Ppl that finish this game should be awarded USD $1 Million by MrBeast himself in person with a video uploaded in every Social Media, then sent into a casino buffet with five free deluxe buffet passes per week, then own Scarface's Mansion with next-gen security technology, a bunker and a safe room of the size that you would find in a Payday 2 heist. Then have infinite N-word passes, a personal 1000 robot army that do every chore in the house and manage everything else, then you own a replica life-sized city of the entirety of The Lord of the Rings world with assistants and all.
I think this game might have the most apathetic soundtrack I've ever heard. Even in moments that are supposed to have more tension like when Gollum is chasing the bird, the music sounds like it just does not care
right like so many scenes felt so dead.. i wish they just put all the cutscenes on 2x speed, would’ve felt a lot better. the bug chasing felt so needlessly sluggish
The streaming of this game put me to sleep faster than Redfall gameplay. That's impressive. I seriously thought nothing could top Redfall in terms of boredom
@@ShaquilleOatmeal849 I mean just in general. I tried Redfall and dozed off in less than an hour. This game looks even more boring which is a hell of an achievement
I just can't fathom the thinking behind making this. I can't even imagine diehard LOTR fans wanting a game like this. Already to general audiences, this game has Z E R O appeal or interest. And then atop of that, I feel like EVERYTHING you could have chosen to make a game of in LOTR, you choose.... This. Why. If you wanted content on gollum so bad, then make it a comic or short animated series or something that'll inevitably flop. Not a full fledged game. Good god.
Honestly no idea either why shit like this got greenlighted when they could have made another Shadow of Mordor style game or maybe remake some old LOTR games from PS2 era. Hell, even something like Third Age would be awesome.
What do y'all mean "Not worth $50"? I started this while I was wide awake, and only 38 minutes in I'm literally dozing off. It's seven hours before my bed time, and I've only been up for seven hours as a write. Normally I need to be exhausted and have white noise in the background before I can even lay down, then I lay awake for about 45 minutes. Thanks to "Lord of the Rings: Gollum" I can finally feel what it means to take a "nap", something that I can only manage when I'm deathly ill. This game is truly a masterpiece. 10/10, would recommend you try this before you invest in copious quantities of Xanax and black tar heroin to get a full night's rest.
@Forrest Mcgee i can and i am especially when theres a 20 year gap and the later project comes out looking worse than the source material, if it was 2d maybe theres an excuse there but a 3d triple A game in 2023 from a franchise as big as lotr needs to be held to a higher standard than what is visually being presented as a finished product
One thing I enjoy about Charlie is that he goes out of his way to play shitty games for our entertainment. Thank you Mr.Moist, your service is not in vain.
Let’s not kid ourselves. There are cheaper and more expensive indie games better than this. Even free indie games made with passion are better than this. :(
If they followed gollum after he got the ring, then his path to the misty mountain and his decent further into insanity it could've been interesting. Playing as smeagul and watching him go from the hobbit who just killed his sibling(or cousin I don't remember which,) to the insane half naked gollum under a mountain and having to make moral choices throught the game only for any moral choice you make to not matter in the end due to the ring's influence could be cool
@@broopdefloop this game would have been okay if it wasn't a stealth adventure game and it was not for $70. the one you described but it was like life of strange or a telltale like game would be great.
I get the not using original actors if you can't. I can even somewhat forgive the awful designs. But what is wild to me, is the...actual words?(idk how to explain it) are entirely a different character. The candor, the different personalities, the language he uses. Is completely a 180. I've read everything Tolkien put out, watched damn near every piece of content from thesis of themes of the works, to documentary's on his life. Idk maybe just I think too much about a fandom that really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, but the man was the father of modern fantasy. There's a certain amount of respect you have to have when dealing with the characters for the fans to accept. You can make new stories in the world and it will be accepted we seen it Alot with the shadows of Mordor with the majority of that being supplemental content. And personally i enjoy that story, not so much the game. But I'm 5 minutes in, and immediately disappointed with the handling of this. Idk, I know it's not that deep, but fuck all if I just hate it.
Don't worry, you're right on the money. It's a classic case of really amateur writing and a lack of understanding of the source material. I think the bird companion is the greatest example of this. Gollum eats birds raw, he doesn't order them around to solve puzzles🤦♂️
I think you're completely valid in how you feel like you grow attached to these characters and world and you're even open a different interpretations but when a completely desecrates the imagination of tolkkinen and makes his characters look like jokes like I can see why you'd be mad
You're 100 percent justifiable. Tolkien literally created the fantasy world, and this is the payback he gets? It sickens me, and I'm not even a die hard fan.
And they chose Daedaelic, a company that specialises in point and click games. I even heard it was a stripped down team, so they didn't even start with a full team.
this is definitely something i would have to watch on youtube rather then play. it just seems like a drag to play all the way especially with how sleepy you looked. finish it for us charlie lol
Who in their right mind went, "what if we made a Gollum's game, that would be fun, i bet" and who were the goofs who approved it. why. this game shouldnt exist. at most it should be a visual novel with maybe some rated 18+ scenes of Gollum showing that sexy boney ass.
I don’t understand why anybody would think this game was gonna be even close to good, never met anyone thats like “you know what i want a game where you play as Gollum, yea that would be lots of fun” this shit was dead on arrival once they chose this boring ass character, he is good in the films but i never would wanna play a game as him, so many good characters in the lore and they choose Gollum 🤦♂️🤣
2:23:18 "What if I told you it EXCEEDED the hype, would you believe me?" So perfect that Charlie looked away and an NPC just got stuck walking into Gollum as he said this. Encapsulates this game so nicely.
Holy shit this game is amazing. Its amazing like red fall, watch dogs legion, fast and furious, and saints row. This has such complex writing it puts that garbage elden ring to shame. Golem really goes through such crazy emotions and inner dilemmas within in himself. Rivaling characters like thorfin and light yagami. So much nuts to buts action, puting shonen to shame. This is gods game. He will bless us all with smeagal. Everyone old and young, red or blue , alpha or sigma, black or white should experience this magnemoupous. This game had crying on the floor questioning life making me realize i should be just like golem. You know if we were all like golem life wouldnt be so bad. Just stupid little trogaladikes going around calling shit our precious. You know if we weren't so diffrent the animals wouldnt be leaving, the goverment wouldnt be spying on us, the fire nation wouldnt have attacked and god wouldnt have abandoned us for our unholy sins. Join me brotheren. In my new society i strive to create. Where everyone is equal and stupid. Crawling around like a gremlin coverd in shit. Be like smeagal. And mayby god will return and 5g wont kill us all in 5 years. Y3k wont happen. And reptillians will go extinct.
@@amadeus.7436I think it could have worked if they kept it 2D like the other games they made. Some of that cutscene art actually did look pretty good, and a 2D point and click adventure with Gollum sounds leagues better than this trash
Day 1 DLC for content that should already be in the game is fucking disgusting regardless of how shit the game is. Absolutely no respect for the consumer.
I normally don’t buy into negativity around new games, I think a lot of the time it just comes down to people overhyping or over expecting so the game can never live up to what people imagined, but I’m genuinely shocked by how bad this game looks, visually, performance and gameplay wise too, I don’t mind a little jank but jeez!
There must have been someone who asked for this game, otherwise I cannot imagine why did they think it is a good idea to invest time and money into it...
I hate Gollum as a person. He’s repulsive, violent, greedy, and pathetic. I think he’s a fantastic character, but I wouldn’t want to play as him in a game for hours on end
The character design of Gollum alone shows how bad this is. So you stylize realism the rest then make the main character look like a cartoon. Makes sense. Two different artistic ideas mixed badly.
Idk how it's running this smoothly. I have a 3070ti and a very powerful machine but it lags every time I turn the camera which sometimes sends me flying off the edge
I had the itch to replay Shadow of Mordor about two weeks ago, fully having no clue this game was coming out, man does that make this game look even worse than it just being a bad game
It really makes me sad to see that daedelic had made such an awful game. In my head I even was defensive, but it is truly awful and boring. I loved so many of their games in the past, especially the point and click games, and it feels like a journey has ended. Can describe this feeling. Had been a good time deadelic.
This is their first triple a game. They weren’t ready yet. They should have gradually increased their ambitions instead of shooting for Lotr after point and click games.
I don't know why this one of my fave game streams now. I'm not a fan of LoTR by any means, but I've never seen a concept that fell so horribly short despite so much world building potential, even down to the voice acting and music. I think if it just had better puzzles and combat it might have been a interesting game, maybe a bit weird with the choice of character but I can see the idea of a stealth, puzzle game sort of thing. But instead you're just watching a small and decrepit man running around and following people for hours on end. The inner monologue and having to argue against yourself is interesting but it's so poorly implemented, it just comes off as cringe. In addition to the lazy af UI. Utterly wild how this got greenlit. It's weird. I'm very curious about the events that lead to the game's inevitable release. And then the game has the audacity to charge more than full price for it, even barring the "lore accurate" voice acting behind a paywall (if I remembered correctly).
"We do this so you don't have to." This is the only way for news to spread. Vote with your wallet, but you'll never know the extent of the damage until somebody presents it to you. I think that's more powerful because now the images are actually embedded into our heads. We'll be talking about this game for years to come lol. Less people would want to buy the game now since news travels inhumanly fast nowadays.
This legit has no polish, and yet it's in the "games take so much to run nowadays" generation The devs of ban ban might've been just a bit ahead of their time in making mediocre games needlessly put strain on hardware.
I have never seen, such a low effort budget cut style game over animation. I only have one question. Why does this even exist? Something isn't right.. maybe some money laundering scheme.
So they decided to copy the design from the movies, but change it just enough so that it looks more basic and also uncanny. Ffs just go for a unique design at that point
I spent the first few minutes tryna figure out exactly where in the timeline it was. Like after it was confirmed he remembered Bilbo I just gave up I was like right after those events then fuck it. Like I failed to get invested after intentionally trying this game is ass
maybe it's lore related but the orcs dont really look like orcs. it's similar to the potato brutes from halo. everything just doesnt look textured enough and you could mistake this for an early xbox 360 game. just terrible.
Who was this for? As a game for general audiences it very clearly fails by being a total snooze fest with ass graphics and stinky gameplay, and if it was meant to appeal to die hard LotR fans its failed miserably on that front as well, theres no cool new lore or fleshing out previously established lore, it barely feels attached to its source material save for the names and languages People saying it wouldnt be judged as harshly if it werent LotR based are missing the point that part of the reason it SHOULD be judged so harshly is because the developers pulled the classic "lets exploit an already established IP" BUT failed to evoke even a slight sense of connection to the source material
This game could have been a single stealth side-quest in a normal LOTR game and most people would probably not like it. The devs decided to make a whole game with only that lmao what could go wrong.
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That was a mercy crash. A final warning if you will.
This game is horrid man. It's more fun to just sleep.
Imagine paying 1000s of dollars for an up to date gaming setup only for this to be the type of game you can play
I paid over 1k to build my pc and I don’t even have the minimum specs to play the game 😭
@@i_282 Thank god
I paid 2,200$ 2019 and can't run this game
@@i_282Right? I was just thinking “Imagine doing all of that and still not being able to play the game.”
So the Switch wasn't a bad investment after all.
The continuous desecration of Tolkien's work in modern media platforms has me enraged.
I didn't watch Rings of Power, was it pretty bad?
Rings of Power? In terms of the correlation to Tolkiens work yeah it was very bad.
@Ulfhedinn 79 LOTS of people hate it, and I've heard the staff of the show was very disrespectful to Tolkien
@@ulfhedinn79 horrific
@@ulfhedinn79 its disgusting, worse than literal fanfics
This game should be prescribed by doctors for people with insomnia
It actually did just pass fda testing and is going to start being prescribed to people
@@helio68 wow thats actually pretty cool
@@helio68FDA fast-tracked it, my doctor prescribed 20 minutes before bed and I’ve had 8 hour nights for the past few days!
Thanks gollum
This helps me sleep more than any other treatments. I have never finished watching this videos, and Ive been watching for the past 3 nights
You won't last 5 minutes playing Lord of the Rings: Gollum
Ppl that finish this game should be awarded USD $1 Million by MrBeast himself in person with a video uploaded in every Social Media, then sent into a casino buffet with five free deluxe buffet passes per week, then own Scarface's Mansion with next-gen security technology, a bunker and a safe room of the size that you would find in a Payday 2 heist. Then have infinite N-word passes, a personal 1000 robot army that do every chore in the house and manage everything else, then you own a replica life-sized city of the entirety of The Lord of the Rings world with assistants and all.
@Forrest Mcgee to the refund button
bold of you to assume we can even play it
@@rejfen714 Your PC won't last 5 minutes playing Lord of the Rings: Gollum
@@aerus3446 Don't forget the fancy spinning artifact thingy from Payday 2 aswell
Wow! This game really makes you FEEL like Gollum (i.e. completely miserable forever).
Honestly goated comment ngl
“Immersive experience. 10/10” - IGN
True
As if I need help with that.
@@sean8102get help dawg
That crash was a sign of the game being like "I would rather kill myself than let you witness my bowels, please leave dude, I'm begging you-"
Or it was his computer trying to cleanse the evil that Charlie unleashed
"LEAVE. NOW. AND NEVER. COME BACK!!!!!" - The real Gollum played by Andy Serkis
Had to come here to see Charlie play more of the greatest game of all time
A true masterpiece
Totally gonna be #1 in best games of the year Moisties
I think this game might have the most apathetic soundtrack I've ever heard. Even in moments that are supposed to have more tension like when Gollum is chasing the bird, the music sounds like it just does not care
right like so many scenes felt so dead.. i wish they just put all the cutscenes on 2x speed, would’ve felt a lot better. the bug chasing felt so needlessly sluggish
lol for just another $10 that musical magic can be all yours !
It really feels like you're in the mind of Gollum 10/10
The streaming of this game put me to sleep faster than Redfall gameplay. That's impressive. I seriously thought nothing could top Redfall in terms of boredom
The competition for worst game of 2023 is seriously heating up, and we’re not even halfway through the year yet
To be fair charlie rarely talks when playing so it's ez to doze off
@@ShaquilleOatmeal849 I mean just in general. I tried Redfall and dozed off in less than an hour. This game looks even more boring which is a hell of an achievement
I'm glad I'm not the only one that had to take a nap in the middle of the video.
@granttodd3118nah
I just can't fathom the thinking behind making this. I can't even imagine diehard LOTR fans wanting a game like this. Already to general audiences, this game has Z E R O appeal or interest. And then atop of that, I feel like EVERYTHING you could have chosen to make a game of in LOTR, you choose.... This. Why.
If you wanted content on gollum so bad, then make it a comic or short animated series or something that'll inevitably flop. Not a full fledged game. Good god.
Honestly no idea either why shit like this got greenlighted when they could have made another Shadow of Mordor style game or maybe remake some old LOTR games from PS2 era. Hell, even something like Third Age would be awesome.
I think it looks cool, enjoyed the whole playthrough so far. Guess I'm in the minority.
@@lukasg4807 bruh what.....
There's a good market for stealth/puzzle games, the concept was not great from the get go but good and compelling gameplay could've saved it.
never got into LOTR but know the gist of it and even i was like gollum? why? out of everything that universe already offers you pick him?
As someone who did not sleep the night prior and has stuff to do today this is the greatest challenge of all time.
What do y'all mean "Not worth $50"?
I started this while I was wide awake, and only 38 minutes in I'm literally dozing off. It's seven hours before my bed time, and I've only been up for seven hours as a write. Normally I need to be exhausted and have white noise in the background before I can even lay down, then I lay awake for about 45 minutes. Thanks to "Lord of the Rings: Gollum" I can finally feel what it means to take a "nap", something that I can only manage when I'm deathly ill. This game is truly a masterpiece.
10/10, would recommend you try this before you invest in copious quantities of Xanax and black tar heroin to get a full night's rest.
Fell asleep while he was live. Woke up to mid game, went back to sleep.
God imagine doing that and having gollum dreams because of it
@@legojay14 subjecting yourself to this game is a more horrifying idea
Tolkien is spinning in his grave so fast we should hook up a generator and get unlimited energy
14:00 That’s actually a decades old Scooby Doo thunder sound effect LMAO
At least the "instant thunder" makes sense here, looks like all the lightning strikes are just a few feet away.
you’re absolutely correct son 😭😭😭
i thought that sounded super familiar 😂
It's funny that in my head charlie's video titles are narrated in charlie's voice
That didnt happen, but now it will🫠
Touch grass😂😂
@@mrlihin6062 Already touched it few hours ago!
@@angelofdarkness243 good🥳🥳
your pfp-
I don't think anyone is shocked by the fact it's bad.
Pretty crazy that the movie this is based off from 2001 has better graphics than a video game in 2023
@@forrestmcgee7631You literally can, modern games specially AAA games are closer to movies than any other artform.
@Forrest Mcgee i can and i am especially when theres a 20 year gap and the later project comes out looking worse than the source material, if it was 2d maybe theres an excuse there but a 3d triple A game in 2023 from a franchise as big as lotr needs to be held to a higher standard than what is visually being presented as a finished product
The movies have better graphics even than a proper triple a game like shadow of war.
I don’t think this is crazy at all.
Mf you're comparing a REAL LIFE movie to a videogame
how the fuck does charlie burp so much without ever actually seeing him eat anything or drink any fizzy drinks!!
Could be acid reflux
i have GERD and this happens to me all the time
prob GERD
borp
One thing I enjoy about Charlie is that he goes out of his way to play shitty games for our entertainment. Thank you Mr.Moist, your service is not in vain.
If this was a $25 indie game and wasn’t 69 terabyte in size, I wouldn’t be mad at it
Let’s not kid ourselves. There are cheaper and more expensive indie games better than this. Even free indie games made with passion are better than this. :(
@@ceroscentauri7045 it blows for sure but I don’t think it would be offensively bad if it wasn’t $70 lol
I would. Inexpensive indie game or not, the game is garbage.
@@samual8299 its 50
@@xinf3ctdx yes Budget does Not excuse Bad design
This is why there's no reason to get a beefed up gaming rig. There are barely any good games that require such expensive specs
"There's no way the game can be that awful"
Titles video this game is awful
Starts here btw
8:12
👑
What a perfect showcase of what top of the line hardware is capable of these days. Incredible!
Is what I might have said if this came out back in 2005
its the game not hardware
@@TheRealBillix he knows. He's saying the game isn't taking advantage of the hardware
i would rather play pac man on a arcade machine then this garbage
@@TheRealBillixbrain damage
@@meathandsmans did I disagree?
"My precious" definitely was not worth the $70 price tag 😪
Wasn't it a $50 burger.
Adpocalypse? If you mean ads every 5 minutes of a 3 hour video, then yeah.. Adpocalypse
What was even the point of releasing this game lmao not even the most hardcore LOTR fans were asking for this
Honestly like they picked the character who had the least likely chance to make a decent game over characters like legolas
If they followed gollum after he got the ring, then his path to the misty mountain and his decent further into insanity it could've been interesting. Playing as smeagul and watching him go from the hobbit who just killed his sibling(or cousin I don't remember which,) to the insane half naked gollum under a mountain and having to make moral choices throught the game only for any moral choice you make to not matter in the end due to the ring's influence could be cool
Honestly I think it looks cool, enjoyed the entirety of the video
@@broopdefloop this game would have been okay if it wasn't a stealth adventure game and it was not for $70. the one you described but it was like life of strange or a telltale like game would be great.
Probably because Gollum might've been the cheapest character they could get from the Tolkien IP.
I've seen clips of the game and it legitimately looks unfinished
It is lmao
There's no sense in polishing a turd so I can't really blame them.
No polishing can save this trash, it would still be boring
0:45 "There's no way this game's that awful."
"It hurt... it hurt its feelings" great improv out of mispeaking, well done charlie
I get the not using original actors if you can't. I can even somewhat forgive the awful designs.
But what is wild to me, is the...actual words?(idk how to explain it) are entirely a different character.
The candor, the different personalities, the language he uses. Is completely a 180.
I've read everything Tolkien put out, watched damn near every piece of content from thesis of themes of the works, to documentary's on his life.
Idk maybe just I think too much about a fandom that really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, but the man was the father of modern fantasy.
There's a certain amount of respect you have to have when dealing with the characters for the fans to accept. You can make new stories in the world and it will be accepted we seen it Alot with the shadows of Mordor with the majority of that being supplemental content. And personally i enjoy that story, not so much the game.
But I'm 5 minutes in, and immediately disappointed with the handling of this.
Idk, I know it's not that deep, but fuck all if I just hate it.
Don't worry, you're right on the money. It's a classic case of really amateur writing and a lack of understanding of the source material. I think the bird companion is the greatest example of this. Gollum eats birds raw, he doesn't order them around to solve puzzles🤦♂️
I think you're completely valid in how you feel like you grow attached to these characters and world and you're even open a different interpretations but when a completely desecrates the imagination of tolkkinen and makes his characters look like jokes like I can see why you'd be mad
You're 100 percent justifiable. Tolkien literally created the fantasy world, and this is the payback he gets? It sickens me, and I'm not even a die hard fan.
@@DemonPrinceofHell I agree. At the same time tho Talkien has other things to focus on these days so I doubt he cares lmao
And they chose Daedaelic, a company that specialises in point and click games. I even heard it was a stripped down team, so they didn't even start with a full team.
The cinematic in the beginning had me like hey maybe the scheme will be good and now I'm just over here full of sleep
this is definitely something i would have to watch on youtube rather then play. it just seems like a drag to play all the way especially with how sleepy you looked. finish it for us charlie lol
this is an awesome example that graphics are not what demands high end system requirement and its all bullshIt
Who in their right mind went, "what if we made a Gollum's game, that would be fun, i bet" and who were the goofs who approved it. why. this game shouldnt exist. at most it should be a visual novel with maybe some rated 18+ scenes of Gollum showing that sexy boney ass.
Hold on you might be on to something
The real question is why would I want to play as gollum? Make a legolas game, as ranger game, a hobbit game. Literally anything else.
i want to play as fangorn treebeard the ent
@@amadeus.7436 Gollum is a hobbit lmao
That’s exactly how i feel, this game was marketed to nobody 🤣
Just….who the fuck wants to play as Gollum….who? It’s fucking Gollum. I’d rather play Samwise Gamgee’s gardening simulator
This is my question.Who was the target demo for this game?
Sam wise gamgee’s pipe weed farm
I don’t understand why anybody would think this game was gonna be even close to good, never met anyone thats like “you know what i want a game where you play as Gollum, yea that would be lots of fun” this shit was dead on arrival once they chose this boring ass character, he is good in the films but i never would wanna play a game as him, so many good characters in the lore and they choose Gollum 🤦♂️🤣
2:23:18 "What if I told you it EXCEEDED the hype, would you believe me?" So perfect that Charlie looked away and an NPC just got stuck walking into Gollum as he said this. Encapsulates this game so nicely.
Imma keep it a buck, this has got some of the worst designs for orc armour I have ever seen
Holy shit this game is amazing. Its amazing like red fall, watch dogs legion, fast and furious, and saints row. This has such complex writing it puts that garbage elden ring to shame. Golem really goes through such crazy emotions and inner dilemmas within in himself. Rivaling characters like thorfin and light yagami. So much nuts to buts action, puting shonen to shame. This is gods game. He will bless us all with smeagal. Everyone old and young, red or blue , alpha or sigma, black or white should experience this magnemoupous. This game had crying on the floor questioning life making me realize i should be just like golem. You know if we were all like golem life wouldnt be so bad. Just stupid little trogaladikes going around calling shit our precious. You know if we weren't so diffrent the animals wouldnt be leaving, the goverment wouldnt be spying on us, the fire nation wouldnt have attacked and god wouldnt have abandoned us for our unholy sins. Join me brotheren. In my new society i strive to create. Where everyone is equal and stupid. Crawling around like a gremlin coverd in shit. Be like smeagal. And mayby god will return and 5g wont kill us all in 5 years. Y3k wont happen. And reptillians will go extinct.
our new society is my precious. all hail the precious.
lmfao this made my day long time i didnt find a funny long text
What a huge smack in the face to gamers with this price tag
It definitely isn’t worth it but at least they had the tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiny bit of foresight to charge $50 (or $60 on ps5) instead of the full 70
why tf did a orc tell this dude gollum "breeding" at 40:21 like did we miss something?
Who wanted this? Like literally nobody. Looks awful and gollum sounds awful, knew right away it would be bad
No cap
Tbh there was zero hype for this I can see why lmao
@@amadeus.7436I think it could have worked if they kept it 2D like the other games they made. Some of that cutscene art actually did look pretty good, and a 2D point and click adventure with Gollum sounds leagues better than this trash
So is this the start of "The Star Wars treatment."?
I saw a critic review that said they wouldn’t even recommend if it was free lol.
This game looks like it should cost $10
i'd say less, I bought some great indie games for less than 10
They made him into a fucking funko pop. I just can't anymore.
This isn't the same voice as in the movies right? It sounds more like Herbert from Family Guy than Smeagol
I dont even want this game to touch my PC, I've never felt this way about a game before
I can't get Invader Zim cosplaying as Smeagol out of my head
Wow, I have never seen those crazy mechanics before, actually blows my mind, what a group of creative and talented designers.
I know I dont get the hate. Its a great game imo
This feels so much like one of those PS2 games that'd come bundled with the console
Lord of the Toilets: Return of the Shitter
Day 1 DLC for content that should already be in the game is fucking disgusting regardless of how shit the game is. Absolutely no respect for the consumer.
I normally don’t buy into negativity around new games, I think a lot of the time it just comes down to people overhyping or over expecting so the game can never live up to what people imagined, but I’m genuinely shocked by how bad this game looks, visually, performance and gameplay wise too, I don’t mind a little jank but jeez!
It blows me away that we already got another AAA release that is giving Redfall a run for its money. What a fuckin abomination.
My game ended up glitching so the orc would get alerted but the animation wouldnt get triggered of them catching me wouldnt occur easy speedrun
There must have been someone who asked for this game, otherwise I cannot imagine why did they think it is a good idea to invest time and money into it...
They think every LOTR fan love gollum
@@muhd.aminns I love him, but not this much lol
There's not a lot of video games that enable you to play as a wretched, pathetic creature so I would have enjoyed this if it was actually fun.
He’s a great character in the films but in no way would i ever wanna play a full game as him 🤣
I hate Gollum as a person. He’s repulsive, violent, greedy, and pathetic. I think he’s a fantastic character, but I wouldn’t want to play as him in a game for hours on end
Anyone else genuinely use this whole play thru as sleep aid? It’s perfect 😆
Best review i read was
*i think the game designer mixed up Dobby the house elf with Smeagol*
The character design of Gollum alone shows how bad this is. So you stylize realism the rest then make the main character look like a cartoon. Makes sense. Two different artistic ideas mixed badly.
So happy this was the first stream I tuned in for game was stupendously silly to look at
Ok, I usually say "graphics don't matter", and "who cares about frame rate." But this looks sincerely awful.
1:15:21 The game completely crashed itself, just to try and render a 6 second in-game cutscene, just to say you stink......😂
Charlie should use this game for the next 10,000 dollar speedrun competition
"If you can figure out how to speedrun this fucking horrific garbage, you get $10,000."
Idk how it's running this smoothly. I have a 3070ti and a very powerful machine but it lags every time I turn the camera which sometimes sends me flying off the edge
I had the itch to replay Shadow of Mordor about two weeks ago, fully having no clue this game was coming out, man does that make this game look even worse than it just being a bad game
A gollum movie would've been way better than a gollum game.
This game looks like it was made for masochists and drones. And masochistic drones. And droning masochists. Yes.
It really makes me sad to see that daedelic had made such an awful game. In my head I even was defensive, but it is truly awful and boring. I loved so many of their games in the past, especially the point and click games, and it feels like a journey has ended. Can describe this feeling. Had been a good time deadelic.
Ohhh shit wait... They did Deponia series huh
They did a project scope they couldn't handle here.
What other games have they made?
@@blueflare3848 They also made The Whispered World, Annas Quest, Randal's Monday. They really made good point and click adventures.
Deponia was a gem. Rust punk is a very unique genre. I am absolutely crushed Daedaelic screwed the pooch this hard.
This is their first triple a game. They weren’t ready yet. They should have gradually increased their ambitions instead of shooting for Lotr after point and click games.
I'm sick and tired of games using shite graphics, the covering over it with the fog filter, like we won't notice how damn ugly the whole thing looks.
He will never substitute Andy Serkis.
Golllum: Experience bullying like you've never before!
I don't know why this one of my fave game streams now. I'm not a fan of LoTR by any means, but I've never seen a concept that fell so horribly short despite so much world building potential, even down to the voice acting and music. I think if it just had better puzzles and combat it might have been a interesting game, maybe a bit weird with the choice of character but I can see the idea of a stealth, puzzle game sort of thing. But instead you're just watching a small and decrepit man running around and following people for hours on end.
The inner monologue and having to argue against yourself is interesting but it's so poorly implemented, it just comes off as cringe. In addition to the lazy af UI.
Utterly wild how this got greenlit. It's weird. I'm very curious about the events that lead to the game's inevitable release. And then the game has the audacity to charge more than full price for it, even barring the "lore accurate" voice acting behind a paywall (if I remembered correctly).
When you're 2 hours and and realise this is the whole game
I didn't think it could get worse then redfall but this made me question my decision
Streamers already know how shit the game is, but still buy it for content.
This in turn still give the lazy devs money.
10,000 sales is nothing lol
@@mementomori771 Probably losing money if they sell this much lol
If they make less money than the product took to make, it's a failure, at least in the business hemisphere.
People watch the stream, realize the game is bad, and don’t buy it, thereby giving the devs less money
"We do this so you don't have to."
This is the only way for news to spread. Vote with your wallet, but you'll never know the extent of the damage until somebody presents it to you.
I think that's more powerful because now the images are actually embedded into our heads. We'll be talking about this game for years to come lol. Less people would want to buy the game now since news travels inhumanly fast nowadays.
The audacity of charging $50 for this.
This legit has no polish, and yet it's in the "games take so much to run nowadays" generation
The devs of ban ban might've been just a bit ahead of their time in making mediocre games needlessly put strain on hardware.
I have never seen, such a low effort budget cut style game over animation. I only have one question. Why does this even exist? Something isn't right.. maybe some money laundering scheme.
Didn’t gollum die in mount doom? If not how was the ring destroyed?
What a disgrace to drag the lotr name through the dirt.
I'll stick to playing Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War over this awful trash, thank you Charlie for playing this so I don't have to.
by the way anyone noticed how the logo of the dev company is awfully similar to touchstone pictures logo?
People be 12 hours in and still waiting for the main game to start lol
We need a speed run of this game
As soon as you see the game crash in the main menu, that's all you need to know.
So they decided to copy the design from the movies, but change it just enough so that it looks more basic and also uncanny. Ffs just go for a unique design at that point
anyone got the timestamp where he find out about the ps1 graphics when he look down and there's just pixelized characters
I spent the first few minutes tryna figure out exactly where in the timeline it was. Like after it was confirmed he remembered Bilbo I just gave up I was like right after those events then fuck it.
Like I failed to get invested after intentionally trying this game is ass
maybe it's lore related but the orcs dont really look like orcs. it's similar to the potato brutes from halo. everything just doesnt look textured enough and you could mistake this for an early xbox 360 game. just terrible.
12:47 love the power point font they used really suits
Can’t wait for the gold horse armor dlc for gollum to wear
this is actually revolting to look at why is the entire game so ugly
Who was this for? As a game for general audiences it very clearly fails by being a total snooze fest with ass graphics and stinky gameplay, and if it was meant to appeal to die hard LotR fans its failed miserably on that front as well, theres no cool new lore or fleshing out previously established lore, it barely feels attached to its source material save for the names and languages
People saying it wouldnt be judged as harshly if it werent LotR based are missing the point that part of the reason it SHOULD be judged so harshly is because the developers pulled the classic "lets exploit an already established IP" BUT failed to evoke even a slight sense of connection to the source material
This game could have been a single stealth side-quest in a normal LOTR game and most people would probably not like it.
The devs decided to make a whole game with only that lmao what could go wrong.
I will just strangle my friend on a fishing trip and get a pc that will run the game that way