@StarvingGecko The devs weren't even aware about that letter, not untill they saw it by themselves, the very next morning. I don't know how to feel about them... On one side, after all the time they had _( 5 to 8 years, total ? )_ , they could have at least fixed something, freakin' anything ! Seing this f**k fest in its globality, after the laughts, it makes me angry to witness such a sabotage. On the other side, f**k Nacon, the true responsibles of said sabotage. Those guys at Daedelic, they had only one skill in game building and it was to create : _2 D P O I N T & C L I C K G A M E S !_ With very cartoonish style . . . At which point in life would you think to order to those guys a "Triple A Game" like on a very adored licence, that tend to be tengible / realistic ! And the devs knew it was utter trash, unplayable, broken, hopeless... they stopped pretending to care long ago and just awaited the death penalty. They were f**ked the very moment their hand were forced to do this. They took the bullet, payed the price... but the publishers ? Oh, they are still alive & kicking.
While it absolutely should be acknowledged that some of the design choices are baffling to say the least, no developer goes into a project looking to make something that isn’t at least kind of fun. Blame the people with money pushing them into absurd situations, forcing them to work for less than minimum wage and with uncompensated overtime, not the poor bastards with their arms tied behind their backs to make the stupid thing 🙃
From what I know of Daedalic, they aren't a terrible studio, just ill-equipped for this sort of project, my money is on the publisher being much, much more at fault.
It shows if they didn't bother to proofread it and thus notice their screw-up with the title. Apparently, it is appropriate to refer to this entire IP as "The Lord of Ring" for now and forevermore.
Ah. 1:52:18. I remember this moment. When Brett swore at stream chat, when both were at a loss. Where this game finally broke everyone who dare gaze upon its forme. When Brett actually incurred an injury from agony... Good times =)
Forget the fact that Shadow Of had a Gollum that actually resembled Gollum Shadow Of wasn't even a dedicated stealth or platforming game, and it had BETTER stealth and climbing than this game
For those who don't know: This isn't just a supercut of all the previous episodes. The final episode is IN this supercut. Edit: He changed the title. For those thinking I am stating the obvious.
About that apology letter. Apparently it was made from AI. They seriously did not give enough of a shit to write an official apology letter with their own hands.
I like how he genuinely tries to give the creators of this game some form of credit when he first mentions the apology PNG, when later on that same apology turned out to be AI generated, and Daedelus didn't even see a word of said apology
I have been waiting for MONTHS now to see how this 'beautiful' mess of a game ends, and now I get to relive the whole adventure beforehand. I better get some popcorn for this one 😂
I can't believe there was actually a loose wheel asset just sitting there and nobody had noticed it yet. That is actually impressive levels of not giving a damn about playtesting.
2:03:43 Reminds me of a Demotivational poster I once saw the title "Leaders" the quote "It is our burden to take bold, dramatic actions. Should those fail, your burden is to suffer the bold, dramatic consequences."
I will say one thing to this game's credit: the art direction isn't half bad. Gandalf's design is actually pretty cool, and I could say the same for various other character models. At least one person on this project did care a little bit but about what they were doing.
You say that, but I should also point out that there is an orc wearing armor that looks like a combination of a dick, a pair of balls, and somehow ducks. The “good” designs are few and Very Far between.
This game, a game i tend to forget exists mostly because I WANT to forget it exists. But you sir, you have cemented it into my brain...and in a good way this was almost pee your pants funny. Thank you good sir for this masterpiece
Daedalic was known for well made point-and-click adventure games. This was their first attempt at a 3D action game. The company head apparently got it into his head that he wanted to do this, purchased a LotR licence, and then forced his team (which only did 2D art point-and- click up until then, mind you) to program the game. The game took a LONG time to make because the team literally had no fucking clue what they were doing and needed to learn WHILE PROGRAMMING THE GAME. The worst thing about this shitty game is, that it killed a company full of talented people that made a type of game that was a niche-interest (and did it well).
I'm like 99% sure that if you showed this to the people in the intensive care unit most of them could look past all 12 reasons why and get their will to live back ! THIS STUFF IS DISTILLED, CONDENSED AND CANNED LAUGHTER !
This may become my new favorite thing to watch from your channels, and I rewatch the Mordor series WEEKLY at this point.... This was a wild ride, and I'm glad I got to experience this game with you dude.
Daedelic Entertainment is a studio that is known for making point and click adventure games. One of my favorites from this studio is the Deponia trilogy.
I feel bad for them, I bet it was an executive push to make this (and whatever second LotR game they had on the lineup that got canned). This is so unlike their games, and what sucks even more is I think Gollum would work pretty well for a point and click adventure game. (though I also think something like Styx would work, but Daedalic wasn't the dev for that). It's a shame they closed over this game they clearly didn't want to make.
This whole game was doomed from the start because let's be honest Gollum isn't an appealing character that's the point but some brainless executive at Warner Brothers (probably the same one who green-lit Velma) thought "Hey you know Gollum the fantasy equivalent of a meth addict I want a video game about him what could go wrong" but as it turns out everything literally everything went wrong
D"hey guys I've made that Gollum game" " why did you make it in the toilet" D" well, where eles was I ment to make it, oh hang on I'll just scoop it out and show you"
Can we all agree that Gollum is the Big Rigs Over the Road racing of 2023? I know that Kong exists but I don’t think I’ve wheezed laughed harder than watching this man play through this travesty. This game deserves a razzy. All of them in one, all of them in another.
Why even add the bird attacking Gollum, if it was ultimately going to save him less than a minute later, especially since it was the reason, he was spotted in the first place?!
This made me immensely happy to see and I actually started napping while listening to it on the couch because the laughing tuckered me out 🤣 Also, Brett, would it be possible to see a series for Lords of the Fallen in the future? The current or the bad one?
Someone tell ToG to release his entire folder of soundbytes that he uses so we can reuse them in memes. Seriously, tell him to release his gigabytes sized data folder of soundbytes/effect so we the community can reuse them in memes.
Don't know about the soundbytes, but i do know he has used tracks from various video game soundtracks, such as Rayman (Pink Plant Woods) and the Neverhood (main theme, Dum Da Dum Doi Doi).
25:33 THE FUCKING WHEEL. What the hell do you have to do to achieve this level of jank where it just puts a giant wheel in a vital part of the level? It almost seems intentional.
I’d like to point out for those who don’t already know, it came out that the “apology” was ai generated. The developers don’t care, they never cared.
@StarvingGecko The devs weren't even aware about that letter, not untill they saw it by themselves, the very next morning.
I don't know how to feel about them... On one side, after all the time they had _( 5 to 8 years, total ? )_ , they could have at least fixed something, freakin' anything !
Seing this f**k fest in its globality, after the laughts, it makes me angry to witness such a sabotage.
On the other side, f**k Nacon, the true responsibles of said sabotage. Those guys at Daedelic, they had only one skill in game building and it was to create : _2 D P O I N T & C L I C K G A M E S !_ With very cartoonish style . . . At which point in life would you think to order to those guys a "Triple A Game" like on a very adored licence, that tend to be tengible / realistic ! And the devs knew it was utter trash, unplayable, broken, hopeless... they stopped pretending to care long ago and just awaited the death penalty. They were f**ked the very moment their hand were forced to do this.
They took the bullet, payed the price... but the publishers ? Oh, they are still alive & kicking.
Either way they messed up and did this for easy cash what excuse do they have none
While it absolutely should be acknowledged that some of the design choices are baffling to say the least, no developer goes into a project looking to make something that isn’t at least kind of fun. Blame the people with money pushing them into absurd situations, forcing them to work for less than minimum wage and with uncompensated overtime, not the poor bastards with their arms tied behind their backs to make the stupid thing 🙃
From what I know of Daedalic, they aren't a terrible studio, just ill-equipped for this sort of project, my money is on the publisher being much, much more at fault.
It shows if they didn't bother to proofread it and thus notice their screw-up with the title. Apparently, it is appropriate to refer to this entire IP as "The Lord of Ring" for now and forevermore.
Some would say "Stop the game is already dead!"
We say *"Get the big baseball bat and finish him"*
As said a great philosopher : _"It's not dead yet . . . _*_GET AN AXE_*_ !"_
As a game once said “ITS OUTTA THE PARK”!
"The blood axe is still thristy it needs clenching"
Ah. 1:52:18. I remember this moment.
When Brett swore at stream chat, when both were at a loss. Where this game finally broke everyone who dare gaze upon its forme. When Brett actually incurred an injury from agony...
Good times =)
Wait, he actually got HURT!?
@@DynoSkrimisher I may be exaggerating a lot there, but he did get a neck cramp.
impressive to see dear ol' Brett still alive and kicking despite his brain enduring things like this.
Forget the fact that Shadow Of had a Gollum that actually resembled Gollum
Shadow Of wasn't even a dedicated stealth or platforming game, and it had BETTER stealth and climbing than this game
so basically daedalic just couldn’t be bothered to try. a
"She's looking at me like I came into her house on Christmas day and took a wicked shit on the tree" 😂
For those who don't know: This isn't just a supercut of all the previous episodes. The final episode is IN this supercut.
Edit: He changed the title. For those thinking I am stating the obvious.
So basically it's Lord Of The Stink Collection + Extra DLC
@@Osio1000_5 Yea, the ending is DLC. Pretty accurate.
@@ashbuttery4106 He changed the title. On the notification, it says the original title.
I can't tell if Tear is having the time of his life or is losing his mind
@@dr.bright6272I think its more of the latter than the former
57:04 i dunno why, but Grashneg's "OF COURSE!" as Gollum becomes one with the floor kills me. The timing of it couldn't have been any more perfect!
About that apology letter. Apparently it was made from AI. They seriously did not give enough of a shit to write an official apology letter with their own hands.
You're joking. They didn't actually do that, did they?
@darkner2390 God, I wish I was. They had the audacity to use ChatGPT.
@@darkner2390The best part is that it wasn't even made by the developers. It was from the publisher, Nacon.
I like how he genuinely tries to give the creators of this game some form of credit when he first mentions the apology PNG, when later on that same apology turned out to be AI generated, and Daedelus didn't even see a word of said apology
I have been waiting for MONTHS now to see how this 'beautiful' mess of a game ends, and now I get to relive the whole adventure beforehand.
I better get some popcorn for this one 😂
“Lord of the Rings everybody, where everything interesting HAPPENS OFF SCREEN!”
That’s actually not far from the truth 🤣
I prefer it stays that way sometimes because someone will inevitably swing thier blood axe over it and it will be not great
I can't believe there was actually a loose wheel asset just sitting there and nobody had noticed it yet. That is actually impressive levels of not giving a damn about playtesting.
2:03:43 Reminds me of a Demotivational poster I once saw the title "Leaders" the quote "It is our burden to take bold, dramatic actions. Should those fail, your burden is to suffer the bold, dramatic consequences."
That's what Talion's games were missing. Karma choices *and the Candle Man
1:25:59 - That humming enhanced out of my left speaker and just shat me right up because I am home a lone and it made me think someone was with me
The bit with the bugged wheel still cracks me up. Like, how could they fuck it up so badly?! I have no idea XD
I completely agree. I don’t think even Sonic 06 fucked up that badly. And that is just a pile of glitches in the shape of a Sonic game.
Oh man I just binged this after rediscovering ToG literally yesterday. Now the final episodes here! What luck!
I will say one thing to this game's credit: the art direction isn't half bad. Gandalf's design is actually pretty cool, and I could say the same for various other character models. At least one person on this project did care a little bit but about what they were doing.
You say that, but I should also point out that there is an orc wearing armor that looks like a combination of a dick, a pair of balls, and somehow ducks. The “good” designs are few and Very Far between.
7:32, "he's has a mouth, like the arsehole of a Scuttlefish Crab"..... aight then. XDD
Don't you love it when Gollum is absolved of his woops.
"Window into Insanity" is actually a perfect subtitle for any game played from Gollum's POV.
I'm so happy I waited for the supercut! So far this is incredible!
This game, a game i tend to forget exists mostly because I WANT to forget it exists. But you sir, you have cemented it into my brain...and in a good way this was almost pee your pants funny. Thank you good sir for this masterpiece
not gonna lie I love the design of the elven areas in the latter half
Holy crap. I haven't seen your stuff since the Dark Souls 2 Ladle playthrough. I'm glad the UA-cam Algorithm has blessed me today.
This character sounds like if Palpatine was hired to phone in the lines while talking to Vader on Zoom.
Person who developed their first game: it took 6 months to make and I will continue to update it to make it better.
AAA devs after 2023: hold my beer.
Daedalic was known for well made point-and-click adventure games. This was their first attempt at a 3D action game. The company head apparently got it into his head that he wanted to do this, purchased a LotR licence, and then forced his team (which only did 2D art point-and- click up until then, mind you) to program the game. The game took a LONG time to make because the team literally had no fucking clue what they were doing and needed to learn WHILE PROGRAMMING THE GAME.
The worst thing about this shitty game is, that it killed a company full of talented people that made a type of game that was a niche-interest (and did it well).
I’ll at least defend the naming in subtitles. They’re from Gollum’s perspective so he doesn’t really care about names.
I remember being here for the first stream and we barely were able to get through the game without dying in chat of laughter
PoV: Your Gollum after having gone ages without your -drugs for your drug addiction- Precious.
1:53:13 - My God, that is some legit rage right there 😮
Finally, a series that ends!
I'm glad to go through this turdy-journey with all of you through Lord of Ring Gollum
im glad i found this channel again, i thought it was all a rage induced fever dream.
53:54 Quite possibly the hardest I ever laughed during a livestream was this disaster of a segment.
Finally, i can go to bed in peace leaving this on repeat and having a good nights rest.
Thank you Brett
Tear calling someone a wombat made me laugh harder than it should have.
brett thank you for blessing us and sacrificing what shred of sanity is left for this video
I'm like 99% sure that if you showed this to the people in the intensive care unit most of them could look past all 12 reasons why and get their will to live back ! THIS STUFF IS DISTILLED, CONDENSED AND CANNED LAUGHTER !
1:54:58 gollum unlocked instant transmission
"Who's there?" What do you MEAN "WHO'S THERE" this is a fucking LOADING SCREEN - NOBODY SHOULD BE THERE!
this one always cracks me up. :D
So according to the game, gollum was questioned by THE DARK LORD HIMSELF
Yet i dont remember seeing sauron anywhere in this game
God this game was painful to see, but I say it was worth to know the amount of glitches it had; 52:30 this moment still kills me to this day 😂
This game was like watching a trainwreck. It's awful, but you can't look away from it. Sounds like an SCP when I think about it.
This may become my new favorite thing to watch from your channels, and I rewatch the Mordor series WEEKLY at this point.... This was a wild ride, and I'm glad I got to experience this game with you dude.
I don’t know why the part at 1:06:44 made me wheeze, but it did. Love you Tear you angry pill man, we thank you for your suffering.
Daedelic Entertainment is a studio that is known for making point and click adventure games. One of my favorites from this studio is the Deponia trilogy.
I feel bad for them, I bet it was an executive push to make this (and whatever second LotR game they had on the lineup that got canned). This is so unlike their games, and what sucks even more is I think Gollum would work pretty well for a point and click adventure game. (though I also think something like Styx would work, but Daedalic wasn't the dev for that). It's a shame they closed over this game they clearly didn't want to make.
This video series lasted longer then the dev team behind this game and THAT'S impressive.
13:29 KNOCKOUT!!
Finally, I thought this series had been canned.
Thank you baldman for the jank, I look forward to more
I love it when Brett starts sounding like the kettles going off
"The nemesis where the bugs we expirieced during the game"
It is like they tried to make a game like Styx. Minus the charm and fun stealth… or the sassy fun of being a goblin causing trouble.
This part had me dying 😂 55:03
I remember watching the live streams of this and laughing along with Brett at the glitchiness and how bad this game is
This was indeed worth the wait! Thank you Brett for playing this game to it's end so we won't have to :3
This whole game was doomed from the start because let's be honest Gollum isn't an appealing character that's the point but some brainless executive at Warner Brothers (probably the same one who green-lit Velma) thought "Hey you know Gollum the fantasy equivalent of a meth addict I want a video game about him what could go wrong" but as it turns out everything literally everything went wrong
And the studio specialised in point and click, not stealth or 3d platforming.
Brett, thank you *SO* much for coming back to this. The entertainment I've gotten from this video is priceless 😂
D"hey guys I've made that Gollum game"
" why did you make it in the toilet"
D" well, where eles was I ment to make it, oh hang on I'll just scoop it out and show you"
coming back to this daedalic didn't miss a stride at least, they are publishing a new game already, a horror one from the looks of it
1:42:12 Urban dictionary has the definition
I wish the 2 tower guards all the best for their future together, 40 years of marriage is quite the feat nowadays
4:55 Oh no, Brett is becoming Bane!
51:08 It's getting worse.
Gollum breaks everything and everyone and all logic by man
I chose to watch this on 144p and I was not disappointed.
Good to see this fever-dream of a game come to an end at last.
1:14:56 The best musical
I love this, you should do the hobbit game on og Xbox/PS2. It would be hilarous if you made a play through on it.
Daedalic shutting its development studio means we'll probably never get another Deponia. That, more than anything, is what I despise about this.
Can we all agree that Gollum is the Big Rigs Over the Road racing of 2023? I know that Kong exists but I don’t think I’ve wheezed laughed harder than watching this man play through this travesty. This game deserves a razzy. All of them in one, all of them in another.
Yeah Kong seems worse but Gollum looks way more funnier. Tho i would call it Sonic 06 of 2023 instead.
1:09:39 One of the best bits XD
This is gonna be my first time watching this PS2 Game so I hope for some great nostalgia to back then!
Wait, this was released in what year?
I heard that this game was in creation years ago, saw what they had for Gollum's Character model and immediately knew this was going to flop so hard
Gollum game super supercut? WHAT COULD GO WRONG?!
I loved your streams, but I just have to honest and say I love these edits so much more, love your content
Why even add the bird attacking Gollum, if it was ultimately going to save him less than a minute later, especially since it was the reason, he was spotted in the first place?!
Even though I watched all this, its still making me laugh till tears
Well, it's finally happened. The game fully morphed Brent into Gollum.
That was a journey to remember.
this game hadto have been made by like 12 different guys who never spoke to each other once
Christ I knew how you felt, getting neck pain from laughing so hard
Worth it
1:49:53 sounds like the orc is badly singing to the opera music and it's hysterical.
After that game i would love to see you play Styx masters of shadows. Its really similar but released years ago and somhow plays and looks better.
Same
10:47 My new ringtone.
35:08 is too funny of a comparison
This made me immensely happy to see and I actually started napping while listening to it on the couch because the laughing tuckered me out 🤣
Also, Brett, would it be possible to see a series for Lords of the Fallen in the future? The current or the bad one?
Tears of Grace needs to play the new King Kong Game.
I don't mind you taking some extra time to finish up this steaming pile of "game," Brett! It was fun as hell watching the jank regardless.
Who the fuck thought that making a full length game about a scrub like Gollum was a good idea?
Your voice is halfway between Sean Walsh and Jeremy Clarkson.
Someone tell ToG to release his entire folder of soundbytes that he uses so we can reuse them in memes. Seriously, tell him to release his gigabytes sized data folder of soundbytes/effect so we the community can reuse them in memes.
Don't know about the soundbytes, but i do know he has used tracks from various video game soundtracks, such as Rayman (Pink Plant Woods) and the Neverhood (main theme, Dum Da Dum Doi Doi).
I don’t think there has been a single one of these videos that I haven’t watched since 2015
The minute tear couldn't get past the title screen without busting out laughing i knew this series was going to be a fucking gem
Good god, what a perfect timing !!!
Thank you ToG for making my shitty life alot better with all your videos
Lmao, dude this series was too much fun, please let us know if you're going to make another video of this broken system of a game, 😂😂😂😂😂
You have convinced me. I'm buying this game
25:33 THE FUCKING WHEEL. What the hell do you have to do to achieve this level of jank where it just puts a giant wheel in a vital part of the level?
It almost seems intentional.
So that's why it took you for-fucking-ever to upload the final episode... fair.
I’ve watched this dude for a while subscribe to him recently I believe, but my God he screams more than I do in manic episodes