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  • Опубликовано: 2 июн 2023
  • "I will get you my pretty Lord of the Rings guy" - Gollum 2023
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  • @unorevers7160
    @unorevers7160 Год назад +12613

    The game actually did a great job to make you feel as pitiful and miserable as Gollum

  • @twinarcher8123
    @twinarcher8123 Год назад +5129

    The worst part about this game is that they found the one guy that can't do a gollum voice and decided he was the one.

    • @firdanharbima6997
      @firdanharbima6997 Год назад +368

      Nope it's the fact it EVEN HAVE price tag

    • @simplycaleb4781
      @simplycaleb4781 Год назад +176

      Wdym I love how they got Murdock Nickels from gorilaz to voice gollum 😂

    • @Mike14264
      @Mike14264 Год назад +124

      I dunno if it's the worst part, but it sure adds to the pile...

    • @matthewlister3755
      @matthewlister3755 Год назад +75

      It's like finding a guy who doesn't have a Borat or a Bane impression. Near impossible.

    • @Nick-cs4oc
      @Nick-cs4oc Год назад +17

      Are your expectations subverted yet?

  • @alexsnightmare
    @alexsnightmare Год назад +1398

    I work at a video game store and the more I heard about this game the more empathy i felt for the 4 people that preordered it at full price at our store

    • @philiproler5572
      @philiproler5572 Год назад +140

      They deserved it. Never preorder

    • @johnme16
      @johnme16 10 месяцев назад +54

      Can confirm. Preordered fallout 76. Thanks, Todd

    • @thespider8782
      @thespider8782 9 месяцев назад +24

      ​@@johnme16IT JUST WORKS

    • @calebpribyl5152
      @calebpribyl5152 8 месяцев назад +7

      I work at this Walmart like place and we have this ugly hideous game!
      Someone with a functioning brain has bought this game!
      (Whoever bought it I feel so sorry!)

    • @pozzyvibes6997
      @pozzyvibes6997 7 месяцев назад

      @@philiproler5572 Only game I ever pre-ordered was Red Dead Redemption 2 since I played Red Dead 1 for hundreds of hours with friends as a kid and it was therefore such an integral part of my childhood. Luckily I don't even regret it because that game was great.

  • @insertclevernamehere1186
    @insertclevernamehere1186 Год назад +137

    27:48 I can't stop holding in laughter at the mental image of this lady and her orc procession walking along this wooden walkway when Crazy Frog Gollum launches himself down from above, slips on dry wood and falls, screaming, into the lava pits below, as everyone just watches on with looks of "What just happened?" on their faces...

  • @RadekCrazy1
    @RadekCrazy1 Год назад +4989

    The best part was seeing how the basic achievements got more rare the more he played through it showing how almost nobody finished this shit.

    • @Picmanreborn
      @Picmanreborn Год назад +267

      And this is release week!!!! 💀😂 So it should be higher percentages due to less players.

    • @digitalplayland
      @digitalplayland Год назад +147

      I finished the game. But I do not recommend it. At least not until it will cost 2.99$

    • @lewispooper3138
      @lewispooper3138 Год назад +26

      Most games are never finished

    • @blueflare3848
      @blueflare3848 Год назад +3

      @Lewis Pooper That’s not true. People just tend to focus more on the negative than the positive.

    • @2ndeaster
      @2ndeaster Год назад +43

      ​@@digitalplayland It isn't even worth free

  • @kokosan09
    @kokosan09 Год назад +2125

    if you listen really closely, between all of Gollum's screams of death, you can hear Kev's friends sigh in relief that this is single-player only.

    • @Kevduit
      @Kevduit  Год назад +335

      they are lucky

    • @fullmoonshadow6967
      @fullmoonshadow6967 Год назад +6

      Lol

    • @AmaryInkawult
      @AmaryInkawult Год назад +14

      @@Kevduit the Emotes say otherwise

    • @AmaryInkawult
      @AmaryInkawult Год назад +27

      It was likely PLANNED to have multiplayer but was scrapped during development for later DLC

    • @Dkrule1
      @Dkrule1 Год назад +5

      ​@@AmaryInkawultI mean...with how jank it is...

  • @ildemardesousa6986
    @ildemardesousa6986 9 месяцев назад +154

    The fucking fact they made the "apology" with chat gpt is insane

  • @LordRazer3
    @LordRazer3 Год назад +605

    Wow they really went all out making the scene of you breaking the birds neck look and sound better then everything else in the game!

    • @Kevduit
      @Kevduit  Год назад +264

      99% of the budget into the bird neck snap scene

    • @Irondragon1945
      @Irondragon1945 7 месяцев назад +2

      Not so fast.

    • @beastmotoz
      @beastmotoz 2 месяца назад

      ​@@KevduitI'm not sure how this game isn't Game of the year. It should've been in the Goty list

  • @SunOnYeet
    @SunOnYeet Год назад +1072

    When you realise the devs had the audacity to put a "deathless run" achievement...

    • @viscountrainbows2857
      @viscountrainbows2857 Год назад +86

      Frodo: Hold my ring.

    • @Shaun_Jones
      @Shaun_Jones Год назад +48

      Literally no one will ever get that achievement.

    • @Pugkin5405
      @Pugkin5405 2 месяца назад

      ​@@Shaun_Jonesapparently people have

  • @dikastederook6380
    @dikastederook6380 Год назад +3470

    At this point, Tolkien is probably rolling so fast in his grave he's basically become a self-sustaining, infinite generator producing enough energy to single-handedly end any form of energy crisis and totally cancel the need for oil to power our technology.

    • @waltuh11121
      @waltuh11121 Год назад +75

      Both JRR and Christopher

    • @vetreas366
      @vetreas366 Год назад +318

      It is now 2053 and all is well. All of humanity's energy issues have been resolved and with them, the issues of pollution and global warming have been severely reduced and everyone can enjoy clean, plentiful energy. We call this time the Golden Renaissance and we have the video game "Gollum" to thank for this, as researchers have finally found the reason why the fountain of neverending energy took shape.
      It has been 10 years now since the night sky of Oxford was pierced by a beam of pure white light emanating from what seemed to be the district of Cutteslowe. Panic quickly set in for the residents of the Empire since this was thought to be another strike from the Grand Canadian Royal army, as the Pan-Global Kerfuffle of 2030 was still ongoing at the time and the armies of the broken continent of Canada, formerly known as North America, were still launching operations to disrupt the forces of then newly resurrected third Empire of Albion.
      It would be several hours, on the morning of November 13th, Charlesday (Friday in the old world calendar system) that it was found that the light was emanating from a small parcel in the Catholic section of Wolvercote Cemetery. It would be another week while containment and investigation took place to determine the origin point to be the plot of land dedicated to the burial place of one John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and Edith Mary Tolkien.
      What is now referred to as the Tolkien Spin Turbine phenomenon was found to be triggered several decades in the past but the effects could only be felt in 2043 on that scorching November night. Scientists found that the frequent abuse of the late Tolkien's works in pop culture were the starting point that triggered the physical revolution of Tolkien's remains which, in turn, would lead to the cultural and technological revolution we are living through today.
      As more research is done on the matter, some point toward the Lord of the Rings made by Ralph Bakshi as being the original spark whereas others point toward Peter David and his Hobbit "trilogy" of movies when discussing when the rotational movements began. Whatever started the Tolkien Rotation and gave birth to the pillar of light that would emerge and, quite fittingly encircle the planet in a ring of light that could be harnessed by humanity, it is now beyond a shadow of a doubt that the movement reached irreversible charge levels with the release of the "Gollum" video game in 2023, once touted as a repulsive waste of money, time and a beloved IP, now revealed to be the quite literal savior of mankind.
      As we move forward into the new decade with the "Planet Earth Spaceship" program powered by the Tolkien Turbine and construction on the pseudo Dyson sphere that has Earth at its center is reaching its halfway point, we give thanks to the creators of "Gollum" and the frankly courageous yet rather daft early adopters that actually played the game and allowed its existence to be more than just a theory, and instead made it a game theory. May Gollum be with you and bless you all.

    • @Jumpy-Dragon
      @Jumpy-Dragon Год назад +91

      @@vetreas366 This comment is better than the entire game

    • @wiseferret4745
      @wiseferret4745 Год назад +15

      DO A BARREL ROLL

    • @cookiesandtea6442
      @cookiesandtea6442 Год назад +42

      @@vetreas366 I'm crying at this short story it's just too good

  • @JakubWojciechowski933
    @JakubWojciechowski933 Год назад +1080

    There's one more terrible aspect to this game nobody talks about due to all other terrible things: it's premise doesn't make sense. I always thought Gollum is some tiny, funny little man dwelling in caves, eating raw fish and mumbling to himself, but no, apparently he's some orc murdering machine, epic assassin-level parkourer and political player of the Middle Earth. Makes sense

    • @moosenman
      @moosenman 11 месяцев назад +169

      In the story he’s kinda there to show what the ring can do to people, and he does have a body count of at least one from what I remember. When Sméagol first got the ring he killed his brother. The writers of this gave just kinda gave up I think

    • @moosenman
      @moosenman 11 месяцев назад +97

      That and he wasn’t really afraid to hop on a bitch and choke them, though it was less stealth and more anger.

    • @razztastic
      @razztastic 11 месяцев назад +134

      @@moosenman This. There's a distinction that the developers and director of Gollum missed completely, and it's that Smeagol is a well-meaning, almost innocent Hobbit who has been tortured and broke down, essentially having his mind transformed into a prison by this all powerful artifact of a nearly forgotten age that belongs to the disembodied force of a dark lord who could easily shroud the entire world in malice and manifested hatred if the fellowship didn't continuously and miraculously luck out.
      Gollum, however, is an extremely violent and volatile conniver who is both equally disturbing and unsettling to deal with~ be it face to face or through a TV screen. For all of the things that The Hobbit got wrong, it got the dread of knowing that Gollum knows you're trying to trick him right on the fucking money.

    • @moxiemaxie3543
      @moxiemaxie3543 10 месяцев назад +10

      Hes none of what you stated. He lives in mountains so yeah, he should climb. He's used as cannon fodder to cover their tracks not a politician. You're exaggerating basic skills. Thats like saying a monkey is a parkour expert

    • @moosenman
      @moosenman 10 месяцев назад

      @@moxiemaxie3543 monkeys can’t stealth kill

  • @quinnkaplan172
    @quinnkaplan172 Год назад +273

    This game makes you really FEEL like a broken shell of your former self.

  • @hihaoden
    @hihaoden Год назад +280

    "Gollum, Breeding halls, now!"
    So nice that they managed to squeeze in a Gollum sex fanfic

  • @webkarma9654
    @webkarma9654 Год назад +827

    If this is how the world looks through the eyes of Gollum I can see why his mind is so fucked up

  • @mekacrab
    @mekacrab 7 месяцев назад +67

    When the game used the color blue at one point, I knew this game was a masterpiece. Using two colors in a game is something I thought I would never see.

  • @koppsr
    @koppsr Год назад +252

    At least it is immersive.
    After finishing it, you'll know EXACTLY how Gollum felt, being tortured by the orcs....

    • @bruhgod123
      @bruhgod123 11 месяцев назад +10

      thats the only decent part everything else is trash

  • @samuraienjoyer9981
    @samuraienjoyer9981 Год назад +146

    "Emotes...? In a single player game...?"
    That really set the tone for the whole experience, huh.

    • @Kevduit
      @Kevduit  Год назад +22

      at that moment I buckled up

  • @sonofpears4691
    @sonofpears4691 Год назад +2194

    The fact that the reward for beating the final chapter was only achieved by 0.75% of players tells you everything you need to know about the games quality players tells you everything you need to know

    • @ShinForgotPassxXx
      @ShinForgotPassxXx Год назад +97

      I paid Full Price for this and by god, i will squeeze every Cent out of this. Those 0,75% or something.

    • @stevenbacon-cheddar9914
      @stevenbacon-cheddar9914 Год назад

      A larger percentage of people believe in Bigfoot…

    • @quantruong1251
      @quantruong1251 Год назад

      ​@@ShinForgotPassxXx you paid full price for this shit?Holy shit,i feel bad for you

    • @sasuke-qn2yo
      @sasuke-qn2yo Год назад +10

      Or perhaps the people that bought it don’t do RUclips as a job and have time to beat the game right away

    • @radbones3172
      @radbones3172 Год назад +38

      I’ve seen soulsbourn optional bosses with more players achieving it

  • @SG-dq7rt
    @SG-dq7rt Год назад +61

    'smeagol does not know what to do' 'breeding' has to be the best and most terrifying line of this entire video

  • @thomasstrickland3711
    @thomasstrickland3711 10 месяцев назад +32

    "They say textures are so pure there you can almost see them." That made me lol 😆

  • @TheVintress
    @TheVintress Год назад +2658

    The devs were really ambitious and worked hard to make the worst game of 2023.

    • @bryanpineda2096
      @bryanpineda2096 Год назад +23

      Worked hard?

    • @matosz23
      @matosz23 Год назад +115

      Year is still young. Do remember we thought that about Forspoken and then came Redfall and now Gollum. I know 2023 won't disappoint and at least 2 more games will join the list.
      Yatzhee will have such an easy year with his bottom 5 games of the year.

    • @jaidendetering8734
      @jaidendetering8734 Год назад +10

      It sucks that Nacon did it because they're doing Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown. Seeing how bad this looks scares me a ton

    • @Sinderance_
      @Sinderance_ Год назад +67

      @@bryanpineda2096 You have to work hard to make something this shit. You can't do this on accident, I just can't believe it any other way.

    • @Pulsef1r3
      @Pulsef1r3 Год назад +6

      ​@@matosz23 we also have Starfield and S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2

  • @epluribusunum5318
    @epluribusunum5318 Год назад +1009

    This would all be understandable if just a single dude, in his house, working on the weekends, drunk... made it. But a development team was put together, given computers, and told and paid to make it. How? Why?

    • @DubberRucks
      @DubberRucks Год назад +48

      A special level of talent. Emphasis on special. 😂

    • @rwiii5115
      @rwiii5115 Год назад +35

      Because gamers refuse to congregate and class-action for false advertising.

    • @mastermind4499
      @mastermind4499 Год назад +3

      Garten of Bird up feels better than this....

    • @Aspenstorpemusic
      @Aspenstorpemusic Год назад +5

      Deadlines.

    • @ReigoVassal
      @ReigoVassal Год назад +7

      "A single dude working the game on his weekends and also his first game" is enough justification to say "this is good"

  • @Lagaffinity
    @Lagaffinity Год назад +36

    Can't believe they got Gollum himself to code and develop this game

  • @littlebeesam
    @littlebeesam Год назад +108

    I can say without a doubt that this is the most suspenseful action game every, with every jump, every swingy bar i held my breath and my heart skipped a beat. Because this game has actual real world consequences, unlike other games where all you lose is a couple seconds or minutes this game can fully block you from even completing it. Absolutely amazing work and i love the colour red, an easy 10/10 for Gollum 2023

  • @res_winter
    @res_winter Год назад +1068

    This is certainly one of the games ever! It has graphics! The characters move! Certainly a game.

  • @stevenwynn646
    @stevenwynn646 Год назад +1621

    Imagine being a teenager in high school, and your parents decided to get you one game as a gift for passing your classes. This is the game they get you. You can't afford anything else. You have a whole summer to enjoy this 70$ game.

    • @bryan369dandovueltaenelavion
      @bryan369dandovueltaenelavion Год назад +88

      Ufff that hurts

    • @demonsmoke1788
      @demonsmoke1788 Год назад +185

      My parents NEVER would get me a game unless I specifically ask for one on a wish list as a present. Because of crap like this. They been burned by bad movies, so they know games can be the same way.

    • @dh6371
      @dh6371 Год назад +88

      ahh that happened to me already. My godfather (i think thats the english term) bought me Transformers for PS3. i wasnt even a big transformers fan, nor was the game any good. But still, i appreciated his intentions though and was thankful.

    • @therealivydawg
      @therealivydawg Год назад +29

      Well time to start mowing lawns.

    • @regor4118
      @regor4118 Год назад +25

      That's an 80's experience.

  • @RagnellAvalon
    @RagnellAvalon Год назад +141

    This looks like one of those one-man Unity horror games that Markiplier plays, except those are usually made by one person with no budget in the span of a few weeks and are kind of charming as a result

  • @MiisoOnRoblox
    @MiisoOnRoblox Год назад +41

    I love the Gollum impression the most at 14:40. This whole video made my side hurt, I love your sense of humour (and watching you suffer playing a video game is great too)

  • @Brankman1996
    @Brankman1996 Год назад +1086

    I have the feeling that game was finished for years and was just forgotten on a random computer and then they found it and thought „It will be fine“

    • @xord6286
      @xord6286 Год назад +170

      it has the vibes of a game that kept changing genres like 10 times throughout development but they had to eventually release it

    • @happyboy7093
      @happyboy7093 Год назад +28

      thats probably what happened with redfall and gollum

    • @PurpleJester
      @PurpleJester Год назад +90

      It has that 2008 Licensed Game smell to it.

    • @samthesmartfella
      @samthesmartfella Год назад +5

      @@xord6286 ;ike cyberpunk

    • @spibbymcgoo4877
      @spibbymcgoo4877 Год назад +47

      Nah. It’s just a perfect shit storm of a small indie team that’s mostly just worked on low end indie point and click games, who had no clue how to make a game of this scale and just bafflingly threw themselves into the fire trying to create and publish a “AAA” game all by themselves. I don’t know how the hell they even got the license for this.

  • @thomastippelt5220
    @thomastippelt5220 Год назад +4086

    As a German, I feel a strong need to apologize to the world for Germany's actions (the developer of Gollum is a German game company) for the first time since World War II.

    • @aeoncalcos7830
      @aeoncalcos7830 Год назад +183

      I love your culture and almost everything about your country, I currently study Deutsch and soon to work as a Deutsch teacher in schools

    • @upersaa4764
      @upersaa4764 Год назад +120

      @@aeoncalcos7830 was für ne Kultur lmao

    • @martinakanzler9160
      @martinakanzler9160 Год назад +87

      And some of their games are so good.... im so sad

    • @sil_Ookami
      @sil_Ookami Год назад +38

      Likewise. I promise we can also make good games 😭

    • @andrewbailey7045
      @andrewbailey7045 Год назад +26

      WW2 was the last time Germany didn't need to apologize, actually.

  • @germanstormtrooper2298
    @germanstormtrooper2298 Год назад +73

    The worst part about a bad game is that you want it to finish and it just keeps dragging on and on

  • @the-anonymouse
    @the-anonymouse Год назад +24

    With this and Kaifs playthrough it's pretty safe to say that the bugs in each copy of Gollum are personalised.

  • @christopherclanton5961
    @christopherclanton5961 Год назад +1455

    A true psychopath seeks out pain and dispair...and then forces them on others. Well done sir

    • @terry2295
      @terry2295 Год назад +52

      Kevin's friends are probably very thankful the devs didn't implement co-op.

    • @Legacyartist
      @Legacyartist Год назад +4

      I like his videos even when the game is bad but this was a bridge to far for me. I had to tap out for the first time. Kevin did his best but not even he could make watching this game entertaining.

    • @tellyg47
      @tellyg47 Год назад +2

      @@terry2295 when I first saw gameplay of this game I instantly thought about a comment like this and I’m so happy someone actually said it 😂

    • @terry2295
      @terry2295 Год назад

      @@tellyg47 It would've made for a fun video though.

  • @fragilesnowz
    @fragilesnowz Год назад +2105

    Kevduit once again putting his sanity on the line for us

    • @veszekium5693
      @veszekium5693 Год назад +19

      And making us watch it… again

    • @Mellanie_Zalthorarjir
      @Mellanie_Zalthorarjir Год назад +8

      @@veszekium5693 Someone has to take care of him after making this video !!
      This game could have lost him so many braincells now due to the sheer lack of the publisher doing their job,
      That Kev is now endangered to be forced into a Sanatorium. 🧐🧐

    • @michaelreimer1111
      @michaelreimer1111 Год назад +4

      Our lord and savior, kevduit. He sacrifices so much for us.

    • @number-14
      @number-14 Год назад +3

      I was kind of half expecting the fanbase to do a thing where they all kind of just pretend it's this utterly goaded game like with people continuing the joke that John Cena is invincible even though it's been like a decade.

    • @aaronlfcynwa2951
      @aaronlfcynwa2951 Год назад

      RIP Keduit's sanity

  • @catbert7
    @catbert7 Год назад +25

    "A masterwork of pain and suffering"
    "Sauron has nothing on the creators of this game"
    "It just works"

  • @thewatching6504
    @thewatching6504 Год назад +8

    14:38 this all reminds me of 90's games.
    No instructions, sometimes jumps too far and sometimes not far enough.

  • @teamrocketjoe1621
    @teamrocketjoe1621 Год назад +2465

    My favorite part of the story was when Gollum said, "it's GoLlUm time" and he Gollumed himself into an invisible wall and Middle-Earth crashed.

    • @19thunderchild
      @19thunderchild Год назад +14

      🤣😂🤣🙄

    • @josegallardo4119
      @josegallardo4119 Год назад +24

      @@19thunderchild It was a reference to that elf cape thing frodo used on the gates of mordor

    • @mee091000
      @mee091000 Год назад +8

      I'm crying lmao

    • @domeplsffs
      @domeplsffs Год назад +3

      😂

    • @tytar1037
      @tytar1037 Год назад +14

      Gollum’d all over those

  • @noahloyd9176
    @noahloyd9176 Год назад +538

    "Animations straight out of the 1700s."
    Kev has such a way with words.

    • @bryanpineda2096
      @bryanpineda2096 Год назад

      More like youtube story animation.

    • @TheEPICOSITY143
      @TheEPICOSITY143 Год назад +8

      @@bryanpineda2096 … ah yes.. the uh.. joke. Nothing gets past you

    • @MLWJ1993
      @MLWJ1993 Год назад +3

      IDK, I think they could draw up something better in the 1700's 🤔

  • @OutlawSiam21
    @OutlawSiam21 Год назад +39

    Kev slowly losing his mind and raging is by far the funniest i have ever gotten to enjoy. It is slow methodical and downright as we all do. Much love Kev

    • @ringwraith2558
      @ringwraith2558 7 месяцев назад +6

      He is becoming gollum minute by minute the devs master plan is working perfect

  • @TeryJones
    @TeryJones Год назад +12

    I just remembered something.....
    Zelda Tears of the Kingdom was 70 dollars. A game running at 30 fps on Nintendo Switch hardware with a file size of about 16 GB......and yet was able to achieve wonders beyond compare, having such freedom of choice in its game world, such flexibility in its custom vehicle system that it just downright terrifying, even letting you have an active party of about five AI partners without missing a beat. Truly a technical achievement n game design that will be talked about for decades to come.....
    And then you got.........this game........this.....45 GB.........thing........meant to be played on PS5 and Series X/S hardware.......and it's just......this.......I have no words.....oh God and they want to inflict this horror on Switch owners! God no!

  • @SeengignPaipes
    @SeengignPaipes Год назад +412

    Getting people to pay for emotes in a single player game is as shady as Callisto protocol making people pay for more death animations.

    • @emily-bw2vb
      @emily-bw2vb Год назад +32

      callisto protocol does WHAT

    • @nosalgodemiPC
      @nosalgodemiPC Год назад +22

      Wait... you serious? Callisto does that? 💀

    • @LilyMaeBlossom
      @LilyMaeBlossom Год назад +7

      There's a key difference there. I'm so bad at Callisto Protocol that I consistently die and get to see the animations. I'm so good at Gollum that I consistently die and get to see my home screen.

  • @206Zelda
    @206Zelda Год назад +379

    The review on Steam that says "We threw ourselves into the fiery pits. Gollum is free!" always cracks me up. 🤣

  • @Fr0stguard
    @Fr0stguard Год назад +10

    I refuse to believe that this game was made recently and wasn't just found on some forgotten hard drive from the early 2000s. Its the only way I can justify the graphics in my head.

  • @LilyoftheLake14
    @LilyoftheLake14 4 месяца назад +7

    We NEED a full version of:
    🎵"I love it, I love it, I love a broken game,
    70 dollars down the drain."🎶💃🕺

  • @TheDanishGuyReviews
    @TheDanishGuyReviews Год назад +689

    Hold on? That memed to hell picture of Gollum looking like a wet, beaten dog was from an ACTUAL game?! If the developers actually thought any of this was a good idea, then l pity them.

  • @StarchieHalo
    @StarchieHalo Год назад +718

    This looks like something you'd play at the dentists office

    • @dimitriwarchief301
      @dimitriwarchief301 Год назад +24

      I played better games. There was a AWSOME megaman arcade and Simpsons one too

    • @Viper-py4pg
      @Viper-py4pg Год назад +10

      *Perfect* description; truly an aesthetic mode

    • @Mastergorrila78
      @Mastergorrila78 Год назад +4

      I’m gonna stick to pac man 😂

    • @just_an_elli
      @just_an_elli Год назад +6

      Please don't disrespect Pac-Man World like that 🙏

    • @tinyetoile5503
      @tinyetoile5503 Год назад

      Man at least my orthodontist had an n64 with mario kart, better than this shit

  • @agata.pawelek
    @agata.pawelek Год назад +12

    i love the moment when you finish "gollum" and become gollum, because you no longer have any living brain cells

  • @DH-xw6jp
    @DH-xw6jp Год назад +33

    PS1 graphics, PS2 controls, PS5 price, Rings of Power writing.

  • @charlierei9292
    @charlierei9292 Год назад +819

    It really sucks how cool the idea is that you have to convince one of two sides of yourself to make an immoral/moral choice, and it's completely squandered on this....

    • @peppermillers8361
      @peppermillers8361 Год назад +44

      While you don't really fight yourself (sort of), Dark Earth from 1997 did something similar to this where the main character can switch from a light to a dark attitude and, in turn, have different conversations depending on which mode you picked.

    • @finnthefannibal
      @finnthefannibal Год назад +11

      Disco Elysium has similar mechanics but it's rare nonetheless

    • @caseymclane1972
      @caseymclane1972 Год назад

      romance club biatch

    • @peppermillers8361
      @peppermillers8361 Год назад

      @odilemwaro833 Yeah, not to mention that the game basically lets you pick neither option.

    • @itshaitime2089
      @itshaitime2089 Год назад

      Fable III

  • @flyinmaniak
    @flyinmaniak Год назад +473

    You should play through the game a second time with the emotes. Really enhances the experience

    • @Streetcleanergaming
      @Streetcleanergaming Год назад +30

      I know right? Him default dancing while hiding from the elves really makes it better!

  • @rogofos
    @rogofos Год назад +30

    this is like an ARG where the entire gaming community is trying to figure out the intended solutions to this game
    because the game is so broken and terribly designed at the same time that its really hard to tell what is and isnt intended

  • @lippi2171
    @lippi2171 10 месяцев назад +10

    I saw the system requirements and was like "wow this must be the most realistic game to date with those numbers" and then I watched gameplay vids and was like "dude why does this look like goat simulator"

  • @pugytuby
    @pugytuby Год назад +471

    I can’t believe they made a game based off of anti-depressants, so cool

    • @hhhhh98764
      @hhhhh98764 Год назад +61

      I mean this is a pretty good anti-depressant: ”could be worse, could be playing Gollum right now”.

  • @EvilMastermindOfDoom
    @EvilMastermindOfDoom Год назад +625

    This is the kind of game you'd get for your 12th birthday in 2007 and then become obsessed with even though you can never get past the starting area because its poor design makes it way too challenging for you. Your parents paid 30 bucks for it.

    • @eliaspanayi3465
      @eliaspanayi3465 Год назад +36

      Oh man, that reminds me of a ps2 game that was unbelievably dark with odd forced camera angles, to the point where you basically coulddnt see most of the game

    • @josebutereselreal
      @josebutereselreal Год назад +11

      ​@@eliaspanayi3465it could be anyone

    • @N12015
      @N12015 Год назад +31

      @@eliaspanayi3465 "Do you have an idea of how little that narrows it down?"

    • @stonebud
      @stonebud 11 месяцев назад +10

      I kept replaying max payne 2 for a year when I was 11-12 because I couldn't figure out how to enter the elevator. All I had to do was press e on the panel💀

    • @abbie_joan
      @abbie_joan 10 месяцев назад +6

      that was Sonic 06' for me...we returned that game within 3 days

  • @borgegush379
    @borgegush379 Год назад +15

    The amount of money I’d pay to be at the company meeting where they discuss how the game was received by players

  • @pandamilkshake
    @pandamilkshake Год назад +11

    There was a game I loved called "Styx: Shards of Darkness" that had similar dark, stealthy gameplay to Gollum. I was beyond excited when this was announced. The gameplay of Styx in the LOTR universe? I was *hyped* but...then I saw this monstrosity. Thank God we have the internet to see how games look before buying them or I would have made a huge mistake.

  • @josegallardo4119
    @josegallardo4119 Год назад +294

    A game of our time
    Textured were textured, code was coded, bugs were bugsed, voices were voiced and gollum was gollumed

    • @WobblesandBean
      @WobblesandBean Год назад +18

      Mordor mordor'd

    • @Nak597
      @Nak597 Год назад +25

      I loved the part where Gollum says "It's Gollumin' time" and then he died mid air

    • @danielsurvivor1372
      @danielsurvivor1372 Год назад +5

      A game of a* time you mean?
      Other than that, perfect review of a game.
      It's a game, it has textures, code is there, bugs are too, voice actors voiced and Gollum does Gollum all over a game

    • @blckotaku5250
      @blckotaku5250 Год назад

      This truly was our GOLLUM

  • @Darkendrain
    @Darkendrain Год назад +109

    I like the dynamic difficulty system where every time you die it flips a coin and corrupts all the scripting on tails

  • @SaltyCatling
    @SaltyCatling Год назад +9

    That was an amazing adventure, we all could feel and hear you losing your mind. In the chapter 10 you sounded like defeated crazy man. We appreciate your journey with Gollum, you proven it to be very immersive game, that will probably leave scars for years

  • @thenumberquelve158
    @thenumberquelve158 Год назад +14

    I'm glad you started off by sharing the fact *an emote pack* was what qualified as "DLC" according to the developers. That sets the expectations exactly where they need to be.
    I'll give them credit for one thing: Usually when there's an interesting skeleton for a game but it's just released in a woefully unfinished state, there's a Christmas deadline to blame because they wanted to ship the game out so it'd be a Christmas present for instant sales. So at least they're innovating by releasing a woefully unfinished game OUT of Christmas season.
    Also, when you said you'd only cried twice, was it from game frustration or retina poisoning?
    ........The answer is "yes", isn't it?

  • @sniperbasic2563
    @sniperbasic2563 Год назад +300

    This feels like the entire development team just embezzled the budget and told the intern to make the game

    • @nicholasrowley947
      @nicholasrowley947 9 месяцев назад +9

      Coming back to this comment to say you were kind of right.

  • @obviouscadillac9493
    @obviouscadillac9493 Год назад +796

    The "Welcome to Mordor!" achievement for dying is Dark Souls II's level of edginess

    • @creppersaurusrex2300
      @creppersaurusrex2300 Год назад +11

      So *THAT* is why i didn't like DS2 when i played it after 1

    • @Elerra303
      @Elerra303 Год назад

      Except DS2 is 100 times better then this shit

    • @ColetheFlame01
      @ColetheFlame01 Год назад +46

      @@creppersaurusrex2300 meh at least Dark Souls 2 is playable compared to this almagamation of terror. honestly why did this company make it and not like oh idk Monolith? Monolith already proved they can make great games based on the story and history of Middle Earth. just look at the glorious Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War games. Story was not very focused but everything else was freaking great anyways and Story was not their main focus on it ever anyways.

    • @aeoncalcos7830
      @aeoncalcos7830 Год назад +6

      ​@@creppersaurusrex2300 there's a lot of things DS2 did to fix most problems in Souls, you just need to open your eyes

    • @waltuh11121
      @waltuh11121 Год назад +21

      But in Dark Souls 2 it made sense

  • @OutlawSiam21
    @OutlawSiam21 Год назад +6

    Dying in laughter at "i got an idea. Going to require a great amount of finesse. NOOOO!!!!" 😹😹😹😹

  • @vinx.9099
    @vinx.9099 9 месяцев назад +6

    i honestly think the gollum model was made for a different lighting engine. it looks like if it was a truly dynamic lighting engine were lights and shadows was done dynamically it may look good, but instead the lighting engine is extremely static. the lighting engine looks like a (weaker) skyrim style lighting engine, and in skyrim shadows are backed into the models and textures so it doesn't look flat.

  • @SirPembertonS.Crevalius
    @SirPembertonS.Crevalius Год назад +192

    The lack of stylized text for the choice bits has me dying. They literally left the default font and said: "Looks good to me"

  • @arcraven
    @arcraven Год назад +214

    Kev's friends are grinning from ear to ear that this isn't a multiplayer game

  • @Elementroar
    @Elementroar Год назад +28

    The most actually dramatic moment in the game is definitely the *spoiler*
    .
    .
    .
    kill bird moment. That actually was intense

    • @phi7534
      @phi7534 Год назад +8

      honestly that felt like the only ray of hope in this game, like the dying cry of a single competent writer

  • @AtrocityZA
    @AtrocityZA 9 месяцев назад +4

    Cyberpunk 2077: Wake the F*ck up samurai we have a city to burn
    Gollum : Go back to sleep samurai the textures haven’t loaded yet

  • @MrHoll87
    @MrHoll87 Год назад +468

    Never actually seen Kev literally angry in any of his plays and not just playful frustration. This game is truly the pit of despair.

    • @ctdaniels7049
      @ctdaniels7049 Год назад +9

      No no, the pit of despair is Princess Bride!

    • @susanna8612
      @susanna8612 11 месяцев назад

      Well, he makes these reviews for money and entertainment. Why would he be angry?

    • @joekline3478
      @joekline3478 11 месяцев назад

      @@ctdaniels7049HAHA I GET THAT REFERENCE I LOVE IT

  • @dentedflanker5065
    @dentedflanker5065 Год назад +487

    Oh god that entire experience must have been agonizing.

    • @DubberRucks
      @DubberRucks Год назад +1

      I don't know what was worse; watching this atrocity get played, or knowing that he had to pay for the experience. 😂

  • @techpriestsalok8119
    @techpriestsalok8119 Год назад +3

    Tbf this game is exactly what I was thinking withdrawing from magical hard drugs would be like. Nothing makes sense, everything looks wrong, and people hate you for (seemingly) no reason.

  • @nicolautorgal9298
    @nicolautorgal9298 Год назад +1

    This video was so good I'm currently on twitch watching the full play through. Man that intro gets me every time.

  • @ShinForgotPassxXx
    @ShinForgotPassxXx Год назад +230

    If I were a Dev of this game and was asked how my work on this project was, I would say I was being lazy and gave no fuck. Imagine saying you gave your best in making this.

    • @Mohawk_Productions
      @Mohawk_Productions Год назад

      I tried saying I was being lazy and gave no fuck during sex
      She was not amused by it and she was already mad cause I forgot her name

    • @BetaJackMaxis
      @BetaJackMaxis Год назад +15

      The people who made the art for the non-GGI cutscenes.

    • @wutertots1487
      @wutertots1487 Год назад +1

      @@BetaJackMaxis only good part of the game. They're quite pretty

  • @AZodiacCancer
    @AZodiacCancer Год назад +251

    There is combat in this game, it's fighting the controls. Charlie ran into a broken cutscene in his playthrough too.

  • @Everlucky_Clover
    @Everlucky_Clover 9 месяцев назад +3

    finally my terrible vision is useful. i cant see all the terribad animation/texture issues >_<
    i will however say they nailed the "I JUST SHIT MY PANTS" walking animation perfectly.

  • @Nick-cs4oc
    @Nick-cs4oc Год назад +96

    Even as a bargain bin find in 2009, this game would disappoint

  • @supernaturali100
    @supernaturali100 Год назад +188

    One does not simply play Gollum without losing the will to live

    • @dh6371
      @dh6371 Год назад +6

      you cant lose something you dont have in the first place ;)

  • @StCrimson667
    @StCrimson667 Год назад +14

    You know your game is absolutely unplayable when only 5% of players have cleared Chapter 7!

  • @miransp3812
    @miransp3812 Месяц назад +1

    7:23 Sméagol says: Sméagol doesn’t know what to do
    Orc captain says: breeding

  • @arturfernandes101
    @arturfernandes101 Год назад +142

    found it to be very immersive, when I stopped playing and requested the refund I felt like gollum when he gets the one ring from frodo

  • @BladePhoenix263
    @BladePhoenix263 Год назад +203

    An hour long video and it really didn't come close to the pain that stream was. Watching chapter 4 over and over again, the puzzles, trying to kill the blind girl and her acting like it never happened for the rest of the game. It was wild

  • @QuindianaJones
    @QuindianaJones 7 дней назад

    31:06 I've never been so invested in my entire life to seeing how a chase would end

  • @D4_Isnt_Real
    @D4_Isnt_Real Год назад +3

    “We’re ready for next gen!” The red fall and gollum experience:

  • @dreammech_test1
    @dreammech_test1 Год назад +91

    Honestly pretty decent early Xbox 360 game. I love watching Kevduit play weird old games. Wait it’s next gen exclusive?

  • @LenkyLad
    @LenkyLad Год назад +130

    what's most baffling is how Mordor somehow looks cleaner than the Elve's home

  • @pauloamaral6069
    @pauloamaral6069 Год назад +9

    WE APPRECIATE YOUR SACRIFICE

  • @mazhaa2548
    @mazhaa2548 Год назад +2

    Ive been sleeping to this video everyday for the past few days, Thank you

  • @KrazzeeKane
    @KrazzeeKane Год назад +335

    I am genuinely horrified with your end choice, I actually gasped lol. You already had the "all gollum choices" achievement, the poor bird could have at least lived lol

    • @3mma_533
      @3mma_533 Год назад +43

      The shock at the crunch killed me 😢

    • @Massakre8492nd
      @Massakre8492nd Год назад +67

      that "choice" in itself cemented my opinion that devs should be sent to clean up radioactive spills

    • @Ostr0
      @Ostr0 Год назад +8

      ​@@Massakre8492ndDon't Forget to Send The Halo Infinite Developers as Well.

    • @Massakre8492nd
      @Massakre8492nd Год назад +4

      @PhoenixLord777 exactly, and that's why they deserve radioactive spills snd not firing squad, make them suffer as much as the players who "played" this """"game""""

    • @fawnieee
      @fawnieee Год назад +24

      ​​@@Massakre8492nd I mean this is gollum we're talking about. He absolutely would do that lmao. It's even kind of hinted that he's eating human babies in the books. That being said. This is an awful rendition of gollum lol and that bird should have lived :( my poor heart.

  • @whodistoodis
    @whodistoodis Год назад +258

    The fact that a game like this exists in the current year is astounding.

    • @DubberRucks
      @DubberRucks Год назад +6

      Just think of the memories we'll have of 2023... Redfall, Gollum, there's some stinkers memorable for all the wrong reasons 😂

    • @SimplyStuart94
      @SimplyStuart94 Год назад +4

      it looks like it was made 20 years ago, and still runs worse than those games

    • @ReigoVassal
      @ReigoVassal Год назад +1

      Umm...did you live in a cave for the last 5-8 years.
      This abomination have become a norm for "AAA" game

    • @lewispooper3138
      @lewispooper3138 Год назад

      @@ReigoVassal stop the cap

    • @whodistoodis
      @whodistoodis Год назад +2

      @@ReigoVassal I mean, yes, that is true. AAA games certainly have been slipping of late. I just simply expect if you are going to use to LotR brand, one of the most beloved fantasy epics of all time that only rarely gets games made of it, you'd invest *something* into it to make sure it lives up to its legacy. I'm more disappointed in that then the raw quality of the game in isolation.

  • @Tubehauge
    @Tubehauge 9 месяцев назад

    this game served one purpose. a kevduit video making me laugh more than i have in ages

  • @jacobs.9661
    @jacobs.9661 Год назад +1

    Thank you so much for your sacrifice. It has been done, it is documented, and now we can all let it fade into the blackest corner of the abyss.

  • @sookendestroy1
    @sookendestroy1 Год назад +107

    I'm just impressed that they managed to make such a great game with 5 dollars and a sandwich as funding

  • @cucadefrijoles735
    @cucadefrijoles735 Год назад +36

    Some quotes I found developers and a hype team article:
    “As we reported in November 2020, Jonas Husges of Daedalic Entertainment told Official PlayStation Magazine that Gollum will make use of the next-gen PS5 tech. Gollum’s actions become more tangible and his physical struggle when he runs out of stamina translates directly to the way the game is played," said Husges. This points to The Lord of the Rings: Gollum using the PS5 DualSense's haptic feedback ability, which will likely apply more resistance to the triggers when Gollum is tired or otherwise strained.”
    “In the same interview mentioned above, Husges praised the PS5's SSD component, and said it will help the Lord of the Rings: Gollum vastly decrease loading times and create a large explorable world. It also means Gollum's world will be incredibly well-lit.
    "Clean, ray-traced shadows allow for maximum effect in player guidance in building stealth passages while dynamic and moving light sources bring in the extra challenge when Gollum is roaming through the darkness," said Daedalic art director Mathias Fischer. "All these things, of course, have the nice side-effect of making the game feel vast, and such free roaming environments we are creating look as spectacular as Middle-earth deserves."
    But I digress.

    • @oompalumpus699
      @oompalumpus699 Год назад +2

      😂 I'm shaken by their confidence in Gollum.

  • @cdw1523
    @cdw1523 Год назад

    I love at the end, the inscription at the Doors of Durin reads "Say "Friend" and enter!.".... Its makes you wonder how Gandalf was so confused!

  • @fuzzyotterpaws4395
    @fuzzyotterpaws4395 7 месяцев назад +1

    1:49 There's emotes in single player games. I don't like playing with people so even in multiplayer games I rather play with bots, and emotes are still fun to use and look at it for YOURSELF lol

  • @Rorschach85
    @Rorschach85 Год назад +121

    This game resembles the feeling you would have after being told to do the dishes

    • @DubberRucks
      @DubberRucks Год назад +28

      In salt water. With razor blades hidden in random plates and cups.

    • @Rorschach85
      @Rorschach85 Год назад +19

      ​@@DubberRucks yeah the average dishwashing experience

    • @TonyBMan
      @TonyBMan Год назад +11

      @@DubberRucks Don't forget the portal to Hell bubbling up outta the drain.

    • @GRaToMiC
      @GRaToMiC Год назад

      This proves that you're a child. lmao.

    • @rhinonanmune8791
      @rhinonanmune8791 Год назад +7

      Having to reach down into the disposal because you dropped a small object into it

  • @Infindox
    @Infindox Год назад +164

    It amazes me that a GROUP of people looked at this game and said "this is good to ship!"

    • @ctdaniels7049
      @ctdaniels7049 Год назад +29

      More likely a publisher gave a deadline and this is what was ready by then.

    • @Serrifin
      @Serrifin Год назад +10

      @@battleangel4833idk, the core gameplay in Cyberpunk actually looked fun, this game feels like it would have been a disappointment even if it ran well

  • @cosmicspacething3474
    @cosmicspacething3474 Год назад +2

    20:10 Screaming at the top of your lungs works wonders too

  • @StarShow777
    @StarShow777 9 месяцев назад +2

    Was having a shitty week and then found your Video. Made me laugh more than anything all day 😂😂

  • @vitorcardoso7477
    @vitorcardoso7477 Год назад +796

    Rings of power: "I am the worst thing that ever happened to LotR"
    Gollum: "Observe"

    • @Morbing_Time
      @Morbing_Time Год назад

      @lucgermain9310 me when black people in my LotR 🤬

    • @SuperVincent0000
      @SuperVincent0000 Год назад +11

      Oh yeah... The """"dark elf"""" 😂😂😂

    • @markusgronholm5750
      @markusgronholm5750 Год назад +2

      😂

    • @alecto9057
      @alecto9057 Год назад +5

      @@SuperVincent0000but they actually exist in canon lore? Not by whatever name Galadriel calls him, but the orcs canonically exist, in Tolkien’s writings, because Melkor/Morgoth tortured and twisted elves into dark creatures and then selectively bred them into what are now orcs

    • @foxhoundslug
      @foxhoundslug 10 месяцев назад +11

      i feel like the hobbit is worse because it's a direct adaptaion. You can pretend they never made rings of power but the hobbit... people like that book u know?