>Gollum devs misspell the name of the game in their apology
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>Gollum devs misspell the name of the game in their apology
>Gollum devs misspell the name of the game in their apology
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It's just the one lord, actually.
>the lords of the ring
did you write that apology letter?
>No luck catching them Black folk then?
>It's just the one Black person actually
Strong language in that film
After working in London, he should have known it's never just one.
Nick Frost actually says "sup homies" in Shaun of the Dead. I rewatched it last night and was caught off guard, no way could they say that in a movie these days.
there are literally countless things in movies from only a decade ago that wouldn't be allowed today, we are in such a sterile culture that nothing is enjoyable
OH LAWD DEM RINGZ
>lost
Is this just the common thing that all devs do now, an image with an apology and post it on twitter?
It's easier, cheaper, and faster than actually making games, so yes.
AI can generate one in under a second.
kek
>#CommunityMatters
yep that's the M.O.
>devs make shit
>piggies buy and eat shit
>devs apologize for shit
>rinse and repeat
Yeah, it's playing up the heckin wholesome thing with reddit.
"Sorry our game sucks dick, dumbasses bought it anyway and your stupid ass influencers bought it cause they thought it would be funny to play it, we still got your money, goodbye"
Doesn't show up in search engines that's why they do it as an image
That's actually pretty clever
It's probably written by ChatGPT too
Yeah I can't wait for the inevitable Diablo IV one.
Cyberbug 77 broke everyone minds and this is the norm now
It's basically the corporate side of cultural Marxism that does this.
You should read them in the voice of a black woman clapping in between every word
Why does this feel that it was written by AI?
The devs are Germans. The most autistic race who over-engineer everything
http://www.merkur.de/deutschland/rheinland-pfalz/psychiatrie-ludwigshafen-doppelmord-schuldunfaehig-rlp-oggersheim-landgericht-taeter-freispruch-zr-92299487.html
Also the most cucked race
The French are also so fricked that getting a paternity test is a crime
it's ending soon, brother. AfD is the third largest party now. Deutschland fuer der Deutscher
It probably was
>The Lord of Ring
Fricking kek, how did they frick it up so badly?
>make a complete shitpile
>audience calls it out for being a shitpile
>UHHHH SORRY LOL XD
modern gaming is so fricking dead. seriously how the frick do you spend thousands of hours on a game not to figure out how shit it is? do these people not have inner monologues or something?
Theyre just german
except this has happened with the past like four games that have been released
>game is shit
>game is optimized like shit
>release apology stating it “not up to standard”
>ignore everything after because zoomies and soi millennials preordered 50000000 copies already
They'll fix it 20 months from now and all the content creators will soiface over it and talk about how 'THEY LISTENED IT'S AMAZING NOW!'
>They'll fix it 20 months from now and all the content creators will soiface over it and talk about how 'THEY LISTENED IT'S AMAZING NOW!'
That only works if they release a critically acclaimed anime with a catchy soundtrack.
How many times has this actually happened other than No Man's Sky? I think generally they don't actually save face from these shit tier launches.
it only really happens with live service games. no incentive to fix these kinds of games beyond the most glaring issues unless the backlash is inescapable, but in this case no one bought the game so they probably won't bother
>No Man's Sky
>FFXIV
>Space Engineers
>Cyberpunk 2077
>Skyrim
thats just straight off the top of my head.
there's easily at least 10 other major titles in the last 10 years that were jank ass-ridden dogshit on release that got fixed after years and years of updates
You can't fix a game that's inherently dogshit from the very core design decisions
>THEY LISTENED IT'S AMAZING NOW!
People are leaving Steam reviews like this for Battlefield 2042 and I want them to fall down a flight of stairs
>except this has happened with the past like four games that have been released
>They'll fix it 20 months from now and all the content creators will soiface over it and talk about how 'THEY LISTENED IT'S AMAZING NOW!'
I want a culling
germans made gothic (and recently enderal)
theres no excuse
thats better than a mere amerimutt
germans have never made a good game
I can only imaging that doing the absolute bare minimum and putting out a complete shitpile game is still profitable in some way otherwise they wouldn't keep doing this.
they most likely got some grant money from germany or the EU
This, or it was semi-funded by something. Even getting the rights to a LOTR game must have cost something?
>Even getting the rights to a LOTR game must have cost something?
in 2034 Lord of the Rings will be old enough that copyright protection of the intellectual property wears off and literally anyone can make their own copy-paste LOTR shit.
c**ts like Amazon and AAA game devs are trying to cash in while they can cuz they only have 10 years left.
Modern SDLC's silo developers too narrowly for any of them to object to the overall state of the project because none of them will have that much visibility or altitude. And the types of people who do have that don't give a frick and if they do they're beholden to the executives/board members whims anyways
It seems american millenials can't really do anything right. Ever since they became the workforce, everything has gone to shit. There has been maybe 3 good movies in the past ten years. No decent american shows for ten years. No decent american video games. Its amazing really. The only skill that collectively defines them is posting complaints online about how things should be. Comiseration with people they don't know. Hell, they don't even know if its people they're talking to.
Right, it's the rank and file that are at fault and not the pseudo-boomers running the company and making the decisions. Slurp slurp, corpocuck
well the problem is more that our best and brightest aren't being hired for game dev. no one with passion, drive and talent is going to seek out a shitty game company and try to work for them
>throw all the blame at the "heads" again
Imagine still believing this cope, well they are at fault for all the diversity hires though.
Its true
You do know the devs are German, right?
who manages the right for LOTR? How could this happen?
That's because of corporations. In the 90s, if you wanted to start a band you'd get some friends and embarrass yourselves on stage at some pub somewhere. These days you are basically competing against the entire LA industry right out of the gate no matter where you are in the world. American israelites control all the distribution. It's like that with everything. Talent exists, but you don't hear about them unless they own them. Welcome to late stage capitalism.
This game was made by 100% yuropoors and some dipshit slav that grew up with it will be spamming this game all over the board 10 years from until a bunch of moronic underages with dunning kruger pick it up and claim its a masterpiece
No, they don't, they're all Black folk, mutts and women.
They literally do not have the capability to theorize, consider other viewpoints, or self reflect.
its business suit investors who know nothing about video games telling people what to make and ignoring criticism.
they dont care as long as they make a profit, which they can do easily as long as their marketing department tricks enough morons into buying a shit game.
at this point we're all just waiting for the video game industry to completely cave in on itself again like it did in the 80s.
pretty much everyone I know only plays games 5-10 years old.
goy will consoome either way brace yourself for the upcoming darker days
ah yes the video games version of "our thoughts and prayers"
do apologies even mean anything in 2023? they're like blank paste
it's the video game equivalent of twitter "our thoughts & prayers" posts, they still got your money
>sorry the game is bad
that's kind of a first instead of blaming the buyers right?
Seems a step up but the press is handling the blaming customers part for them
The Styx devs didn't have anything to do w/ this, did they? I think it's the same publisher. If it wasn't them, it really should have been.
no that's cyanide. they're still making blood bowl and cycling games.
Nah it wasn't the Styx devs. It was the Bubba 'n' Stix devs.
this shit was terrible. it came out for cd32? lol
I thought it was pretty fun
The second stage with all the weird different imprisoned aliens was memorable
reminder that gollum barely pushes 40 fps on a 4090
How is this possible? It looks like a late ps3 game. Genuinely sick of shitty devs not optimising their trash, that dumb souls clone where you play as a french robot girl would runat like 30fps low settings with my rx580 8gb, meanwhile I run RE4 remake at 60fps ultra settings with a fricking second monitor playing videos.
>40 fps
Try 3fps
>herr der ringe
Apologize
>dlss on
that studio should instantly be shut down and no one that worked there should ever be allowed in the video game industry again
They made some pretty good point & click adventure games though. The game is fricking trash, no excuses, but they have (had?) some real talent working there.
damn if the devs add multi gpu support maybe people can get 5 fps instead of 3
We gotta start benchmarking by asking: "But can it run Gollum™?"
What the frick do you even do in this game
sneak around and talk
Nothing justifies the existence of a $1500+ GPU
really just wanted a watered down gta 5 where you run around as gollum biting and scratching villagers and travelers.
>no one's own work pre-release analysis
>apologizing to anyone
Sickening.
>Daedalic
More like Icaric, amirite?
they set themselves up for that one.
I've had nothing to do at work so I've spent the last 2 days following this launch. Steam community is pretty hilarious.
When do you think Valve will remove the clown award? It's now mainstream and used by both sides either trashing or defending a game everyone gives clowns to anything they disagree with. It's guaranteed Valve will remove it. The question is, when?
Name of game in webm?
Castle of Alchemists
>Castle of Alchemists is an action-packed tower defense game that has RPG elements,
>tower defense
No, thanks.
does the screen ever not shake?
GAME. NOW.
Call of Avengers
Ty king
say what you will about the gollum game but it has provided one of the most powerful ways to win an argument ever
elaborate please
the image i'm talking about
instant win on any argument
Someone post the reload webm.
>hello my name is pajeet, we are working hard on apology, please do not redeem
This is the devs who made Deponia right?
Yup!
>publisher decides to ship unfinished game
>makes developer issue apology for the state it's in
Kinda fricked up.
Also I've read like 8 of these in the past year, they need to make a standardized form so they can just fill in the relevant information and push it out faster.
So is this the AAA MO now, releasing absolutely broken pieces of shit and then apologizing for them while taking several months to do bug and performance fixes they should've done prior to release?
I don’t think this is triple A
it's priced like AAA
They KNOW it's a turd, just that they have to pretend it's some unforseeable accident out of their control. They originally hoped people wouldn't notice. The half-assed apology is their backup plan.
Damn, I hope this ends up free or on Game Pass. I need to play it.
The Lord of the Ring, Gollum
>another dev apologizes about dogshit game after scamming consumers
Only a few thousand on PC.
Maybe a million on Consoles since they love Goymes slop.
literally who are these 758 people
all me
le heckin whacky twitch streamers that are playing it ironically XD
Probably reviewers
anything beyond the books is cancer
nah the movies are kino, especially the first one
the hobbit movies are dogslop and I don't have any reason to think the lotr ones are any better
why would you watch the hobbit and not lotr moron
they turned one tiny book into 3 rushed movies what do you think would happen
uh because that's the order in which the story is told. and don't even pretend to me that six massive books can be adequately adapted into three two and a half hour long movies
did you even read them?
You don't need to know the hobbit to watch lotr.
>six massive books
Hobbit, Fellowship, 2 towers, King and...?
are you just pretending to be moronic
Book I: The Ring Sets Out
Book II: The Ring Goes South
Book III: The Treason of Isengard
Book IV: The Ring Goes East
Book V: The War of the Ring
Book VI: The End of the Third Age
shut the frick up secondary
then I'm sorry you're too moronic to see the truth
what the frick are you talking about moron
dude you btfo. put the phone down and stop posting
see
Show me books like that being sold on amazon bro.
Tolkien envisioned them as six books, but he released them as three. Further if you split each book in half they're far from massive unless you're a brainlet.
>did you even read them?
yes
did you even watch them?
True, but they also fail to capture most of the beauty and poetry that the books are about. The third movie especially has a lot of nonsensical changes that are not only unfaithful to the book but also harmful to the storytelling of the film itself. They're still amazing action-adventure movies though, don't get me wrong.
No. They have a gross, dirty WW2 actionmovie atmosphere that doesn't fit the faerieland setting of Middle Earth. The Shire is passable but everything after than that is garbage.
what does that even mean
You haven't read the fricking books moron. Though I agree the movies are shit, your criticism is incorrect and aimed at the wrong things.
>Legolas has like 6 lines of dialogue total
>Gimli is a burping moron for the vast majority of the trilogy
>Arwen replaces several characters in the story in an effort to appeal to women
>relatively little focus on poetry and songs, one of the foundations of Tolkien's works
>Elrond turned into a stoic daddy complex stand-in
>Frodo is an insecure, wide-eyed youngster
>Denethor II is a grimy, all black wearing, psychopathic villain
>Aragorn is a reluctant hero and gets treated like shit by Eomer when they first meet
>Boromir is borderline unhinged from the get-go, acts antagonistic towards Aragorn
>the leadership in general portrayed as hopeless and having very little faith in Aragorn and the Fellowship
>the elves in general being completely different, both thematically and their actual role in the story
>Entmoot completely changed for nonsensical drama
>Saruman reduced to a evil caricature
>Faramir is a whiny edgelord for most of the movies
>Sam abandoning Frodo
>everything about the ghost army
I love the movies but they are completely different from the books, with many changes definitely for the worse.
Yeah but Brad Dourif's Wormtongue > book Wormtongue
There is only so much you can do to cram so much material into 3 movies, changes had to be made. Maybe a TV show with multiple 1 hour episodes would fit the show better but that's impossible now.
You're never getting anything as good as the movies if rings of power is the new standard.
>There is only so much you can do to cram so much material into 3 movies, changes had to be made.
This doesn't excuse changes that ADD content which makes no sense, for example the focus on Arwen, the ghost army or things like portraying characters completely different.
Aragorn is a plank of wood in the books like most of Tolkien's characters. The reluctant hero element is overplayed in fiction but it made him an actual character if nothing else.
>muh character struggle as a focus point
Try reading proper literature for a change.
Which piece of proper literature have you read that lacks character struggle?
>>muh character struggle as a focus point
The fricking irony of saying this in reference to Tolkien's writing. Too many Christ figures for you?
Are you about to tell me that Wuthering Heights or Crime and Punishment don't have character struggle?
>Aragorn is a plank of wood in the books like most of Tolkien's characters.
That's the point. They're mythological archetypes.
This. It's hilarious how illiterate some people are even in regards to things that have been publicly discussed to death and couldn't be more obvious.
Archaic writing only works for things that are actually archaic. The Iliad is interesting because its a view into how the Greeks viewed the world around them.
That doesn't work when the mythology is the invention of one autistic linguist.
It's the mythology of the Middle Earth dumbass. Have you read the Silmarillion? It's literally just Greek-like myths loosely tied together by Bilbo.
The prologue of LotR literally starts with talking about how well the written record of Frodo's journey been preserved over the years and how it's been copied many times over.
What the frick is a mythological archetype in non homosexual speak?
>What the frick is a mythological archetype in non homosexual speak?
It's nothing but this morons excuse for shit writing.
Something like "the young king destined to save his realm". You should read more/better books, anon.
Black person
blah blah blah don't care. If you didn't live several millennia ago then don't write mythology, it's cringe.
Thank you for your garbage opinion anon.
>It was written poorly on purpose!
Tolkiencucks, not even once
Arwen makes sense because you'd never see Glorfindel or whatever his name was again after saving Frodo. It builds up her character without introducing random characters into the story. It's fine to do that in books but movies need a tighter narrative.
On all of these, what are all of these but book accurate?
You mean what each part and character is actually like in the books?
Yes, every complaint. I only read The Hobbit as a kid.
https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Tolkien_vs._Jackson:_Differences_Between_Story_and_Screenplay
Good post. The movies are amazing but they don't quite capture the magic of Tolkien.
>relatively little focus on poetry and songs
>when the lyrics of all the vocals in the soundtrack are the poetry that was in the books
you dont know much about the books/movies and it shows
Poetry and songs aren't just background noise or flavor in the books. They are a fundamental part of his storytelling and of the world itself. Maybe next time try thinking a bit more before posting moronic assumptions.
my guy the movies are already 4 and a half hours long each
you think c**ts want to sit around for another hour to listen to frodo sing about fricking elves?
The original argument was about how faithful the movies are to the books, not if the movies are better suited for a big audience or not.
You could cut almost half of each movie, which consist of made up additions, and replace them with things that actually happen in the books.
I still think the idea isn't bad. You could make some really intense schizo shit with that character.
Obviously meant for
But Gollum has zero charisma and zero fans. It's not even one of those "you love to hate" villains, he is just "there". Who exactly were the target demographic for this game?
The trick would've been to make the game about something else, with Gollum only being a vehicle.
He doesn't even get redeemed since his destruction of the ring was based on pure greed and also god
Legolas has like 6 lines of dialog beyond Fellowship in the books too
Kys secondaryBlack person, Legolas speaks all the fricking time, is wise, brave and funny, he's one of the best characters.
is a reluctant hero
Aragorn IS a reluctant hero in the books, he knows his duty and fate but he doubts himself often, there are things he doesn't know etc. It's not to the same degree, but it's there.
>It's not to the same degree, but it's there.
You know damn well that they completely overblow his reluctancy in the movies. He has some doubts in the books but he never once questions if he should be king of Gondor.
>relatively little focus on poetry and songs, one of the foundations of Tolkien's works
thank god, sounds like shit
>especially the first one
The first movie is Froddo doing nothing but getting dragged around by everyone else from set piece to set piece and introducing the Nazgul as these super threatening beings only for them to immediately get foiled by a bunch of pillows and all single handedly defeated by one man with a torch.
reductivism is for the reduced
Tolkien sold the movie rights during his life time and literally didn't give a shit when people were going to make a movie (a much worse one). Christopher deified this shit more than his dad did.
The alternative was the man fading into history and largely being forgotten. I'm sure he'd rather be remembered instead of a historical footnote in British text books in a century. Instead of being someone only old book nerds know, he is a household name.
Spoken like true consumerist cattle. Maybe you'll develop some object permeance someday and learn more about the world that what the TV tells you to.
tolkien invented contemporary fantasy and it wasn't peter jackson's abortive films which cemented that, moron
The books are pretty shit though, unironically.
Lord of the Rings (books and movies) have intro-boy syndrome.
only the first half is good, the end is really long and shitty.
Daily reminder that Christopher Tolkien is in charge of the part of his father's estate that judges what is and is not acceptable in the video games. That means that everything in the Shadow of Mordor games, including the elf ghost, including mind controlling orcs, and especially including big-titty human Shelob, has his personal signature of approval. Not to mention every other stupid thing in the other LOTR video games.
>big-titty human Shelob
wtf I love Christopher Tolkien now
He's fricking dead mate
He died 3 years after Shadow of War released.
Christopher was a massive homosexual who pretended to have standards but just wanted to maintain an image first and foremost. He "signed off" on those things because he didn't even review them, he probably never saw a single pixel of shit from that game. He saw a paycheque and signed for it and waited for his time to cry about the result, just like he did with everything else
This. For all the b***hing and moaning he did, it never stopped him from signing off on it. I respect him for the work he did in meticulously cataloguing and releasing his father's work but he acts like he did it for reasons that had nothing to do with money.
Do you anons seriously think Christopher Tolkien wielded supreme unassailable power with the Tolkien estate? He had a huge family bickering over it and various companies which already owned the rights to parts of his father's work. If he'd been free to do whatever he wanted I'm absolutely certain he'd have signed off on absolutely nothing. It's his son (with whom he did not speak for years) who's the more money driven.
>including the elf ghost, including mind controlling orcs, and especially including big-titty human Shelob
what do lorehomosexuals think of SoW's portrayal of "handsome elf" Sauron? I rarely see people mention him in threads, does that mean he is actually accurate to the lore?
sauron is based on lucifer and was thus described as incredibly beautiful, intriguing, and appealing
>>does that mean he is actually accurate to the lore?
Sauron's race is Maiar in the lore, Maiar literally means "beautiful" in Elf langage. So yes, Sauron was always a homosexual pretty boy. The movie also had a cut content with Sauron's face reveal, but they decided to ditch it because they wanted Sauron to always seem hideous and scary to maintain the impact. Shadow of War's Sauron design based on this unused design.
Since he died in the Fall of Numenor he can't take his pretty boy form any more
He didn't even have a proper body.
the EA movie licensed games were fun
it into an action movie
Said the soldier who probably killed more people than any serial killers.
There was a serial killer in Columbia, I think, who killed over 600 children.
War casualities are usually in millions. 600 is just a drop in the ocean.
Colombians have to be really fricking incompetent to let one dude murder 600 kids. Were their parents all deaf & blind?
you literally didn't even read the filename you bumbling fricking dipshit
I am convinced this game was made for money laundering purposes or to further destroy the lotr IP (like the TV series)
I can see no other logical explanations
>I am convinced this game was made for money laundering purposes
it's more natural for a game developer to squander funding and frick up than actually try to do crime
they presumably got some state money to make the game though so they technically scammed the german tax payer. as for why the german state is funding shitty licensed game slop in the first place, i don't know
>got some state money
so I'm right, and this being ~~*Germany*~~ I'm right on both counts.
I legitimately feel bad for the devs. This studio didn't want to make this game, Nacon forced them to. They are a small company that was made to make old school Point and Click games, and that was all they made before this.
Real talk Ganker, how do you go about getting some reliable journos to cover inside info you have while keeping the source vague enough to not get caught? I want to get this story out.
I didn't have anything to do with this game myself, but I am friends with someone who was an artist for it, he's told me for years about this game and the studio and I really want people to know about the shit they went through because of Nacon
>nacon
who
Literally a more cancerous publisher than EA but they remain pretty low key overall so they fly under the radar.
>He doesn't know Nacon
Oh boy
unfortunately, the only "video game journalist" that isn't a complete hack is the israelite schrierer or w/e his demonic nom de guerre is. anyways, it's a tough sell to try and put this out legitimately since it's hearsay. Most would want the first hand account, not yours. Better to green text/meme arrow the account.
Hmm, good point. Maybe I'll try and convince him to tell them since his job is probably fricked soon anyway as Nacon will purge the studio after forcing this project in the first place.
daedelic has money for a second game
If nothing else made me decide to finally read the series. Only ever read hobbit as a kid.
>gondalin
Who writes this shit? Literally have AI write it for you or copypaste it from somewhere if you're a fricking moron with dyslexia.
Why does every AAA title come with an apology from the devs now? What's wrong with gaming?
>AAA
It's a low budget game made by shovel ware devs and released for 50 bucks. It is in no way AAA
>It's a low budget game made by shovel ware devs
It was developed by an actual German game company Daelic Entertainment. Lord of the Rings is an expensive IP by all means, the company is relatively small, but Gollum definitely had money.
50 bucks is AA, deluxe edition 60 dollars is AAA. Game has no excuse
From all the lore that the studio could adapt to a videogame, who even asked for a Gollum game?
His early life or descent into madness could have been neat to see. Instead it's just gollum as you know it fricking around.
Game of the year
I KNOW
I KNOW I'VE LET YOU DOWN
I'VE BEEN A FOOL TO MYSELF
I THOUGHT THAT I COULD LIVE FOR NO ONE ELSE
kind of surprised anyone even notices spelling mistakes these days when everyone types like an epic gangsta from da hood.
The industry needs a fall guy after the shitshow of the TotK "it's a miracle 10/10" bullshit. They need to do this once in a while to keep up appearances. A small indy German studio is perfect for these parasites.
I don't understand why they even apologize for anything. I played the game and it was fine. People actively go out of their way to find issue with games now rather than just playing the game itself.
t h e l o r d o f r i n g
I beg you of your shittiest screenshots of this game I'm obsessed with how bad it looks
this but more webms
Remember when kids used to plank?
Lirik's stream? He went to get a drink of water and left the game like this for a few minutes.
i think these kinds of bugs happen specifically because developers makes games in UE4, which basically has shit like animation blending pre-built into the engine, but because it is UE4, it doesn't fricking work right and it's a nightmare to try to fix it because you have to go messing around in the core engine shit, which is a massive spaghetti mess and debugging takes fricking forever. so devs just go "eh whatever i don't get paid enough for this shit" and give up lol
They can't look under the hood when shit goes wrong. So they just brute force it and hope for the best. If something goes wrong, they just make the commands work for UE4 rather than make the engine work for the game.
gollum is high-T
*blocks your path*
Eru wills it
At least you get an achievement for this.
>Wait! Wait! Not yet!
There needs to be laws governing the right of publishers to only allow actual user scores. This is very obviously a bad beatup to bring people back in to believe that gaming journalists are trustworthy after the shitshow that was TotK. The game isn't actually that bad. What it is, is fricking weird. Actual glitches are minimal. It works fine. Until you turn on raytracing. Wow, shocking. I hate Americans so much it's unreal. They'll literally destroy anything that doesn't suit their crass commercial tastes. Nuke that fricking shithole already. We'd all be better off.
spit
>tolkiengays seething that their horridly paced genre fiction isn't treated like high art
lmao read real literature
>"horridly paced"
>literature
Have a (You), actually made me upset for a bit.
>no argument
as expected of a genregay
"Pacing" is a word used precisely by genregays, you utter imbecile.
genreshit deserves its own terminology. Its certainly a lot faster than saying "the author goes on wild tangents about irrelevant shit as """worldbuilding""" or whatever garbage people use"
No Infinite Jest is also shit for pseuds
Did you finish reading Infinite Jest yet like Ganker told you to?
when israelites own all the markets.jpg
Current fad zoomers are pretending to care about until the people they watch forget about it and in turn they do as well.
You'll do it next week.
gollum is bringing Ganker together to dab on this game. It's also a fantastic source of laughs right now
Chuckllum formerly Sneedgol
I honestly think the idea of a more symapthethic Gollum that was more balanced in control with Smeagol and choosing which main personality takes over could have been a really neat AU scenerio. Like the moral choice routes being Gollum or Smeagol trying to convince the other to do something is actually sorta clever and I can imagine this sort of thing working.
Assuming the game and story wasn't also total dogshit shit of course.
>I honestly think the idea of a more symapthethic Gollum that was more balanced in control with Smeagol and choosing which main personality takes over could have been a really neat AU scenerio
so people like you actually exist
find a cliff, jump off
That’s what the game is. At the end you decide whether to kill your pet bird or not. It’s brilliant.
Stop replying to anti-Tolkien shitposters, you know they're just farming (You)s.
The two Miyazakis are working together to shit on this masterpiece because they hate Tolkein and this games blows any of their works out of the water.
So does it just play like shit or what?
way better games out RN like zombie panic, co-op horror, free on steam
>We would like to apologize for "Lawd dem Rang"(tm)
>Dwarf Breaking
tl;dr GollumTM is a certified masterpiece
Reminder that anti-Tolkien posting is a literal leftypol psyop, since Tolkien's works have been deemed "problematic".
No one here is calling them problematic though? My issue isn't his Christian beliefs, my issue is that his prose sucks.
>since Tolkien's works have been deemed "problematic".
The delusional fantasy shit you morons come up with in your head is fricking hilarious
>dedicated community
unironically, what does that mean? you see it everywhere but i dont understand these words.
>all the arguing itt
It could be worse. Tolkiengays could be Sandersongays instead.
>it's another "underaged ESL moron fresh from Ganker shits on Tolkien at every opportunity after having read his first 'real' novel" episode
Gollum is /ourgame/
everyone who hates tolkien got filtered by tom bomCHADil
Every time a game dev makes a non-apology like this it reminds me of that BP guy from South Park and gives me a goos chuckle.
He picked up the soap.
>when the only option was to [give head]
poor little smeagol
Lol aaa+ gaming is a joke this looks like something from double fine that they'd make 2 decades ago
Enjoy your 70usd+ brony shit
>aaa
it's
not
a
triple-a
game
holy shit
Your aaa Black person
The game has money from Middle Earth Enterprises aka the owner of the franchise. LOTR is not a public domain IP
Gollum Trigger anime when?
surely no one bought this trash
it was DOA on a fundamental conceptual level
Wow. The tweet has 22.7m views on it after over 12 hours. That's more than the xbox dunk on playstation showcase which sits at 10.3m after over 2 days.
these companies keep saying "Im truly sorry" but inside their head they're saying "pfft ass hell butt butt butt I gotta take a shit, so frick all you crybabys"
Vinny's stream of this game was the funniest shit I've seen in months.
oh yeah? what part was funny
i wanna see why people think watching these people is funny
>Restrict blood flow to Gollum's throat.
>"Our dev team has been working diligently to address the bugs and technical issues many of you experienced. We are committed to providing you with patches that will allow you to enjoy the game to it(')s fullest potential"
It annoys me that the narrative in the media, is mainly that the game is "plagued with performance issues and is a buggy mess".
It's so sneaky because it hides the fact that the game is beyond shit. The game is actually Life Of Black Tiger tier trash. A scam worse than many of the meme asset flip games on steam.
Why did you spell "its" wrong?
>its another PR apology by another incompetent team of developers
Every time.
EAT SHIT GAMER INCELS YOU DESERVE NOTHING
You sold a faulty product. An apology is the very least you can do and wouldn't fly in any other industry.
Kill all game devs
Why did they even think it's a good idea to make a Gollum game? Who's asking for it?
No wonder it bombed.
nice saturn iconography in their logo real subtle you bunch of israelites
>the lord of ring: gollum
little bastard used his power to kill all other rings
This is an AI written response
AI wouldn't frick up the game's title. All those cope essays are always so similar that it doesn't even matter who writes it.
>learn game exists through apology letter
many such cases
>lord of the rings
>There's only one true ring
???
The lord of the ring is the lord of the rings
And that ring stands above all the other ones - it's the lord of them.
There is no contradiction between these statements.
It clearly says The Lord of Ring in the OP pic
Are you blind??
Maybe Disney will do the same for the Little Mermaid
Needs a background color slider so you can tailor it to your dev team even easier
stop preordering games, you stupid Black folk
who the hell preordered a such game?
who bought or wanted this whatsoever at all
who asked for a game where you fricking play as gollum
I guess I was more talking about the other games with terrible launches that sent out similar apology letters. didn't we get like 4 of them this year already?
Money laundering: the game
Why the frick did they try to make their Gollum look cute? It might be appropriate for the early adventures of Gollum when he was a degenerate River halfling with the ring, but he had been completely twisted into a monster by the time Bilbo ran into him, and by the Lord of the Rings timeline, he's practically amphibian. In the game, he just looks like a meth addict Hobbit.
>>but he had been completely twisted into a monster by the time Bilbo ran into him, and by the Lord of the Rings timeline, he's practically amphibian
No, Smeagol basically a Hobbit that became too old and too insane. He is roughly 600 years old, meanwhile age of a Hobbit is around over 100, as seen with Bilbo Baggins. Living in poor condition, with poor mental health and an extremely old body is what Gollum was. It is the game's design that doesn't make sense, is that he doesn't look somewhat humanoid like movie version. His eyes are extremely large yet his face is short and almost ape-like. This is not a meth addict Hobbit, this looks more like a baby goblin.
Blibo's life was extended by the ring too
It supposed to but not yet. Bilbo was still in normal Hobbit lifespan but the ring kept him young longer than he should have. Right after giving up the ring, he became old very fast and went into retirement by the ending.
You're right he wasn't super old by the time he gave up the ring but was exceptionally healthy and young looking for his age when he gave up the ring on his 111th birthday and then aged like 50 years in the 17 years before he saw Frodo again at Rivendell
The book describes him as distinctly monstrous in appearance and only just barely resembling the halfling he once was. IIRC it's explicitly stated that this isn't just aging (in fact the Ring stops you from aging), but being twisted by the darkness within the Ring itself.
>>The book describes him as distinctly monstrous in appearance
Actually ironic enough, the opposite. Tolkien described him as having pale skin, thin face, big eyes and he wears dark clothes with pockets and overall he has dark silhouette. Ironically more normal than what the movie made him to look like. "Extremely monstrous Gollum" was just wrong assumptions from illustrators back then, which Toiken himself had to debunk and explain the character in further details.
I wasn't saying he was big. The books make him out to be monstrous in appearance, not size.
>>The books make him out to be monstrous in appearance
Where did you get that? The book description was very simple and barebones, and he is nowhere near the "extremely monstrous " like what you and reddit usually claim.
>>in fact the Ring stops you from aging
It stopped aging to a certain extend but not the elixir of life. Bilbo still aged, he only looked slightly younger for his age and had better health condition than most old Hobits.
im a meth addict hobbit irl
Ah, warner delivering the worst fricking games known to mankind.
lads... we have the power to get a groveling apology from any dev if we react the same way we did to gollum
Gollum bros, why is it so perfect?
ChatGPT wrote a much better apologize letter in a matter of seconds
>Dear Fans,
>We deeply regret the disappointments you experienced with our game, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum. Our team humbly apologizes for the subpar experience and the unmet expectations.
>As developers, we hold ourselves accountable for the flaws that hindered your enjoyment. We are truly sorry for falling short in delivering the immersive, high-quality experience we aimed for, especially within the treasured world of Middle-earth.
>Your feedback is invaluable to us, and we are committed to learning from this experience. We are determined to make amends by addressing the issues, improving gameplay mechanics, visuals, and storytelling. Our goal is to provide you with an updated and enhanced version of the game that does justice to the beloved franchise.
>We sincerely hope that our shortcomings serve as a lesson to the industry, urging a collective effort to elevate the quality of video games. We aim to contribute to the improvement and advancement of gaming experiences as a result of this humbling experience.
>We genuinely appreciate your ongoing support and patience. We pledge to work tirelessly to regain your trust and deliver an outstanding gaming experience worthy of The Lord of the Rings legacy.
>With utmost remorse and determination,
>[Your Name]
>The Lord of the Rings: Gollum Dev Team representative.
It's intriguing how even an AI-generated letter manages to convey more sincerity and genuine remorse compared to the actual apology from the developers. The original letter feels somewhat self-righteous and hollow, while the AI's version exudes a heartfelt desire to make amends, almost making you want to forgive them. What's even more remarkable is that the AI's fourth paragraph imparts a valuable lesson that the developers themselves failed to acknowledge.
there's not enough webms of this shitty game
the beard is more alive than the old man kek
Even his ponytail is, with the stray polys there that try to escape.
Did gollum's loincloth fell off there?
for the love of god, if devs are going to insist in covering every interactable surface in white or yellow paint can we please have an option to turn it off. it looks like shit and the game just becomes completely braindead to play
Another one for the apology collage.
I HAVE ASSEMBLED ALL 10 PIECES OF THE GAMING APOLOGY EXODIA
There was a Darktide apology too.
I still can't get over RedFall's "apology" calling competent PC releases like Days Gone "hallucinations and do not exist". Boggles my fricking mind how they thought that was a good idea.
The RedFall one is fake.
I know game companies have a terrible reputation these days, but they didn't actually put out a sarcastic pisstake of an apology like that.
>laughing cheetah
that's a hyena
it’s clearly a lion
look at all those shitty flops, I think jedi survivor is the only exception. basically if you see one of these images you just know the game is terrible
the redfall image does raise a good point though. if it was mostly developed by arkane austin, how did they frick up that bad if id is right in texas with them and both run by bethesda?
these apologies are gay
>sincere genuine sincere sincere genuinely sincere
You can take your AI created PR apology and sincerely, genuinely shove it up your ass. Thank frick I didn't bother with it, looked terrible from the first trailer.
guess the next game to get an apology letter . i'm thinking AC mirage
the protagonist is a bipolar gremlin who acts like a savage. can you even make a good game based around a premise like that?
Forspoken says "no"
>Daedalic
>Releases Gollum 2
>Time travel to redeem Gollum
>Irredeemable
>Preserves Gollum 1 ending
I love Depnoia
People are distracted by performance. Performance bad, ok we'll pathc that, ok we ficed it now yay game good now! NO game BAD! Gameplay is BAD IT IS BAD GAME even with super optimized gig performance
>Rangz of powah
>Gollum
>MtG homie Aragorn
>More garbage movies and shows in the work
what the frick is the Tolkien estate doing?
Christopher died like 2 years ago so now his kids and all other random descendants of Tolkien are coming to collect their lotrbux
Someone post the Russian Gollum art
NOW
This one?
This one is also pretty eerie.
>did not meet the expectations
Who the hell expected anything from GOLLUM, a game about GOLLUM? Exactly what kind of mind-blowing experience did these people envision?
I can't imagine what it must be like to be someone working on a game like this. Surely you and your co workers have to realize it's shit. Like from a conceptual level it's fricking shit. So what is everyone, just pretending like it's fine? Just puttin' in muh hours, separating yourself from the product?
Its just a job. I have had jobs wher I was making shit products. I was paid to do acertain thing, i did it. The end product was shit, everyone knew it was shit. It is deopressing but its basically a games factory. There is no passion, no desire to make a great product and seek investment for it, there is first some investment and then they think of something to make on their coding assembly line that they hope will give them a return on the money invested. It might as well be a cheese sandwich factory.
Is that title by any chance translated straight from the German version of the title? As in, does German use singular for the Ring unlike English?
Nah, it's called "Der Herr der Ringe" over here, literally the same as the english title. Singular would be "Der Herr des Rings".
yeah chatgpt ain't perfect yet
Should have used the 1977 cartoon version of Gollum.
You see, this was written by someone from the marketing team and of course they are clinically moronic.
Who the frick asked for this? No, really, who the frick wanted a game where you only could play as Gollum? I still don't know what was the train of thought that made possible this kind of game exist.
Was this just an elaborated money laundering scheme or something?
what's the first thing that comes to mind when you read "gollumslop"
I hope they make an apology for that too
what did they mean by this
you cropped out the actual ring
he cropped the elden ring
Time to issue another apology for the first apology statement.
Funny their sorry font look better than the one in their game
Gollum won the argument