They said that in order to fully bring the character of Gollum to life, the entire studio acted like one during this game's production. Truly incredible
@preyscalling
Жыл бұрын
And together they had around a 4th of a brain cell
@devinmcgroot7560
Жыл бұрын
i guess making a good game was too "precious" for them
@cephon6198
Жыл бұрын
You say that as though there are many Gollums... Gollum? Gollumii?
@SuccMunkey
Жыл бұрын
This looks like a horrible remaster of a title from 2004
@amirhusin3579
Жыл бұрын
Oh! So thats the reason why is game like that
@Patterrz
Жыл бұрын
There's at least one developer that worked VERY hard on something in this game for years and I feel sorry for that one guy
@matthewhaslam1045
Жыл бұрын
My favorite ginger KZitemr ❤❤❤
@wundurr
Жыл бұрын
@@matthewhaslam1045 I prefer soundsmith but we all have our opinions
@rosekirk
Жыл бұрын
Gosh you’re so right :((
@arsalananwari4377
Жыл бұрын
Probably the landscape/level designer. Was about the only enjoyable thing to look at in this "game"
@thesnazzmaster
Жыл бұрын
It's such a shame that you can tell there's a lot of work that went into this game, but just some key places where it fell apart that makes the whole thing collapse. Makes you appreciate how good games have so many moving parts that all have to work nearly perfectly
@ZeroNeedsCoffee
Жыл бұрын
The game over screen is so abrupt and anticlimactic that it just makes me almost laugh every time I see it 💀
@littlelogan34
Жыл бұрын
The sponsor was less abrupt than the game over screen 😂
@lilknox2225
Жыл бұрын
Ong i thought he pressed pause at first😂😂😂
@trinitydraco4698
Жыл бұрын
It gives Xbox 360, y'know?
@RedShirt00000
Жыл бұрын
I always think there’s a bunch of dust on the left side of my screen when I see it
@bottyhammer
Жыл бұрын
Never buy a game day 1 Ever .....ever. Never pre order The industry has failed or misled repeatedly.
@stalkholm5227
Жыл бұрын
16:25 I love how Gollum does his death animation *before* the explosion went off, that's subverting expectations is what that is.
@AMan-xz7tx
Жыл бұрын
I love how they were able to recreate that childhood experience of playing a minimum effort movie tie-in game from the late 2000s, but now with that early 2010s level of fidelity that we already had ten years ago!
@kimutone2970
Жыл бұрын
I was watching it live last night when Charlie played it on twitch and when I se tthe quality to 360p, it literally looked like a PS2 game. Like quite literally, and everyone was saying the same, that it looks like a xbox or ps2 game lmao
@MarioMonte13
Жыл бұрын
@@kimutone2970 except ps2 games didn't have the luxury of day 1 patches, so they had to function in order to be sold
@kukuzi
Жыл бұрын
Ah the nostalgia. Over the Hedge on gamecube still slaps
@The_Viktor_Reznov
Жыл бұрын
The game literally lacks ambient occlusion/ contact shadows lol At 7:10 Gollum has no shadows Starship Troopers Extermination, a 1st person game, has player shadows
@vincentoconnor5640
Жыл бұрын
Same PFP image lol
@OodDoodelic
Жыл бұрын
Its crazy that as every month passes we somehow get the newest worst game.
@stardasher
Жыл бұрын
Ikr
@spitfire3311
Жыл бұрын
Ikr
@complimentbot7015
Жыл бұрын
I wonder what the definitive worse will be
@AirCatcher
Жыл бұрын
Ikr
@idfk1012
Жыл бұрын
Ikr
@PastPositive
Жыл бұрын
There is literally nothing to do in this other than walk and fall off the map, truly the game of all time.
@PatLadsChan99
Жыл бұрын
Climbing simulator 2023
@PastPositive
Жыл бұрын
@@PatLadsChan99can’t forget that you throw a pebble, truly a goty experience.
@ncrveteranranger4454
Жыл бұрын
I'm thinking Balan Wonderworld might be a better game than this, which is honestly shocking to me
@fearlessgaming5877
Жыл бұрын
@@PastPositive I say we all vote for this game to be gotr just for the laughs and shock at the game awards
@jondoe7036
Жыл бұрын
I'd rather play the sauna party game variant of Gollum honestly. That's always bound to be atleast somewhat eventful.
@DEADN8
Жыл бұрын
$50 for this is wild. Back in the day this would be a $20 indie game you’d buy on the Xbox 360 marketplace
@burtreynolds8030
Жыл бұрын
The gaming market really died when the Xbox arcade game market ended, it actually incentivized devs to make smaller games to release for low cost in between their big games, not everything was $50 plus back in the good days
@aspart2842
Жыл бұрын
20 is pushing it Id say 5
@xJaaku
Жыл бұрын
@@aspart2842 agreed
@chinchilla415
Жыл бұрын
That you can get Diablo 4 for 60 or 70$ is fucking bonkers.
@tellyg47
Жыл бұрын
@@chinchilla415 what’s even more crazy is some people actually had to spend 60-70 on this game 😂
@daybloomie3564
Жыл бұрын
The fact that the game launched with a DLC button is truly so much
@JustBonesYT
Жыл бұрын
Thats so funny
@lukasg4807
Жыл бұрын
The DLC is just a soundtrack, some Golem emotes, and making the elves all speak elvish
@Omnischism
Жыл бұрын
@@lukasg4807 Back in my day the goddamn elves would have spoke Elvish by default, now it's a fuckin DLC.
@juggernogsoda4515
Жыл бұрын
@@Omnischism like wtf 😭 it prolly was default but then they needed monezation
@TheAdhdGaming
Жыл бұрын
the only good dlc for this game stands for deleteing little content, which is the entire game. the game is garbage
@shadeitplease7383
Жыл бұрын
Such incredible character names like “frail man” and “cruel woman” this is truly one of the stories of all time
@bobafett4265
Жыл бұрын
The Frail Man looks suspiciously like Gandalf, that can't be me right.
@fakenamerealchungus9851
Жыл бұрын
"Oh middle aged man is in this? Oh they got Woman? I hate her"
@MonticueGaming
Жыл бұрын
My only defense for this game is the naming convention is probably supposed to be how smeagol remembers them which personally I think is one of the few nice touches the game has.
@Lucaz99
Жыл бұрын
An all time Tolkien _CLASSIC_
@MattyP650
Жыл бұрын
Candle man 😂😂😂
@FatalKitsune
Жыл бұрын
Wow. Vinny from Vinesauce crashed the game about 10 seconds after getting control of Gollum and I thought "boy, that's the fastest I've ever seen anyone crash a game!" I'm astonished that Charlie got it to crash while just sitting at the menu. This is a real... fine piece of work.
@soakmydeck
Жыл бұрын
Vinny playing this was too good
@JordanU375
Жыл бұрын
@@soakmydeck Convince gollum to breed orc
@MCisnotreal
Жыл бұрын
@@JordanU375 Convince gollum to breed orc
@DACrowley
Жыл бұрын
I think Charlie's game is glitched. He's missing his objectives
@mythical_pizza
Жыл бұрын
Jedi survivor crashed before I even got to the main menu. It was in the middle of loading the logo sequence when it froze and I got the unreal engine critical error, it wasn't even the windows UI it was the UE one
@EC-mg4gb
Жыл бұрын
I can't believe this game came out 20 years ago already. Time does fly!
@j01sonofsleazy
Жыл бұрын
yea it looks that old
@JamiroquaiEnjoyer
Жыл бұрын
Nah bro it's going to be 25 years old
@andrea.2102
Жыл бұрын
Lol
@j01sonofsleazy
Жыл бұрын
@@JamiroquaiEnjoyer Nah it came out the same year as Toy Story
@vanillabatcave5677
Жыл бұрын
Man, the nights playing this on my old wii...
@MunchingOrange
Жыл бұрын
This has to be unfinished and they just decided to release it anyway
@raburto8984
Жыл бұрын
Ayy MOO, what's good man
@zaristophanes
Жыл бұрын
I mean it crashing in the tutorial definitely confirms it 😂
@shevrett2658
Жыл бұрын
yet it was delayed multiple times oof
@KT-ki6gz
Жыл бұрын
It was hopeless from day 1 when some delusional dev thought they could make a game around Gollum 😂
@kobra6660
Жыл бұрын
That's the era where in rush it out patch it later
@TheYodelingViking
Жыл бұрын
Just the fact it has emotes pack as DLC day one speaks volumes of the love they have for the fanbase.
@Pekology
Жыл бұрын
"Iconic" emotes lmaoo
@numbersbubble
Жыл бұрын
Why is there emotes in a single player game?
@hand13932
Жыл бұрын
holy fuck i thought that was a joke
@ghostguch1007
Жыл бұрын
@@hand13932 me too. That was real?
@joefatso111
Жыл бұрын
What I love in games is paying for locked features. It is a good way for games to be, having a full complete functioning game is just a little overdone. I like my games half baked and double the cost. . . Luxury 😇
@ImmortalNaitsirhc
Жыл бұрын
This game genuinely feels and looks like it was made in the mid 2000's.
@The-rr8ze
Жыл бұрын
Plus that game over screen.
@dumbnuggetsw
Жыл бұрын
😃😐
@tepigeon
Жыл бұрын
I can't believe it is a new game it looks horrible
@BlueDrew10
Жыл бұрын
From the narrative, to the gameplay elements, to the graphics, it all sucks. They really didn't put the A-team on this one, huh?
@juggernogsoda4515
Жыл бұрын
@@BlueDrew10 look at it 😂 it literally is shit. Theres no incentive to play it
@Ratsos12
Жыл бұрын
Playing a game about a dude that lives alone in a dark cave, his best friend is a bit of cursed metal, and his best story is that his grandma literally sucked eggs a very long time ago… honestly I’d be incredibly disappointed if the game wasn’t literally either a bobbing for fish mini game, jrpg grindfest, mindless quest simulator, or alternatively… I’d kinda be down for a Golum dating sim where the options are rocks, fish, the cave, the ring, smeagle, and a reflection on the water.
@error-try-again-later
Жыл бұрын
DDLC but the player is Gollum and Monika is the One Ring.
@FryingWater
Жыл бұрын
I'd like to know more about the grandma sucking eggs.
@Ratsos12
Жыл бұрын
@@FryingWater I don’t know if the line made it to the movie or the game, but it was part of his story in The Hobbit book.
@Kenosaurus
Жыл бұрын
As a lord of the rings fan even the first shot of gollum was a stab in my heart and then the game over screen showed and my soul officially left my body.
@Gatorade69
Жыл бұрын
If I may ask what is so bad with how Gollum looks ? The quality is bad and it looks like a early PS3 title but is there any other reasons why LOTR fans hate the look so much ?
@roryheaslip8260
Жыл бұрын
@@Gatorade69 He looks like Dobby
@skyper8934
Жыл бұрын
@@Gatorade69mate not even PS3. Search up "Gollum Shadow of Mordor", a 2017 LOTR based game. He looks perfect there, as he should look like a deformed psycho heremit, not like a goddamn tard Furby
@candy-stars
Жыл бұрын
@Gwaihir the Windlord hardcore fans can be sticklers and all the little problems build up into just straight up hating the model. He’s just made poorly. I think the worst part is his models hair, it renders over the particles and smoke. In Vinny’s stream, he had to ‘turn off hair’ to get it to run for more than 10 seconds. Like another commenter said, he doesn’t look like Gollum, he looks like some weird kid you went to school with.
@thanman6584
Жыл бұрын
@Gwaihir the Windlord "not that bad" he looks terrible.
@clack1727
Жыл бұрын
I mean, I wasn't expecting a full game about Gollum to NOT be the worst game of the year.
@Dusty-69420
Жыл бұрын
Nobody was expecting it to be a good game lol.
@thegodhoward8037
Жыл бұрын
It could have been good if they went more through the journey of a man losing his mind bit by bit until he inevitably becomes a repulsive monster that cannot even remember who he is
@Anvent_not
Жыл бұрын
@@p-__prove it
@magolor152
Жыл бұрын
It could have been a cool survival story driven game where you have to travel, fish and survive your way as gollum slowly becomes more and more unhinged until he becomes who we know him well as halfway through the game, the only moderately interesting part of this game is the negotiations between gollum and smeagol
@tonts5329
Жыл бұрын
@@thegodhoward8037 Yeah maybe do something like Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice with Gollum pursuing the ring in his head? Or maybe a Alice: Madness Returns style game transitioning from his crazed mind to the real world?
@War5aw
Жыл бұрын
Just figured out the lore, with Gollum slumping over dead a second before the explosion 16:36 clearly this is just a story about Gollum larping about
@wildudyr
Жыл бұрын
Charlie looks so crushed after some of these deaths and I can't blame him. You are a champion for stomaching as much of the game as you did for our entertainment.
@mongomanproductions1049
Жыл бұрын
I love how Charlie just stares a hole into my soul as Matt sits there explaining the sponsor
@mongomanproductions1049
Жыл бұрын
@@p-__ prove it buster
@Turtleboi6000
Жыл бұрын
@@p-__prove it stinky
@HogartHughes
Жыл бұрын
@@p-__ no
@idk059
Жыл бұрын
@@p-__ prove it pooper
@Supernov4
Жыл бұрын
You guys are replying to a bot
@GlassesnMouthplates
Жыл бұрын
I can't stop giggling at the Game Over screens. The shot where Gollum just decides to fall flat to the ground and die even before the blast goes off is downright hilarious.
@NigerianCrusader
Жыл бұрын
BUT YOU CANT STOP GIGGLING AT THE WOLF TRACERS DINOSAUR ISLAND
@arieldesjar
Жыл бұрын
it's so anti climatic that it's funny
@frommi_
Жыл бұрын
the instant crash was way funnier than I think it was meant to be 😭
@finleyrosebud5791
Жыл бұрын
@@p-__ and yet his bowel movements put yours to shame.
@whyiwakeup6460
Жыл бұрын
@D0ctorf0ster bait moment
@StrawberryShartCak3
Жыл бұрын
@@D0ctorf0ster1 You're trying too hard to get attention.
@batmanonabike3119
Жыл бұрын
@@p-__no shit
@liamblylod5954
Жыл бұрын
wdym "it was meant to be"💀
@Jesus_Christ_For_Real
Жыл бұрын
i salute the studio for being brave and not conforming to the high graphics standards that rock AAA games nowadays
@macrons593
Жыл бұрын
Making 2012 graphics is stunning and brave.
@camprey
Жыл бұрын
Damn, the lord of the rings franchise can't take a break 😂
@elguacamgio
Жыл бұрын
It's sadly getting the Star Wars treatment
@randomperson093
Жыл бұрын
@@elguacamgio good series i have fond memories of being drowned in shit media after shit media will never stop being painful
@al112v4
Жыл бұрын
@@elguacamgio Funny how Tolkien and Lucas' work has dealt with garbage for a long time and it's nothing new.
@ginogatash4030
Жыл бұрын
We're definitely deep into the dark ages of the LOTR franchise.
@outlastingflame1614
Жыл бұрын
It's because of these untalented egostical writers that cant produce any vision for themselves so they try to hijack the success of real talent. So we just get bad fanfics with some budget.
@archyzz
Жыл бұрын
I swear to god, it felt like this video lasted an hour. The realization it was only 23 minutes made me question my existence in this universe
@NigerianCrusader
Жыл бұрын
BUT WOLF TRACERS DINOSAUR ISLAND IS ONLY 40 MINUTES
@ThaPugster
Жыл бұрын
the death to the explosion is one of the funniest things ive ever seen LMAO
@Fagnarok
Жыл бұрын
Time stamp?
@lolwutizit
Жыл бұрын
@@Fagnarok 16:37
@bigblue207
Жыл бұрын
Watch the start of his second stream, has a great death as well
@Mcsnickers_7
11 ай бұрын
Lmao dude had heart attack
@harveydjent_
Жыл бұрын
the deaths are so sudden and anticlimactic it’s actually hilarious
@carolinedavis8702
Жыл бұрын
Gollum's little "Why?" had me rolling 😂10:24
@chris_player2995
Жыл бұрын
14:32 😂
@hwpneon8801
Жыл бұрын
That "Why" at 10:24 is truly meme worthy.
@the_bane_of_all_anti_furry
Жыл бұрын
game got self aware of his own existanced and poses that question
@henrijs1733
Жыл бұрын
charlie is really the master of monetizing every second of his life. he's streaming, then uploading on youtube, then getting a sponsor for it.
@steamfeuver
Жыл бұрын
Gotta afford to pay his esports team afterall
@fuzzypeaches7625
Жыл бұрын
Genuinely if there was one person I’d love to see more of it’s gotta be Charlie
@grusolosanyverse8279
Жыл бұрын
3:15 This makes me uncomfortable
@g.u.c5942
Жыл бұрын
Why no men stream
@IDoABitOfTrollin
Жыл бұрын
I wish i could live that way. Im nothing but jealous
@DanielJoseMP
11 ай бұрын
Looks like a masterpiece after watching the Kong game
@squirrelthegamer8483
Жыл бұрын
10:24 Gollum’s face animation for this conversation knocked me off my feet. How do you make it that bad!? 🤣
@ethank6406
Жыл бұрын
WHY DID THEY MAKE HIS PUPILS SO BIG FOR A SEC?!
@ginogatash4030
Жыл бұрын
There isn't even any smoothing on the animation, but that's still not as bas as this 15:39
@Manticorn
Жыл бұрын
My guess is that they programmed a pouting facial expression for the emotion conveyed in the question, but the question was also one word long.
@manwhatdoiputhere
Жыл бұрын
Plus the way he says why too, its just so fucking perfect
@augustbeck30
Жыл бұрын
17:17
@magicalpenguin9360
Жыл бұрын
This is an insane depiction of what the latest hardware can get you nowadays! Truly amazing
@Rosskles
Жыл бұрын
Didn't know they were still making mid games for the ps3 tbh.
@berthamcdurtha8554
Жыл бұрын
@@p-__ merch when?
@USSAnimeNCC-
Жыл бұрын
Can't wait to get my PS3 on my birthday with mw2
@aerus3446
Жыл бұрын
I remember playing The "Up" and "Ice Age" games for the PS3 when I was a kid and having a lot of fun, then I look at this Gollum game and im like TrollDespair 2023 Aware
@midgematic8659
Жыл бұрын
If anything, the team did a really good job at recreating an early 2000’s PS3 CGI game
@wesleyward5901
Жыл бұрын
Idk what's worse, the art style, the gameplay, the bugs or the fact they couldn't bring back the original VA for Gollum.
@the_arma
Жыл бұрын
this feels like an old obscure discount store video game that my parents would buy for me to play when I was a child. I have no idea what is happening with the gaming industry.
@leaauh
Жыл бұрын
I like that you put "So Far" in the title, gotta keep those expectations low so the disappointment doesn't hit as hard
@bluenited9524
Жыл бұрын
Yeah Starfield is next.
@DopeioThePhoneBoi
Жыл бұрын
@BlueNITED95 I'm neutral about Starfield. Its a new IP, and they seem passionate about it. Plus, anywhere they slack, the modding community will pick up the pieces. It's the great thing about Bethesda games tbh. Even an okay game becomes amazing thanks solely to community passion. Like even if it's trash, modders make it good.
@Stormwolf1O1x
Жыл бұрын
I mean the way it's been going, it would not be surprising if this year shits out some even stinkier games moving forward. That seems to be the trend.
@Rhagzom
Жыл бұрын
@@DopeioThePhoneBoi They are using a 12 yo game engine for Starfield, there is absolutely no chance its going to be good.
@corbinwitz9073
Жыл бұрын
@@Rhagzom I honestly feel like that's what it has going for it. Rather a 12 year old game engine than something like the garbage we're currently watching
@Aidez
Жыл бұрын
I can't stop laughing because they made a whole game about real life goblin sightings
@Wernershnitzl
Жыл бұрын
Is this some goblin sighting thing I’m too clown sighting to understand?
@StonerWaifu
Жыл бұрын
@@Wernershnitzl Everybody who saw the goblin say "yeah"
@Paqcar
Жыл бұрын
@@StonerWaifu yeah
@cc-bk3tx
Жыл бұрын
@@StonerWaifu yeah
@shindeiru8299
Жыл бұрын
@@StonerWaifu yeah
@TheToonpimp
Жыл бұрын
This would've been an A-okay game for 2003-2005.🤣😂
@toi_let954
Жыл бұрын
I don't think there is a time where this game would ever pass for 50 dollars
@CoolGuySpyro
Жыл бұрын
The classic LOTR games are too goated. Makes me want to boot up BFME or The Third Age again instead of witnessing this mess
@FauxRegard
Жыл бұрын
Not even. At that point you had absolute gems like KotOR 1 and 2, Battlefront 1 and 2, Jade Empire, Mercenaries, Halo 2, Republic Commando, etc. This game would be a laughingstock back then too lmao
@ethansprague2005
Жыл бұрын
@@FauxRegard you're taste in gaming is amazing
@robertwoodson1701
Жыл бұрын
@@CoolGuySpyro LOTR CONQUEST BABYYY
@Gungrave94
Жыл бұрын
This game was too ambitious for that small studio .. they usually make very good point and click adventures like Deponia. This was their first attempt for a AAA game and it definitely shows
@DracoHandsome
Жыл бұрын
Deponia's shit even by point and click standards
@crecs5362
Жыл бұрын
@@DracoHandsome and why? Can you please give some arguments?
@richardhunter9779
Жыл бұрын
@@crecs5362 Chainlike lock-and-key puzzles, unlikable characters, boring stories? I mean, they are not the worst games I have played, but it's still a far cry from Monkey Island 2 or Grim Fandango.
@jinx8624
Жыл бұрын
Point and click to tripple a isn't just a huge leap its an astronomical launch to another planet Which exains why they failed so miserably
@crecs5362
Жыл бұрын
@@richardhunter9779 ah I can understand the point of view with the mini games. I think this game is more attached to me because it was a strong game in my childhood memories. Also some german youtuber played it, and this is one another reason. But I understand your arguments really good
@scah_to
Жыл бұрын
For every ToTK, there must to be a Gollum to balance the scales.
@iiequinox8044
Жыл бұрын
For every ToTK, there must be 20 games like Gollum to balance the scales more like lol.
@youtubesucks1821
Жыл бұрын
@@iiequinox8044for every 20 games like Gollum, there's 20 more
@Calebvelasquez117
Жыл бұрын
@@youtubesucks1821for every 20 more gollum games there are 40 more
@Howlingburd19
11 ай бұрын
*When “Skull Island: Rise of Kong” releases* Gollum: “Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary!”
@sitsia3808
7 ай бұрын
xd
@rusticgiraffe4262
Жыл бұрын
I feel like literally any character from LotR could have carried their own story, anyone except Gollum. At best I could see him as a briefly playable character in a game like Shadow of Mordor.
@goofygoober875
Жыл бұрын
Gollum is like a real world crackhead. they are fun and amusing to observe but no one actually wants to BE them
@jiggiedaz
Жыл бұрын
yeah but then they would have to add actual combat
@yololoyo7379
Жыл бұрын
@@jiggiedaz true. The game is just an interactive movie, mobile game quality
@jacrispyjones5845
Жыл бұрын
@@goofygoober875perfect analogy!😂
@lazylemon9877
Жыл бұрын
Never have I struggled to watch a Charlie video without sleeping up until now. Charlie is a brave man for torturing himself to play this game.
@michaelmartin1532
Жыл бұрын
I know the feeling man the game looks really boring kept wanting to pause and find another video
@mr.dumbum8209
Жыл бұрын
@Michael Martin he's do it for us, he plays so that we don't have to...
@michaelmartin1532
Жыл бұрын
@@mr.dumbum8209 Frl man I know I wouldn’t play that
@waltuh11121
Жыл бұрын
As a Tolkien die hard fan this game made me cry of depression
@TheJuanamador
Жыл бұрын
"The only good thing I can say about this game that wasn't $70." What a quote.
@SpydersByte
Жыл бұрын
10:24 top tier facial animation right there
@juice6521
Жыл бұрын
It's sad to see this game be so terrible because I really think the developer behind it is actually quite passionate about their projects and I've played a lot of their games before. This scale of game was not only too large for a developer of their size, but also they've never made a game even remotely close to this before.
@juice6521
Жыл бұрын
@lukefenton1565 Hopefully not, their previous small budget games are all highly reviewed. The fault mostly lies with the publisher asking for too much and expecting them to rush out a game like this in two years, and the 50-60 dollar price tag didn't help either. Their reputation is tarnished now because this is all people will know this studio for when they hear the name Daedelic Entertainment.
@yheti3584
Жыл бұрын
What was their other games if i may ask? I’m unfamiliar with the dev
@htavli
Жыл бұрын
@@yheti3584 I played their Deponia series. They are great at developing point&click gams.
@EveTheRaviolo
Жыл бұрын
@@yheti3584 some great games of them were the Deponia series, The night of the rabbit, The whispered world, The Pillars of the earth, State of mind.... their point-anc-click games especially are very nice and well made and artistically beautiful. They're a small studio but they make some really nice games. The Night of the rabbit is to this day one of my absolute favorite games. Im a huge sucker for point-and-click graphic adventures and the majority of my favorite games of this genre come from Daedalic. It makes me so sad to see them miss the mark with Gollum :c
@TheJackedSwordsman
Жыл бұрын
"he's just a silly little guy" Charles nailing how to describe the game of all time
@philbateman1989
Жыл бұрын
As SOON as I saw that art style, I knew it HAD to be a Daedalic game. It's a shame it turned out like this, because The Whispered World and Silence from them are two of the best point and click games in modern times I've played. Especially The Whispered World. That was a work of art from start to finish.
@izaruburs9389
Жыл бұрын
Looks like they should have sticked to point and click games because active games require abit more effort.
@evilcow2114
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, it's sad to see. I love the games they have made, but for the majority of people, this will be what Daedalic is :(
@trad5887
Жыл бұрын
Point and click should stay on web browsers . No one should pay for that dumb shit
@EveTheRaviolo
Жыл бұрын
Man, The whispered world was fantastic, I have such fond memories of that summer when I played it for the first time, and all the emotions it made me go through. And god, the artstyle was amazing. This, The night of the rabbit and the Deponia series are my absolute favorite point-and-click games. Its sad they're so underrated
@motivusthesage
Жыл бұрын
I'm highly convinced Gandalf is using his White Wizard magic to crash everyone's game and make everyone have a bad time.
@danm8004
Жыл бұрын
Is this MEGALOVANIA?
@peenlmao8503
Жыл бұрын
The fact that this game managed to beat forspoken, jedi survivor at launch (pc) AND redfall is a wild achievement
@leonro
Жыл бұрын
Don't forget about last of us, wo long, and even some of the more well-received games, like hogwarts and dead space, continue to have substantial performance issues on PC.
@jaziliynn
Жыл бұрын
@@leonro you're mixing dead space and Callisto protocol. Dead Space is still fantastic
@egbert5871
Жыл бұрын
well jedi survivor is a good game just shit optimized
@santiagoherrera1853
Жыл бұрын
The difference is that Jedi Survivor is a good game with an awful PC port. Meanwhile, Redfall and Forspoken, even without the performance issues, are just bad games with technical issues on top
@blueflare3848
Жыл бұрын
Forspoken never had performance issues, did it? I thought its biggest flaw was the atrocious writing.
@jackboneart
Жыл бұрын
14:34 if only Sauron put one of those above the lava in Mount Doom, then Frodo wouldn't have been able to throw the ring in
@midnightplayzyt9239
Жыл бұрын
I’ve had to get my wisdom teeth pulled recently, but I didn’t need to pay for the anesthesia! I just watched a no commentary play through of this and it put me right out!
@donk8961
Жыл бұрын
The guard punching gollum right in the back of the dome is so god damn funny
@Vashy434
Жыл бұрын
I think playing this game is literally purgatory. You both feel constantly tired yet a minute stretches on for eternity.
@beardofnursing8602
Жыл бұрын
10:22 Truly amazing voice acting and facial animations displayed here. Well worth the $50.
@ginogatash4030
Жыл бұрын
I mean the line delivery isn't bad, but the animation absolutely is.
@beardofnursing8602
Жыл бұрын
@@ginogatash4030 The other guy isn't bad, but Gollum's "Why?" is so weird especially with the tone change when he asks "What happened?"
@ginogatash4030
Жыл бұрын
@@beardofnursing8602 the "why" is not bad at all voice acting wise, you're kinda nitpicking here.
@adamxx3
Жыл бұрын
@@ginogatash4030 no he isn’t it’s fucking terrible
@queencyrys6309
Жыл бұрын
Shadow of mordor was like 7 years ago now and its gollum looked incredible
@ejaybugboy3yt
Жыл бұрын
I'm just still as such a loss. Who looked at Gollum, a creature who's entire existence is crippling addiction and pain, and thought "Yeah, he should have a game."
@desiladygamer2076
Жыл бұрын
I mean, darkest dungeon exists. You could make a game about addiction and pain. But you have to be you know, competent.
@fahrenheit2101
Жыл бұрын
He *should*. But it should be so much better than this POS. He's one of the most important characters in the franchise. Having a game where you played through his life story would be cool. Instead we got the most boring snapshot possible of his life.
@8sor
Жыл бұрын
Yea I think theres actually a lot of storytelling and stealth gameplay potential, but they didnt acheive even the bare minimum of a game 🎉
@DracoHandsome
Жыл бұрын
Gollum is actually the single most important character in the series. Not only did he deliver the ring to Bilbo, but he's also the one who destroyed it. The problem is that this is a cheap cash-in on a funny meme zombie from 20 years ago and not a well-made adaptation of a tragic character in a timeless fantasy epic
@vermilionshadow
Жыл бұрын
When you see someone SOMEHOW get a crash on the starting screen, you know you're in for one hell of a bumpy ride.
@AlkisGD
Жыл бұрын
15:19 - WTF was _that!?_ 🤣
@MajorHuggles
Жыл бұрын
"All I've done is get insulted and completed a few trivial chores." I didn't know they were making a retail simulator in the LOTR universe.
@BengVideo
Жыл бұрын
14:32 that's all you need to know about the game
@Herb774
Жыл бұрын
💀💀
@Savedsmile
Жыл бұрын
May be the funniest death I've seen😭😭
@elijahgrigg782
Жыл бұрын
Never before have i seen something so brief be so true.
@brunoneves4248
11 ай бұрын
“Worst game so far…”. It was like a prophecy for the next messiah, Kong
@alistfont290
Жыл бұрын
Imagine getting an IP like Lord of the Rings and this is what you do with it. Insane.
@hangerches8593
Жыл бұрын
This is truly phenomenal, the game crashed so hard that youtube just crashed with it
@antonisstavroulakis7698
Жыл бұрын
I like how Shadow of War and Shadow of Mordor, which came out literally 9 years ago, unironically look better than this
@ANTLERQUEEN
Жыл бұрын
Imagine how much money it took to make this game. That money could have been used for literally anything else.
@aerus3446
Жыл бұрын
Probably spent 10x the development cost in marketing and trailers where it looked kinda current gen graphically, but still smelled like shit.
@GrandeChub
Жыл бұрын
I feel like this game could’ve been great if you were able to be a fly on the wall during the hobbit and fellowship of the ring until you finally join with Sam and Frodo and that’ll end the game
@TheElectricRaichu
Жыл бұрын
I just found out that the voice for Gollum is the same VA as Riki from Xenoblade Chronicles, according to IMDB. So that's pretty rad if you're a fan of that series.
@aspectparadox6654
Жыл бұрын
Making a game based on the crackhead dwarf is like making a Star War games with the mouse droid as the main character
@Viper-dz2kw
Жыл бұрын
I really wanna see just how gigantic Charlie’s steam games library actually is, gotta be hundreds of games
@ateemee
Жыл бұрын
17:03 "Cruel woman" lmao
@elenplays
Жыл бұрын
I never thought I'd be bored watching a moist video but this game managed to do it
@grandstarstudiosFORMER-YT
Жыл бұрын
4:25 When the Game over screen appeared out of nowhere, I LAUGHED MY BUTT OFF QUALITY GAME RIGHT THERE
@awesomechannel257
Жыл бұрын
The way he says, “pardon? what? who discovered me?” I died
@ineffable_eldritch_horror131
Жыл бұрын
That falling death animation is amazing
@zeph0shade
Жыл бұрын
As an amateur programmer who's worked on a lot of game projects in my spare time, but never reaching a point where I was satisfied enough with any of them to even think about releasing them... This game feels like something I could make in a month or so, by myself, if you don't factor in things like the voice work that just inherently cannot be done by one person. And after that month of work, I'd release this "early access", but for free. Because the only reason I'd let members of the general public even look at it yet would be to essentially use them as testers, so already it'd almost feel wrong for me to not be paying them. Forget about asking them to pay me for anything. Makes me wonder if this wasn't maybe deliberate on some level. Could this be a sort of cry for help from the programmers, modelers, artists, etc? Everyone seems to agree that there's no way they released this without *knowing* the sorry state that it's in. You know who wouldn't know anything about that, though? The studio executives, marketing, shareholders... What if this whole product is the result of a sort of company-wide "malicious compliance" from some overworked and underpaid workers?
@BoredandAngry
Жыл бұрын
I had the same thought immediately.
@CoreyandCrew
Жыл бұрын
Man..... That's.... Pretty fucking scary. Could be right. I could only see it helping gamers and programmers
@TurboGroszek1
Жыл бұрын
Welcome to modern gaming. Developers are mostly the ones who’s fault it is. People blame the executives for impossible deadlines etc. But as a developer you clearly see the state of the game. Telling they are too scared because they get insta fired if they mention anything to the upper overlords is just silly xD. Remember that as a developer it’s still just a job. You do your shit and go home. For me personally I wouldn’t lose my dignity and I wouldn’t participate in an dog shit game. But most of the devs don’t have balls and dignity. They just do the job cash in and don’t care about anything. It’s like in every other job. You get impossible task or the instructions given make no sense, you react or quit at all… If you still stay there and keep the job it tells a lot about the person. And developers are really not poor. They can easily quit the job without starving after couple of days without income.
@izaruburs9389
Жыл бұрын
@@TurboGroszek1Well the publisher sets the release date. If you don't release your game on this preset date you lose the funding which literally means atleast 70% of the staff can no longer be payed. So yeah ... Publishers are the real curse.
@TurboGroszek1
Жыл бұрын
@@izaruburs9389 Bro of course if they set some impossible deadline it will end like that. But you can only see that its impossible on the developer level because the publisher or higher management have no fucking clue what a video game is. It means the developers have to act and report it. If they are getting ignored its their decision if they stay and produce total crap but still get paid or if they say fuck it and move on to somewhere else. Everyone always blames the higher ups but never the bottom line of the game production. The fact is that its boths fault when at the end crap game is released. I dont come from gaming industry but when someone at the charge tells me to do a certain job with impossible task i immediately tell its not possible. If they still insist on me doing it i reconsider participating in it at all because at the end of the day i want the customer to be not scammed or lied to. If you care about your job you want to deliver the best to the end customer not to your manager or boss...
@SGyatso
Жыл бұрын
Charlie is a great person, and on behalf of people having insomnia, thank you for giving us a cure.
@yolimap
Жыл бұрын
forspoken, redfall, and now this, what fucking happened this year!
@VicRamone
Жыл бұрын
Finally, Charlie gets a game based on his childhood
@WeezyOld
Жыл бұрын
4:35 i hate when the orcs get enough for the UAV kill streak
@Gnurklesquimp2
Жыл бұрын
10:24 My reaction to this game's spec requirements This feels so distinctly like an early 360 game
@formeridiot8641
Жыл бұрын
Why? 👁️👄👁️
@ExpandDong420
Жыл бұрын
Even for an early 360 game it'd just be generic and boring at best
@Deathmare235
Жыл бұрын
It’s criminal that it took them this long to have Charlie’s other breakthrough character have his own game haven’t they learnt anything from the hunger games
@dethmaul
Жыл бұрын
I live how they didn't want to animate plunking the red stone in the fire barrel at the end, they just shot his bck flexing and quirking for a bit while he's leant over the barrel lmao
@alexmason3939
Жыл бұрын
Those guys made the much beloved Deponia and Edna the breakout point and click adventure games... I really hoped their first 3rd person game would be a smash success.
@kamikazesopp
Жыл бұрын
I dare say they chose/were given a rather tough topic for their first attempt, then. Creating a cinematic game centered on a purposefully ugly character that has "weak and pathetic" as some of their central character traits is just a genuinely poor idea. Especially when we know he'll end up in a cave and (eventually) die in a volcano anyway.
@AjixGameOver
Жыл бұрын
It's your first time watching a big editor bully and eventually kill a small and beloved studio ? Same thing happenned with bioware.
@kimutone2970
Жыл бұрын
Not even that, this just looks rushed. Like they specifically went to a small unexperienced studio that wouldn't charge much, but then were not given enough time and resources to actually make a worthwhile game.
@silotx
Жыл бұрын
@KimuTone Yes it's cheaping out all the way choose a small studio rush the development and hope that being a lotr game brings you some easy money , don't blame the devs.
@kamikazesopp
Жыл бұрын
@@kimutone2970 I'm not sure more time would have helped much with this. While the visuals are indeed pretty dang flawed, the core gameplay is tedious and boring. When the core idea is rough, the final product is unlikely to be any different.
@Paulfromwish
Жыл бұрын
I love Charlie’s shameful lack of effort in promoting huge money sponsors lmao
@enhancedgamer3649
Жыл бұрын
Perfectly thematic for the subject matter of the video
@carloscastrejon644
Жыл бұрын
I can’t imagine anyone at the studio saying yeah this is it. It’s ready.
@AngelPhoenix919
Жыл бұрын
Man, you've got to hate it when the orcs call in their tactical UAV to spot Gollum lmao
@thanosandnobill3789
Жыл бұрын
At this rate in 2025 all AAA video games will be more close to the Atari E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial from 1982 than anything else.
@mangotango8115
Жыл бұрын
I love how one of the greatest games of all time is almost immediately followed up with this
@asbestosbunny
Жыл бұрын
what did you consider to be one of the greatest games of all time that has recently come out
@silvercrow5108
Жыл бұрын
@@asbestosbunny Tears of the Kingdom probably. Can’t argue with that imo
@KJBeef
Жыл бұрын
@@joshua-kramerit’s not the deep bro
@demonyckscreations9990
Жыл бұрын
@@joshua-kramer ok
@papayer
Жыл бұрын
@@silvercrow5108 You've gotta be on something to call TOTK one of the greatest of all time. It's not even within striking distance of ALTTP, MM or OOT.
@Sol-Butkis
Жыл бұрын
Hard to believe there's something worse than redfall so early in the year
@tiagorocha5364
Жыл бұрын
Thing is that it doesn't matter if the game flops, if one person buys it they already recovered the investment they made into the game
@themanhimself5650
Жыл бұрын
Had me dead when it crashed after Charlie was complaining about speed 😂😂😂
@brugho7522
Жыл бұрын
This is the type of game that if you get stuck at a puzzle on you close it and never play it again
@BloodRaven1045
Жыл бұрын
Man can’t WAIT for the moisties this year. It’s May and we already have hits like Atomic Heart, Overwatch 2, Jedi Survivor, Redfall, and now Gollum
@cosmology124
Жыл бұрын
Атомное сердце - очень хорошая игра
@alexanderluna1845
Жыл бұрын
Atomic heart runs perfectly fine tho even on low end machines
@fernandoantoniomusic8712
Жыл бұрын
“It’s been 72 minutes?!” It appears that the Eye of Sauron put Charlie in a genjutsu.
@mr.vagomaestro1035
Жыл бұрын
Jesus this was painful to watch, I can only imagine how much more painful is to play it
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