My bet is that the game was made as a contract obligation: the rights holder had a contract saying they need to make a King Kong game every 5 years or whatever, so they found a company in Thailand that could make a game for 500k and released it. Doesn't matter whether or not it's good, just that it exists.
Doesn't that beg the question of HOW a company like this happens to have the rights to the King Kong IP? Blizzard outsourcing Warcraft reforged to a random under the floorboards dev in Taiwan is one thing, but KING KONG looking this bad is astonishing.
I could make that for 25k... I was going to suggest it might just be two college grads making games for shits n giggles... the price is the real problem. If it was being sold as a $10 indie game people wouldn't be so upset. /shrug
@@christopherjones5700 Because King Kong is in a… very weird position as a copyrighted property. This isn’t even based on any other interpretation of King Kong, like the Monsterverse version with Godzilla, Peter Jackson, etc.
For anyone that doesn't know here is the reason something like this can be made: The copyright of the King Kong novel had expired without renewel making King Kong a public domain story. The films however are still protected and currently owned by Warner media. I believe this issue was revealed when the company in charge of King Kong tried to Sue Nintendo for the name Kong.
@@senjusan6359You might not like the game for personal reasons (lmao I quit 1 hour in) but to say it's one of the worst games of 2023 is a big fucking reach holy shit
@@aden5122 Always thought that if they fully fledged that game system until like, being able to farm, hunt and make clothing, lose most hair, etc. would've been an insane experience. Very difficult and a lot of work, but amazing.
AI would do better than this. . Where AI would probably fall short would be making meaningful storylines and building emotional attachment to characters. But even then, it's just a matter of time before AI could simulate that accurately too. . People like to think humans are super complex and unique... most humans are not either of those things. AI has surpassed humans in a multitude of fields while only existing for less than 20 years... give it a few more years and there's nothing humans will be able to do more efficiently than AI. Anyone who denies that as fact, is clearly making an emotional argument, not a logical one.
If this was the first game made by a group of friends in their teens, I think they need to stop being friends! XD The only person the seemed to care at all about this game was the one that handled the cutscenes / facial expression. It looks a little silly sure, but at least its all animated and looks like someone went in and actually tried. The textures/gameplay/levels/character models etc on the other hand look like they were phoned in, with no effort at all.
@@WayStedYou That was a fun project, I enjoyed watching the updates along the way and stuff, and iirc they learned how to make the game as they went, and streamed the whole process. The game itself ended up decent, nothing huge, but the journey along the way was great.
Video games graphics does no matter... until it does. In truth, it always matter. Graphics here refer to all graphical aspect of a software, not the corporates buzzword for realism.
@@Thuase People still won't let it away given its $40 price. Even if some say it doesn't matter, the public still has a minimum graphical expectations for AA+ games.
nah fam. If it looks like poo than its already a no go for me and that MY opinion. If phone games can look decent then this has no excuse@@ultimaxkom8728
This game has saved my life. I was convinced my life was hell but i see that there exists a game that makes the life of who ever plays it worse than mine. Thanks devs.
@@The_MEMEphis well, don't the upper classes have it so high that it balances out the misery of the "poor" (even if the poor may be better off than some other countries like those people in previous videos who have a ludicrous income but can't afford anything). And isn't the USA a free PVP environment just like a third world country? Sounds kinda poor to me...
22:28 This may be nostalgia goggles, but the King Kong game that was released with the Peter Jackson movie was pretty good when i was like ten or something. It's not incredible, but it was worth a playthrough all those years ago. Just needed more Kong but had good gameplay.
Graphics engineer here. They use a strange toon shader, similar to that used in Borderlands and other games, where you see a black outline around everything, but they've made it more subtle and almost unnoticeable, so it just makes the game look cheap and old instead of giving it a stylistic look like a toon shader is supposed to do. But I think what gave people the impression of bad graphics were the low res textures, ugly color scheme, and horrific animations (and some of the modelling too). They also seemed to have used very high poly models and depend on some kind of LOD system, which is clearly turned up all the way, that's why things look like they are constantly blinking between lower detail versions of themselves. This is indicative of using unedited 3D assets which are often way too high poly for realtime graphics. The older kong game was actually lower poly, it just looked better because it had better textures, better color scheme, and way better animations (and the gameplay looked better too but I'm only talking about appearance).
Goes with asmons and my held belief that an understanding of the quality cost relationship and good art direction always beats something with better tech and worse utilization.
Gollum was made by a well known german studio Daedalic (mainly for Point&Click adventures) and we got many insights what happened. It killed the company. Daedelic does not exist anymore. Which is tragic, because this is the first true miss from them and the devs are not incompetent. Gollum was the result of bad management. It had only 15 million Euro budget which is a joke for that license.
i am sad aswell for daedalic, and as i know game turned out bad, i do think it was big mismanagement going from 2d point&click games into 3d platformer with boring character in well known universe with big fanbase, everything was like it was meant to end tragically, and 80% of budget probably went for IP rights
are you serious? with 15mi i could make a better game by myself in my room using godot and releasing with 0 game breaking bugs, it is no excuse... seriously ive seen student games made in 3 months that looks and plays leagues above this garbage, gollum was just a scam and I don't understand how someone can defend this, there is absolutely 0 chance theyve spent 15mi developing this game.
@@N0buKi You'd be surprised how dramatically horrible flops can be for games and films, budget wise. 15 million is a lot of money but it can also be wasted "spectacularly"
Unless they messed up massively by buying the license for 10+ mi plus marketing, and mismanaged the costs of developing, hoping to hit big when it released as it is LOTR, I can see that, but even then... not even 1mi should be enough to make anything better than what they have, even if they made it as a point and click adventure, it would make way more sense for a gollum game imo. Such a unnecessary failure it was, I feel bad for the devs, because they really had talent for point and click games
In the beginning I thought Yong was being a bit hyperbolic with saying it looked like PS2, but when he showed the actually PS2 game my jaw dropped literally. That's wild!
It blows my mind even more that the absolute peak was 700 players, even with all the memes and free marketing the game got. The game is so horrible that I honestly expected WAY more people to play it just for the laughs.
It's gotta be a "use it or loose it" situation, another Fantastic Four. They had to rush out a shit game to retain the license, or the contract would lapse.
They also have some of the best point and click adventures on their resume, they’re probably going to be fine. There was a documentation about the developers and of course it was a team of one passionate people making great games in their niche being sold to other companies with shareholders and terrible management and they wanted something „mainstream“ to appeal to a bigger audience / make more money so Gollum came out. I don’t know how many times we had this tale before. Documentation can be found when searching on TH-cam for „Game Two Gollum Report“, has English subtitles.
The biggest issue with this and gollum is that they're based on a famous movie franchise which sets high quality expectations. There are a dozen games coming out on steam every day that are worse, but nobody cares because they're no-name titles.
exactly, there is alot of expectation and responsibility behind it, if it was just a gorilla game that sucked, nobody would care, but thats not just a gorilla. thats king kong.
I would say that the fault lies solely on the higher ups who pushed the launch of this game on the current state. It clearly has less than 2 years of development for a studio as big as them. It really makes me think that the comment in the video about making this to mark it as a loss of money to the government is valid.
You'd honestly be surprised at how many video game companies are taking contracts by governments. You got those idiots at Ubisoft with Skull and Bones and that game looks like it was made in 5 minutes, But in reality they got a sh*t ton of money from Singapore and were given a strict date.
i've played videogames my entire life (25+ years) and when i saw Rise of Kong my mind instantly thought: it doesnt look THAT bad. But then i realized my subconscious thought that because i was comparing it with ps1-ps2 games, it took me a while to analyze this thing came out THIS WEEK
I want the creators of Gollum to have control of everything related to WoW, so we can end it finally. And then have the original creators of WoW to come back and make WoW 2!
Thats what I did with Duke Nukem Forever. I got it for a dollar, new and sealed in case. I picked up two copies. One to hold onto. One to play. Sold the played copy to somebody for $2 about 6 years later.
i remember playing the peter jackson version at a Circuit City, it was a whole tech demo for the game to show it off, leather couch and everything. i remember fighting the T-rex, and then the second one came out and eventually ripping open one of thier mouths by the jaws... it truly was an experience for when i was younger.
10:35 Yeah, sucks to be you: Daedalic, who messed up Gollum, had one of the best track records concerning adventure and story games out there. Till now.^^
I once asked for a 'gaming' keyboard, and ended up with one where you could pick the color of the LED backlight and **Even the sequence it would rotate. It would randomly go in to display mode, and the 'programmable keys' were plastic nubs where keys might have gone. Sometimes the real keys worked. This feels like the game that was released with that keyboard.
With all the powerful tools, AI and game engines out their I believe we will see more games like this because It is easier more than ever to make a "game" quickly on the cheap, but of course its gonna be trash 99% of the time without real talent and quality control.
I honestly feel bad for the devs, they probably aren't in the same caliber as the other players in the field but god damn maan this is like a college project 💀
I've played good college projects that are leagues beyond this. Even some "my first game" passion projects that have goofy graphics can be better than this.
Would be funny if the people making this game didn't even know it was a King Kong game for the most part of the development. They just got told to make a game about an ape on an island fighting monsters and dinos and were told yes or no to pitched ideas.
Yes i do mean most of: There is Chronicles of Riddick, Most of the EA Licensed games (except for Catwoman), King Kong 2005 game, Most of the batman games (except for Dark Tomorrow and the ps1 games), Alien games, Most of the Disney and Pixar games, Scarface: The World is Yours, Most of the Marvel games, Most of the Star Wars games, Reservoir Dogs, Most of the dreamworks games, i can name alot.
It’s so rough being a fan of the classic monsters. We haven’t had a really, really good Godzilla or King Kong game since the early 2000’s. If I had any skills and the gall to try and make a game myself I’d honestly want me or someone to just go to unreal engine and make a goddamn Godzilla game that’s actually fun. It can’t possibly be harder or worse than what we’ve had so far.
10:24 I'd like to see Asmon give the Shadow of Mordor a shot. It's definitely an Assasin's creed time game play, but some of the things you can do to the orcs are rather pleasing.
The Original King Kong game for the PS2/Xbox was actaully one of the best games ever made. It's a survival Horror story driven game with amazing gameplay, I played the shit outta it as a kid even though I was scared shitless of the Dinosaur survival sections. The King Kong sections were mid but infrequent so it doesn't matter. Seriously recommend it to everyone who has a "legit" PS2 Bios and a ROM from a website.
Ok maybe the gameplay on this 2005 King Kong might be mediocre, i have no idea. but the animation is actually top notch, straight up. The phisicality of the movement, the weight and momentum in the easings, it's all there.
9:55 Kong is in the public domain however Legendary are making current Monsterverse films with Kong,Peter Jacksons King Kong was Universal,and this gane in particular is based on King Kong of Skull island a story continuation "mainly through comics" of the original 1933 film through the Marian C Cooper estate. Also the 2005 game is my favorite game of all time.
The pricetag seems pretty normal if you look at it as school material in the game development courses. Like ¨how not to make a game¨ or ¨Catastrophic mistakes in game development¨.
those peaks on the steam chart are probably streamers on twitch showing how bad the game is and the the fall off parts are their comunity doing the steam refund speed runs just to see it themselves hell even E.T. for atari can be completed and didnt crash and they had like 6 weeks to write it in assembly
I heard once that you have to do something with your trademark, no matter what it is, even a videogame counts, in order to continue enforcing your claim to the trademark.
That one game called "Peter Jackson's King Kong" (that came out in 2005 btw) looked soo much better and was so much more fun than this one. If you want a good and i mean GOOD King Kong game you gotta check that one out.
That's not only a GOOD kong it's just a GOOD licensed game in general. like even to this day that game still holds up amazingly well and it bums me out how even after all these years we still don't have a proper pc port on steam or anywhere, besides just owning the orginal disc.
I'd kill for 2005 King Kong remake. It's one of the best licensed games from that era and if you played it back in the day you know what I'm talking about.
The moment he said "Remember Lord of the Rings Return of the King" my whole body activated. Damn i have some incredible memories with that game. Played it through so many times. With my dad no less.
the fact that this came out immediately discounted means the publisher knew exactly how bad it is and they are simply trying to recoup as much of their development money as possible. I guarantee they write this loss off on their taxes for the year.
Man I remember playing the peter jackson Ps2 king kong game. rented it from blockbuster for my ps2, playing it on my 20 inch CRT tv after school for a week or two until we returned it. I don't think I beat the game but I got pretty far in, the atmosphere was immaculate, especially for the intro and beginning, pulling up to the island
Daedalic Entertainment is not a bad studio... They actually made a lot of great games! I just do not get why they started third person stuff? Their point and click adventures are legendary!
I really liked that 2005 king kong game, i didn't understand the hate. Walking around, spearing dinos was a great time. I think people wanted to play kong more.
I don't understand why anyone had any expectation for this game to be anything, like you do realize Kong is public domain? Where's the outrage for every asset flip on steam
I actually kind of like the art style... I know, but it almost has a cell shaded look to it. I really miss when games look artistic, like Okami, or some of the older Dragon Ball games.
Yeah if you pretend like ArcSystem games or any number of JRPG devs don't exist. Or that people are constantly arguing about Elden ring putting art before graphics? Why do you want to convince yourself everything is awful?
@@MrMooMoo088 On this case, it's more the whole game seems to be underbaked. If the game was more complete and the graphics were stylized, I wouldn't have a issue. Look at Hi-Fi Rush, looks like a dreamcast game and is a great game
@MrMooMoo088 Hey hey, don't lump me in with the others. I do miss when we got more games with unique art styles (Veautiful Joe) is another good example, but I really liked Elden Ring. It seems to me there is much more of a focus on realistic graphics now adays... which is fine, just not my cup of tea. Oh and as for the many Japanese/Korean games... ehh, they may have interesting graphics, but they don't tend to have interesting gameplay, in my opinion.
I can't wait for the game to go free and then all the great mods to fix it. If I was the developer, I would market it that way. "Hey we made a shit game, make it better for us"
This may be nostalgia goggles, but the King Kong game that was released with the peter jackson movie was pretty good. It's not incredible, but it was worth a playthrough all those years ago. Just needed more Kong but had good gameplay.
At least we're finally starting to have good movies based on video games like Sonic and Mario. And I can remember a couple of games based on movies throughout my life that were pretty good, such as SNES Aladdin, LOTR Return of the King, Spiderman 2. I just go by the rule of "wait for reviews"
Devs of Ubisoft's King Kong movie game: "Man look at all these game remakes coming out! I wonder what a remake of our game from 20 years ago would look like? Surely it will be incredibly advanced!" The King Kong game remake 20 years later:
we have to stop laughing at things like this... because it is a serious problem. these people really think what they did is fine and even charge over 50 bucks for it. this is insane
Looks like it could be a mod for Spore. The textures, lighting, low poly count, and terrain that looks randomly generated are one thing, but even that slashing animation looks like a tier 4 strike attack, complete with the special effects.
Asmon is so used to judging games he reacted to without playing them that he's now just assuming the 2005 king kong was bad lol It wasn't. In fact it was one of the best looking games of its time and one of the most liked too, it really pushed the ps2 graphics to its limits, kinda like the last of us for the ps3.
People forgetting that in the time that they watched this video 20 more games worse than this were released on console digital stores and steam. The only reason this and Gollum are "worst game of 2023" is because they have established licenses attached to them so they get more attention and someone bothers to review them. The worst games aren't the worst reviewed games, the worst games are the ones that aren't even worth reviewing.
I feel like the worst part about all of this is that he looks so little compared to everything else. You are supposed to be a huge gigantic monkey. The areas should be reduced spaces or have a lot of tiny things that will make you realise his gigantic scale. He looks like a tinny little monkey everywhere you look. Compare it to the ps2 game, much more reduced space and you have Ann and little civilization buildings to do that size discrepancy. They couldn't even land the Concept of King Kong for fuck sake.
at this point I believe this video meets the minimum legal definition of a video game in enough countries to publish it with confidence that the underlying money laundering scheme is so water tight they can actually make games like this almost as a joke. I'm now curious to look at actual sales vs refunds vs 'production costs'. I need that chart.
Holy maccaroni... At the very beginning, I was thinking to myself "This could have been decent as a PS2 game, maybe." But then they showed the ACTUAL PS2 game, at around 19:30 and man... It does look better. It doesn't just look better by a little bit, but in an overwhelming way. So even if you went back almost 20 years in time, this game would STILL look outdated and bad. That's... that's quite an achievement, almost.
The people in charge of licensing are probably the same people who licensed Friday the 13th to Illfonic. Or who licensed Predator to Illfonic. Or who licensed Ghostbusters to Illfonic. Or who licensed Killer Klowns to Illfoni- Look what I'm trying to say is...
I don't get why people are so surprised by that. Games based on movies and shows, non gaming IP's, have always been almost exclusively dogshit with very few exceptions to this rule. And funnily enough, those who were succesful are mostly coming from comics, manga and other already gaming adjacent forms of media, with Star Wars as the prime example
My bet is that the game was made as a contract obligation: the rights holder had a contract saying they need to make a King Kong game every 5 years or whatever, so they found a company in Thailand that could make a game for 500k and released it. Doesn't matter whether or not it's good, just that it exists.
precisely, and any loss they take on the development costs just get written off on taxes.
Doesn't that beg the question of HOW a company like this happens to have the rights to the King Kong IP? Blizzard outsourcing Warcraft reforged to a random under the floorboards dev in Taiwan is one thing, but KING KONG looking this bad is astonishing.
iguanabee are from chile btw
I could make that for 25k... I was going to suggest it might just be two college grads making games for shits n giggles... the price is the real problem. If it was being sold as a $10 indie game people wouldn't be so upset. /shrug
@@christopherjones5700
Because King Kong is in a… very weird position as a copyrighted property.
This isn’t even based on any other interpretation of King Kong, like the Monsterverse version with Godzilla, Peter Jackson, etc.
For anyone that doesn't know here is the reason something like this can be made:
The copyright of the King Kong novel had expired without renewel making King Kong a public domain story. The films however are still protected and currently owned by Warner media.
I believe this issue was revealed when the company in charge of King Kong tried to Sue Nintendo for the name Kong.
We've been blessed with yet ANOTHER worst game of 2023. What an amazing year in gaming.
When you get 4 weeks to port your already shitty game from Unity to UnrealEngine.
Starfield also came out, so its 3rd worst game of 2023 🥰🥰
@@senjusan6359You might not like the game for personal reasons (lmao I quit 1 hour in) but to say it's one of the worst games of 2023 is a big fucking reach holy shit
With the shit games thats been out, this year is still a good year of games.
@@aquasomnus Ofc it is a reach, I am fuking with Starfield fans 😂
Still game is shit tho
Love seeing new 32x games get released
I understood that reference! 🤣
still waiting for cheetahmen 2000
The game's environment makes Kong look tiny might as well just play a normal gorilla
Ancestor human kind Odyssey. A great game where you are functionally just a prehistoric human/ape... Infinitely better game...
@@aden5122 Always thought that if they fully fledged that game system until like, being able to farm, hunt and make clothing, lose most hair, etc. would've been an insane experience. Very difficult and a lot of work, but amazing.
Kong Kong, Island
@@Void6-sounds like Minecraft lmao
You're not wrong
Im almost convinced some studios are just testing the waters with AI creating an entire game, ai for each aspect of the game, and testing it on us.
You not wrong that's happening for alot of things already.
It's terrifying just how right you probably are.
I don't know if that's better or worse than this being made by actual people
I mean, probably, since you need to have zero common sense to just don’t use unreal engine and a lot of assets if you want to just make a lazy game.
AI would do better than this.
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Where AI would probably fall short would be making meaningful storylines and building emotional attachment to characters. But even then, it's just a matter of time before AI could simulate that accurately too.
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People like to think humans are super complex and unique... most humans are not either of those things. AI has surpassed humans in a multitude of fields while only existing for less than 20 years... give it a few more years and there's nothing humans will be able to do more efficiently than AI. Anyone who denies that as fact, is clearly making an emotional argument, not a logical one.
if this was the first game made by a group of friends in their teens, it´d be great.
It isn't ??
If this was the first game made by a group of friends in their teens, I think they need to stop being friends! XD
The only person the seemed to care at all about this game was the one that handled the cutscenes / facial expression. It looks a little silly sure, but at least its all animated and looks like someone went in and actually tried.
The textures/gameplay/levels/character models etc on the other hand look like they were phoned in, with no effort at all.
that solo dev with the train that hunts you did a better job and he was a teenager I think
@@WayStedYou That was a fun project, I enjoyed watching the updates along the way and stuff, and iirc they learned how to make the game as they went, and streamed the whole process. The game itself ended up decent, nothing huge, but the journey along the way was great.
Reminder that "first game made by teens" is more or less how we got Wolfenstein.
Looks like a game that you would get with a happy meal in the early 2000's
Video games graphics does no matter... until it does. In truth, it always matter. Graphics here refer to all graphical aspect of a software, not the corporates buzzword for realism.
Tbh if the gameplay was good and the framerate was good. The graphics would be an after thought.
@@Thuase People still won't let it away given its $40 price. Even if some say it doesn't matter, the public still has a minimum graphical expectations for AA+ games.
The King Kong Game back from 2005 on PS fcking 2 looks leagues better than this junk
nah fam. If it looks like poo than its already a no go for me and that MY opinion. If phone games can look decent then this has no excuse@@ultimaxkom8728
This game has saved my life. I was convinced my life was hell but i see that there exists a game that makes the life of who ever plays it worse than mine. Thanks devs.
Lmao!!
Us third-world gamers and american gamers (since the USA is an honorary third world country) should play it then to feel better about life huh...
@@FriendlyArchpriestgot some of the highest quality living conditions in the world
@@The_MEMEphis well, don't the upper classes have it so high that it balances out the misery of the "poor" (even if the poor may be better off than some other countries like those people in previous videos who have a ludicrous income but can't afford anything).
And isn't the USA a free PVP environment just like a third world country? Sounds kinda poor to me...
@@FriendlyArchpriestYou’ve never seen a real third world country, such a privilege.
It's like a video game you would get in a cereal box in 1994.
22:28 This may be nostalgia goggles, but the King Kong game that was released with the Peter Jackson movie was pretty good when i was like ten or something. It's not incredible, but it was worth a playthrough all those years ago. Just needed more Kong but had good gameplay.
@@Blisterdude123 man, I remember when every movie had its shitty game... those times were DARK
@@Sozerdote00LOTR also had a pretty good game. It wasn’t amazing but I enjoyed playing it.
Graphics engineer here. They use a strange toon shader, similar to that used in Borderlands and other games, where you see a black outline around everything, but they've made it more subtle and almost unnoticeable, so it just makes the game look cheap and old instead of giving it a stylistic look like a toon shader is supposed to do. But I think what gave people the impression of bad graphics were the low res textures, ugly color scheme, and horrific animations (and some of the modelling too). They also seemed to have used very high poly models and depend on some kind of LOD system, which is clearly turned up all the way, that's why things look like they are constantly blinking between lower detail versions of themselves. This is indicative of using unedited 3D assets which are often way too high poly for realtime graphics. The older kong game was actually lower poly, it just looked better because it had better textures, better color scheme, and way better animations (and the gameplay looked better too but I'm only talking about appearance).
Goes with asmons and my held belief that an understanding of the quality cost relationship and good art direction always beats something with better tech and worse utilization.
The game was made on actual skull island with a handcrafted PC 😂
By monkeys
Developed by Fred Fuchs
Lmao!!!
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@@nahuelkidAVGN REFERENCE!
Gollum was made by a well known german studio Daedalic (mainly for Point&Click adventures) and we got many insights what happened.
It killed the company. Daedelic does not exist anymore. Which is tragic, because this is the first true miss from them and the devs are not incompetent.
Gollum was the result of bad management. It had only 15 million Euro budget which is a joke for that license.
i am sad aswell for daedalic, and as i know game turned out bad, i do think it was big mismanagement going from 2d point&click games into 3d platformer with boring character in well known universe with big fanbase, everything was like it was meant to end tragically, and 80% of budget probably went for IP rights
are you serious? with 15mi i could make a better game by myself in my room using godot and releasing with 0 game breaking bugs, it is no excuse... seriously ive seen student games made in 3 months that looks and plays leagues above this garbage, gollum was just a scam and I don't understand how someone can defend this, there is absolutely 0 chance theyve spent 15mi developing this game.
@@N0buKi You'd be surprised how dramatically horrible flops can be for games and films, budget wise. 15 million is a lot of money but it can also be wasted "spectacularly"
Unless they messed up massively by buying the license for 10+ mi plus marketing, and mismanaged the costs of developing, hoping to hit big when it released as it is LOTR, I can see that, but even then... not even 1mi should be enough to make anything better than what they have, even if they made it as a point and click adventure, it would make way more sense for a gollum game imo. Such a unnecessary failure it was, I feel bad for the devs, because they really had talent for point and click games
They could have made a cheap point and click adventure game starring Gollum and it probably would have been decent.
IGN Paid Shills: “Magnificent! Fun retro graphics!”
It has a little something for everyone.
And retro bugs too!
LOL FR
Retro costs to play aswell
retro frame rate
In the beginning I thought Yong was being a bit hyperbolic with saying it looked like PS2, but when he showed the actually PS2 game my jaw dropped literally. That's wild!
That actually blows my mind that no one on the planet was playing gollum when he checked
Does it though game is so ducking bad 😂
i'd be surprised if people WERE playing actually
You’d think there would be at least a few LOTR fans playing the game or something. Thats pretty baffling.
It blows my mind even more that the absolute peak was 700 players, even with all the memes and free marketing the game got. The game is so horrible that I honestly expected WAY more people to play it just for the laughs.
no one has addressed this, why is kong the size of a normal gorilla?!
It's gotta be a "use it or loose it" situation, another Fantastic Four. They had to rush out a shit game to retain the license, or the contract would lapse.
can you imagine having a job interview for video game and you have gollum on your resume
well... i have this game in me resume, now i have to remove it XDD
They also have some of the best point and click adventures on their resume, they’re probably going to be fine. There was a documentation about the developers and of course it was a team of one passionate people making great games in their niche being sold to other companies with shareholders and terrible management and they wanted something „mainstream“ to appeal to a bigger audience / make more money so Gollum came out. I don’t know how many times we had this tale before.
Documentation can be found when searching on TH-cam for „Game Two Gollum Report“, has English subtitles.
The biggest issue with this and gollum is that they're based on a famous movie franchise which sets high quality expectations. There are a dozen games coming out on steam every day that are worse, but nobody cares because they're no-name titles.
exactly, there is alot of expectation and responsibility behind it, if it was just a gorilla game that sucked, nobody would care, but thats not just a gorilla.
thats king kong.
Yeah, but i bet they dont charge the same price as this
I believe Gollum is going to end up being a great Angry Video Game Nerd episode in 10 years lol
I really wonder what were the development conditions behind this game
Just an AI, in a computer, with a single human machine-learning PhD, making sure that it doesn't produce gorillas with 12 fingers 🤣
I would say that the fault lies solely on the higher ups who pushed the launch of this game on the current state. It clearly has less than 2 years of development for a studio as big as them. It really makes me think that the comment in the video about making this to mark it as a loss of money to the government is valid.
"Give it to the intern"
they had to work underwater with boxing gloves on while they were blindfolded.
You'd honestly be surprised at how many video game companies are taking contracts by governments. You got those idiots at Ubisoft with Skull and Bones and that game looks like it was made in 5 minutes, But in reality they got a sh*t ton of money from Singapore and were given a strict date.
i've played videogames my entire life (25+ years) and when i saw Rise of Kong my mind instantly thought: it doesnt look THAT bad. But then i realized my subconscious thought that because i was comparing it with ps1-ps2 games, it took me a while to analyze this thing came out THIS WEEK
I want the creators of Gollum to have control of everything related to WoW, so we can end it finally. And then have the original creators of WoW to come back and make WoW 2!
ive never played wow but if they make WoW2, im all in, debit card and evrything
it would be a upgrade tho, the game would be shit like always but at least it will be fun to watch
Old WoW’s gone, man. It’s never gonna be the same.
To be fair I waited and waited and grabbed Golem at a ridiculously low price I felt I needed that history in my collection 😂
Like having bad rats in your library
@@atomknight8361 exactly 😂
Thats what I did with Duke Nukem Forever.
I got it for a dollar, new and sealed in case. I picked up two copies. One to hold onto. One to play. Sold the played copy to somebody for $2 about 6 years later.
i remember playing the peter jackson version at a Circuit City, it was a whole tech demo for the game to show it off, leather couch and everything. i remember fighting the T-rex, and then the second one came out and eventually ripping open one of thier mouths by the jaws... it truly was an experience for when i was younger.
10:35 Yeah, sucks to be you: Daedalic, who messed up Gollum, had one of the best track records concerning adventure and story games out there. Till now.^^
The King-Kong game from 2005 was 100 times better
I think I kinda remember that game 😮
I once asked for a 'gaming' keyboard, and ended up with one where you could pick the color of the LED backlight and **Even the sequence it would rotate. It would randomly go in to display mode, and the 'programmable keys' were plastic nubs where keys might have gone. Sometimes the real keys worked. This feels like the game that was released with that keyboard.
If I ever feel like a fool, I'll remember there are investors who believed in this game. Truly one of the games of all time.
With all the powerful tools, AI and game engines out their I believe we will see more games like this because It is easier more than ever to make a "game" quickly on the cheap, but of course its gonna be trash 99% of the time without real talent and quality control.
This. The AI hype will result in a torrent of slop.
0:16 hahahaha
I honestly feel bad for the devs, they probably aren't in the same caliber as the other players in the field but god damn maan this is like a college project 💀
Nah, I was on a makeshift dev team and we got the absolute max out of the old engine we used. This is just shovelware.
I've played good college projects that are leagues beyond this. Even some "my first game" passion projects that have goofy graphics can be better than this.
It doesnt have a college project price tag
@@_ExTitus maybe they're dropouts 😭
6:26 bruhhhh lol
Video games are quickly turning into scams.
"Turning into"? a lot of them already are. a long time ago.
@@GiegueX used to be very rare now it’s almost every game.
Where have you been?
You must have not played Battle for Azeroth, it’s been going on for a while.
Blizzard : "You called me?"
We were naive. The Game Devs delved too greedily and too deep. They awoke something in the depths of coding…that of Trash and Garbage.
It also bugs me how small kong seems like in this game
Would be funny if the people making this game didn't even know it was a King Kong game for the most part of the development. They just got told to make a game about an ape on an island fighting monsters and dinos and were told yes or no to pitched ideas.
You know I remember playing a lot of shitty games like this back in 2005 when my parents bought w.e it looked kid friendly enough for me in the ps2.
This is an insult most of the 2000s licensed games were good
Yes i do mean most of: There is Chronicles of Riddick, Most of the EA Licensed games (except for Catwoman), King Kong 2005 game, Most of the batman games (except for Dark Tomorrow and the ps1 games), Alien games, Most of the Disney and Pixar games, Scarface: The World is Yours, Most of the Marvel games, Most of the Star Wars games, Reservoir Dogs, Most of the dreamworks games, i can name alot.
That's not even a King Kong, the level design somehow made it look like a regular sized gorilla lol.
this year has had some aweful games but it has also had some really good ones xD what a wild year
It’s so rough being a fan of the classic monsters. We haven’t had a really, really good Godzilla or King Kong game since the early 2000’s. If I had any skills and the gall to try and make a game myself I’d honestly want me or someone to just go to unreal engine and make a goddamn Godzilla game that’s actually fun. It can’t possibly be harder or worse than what we’ve had so far.
10:24 I'd like to see Asmon give the Shadow of Mordor a shot. It's definitely an Assasin's creed time game play, but some of the things you can do to the orcs are rather pleasing.
Too easy for him to enjoy, probably
The Original King Kong game for the PS2/Xbox was actaully one of the best games ever made.
It's a survival Horror story driven game with amazing gameplay, I played the shit outta it as a kid even though I was scared shitless of the Dinosaur survival sections. The King Kong sections were mid but infrequent so it doesn't matter.
Seriously recommend it to everyone who has a "legit" PS2 Bios and a ROM from a website.
Ok maybe the gameplay on this 2005 King Kong might be mediocre, i have no idea. but the animation is actually top notch, straight up. The phisicality of the movement, the weight and momentum in the easings, it's all there.
9:55 Kong is in the public domain however Legendary are making current Monsterverse films with Kong,Peter Jacksons King Kong was Universal,and this gane in particular is based on King Kong of Skull island a story continuation "mainly through comics" of the original 1933 film through the Marian C Cooper estate. Also the 2005 game is my favorite game of all time.
The pricetag seems pretty normal if you look at it as school material in the game development courses. Like ¨how not to make a game¨ or ¨Catastrophic mistakes in game development¨.
20:05 It's evolving. Just backwards.
Imagine if the devs pay IGN to review this, IGN would probably give it a 7/10
those peaks on the steam chart are probably streamers on twitch showing how bad the game is and the the fall off parts are their comunity doing the steam refund speed runs just to see it themselves hell even E.T. for atari can be completed and didnt crash and they had like 6 weeks to write it in assembly
Asmon's face when he sees the photo is truly terrifying
I heard once that you have to do something with your trademark, no matter what it is, even a videogame counts, in order to continue enforcing your claim to the trademark.
I swear any mountains in a game that has a stretched out janky texture already tells you the quality assurance of that game
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That one game called "Peter Jackson's King Kong" (that came out in 2005 btw) looked soo much better and was so much more fun than this one. If you want a good and i mean GOOD King Kong game you gotta check that one out.
That's not only a GOOD kong it's just a GOOD licensed game in general. like even to this day that game still holds up amazingly well and it bums me out how even after all these years we still don't have a proper pc port on steam or anywhere, besides just owning the orginal disc.
I'd kill for 2005 King Kong remake. It's one of the best licensed games from that era and if you played it back in the day you know what I'm talking about.
The moment he said "Remember Lord of the Rings Return of the King" my whole body activated. Damn i have some incredible memories with that game. Played it through so many times. With my dad no less.
I loved that game
This is the dark souls of Gollum type games
Ai generated type game
I'd be mildly satisfied if I found this in a secondhand store for less than $3
7:00 Its just a newspaper,yes,Kong reads!
Redfall getting away with not being the worst game of the year is crazy
the fact that this came out immediately discounted means the publisher knew exactly how bad it is and they are simply trying to recoup as much of their development money as possible. I guarantee they write this loss off on their taxes for the year.
No. It is common practice to give 10-20% discount launch. It is the real expected price and the full price is the markup to make it appealing
Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War are both S Tier games. Why do things have to be cannon to be enjoyable?
Now they need to remaster the Peter Jackson King Kong from the Gamecube days
Man I remember playing the peter jackson Ps2 king kong game. rented it from blockbuster for my ps2, playing it on my 20 inch CRT tv after school for a week or two until we returned it. I don't think I beat the game but I got pretty far in, the atmosphere was immaculate, especially for the intro and beginning, pulling up to the island
Hellyea that sht was good
KoToR from 2003 looks better than this, these companies just trying to set the bar as low as possible.
Daedalic Entertainment is not a bad studio... They actually made a lot of great games! I just do not get why they started third person stuff? Their point and click adventures are legendary!
Peter Jackson's King Kong game in 2005 looked and, played better than this.
Asmon should play it on stream, and make it as popular as vampire survivors!
See here's the thing, vampire was actually good
I really liked that 2005 king kong game, i didn't understand the hate. Walking around, spearing dinos was a great time. I think people wanted to play kong more.
I really hope Videogamedunkey makes a video on this game. I feel like it would be so hilarious
I don't understand why anyone had any expectation for this game to be anything, like you do realize Kong is public domain? Where's the outrage for every asset flip on steam
Graphics look like claymation during the cutscenes.
This is definitely a game of this year.
Bad games come out every day, but not at this price and not with these iconic titles.
I actually kind of like the art style... I know, but it almost has a cell shaded look to it. I really miss when games look artistic, like Okami, or some of the older Dragon Ball games.
I wish they had developed it further so it could've stood out.
Yeah if you pretend like ArcSystem games or any number of JRPG devs don't exist. Or that people are constantly arguing about Elden ring putting art before graphics? Why do you want to convince yourself everything is awful?
Yeah but FOR A $40???? NAH
@@MrMooMoo088 On this case, it's more the whole game seems to be underbaked. If the game was more complete and the graphics were stylized, I wouldn't have a issue. Look at Hi-Fi Rush, looks like a dreamcast game and is a great game
@MrMooMoo088
Hey hey, don't lump me in with the others. I do miss when we got more games with unique art styles (Veautiful Joe) is another good example, but I really liked Elden Ring. It seems to me there is much more of a focus on realistic graphics now adays... which is fine, just not my cup of tea. Oh and as for the many Japanese/Korean games... ehh, they may have interesting graphics, but they don't tend to have interesting gameplay, in my opinion.
I feel like they were thinking "let's try that Borderlands cell shade style", but hit the wall beside the dart board.
I can't wait for the game to go free and then all the great mods to fix it.
If I was the developer, I would market it that way. "Hey we made a shit game, make it better for us"
7:38 That's Halo Infinite from the first trailer!
I go by a rule that has never failed me.
Never watch a movie based on a game.
Never play a game based on a movie.
This may be nostalgia goggles, but the King Kong game that was released with the peter jackson movie was pretty good. It's not incredible, but it was worth a playthrough all those years ago. Just needed more Kong but had good gameplay.
At least we're finally starting to have good movies based on video games like Sonic and Mario. And I can remember a couple of games based on movies throughout my life that were pretty good, such as SNES Aladdin, LOTR Return of the King, Spiderman 2.
I just go by the rule of "wait for reviews"
And don't call me Shirley.
I genuinely would pay $40 for this game if it was 2003
Even in that Era of gaming, this would still be considered a bad game.
Devs of Ubisoft's King Kong movie game: "Man look at all these game remakes coming out! I wonder what a remake of our game from 20 years ago would look like? Surely it will be incredibly advanced!"
The King Kong game remake 20 years later:
we have to stop laughing at things like this... because it is a serious problem. these people really think what they did is fine and even charge over 50 bucks for it. this is insane
Looks like it could be a mod for Spore. The textures, lighting, low poly count, and terrain that looks randomly generated are one thing, but even that slashing animation looks like a tier 4 strike attack, complete with the special effects.
That's not King Kong, that's Ding Dong.
19:36 - Yeah. That is how far we strayed away from quality in gaming as a whole.
Glad I grew up with amazing titles, build to the brim with quality.
Asmon is so used to judging games he reacted to without playing them that he's now just assuming the 2005 king kong was bad lol
It wasn't. In fact it was one of the best looking games of its time and one of the most liked too, it really pushed the ps2 graphics to its limits, kinda like the last of us for the ps3.
@7:27 Kong looking like my pitbull when the food bowl empty 😂😂
I feel like these games are being written and generated by AI as a test to see how far it can create.....
When I saw this, I thought it was in early Alpha stages and that we would play along with it as it gradually updates and gets better.
Nope!
People forgetting that in the time that they watched this video 20 more games worse than this were released on console digital stores and steam. The only reason this and Gollum are "worst game of 2023" is because they have established licenses attached to them so they get more attention and someone bothers to review them. The worst games aren't the worst reviewed games, the worst games are the ones that aren't even worth reviewing.
I feel like the worst part about all of this is that he looks so little compared to everything else. You are supposed to be a huge gigantic monkey. The areas should be reduced spaces or have a lot of tiny things that will make you realise his gigantic scale. He looks like a tinny little monkey everywhere you look. Compare it to the ps2 game, much more reduced space and you have Ann and little civilization buildings to do that size discrepancy.
They couldn't even land the Concept of King Kong for fuck sake.
This should not be something you can legally sell. Who gave these chilean devs the licensing for this
at this point I believe this video meets the minimum legal definition of a video game in enough countries to publish it with confidence that the underlying money laundering scheme is so water tight they can actually make games like this almost as a joke. I'm now curious to look at actual sales vs refunds vs 'production costs'. I need that chart.
Holy maccaroni... At the very beginning, I was thinking to myself "This could have been decent as a PS2 game, maybe."
But then they showed the ACTUAL PS2 game, at around 19:30 and man...
It does look better. It doesn't just look better by a little bit, but in an overwhelming way.
So even if you went back almost 20 years in time, this game would STILL look outdated and bad. That's... that's quite an achievement, almost.
The people in charge of licensing are probably the same people who licensed Friday the 13th to Illfonic. Or who licensed Predator to Illfonic. Or who licensed Ghostbusters to Illfonic. Or who licensed Killer Klowns to Illfoni- Look what I'm trying to say is...
The publisher is literally called Game Mill Entertainment so . . .
4:42 There are a bunch of people who insist that Cruelty Squad did this, but I don't believe them enough to buy a copy.
I don't get why people are so surprised by that. Games based on movies and shows, non gaming IP's, have always been almost exclusively dogshit with very few exceptions to this rule.
And funnily enough, those who were succesful are mostly coming from comics, manga and other already gaming adjacent forms of media, with Star Wars as the prime example