Board 8 > The Lord of the Rings: Gollum Review Zone

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LightningStrikes
05/25/23 9:20:04 AM
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https://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-5/the-lord-of-the-rings---gollum

https://opencritic.com/game/13215/the-lord-of-the-rings-gollum

Metacritic - 38
Opencritic - 40 (4% Recommended)

Tears of the Kingdom is quaking in its boots.

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neonreaper
05/25/23 9:24:48 AM
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Ugh what a shame

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masterplum
05/25/23 9:26:19 AM
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Lol

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LightningStrikes
05/25/23 9:42:30 AM
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neonreaper posted...
Ugh what a shame

Yeah I felt this had potential when it was announced. Then the 2 year delay happened and that wasnt a great sign. Making games is hard.

I wonder if this will get a 1 from Edge, more likely a 2 but who knows.

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UshiromiyaEva
05/25/23 9:44:10 AM
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Sometimes a game gets literally 0 marketing and it's the right call.

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TomNook7
05/25/23 9:47:57 AM
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Lol I was lowkey rooting for this game . Oh well

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RuneterranSnap
05/25/23 9:57:48 AM
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Oh what a shock

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masterplum
05/25/23 10:11:02 AM
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Apparently there is $2 emote dlc

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FoolFantastic
05/25/23 10:15:46 AM
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masterplum posted...
Apparently there is $2 emote dlc

Don't forget the Elvish language voice acting dlc!

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paperwarior
05/25/23 10:52:06 AM
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TomNook7 posted...
Lol I was lowkey rooting for this game . Oh well
I feel bad for respectable SCUMM adventure game dev Daedelic, anyway.

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Leonhart4
05/25/23 11:02:32 AM
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What even is this game?

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SHINE_GET_64
05/25/23 11:04:08 AM
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Leonhart4 posted...
What even is this game?
I've seen comparisons to A Plague Tale, but Gollum

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TheRock1525
05/25/23 11:13:01 AM
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SHINE_GET_64 posted...
I've seen comparisons to A Plague Tale, but Gollum

a plagollum tale

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GavsEvans123
05/25/23 11:13:36 AM
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My red flag for this game was when it was meant to release alongside Rings of Power, then got delayed. If you're going to pass up a prime marketing tie-in like that, it must be bad!

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KamikazePotato
05/25/23 6:18:19 PM
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2/10 from GameSpot mmmm good stuff

Before going any further, we need to address the elephant (or Mmakil, if you will) in the room: In the state it was in at time of review, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum was not ready to be played. In my roughly 11 hours of playtime on "Performance" mode on a PlayStation 5, the game crashed over 120 times (yes, I counted; masochist, remember?), averaging about one crash every five minutes. After my 20th-or-so crash, I got the dreaded "save data corrupted" message, only to realize I'd lost half a day's progress upon reloading. In multiple other instances, game-breaking bugs--such as a companion I was charged with protecting instantly dying over and over again for no discernible reason--forced me to restart entire levels, losing significant progress. Finally, during an especially tedious and time-consuming puzzle, the crashes became too frequent to possibly make it to the next checkpoint in time. Determined though I was to get through to the end and make these setbacks feel worthwhile, I threw in the towel at 40% completion, defeated.

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TheRock1525
05/25/23 6:20:16 PM
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KamikazePotato posted...
2/10 from GameSpot mmmm good stuff

Why not just give it a zero at that point?

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FFDragon
05/25/23 7:09:06 PM
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How does a company allow a game to be released like this?

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scarletspeed7
05/25/23 7:10:50 PM
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TheRock1525 posted...
Why not just give it a zero at that point?
Probably because they felt it deserved a 2/10, just going out on a limb here

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MacArrowny
05/25/23 7:14:52 PM
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TheRock1525 posted...
Why not just give it a zero at that point?
Because the reviewer liked the story and music, obviously

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UshiromiyaEva
05/25/23 7:16:38 PM
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https://twitter.com/LumpyTheCook/status/1661746291360301059?s=19

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WarThaNemesis2
05/25/23 7:18:27 PM
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FFDragon posted...
How does a company allow a game to be released like this?

Well being acquired by new ownership mid-development probably didn't help.

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Punnyz
05/26/23 1:28:38 AM
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I feel like there is no appeal to play a fucking Gollum game

I'm not surprised

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Esuriat
05/26/23 1:55:07 AM
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Oh neat, I was just watching this game get streamed. The streamer will not be returning to it.

Making fun of it and screwing around is entertaining for a short time. Intentionally dropping Gollum down pits is funny. But then it gets old and uninteresting and frustratingly filled with errors. Some environments from what I saw look neat, but then character models and of course Gollum himself are awful.

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UshiromiyaEva
05/26/23 3:24:55 PM
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https://twitter.com/headfallsoff/status/1662091216761004033?s=19

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PrivateBiscuit1
05/26/23 4:48:45 PM
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https://twitter.com/GollumGame/status/1662124108614717448?t=Fg7ygqaQukacBtzT9X9ZTw&s=19

Yesss we got another one.

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KamikazePotato
05/26/23 6:31:06 PM
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https://i.imgur.com/26lE4v0.jpg

Apologies for the absurdly poor quality image, but somehow this is the version being circulated, and it gets the gist across

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neonreaper
05/26/23 6:33:41 PM
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I thought people liked Jedi Survivor

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KamikazePotato
05/26/23 6:36:07 PM
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neonreaper posted...
I thought people liked Jedi Survivor
Its performance (mostly on PC) was/is awful even though people liked the game itself.

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FFDragon
05/26/23 6:40:44 PM
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"Sorry guys we knew our game was literal horseshit but we had to get some of our budget back y'know?"

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masterplum
05/26/23 6:51:06 PM
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Like balen wonderworld some people are hate playing it. Those people arent getting ripped off I guess


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redrocket
05/26/23 6:58:46 PM
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Punnyz posted...
I feel like there is no appeal to play a fucking Gollum game

I'm not surprised

Woah. Woah. HARD disagree here. A GOOD Gollum game would be a grail game for me.

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paperwarior
05/26/23 8:59:00 PM
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masterplum posted...
Like balen wonderworld some people are hate playing it. Those people arent getting ripped off I guess
It looks bad-bad though. And apparently crashes all the time.

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paperwarior
05/26/23 9:00:30 PM
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I couldn't bring myself to play Balan while it was on PS++, unfortunately(?).

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colliding
05/27/23 12:02:49 AM
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I kind of hope they don't fix it. a bad game can be remembered forever. If they patch it into an average game, the world suffers a loss.

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GavsEvans123
05/27/23 12:42:43 PM
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I was looking at the reviews on Metacritic out of curiosity, and one of them calls it "the worst experience I've ever played", but still gives it 65. Stuff like this is why gaming journalism is a joke!

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MacArrowny
05/27/23 4:05:03 PM
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GavsEvans123 posted...
I was looking at the reviews on Metacritic out of curiosity, and one of them calls it "the worst experience I've ever played", but still gives it 65. Stuff like this is why gaming journalism is a joke!
Gaming journalism is a joke because of a machine translated review? Seriously?

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PrivateBiscuit1
05/28/23 4:29:46 AM
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https://twitter.com/WhereAllBegins/status/1662276854533816321?t=exBjuhhpeFelAoQPnjULrQ&s=19

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Snake5555555555
05/28/23 4:36:00 AM
#39:


Facts

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