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@sharena5642
Жыл бұрын
Link doesn't work
@lucasmelac1464
Жыл бұрын
This game makes me long for the days of OG Inside Gaming… think of the content this game would provide
@DovahFett
Жыл бұрын
It looks like a game they'd play on Steam Roulette.
@Rockingveryloosepants
Жыл бұрын
I still sometimes think of cunt and chuckle to myself
@nealmburke
Жыл бұрын
It still dont understand how this game came to be. I can see someone pitching 'Its Escape from Alcatraz, except youre Gollum in Mordor" and then a few months later they realized how hard it was going to be to make and gave up. I can also see them pitching a game like Limbo. It keeps me up at night thinking about this game.
@dmcg7949
Жыл бұрын
I will never......ever.... hear Bruce talk about LoTR without thinking of the funhaus board game of LoTR with Rahul, where at one point he looks Rahul straight in the eye and utters the phrase, "Yeah, no shit Fatty"..... (Rahuls characters name was Fatty)
@aBucketOfPuppies
Жыл бұрын
I audibly gasped when they typo'd LOTR in the apology letter. How much more embarrasing could it get?
@AdaTheWatcher
Жыл бұрын
My favorite game Lord of ring Gollum'nt
@TheHK_47
6 ай бұрын
When this is the biggest flaw you have seen in this game then you aren't paying attention
@acereporter73
Жыл бұрын
"You don't have any friends. Nobody likes you." -Gollum speaking to Smeagol, Two Towers (2002) Dang. That line from the movie really did manifest.
@saturn.
Жыл бұрын
The Steam charts for this game are truly stunning
@Three60Mafia
Жыл бұрын
grand total of 500 people bought the game lol wow
@flamboyantwhale5698
Жыл бұрын
This is probably the most predictable outcome in gaming history.
@moviebad109
Жыл бұрын
Lawrence’s smirking “works every time” at 1:53 is how I feel every time I see one.
@thisisjt_
Жыл бұрын
the fact that it says “The Lord of Ring” in the post speaks volumes
@SkylorBeck
Жыл бұрын
I feel like not enough people talked on how the game shipped as version 0.2. It's so clear that this was not the choice of the developers on this one but some guys in suits.
@Skifan180
Жыл бұрын
I love the clown math. my favorite part of this channel.
@zachdl1
Жыл бұрын
I love how all these outlets punch down on the little guy. Meanwhile, giving nothing less than a 7/10 for any AAA title. Glorified marketing
@jaredwatkins4444
Жыл бұрын
Don't worry, Lawrence, those Eggos are in the mail 👍. You'll never have to miss third brunch again
@rookcapcoldblood2618
Жыл бұрын
As a die-hard fan of the books and the movies, I was hoping Gollum would be a fantastic exploration of the parts of Middle Earth that we have literally never seen in almost any medium. To see it blundered this badly breaks my heart. I was looking forward to hearing Liam O'Brien voicing Gollum as he did in the Middle Earth Shadow series and a fun morality system that forced me to switch between Smeagol and Gollum in order to survive. Guess we'll have to wait a while for a truly good Lord of the Rings title. Seriously, I'm with Bruce: How did they get the rights to even make a Lord of the Rings game? And how did it ship this badly? It doesn't seem physically possible.
@williamw2529
Жыл бұрын
I absolutely agree. It just needed better writers.
@TheBlargMarg
Жыл бұрын
I would argue that Lord of the Rings Gollum is worse than Ride to Hell Retribution ONLY because Ride to Hell is more functional than Gollum (aka: doesn't crash and doesn't have as many softlocks as Gollum).
@trentkuzman5528
Жыл бұрын
The LOTR's license is diced up in several different ways. Amazon has the Second Age license for Rings of Power. Embracer group has the Hobbit and Two Towers license, which is working with Amazon Games to do an MMO. Not sure where the other disparate parts are or how licensing deals were worked for things like LOTR: Online.
@foxmind2490
Жыл бұрын
Clown Math is my favorite segment of any of these videos
@Call555JackChop
Жыл бұрын
This game has big Demo Disk energy
@TheBurson
Жыл бұрын
Pocket Champs looks like the Chao races from Sonic Adventure.
@ocha-time
Жыл бұрын
Not true, Chris "OneyPlays" Onision strongly identifies with LotR Gollum
@icantspeck1497
Жыл бұрын
Question for you IG! Would you ever consider doing these videos together in a studio / greenscreen style? Just like the OG show was. I think having you two riff off each other in the same room brings so much to the show. Thanks!
@akaimizu1
Жыл бұрын
Gollum: They.....They h-hatess usss! *gollum* *gollum* (turns head) No! It's them! They are the wrong ones! With their puny.... PUNY scores! (dramatic pause then lowers voice) We, are better than them. See! *gollum* (turns head) Yes! Yes! We are!! (jumps for joy) This is the in-character scene, that plays in my head, when I see a Gollum game-related video like this. Gollum is a master of mental gymnastics.
@logan_sunday
Жыл бұрын
I dont know why there is such a struggle to make LOTR stuff lately. Gaming feels so ripe with potential. I mean if they did a Chivalry style game with all the iconic battles or a fun lotr take on something like Vermintide would be an absolute blast.
@Justin-ic4co
Жыл бұрын
If the games don't even meet the expectations of the developers, how in the hell do they say it's ready to ship? A lot of the recent issues with underperforming games, I highly suspect, are due to publisher interference. It's really unfortunate that devs don't get the time they need and then everyone blames the devs. That's incredibly unfair and frustrating.
@MrCho-2000
Жыл бұрын
Nobody has any expectations on Daedalic so nobody got butthurt when they released a bad game. Unlike Redfall which is made by Arkane where people have some sort of expectation, so people got butthurt when they released a bad game.
@JustinCarnitas
Жыл бұрын
Watching the gameplay footage of Gollum in this episode, I find myself asking who this game was made for? Crawl, swim, swing, and jump around? So it's a 3D platformer without any reward for exploration and without a good story to keep you moving forward? What a strange thing to release in 2023. Seems like a game made for the PS1 era.
@moviebad109
Жыл бұрын
It’s like a tech demo for a stealth creeper thief type game. It just doesn’t feel like a complete thing.
@tobyhendricks9951
Жыл бұрын
I think devs are putting too much faith in prebuilt engines (mostly... Unreal) to cut their production in half. But what you gain in convenience from these engines, you sacrifice in control and simplicity. Yes, you can get a prototype 3D platformer up and running in 2 hours, but the cost is often performance and stability
@Janokins
Жыл бұрын
I don't know what it is specifically, but there's something wrong with the lighting. Like they forgot to tick a certain box in unreal.
@parakathepyro
Жыл бұрын
The first time I saw the title of the game I thought it was a joke
@Badderup
Жыл бұрын
I’m just mad I paid full price. If it was a $10 game, I might be okay with it. Should have waited for reviews.
@AloisWeimar
Жыл бұрын
Home Improvement noise makes this video 10\10 !
@Shadowstorm5400
Жыл бұрын
It seems like Gollum is the E.T of this generation.
@erbb11
Жыл бұрын
I can't help but look at Golum and see a really haggard Tak from the old platform game
@maniacbanana9431
Жыл бұрын
I have no idea what anyone expected from this game
@cromp3361
Жыл бұрын
So happy you guys still give us content, thought about asking any of the old crew on? Sorry if you get asked this a lot I havent seen any comments about it before, I've been a fan ever since lawdog was just a voice on a computer and it would be nice to see even just a few of you together again. If not just ignore me. I'm grateful we have you two still doing your thing either way ❤
@gucketjug
Жыл бұрын
When a AAA game costs nearly 3 million a week to keep in development, it is no longer surprising when a game is released to bolster funding and then gets fixed later
@akaimizu1
Жыл бұрын
And now I expect the next apology Jpeg from Aspyr. But don't worry, the list will continue to grow long, at this rate.
@Frank0games
Жыл бұрын
I did not get the wolf skin despite using the link. You have betrayed me inside games ..
@JohnRBlade
Жыл бұрын
Man I played the SHIT out of the Two Towers and Return of the King LOTR games back in the 2000's. Some of my favorite games I played on the Gamecube. I never imagined a game about Gollum would be fun or interesting in anyway. I feel bad for the developers that may have had a vision in mind that they weren't able to manifest into the game. I think this would've been better had they'd gone for a more stylized approach like for example ABZU or Firewatch.
@AlainSykess
Жыл бұрын
If only James came here it would make this just Amazing
@HyperspaceCafe
Жыл бұрын
It’s just. No one asked for a gollum game!
@Gobzer5526
Жыл бұрын
I remember reading the announcement of this game and thinking "this is going to be absolute crap. Also, who is this for?? And why was it greenlit??? Why are they making a bad game that no one asked for?????"
@ZWillis12
Жыл бұрын
I had a hunch this would be a dumpster fire when it was first announced.
@pamew
Жыл бұрын
This game has higher system requirements than STALKER 2, and took longer to develop, lmao.
@marcoramos4873
Жыл бұрын
You guys need some outro music or something. Love ya guys!!!!
@aceofaces0007
Жыл бұрын
Further addition to their "clown math," I think a distinction can be made between good games that launch with technical issues which can be fixed (i.e. Jedi Survivor, Last of Us Part I), and games that are just bad all around, including technical issues (Redfall, LotR: Gollum). Instead of the number being 6 out of 28, you're dividing that 6 between good games marred by launch issues vs actually flat out bad games. It almost makes the technical issues of Gollum more tolerable in an off-handed way because the game is just purely bad, and no amount of polish would save it, compared to something like Jedi Survivor, which is a fantastic game dinged by technical problems that can be (and was, mostly, I think) fixed.
@aNohbody
Жыл бұрын
I love this channel
@s-clone8964
Жыл бұрын
Deponia's series storyline was so f*cked up XD. I enjoyed it alot but... Only a german studio could get away with the racist joke of black people being portrayed as monkeys (one puzzle is literally dressing up a black woman to perform as a dancing monkey because she needs a job, all while the protagonist is laughing at her expense). Not gonna lie i was stunned not as much as Bioshock Infinite's opening area though, the context is completely different but still unsettling.
@xxmoonmassacrexx7218
Жыл бұрын
I agree with everything they said but I have a genuine question, was Gollum looked at as a “big triple a” or “high profile” game?? Because (at least for me and the little ecosystem I live in) no one really cared about this game. Like prerelease stuff looked cool but there wasn’t really any hype or expectation for it.
@97dusk
Жыл бұрын
A lot of the expectations, from what I can tell, is from the price of this game. This game is being sold at full price ($50 USD for the base game, $60 for the deluxe edition with all the DLC), which is what AAA titles are sold at, and that comes with an expectation of quality, which this game very obviously lacks. For how poor the quality of this game is, it's *severely* overpriced.
@IHaveInsipidus
Жыл бұрын
Can anyone explain to me why they no longer work with James/Elyse? Love you guys! I continue to watch all inside game/funhaus throwbacks everyday.
@Empress_Theresa
Жыл бұрын
My guess RT's contract is probably preventing any collaboration with minor channels like theirs.
@AloisWeimar
Жыл бұрын
but Charlotte works for both channels ... so what does that mean, then ?
@unnoticedhero1
Жыл бұрын
@@AloisWeimar Probably just a time thing, they're all pretty busy so it's hard to work together, or it's more complicated and they no longer want to work with each other, we'll probably never know, but if they're on good terms it may just be not wanting to work on more content and just be friends without cameras rolling.
@Empress_Theresa
Жыл бұрын
@@AloisWeimar Means that they have different types of contracts.
@brehxn
Жыл бұрын
You didn't expect it to be good 😂
@FellaGuy2
Жыл бұрын
Is Lord of the Rings kind of public domain? Is that how they made this game?
@evanmcgregor8498
Жыл бұрын
No the Lord of the rings is an owned property. They got / bought rights to make this game
@FellaGuy2
Жыл бұрын
@@evanmcgregor8498 damn, I bet they are going to lose some money on this one.
@evanmcgregor8498
Жыл бұрын
@@FellaGuy2 they definitely did lose money I reckon
@Kdoghalo
Жыл бұрын
Warner brothers is running out of money that’s probably what’s going on that’s probably also why Amazon got the rights to make a show instead of HBO making one
@StickmanStrozzi
Жыл бұрын
you'd think it'd be something like styx but then you see what the developers has done before and you realize this shit could only end badly
@Humphking
Жыл бұрын
Only when this game is released on PS+ is when I'll still not play it
@K1aric
Жыл бұрын
Even if they fixed the bugs in Gollum, the game would still be awful
@MrJsGotTheGoods
Жыл бұрын
The game is a bad Styx: Master of Shadows. So just play Styx, it's great
@juggernautwzrd
Жыл бұрын
random comment to help with the **ALGORITHMS** 6/2 animation
@tyzinthehutt
Жыл бұрын
I actually liked gollum so not everyone hates it. Sure it has its problems but stop review bombing the game. I have many friends that liked it as well.
@michaelangelo1887
Жыл бұрын
Guys they didn't get the license to Lord of the Rings. They got the license to Lord of the Ring. lol duh
@Stranger2Sum
Жыл бұрын
3:24 😔
@MarioMadness1
Жыл бұрын
Not sure who thought this game was a good idea
@unicornep1818
Жыл бұрын
Good Vid now going to watch the death of Stalin. Have a lovely night. Pip pip
@potatopoker2141
Жыл бұрын
Yall got good cameras
@cfh5221
Жыл бұрын
Every critique they made of the game is valid. But it not being open world isn't a negative. Not every game has to be open world!
@snowballeffect7812
Жыл бұрын
I feel so bad about this game. I wanted it to be good. Gollum still looks kind of adorable, though.
@scottjoseph7556
Жыл бұрын
As a huge LOTR fan and has played almost every single LOTR video game. God Gollum sucks. I have played though it twice and currently playing it for a third time (trying to get the no death achievement and I am a masochist) but its really bad. I would love to see what happened behind the scenes and I hope it comes out what happened. I agree with what Bruce says, its quite boring. The parkour is 'good' when it works but often it doesn't. And to answer Lawrence about the video game rights and licensing, its very complicated (or it was). The LOTR books were owned by the Saul Zaentz company which owned Tolkien Enterprises which became Middle Earth Enterprises. Meanwhile the rights to the movies and the games from them were owned by WB. Embracer in late 2022 purchased ME enterprises from Saul Zaentz and then in 2023 WB reached a new deal with them to keep making movies. Meanwhile, Amazon is in their own corner with the rights to TV and the hobbit. Its really complicated. However, that Embracer purchase was long after Gollum was in development and probably didnt affect it at all so it was Saul Zaentz that owned it at the time. www.theonering.net/torwp/2023/02/23/116180-return-of-the-rings-warner-bros-renews-lotr-rights-with-more-movies-on-the-way/ For Gollum it is possible that Daedelic went to ME Enterprises and asked if they could make a game and they were given free reign or maybe they were approached its hard to say. Many people were asking why they didn't use the Gollum model from Shadow of Mordor or why a game in the same universe as Shadow of War could look like that. Shadow of War was made with the movie rights and some of the best LOTR games were made with these, the movie tie in games, BFME 1 and 2 and the Shadow of Middle Earth games but also some of the 'worst' like The Third age (a weird RPG) and LOTR conquest (LOTR battlefront that got F'd by EA) This is where the abysmal Fellowship of the Ring game came from (released a month before the amazing Two Towers game to make it sting even more) however the book rights also made War in the North which is pretty good with some issues. Gollum is another victim of this and so is Daedelic. If people don't know about these issues with the rights they will instantly compare it much better games like the Shadow of Middle Earth series. Hopefully, with the acquisition away from Saul Zaentz to Embracer we get to see more games based on the books being better and the deal with WB seeing more LOTR games being based on the movies. I hope to see better LOTR games coming like the Moria game and seemingly another Daedlic game but they really need to get on that to make sure its not another Gollum. Also sorry about the long comment but I love these games but also find the whole complicated rights issue so fascinating
@Tsumefan2
Жыл бұрын
gollum looks really weird
@bryangonzalez5887
Жыл бұрын
Should waited an day before defending redfall 🤣
@haraxA
Жыл бұрын
It's 50-60 euro LOL
@rotorbones
Жыл бұрын
data lick?
@spartan_a1176
Жыл бұрын
This game deserves to be review bomb no question
@stuckinside7709
Жыл бұрын
awesome
@mvirtuos
Жыл бұрын
Can you guys add james to the team and create great good old content like you used to ... :( watching you guys back together would make life easier
@happyatheists9361
Жыл бұрын
it's Fridaaaaaaayyyyyy yeeeeeeesssss
@WhatIfJojoSiwaWasGay
Жыл бұрын
Gollum made me wish Michael was still doing Rage Quit, because god damn it, this steaming pile of crap would have him absolutely *fuming*
@____chris
Жыл бұрын
I think Rooster Teeth is stealing your channel idea. They have a channel called Inside Gaming. Straight copy
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