After heavy research and a costly investigation, I have concluded he is supposed to be big. Every time he lands he makes a loud sound and cracks the ground. So the scale is terribly represented
we gotta applaud these guys for actually creating a game that can rival or even surpass gollum as the worst game of 2023. that right there is quite impressive
we don't gotta applaud a damn thing. It's like applauding the last person in a race 🤡. So yea, "YOU" gotta applaud it, Not anyone else, and it's not rude or ignorant. It's factual, But since you're into 🥩🚲ing, why don't you buy the game and DLC if you "gotta applaud" them 🤡
What's funny is that the 2005 tie-in game for that King Kong is actually pretty damn good, one of my favorites. Plus it had every nearly actor from the film in it and they all were pretty good.
i thought about that the other day, like a big dev greenlighting this game to make people care more about lackluster AAA games, but i think this game just exists because king kong is in the public domain and fair use as far as copyright law (for video games at least)
Not really, you quite often have these very well connected, wealthy people who own a studio filled with newly minted game devs fresh out of college who are prepared to be paid a pittance for their first gig. Then the owners give the devs like 12 months to go gold while literally offering no means to ensure a proper QA process and demanding a near constant crunch mode to meet deadlines. Meat grinder studios are far too common and they'll never go away as long as people keep offering to work for them.
I always feel bad for devs on games like this. I don’t think anyone WANTS to make a bad game. Things like this often are a result of bad management and planning and the programmers do their best with the direction they’re given.
I don't think "bad management" is an excuse for things like unresponsiveness, bugs, terrible level designs, terrible UI, etc.. No management is going to tell its developers to make sure players have the worst time playing the game
@@rasmie8858I get what youre going at. But I hope, and truly believe, some designers was sitting there with higher ups breathing down their neck, "finish it faster" and what not. Terrible management shows better in some proffessions than others.
I played the PS2 King Kong game. Part of what made the PS2 game good was that you spend a lot of time as Jack in FPS combat. There pretty much everything felt dangerous as Jack and the world has this certain sense of scale to it, but when you finally play as Kong, you see the comparison of scale and danger levels, you feel huge being in these same environments and like a badass, easily killing these monsters that posed such a threat to Jack. However, Kong's controls were pretty simple and there wasn't really much of, if any, particle effects to help elevate the feel of his powerful blows. After seeing the trailer for this game, I wasn´t drawn to buy it, but with seeing at least the new particle effects, I had hope that he would actually feel as powerful as he should have in the 2005 game. It's sad to see this be what the next Kong game is and I'm disappointed in the inconsistent sense of scale here.
In the PS2 game, you can enter rage mode and your attacks feel more powerful, with a little more oomph to it, and slow-mo. Those hits always felt good.
Falcon does it like it's his job or something. It is a thing of beauty. But to be fair, Angry Joe's has his own very different style of reviews that are equally as effective/acceptable. And the contrast between falcons calm demeanor and Angry Joe's blazé especially when watching their reviews of the same game back to back creates its own special entertainment bubble that is worth experiencing multiple times across many different game titles....
It's one thing making a low-effort, lack of passion infused game. There are times when players feel like just jumping into quick mindless little games, but Falcon went straight into the most important point first, the obnoxious pricing and DLCs, laying the foundation for why the game is not mindless fun but just nonsense. And that is a reason why I trust Gameranx reviews and an avid subscriber and viewer of the channel. Thank you once again, Falcon and Gameranx.
Terrible games... Redfall, Forspoken, Gollum and now this. That's like 4 games and only like 2 of them are AAA (not sure about how much money Gollum had put into it). I'd say the good far outweighs the bad this year.
Sometimes I get a nostalgic yearning for the fun I had playing licensed games on my PS2 and GBA as a kid, but then I hear about modern licensed games like this and Gollum, and realize some nostalgia is just better enjoyed as memories and not something to try to recapture.
This is the kind of game you’ll later find tons of in a surplus, or Dollar Store bin, but actually should be taken out to a desert and buried. I really appreciate the Gameranx crew for saving time and wallets. This DEFINITELY needs to be a regular segment!
I'm sad I gave in to peer pressure back in the day when it came yo that game. Some friends find out I had the game and liked it, and they treated it as a point of mockery. I sold the game and hadn't thought about it til a couple years ago and was wishing I still had it on 360. Now people on ebay are charging nearly full price for used copies.
I’m glad he mentioned “Is Kong big?” That was the first thing I noticed watching this. Thank you Falcon. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t love it when you’re bitter about something. It’s always entertaining, and on point.
@@moosevision8113CoD are never really bad games. They are decent but plagued with aids monetization. People like to over hate on the series and it definitely has it's problems and those problems are Bobby Kotick. MW19 was great but it had ass multiplayer levels. Cold War had an awesome campaign. Vanguard was straight dogshit MW2 was OK but plagued with awful monetization (like Diablo 4) MW3 is just DLC for MW2 being sold full price.
I only have two questions: 1 On which did you spend more time; the game or the review? 2 Did you lose a bet and as punishment you had to do this video? But thanks for the "before you avoid"!
I haven't seen a single screen shot that made Kong look taller than 3 ft tall which is particularly weird considering Kong is literally only known for being 25+ ft tall.
Meeting at the gamedev of this game: “Now hear me out gentlemen, we will release this crap of a game and put at least 40$ for a price, so at least one game reviewer so we can get our budget back: two margarita pizza, one pepperoni and a coke zero” *applause*
as a indie game Dev. who still working on the first game , by looking at the review of the so call bad games, it destroy my confidence because I can`t even remake these game easily. hope my game will not being labeled as worst .
@@r32juan haha are you one of the devs or what? Lmho. There’s no sense of scale, so you mentioning “skull island” like a broken record doesn’t change anything.
I haven't heard about this Skull Island: Rise of Kong, but to think that you dedicated a video slot for this game, it's gotta be a worthy opponent to Gollum lol
I've played this game for 5ish hours. I'm in Chapter 3 of 5, I think if the map worked or the game wasn't just a huge maze I'd be done by now. It didn't help that the game crashed 2 hours in and when I reloaded it has deleted all my saves. Or when I accidentally clipped through a breakable wall and it yeeted me back to the starting area 🫠🙃 I want to finish it but I don't know if I have the strength
I'm glad games like this exist just for the simple fact that Falcon and some others can get their frustrations out and shit all over them in hilarious ways.
Ok ok hear me out, maybe this game is for children. 5 year old children. A video game for children!? Who would have thought!? 😱 As a 5 year old child I wasn’t looking at the moral dilemmas dialog/story, complicated skilI points, complicated combos, I mean I could barley get to the finish of level 1 as it was and all I wanted to do was have easy button moves to smash enemies.
Based on the footage alone, not for one second did I think I was looking at a giant building sized gorilla. But just a normal sized gorilla fighting chickens. Perhaps the biggest fail of this game.
Turns out the game was made from scratch by an indie studio which ranged from 2 to 20 people with a deadline of 1 year and minimum resources. Holy shit. Also, the publisher is GameMill. You might be familiar with one of their games. Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing. Oh yeah, they have a history.
I haven't played either, but going off the descriptions, I would give this the nod over Gollum as worst game of the year. The reason is that with Gollum, at least the devs had an idea (albeit a bad one) & actually tried to make a good game; they failed but at least they tried. With Kong, it appears there was no effort; this seems like the devs were trying to put minimal effort into making a functional game to cash in on an IP... No vision, no effort, no heart, just a simple cash grab.
Tbh, this year started off great with games like Atomic Heart and Hi-Fi. The middle of the year had dead island and final fantasy. And It's ending with great games like Spiderman, Tekken and mortal kombat. This year, despite the bad games, has been great and I'm hopeful for next year.
@@Theresnotenoughas a person who enjoyed and likes Starfield, that seems fair, game has its moments and fun, but could definitely use some improvements here and there.
@@Theresnotenough sometimes you just have to go into a game with low expectations, I Went in with high expectations and it worked out for me, because I've been a Bethesda fan for a long time so I know the basics of their games, and I'm glad they took time trying to fix all the bugs they could get, for a game this size its the most bug free Bethesda game I've experienced.
Falcon I love your reviews bro but at 11:29 that pop is from the torch in the background. Would recommend better headphones if you can't hear the obvious torch playing the entire time before it crackles.
I wouldn't say it's worse than Gollum. Lazier and even more of a cheap cash-grab, sure. Far worse graphics, yeah. That said, the game at least functions and doesn't crash or break regularly, sending you far back into the level, the controls don't look to be as bad, and the frame-rate looks to be more tolerable. (Seriously, Gollum had frame-rate drops *during the credits*) Like, it's boring, but it doesn't make you rage ferociously like Gollum is able to do, say when the controls in that game screw you over or a level doesn't fully load and you have to go back to a previous checkpoint. Like, if the graphics weren't visual diarrhea, I'd say it'd be like a 2/10 game, along the lines of Redfall levels of bad.
You have more than one friend who worked at that same studio, and I can confirm that they regularly didn’t pay people. In fact, I’m STILL trying to recover from working at that place…
What I find funny is that while you play as King Kong, the show of scale in the game sucks so much that he looks like he's no larger then a regular person in most cases. (Unless he's supposed to be that small)
im actually more impressed by the fact they made something so terrible. This looks like a high school final exam project you have to make for your game dev class
I love how King Kong is canonically a GIANT ape. Then in this game, aside from the trees, everything else is so large that he may as well be a regular sized ape. It’s less KING KONG and more Serf Kong.
I guess from what I've heard is that the publisher GameMill is scummy af and didn't give the dev team nearly enough time to hammer together anything resembling a good game (only like a year), and they were forced to use store assets for a lot of it. This is all per Yong Yea, and he's always pretty on top of video game news.
It’s not unusual in contracts for licensed materials that the licensor stipulates that the holder of the license needs to make something with it within a certain timeframe, otherwise the license is lost. It’s why certain licensed movies have bizarre/bad releases (which may sometimes only be in limited release and then shovelled into home video releases) - you use it or you lose it. This may be such a situation - the studio may hold the license to create Kong games, and needed to shovel something out of a minimum viable quality to keep the license. Those licenses often aren’t cheap, and you don’t get your money back when you lose them due to non-use.
They'd be better off losing it then, cause did they make a dime on a game with 37 reviews at mostly negative? Probably cost more to get the license then make the whole game!
Collectively I’ve enjoyed more minutes of Gollum by watching people try to play it than I have had enjoyable minutes in my entire play through of Starfield. So I was really glad when you mentioned BG3 at the top of the video as one of the best games of 2023 and not Starfield.
Hey gameranx, it’s a really good idea to make videos of this type as well, ‘what not to spend your hard earned money on’ haha. Very good initiative I find.
2023 was an absolute UNIT when it comes to gaming quality this year. And that just makes this game, as well as Gollum, PAINFULLY stand out in its polar opposite quality.
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The competition between Gollum and Skull Island: Rise of Kong for number 1 is stiff
Stiffer than morning wood 🪵
Dude gollum wasn't that bad people just piled on. The prison part was actually quite good. Kind of fellow apart after that
@@dougr8646I see what you did there.
Lemme know if skull and bones enter the ring
Same
That "Is he big, or is he just normal sized?" segment was pure gold.
After heavy research and a costly investigation, I have concluded he is supposed to be big. Every time he lands he makes a loud sound and cracks the ground. So the scale is terribly represented
Actually it's because skull Island is a land of giants and giant flora. So like actually Kong is big but then the trees are masssssive.
@@VideoGamesMusicMeI’m surprised you’re the first comment I’m seeing mentioning that it’s in skull island
Tiny Kong.
There is a ben 10 game low budget on ps4/ps5 much better then this and cheaper😂
we gotta applaud these guys for actually creating a game that can rival or even surpass gollum as the worst game of 2023. that right there is quite impressive
we don't gotta applaud a damn thing. It's like applauding the last person in a race 🤡.
So yea, "YOU" gotta applaud it, Not anyone else, and it's not rude or ignorant. It's factual,
But since you're into 🥩🚲ing, why don't you buy the game and DLC if you "gotta applaud" them 🤡
@@ramrodbldm9876Dude chill, it was a joke
@@ramrodbldm9876 you must be incredibly fun at parties
@@ramrodbldm9876 What's blud wafflin about
@@ramrodbldm9876bro chilllll... It's sarcasm
What's funny is that the 2005 tie-in game for that King Kong is actually pretty damn good, one of my favorites.
Plus it had every nearly actor from the film in it and they all were pretty good.
I was thinking the same thing, it came with a bundle when I got the 360. Kong 2005 had some of the best graphics at the time.
@@Natureboy8383 I'm a big scaredy cat about insects, so it was also one of the scariest games I'd ever played lol
@@jimmymeridian5174 😂 yeah they had some huge centipedes and other insects on that game for sure
I like how this says "every nearly actor" instead of "nearly every actor". Like they're actors...nearly.
How do we know that the Gollum developers didn't make this game just to make Gollum look better?
i thought about that the other day, like a big dev greenlighting this game to make people care more about lackluster AAA games, but i think this game just exists because king kong is in the public domain and fair use as far as copyright law (for video games at least)
The Plot Thickens!
And now the studio of gollum launches and actual game of Kong now that the bar is ultra low
Because the studio that made Gollum was shunt down after launch.
Because it doesn't make Gollum better and developers clearly short on funds aren't going to spend extra on another game...
It's CRAZY to me that a game like this can even be released nowadays😂
But somehow isn't really that surprising anymore...
Not really, you quite often have these very well connected, wealthy people who own a studio filled with newly minted game devs fresh out of college who are prepared to be paid a pittance for their first gig. Then the owners give the devs like 12 months to go gold while literally offering no means to ensure a proper QA process and demanding a near constant crunch mode to meet deadlines.
Meat grinder studios are far too common and they'll never go away as long as people keep offering to work for them.
I always feel bad for devs on games like this. I don’t think anyone WANTS to make a bad game. Things like this often are a result of bad management and planning and the programmers do their best with the direction they’re given.
I don't feel bad for them at all, they got paid to make this.
@@JukaDominatorThis is Gamemill, they are incredibly cheap and screw over their developers. So let's hope they got paid.
@JukaDominator But if it's bad it's probably gonna be their last paycheck at that job. Any sensible person would want more than one check
I don't think "bad management" is an excuse for things like unresponsiveness, bugs, terrible level designs, terrible UI, etc.. No management is going to tell its developers to make sure players have the worst time playing the game
@@rasmie8858I get what youre going at. But I hope, and truly believe, some designers was sitting there with higher ups breathing down their neck, "finish it faster" and what not. Terrible management shows better in some proffessions than others.
I played the PS2 King Kong game. Part of what made the PS2 game good was that you spend a lot of time as Jack in FPS combat. There pretty much everything felt dangerous as Jack and the world has this certain sense of scale to it, but when you finally play as Kong, you see the comparison of scale and danger levels, you feel huge being in these same environments and like a badass, easily killing these monsters that posed such a threat to Jack. However, Kong's controls were pretty simple and there wasn't really much of, if any, particle effects to help elevate the feel of his powerful blows.
After seeing the trailer for this game, I wasn´t drawn to buy it, but with seeing at least the new particle effects, I had hope that he would actually feel as powerful as he should have in the 2005 game. It's sad to see this be what the next Kong game is and I'm disappointed in the inconsistent sense of scale here.
Congrats for not buying another bad game lol don’t buy cash grabs or they keep making them
I remember that game it was actually pretty fun lmao
In the PS2 game, you can enter rage mode and your attacks feel more powerful, with a little more oomph to it, and slow-mo. Those hits always felt good.
@@fransthefox9682 Oh true! I was forgetting about how the hits feel in that state.
@@667GameFreak Not to mention when different music kicks in in that state.
When a game is good, anyone can review it. But when a game is terrible, I need Falcon to be the one to tear it apart.
Falcon does it like it's his job or something. It is a thing of beauty. But to be fair, Angry Joe's has his own very different style of reviews that are equally as effective/acceptable. And the contrast between falcons calm demeanor and Angry Joe's blazé especially when watching their reviews of the same game back to back creates its own special entertainment bubble that is worth experiencing multiple times across many different game titles....
Yahtzee is pretty brutal to a bad game
It's one thing making a low-effort, lack of passion infused game. There are times when players feel like just jumping into quick mindless little games, but Falcon went straight into the most important point first, the obnoxious pricing and DLCs, laying the foundation for why the game is not mindless fun but just nonsense.
And that is a reason why I trust Gameranx reviews and an avid subscriber and viewer of the channel. Thank you once again, Falcon and Gameranx.
We had an unusual number of incredible and terrible games this year. Still preferable to just a bunch of mediocre games in my opinion.
true
Terrible games... Redfall, Forspoken, Gollum and now this. That's like 4 games and only like 2 of them are AAA (not sure about how much money Gollum had put into it). I'd say the good far outweighs the bad this year.
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Unusual because there's so many good and so few that are bad?
I wonder if you commented before even listening to Falcon's first statement
Sometimes I get a nostalgic yearning for the fun I had playing licensed games on my PS2 and GBA as a kid, but then I hear about modern licensed games like this and Gollum, and realize some nostalgia is just better enjoyed as memories and not something to try to recapture.
Surprisingly impressive that they made Kong look soo small, Takes some real effort but they pulled it off
was thinking the same, he looks like an average sized gorrilla somehow, wtf
Its skull island, BOTH creatures and flora are big, so kong is his normal size and the trees are massive compared to ours
@@r32juandoes that include the rock ?
That was the original name for this game....King Kong: Average Sized Gorilla.
This is the kind of game you’ll later find tons of in a surplus, or Dollar Store bin, but actually should be taken out to a desert and buried. I really appreciate the Gameranx crew for saving time and wallets. This DEFINITELY needs to be a regular segment!
I'm glad I have King Kong on PS2 and I'll never have to play this.
That game was great actually!
@@tommygunner176 Indeed
I'm sad I gave in to peer pressure back in the day when it came yo that game. Some friends find out I had the game and liked it, and they treated it as a point of mockery. I sold the game and hadn't thought about it til a couple years ago and was wishing I still had it on 360. Now people on ebay are charging nearly full price for used copies.
FACTS, THE PS2 "👑🦍" GAME WAS LEGENDARY
@@modernmobsterplay it on an emulator
How did Gollum have a better "running on all fours" animation than King Kong?
All thats missing is an AI generated apology letter
I'm surprised they didn't make one yet considering people all over the world payed 50 for this game.
As one does when they make a horrible game in 2023.
Skull Island: Rice Kong
I’m glad he mentioned “Is Kong big?” That was the first thing I noticed watching this. Thank you Falcon. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t love it when you’re bitter about something. It’s always entertaining, and on point.
Almost seems like the world's first fully AI generated game to be published.
I think AI could do better tbh.
No way, AI is far more imaginative than this.
This or gollem. The art here is better at least
Can we get Falcon reviewing more bad games, I love this!
I’m shocked at how many good games we’ve gotten this year . We have been spoiled
Definitely
oh for sure: Lies of P, ACM, Ghostrunner 2, The First Descendant (Beta), ect ect. Bunch of great games so far
dont worry modern warfare III 2 or whatever will be out soon to balance things out
@@moosevision8113CoD are never really bad games. They are decent but plagued with aids monetization. People like to over hate on the series and it definitely has it's problems and those problems are Bobby Kotick.
MW19 was great but it had ass multiplayer levels.
Cold War had an awesome campaign.
Vanguard was straight dogshit
MW2 was OK but plagued with awful monetization (like Diablo 4)
MW3 is just DLC for MW2 being sold full price.
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This makes me so sad because the 2005 Ubisoft King Kong game was so good. Terrified me as a kid haha
Gollum has found a worthy opponent.
Sounds like gollum tried harder but failed at...everything.
This game...tried nothing and succeded.
I don't see people talking about it, but Kong's attacks are suspiciously close to Hulk's in Disney Infinity 2.0 lol
I only have two questions:
1 On which did you spend more time; the game or the review?
2 Did you lose a bet and as punishment you had to do this video?
But thanks for the "before you avoid"!
My theory is that the Gollum devs commissioned this game to take the heat as "worst game of 2023" to save the LoTR brand.
I’m cancelling my Spider-Man pre order and playing this masterpiece instead 😂
lol
Return to monke!
What's worse is that you don't feel like playing as Kong rather a random Monke
LOTR Gollum: Finally, a worthy opponent! Our battle will be..... Forgotten!
They should do a mash up of Gollum and Rise of Kong.
Maybe name it High Island: Rise of Bong.
And yes, I am tired. 😅
I haven't seen a single screen shot that made Kong look taller than 3 ft tall which is particularly weird considering Kong is literally only known for being 25+ ft tall.
Meeting at the gamedev of this game:
“Now hear me out gentlemen, we will release this crap of a game and put at least 40$ for a price, so at least one game reviewer so we can get our budget back: two margarita pizza, one pepperoni and a coke zero”
*applause*
Lords of the Ring: Gollum might take the cake man. This does look bad though.
as a indie game Dev. who still working on the first game , by looking at the review of the so call bad games, it destroy my confidence because I can`t even remake these game easily. hope my game will not being labeled as worst .
Heeey, no worries. Don't give up. 🤝🏻👍🏻
I only watched this video, but I still feel like I want my money back...
Just wait, they're going to pull a cyberpunk. Wait for rise of kong 2.0
Funny how they didn't pay attention to the scale of Kong compared to the environment
No, they did. Its in skull island where EVERYTHING is massive, so kong is his normal size and trees are massive compared to ours
@@r32juanno they did not. It’s so obvious. Stop trying to defend the game.
@@sheene.c9455 youre right, its very obvious that the game is in skull island and everything they did is right
@@r32juan haha are you one of the devs or what? Lmho. There’s no sense of scale, so you mentioning “skull island” like a broken record doesn’t change anything.
The breakdown around the messed up scale of Kong had me dying laughing 🤣 thanks Falcon!
I haven't heard about this Skull Island: Rise of Kong, but to think that you dedicated a video slot for this game, it's gotta be a worthy opponent to Gollum lol
While you kids are playing Spider-Man 2, us adults will be playing peak island
What a shame, a good King Kong game could be not only fun to play, but amazing to look at as well.
Gollum and Rise of Kong are gonna get a new competitor, The walking dead destinies also developed by Gamemill Entertainment 💀
I've played this game for 5ish hours. I'm in Chapter 3 of 5, I think if the map worked or the game wasn't just a huge maze I'd be done by now. It didn't help that the game crashed 2 hours in and when I reloaded it has deleted all my saves. Or when I accidentally clipped through a breakable wall and it yeeted me back to the starting area 🫠🙃 I want to finish it but I don't know if I have the strength
The "terrible, terrible" at the end made me bust of laughing for some reason 😂
I heard someone said someone had to be money laundering this game
It would not surprise me. 😂
The producers got the license and budget, spent minimal amount on development and just pocketed the rest, right?
Truly, one of the games of this year.
Indubitably
Should've called it Slappin' Chickens and there might've been more sales
I'm glad games like this exist just for the simple fact that Falcon and some others can get their frustrations out and shit all over them in hilarious ways.
You need bad games to compare to other games.
Please give us more of Falcon straight up dunking on a bad game for 15 minutes.
I would love for him to slam at least three shots of whiskey before each review on a bad game! 🤣
He won't be happy about it. He has to play the damn thing.
Games like Skull Island were once known as "shovelware" because they were just shoveled in to fill the newly invented CD.
Ok ok hear me out, maybe this game is for children. 5 year old children. A video game for children!? Who would have thought!? 😱
As a 5 year old child I wasn’t looking at the moral dilemmas dialog/story, complicated skilI points, complicated combos, I mean I could barley get to the finish of level 1 as it was and all I wanted to do was have easy button moves to smash enemies.
Imagine giving a professional Game Dev an RTX 4090 and they made this 💀
Based on the footage alone, not for one second did I think I was looking at a giant building sized gorilla. But just a normal sized gorilla fighting chickens. Perhaps the biggest fail of this game.
I genuinely think a semi-skilled developer with little experience can single handedly make this game in about 2 weeks with unreal engine.
This game is also available on the consoles, that requieres some spending in licensing and development hardware, which is not cheap.
@@hsavietto of course I’m not talking about the financial element… I’m speaking strictly of the quality/effort of the released product.
@@hsaviettoUr a nerd 😎 nerd oh your a nerd nerd nerd nerd
@@clairem86Shut up nerd. You're the one watching a video about a bad game. Get lost.
@@clairem86 Yes. And?
I don't think I have ever heard Falcon curse during any video before 😂😂
Turns out the game was made from scratch by an indie studio which ranged from 2 to 20 people with a deadline of 1 year and minimum resources.
Holy shit.
Also, the publisher is GameMill. You might be familiar with one of their games. Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing. Oh yeah, they have a history.
Thank you, I wanted to know why this was so terrible but I didn't think it merited a google search.
I haven't played either, but going off the descriptions, I would give this the nod over Gollum as worst game of the year. The reason is that with Gollum, at least the devs had an idea (albeit a bad one) & actually tried to make a good game; they failed but at least they tried. With Kong, it appears there was no effort; this seems like the devs were trying to put minimal effort into making a functional game to cash in on an IP... No vision, no effort, no heart, just a simple cash grab.
Good to just hear Falcon just venting like crazy. You can tell he was watching his words wisely haha
Pretty ironic and self-aware that the developers of this game called themselves Game Mill. Accurate description of what they are.
Tbh, this year started off great with games like Atomic Heart and Hi-Fi. The middle of the year had dead island and final fantasy. And It's ending with great games like Spiderman, Tekken and mortal kombat. This year, despite the bad games, has been great and I'm hopeful for next year.
Forgot the best game, starfield
@@dougr8646 to be 100% real, Starfield was a good game. Probably a 7.5-8/10. It definitely did the job for me. Lol
@@Theresnotenoughas a person who enjoyed and likes Starfield, that seems fair, game has its moments and fun, but could definitely use some improvements here and there.
@it2spooky4me79 yeah, i agree, but for what it was, I was not disappointed overall.
@@Theresnotenough sometimes you just have to go into a game with low expectations, I Went in with high expectations and it worked out for me, because I've been a Bethesda fan for a long time so I know the basics of their games, and I'm glad they took time trying to fix all the bugs they could get, for a game this size its the most bug free Bethesda game I've experienced.
When a game is so bad Mr Falcon turns into AVGN, it's truly awful
Falcon I love your reviews bro but at 11:29 that pop is from the torch in the background. Would recommend better headphones if you can't hear the obvious torch playing the entire time before it crackles.
I can't get over how king Kong feels like a normal sized gorilla in this game
I wouldn't say it's worse than Gollum. Lazier and even more of a cheap cash-grab, sure. Far worse graphics, yeah. That said, the game at least functions and doesn't crash or break regularly, sending you far back into the level, the controls don't look to be as bad, and the frame-rate looks to be more tolerable. (Seriously, Gollum had frame-rate drops *during the credits*) Like, it's boring, but it doesn't make you rage ferociously like Gollum is able to do, say when the controls in that game screw you over or a level doesn't fully load and you have to go back to a previous checkpoint. Like, if the graphics weren't visual diarrhea, I'd say it'd be like a 2/10 game, along the lines of Redfall levels of bad.
You have more than one friend who worked at that same studio, and I can confirm that they regularly didn’t pay people. In fact, I’m STILL trying to recover from working at that place…
What I find funny is that while you play as King Kong, the show of scale in the game sucks so much that he looks like he's no larger then a regular person in most cases. (Unless he's supposed to be that small)
im actually more impressed by the fact they made something so terrible. This looks like a high school final exam project you have to make for your game dev class
I love how King Kong is canonically a GIANT ape. Then in this game, aside from the trees, everything else is so large that he may as well be a regular sized ape.
It’s less KING KONG and more Serf Kong.
My favorite part is falcon ranting for a whole 2 minutes about Kong being big or not compared to big trees or regular big trees 😂
This would pass as a terrible PS3 game for under $10 that you would find at a convenience store!
Yo the moment you mentioned his sized I said "holy fuck, I thought this was just a gorilla game. That's Kong??"
😂😂😂 outrageous
Has to be EAFC cuz EA just dont care about anything else than money
8 "Exclusive Film Grains" is a new low
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Hey - thanks Falcon: You played King Kong so we don't have to.
Truly a Public Service!
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This is one of my favorite videos ever from you guys 😂 we need more crappy game videos! I died of laughter from this one, thank you!!
I guess from what I've heard is that the publisher GameMill is scummy af and didn't give the dev team nearly enough time to hammer together anything resembling a good game (only like a year), and they were forced to use store assets for a lot of it. This is all per Yong Yea, and he's always pretty on top of video game news.
Gameranx: We need someone to take one for the team....Falcon you're up!
Falcon: Wait, what?!
This game isn't 'licensed', king Kong is public domain.
I need more videos of Falcon reviewing obviously bad games and just dunking on them for like 15 mins.
Baby Kong crying is hilarious 😂
Some of those "dinosaurs" looks like they went "How close can we get to copying a chocobo without getting sued?".
Not sure which box quote to use: "...It's playable..." or "You're the mom-gorilla!" or "Powered up, top-of-the-line Kong"
Some kid out there getting this for Christmas. “Sorry Marcus this is all they had left”
It’s not unusual in contracts for licensed materials that the licensor stipulates that the holder of the license needs to make something with it within a certain timeframe, otherwise the license is lost. It’s why certain licensed movies have bizarre/bad releases (which may sometimes only be in limited release and then shovelled into home video releases) - you use it or you lose it.
This may be such a situation - the studio may hold the license to create Kong games, and needed to shovel something out of a minimum viable quality to keep the license. Those licenses often aren’t cheap, and you don’t get your money back when you lose them due to non-use.
They'd be better off losing it then, cause did they make a dime on a game with 37 reviews at mostly negative?
Probably cost more to get the license then make the whole game!
“It generally works!” Now thats a blurb for the cover!
Doesn't nvidia and amd allow you to change film grain filters?
"Life of Black Tiger 2 - Life of the normal sized gorilla"
Collectively I’ve enjoyed more minutes of Gollum by watching people try to play it than I have had enjoyable minutes in my entire play through of Starfield. So I was really glad when you mentioned BG3 at the top of the video as one of the best games of 2023 and not Starfield.
I laughed when you talked about not knowing if he is supposed to be “big” or not😂
Not bad for a game made by one person with a blindfold and no coding experience.
“But why are these trees so big?!,, these trees look like tree-trees,, like if I was a regular Gorilla, and you know what aahr-huhh??”.. 😂😂💔
Hey gameranx, it’s a really good idea to make videos of this type as well, ‘what not to spend your hard earned money on’ haha. Very good initiative I find.
Remember the movies where Kong was tall enough to sway trees as he walked through the jungle? This game doesn’t.
At this point anybody can be a developer you literally just have to be better than them and set your mind to it
love your descriptions bud :) thx Falcon for giving me some honest chuckles at the end of a long day
Isn't Kong supposed to be like 100 ft tall? He seems to be a normal sized gorilla in this.
2023 was an absolute UNIT when it comes to gaming quality this year. And that just makes this game, as well as Gollum, PAINFULLY stand out in its polar opposite quality.
For a game where you’re supposed to be a giant gorilla, it looks like you’re playing as a miniature one instead
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why tf is king bullying that crab like that 🤣🤣