Still impressed how he softlocked the game seconds after getting control.

The game itself is the perfect representation of gollum. Broken, ugly, greedy and pitiful

It’s so funny that the devs themselves were like “Turn off his hair or the game will break”

this feels like a modern reskinning of an obscure PS2 game

I’m actually convinced the game was made by Gollum himself, no sane director or game dev would think that this game was good for release except for him

This is like if they made a pulp fiction game and you play the guy who eats the burger and gets exploded

07:15 Gollum sneering and looking around for his Precious only to get suddenly trampled by an old man while the look on his face changes to that of extreme violated confusion and fear is pure gold.

“Restrict blood flow to Gollum’s throat” is definitely a vinesauce favorite from this year

Objectives -Passive the game into softlocking. -(Optional) Do a better Gollum impression than the game’s VA. -Laugh uncontrollably at the game 20 times: (17/20).

This was one of Jerma's most anticipated games of the year. He hyped it up on stream and talked about how awesome it would be to just be Gollum doing Gollum things for a game. Jerma, who famously abhors stealth due to his gigaAHDH streamer rotted brain, even knowing it was classified as a "stealth" game was so ready to play this day one before he left to do the live action skit stuff. So if you need to ask yourself "Who the hell actually wanted this game?", you have at least one answer.

Regarding the font, I love that the game does the exact opposite of best practices - uses generic font for huge easily readable text, but uses a weird stylized cursive for subtitles.

the way Gollum flops over like an electrocuted rat when he dies destroys me

I just wish he had managed to make it to the part where an orc says "Gollum. Breeding Halls. Now!"

this game is the first ever instance of a "gollum-like"

That Gollum/Smeagol impression starting at 14:34 is honestly really impressive. Vinny really did a better job than the game.

I just wanted to point out that at 17:30, you do manage to restrict blood flow to Gollum's™ throat. Objective complete!

Is this the fastest a full stream has been turned into a highlight video? Holy cow

For anyone that hasn’t seen the VOD on Fullsauce, I’d highly recommend it. This is a modern classic Vinesauce stream.

3:08 ~ 14:33 The voice acting struggles to sound like Smeagol/Gollum with scripted and paid one-liners, but Vinny can nail a whole improv conversation between the two characters on the fly. We are blessed to have Vinny.

I think it’s worth noting this game was made by a developer who had mostly done point-and-click games before this

The basic typeface is always the biggest slap in the face for me. That was the one visual change that needed barely any effort, and they couldn’t even bother

I know it isn’t the hardest voice to do but Vinny’s Gollum voice is spot on

Every copy of Gollum is personalized

It's pretty insane that a 2014 game like Shadow of Mordor not only looks better, but also has a better portrayal of Gollum than his own game.

For those of you playing along at home, the softlock happened literally 10 seconds into the game.

“Someone is gonna make Gollum say a slur” is probably one of funniest things I’ll hear in my lifetime.

I'd pay 60 for the behind-the-scenes making of this game. I want to see those meetings and what this looked like when they delayed it 2 years ago.

Vinny doing his Gollum impression from 14:32 to 15:15 was more entertaining than anything shown in the game

vinny fighting himself as gollum about botw had me in tears

vinny actually doing the gollum voice while talking about zelda had such a visceral energy to it

11:28 Objective complete: Restrict blood flow to Gollum's throat.

It’s so hilarious to me that the Gollum hair simulation is like 80% of the reason why this game runs like ass

I started randomly thinking about "Restrict blood flow to Gollum's throat" again today out in public, and I couldn't stop laughing. You did this to me

This really made me crawl around like a baby.

15:45 Vinny’s joker laugh combined with the probably the best thing I’ve ever seen from this game makes this game so much more enjoyable

I got threats when I asked, "Out of all the possible stories to tell in middle earth, why tell this one?" I wonder if they're enjoying their game now

Gollum somehow constantly looks like he's a low definition version of himself. You know how in games textures in the distance are less defined? Yeah thats how he looks by default

This game has a strong "Hunt Down the Freeman" vibe to it

14:33 Bro he actually does a better gollum voice than the game does.

I feel so bad for the devs. They don’t deserve to get the hate they get for this. The executives and managers on the other hand…

The distant backdrop and set pieces are pretty fine, so at least the background artists were mentally checked in for their jobs.

Unironically, legitimately, honestly, seriously, Vinny would have performed insanely better as gollum than this voice actor

Who in Tolkien Estate thought it was a good idea for a studio who makes quirky point and click adventures should make a game about the little lanky fella?

How people can be angry about this game is beyond me! I think it's fantastic that the gaming industry is still making PS2 games.

Remember how the trailer had a bunch of epic music playing over Gollum just creeping around in bushes?

This game can be summarized by a Gollum line: "Leave Now, and Never come back"

Vinny's "conversation" following the Zelda noise actually had me in tears. I don't think I've laughed that hard in forever.

The comedic timing on the death animation and ensuing game over screen is surprisingly on cue

I think theres potential in a game where you play as wretched goblin creature causing problems. Gollum though isn't really a character that works as a protagonist...You dont want him to succeed, you want him to stay locked in jail forever.

You know it was a Trainwreck when it gets a highlight vid this fast

It’s been 10 years since I started watching Vinesauce and I still can’t get enough of Vinny’s laugh

Vinny should unironically do voice acting for Gollum

This is like making a star wars game about how the gonk droid got captured and tortured by Jabba the hutt and you don't get to see any cool battles just walking around at a turtle's pace.

How dare you not include the moment with the NPC who randomly yelled BREEDING for no reason

This is how I learn the grapefruit technique is no longer with us RIP to a real one

I don’t know what’s worse. The fact that this is a triple A game, or the fact that it was willingly released to the public. I genuinely thought this game didn’t actually exist until I saw live gameplay.

Best bit of the whole video is Smeagol arguing with Gollum about Tears of the Kingdom, absolute gold

My god the bit where he said gollum cant cum without restricting the blood flow had me dying

Suddenly TOTK being $70 stings SLIGHTLY less knowing that literal, genuine shovelware like this is being sold for full price.

13:53 It really does sound like Zelda

A revolutionary game. Really makes you feel like Gollum-a complete and utter horrible piss baby. Amazing.

Awesome to see Vinny trying out revolutionary PS2 game, looking forward to see what 2000 holds in store for us

I have a sneaking suspicion that this game is FAR OLDER than any of us can imagine. Things like those "look at this plainly textured wall to crawl on" areas are so outdated in today's context, it looks like the game came out of the year 2006. It's so blatantly terrible, I think the reason it even exists is for some tax evasion scheme.

Keep in mind they are asking for 32Gbs of RAM, an RTX 3070 for upscaled 1440p

In a not too distant pararell universe to us this is a fun little stealth game with Gollum. I personally don't think the concept of this game is all that bad, it's just that the execution failed in almost every place.

HINT: Gandalf is a type of Gollum

17:09 Certified “Ahhh” moment

Dude that Gollum voice you did was legitimately VERY impressive

The fact that this game released the same month as totk is wild💀

I like how Gollum looks constantly confused, like he's always asking, "why am i in this game"?

AYYY 1MIL, congrats Binyot

14:48 the voice they should have had for gollum.

Gollum won the Argument

My favorite part of this game was how when they sent out early review copies some months ago, even the big review sites were like "yea, this game kinda sucks", and so the devs apparently decided to just do nothing, except make the font basic

9:16 I love how Gollum decelerates and jitters in mid-air while falling

I wish vinny would play more of this wretched game, but only because I want to see him react to the fact they give gollum a pet bird

This is the sequel to limbo of the lost I've always wanted to see.

This game is already breaking records, only this game can break itself not even 30 seconds into it.

I legit thought the development of this game was a joke. I didn’t know it was an actual thing.

Company got EA’d, at least as far as I see Daedalic Entertainment is a company who’s entire development catalog is Point-and-Click, puzzle and 2d adventure games. They had been having financial problems since 2016, developed their last game in 2018 to focus on publishing only, then were bought out by a new parent company in 2022 And now they’ve made Gollum, a game I am extremely confident they had no idea how to make. Revealing my biases, I played and really enjoyed Daedalic’s point-and-click games (occasionally bugs besides). I probably wouldn’t defend the company if I didn’t have a good experience like this with them. From down here it looks like they got EA’d

I find funny the fact that Vinny actually broke the game like seconds upon starting to play it.

bruh this game has to be a tax writeoff

one of my fave things is how im watching this after having watched wayneradiotv stream it and, despite choosing opposite answers in the gollum v smeagle "arguments," the results were always identical.

for all concerned: the crawling around like a baby bit is from david lynch because of course it is.

Truly one of the games.

The Objectives bit is a frontrunner for best bit of the year.

1 Million! Finally! We can see the 24/7 AI-Generated Grey Leno Show to sleep/relax to!

I thought this was made in Dreams, it's that horrific.

Insane that this is the first game to sell 1 gollillion copies.

I love the part where Gollum Gollum'ed all over the place. (Vinny asking for more gruesome death sequences is a solid summary of this entire game, honestly. What exactly were the developers thinking? Who is their target audience?)

A game no one wanted nor asked for yet still disappoints, that's impressive to be fair

1 MILLON SUBS, LETS GOOOOOOOOO

Hairy Baby Simulator

14:08 Be actually hilarious If one of the devs was actually playing Zelda while sound designing.

Congrats on the mill

18:06 oh shit someone spilled all their fish tank gravel on the floor/put in one of those foam floorings they have on some playgrounds in the middle of mount doom.

Gollum is built for Ork Breeding

Hurts to see Daedalic's name on this. They haven't had perfect games every time BUT some of the games they're attached to are great and creative and even heartwarming. (Looking at you Night of the Rabbit or Anna's Quest)

Vinny hit 1 million right now. Okay, that's all.

every time I see this, gollum just looks like a feral Morty.