Many do not offer that honesty! Edit:You are all replying to a fucking cheap joke like I'm serious, learn to read better, think before acting, remain calm, your life will improve.

60*

True but then at least drop the price? Who cares about an apology, consumers want their money's worth.

Its only 50 where you live?

🤓

Oh I didn't even realise it until you mentioned it. Wow, that's a low 🫣🤭

Truly the mark of what will be a stellar and timeless piece of entertainment

"yeah we're kinda sorry for that lord of ring game, oops, thanks for the money tho"

Jesus Christ, they really did do that

Lord of the RING Yeah, forget all the other rings!

I laughed so hard I cried when he said this, what a fucking description

Reminds me of my childhood

ngl this game would be kinda cool story wise if it was like a short novel

Sounds just a bit too close to some people’s waking reality…thankfully,l not my own, but you gotta wonder where the appeal is in playing as the most wretched character in that franchise.

Nah this fr? 😂

They could at least have proofread it 🤦🏼‍♂️

For real, the fact that Dunkey made that comparison was what really made me think "damn, this game is so horrible my feeble mind can't even comprehend its horrors"

I've never heard of Balanwonderworld I've only heard of Balanwonderland(this is a joke)

"This reminds me of that time I committed fax fraud at Yuji Naka's house"

​@@UndeadAlv well my mind can comprehend these horrors just fine so sounds like a skill issue

only because it knew what it wanted to be

Roasted them completely

10/10 It has a little something for everyone

They also misspelled the name of the game in the letter. 11/10 Edit: Apparently, Nacon used ChatGPT to write the apology without even telling Daedalic. 20/10

@@galaxywizard8904 "The Lord of the Ring: Gollum" lmao I can't man... I didn't catch that until you mentioned it

It's just embarrassing at this point

Yeah, everything about this game is just so fucking baffling, I’m very glad it exists because it’s genuinely hilarious

I’m just sitting here praying for another shadow of war.

The devs dont make any games no more the studio is dead right now

the idea was so weird that I was CONVINCED they had some brilliant angle. Nope.

Truly. A game was made and published.

I don't know about you, but this game actually made me feel like Spiderman.

@Hybrid From Hell that comment of yours is somehow even more sad than the game.

I hope they can one day capture that in a Spiderman game.

"this game really makes you feel like gollum" 9/10 - IGN

Depression simulator

peak Gollumcore aesthetic

Fuck strand games, gollum-type games are in.

Ah yes, I’m quite the fan of Gollum-likes

Too little appreciation for this "man of culture" comment

Truly makes feel like you dont have something precious.

Maybe they should've just gone the Emperor's New Groove route, abandoned all sense of seriousness and made it a Middle-Earth flavored Untitled Goose Game. In this infinitely better Gollum (let's call it Untitled Gollum Game), you just sneak around places like Rivendell or Moria and harass people for no reason. And instead of a dedicated "HONK!" button, you have a "PRECIOUS!" button you can mash to your heart's content while you cross off objectives like "put nasty Elves's bow in the well" or Make the Hobbitses eat raw fish." I'd play that game for a million hours straight.

How does that have to do with emperors new groove? I'm so curious. I love that movie.

@@renemejias1842 If you watch the behind the scenes video they made about making Emperor's New Groove, they explain how originally they set out to make a great big serious musical like their other animated movies, but the development got so troubled and dragged on and on, until they finally just said "screw it, we're making a ridiculous comedy and not holding back!"

@@SomeKZfaqTraveler they did well with that. Loved that movie as a kid.

I never did find all the fingers.

Anyone got any tips on how to convice gollum he is a little piss baby? Been stuck on this one for hours.

I personally struggled with calling Gollum a "piss baby" because I kept doing weird Mario impressions.

Find the new diaper was much harder than I thought it would be

The piss baby objective is a bit of a tricky one, you just need to refer to him as a urine goblin and it actually convinces him

The objectives are straight out of Postal 2 "get your welfare check" "wait in line for gary coleman's autograph" "piss on your dad's tomb"

This is just what living in Chicago is

​@@williamwade9779 You are all misunderstanding this game. It is actually a masterpiece which was coded by smeagle himself and also made to feel the twisted and depressing, brain-breaking life of smeagle 😢😢😢😂

Well, to be fair, this game is actually very faithful to Tolkien's lore: Gollum's time in that prison was boring, horrible, abysmal, filled with crappy as hell objectives that either make no damn sense or are just ultra depressing, all taking place in a horrible looking environment. This game captured all of that accurately. LMAO.

@@johnpenguinthe3rd13 "It's not supposed to be *fun*, it's a commentary on the horrors of slavery, the banality of evil, and the halfling condition through the lens of the most wretched, pathetic id-driven excuse for a hobbit. It's *art*. Now give me $60.00."

Is This the Worst Game Ever?

LOL 💀

probably because the mfs head is too heavy lol

@@LavaCreeperPeople well it’s certainly not getting GOTY that’s for sure

@@LavaCreeperPeople I'd put it right up there with.... damn really can't think of a worse game.

Imagine playing as a fusion of the two most beautiful people in all of fiction. 60 dollars yes please

Don't disrespect Dobby like that, house-elves can wield powerful magics they're just brainwashed.

Then they threw Bully Maguire’s hair ontop of the abomination. 💀

And somehow failed at creating either one

It’s annoying too because theses guys helped make Barotrauma

I hated the beetle

their game was so bad they couldnt spare the time to write an apology because they were still coding it after release so they let the AI do it

“Lord of Ring”

It’s an embarrassment. They should have cancelled this monstrosity before it even released.

you really need to think, at any point during development did someone say 'hey this looks like trash' or were they all extremely proud of their product. If they were proud that is absolutely sad

Not my place to accept such an apology, though I will note they also need to apologize for charging 10$ for lore content to hide the fact this was not a 59$ game but a 69$ one.

The devs banded together after the game was finished to preemptively write the letter, y'know, just to keep it on the ready

😂

​@@Furufoo You are all misunderstanding this game. It is actually a masterpiece which was coded by smeagle himself and also made to feel the twisted and depressing, brain-breaking life of smeagle 😢😢😢😢

At least we have Pizza Tower to make us forget about this monstrosity.

Well at least it implies they regret making such a trashy game

I thought i was the only one

No that was redfall

@@Immadeus Don't forget Cyberpunk!

@@mollusckscramp4124yeah but Cyberpunk was actually good

​@@karimitickaeloogreattemlor3486_you're good_ ...and _Breathtaking_

they should make a speedrun any % apology game category, wins wichever developer apologies first

Being lord of the rings is the only reason it got to release. Think of it like a modern one of those shitty movie games they use to make tons of like ps1/2 time frame. It doesn’t matter if it’s good, enough people will likely buy it in the end anyways to turn a profit

it always surprises me that they make a game to this extent and then just... don't polish it and release it broken? it's literally throwing away years of work and hundreds of thousands of dollars every time they release a broken game.

Corpos, that's the answer

@@samh3048 It's not throwing aways years of hard work and millions of dollars if dumb people buy the game anyways. Then they are actually making a profit for selling an unfinished game. And then they are incentivized to keep selling unfinished games because dumb people still buy the game.

The first game I immediately thought of when you said this, was Silent Hills. I still haven’t forgiven Konami for that

Why the fuck are you all posting the same thing? Bots

cp2077 was so ahead of it's time

There are no jokey edits in this, that’s just the game…😅

@@Capin91 comic sans?? For real?

​@@TokumBeatboxdo you want to have a bad Tom?!

@@Another_El_User what?

@@TokumBeatbox they asked if you want to have a bad Tom?!

That's just how hard his life has been. No wonder he's so crazy

@@thebillyd00 Smeagol had to play The Lord of the Rings: Gollum for hundreds of years. Can't believe the orcs would do this to him, sadistic bastards.

In canon, smeagol is pretty weak. Strong enough to wrestle a hobbit, but just barely. Aragorn could probably crush his windpipe with one hand tbh. His survival is not a matter of physical durability. But instead is a combination of three factors: 1) His own cunning and desire to avoid danger so he can spend more time with the ring. 2) The power of the ring itself, which smeagol wielded longer than anyone. 3) The personal intervention of Eru Illuvitar ensuring that Gollum survives long enough to play his pivotal role in destroying the one ring and finally ending the rebellion of sauron and morgoth. And if I had to pick, I'd say it was mostly the third one. Smeagol was literally chosen by god to play his accursed role, to be the sacrificial lamb. And thus he could not have been permitted to due a pointless death before his appointed time.

Beep bop... I'm the Philosophy Bot. Here, have a quote: "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration" ~ Frank Herbert

​@@philosophy_bot4171bots on yt? Nah, reported

​@@electron6825This is better than the other bots I've seen. Better than the attention seekers and pron bots.

@@philosophy_bot4171 "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind" - also Frank Herbert. Let us get Butlerian on this bot

This is like playing some elderscrolls game, you start as a prisoner but this time you won’t leave the prison xD

Okay, so since the '90s are back, when are we going to get cool skateboarding dogs with sunglasses?

Back when literally anything imaginable would be ported to the Commodore, SNES, or whatever at the time. Makes me miss PS2 shovelware licensed titles. At least some of those were funny.

E.T moment.

@@radio_obscura "it's giving" 🤡

@@joedorben3504 lol “it’s giving” ☠️🤡

I remember the game being introduced at the very first Xbox Series X games showcase and some delusional commentator said he'd buy a Series X just to play Balan Wonderworld.

Gollum would have been a much better experience if he'd been allowed to dress as a flower that intermittently illuminates the surroundings, or as a sunflower with Red Hot powers!

I prefer to live out my ultimate fantasy as a weak, wretched creature forced to perform slave labor in hell.

*evoke

I've never heard of it and thought wtf is that.. it makes sense that it is merely a more enthusiastic piece of shit.

😂 that’s the way I seen it too

I'm no Tolkien fan, but the idea for this at least sounded okay...I guess... Seems like they just went about it the wrong way though.

It's legitimately shocking... how in the hell did this get greenlit??????

@@terribletimmy2 why wouldn't it get greenlit? It could work if it wasn't as bad as it is.

this game wasn't released. it escaped.

@@terribletimmy2 Because these companies see their customers as complete and utter idiots who buy any old crap if it has a well known brand name attached too it.... and you know what? Half the time they are right. But they have no respect for us at all....

No fucking way 😂 you have to pay to be able to say “my precious”?! 🤣

@@interestedinbread3634 It's advertised as "6 iconic emotes". One emote is "My precious" The other five emotes are him interacting with a bug.

@@Guntfarm are you serious about the other five emotes. you gotta be shitting me lmao

@@5PYZ3R It gets better You do the emotes by pressing down on the d-pad and it plays a random one. You can't even pick which one plays.

@@interestedinbread3634 You do, yep!

So bad it gives you a suicidal crisis?

Yep. At least ET for the Atari was only ten minutes long.

The game feels thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.

I like you😂

Why does this translate to "I dont know everything"?

I’m confused, isn’t that the name of the game?

@@basilcook4280 It should be “The Lord of the Rings”, not “The Lord of Ring”. Two errors there: no “the” and “Ring” instead of “Rings”. The intern/AI did not double check their work lol

@@MrMario995 shows how little they actually cared.

I didn’t even notice that. I love how little they care.😂

Probably written by Gollum

Had a feeling someone would write this.

K*ll him!

I think the same, the concept itself is not that trash, but the execution..

yes -they want the experince for players so they succeded , they should charge more for this uniquehood

Which is weird, because the whole thing about Gollum in the books is that he is deceptively powerful. He can take out orcs and even trolls alone. He is twisted, and mutated, but not helpless at all.

And also mind-numbing tedium.

I'd like to think that the ghost of Gollum is trapped in every iteration of the game's avatar, living out every pathetic lifespan as a mean of punishment, this game is literally Smeagol's afterlife.

Yes honestly that would be awesome. Like Untitled Goose Game or Goat Simulator, but this time in Middle Earth and as a slimy Sméagol nobody likes. Actually seems kinda fun

I was hoping it would be more like the books imply where he's just kinda in the area while these massive, earth-shattering events are taking place but just eats fish and watches it go by. Figured it would lean more survival with the goal just being to mill about on a never-ending quest for fish while the ring gives us objectives that are all to get us killed so it can go back to Sauron but we keep living

Disaster Report w/ Gollum

I agree. In the books this is the sneaky little character that gained a taste for orc babies and the orcs couldn't stop him. He's evil on a level that makes Sauron look prudent and honorable, and maddeningly difficult to pin down with his only described capture in one of Mordor's most secure locations lasting a mere months at most.

And fed nothing but spaghetti

my little brother actually has the controller

@@GandalfsHashPipe Spagetti and Meatballs

yes

Seinfeld?

Is it? That sounds terrible. 😂 What a piece of shit. AVGN should review this.

I thought the same. At least that would have had some development, and lots of potential exploring and discovery. Edit: and it would have fit nicely in the canon

yeah why would they do that? who thought that was a good idea? that is actually depressing

Slave work is not the whole game? Gollum escapes eventually. Dunkey probably just played part of it.

@@cube2fox seeing others play this (mostly my roommate and Charlie,) it's clear that at least half the game revolves around him being in slavery. At best that could have made for a nice intro sequence or tutorial section before his escape into the less linear world. It is very much a wasted opportunity.

>they actually got gollum to code it! Doobus Goobus reference

@@TheLudicrousLuv what

@@lucre113 nothing

@@TheLudicrousLuv what?

@@TheLudicrousLuv real

That twist fkin threw me off guard man.

That was fucking peak I swear

Smarmgle

Sneedgle

smeargle???

@Shitty Eugene not everyone buys a game every month

Why not just work at Walmart

@@chrismyers8613 You get paid at Walmart, which ruins the experience.

@@porkcutlet3920lolll

10/10 This game has a little something for everyone

@Kiril's Armwrestling Show fax

Say what you whill about this game but it really makes you feel like Smeagol 7/10

TY, just... thank you,

You are all misunderstanding this game. It is actually a masterpiece which was coded by smeagle himself and also made to feel the twisted and depressing, brain-breaking life of smeagle 😢😢😢😢

People hate the game because it’s too real. They want to escape capitalism, not play it.

you got extra bread?

Not the bread 😭

I don't know if you did it on purpose for the lols but just in case, it's actually Wonderworld xd

No, wrong. It’s Wonderworldland! Did you even watch the video?!

Balan Wonderwall

i spend so long editing, but get no views. I wuv you 💜

I can't think of a worse way to pan a game than to compare it unfavorably to Balan Wonderworld/land/wall/whatever

for the price of this game, you could get Deep Rock Galactic, Project Zomboid, and then still be able to buy most of the DLC for Vermintide 2 during a sale.

@@WaffleShortage Or even 20ish cheeseburgers, now thats the steal

There are some crazy ass LOTR fans out there. Trust me on this. But no, not even I fell for this. I can understand folks who bought, for example, Anthem day one because they thought it looked like a cool concept, but this? Nah.

I mean this would probably be better than those nintendo switch zelda games though

@@lafireteamplx3400 lmao funny joke

On a meta angle, this would be brilliant. But the fact they had people pay AAA game price for it is unacceptable, unless we're dipping into some odd ARG territory here.

Similar to how ET for the Atari made you experience the desire to phone home.

If they gave this game to me for free, I will ask for a refund 🤣🤣

No it wouldnt stop bandwagoning

​@@leonardvilliers5858 😂😂😂 and an apology

@@brzodroid the game is utter shit, in every conceivable aspect. I’ve watched people play it, it’s not bandwagoning what he said it’s absolute garbage, ugly, poorly made and executed, uninteresting garbage. This game is going to be 20 bucks in 2 months and probably like 8 during a Steam sale within a few more months, that’s how awful it is.

I'm not sure even anyone would need it for free

Bad Mojo already exists.

this one made me laugh so hard! thank you

I think there are some experimental games that might fit the bill. Balan Wonderland may be it too. The problem people have with that game is having to constantly traverse levels to get the powerups again. And of course the bizarre presentation and gimmicky powerups Shenmue is another example that comes to mind. Maybe you could play it with a guide, but I struggle to think of the demographic for that game. And somehow 3 of them were made

Kafkaesque?.. do you know what that means or where you just trying to sound smart? If this game was about the mundanity and redundancy of modern day bureaucracy, then sure. But I don’t recall Gollum wearing a suit and tie on his way to a 9-5 accountant job lmao Maybe devving this game was somewhat kafkaesque, but the game experience is not.

Final Fantasy 6 is pretty Kafkaesque since Kafka is the main antagonist

*k i l l h i m*

STOOOOP

Thought I would get sick of this run down joke. Turns out it's still hilarious

😂😂

This got me 😂

Why was Michael Jackson in the Spiderman game?

Just summed up pain in one sentence. It's the only part of replaying the game I can't stand

Those were so terrible

​@@radio_obscura Bc he asked Stan Lee to be spiderman in a movie and he said no

The Fall of Kong

Gollum: “Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary!”

@@Howlingburd19 Gonna mention Skull Island Rise of Kong’s PC requirements are lower than Gollum’s requirements. Yet an 8GB RAM minimum requirement for a game with Awful graphics feels like a joke when you compare it to Crysis 2007 that only recommends 2GB RAM (as long as you don’t have Windows Vista) which has far better graphics than SIROK. This is why optimisation in pc games is VERY important.

this idea would work so well as a choice based game

wow an actual fun and good idea! wouldnt want that to be made into a game!

@@thestartoyou No it wouldn't. Gollum is a simple character where there is only ever going to be one choice, get the ring in the fastest way possible. Morality just doesn't fit his character despite his split personality. There just isn't room for player input of choices.

still mid, who wants to play as gollum

@@thestartoyou Honestly this game probably would fit better into that category or perhaps point and click instead forcing it into boring broken platformer like this, and fun fact the developer is actually very good when it comes to that genre, idk why they wanted to make it this way..

He somehow did that in Zelda as much as humanely possibly too though, so that doesn't mean much. He does it in every game.

Skill issue?

@@TheGuardDuck damn bro you’re so good at Sméagol game. Here’s your prize 🥇🍪

@@bluedistortions exactly, some people just love to make stuff up

@@TheGuardDuck I haven't played the game. I just have a decent level of media literacy.

Good troll

It reminds me of Agony, except with less soul. Ironic.

I mean as a hobbyist game developer the point of game dev is to make the player feel a certain way. They seem to have made the player feel exactly how gollum feels so in that regard this game is a success.

reminds me of agony. I got to the second area before I couldn't take it anymore.

Truly this is the modern day’s Kane & Lynch 2

There are no good games possible with this smegma character

It's hilarious they released a game about smeagle at *all* Like, who wanted this? Any lord of the rings fan wants to play a game as like, an adventurer or warrior not the fucking meth addict who eats raw fish in caves

@@thalesv5973 what about a power fantasy game where he is the villain and you play as a beetle

I feel sorry for the devs, they've only ever made good, small 2D point and click games before this. Then their owners, a book publishing company, dumped making Gollum into their laps. And in the middle of production, shut down one of the studios working on the game and later sold the devs to a different company.

The game's quality was intentionally made to reflect the inadequacy of Smeagol as a character. It's genius.

LMFAO

The metaphor really works seeing as how the only fitting end for this game is to cast every copy into the fiery chasm of Mt. Doom

I'm not convinced this isn't what occurred.