I honestly love the idea of this game, there's something extremely bohemian about putting you in control of the most dingy, loathsome, unlikable little rat in fiction and then telling the player "Go crawl around in the dark and eat birds". There was genuinely some room for some truly bizarre and unique stuff. It's too bad that it is... y'know, the way that it is.
Right?? Like, who tf is gonna buy Gollum, OF ALL THINGS, to act somewhat normally, raise a pet bird, and even act nobly by keeping his word and freeing two elves?
@@JohnSmith-ox3gy It could have been great if it had been treated kind of like how it was in the film. The world darkens until just Gollum is showing, face contorted as he's torn between two choices, two conflicted personalities grappling for control over the body. Then we see two choices appear, one possibly faded and difficult to choose based on actions taken throughout the game, requiring more effort to convince Smeagol/Gollum to do.
@@WobblesandBeangod yes, this could have been such an interesting look into what Gollum went through as he became corrupted by the ring, and became more and more alone and more paranoid and terrified of other people and of Sauron and the orcs finding him. But no we got walking simulator of the rings. This is just so fucking lame. I have no idea how anyone testing this thought it was fun. I am bored watching it even 😭
Absolutely one of the moments of all time. The way Gollum said "No, old man, I _am_ Gollum(TM) for the Sony Playstation 5 console" right before he pulled the trigger...chilling.
Only a game this absolutely broken and awful could cause a stream as unhinged as this one was. Vinny just completely stopped caring 10 minutes into the game and thought "Screw it"
Usually I don’t like people using that insult but this game literally does have the exact same “why and how in the fuck was this ever okayed” vibe as those ultra cheap Home Alone and Beverly Hills Cop games for the PS2 lol
@@Trashboat444 There’s a difference between games that get around technical limitations with interesting art styles vs games that rely entirely on the powerful hardware they’re on to look somewhat realistic
Vinny does a far better Gollum/Smeagol impression than the voice actor of this game EDIT: My opinion has changed; the devs weren't going for an exact replica and they did a good job with a different style of voice. I may have just jumped right to the comment section mid-video. Although personally really like how Vinny can do a solid impression of the original.
@@jayjasespud If he were a type of Gollum sure, but this is specifically THE Gollum. They even specified that he's the same character from The Hobbit so they don't even have the excuse of an alternate reality version. I mean I don't care, but I can see why people have a problem with it.
@@ADreamingTraveler Honestly, I dont think the game voice is that bad. It's fine, just a bit toned down. Vinny is going exaggerated for fun, and If the Game was as over-the-top it would sound ridiculous or people would make fun of it too.
Link got so infected by the gloom he became a new bokoblin type, cursed by the Ring of Power. He's stuck in the Depths below Hyrule Depths and has to find the Ring of Courage and the Ring of Wisdom to remove the curse.
Daedalic legit did every AAA pub that shat their bed this year a solid by not delaying this turd any longer (it was set to release in Sept last year first, iirc)
@@vulcanitu2578 They just about manage to make functioning point and click games, there was no way they would ever pull off something as ambitious as this in a satisfying way. I played the Deponia games and even with those I ran into technical issues and softlocks. These guys in my experience are NOT competent when it comes to programming thier games, and in my opinion they aren't very good at being funny either, at least thier english translators from thier original german aren't.
The Studio (Daedalic) is usually known for very entertaining and good looking point and click adventure games. Seems like they bite off too much for this project.
It's worse than I'd imagined. The studio isn't bad, but I wouldn't say they're notable either (in other words, why trust them to deliver on such a huge franchise?). Then there's the publisher, Nacon. Formally BigBen Interactive, they're most well known for screwing over the dev team of The Sinking City. Explains the dlc and probably the sorry state the game is in.
@@madmanmortonyt4890 Nacon is absolutely the likely reason for the project being the way it is. They've got the track record already. Daedalic does not.
1:40:43 for the Zelda noise and 1:42:51 for the comparison. The fact that the sound effect is so similar was funny enough, the entire Gollum impression he made shortly after obliterated my sides.
hearing vinny call gollum the "47 of middle earth" just because of the perfectly-executed orc assassination makes me believe a homing briefcase would've improved this game. yet again anything would've.
This game feels and handles like an early 2000s xbox game but somehow it nearly has the graphic fidelity (in some places) of a modern project. It's strangely retro but not in a good way. Also, Gollum's massive glassy golfball eyes and strange moving mouth are haunting but at the same time I was laughing to the point of wheezing and tears.
This is legit like the Vivendi LotR games from the early 2000s that they made to cash in on the movies. In fact I think it shares some of the voice cast even.
This feels like one of those hyper-obscure low budget licensed PS2 games you only find out later on and only play because you’re curious as to why they’d make a Beverly Hills Cop game in 2005
I just realized what this gollum's face reminds me of. Anyone remember that Nick show Tak and the Power of Juju with that really plastic-y 3d animation from the year 2007? He looks just like that main character, Tak. Look it up i swear yall gonna agree.
If you squint; Gollum also kinda looks like Edna Konrad (Edna & Harvey: The Breakout), if she went 80 years without eating or drinking. Humorously; ‘Keeping Up With The Daedalics’ shows that Edna doesn’t have a high opinion of Gollum - for obvious reasons.
If you squint; Gollum also kinda looks like Edna Konrad (Edna & Harvey: The Breakout), if she went 80 years without eating or drinking. Humorously; ‘Keeping Up With The Daedalics’ shows that Edna doesn’t have a high opinion of Gollum - for obvious reasons.
Honestly I think a game where you crawl around as an awful piss baby would've actually been kinda fun if done right, the main issue seems to be that it's just a complete nothing game. You follow a linear path, basically acting out cutscenes exactly as the developers want you to and you get a game over and sent back if you stray from the path even a little bit. I guess it kinda feels like Stray in a way, except without any of the qualities such as visuals, story telling, music and charm that actually made that game work.
Yeah I was just thinking it feels like they saw Stray and wanted to make that but couldn't figure out why that game was so likeable. I mean a lot of the appeal of Stray is the protagonist is a cat and therefore cute, you can't really do that with... Gollum.
This game reminded me a lot of Styx: Master of Shadows, but way worse. You play a literal goblin in that game, it's also stealth-focused, the graphical qualities are quite similar (Styx is from 2014 though). Basically Styx: MOS is a great game to check out instead of this, much cheaper too.
1:01:11 The environments and effects actually do look like they were made in Dreams. The environments by someone very skilled at using Dreams, and the effects by someone who just picked it up two minutes ago. 1:46:53 Vinny flexing his perfect Gollum impression
@@TrueLadyEvilChan Which is why the tie-in crossover episode of ‘Keeping up with the Daedalics’ had more effort and care put into it than the actual game; the person drawing it had far more experience in their craft, while the game developers were out of their element.
not only is the tolkein state aware of this, i'm pretty sure this game was conceived backwards because the dev team could only negotiate a license for Gollum and Orcs
Vinny: Hey chat member, remember when I said I would turn off Gollum's hair? Chat Member: That's right, Vinny! You did! Vinny: I lied *Vinny turns on Gollum's hair anyway* Vinny likes his bad games like he likes his pizza, with crust.
I'm appalled that the Tolkien estate would not allow Amazon to adapt Silmarillion but is completely okay with this decaying, radioactive, nuclear waste.
This wasnt officially approved by them iirc. LotR entered public domain forever ago, hence shit like Rings of power can exist with their explicit DISAPPROVAL.
@@warbossgegguz679 what? They sold the rights with the stipulation that they dont change anything that was written canon. They gave their explicit permission are you high?
Wow. 0:02:50 - Who's the blue wizard, Chat? "We cannot let this evil linger among us, (REDACTED)." 0:07:11 0:11:05 0:14:15 0:18:18 0:19:45 - Permanent spine damage. Whoops. 0:25:28 - Vinny VA. 0:26:36 0:27:06 0:28:48 0:34:08 0:35:18 - Text T *•Convince Gollum™ that you are a shit baby.* 0:47:39 - A sight to wake up to. 0:49:33 - Blocking. 0:54:23 - Frail man. 0:55:28 - Lever. 0:55:52 - YES. RESTRICT THE BLOOD FLOW. 0:59:12 1:04:38 - "Now we're having fun!" 1:09:54 1:12:15 1:25:53 - Why? 1:29:35 - Can't jump. 1:30:35 1:36:41 - Why? 1:37:17 - Not Vinny's noise. 1:38:39 1:39:05 - Can't afford Vinny for the voice. 1:40:37 1:40:45 1:42:50 - The Zelda noise. 1:43:43 - We heards the Zelda noise! 1:46:09 1:46:53 - Smeagol Vinny knows they swapped those sound effects. 1:52:34 - Imagine all the people ♪ 2:03:16 - Ahh... 2:03:43 2:04:33 2:04:45 2:07:04 2:08:10 2:08:18 2:08:43 - They heard him say it. 2:10:50 - Yeh. 2:11:16 - Perfect escape.
Daedalic is a pretty small developer who impressively managed to buy their way out of publisher slavery to become a self-owned company. Most of their games are classic 2D point and click games. I can fully understand their wish to try something bigger and more challenging within a big and well-known franchise, but I just don't get why it had to be a game about Gollum. I hope they can weather the losses and go back to what they're good at.
To be totally fair to them, their stories are typically about unassuming characters doing some very important crap usually after digging their way out of metaphorical holes and such.
This is peak triple A gaming: - _Look! IP I recognize! I gotta buy it!_ (Expensive and barely any quality control) - _Ohh! Pretty graphics!_ (Stutter every time there's more than 2 characters on screen) - _Walking and climbing on 3D map simulator_ (You'll get a quick time event if you're lucky) - _Bland music, bland UI_ (You could swear this is some free unity template) I can't wait for the stories of employees working unpaid overtime for this one! (What happun anyone...?)
@@redcribge6235 I like to imagine that’s what happened shortly after the events of the recent episode of ‘Keeping Up With The Daedalics’; after eating the dead fish that Harvey gave to him, Gollum went to the fridge, and tried washing it down with the nearest unmarked bottle he could find.
as a german it genuinely breaks my heart to see daedalic get international attention but because they made a terrible broken ass game like this studio is kind of a point and click darling of our country (or at least was in the early 2010s) and i almost wanna beg vinny to play deponia or edna the breakout so he can see that the studio has made really fun and charming games too that are indeed well made
I think Vinny doesn't like Point & Click adventures so it wouldn't be his thing. Also I'm pretty sure the original Devs behind those games all left after Nacon bought the company
Between Critikal crashing the game before even starting it and Vinny breaking the game within the first seconds of playing it this game certainly is one of the games of all time
The sad thing is, despite what everyone says about it, the concept of a Lord of the Rings game based on Gollum is actually brilliant. An interesting character with a unique movement style that spans the entire saga, who is as likely to eat you in the dark as cower in stealth. A great and a unique choice for a character based LotR game. It's too bad they didn't prove the concept by making a, you know, good game.
@@sanxxxx Absolutely. It's easy for people to forget the before times, but before Jackson's movies implanted on everyone a visual identity for the Lord of the Rings, the popular conception of Gollum was less of an Andy Serkis goblin and more of like... one of the creatures from The Descent. A horrifying cave-dwelling cannibal ghoul that was made terrifying and pathetic in equal measure by the ebb and flow of the whims of the One Ring.
On this topic, I always thought this interpretation of Gollum was slightly inaccurate. Too human. He's described as almost a half-fish/amphibian. I'd imagine he'd have some razor sharp teeth and sunken, huge, super-reflective eyes like a fish. Or a dark cave creature. Never really vibed with the favorite interpretation of the movie.
12:03 "So, Ronald, what do you think about this Gollum video game?" "You went to the moon?" "The graphics suck am I right?" "The moon in the fucking sky???"
The fact that there is a setting called "Gollum Hair Simulation" that crashes the game feels like a bizarre one-off joke, not an actual feature of a real video game.
The old man’s walk animation looks like an animator animated an old man walking, it was too slow, so the guy putting everything together sped it up thinking “this looks fine”
motion blur makes me motion sick and I long for the day it's not on by default even in games where you have the option to turn it off. Games where you can't turn it off are just unplayable for me
Someone needs to do a "Real Gollum Trailer" who can do a good Gollum impersonation. Where it is just them slowly sounding and acting more like Gollum as they play this game because it's so bad. "Mustn't use the ray tracing" "No no no the framerates is skipping again!" "Tricksy little bugsies, always crashing ALWAYS CRASHING"
If you squint; Gollum also kinda looks like Edna Konrad (Edna & Harvey: The Breakout), if she went 80 years without eating or drinking. Humorously; ‘Keeping Up With The Daedalics’ shows that Edna doesn’t have a high opinion of Gollum - for obvious reasons.
@@cienkitv2854 Also describes the events of the first Season Finale of ‘Keeping Up With The Daedalics’ ('Double Trouble'). "It won't take long. Just stay here and don't touch anything!"
I actually was really excited when they announced a Gollum game, he's my favorite character and I really was excited to have a story focused around him. But jesus christ this is something else
I remember actually being kind of excited for gollum game but forgetting its existence entirely when no one talked about it. Honestly I didn't even know it had released
Vinnys Gollum voice is very enjoyable, it’s probably only great because it’s present on short durations but it feels like it has so much more character over internal monologue boy
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Hi John.
does it work with opera?
@@lookstothetroon I mean... since it's based on Chromium, it probably does.
@@emmanueljimenez1574 it fucking better
The game softlocking not even 10 seconds into actual gameplay has got to be some kind of a record.
Hair%
He didn’t even move
Not even Sonic 06 was this bad.
@@mquezada88 Don't compare Sonic '06 to this monstrosity.
Second place only to Joel's solitaire bluescreen
49:41
Gollum - "Smaegol doesn't know what to do"
Orc Captain - "Breeding"
• Breed to create a piss baby
Gollussy, I'm sorry.
oh is that why we need to restrict the blood flow?
M O V E
You could generate enough electricity to power the entire Shire if you hooked it up to Tolkien’s spinning corpse
This is absolutely genius
This game thus solved the global energy crisis.
**THUMP THUMP THUMPA THUMP**
I can't stop laughing holy fuck this is so good
You mean "scourging of shire" shire?
Hobbits don't use electricity otherwise.
This doesn't feel real, it feels like a high-budget shitpost game
The higher the shit, the louder the splash.
Born to shit, forced to wipe
Canon Fanfiction.
I thought it was a shitpost game
Egglikes have made it to the mainstream
I honestly love the idea of this game, there's something extremely bohemian about putting you in control of the most dingy, loathsome, unlikable little rat in fiction and then telling the player "Go crawl around in the dark and eat birds". There was genuinely some room for some truly bizarre and unique stuff. It's too bad that it is... y'know, the way that it is.
I really want to see what they could do with the convince Gollum/Smeagol mechanic.
Right?? Like, who tf is gonna buy Gollum, OF ALL THINGS, to act somewhat normally, raise a pet bird, and even act nobly by keeping his word and freeing two elves?
@@JohnSmith-ox3gy It could have been great if it had been treated kind of like how it was in the film. The world darkens until just Gollum is showing, face contorted as he's torn between two choices, two conflicted personalities grappling for control over the body.
Then we see two choices appear, one possibly faded and difficult to choose based on actions taken throughout the game, requiring more effort to convince Smeagol/Gollum to do.
@@WobblesandBeangod yes, this could have been such an interesting look into what Gollum went through as he became corrupted by the ring, and became more and more alone and more paranoid and terrified of other people and of Sauron and the orcs finding him. But no we got walking simulator of the rings. This is just so fucking lame. I have no idea how anyone testing this thought it was fun. I am bored watching it even 😭
Good video! I loved the part where Gollum pulled out his Desert Smeagol and shot Ganondalf in the head.
Desert Smeagol is fucking genius dude
The fans shot him in heeead~! Now he is deeead~! Murdered at his ranch~!
Oh my god I just realized they typed *Ganondalf* lmao legend
Absolutely one of the moments of all time.
The way Gollum said "No, old man, I _am_ Gollum(TM) for the Sony Playstation 5 console" right before he pulled the trigger...chilling.
what's even funnier is that "déagol" is a real character in tolkien lore
I'd never done a spit take in my life, but something about seeing the words "Smeagol won the argument" actually made me spit coffee on my screen.
God tier reaction image
35:16
Imagine losing an argument to fucking smeagol
@@babybebe_oki Imagine BEING Smeagol and losing an argument to fucking Smeagol
Now I need Smeagol and Gollum as Phoenix Wright and Miles Edgeworth.
Gollum looks like one of those early 3d gorillaz models
and he sounds like Murdoc
Gorllum
@@redcribge6235 Smeagorillaz
So funny.
I hate how true this is
I can't believe they normalpilled Gollum
It's a real blackpill fr fr
That’s what the point of the mask is
based and normalpilled
That's Damascus... (that's Damascus)
@@Superteletubbies64 THATS WHAT THE POINT OF THE MASK IS THATS WHAT THE POINT OF THE MASK IS
Kinda impressive that they could make this in Dreams though
with the amount of motion blur, i believe you
I can't get enough over how abruptly the game cuts to the game over screen the split second Gollum dies
Even mobile games are more gentle.
flappy bird had a more subtle death screen
Ganon: "Die!"
1:46:14 Vinny gets a restriction of blood flow to his throat as his lungs compress.
There are so many good laughs in this video but this one murders me
Restrict blood flow to vinnys throat ✅️
he chose violence
This game has that wonderful jank that only a licensed shovelware game can have
And slavjank.
Only a game this absolutely broken and awful could cause a stream as unhinged as this one was. Vinny just completely stopped caring 10 minutes into the game and thought "Screw it"
He never found a new diaper so he didn’t really play it
Lol
please turn off Gollum's hair
Worst game of the year, best stream of the year
Looks like Gollum himself made this game
You know that game vinny played that was like the kid that slaughters dinosaurs with a light saber, that's basically Gollum's Version of that
Gollum could've made a better game
Calculating Bumpmaps? What is this, Precious?!
He learned C++
Holy shit he probly did, who else in the world would make a LOTR game and have the main star be FFFUCKING *GOLLUM.*
"Curse this land! Curse it!"
Immediately jumps off a cliff
what did he mean by this?
Gollum knows his game sucks
Is he stupid?
Personally I prefer the air
Well whatever you say you Curse before you die is indeed Cursed, by old world logic. Don't know about Tolkein logic
best ending for gollum
The best-looking PS2 game of 2023.
Usually I don’t like people using that insult but this game literally does have the exact same “why and how in the fuck was this ever okayed” vibe as those ultra cheap Home Alone and Beverly Hills Cop games for the PS2 lol
Hey for PS2 this looks great
People: Graphics dont matter
Same exact people:
@@Trashboat444 They do matter when the game needs a 2k dollar pc to run properly but looks like it's nade for 20 year old hardware.
@@Trashboat444 There’s a difference between games that get around technical limitations with interesting art styles vs games that rely entirely on the powerful hardware they’re on to look somewhat realistic
26:31 He misses the clear sign of more shrubbery, but Vinny going "Bitch, WHAT?!" needs to be added to a soundboard.
Ni!
@@tahunuva4254 Oh no. Not the the knights of the forest who say Ni !
@@c-love6753 Ni!
@@c-love6753 THA SAME
Vinny does a far better Gollum/Smeagol impression than the voice actor of this game
EDIT: My opinion has changed; the devs weren't going for an exact replica and they did a good job with a different style of voice. I may have just jumped right to the comment section mid-video. Although personally really like how Vinny can do a solid impression of the original.
I don't really think the VA here was trying to do an Andy Serkis impression, more like a "legally distinct" imitation or something.
I could do a better impression when I was 10
It's not based off the film adaptations in the slightest, there is literally no reason to try an Andy Serkis impression.
I hate how the expectation now is that it has to match the movies.
@@jayjasespud
If he were a type of Gollum sure, but this is specifically THE Gollum. They even specified that he's the same character from The Hobbit so they don't even have the excuse of an alternate reality version. I mean I don't care, but I can see why people have a problem with it.
I'm fucking dying every time Vinny does the Gollum voice at 1:43:43 , 1:46:56 , and ESPECIALLY at 1:44:24.
I cant fucking breathe
Vinny does a better impersonation than the guy they got for the game
@@ADreamingTraveler Honestly, I dont think the game voice is that bad. It's fine, just a bit toned down.
Vinny is going exaggerated for fun, and If the Game was as over-the-top it would sound ridiculous or people would make fun of it too.
I love the idea that Gollum would call smeagol a "little bastard"
😂😂😂
I didn't have many expectations for this game yet it still managed to disappoint me
Exactly my same sentiment! Make me chuckle thanks.
It should've been been meme heavy
The tie-in crossover episode of ‘Keeping Up With The Daedalics’ had more effort and care put into it than the actual game.
I had no expectations but still managed to be disappointed, like it broke the basic expectations of a video game that I didn’t even know I had
I haven't watched nor read anything LOTR related. And it also made me feel weirdly disappointed.
Did Vinny do some story stuff off-camera? Why does Link look so crusty all of a sudden?
Link got so infected by the gloom he became a new bokoblin type, cursed by the Ring of Power. He's stuck in the Depths below Hyrule Depths and has to find the Ring of Courage and the Ring of Wisdom to remove the curse.
@@TrueLadyEvilChan”Rauru fixed us… He fixed us.”
“RAURU CURSED US”
He did some stuff (off) camera, now game is fucked :(
Spent too long in the depths
see this is why femboys should use hrt, so they dont hit the wall at the age of 30 like link here
Seeing as this game currently has the worst score of any game on Metacritic for this year (so far), this should be a wild ride of a video.
Daedalic legit did every AAA pub that shat their bed this year a solid by not delaying this turd any longer (it was set to release in Sept last year first, iirc)
@@screamybingus707they don't seem to be very good at making 3D games in general
@@vulcanitu2578 they mainly make point and click games so having them make an action game is beyond me.
So soon after Redfall to
@@vulcanitu2578 They just about manage to make functioning point and click games, there was no way they would ever pull off something as ambitious as this in a satisfying way. I played the Deponia games and even with those I ran into technical issues and softlocks. These guys in my experience are NOT competent when it comes to programming thier games, and in my opinion they aren't very good at being funny either, at least thier english translators from thier original german aren't.
Vinny needs to do "gollum gaturdays" where he does nothing but play gollum games and the chat has gollum emotes
I loved the part when Gollum gollumed on all of the orcs and then he won
My fav bit was when Gollum said "It's Golluming time"
The Studio (Daedalic) is usually known for very entertaining and good looking point and click adventure games. Seems like they bite off too much for this project.
It honestly feels more like development hell.
It's worse than I'd imagined. The studio isn't bad, but I wouldn't say they're notable either (in other words, why trust them to deliver on such a huge franchise?).
Then there's the publisher, Nacon.
Formally BigBen Interactive, they're most well known for screwing over the dev team of The Sinking City. Explains the dlc and probably the sorry state the game is in.
@@madmanmortonyt4890 Nacon is absolutely the likely reason for the project being the way it is. They've got the track record already. Daedalic does not.
Daedalic publishes pretty good stuff like too like Barotrauma and Shadow Tactics
I was very confused when their name popped up. I was like "not THAT daedalic? Surely not?"
When Vinny said "We have Gollum at home," I squinted and determined that Gollum-at-Home looks a lot like Tak.
that's some bad juju. XD
Whoever says those games were good never played a good game in their entire childhood.
@@diegomedina9637I've never played the first game, but Tak 2 had a lot of good in it, albeit being pretty generic in a lot of the gameplay.
that was exactly my first thought too
Ok! So I wasn't alone thinking about Tak during this!
Gollum constantly making Vinny noisee as he died slowly to the fire took me out just like Vinny.
10:59
@@4Wilko You're a godsend
1:40:43 for the Zelda noise and 1:42:51 for the comparison. The fact that the sound effect is so similar was funny enough, the entire Gollum impression he made shortly after obliterated my sides.
what noise is that from? i never heard it in a zelda game before
@@lazyboy8886 It's the noise when you pick up stuff in BotW and TotK.
@@That_One_Xatu what.. all i heard was a tea kettle noise then a bang
@@lazyboy8886 it was before the bang
I was playing TotK while watching this and was so confused by that for a moment lmao
hearing vinny call gollum the "47 of middle earth" just because of the perfectly-executed orc assassination makes me believe a homing briefcase would've improved this game. yet again anything would've.
and by a similar token, what game *wouldn't* be improved with the addition of a homing briefcase?
@@chloejessica7961hong kong 97.
This game feels and handles like an early 2000s xbox game but somehow it nearly has the graphic fidelity (in some places) of a modern project. It's strangely retro but not in a good way.
Also, Gollum's massive glassy golfball eyes and strange moving mouth are haunting but at the same time I was laughing to the point of wheezing and tears.
This is legit like the Vivendi LotR games from the early 2000s that they made to cash in on the movies.
In fact I think it shares some of the voice cast even.
This is what happens when you give inexperienced devs a cutting edge engine. Nintendo hire these men.
This feels like one of those hyper-obscure low budget licensed PS2 games you only find out later on and only play because you’re curious as to why they’d make a Beverly Hills Cop game in 2005
@@mechadeka come on man, they're using unreal engine any way they can. Just none of the good ways
He looks like that creepypasta frog girl meme if you know which one im talking about
If you blindly showed me gameplay of this I would 100% with absolute certainty believe it was made in Dreams
It’s Unreal Engine so pretty close
someone's going to remake this in dreams but better. I mean, they already did it to banban
I just realized what this gollum's face reminds me of. Anyone remember that Nick show Tak and the Power of Juju with that really plastic-y 3d animation from the year 2007?
He looks just like that main character, Tak. Look it up i swear yall gonna agree.
I remember this show and yeah he does.
If you squint; Gollum also kinda looks like Edna Konrad (Edna & Harvey: The Breakout), if she went 80 years without eating or drinking. Humorously; ‘Keeping Up With The Daedalics’ shows that Edna doesn’t have a high opinion of Gollum - for obvious reasons.
There was also a game series for it.
@@doozy5184 i remember them being at mcdonalds kiosks?? If im not going crazy
@@augustoof13 And on Gamecube
Underrated moment at 2:10:51 when the orc talks back to Vinny.
_jyeah_
Yeh >:)
That made me laugh out loud.
It’s actually astonishing how they got neither the look nor the voice right for Gollum, both of which are incredibly easy to nail
It’s based on book not movie
@@XXCaptainXFalconXX Guess what the movie is based on
@@XXCaptainXFalconXXThat doesn't make it better
@@kekchanbiggestfan the game????
@@CrumbHuntComplete ????????????????????
They have made this game about gollum because he is relatable for the average gamer
I can relate a lot to him but instead of the ring I have my lolicon hentai.
HEY
I’m twice as ugly and only half as tall
I thought gollum had practically no hair, does he wear wigs?
*Will* he wear wigs?
@@goblinoftheyear7407 *When* will he wear wigs?
Where will he wear wigs?
Mr Voods?
@@goblinoftheyear7407Y-Maybe..
Just FYI, the diaper is in the trash can in Tom Bombadil's bathroom. Hopefully this helps! 😊
Finally someone posted this. Was looking for hours. Thanks.
7:36 That laugh was amazing.
Those are his best laughs, like he's slowly going insane. 😂
It's his "for fuck's sake" laugh for sure 😂
Gollum in this game looks like if someone photoshopped a picture of Vinny into Gollum
If you squint; Gollum also kinda looks like Edna Konrad (Edna & Harvey: The Breakout), if she went 80 years without eating or drinking. Humorously; ‘Keeping Up With The Daedalics’ shows that Edna doesn’t have a high opinion of Gollum - for obvious reasons.
With added JUST hair too
Honestly I think a game where you crawl around as an awful piss baby would've actually been kinda fun if done right, the main issue seems to be that it's just a complete nothing game. You follow a linear path, basically acting out cutscenes exactly as the developers want you to and you get a game over and sent back if you stray from the path even a little bit. I guess it kinda feels like Stray in a way, except without any of the qualities such as visuals, story telling, music and charm that actually made that game work.
Tripping the orcs would've been fun
Yeah I was just thinking it feels like they saw Stray and wanted to make that but couldn't figure out why that game was so likeable. I mean a lot of the appeal of Stray is the protagonist is a cat and therefore cute, you can't really do that with... Gollum.
This game reminded me a lot of Styx: Master of Shadows, but way worse. You play a literal goblin in that game, it's also stealth-focused, the graphical qualities are quite similar (Styx is from 2014 though). Basically Styx: MOS is a great game to check out instead of this, much cheaper too.
I'm proud of Gollum™ for finally taking his normal pills
Thats what the point of the mask is
Finally, Stray for real gamers.
It's amazing how Stray had significantly less to do in terms of gameplay, and yet the Gollum game is much, much worse.
Stray didn't need to be good to get popular 😾
Fun fact: the team who made the Gollum model were also the people behind the models for the Donkey Kong Country tv show
No fucking way
@@rr53213rr I'd rather get back to my home and diddy drop myself off the second floor window than play this game for sure
Is this fr??
_Absolutely gruesome_
@@rr53213rr ...An absolute zero...
1:01:11 The environments and effects actually do look like they were made in Dreams. The environments by someone very skilled at using Dreams, and the effects by someone who just picked it up two minutes ago.
1:46:53 Vinny flexing his perfect Gollum impression
This game has a strong "Hunt Down the Freeman" vibe to it
I think it’s very brave that someone looked at Redfall and said “That’s the least amount of effort you can put in? Amateurs”
Very barve of them.
i feel like the developers were set up to fail with this like theres no damn way they would be able to pull this off
Uh huh.
See; Daedalic is more about point and clicks. I do think they had to release it at this point at risk of
Well
Money.
@@TrueLadyEvilChan their most ambitious stuff is still way below what this would have required
@@TrueLadyEvilChan Nice name
@@TrueLadyEvilChan Which is why the tie-in crossover episode of ‘Keeping up with the Daedalics’ had more effort and care put into it than the actual game; the person drawing it had far more experience in their craft, while the game developers were out of their element.
1:00:06
I just had to explain to my roommate that the dude didn't just say "Thrussy Kunt"
My favorite part of Gollum is when he got the Ring and hit the Smeagol Wiggle.
• (COMPLETE) Convince Vinny to make a diaper bit
not only is the tolkein state aware of this, i'm pretty sure this game was conceived backwards because the dev team could only negotiate a license for Gollum and Orcs
Vinny: Hey chat member, remember when I said I would turn off Gollum's hair?
Chat Member: That's right, Vinny! You did!
Vinny: I lied
*Vinny turns on Gollum's hair anyway*
Vinny likes his bad games like he likes his pizza, with crust.
I'm appalled that the Tolkien estate would not allow Amazon to adapt Silmarillion but is completely okay with this decaying, radioactive, nuclear waste.
Apparently it's because LotR is like 17 years out to be Public Domain while Silmarillion has like 70 years to go.
This wasnt officially approved by them iirc. LotR entered public domain forever ago, hence shit like Rings of power can exist with their explicit DISAPPROVAL.
That’s because the new CEO cares more about money than the quality of the IP.
@@warbossgegguz679 what? They sold the rights with the stipulation that they dont change anything that was written canon. They gave their explicit permission are you high?
@@thelegalsystem The Tolkien Scholars literally disavowed it.
1:43:46
Bits like this make me appreciate not having to see Vinnie's face on screen
Wow.
0:02:50 - Who's the blue wizard, Chat? "We cannot let this evil linger among us, (REDACTED)."
0:07:11
0:11:05
0:14:15
0:18:18
0:19:45 - Permanent spine damage. Whoops.
0:25:28 - Vinny VA. 0:26:36 0:27:06 0:28:48 0:34:08
0:35:18 - Text T
*•Convince Gollum™ that you are a shit baby.*
0:47:39 - A sight to wake up to.
0:49:33 - Blocking.
0:54:23 - Frail man.
0:55:28 - Lever.
0:55:52 - YES. RESTRICT THE BLOOD FLOW.
0:59:12
1:04:38 - "Now we're having fun!"
1:09:54
1:12:15
1:25:53 - Why?
1:29:35 - Can't jump. 1:30:35
1:36:41 - Why?
1:37:17 - Not Vinny's noise. 1:38:39
1:39:05 - Can't afford Vinny for the voice. 1:40:37
1:40:45 1:42:50 - The Zelda noise.
1:43:43 - We heards the Zelda noise!
1:46:09
1:46:53 - Smeagol Vinny knows they swapped those sound effects.
1:52:34 - Imagine all the people ♪
2:03:16 - Ahh... 2:03:43 2:04:33 2:04:45 2:07:04 2:08:10
2:08:18 2:08:43 - They heard him say it.
2:10:50 - Yeh.
2:11:16 - Perfect escape.
Thank you so much for all these highlight time stamps :)
Daedalic is a pretty small developer who impressively managed to buy their way out of publisher slavery to become a self-owned company. Most of their games are classic 2D point and click games.
I can fully understand their wish to try something bigger and more challenging within a big and well-known franchise, but I just don't get why it had to be a game about Gollum.
I hope they can weather the losses and go back to what they're good at.
Not really, Nacon bought them.
To be totally fair to them, their stories are typically about unassuming characters doing some very important crap usually after digging their way out of metaphorical holes and such.
34:16 Did not need to hear Gollumgasm, thanks.
"You didn't need to post that"
Lmao
This is peak triple A gaming:
- _Look! IP I recognize! I gotta buy it!_ (Expensive and barely any quality control)
- _Ohh! Pretty graphics!_ (Stutter every time there's more than 2 characters on screen)
- _Walking and climbing on 3D map simulator_ (You'll get a quick time event if you're lucky)
- _Bland music, bland UI_ (You could swear this is some free unity template)
I can't wait for the stories of employees working unpaid overtime for this one! (What happun anyone...?)
Gollum drank breast milk from the company fridge
@@redcribge6235 I like to imagine that’s what happened shortly after the events of the recent episode of ‘Keeping Up With The Daedalics’; after eating the dead fish that Harvey gave to him, Gollum went to the fridge, and tried washing it down with the nearest unmarked bottle he could find.
games like this are feeding the Wuh Happun industrial complex and it delights me
just like spiderman just effortlessly mindlessly fling yourself across a massive map
Can’t believe this is Jerma’s favorite game
Hey, we all like seeing ourselves represented
"I summon Vinny in attack mode, his passive allows me to crash any game!"
"I-it's not pooossibllllle!!!!"
Man, Tak really had a hard time finding work after the TV show.
My first thought was "How could they do by boy Tak like this?!" 😅
the years have been very hard on him :(
Gollum looks like the love child of Momo-chan and a hairless skaven.
Don't insult momo-chan like that.
This abomination is far more ugly
@@jamiehughes5573oh you meant That not This
@@jamiehughes5573 Birb lady is much prettier.
Gollum doesn't even have her big naturals, come on.
Momo.... I miss Momo.
I've never seen a modern game where you can't tell the difference between the lowest setting and the highest ones.
biiig fan of wizard off. really glad he’s getting some recognition
Gandalf gets all the credit but where was Gandalf when Wizard (OFF) was finding the Ring?
I have two sides
WIZARD (OFF)
WIZARD (ON)
as a german it genuinely breaks my heart to see daedalic get international attention but because they made a terrible broken ass game
like this studio is kind of a point and click darling of our country (or at least was in the early 2010s) and i almost wanna beg vinny to play deponia or edna the breakout so he can see that the studio has made really fun and charming games too that are indeed well made
as unlikely as it is vinny trying deponia would be amazing
I think Vinny doesn't like Point & Click adventures so it wouldn't be his thing. Also I'm pretty sure the original Devs behind those games all left after Nacon bought the company
I can't lie. I saw the caption picture and thought this was some parody meme game about Gollum. That's how crusty it really is.
Seeing a clip before watching the full video, I was genuinely convinced that the text in the top left later on was real.
Now I wish the name of the game was “Gollum at home”
You could power a small city with a generator hooked up to Tolkein's coffin
Between Critikal crashing the game before even starting it and Vinny breaking the game within the first seconds of playing it this game certainly is one of the games of all time
12:38 imagine playing the new zelda and this was the climb jump animation
I could timestamp any point to be honest
crazy that despite the game being buggy as hell, vinny still managed to complete the quest "Make the orc late for work" on his first try.
this feels like goat simulator with a computer-print out of the mona lisa taped over it
da vinky?
The sad thing is, despite what everyone says about it, the concept of a Lord of the Rings game based on Gollum is actually brilliant. An interesting character with a unique movement style that spans the entire saga, who is as likely to eat you in the dark as cower in stealth. A great and a unique choice for a character based LotR game. It's too bad they didn't prove the concept by making a, you know, good game.
Agreed.
truuuue. Throw in some riddle minigames for spice while you're at it, I feel like everybody forgets gollum loves riddles
@@sanxxxx Absolutely. It's easy for people to forget the before times, but before Jackson's movies implanted on everyone a visual identity for the Lord of the Rings, the popular conception of Gollum was less of an Andy Serkis goblin and more of like... one of the creatures from The Descent. A horrifying cave-dwelling cannibal ghoul that was made terrifying and pathetic in equal measure by the ebb and flow of the whims of the One Ring.
I imagined Gollum as a slow, withered creature that slithered around. Seeing him fast and agile is weird.
On this topic, I always thought this interpretation of Gollum was slightly inaccurate. Too human. He's described as almost a half-fish/amphibian. I'd imagine he'd have some razor sharp teeth and sunken, huge, super-reflective eyes like a fish. Or a dark cave creature. Never really vibed with the favorite interpretation of the movie.
i open the video and i literally click a random point ONCE. it's 59:16 and vinny's passive activates. believe me guys.
Bold of you to assume his passive isn't always in affect
He softlocks the game seconds after getting control. This isn't his usual passive in works.
"Self taught game designer" when asked to make a big game
I was in disbelief when the orc said CUUUNNT!!!! I nearly teared up laughing XD
12:03
"So, Ronald, what do you think about this Gollum video game?"
"You went to the moon?"
"The graphics suck am I right?"
"The moon in the fucking sky???"
The fact that there is a setting called "Gollum Hair Simulation" that crashes the game feels like a bizarre one-off joke, not an actual feature of a real video game.
Sounds like they couldn't get it to work, but still wanted people to know it exists.
46:26 I just love that vinny said what he said, and I scroll previewed the remainder and vinny does indeed keep to his words
Tears of the Kingdom developers are on suicide watch after seeing gameplay of Gollum
The old man’s walk animation looks like an animator animated an old man walking, it was too slow, so the guy putting everything together sped it up thinking “this looks fine”
The game has an option for Gollum's hair which is buggy af on launch yet no motion blur toggle 😑
motion blur makes me motion sick and I long for the day it's not on by default even in games where you have the option to turn it off. Games where you can't turn it off are just unplayable for me
Vinny: “I wanna give this game a fair chance”
Game breaks 10 seconds in
Someone needs to do a "Real Gollum Trailer" who can do a good Gollum impersonation.
Where it is just them slowly sounding and acting more like Gollum as they play this game because it's so bad.
"Mustn't use the ray tracing"
"No no no the framerates is skipping again!"
"Tricksy little bugsies, always crashing ALWAYS CRASHING"
vinny is actually a type of gollum
gollum looks like if Tak developed a ketamine addiction
If you squint; Gollum also kinda looks like Edna Konrad (Edna & Harvey: The Breakout), if she went 80 years without eating or drinking. Humorously; ‘Keeping Up With The Daedalics’ shows that Edna doesn’t have a high opinion of Gollum - for obvious reasons.
@@ryanm.8720My headcanon is that this game was made solely by Rufus from Deponia.
@@cienkitv2854 So basically; he watched 'The Lord of the Rings' movie trilogy, saw Gollum, and thought "That's me."
@@ryanm.8720 "He just like me fr fr!"
@@cienkitv2854 Also describes the events of the first Season Finale of ‘Keeping Up With The Daedalics’ ('Double Trouble').
"It won't take long. Just stay here and don't touch anything!"
I can only imagine how much Vinny raged last night.
His Gollum came out a lot
@@ArmoredChocoboLPs He Smeargoled all over chat.
Oh there were plenty of times he got so annoyed and frustrated.
I actually was really excited when they announced a Gollum game, he's my favorite character and I really was excited to have a story focused around him. But jesus christ this is something else
I actually thought the Gandalf voice was pretty damn good. This is unfortunate, since it really makes the other 99% of the game stand out all the more
>leaving the off cues in the captions
th-those are only relevant to the production and voice acting crew
Love that the recommended specs include 32 gigs of RAM and a 3080ti
Also seeing Nacon pop up explains everything
32 gigs?? Really?? How are games going to be playable on PC from now on?
I remember actually being kind of excited for gollum game but forgetting its existence entirely when no one talked about it. Honestly I didn't even know it had released
Off? Did they really need to specify if the subtitle speaker is offscreen (I assume that's what it means), we... we can see that, game.
Vinnys Gollum voice is very enjoyable, it’s probably only great because it’s present on short durations but it feels like it has so much more character over internal monologue boy
2:15:35 No matter where Vinny goes, he can't escape the clown vomit
Looking forward to an abundance of Gollum voice in unrelated future streams