, stare at each other and say "yep, we need to charge $40 for this" all without bursting into laughter.

    • @sgtbignuggs
      @sgtbignuggs Рік тому +90

      They definitely burst into laughter.

    • @caprimann87
      @caprimann87 Рік тому +39

      thats their business model, shitting out overpriced mediocre license games in hopes of someone buying it because of the name alone.

    • @davidschmidt2081
      @davidschmidt2081 Рік тому +6

      I would've laughed into burster. Right in their faces.

    • @issstari954
      @issstari954 Рік тому +8

      I would laugh because of how much money we would make and stamp approval immideatly

    • @MachMultiple
      @MachMultiple Рік тому +1

      Imagine selling a game for twice the games budget

  • @Drequan
    @Drequan Рік тому +4695

    it's crazy how we can't go one year without a game like this ☠️

    • @LalaRojas-jd5rc
      @LalaRojas-jd5rc Рік тому +211

      It's like there's a secret competition on who can make the worst game.

    • @Drequan
      @Drequan Рік тому +8

      @@LalaRojas-jd5rc lmao yea

    • @ThisGuyDannyyy
      @ThisGuyDannyyy Рік тому +49

      Bro why so many bots here? Is Penguinz0 going to make a video about these recent spam bots or not?

    • @WhaleHurricane
      @WhaleHurricane Рік тому +14

      Prepare for the bots 🤖

    • @Kubaadamiec
      @Kubaadamiec Рік тому +7

      @@untitled789 allahu akbar

  • @thespinodino
    @thespinodino Рік тому +382

    Fun fact: That dinosaur on the loading screen for a moment (I don't know if it shows up later because I haven't played it and I haven't watched that far into the video yet) is basically *directly* ripped from an unused concept for Jurassic World. For those who don't know, Jurassic World (then called Jurassic Park IV) was originally going to feature a fictional newly discovered dinosaur called the Malusaurus as the main dinosaur antagonist before it was replaced with the hybrid dinosaur Indominus Rex, and it's essentially a one-to-one match. The nose crest, small sail with spikes on the top and sides, long arms, quills on the neck, it's all there. Even the patterning is similar, with the stripes and red on the head. I guess Universal technically legally owns the design since they own both Jurassic World and King Kong at the moment, but come on.

    • @sneezydeezymcdeluxe7015
      @sneezydeezymcdeluxe7015 Рік тому +11

      I know nothing about this sort of stuff, but I'd assume that if the design was for a fictional dinosaur, and was never actually used in the film, that nothing could be done about others ripping off the design? I mean they could just say it's a huge coincidence or something.

    • @hesoyam881
      @hesoyam881 Рік тому +15

      @@sneezydeezymcdeluxe7015 a fictional design would in most cases be an original design by the studio/company so they would still have rights to it despite not releasing it. they can use it in concept art showcases for example

    • @ChangedMyNameFinally69
      @ChangedMyNameFinally69 Рік тому

      Would've been better than the I Rex honestly

    • @ayuadabu-roomisantana2765
      @ayuadabu-roomisantana2765 Рік тому

      That's pretty much what I was thinking

    • @dethmaul
      @dethmaul 11 місяців тому

      The death runner names sync up too kinda. Alpha, beta?

  • @jr-bh5rm
    @jr-bh5rm Рік тому +838

    i love how they made kingkong look and feel like a regular sized gorilla.

    • @IbzOmite
      @IbzOmite Рік тому +15

      I thought that he would have gone big at the end of the game

    • @SasquaDash
      @SasquaDash Рік тому +2

      To be fair, he's meant to be based on the original King Kong who was roughly 18-24ft tall as opposed to the modern MonsterVerse Kong who's over 300ft tall. Unfortunately the game doesn't give a good sense of scale and they made the environment and enemies way too big, so he ends up looking tiny as a result.

    • @literal_otaku
      @literal_otaku Рік тому +13

      ​@@SasquaDash18-24 feet is still pretty damn tall.
      He looks roughly 5'4" in this.

    • @DONKFORTRESS6956
      @DONKFORTRESS6956 Рік тому

      ​@@literal_otakuhe looks shorter than charlie

    • @Brandon-br7tc
      @Brandon-br7tc Рік тому +1

      ⁠@@DONKFORTRESS6956 Yeah but Charlie is tall as hell bro. He’s a whopping 5’6, or in other words, 5 miles and 6 kilometers tall. So I don’t think we should be too harsh on the Kong for that.

  • @raider360X_sot
    @raider360X_sot Рік тому +727

    The silence when the developers showed their final product to the producers must have been deafening

    • @Salok_z
      @Salok_z Рік тому +23

      king kong is free to use, there were no producers only a small team trying to make some money out of the rights

    • @ImTheWarlock64
      @ImTheWarlock64 Рік тому

      He means the publisher, like sony, nintendo or steam that sometimes put time and money on indie games and advertise them in their social media and others plattaforms@@Salok_z

    • @MrCobalt
      @MrCobalt Рік тому +19

      Doubt it. This was published by Gamemill, the same folks that were more than happy to present Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing to the world. "YOU ARE WIN!"

    • @zag5434
      @zag5434 Рік тому +5

      @@MrCobaltI didn’t know those guys were still in business, but I’m not surprised to hear they made this game too

    • @Zachebi
      @Zachebi Рік тому +1

      Producers reaction like 14:20

  • @KnightSlasher
    @KnightSlasher Рік тому +1190

    Imagine trying to do a glitchless speedrun of this game, absolutely impossible

    • @charlespanache7047
      @charlespanache7047 Рік тому +68

      Attempts to jump on rock
      *ok that's our 37th attempt*

    • @Niko-bz3df
      @Niko-bz3df Рік тому

      ​@@charlespanache7047 Underrated comment under a comment

    • @da-enemy-AC-130-above
      @da-enemy-AC-130-above 6 місяців тому +1

      New speedrun category unlocked:

    • @jackiele8311
      @jackiele8311 4 місяці тому

      Okay guys, today- annnnd we already failed.

  • @brothbrother1525
    @brothbrother1525 Рік тому +82

    "Is this on in 64?"
    "No, this just came out today." 💀

  • @TheMuseLuci
    @TheMuseLuci Рік тому +1461

    this looks like the first game you're assigned to make in your first class of game design. like, a basic character that navigate an environment and can interact with things.

    • @ThisAinThatMetro
      @ThisAinThatMetro Рік тому +40

      Damn a lot of entry level designers should be making $40 per copy

    • @hashharith8479
      @hashharith8479 Рік тому +26

      As a game design student myself, yes.

    • @nikkiboy1
      @nikkiboy1 Рік тому +17

      As a final year game design student, Yes... I remember doing that exact premise for my level design unit where the character can interact with the environment / some poorly scripted AI's

    • @ghostlypenguin4417
      @ghostlypenguin4417 Рік тому +4

      Yeah, you're exactly correct.

    • @jacobmoretz3243
      @jacobmoretz3243 Рік тому +4

      Not even design classes, I made a better game in one of those game design CDs they would occasionally sell for 10 bucks at a scholastic book fair.

  • @skybellrock
    @skybellrock Рік тому +197

    The worst part of all this is how mismatched all the colors are. There is no harmony. Bushes are so off in hue that they stick out like eye-sores, the mountains blue is also a completely different color palett tone than most of the greens used. They really went out of their way to mismatch the colors.

  • @megadubstepxd9462
    @megadubstepxd9462 Рік тому +2422

    The story of gollum is actually quite a sad one, the studio actually made quite a few cool games, point and click adventures, still beyond me why they where tasked with a thrid person gollum game.

    • @RaspBerryPies
      @RaspBerryPies Рік тому +197

      Yeah I agree! Also not to be tht guy but people are allowed to fail at making things good, that’s just art!
      I mean they shouldn’t be charging that much for it but I don’t think it’s a bad thing to fail at something. Especially when like you said the company was not used to making those types of games

    • @himmelektronik
      @himmelektronik Рік тому +115

      @@RaspBerryPies yeah and they probably had no say in the pricing either :/

    • @megadubstepxd9462
      @megadubstepxd9462 Рік тому +81

      @@trashmix2184 yeah, absolutely stupid that they where tasked with that, but guess they had to do something, as point and click adventures don't really sell anymore.

    • @jaegarbombs7297
      @jaegarbombs7297 Рік тому +2

      Was the game actually canon

    • @megadubstepxd9462
      @megadubstepxd9462 Рік тому +8

      @@jaegarbombs7297 I don't think any video game of a franchise is Canon, they might do call backs to the story but other than that I would say no but idk correct me if I'm wrong.

  • @juliappoki
    @juliappoki Рік тому +77

    4:24 "The soundtrack right now sounds like Courage the Cowardly Dog when he gets an idea." LMAO

  • @DOOMStudios
    @DOOMStudios Рік тому +2767

    Gollum Developers: “nothing can be worse than our game.”
    Skull Island Developers: Hold our Beer.

    • @clementpoon120
      @clementpoon120 Рік тому +72

      yanderedev: finally a worthy opponent

    • @emma6648
      @emma6648 Рік тому +48

      @@clementpoon120 I’d rather support this game than that one 💀

    • @Creative_mess4
      @Creative_mess4 Рік тому +23

      It's really sad because the studio that made gollum made amazing point and click adventures, it's depressing to know that they won't be making any more games because of one bad/terrible investment

    • @blvdes
      @blvdes Рік тому +18

      2015 ass comment

    • @vermillion6159
      @vermillion6159 Рік тому +3

      As a German, I'm just disappointed that my country can't even hold a _negative_ record in the video game industry. Go big or go home, even if you "go big" for setting a new bar for bad games

  • @alexsoundstuff
    @alexsoundstuff Рік тому +4083

    it genuinely is impressive; a single indie dev could put something better together in a day

    • @PacoReer
      @PacoReer Рік тому +131

      Which indie dev? I can believe a team of 3-5 devs making a better game in a week, but you gotta think about UI, level design, audio, models, animations...

    • @Volair
      @Volair Рік тому +225

      @@PacoReer Depends on how you measure better. If they mean that you need to have the same amount of content, same style, etc, then yeah I think it'd take longer than a day (and if stock assets are allowed).
      But if literally anything goes, then 48 game jams have a ton of solo devs put out some genuinely fun game in a short time span. Some last minutes or can be surprisingly full featured. Certainly not to the level of Kong, not that I've seen.

    • @zeikjt
      @zeikjt Рік тому +7

      They should buy Ape Out and rename it

    • @robertsludock
      @robertsludock Рік тому +29

      Not really. I guess if they are just copy pasting assets then yea..but that’s not really making a game. If you are talking about doing all the coding, animations, models, textures, and everything else then theres no way a single person is going to do that in a single day.

    • @lunarcdr3083
      @lunarcdr3083 Рік тому +7

      ​@@robertsludock Yes, it's alot more work than people (non devs) might think.

  • @matthewpaddon3895
    @matthewpaddon3895 Рік тому +753

    It's wild that a game from 2005 featuring Kong was miles better than whatever this is. And that was a movie adaptation too. 'Peter Jackson's King Kong' absolutely slapped!

    • @axelmauritzon3098
      @axelmauritzon3098 Рік тому +45

      That shit was straight fire! Re-played it a year back after finding it in the attic simply for nostalgia but it's still surprisingly good

    • @MoonThuli
      @MoonThuli Рік тому +35

      I miss all those movie adaptation games. Like I enjoyed hogwarts legacy but I would rather just have a new game that lets you play through the films. Lego are the only ones who still make those sorts of games.

    • @nam6128
      @nam6128 Рік тому +8

      That game slaps fr. Really scary when I played it as a kid, especially the dinosaur levels

    • @impulse5283
      @impulse5283 Рік тому +3

      That was made by a whole game studio. This game was made by like less than 10 people

    • @TheReelReesePod
      @TheReelReesePod Рік тому +10

      @@impulse5283That’s not an excuse in 2023.

  • @Goblinsharkhundredsofthem
    @Goblinsharkhundredsofthem Рік тому +8

    Gollum walked so Skull Island: rise of Kong could trip, fall, and mortally wound itself.

  • @eggy6815
    @eggy6815 Рік тому +129

    This feels like one of those lost media games that was made as an advertisement to the movie and just never saw the light of day.

    • @ShadowRulah
      @ShadowRulah Рік тому +5

      Which is weird because King Kong 2005 came out alongside the movie and kind of banged. It's also like two decades behind this masterpiece and somehow looked and played better.

  • @SirLightsOut99
    @SirLightsOut99 Рік тому +303

    I’m going to give skull Island this one credit, and just this one: it never once set the bar too high. As far as I know it never tried to be something that it wasn’t, and I genuinely forgot that it was happening until I started seeing people talking about how bad that it was. Compare that to Gollum where it was nothing but studio mandated hype the entire time. Game awards trailers, all kinds of previews, delay after delay just to get it right. You’d think the studio believed that Gollum could be the next metal gear. They wanted you to believe that they were giving you the next evolution in stealth games.

    • @pigflatus7434
      @pigflatus7434 Рік тому +16

      If I could play this on game pass I’d be happy with it. Doesn’t look too bad to me until we take the $40 they’re asking for it into account.

    • @warlordofbritannia
      @warlordofbritannia Рік тому +6

      Finally, a game to surpass Metal Gear Survival!

    • @notxdeadxyet8676
      @notxdeadxyet8676 Рік тому +5

      ​@pigflatus7434 what? This isn't even on par with games that came out 30 years ago.

    • @Martin-yh7vi
      @Martin-yh7vi Рік тому +6

      ​@@pigflatus7434This barely deserves even 5 dollars. It can't even compare to games like Valheim. 40$ is AA games pricing.

    • @fireplant4769
      @fireplant4769 Рік тому +1

      The comment section in a nutshell: OMG THIS GAME BAD BAD, LOOK GOLLUUUUM 😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @KotyoK1
    @KotyoK1 Рік тому +230

    When I saw a loading screen, it finally came to me that it's an actual licensed King Kong game and I transcended from a carefree smile to a sorrow disgust-filled jawdropping mug. Wow.

    • @ZeronTracks
      @ZeronTracks Рік тому +9

      There's actually a King Kong game from the early 2000s based off the Peter Jackson movie you play as Jack and Kong himself with some insane boss fights I recommend checking it out if you have a 360 or a PS2 laying around, hell even the OG xbox has a version as well.

    • @michaelmccray2671
      @michaelmccray2671 Рік тому +1

      @@ZeronTracksI have a copy on my gameboy

  • @MartyMeganium
    @MartyMeganium Рік тому +30

    The diagonal health bar was the most egregious thing for me

    • @mistertagnan
      @mistertagnan 9 місяців тому

      Fuck you. I didn’t notice that before just now, but now I can’t unsee it.

  • @kustrio2838
    @kustrio2838 Рік тому +1016

    It's so funny to me that they made Kong normal-sized. I know that he's most likely young and therefore small but it doesn't make much sense to have a game about one of the biggest monsters in pop culture be as big as Harambe. They couldn't even get that right.

    • @foxy916
      @foxy916 Рік тому +101

      Okay, we need a Harambe revenge game now

    • @tylerprime9555
      @tylerprime9555 Рік тому +30

      ​@@foxy916I'm sure there's something like that in GameJolt

    • @cyberdragon1000
      @cyberdragon1000 Рік тому +26

      Probably to make life easier than the size difference would have made, there's only so much you can do with imported free assets . I'm honestly more surprised they actually had a 100 IQ moment and made the trees smaller

    • @jesusramirezromo2037
      @jesusramirezromo2037 Рік тому +3

      @@cyberdragon1000 But most other tree's are huge

    • @jesusramirezromo2037
      @jesusramirezromo2037 Рік тому +7

      Might be to get around Copyright
      The original Kong novel this is based on doesn't have Kong be that big, He's only like twice the size of a normal Gorilla
      He's only shown to be like 25ft in the 1933 movie, and bigger and bigger every movie thereafter

  • @SasquaDash
    @SasquaDash Рік тому +753

    The sad thing is that the premise of the game is actually pretty cool, a game about Kong's life on Skull Island with him battling other creatures for dominance and eventually becoming king of the island, yet they somehow managed to screw it up...

    • @gavzilla2635
      @gavzilla2635 Рік тому +57

      Then you might like the book this is based off. Kong king of skull Island, half of the book is a prequel and the half is a sequel to the original king Kong. Its on audible but it's worth tracking down a physical copy for the amazing artwork.

    • @TheBreezeShoot
      @TheBreezeShoot Рік тому +22

      @@gavzilla2635 Bout to be travelling for a week or so. Absolutely checking this out. Thanks brother.

    • @andrewb6194
      @andrewb6194 Рік тому +28

      There is a game like that
      The Peter Jackson movie had a game attachment, and it’s not only good, it’s one of the best movie tie in games ever made!

    • @plagueboi2861
      @plagueboi2861 Рік тому +8

      @@andrewb6194 That game is underrated as hell not gonna lie.

    • @jonw9791
      @jonw9791 Рік тому +2

      Yeah instead they got him completely destroying small dodos like what???

  • @HamtaroSan85
    @HamtaroSan85 Рік тому +826

    It’s nice of the developers to still make games for the Dreamcast !

    • @vagamer522
      @vagamer522 Рік тому +49

      Thats an insult to Marvel vs. Capcom 2

    • @minnidot
      @minnidot Рік тому +38

      Dont insult the dear Dreamcast like that!

    • @_Tzer
      @_Tzer Рік тому +5

      dreamcast can still make games yes. they actually can.

    • @notsure1969
      @notsure1969 Рік тому +19

      Hey, at least the Dreamcast was groundbreaking when it came out.

    • @Dylan1202_
      @Dylan1202_ Рік тому +1

      Dreamcast had insane graphics for its time period I swear

  • @insertfunnyname9763
    @insertfunnyname9763 Рік тому +35

    It genuinely looks like a free mobile game that I would play when I was like 10. I used to play a ton of free mobile games where you would play as an animal and fight things, and this is actually SO similar to them.

    • @ilikebeanies3499
      @ilikebeanies3499 3 місяці тому +2

      I genuinely believe this game was made 12+ years ago and it was only just released because... idk they forgot 💀💀

  • @knatspray
    @knatspray Рік тому +3714

    It’s criminal we didn’t get a Godzilla game before this

  • @EE-iv5ej
    @EE-iv5ej Рік тому +328

    The thing that makes Lovecraftian horror scary is that the entities do not care about us, they just exist, and them simply existing pose harm to us. Kong just bitched slapped that red DInosaur dragon thing, it shook its head like it got bit by a mosquito, before turning around without a care , accidentally tail swiping Kong. Truly a Lovecraftian horror moment.

    • @kylonhollier838
      @kylonhollier838 Рік тому +14

      The truly lovecraftian horror experience is how much the devs don't care about us

    • @crash7976
      @crash7976 Рік тому +3

      @@kylonhollier838 I think it's more scary that they are willing to pay so much for a license and produce an unsaleable product

  • @skkat7336
    @skkat7336 Рік тому +221

    Damn they either forgot to flag some of the terrain as walkable or they made it to where you cant walk on a certain steepness of terrain and forgot to make you slide off of it if you do

  • @MisterXenomorph
    @MisterXenomorph Рік тому +80

    I feel sorry for the developers. Based on what I'm reading the publisher only gave them 1 single year to build this game. Game mill apperantly gave them no real details about what they wanted the game to be about. It seems as if the developer was rigged to fail

    • @j01sonofsleazy
      @j01sonofsleazy Рік тому

      oh yeah it was "rigged" to fail. the company that is responsible for BIG RIGS we're talking about.

    • @Aegis4521
      @Aegis4521 Рік тому +1

      Good

    • @francescacastronovo647
      @francescacastronovo647 11 місяців тому +12

      There's already a comment explaining that in details.
      Apparently another company told them to make a random quick game about King Kong. They accepted because they needed the money to make an actually passionate project, so they needed to save as much money and time as possible, so they put the least amount of effort as they possibly could to make a slightly playable game

    • @jacobjaramillo3192
      @jacobjaramillo3192 7 місяців тому +4

      Fallout new vegas was made in less than a year.

    • @Scooter227
      @Scooter227 4 місяці тому

      @@jacobjaramillo3192and it’s still trash like every Bethesda fallout

  • @aguyfromnz537
    @aguyfromnz537 Рік тому +176

    its actually so impressive how people sat down and thought it was a good idea to release this

    • @lordnignog1688
      @lordnignog1688 Рік тому +3

      Well, they're making money off of it being marketed as "bad". Genius tbh

    • @aguyfromnz537
      @aguyfromnz537 Рік тому +2

      @@lordnignog1688 nah. they will still lose money from it. it costs hundreds of thousands to make a game even this shit, they aint getting that much back

  • @Lv.1Bidoof
    @Lv.1Bidoof Рік тому +741

    I could see this game being a really fun speedrun if they can find some excellent boundary breaks and glitches.

    • @XDak0_0
      @XDak0_0 Рік тому +26

      Seems pretty easy to do considering you can fall through ground pound panels without needing the ability

    • @flashmozzg
      @flashmozzg Рік тому +29

      If it didn't cost 32$, sure.

    • @colinmoody661
      @colinmoody661 Рік тому

      Agreed!

    • @Prplex.
      @Prplex. Рік тому

      You say if like this game doesn't look like it's budget is 50p. There's gotta be loads right

  • @RGBSupremacy
    @RGBSupremacy Рік тому +289

    I feel the main issue is they wanted to have you play as kong but realized if they made all the enemies proportionally small most if not all boss fights would be boring unless they turned this game into more puzzles than fighting so they had to scale everything up until kong started to feel even smaller than a normal ape lol.

    • @johnsober
      @johnsober Рік тому +33

      That's a good point, how would one even make a good kong game. This a less of a defence of this trash game and more a critique of even attempting to make a kong game in the first place. There are very very few monsters that are his size, but then maybe they should've made a boss rush game like shadow of the colussus?

    • @boowompthecat
      @boowompthecat Рік тому +18

      theres an old Kong game on PS2 which iirc wasn't too bad, you played as Kong but there were FPS segments as humans as well@@johnsober

    • @missfortune8553
      @missfortune8553 Рік тому +6

      @@boowompthecatYeah, I actually enjoyed that game at the time. But you mostly played as a person, so… 🤷🏻‍♀️

    • @tiotheberk
      @tiotheberk Рік тому +4

      Who is this for!?!? How does a game like this even happen?

    • @G4rfield
      @G4rfield Рік тому

      @@boowompthecat yesss that game was one of my favorites growing up!!!

  • @blakemiller9661
    @blakemiller9661 Рік тому +27

    Love that Charlie’s going back and playing classic N64 games.

  • @theknightikins9397
    @theknightikins9397 Рік тому +117

    It amazes me that in Armored core, a game where giant robots are made to look fairly human sized in game, they still look taller than the skyscraper monkey

    • @123123boobies
      @123123boobies Рік тому +15

      I didnt even realise how big the mechs were until i was next to a tree and was taller than them. This is literally just a normal gorilla.

    • @vergil5644
      @vergil5644 Рік тому

      They are only what 18m tall? They aint that big

    • @Morrov
      @Morrov Рік тому

      ​@@vergil5644less than that even, closer to 10m

    • @theknightikins9397
      @theknightikins9397 Рік тому +2

      @@vergil5644 I mean, that’s like a 5-6 story house. I’d say that’s pretty big for a flying robo death machine

  • @TheGreatChrisB
    @TheGreatChrisB Рік тому +153

    This is the kind of game I bet my 8 year old nephew would love. He doesn't care about completing stuff, he just wants to explore and jump around lol

    • @DeathnoteBB
      @DeathnoteBB Рік тому +45

      Omg yeah. It’s the kind of weird indie game you find on the Xbox 360 store and play it cause it’s 3 dollars (or free) even though it sucks.
      Except this is supposed to be a proper game and it costs 30 dollars

  • @cruzader3630
    @cruzader3630 Рік тому +9

    Even their own art style is so confusing like a realistic, cell shaded, cartoonish, janky, and asset flip bullsht.
    Even the trees are super small to the point where the crabs looked so big.

  • @philliphughes8939
    @philliphughes8939 Рік тому +39

    This is the kind of game you’d get out of a cereal box as a promo for the PC back in 2001

  • @2emms_
    @2emms_ Рік тому +273

    The absolute innovation needed to make this game is beyond our undertanding

    • @BathDemo
      @BathDemo Рік тому +5

      I'm Morbillion times better than Morbius dude (this is a joke comment)

    • @mr.figgluggie4792
      @mr.figgluggie4792 Рік тому +9

      Mr Krabs overdoses on ketamine was better than this game 💀

    • @BathDemo
      @BathDemo Рік тому

      true@@mr.figgluggie4792

    • @343Films
      @343Films Рік тому +5

      ​@@mr.figgluggie4792tbf, that's a GOTY contender you're talking about

  • @razorsharpplays2619
    @razorsharpplays2619 Рік тому +315

    The sheer characterization and personality that comes from every creature in this video game is truly a sight to behold. You can tell that whoever made this game put all of their heart and soul into it and made it with love and pure joy.

    • @bigtoe1832
      @bigtoe1832 Рік тому +33

      Truly one of the games of all time

  • @nzuzondlovu6870
    @nzuzondlovu6870 Рік тому +7

    2:54 Did Kong just go "Gear Fourth!"?

  • @junct
    @junct Рік тому +72

    honestly this is the perfect game for speedrunning cuz you really wanna get it over as soon as possible

    • @dgames220
      @dgames220 Рік тому +1

      😂😂😂

    • @hichaelhyers
      @hichaelhyers Рік тому

      nice one

    • @literal_otaku
      @literal_otaku Рік тому +2

      Except for the fact that it also looks like it actively tries to keep you from trying to take shortcuts.

  • @phelan8385
    @phelan8385 Рік тому +38

    "It's like a pre-visualization for madagascar" that is so accurate, it looks like the rough storyboard animation for a 2000's cartoon movie.

    • @TOXIPHOBIAC
      @TOXIPHOBIAC Рік тому +1

      This is the most accurate description for this game I’ve seen so far

  • @LiamAmsel
    @LiamAmsel Рік тому +412

    It was truly an unforgettable journey watching this stream last night. I'll never forget that hellish purgatory landscape in my life.

  • @LillyWhiteFairy
    @LillyWhiteFairy 11 місяців тому +7

    10:03 love how he says "*swing*?"

  • @paratraxx
    @paratraxx Рік тому +144

    I am genuinely curious about what kind of people that see the world around them and then as A TEAM decides "This is done! This is what they want!" 😂

    • @viczofrenia
      @viczofrenia Рік тому +11

      The lazy greedy kind.

    • @OwenHooper-mv4fm
      @OwenHooper-mv4fm Рік тому +4

      What eventually happens is kind of a sunk cost. They put millions into development, then just try and generate some buzz online and hope they sell enough before everyone realizes it’s trash

    • @paratraxx
      @paratraxx Рік тому +2

      @@OwenHooper-mv4fm Cash-grabs at its finest.

  • @WTheRat
    @WTheRat Рік тому +43

    The size of Kong is so confusing to me. I literally can only see him as a small gorilla in this game, just totally normal.

  • @Semi-Cyclops
    @Semi-Cyclops Рік тому +40

    i love how its just a regular gorilla as if they did not even know what game they were making, the environment is just normal scale instead of small

  • @blabo6427
    @blabo6427 Рік тому +32

    Gollum: "I am the worst game of the year 😎"
    King Kong: "Hold my banana 🦍"

    • @shadykvng
      @shadykvng Рік тому +2

      twd destinies👀

    • @luckymark571
      @luckymark571 10 місяців тому +2

      Gollum, King kong, The walking dead destinies we got quality Gollum-likes this year

  • @carnovector6396
    @carnovector6396 Рік тому +112

    I cannot imagine any other reason for this game to exist other than some sort of money laundering scheme lol

    • @Ki11Th3mA11Kid
      @Ki11Th3mA11Kid Рік тому +2

      Facts lmao I think your onto something bro because in what f*cking reality did a entire dev team spend over a year working with thier company making this sh*t and turned it into the higher ups saying it's done and they gave it the go ahead to be released??!!🤯🤔
      And not only did they actually have the audacity to put this pile of burning garbage out... They priced it at 40$ DOLLARS 💀💀💀💀.
      Knowing damn well that not only is the game severely broken, lacking in mechanics, disproportionately sized from the world to King Kongs model. To the insane fact it's only 3 hours long 😂😂
      There's absolutely NO WAY. There's gotta be a alternative motive like you said. Money laundering seems plausible.
      1.Create half ass horrible game
      2. Severely overprice the heap of burning garbage
      3. Launder money through company making it seem as if all the earnings were from the overpriced game and the government is non the wiser 🤷. Honestly if it was a money laundering scheme. It's not a terrible idea tbh lol because the US government or any for that matter constantly ignore the gaming industry...

    • @carnovector6396
      @carnovector6396 Рік тому +2

      @@Ki11Th3mA11Kid im just wondering why they didnt take the indie route, it'd attract less attention if its the case
      Either way the gaming industry needs to be investigated, theyve been left to their own devices for too long

    • @vectorsahel5420
      @vectorsahel5420 Рік тому +2

      You might be onto something man, I am also baffled by how this game was priced at 40 dollars lol

    • @Threat_LvL
      @Threat_LvL Рік тому

      wait is steven seaguel in it?
      can noone hear talking about him like "he is the most skilled fat guy out there"

  • @tajaloe5920
    @tajaloe5920 Рік тому +211

    This is insane, like actually insane, I NEED to know the story behind the development of this game, how does this exist? There is no way this was made by more than 1 person. I can't even wrap my head around it

    • @Dartnitt
      @Dartnitt Рік тому +42

      For me the only insane thing is how they got rights to king kong because the game itself is nothing unusual, just some trash made by some small developer, its not even popular or anything, the only reason they even get talk about is ytbers, now it has whole 36 reviews on steam

    • @slugintub634
      @slugintub634 Рік тому +9

      more people ≠ better game

    • @acojo8205
      @acojo8205 Рік тому

      @@DartnittIt’s on the front page of the PS5 store. Baffles the mind

    • @Salok_z
      @Salok_z Рік тому +12

      ​​@@Dartnittking kong rights have been free to use since like 2021, since its just the book rights, the design doesnt have to look like the previous ones from the movies.

    • @MalphiteGaming
      @MalphiteGaming Рік тому +9

      stardew valley was made COMPLETELY by ONE person. and everyone knows that game is a damn masterpiece.

  • @DracaVEVO
    @DracaVEVO Рік тому +67

    It’s crazy that the developers can go from making a masterpiece like Big Rigs: Over the Top Racing to making Skull Island: Rise of Kong.

    • @drafteed826
      @drafteed826 Рік тому +3

      Publisher isn't same thing as developer but ok

  • @OshineTheOranguTANK
    @OshineTheOranguTANK Рік тому +10

    I love how its literally N64 graphics but requires triple the storage space and requirements

    • @Lar_me
      @Lar_me 10 місяців тому +4

      According to steamdb, this game is about 5.2 GB. A good-looking N64 game like Majora's Mask is about 32 MB, which makes Rise of Kong take up a whopping 162 (!!!) times the storage space.

  • @Broomtwo
    @Broomtwo Рік тому +22

    Charging 30-40 dollars for what appears to be a game design college student's first game is quite galaxy brained.

  • @MeguSplosion
    @MeguSplosion Рік тому +240

    Watching this during the stream actually made me fall asleep on another note i wish there would be either a port or remaster of the peter Jackson's king kong game ik i can probably emulate it but it wont feel the same

    • @BZgA
      @BZgA Рік тому +6

      You can't watch his streams because of the awkward pauses to read and answer the chat. These Highlight compliations are the real deal

    • @pootzmagootz
      @pootzmagootz Рік тому +11

      ​@@BZgAhe didn't really pause the talk to chay this stream. The game was just so barren and unnecessarily convoluted, nothing happened for like an hour

  • @SamElliotsMustache
    @SamElliotsMustache Рік тому +245

    They did a really good job at taking a character that's supposed to be just massive, absolutely huge. Then make him feel as small as possible

    • @ThisGuyDannyyy
      @ThisGuyDannyyy Рік тому +5

      QUART DUDE

    • @quartdude
      @quartdude Рік тому

      100% dude better Charlie💀I’m☠️than

    • @sunslap
      @sunslap Рік тому +2

      That's what marvel avengers feels like.

  • @user-hk8yp7cw1v
    @user-hk8yp7cw1v Рік тому +28

    This game was developed by people from my country, Chile. Please give us the recognition we deserve as a country for this midpiece.

    • @mimoooo
      @mimoooo Рік тому +5

      absolutely, also i love the fact that this is most likely his first experience with our wonderful country

    • @carlosguzman5181
      @carlosguzman5181 Рік тому

      Somos el mejor país de Chile

    • @Hiljaa_
      @Hiljaa_ 6 місяців тому

      Hermano está wea es una obra maestra, por fin una razón para estar orgullosa de nuestro gran país o7

  • @caledunsmore
    @caledunsmore Рік тому +117

    Peter Jackson's King Kong game is actually really good. Definitely one of the best licensed games. The Kong sections were clunky with poor controls but still fun. Im a big fan of that game. No hud, having to manually check your ammo, one of the first games to have realistic fire spread and using bait. It was basically a Survival Horror game. Its a solid game

    • @axelmauritzon3098
      @axelmauritzon3098 Рік тому +11

      It was a really good game and it's honestly still quite good. Re-played yt about a year ago just for the nostalgia. Was pleasantly surprised by how good it still is

    • @AwakenedAvocado
      @AwakenedAvocado Рік тому +4

      As someone who uses bait as a trolling mechanism i can relate to this

    • @Tortaviejo123-cb8me
      @Tortaviejo123-cb8me 10 місяців тому

      Agreed. Ubisoft should have just remastered the game for modern consoles. Would love to play it on the switch.

  • @HaplessOne
    @HaplessOne Рік тому +37

    I feel like this studio somehow got transported through time from the early 2000's. This reminds me of a movie tie-in game id rent from blockbuster when i was younger.

  • @hlc617
    @hlc617 Рік тому +82

    the effects artist needs to make a career upgrade cos the attack effects and swipes actually look really nice

    • @itsasquid
      @itsasquid Рік тому +15

      They really do and it's just sad. It sucks their work is stuck into this terrible game.

  • @mobphantom
    @mobphantom Рік тому +3

    11:52 Ever heard of a magical concept called "money laundering"? Same reason why some "artists" get away with selling a blank canvas with a splash of black paint for like 50 million dollars lol

  • @synderfell
    @synderfell Рік тому +173

    What a great game to come out in the 2000’s!

    • @oompaloompadoompa-de-doo3614
      @oompaloompadoompa-de-doo3614 Рік тому +25

      Late 90’s*

    • @LuisSierra42
      @LuisSierra42 Рік тому +8

      My brain is flooded with Nostalgia juices just by watching this video

    • @preyscalling
      @preyscalling Рік тому +1

      You should see the new sao game for like 80$
      Looks like a 2014 FF game

    • @xbigbooshx4643
      @xbigbooshx4643 Рік тому +4

      This feels right at home in the PS2 bargain bin.

    • @hei7846
      @hei7846 Рік тому +2

      Nah Max Payne came out in 2001. Don't do the 2000's like that

  • @lilgamedev
    @lilgamedev Рік тому +122

    10:50 It could very well be a money laundering scheme disguised as a game project, I’ve talked to gameplay programmers who’ve worked on other projects that were the case, and what they’ve said pretty much matches up with games like these

    • @muuubiee
      @muuubiee Рік тому +4

      All the sales are tracked online... How are you gonna fake having sold more copies than you did, and gotten cash from it? This is not really possible to launder money with.

    • @peanut6685
      @peanut6685 Рік тому +11

      @@muuubiee The people laundering the money buy Steamcards and buy the game, not saying that that is or is not the case here, but there are a lot of games on steam like that for that sole purpose, namely alot of these Chinese low-effort anime games without content.

    • @muuubiee
      @muuubiee Рік тому +5

      @@peanut6685 Hm, that makes sense. Though, why would they go for an expensive IP in this case? Just to make it seem reasonable that they get so many sales?

    • @peanut6685
      @peanut6685 Рік тому +3

      @@muuubiee maybe, this one might just be similar to gollum though, in that the studio was too small/too bad

    • @MrGeorgeFlorcus
      @MrGeorgeFlorcus Рік тому +3

      @@muuubiee They could also just artificially inflate the budget of the game by overpaying the executives, and if the game flops, who cares? The important people were "paid" for their time, ostensibly for a legitimate job.

  • @simeonritchie4168
    @simeonritchie4168 Рік тому +35

    I do truly wonder what the mentality of making games like this is, I genuinely cannot imagine a single person spending $40 on this game instead of literally anything else

    • @theend-nz6vs
      @theend-nz6vs Рік тому

      And I can't imagine them not refunding immediately

  • @Monke_073
    @Monke_073 11 місяців тому +5

    2:32 don’t compare Madagascar like that

  • @AFuriousCrab
    @AFuriousCrab Рік тому +33

    When I was akid I went to a theme park in Italy that had a full sized animatronic king kong model, it was laid down as if it was tirmed up, and it breathed and roared. It was impressive for the 80s. This game just shat right inside that wonderful memory...right inside.

    • @yamihikarilightdark9
      @yamihikarilightdark9 Рік тому +8

      “I’m going to shit in you” would be such an unhinged threat.

    • @1221-o7e
      @1221-o7e Рік тому +1

      ​@@yamihikarilightdark9thanks, I'm taking that

    • @lord-fishv7355
      @lord-fishv7355 Рік тому

      @@1221-o7e the shit?

  • @Awakeandalive1
    @Awakeandalive1 Рік тому +49

    I feel like you have to work pretty hard to screw up a game in which you play as a giant gorilla fighting giant prehistoric monsters.

    • @lukecodz
      @lukecodz Рік тому +3

      yea like theres not much creativity or knowledge to make it

  • @MoonMoon-cl4co
    @MoonMoon-cl4co Рік тому +122

    I think the worst thing about this is that a skull island game could have been awesome! Learning about the lore of Island, fightin skull crawlers and other beasts! But no!
    Kong I’m so sorry- I need to rewatch the whole monsterverse just to cope! 💀

    • @Azul2o
      @Azul2o Рік тому +14

      It could have been like Peter Jackson's King Kong but with updated graphics.
      I'd buy that on day one.

    • @grungeisdead8998
      @grungeisdead8998 Рік тому +7

      ​​@@Azul2o peter Jackson's king kong skull island was better than this new one.. pre historic untouched island is more badass than what ever the fuck a skull crawler is

    • @pamimaniac
      @pamimaniac Рік тому

      i now cannot say i like skull island b/c before i can finish my sentence , i'll be asked " you like that awful game ? " LIKE NUH UH !! I LIKE THE MOVIES !!

    • @Downsquad
      @Downsquad Рік тому

      @@grungeisdead8998 Peter Jacksons film is not that great

    • @thecyberviber
      @thecyberviber Рік тому

      @@grungeisdead8998so did you even watch the new one?

  • @Randomninja47
    @Randomninja47 Рік тому +16

    I actually feel really bad for the devs of this game. I guarantee they had no time to work on this, maybe a year max, and probably had a small team to boot.
    I also feel really bad for anyone who's passionate about [making] games and then they get stuck on a game like this.

    • @NoxAtlas
      @NoxAtlas Рік тому +4

      That's the sad reality we live in. The devs are paid poorly, probably face a lot of abuse, sexual harassment and discrimination at work, have to work overtime to release a horribly rushed game and despite them trying their absolute best to make it work somehow, they'll end up getting all the blame for the mistakes of their bosses and not only end up being hated by gamers but probably also end up losing their job for their "incompetence".
      It's not about quality anymore. It's just about microtransactions and squeezing every single penny out of people who have an addiction.

    • @majine.2606
      @majine.2606 Рік тому +3

      And then people wonder why the industry never changes, always held in the vice-grip of greed. Of course it'll never change when everyone's blaming the ones receiving the orders as opposed to those giving them. It's why I can't stand the majority of video essays on the topic that attempt to pin the downfall of this industry on anything but capitalism's rampant excesses. @@NoxAtlas

  • @yellowcake404
    @yellowcake404 Рік тому +13

    I like how their name is game mill and they push out products like theyre running a puppy mill

  • @Chazitoh
    @Chazitoh Рік тому +39

    I think the reason that both Game Mill and IguanaBee exist is that they make cheap games in short times that can sell enough by keeping you over the 2-hour refund margin. They have been doing the same for years now, and I think it's obvious how this game didn't take them too long. I would love to know who's idea was to release it in this state, Game Mill or Iguana.

    • @DeniedFella
      @DeniedFella Рік тому +7

      I think a lot of people have a misconception about steam refunds. The developer does not lose money. Valve eats the cost of a refund. If there is enough refunds they may delist the game but generally speaking no one is losing money from refunds except Steam/Valve.

    • @Chazitoh
      @Chazitoh Рік тому +8

      @DeniedFella that would be an awful business model. That is not entirely how they work. For example, steam pays developers each month, the refund timeframe is 2 weeks, so all refunds before steam pays you at the end of the month just are counted as having no sells, so basically as a dev you get no money. Steam is the one responsible for paying you back, but that money js deducted from what the dev would've got at the end of the month.

  • @ScarletStarManor
    @ScarletStarManor Рік тому +38

    You know what was the best king kong game of all time? Peter Jackson's King Kong.

    • @Toxin___InterHalfer
      @Toxin___InterHalfer Рік тому +3

      I was looking for that comment, King Kong The Official Game Of The Movie is better
      Even a mobile one

    • @matguimond92
      @matguimond92 Рік тому +1

      wrong its donkey kong 64

    • @katashiyager525
      @katashiyager525 Рік тому +1

      @@matguimond92 This is the right answer

  • @Ladiesman2I77
    @Ladiesman2I77 Рік тому +1

    Gollum - ahh yes my precious. My game was the worst game of 2023
    Kong - hold my banana

  • @Krencher
    @Krencher Рік тому +29

    You know your game is bad if even Charlie can’t finish it

  • @Longboardkuken
    @Longboardkuken Рік тому +32

    I started laughing uncontrollably when Charlie encountered ”The bad boys” penis worm and chromosome crab

  • @Acegaming-c3d
    @Acegaming-c3d Рік тому +10

    1:42 Charlie sneezed and then my fire alarm went off immediately. This man is too powerful.

  • @Loonistrator
    @Loonistrator Рік тому +2

    @13:39 Imagine a game so bad that despite being criminally short, a time-saving hack is still desirable.

  • @ryleighs9575
    @ryleighs9575 Рік тому +50

    From the first frame of actual gameplay immediately following Charlie talking about the price and development time.. It's hard not to agree they must've made it look that bad intentionally lol. It looks like a PS3 game man
    Also, I literally forgot till reading other comments that this was meant to be King Kong and so a giant gorilla lol. The entire design of the game literally makes him look like a normal-sized gorilla lol

    • @stimuli7244
      @stimuli7244 10 місяців тому

      PS3 is very generous

    • @randomgamer3868
      @randomgamer3868 9 місяців тому

      Metal Gear rising revengeance was a PS3 game. You're gonna have to back a little farther than, maybe like NES

  • @stubstunner
    @stubstunner Рік тому +12

    This game feels like something AI would code if prompted.

  • @outoftheblue6587
    @outoftheblue6587 Рік тому +140

    Id like to hear some price quotes from single developers on how much it would cost to produce a game like this.

    • @abdullahmalik7217
      @abdullahmalik7217 Рік тому +40

      Nice try bucko but I'm a married developer

    • @birdmanballs69
      @birdmanballs69 Рік тому +26

      uhhh about 2 beers and one night

    • @oftheHowl
      @oftheHowl Рік тому +10

      ​@@birdmanballs69I finished it by the time I was done reading your comment

    • @Mimyakko
      @Mimyakko Рік тому +4

      I mean, it looks like it took a month to create at the most. So a small team's monthly wages 😭

    • @sneezydeezymcdeluxe7015
      @sneezydeezymcdeluxe7015 Рік тому +3

      One hundred BILLION dollarrrsssss.

  • @aaronchicco9219
    @aaronchicco9219 Рік тому +5

    You know it's bad when he refused to complete the last 30 min 💀

  • @ripleyhrgiger4669
    @ripleyhrgiger4669 Рік тому +8

    I've no doubt they hired the same guy who codes the gorilla animation when you get a strike while bowling to make this game.

  • @roboticturtle8822
    @roboticturtle8822 Рік тому +19

    Only positive things I can say
    The title screen looks nice
    Loading screens are cool
    Having Gaw as the villain is neat since Gaw appeared in the 2005 novel

  • @rukket
    @rukket Рік тому +13

    the fact that this was licensed, green lit, and published is just so weird and funny. like what the hell were the people behind this thinking

  • @nixel9691
    @nixel9691 Рік тому +35

    I love how this easily could've been a fun cool game to play if they actually tried to make it one

    • @hiiambarney4489
      @hiiambarney4489 Рік тому +10

      Let's be real though, if this was even half decent nobody would care or even look at it.

  • @tio8194
    @tio8194 Рік тому +7

    Why does this game have more facial expressions than all the npc’s in Starfield