Gollum is way worse than even our lowest expectations (Review)

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Published 2023-05-25

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@DolanDarker 1 year ago

It looks like a PS3 game with facial animations from a PS2 game, truly a masterpiece of all time
@rod1028 1 year ago

Gollum looks like he’s addicted to a lot more than just the one ring.
@vsf_dave811 1 year ago

As a world renowned Tolkien scholar, I can confirm that Tolkien did in fact intend for Gollum to wall run but knew that the world wasn’t ready for such a groundbreaking innovation so it wasn’t included in the books
@rodrigocarmona9827 1 year ago

21:56 The fact Gollum can't easily get out of a body of water shows the developers didn't ask for Tolkien expert (or whatever) because Gollum is a Stoors Hobbit, and his people was known for swimming and boats
@stevena105 1 year ago

The inconsistent controls is just the game immersing you in Gollum's descent into madness.
@artyjnrii 1 year ago

Hopefully this kickstarts the Gollum-like genre which involves making anything you like, but having you play as Gollum.
@Herr_Gamer 1 year ago

I know like seven guys and two women that can do a near movie accurate gollum voice. How could they not have found someone with a decent gollum impression?
@ButrScochMonks 1 year ago

“Gollum eats birds he doesn’t raise them” is so real and says it all
@Nevarro_ 1 year ago

I can't believe they had the balls to release this as a full price title
@SteveElOtaku 1 year ago

Gollum in canon: "What's it got it in its nasty pocketses?" "WE HATES THE BAGGINSES" Gollum here: "I must perform taskeses for Lord Bezoses, or else no bathroom breakses, gollum..."
@stevenshea990 1 year ago

21:58 this especially funny when Tolkien specifically points out that Smaegol's people are uniquely good at swimming for hobbits.
@LionmaneElsie08 1 year ago

I’m convinced that the reason this plays so badly and is so broken and unpolished is because people couldn’t bare to play it more than once when they were ‘testing’ it, so they were just like “yep… that-that’s fine!”
@Tyrian3k 1 year ago

This doesn't just look unfinished, this looks like they just made a proof of concept build and shipped that as a final product.
@frankiefrank6850 1 year ago

"Hopefully non canon" is one of the more casually brutal notes I've heard in a review
@Nuclearsnow 1 year ago

Gollum doesn’t escape, he’s set free… they even got that wrong 😂
@vtubersubs3803 1 year ago

Gollum didn't even have to escape from Mordor in the first place. After Sauron got the info about Baggins and the Shire he let Gollum go, because he knew Gollum would inevitably go after the ring and could unwittingly help Sauron in locating it
@Dodgelayne 1 year ago

Whoever convinced the Publisher to send out review copies deserves some kind of medal
@70rn 1 year ago

There's no way book Gollum wouldn't have eaten the bird, instantly. Hell he'd probably have just eaten the egg. Gollum as a video game character probably would've better served as some kind of masochistic survival-horror where by you have to run around gathering worms and lizards to stay alive whilst travelling across middle earth trailing the ring: evading wargs, orcs , giant spiders trying to turn you into a chewy snack.
@rileymcphee9429 1 year ago

They could've given Gollum an arc where he starts more hobbit-like while doing all that stuff but goes through a transformation into the Gollum we know over the course of the game. But no, that would've made too much sense.