I beat RISE OF KONG so no one else EVER has to
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They somehow ruined the only reason why you would play a game as King Kong, which is the fact that he is a giant kaiju. Since the art designers on this team apparently don't understand how to model scale appropriately, you get trees that look like tall bushes and effectively "angry ape simulator".
This. Like aside from everything else that's wrong, this is the main thing. Like even with the terrible graphics and uninspiring gameplay you should at least be able to find some entertainment in the fact of playing as a giant ape fighting other giant creatures, but the way it's done it looks like you are just a normal sized gorilla.
If you get a chance play the one that's based off of Peter Jackson's King Kong , possibly one of the greatest licensed movie games ever made!
I played it on ps2 and it still keeps a special place in my memory.
@@jailcatjones3250big fax, that game looked great on the Xbox 360. Crazy how that is MILES ahead of this... 🤦🏽♂️
It looks like little toy figures wtf for king kong game that shame
Exactly, he looks like a regular sized ape... 😂
"It truly is a Gollum-like."
I will never get tired of the fact that this has become it's own genre.
BUT GOLLUM IS STILL GOOD BUT OBLIVION IS STILL BETTER
@@NigerianCrusader I understand if u have gone insane after buying golem.
@@Justdoingsometing HOW AM I INSANE AND I DID BUY GOLLUM HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT AND GOLLUM IS A GOOD GAME
How in the hell is there a game that could possibly beat Gollum in terms of being terrible. I thought we reached the lowest of lows with Gollum, but now a new challenger has appeared
Whenever the gaming industry is free reign it's bound to happen. There should be governmental laws in place that apply the same way to regular products e.g equality control. The fact you can openly buy a product that is broken and not function, and ( if you're in america like myself ) can't even get your money back; there needs to be some change.
@@Paws_NetworkTrue. This ain't a game, it's a (very bad) joke. Props to him for playing through the whole thing, i would have thrown the disc out of the window after like 5 minutes...
@@Paws_Network I mean, those regulations are for products that affect our physical and mental health. If vidya has that much of an impact on you, you have much bigger problems than a game being bad.
@@username1660 I'm not talking about the ones already in place. I'm saying there needs to be some PUT in place. If a product ships that doesn't work as intended/or in this case at all most of the time with the triple A gaming industry ( ie. a boat that sinks ) it should by law not be allowed to be sold.
i know right they must made an pact with some eldritch horror to make this game so incomprehensil bad
The audio quality is incredible, it gives the exact same experience as actually watching King Kong in Cinemas with someone loudly scrunching a crisp packet next to you. Truly ahead of its time
First Gollum, now Kong Kev really is making sure we dont have to suffer with this game
So they’re just switch games now that nobody wanted?
The devs(iguanabee) did an anonymous interview where they blame publisher(gamemill) for the state of the game.
Basically saying they had only a year to develop so the Sh*t quality.But, if you look at what they have had time to get Done in that time frame, from animation to asset design,gameplay,UI etc....the problem is quite clear.They simply dont have the Talent pool to design such high caliber games.
They(Iguanabee)can try to scapegoat by blaming Gamemil.But at the end of the day, Iguanabee failed at making this game worth the money.Its a lack of talent and trying from their part
Kong Kev truly you know his audiences!
RETURN TO MONKE@@vlexonkol8466
Honestly the least shocking thing, learning about this game’s backstory was that, starting from literally 0, the team had 1 year to push this out, cause it truly feels like an early pre-alpha build
I want to know what other requirements were placed on the devs. They knew they had only a year and still went with a mostly realistic looking action game. Did they have to do that?
Ya i feel like we have been giving the benefit of the doubts to devs for a while and so many games thats come out the past 2 years have been really buggy and bad and some of them had years of development. So ya no they should have went a different route and made a actually game.
The sad part is the devs had to start from the ground up making concept blackouts etc with little to no real fleshed out idea and with a deadline of 1 year the worse part is for some big games pre-production takes up a full year this game basically had to do this process wayyy faster and the result is an unpolished game
KOTOR 2 was made in 1 year. And a lot of other great games too.
It's just not an excuse.
Box art is fire though
This game LITERALLY would have sold and done better had it just been renamed to: “Angry ape simulator”
Especially because then the Dev wouldn't have had to pay for the licensing for Kong.
Furious George
Mad Monke
@@jonaldlestrange9624 dude i cant remember the last time a youtube comment made me laugh this hard
OHMY GOD >XD@@jonaldlestrange9624
I like how instead of Kong being the guardian of the island like he normally is, defeating monster’s only when they threaten the balance of Skull Islands ecosystem, he quite literally is just a bloodthirsty monster that kills every single animal he comes across. If Kong were his actual size, almost every enemy would be just a fly to him, completely harmless.
This isn’t modern Kong, this is the 1933 King Kong, who is canonically 20-25 feet tall.
@@Shaun_Jones that doesn't make his behavior any better as the original 1933 kong didn't act like this and his size varies depending on the source. No excuse to have kong feel this small
Huh? Isn't King Kong just a normal gorilla? I've never seen any movie and this game is my first real experience so I thought King Kong was just a normal gorilla, like Donkey Kong.
@@fuzzyotterpaws4395 Donkey kong isn't a normal gorilla by himself and kong literally lives on an island with prehistoric, thought to be extinct animals. Kong is far from being a normal gorilla.
@@fuzzyotterpaws4395also Kong is supposed to be a kaiju like Godzilla, so a gorilla but massive
I am sorry for you loss. Thank you for taking one for the team.
RIP Kevduit for sacrificing his precious life-force to beat this malevolent game.
it feels like the entirety of the story was told through the achievement descriptions
It blows my mind how this and gollum came out in the same year as tears of the kingdom and baldur's gate 3. Truly a year of all time.
A year of high highs, and _low_ lows
honestly some zelda fans actually thought totk wasnt that good. cant say the sam about BG3.
😂😂 I love that phrase. Calling it a Gollum-like. The birth of a new genre!
Devs have come out and said they only had a year to make this. My assumption at this point is that GameMill Entertainment (the publisher) had a contractual obligation to release a licensed King Kong game, and forced a team to churn this out with minimal time and budget. Neither game arguably should've ever been released, but Gollum at least had some misguided passion and funding behind it. Skull Island: Rise Of Kong is pure corporate greed at its worst.
Clearly you have no clue how games are made then. This isn't some blockbuster AAA release and clearly was never meant to be. NO a year to make a game isn't "short" or "overworking devs" I also hate to break it to you but the article im sure you got this from on Woketaku, also mentions the team was 40 devs which is also not that unusual, games generally don't have hundreds of people working on them.
Majoras mask was made within a year and is a beloved classic. This game has no excuse
@@lutherheggs451how can you be this wrong
@@ManicallyMetalmajira's mask also reused already made assets and system so not a 1:1majura's mask is more like a dlc that was made in a year vs an entire new game
@@Thegamefinder5THANK YOU. People have gotta understand that Nintendo had the assets to use and didn’t have to restart from scratch which saved time, money, and resources so all they needed to do was add onto that with a story and smaller assets.
Apparently the devs only had a year to make this game and had to crunch... My condolences to them
This looks like it was made for 3 months
@@potatosaladplaysnah 3 weeks
@@deadlock8173 nah 3 days
@@LocusFocus-t8d nah 3 hours
@@LocusFocus-t8dnah 3 hours
Luke Stephens uploaded a video on this game the other day. The audio wasn't completely screwed up on PC, so the Xbox port is somehow even worse. But the best part is, when he hovered over the game icon in the taskbar, it's just the default Unreal icon and the game is labeled _"Monke."_ No joke. I guess the project name was Monke and they never bothered to change it.
That's actually beautiful
Reminder that Game Mill also published Big Rigs Over the Road Racing so this isn’t even the worst game that they have done
"You're winner!"
What?! It's the same publisher? How in God's green earth are they still in business?
What’s crazy is that the 2005 King Kong PS2 video game looks 10x better than this. You could play as the main characters from the movie and King Kong himself. It had some survival horror to it and it’s pretty cool that you could fight the T-Rex from the movie. That Game should get a remastered copy.
I played it on either Xbox or Xbox 360 but you are so right. That masterpiece needs a remaster.
And somehow they make it require like 32 time stronger setup
Played it on psp, genuinely amazing and in certain situations scary game, highly recommend.
That game fuckin rocked. I remember playing the demo at a Gamestop when the 360 first launched and my mind was blown. Eventually played through it, great game. Looked fantastic.
i've been replaying it on my ps2 and it still holds up, it's gotta be one of if not THE BEST movie tie-in game of all time
Its so weird how they manage to make the giant gorilla feel so small is amazing. Like compare Kong with the trees and shit.
Kev really has a talent - after Gollum washed out his entire game in red light, now Kong served him potato quality audio. Neither of which I have seen others experience, so either he is uniquely capable breaking broken games even further, or he is the victim of an ancient voodoo curse.
are you telling me thats not the normal audio?
nah brother the normal audio is actually decent. I don't know why his is like this.@@boxofmadness2511
@@boxofmadness2511It actually isn't, but you'd be forgiven for assuming it is. This dude's computer is cursed or something
another youtuber had the same issue on his PS5, so it might be a console issue. no one on PC had the crunchy audio from what i’ve seen
@@Penguin-nr8sqThe audio quality sounds like when the game tries to play audio through the controller speaker
Watching gameplay of this feels nostalgic.
It's really like i'm listening to someone play a game over ventrilo with their microphone close to the speakers.
The few moments you get to play as Kong in *Peter Jackson's King Kong* are awesome. They nailed the graphics, atmosphere, and Kaiju scale of him rampaging through mountains. Play that one if you haven't, and thank you, Kev, for taking this one for us all.
Yeah I didn’t expect that game to be survival horror when I first played it on the original Xbox. Those times where you were alone made me felt uneasy.
@@chaoticboy626 Yeah. Crazy that they did it with the limited tech back then. Peter Jackson was involved as well, so no wonder the atmosphere was perfect. Game had no HUD and you're up against all kinds of crawlies. I felt uneasy as well because I too didn't think it was a survival horror game. It's a great game but I expected it to be a scappy fps or stealth game. Too bad, a remake or remaster of that game with updated game mechanics would've made more money than this pos.
“And LITERALLY, having to run the entire map again!!!” Kev was beyond fed up atp 😂😂
Imagine waking up on Xmas morning and getting this game from your grandparents. You can't be mad at them because they don't know better.
Or maybe they do know.
Imagine if your grandparents bought you a sh*t game as a meme.
What's Xmas?
@@Mr.scooter-le8yoChristmas
Oh I would be mad
I'd cry and pretend they were tears of joy
It feels like the team was making a Donkey Kong game and the producer came by one day and was like "No, it's King Kong, not Donkey Kong". That's why the scale is shot and the sounds are busted because they had to change the echo so it fits in a larger setting, and why you can't even tell Kong is 100 ft tall.
"why do they have hands on their arms?" you can see the mental damage this game is causing to Kev as he plays it
spiders do have claw like appendices at the end of their legs, except they dont resemble hands in any way, they look more like little hooks or tree branches.
22:59 I love the mini, fluffy Carnotaurus’s
They somehow managed to make it feel like you, playing as KING KONG, were the size of a regular gorilla.
Bro it wasn’t even kong it was his “mom”
@@mgsh3052 You only play as Kong's mom for the first part, then you play as Kong
@@mgsh3052, did you pay attention to the video?
@@unfortunateimperial6019 apparently he has not.
Judging by the size of crabs and trees he is actually tiny
Gollum: "Mwahahaha, I shall be this year's worst game!"
*Kong breaking the wall behind him* : "Are You Sure About That?!"
no, not _breaking_ the wall... glitching throu it XD
Why does Kong feel like a normal sized gorilla?
Because everything is taller, or about the same height as him.
There's nothing to give a sense of scale
wait he was supposed to be big?
@@Axeeco king Kong is famous a big Monkee
@@angrybidoof847 yeah ik but i thought since the game is called "rise of kong" that they made him small on purpose or smth idk
@@Axeeco I see where you're coming from, but the Kong we see is an adult, and like the same height as his parents who are fully grown, and also look normal gorilla sized.
When you see rare achievement - chapter 2 you know the game's gonna be amazing
It's good to see they're still making PS2 games.
According to people in the comments, if the og kong game was straight up just better that is an insult to the ps2
@bongibot1104 The only thing "PS2" about this is how low-res it looks.
But it's NOT low-res! It just LOOKS it.
Turok Evolution audio too
Nothing wrong with that. Been wanting to revisit some ps2 games lately. War of the monsters comes to mind.
This is PS1 quality and only borderline at that
I laughed way more than I should've seeing the Kong tossing and yeeting crabs around
The best part of this is, there's a tie in game from 2005 for the king kong movie by Peter Jackson, and it legitmately blows this one out of the water (and is also like genuinely good)
I can't believe they finally released Donkey Kong 64 2! And they stayed very true to the Nintendo 64 quality too!
Redfall gave us Remnant 2, Gollum gave us BG3 and now Kong has given us Spiderman 2.
Perfectly balanced.
And forspoken gave us the dead space remake!
I’m still playing Remnant 2 I love that game so much
How can you forget cobra kai 2 giving us Garfield lasagna party?!
The sad thing is that those games aren't as good as what came before either. Our standards as gamers are getting worse.
@@KopperNeomanBaldur's Gate 3 is bad?
The real tragedy is how dope this could've been
Feel like this should of been a mobile game in like 2010
I think this game can be used as an example of why "exaggeration" in animation is an important yet obscure concept to get.
Makes you really feel like controlling a regular sized monke
Give us the Big Monke!
I was having doubts if game design was the right path for me. This..."game"...has raised my self esteem
Fun fact, this game has been published by the same company that published Big Rigs!
Avgn: Big Muthafuckin Rigs
Kev has truly become a Kong-oisseur, King of an island with a skull.
Man, the GOTY this year, Starfield, Spirderman, Mirage, Gollun, Kong, so many options
Kev sacrificing his sanity again for our entertainment. What a legend.
I imagine this being the concept product that they presented to the company and then thought "You know what? You can't steer away too far from the concept game if you just release the concept game itself!".
kong is a beautiful well crafted game, with a deep and interesting lore that make you feel like Kong, that said, The Rise of Kong Skull island is the most videogame of all time.
Five and a half hours playing a mind numbing game? You’ve got my respect my guy
I just realized the ONE connection between this game and Gollum: Andy Serkis and he's smart enough NOT to MOCAP IN EITHER GAMES!
Thank you for your sacrifice, Kev😢
I cant get over how low quality the audio is. I genuinely dont think that a ps1 game has such bad audio.
Also apparently it was made in 1 year, and honestly im genuinely impressed with the fact that this game actually works as well as it does. It could be worse. Like. WAAAAYYY worse
In other playthroughs the audio sounds nothing like this. I don’t know why his game sounds so awful.
@@blueflare3848 every copy of Kong skull Island is personalized
loved it when the kongs rise from the island
I am truly excited to see what other games this new genre of Gollum-likes will bring us.
Why is Kong so small? He looks like the size of a normal gorila.
I like how the worm at 14:31 has the exact same idle and spin attack animation of the 2nd hydra you fight in God of War.
Greek or Norse?
@@jendouglas9781 Greek
Played King Kong on PS2, astonished by how much better this concept was done like 2 decades ago
I love the idea of calling something "Gollum-like".
After gollum creation devs got massive inspiration what a beatiful game
It's astonishing that a game like Starfield gets lambasted, when games like Golem and this exist.
What happens if you beat the "supposed to lose" first Gaw fight?
Im not 100% certain but I saw a video where Gaw got stuck on a tree/shrub and the person was able to do a crap ton of damage while Gaw was unable to attack but it still triggered the death cutscene for Kongs Parents so I believe it's scripted to be unbeatable
Gaw's health won't go down past like half, someone else got him stuck and hit him for a while and once his health got down to a certain level it wouldn't go down anymore
@@feralperilthat's so cheap and lazy lol
They should’ve did a gag ending where they setup a tea party on his dead body if you win.
@@elvickRULES Honestly don't get why more of the "scripted to lose" fights don't do stuff like this. If you make it intentionally difficult to beat cuz you're meant to lose, then give the player some sort of silly reward for winning so they feel accomplished, and give them a laugh at the same time, such a big win.
This just makes me want to play the 2004 movie tie in King Kong game. That was so much fun
This feels like a student project, but instead of getting something like Outer Wilds, we got this instead.
May I just say that I find it utterly hilarious that the beginning of the video, when he was looking at his game library, we can see he's currently almost done downloading Armored Core VI (a truly fantastic game) and yet he chose to play this lmao. I'm not sure if that was there intentionally to be funny but I sure got a chuckle out of it.
Kev is the hero we don't deserve.
But glad we have
" I can't do the Banana Slamma' attack. " Yeah. Maybe when the game tells you to you should- hold it now hold it now hold it right there. You couldn't drop, you wouldn't drop - you wouldn't dare. - you'll listen.
I'm sorry that you had to play this game. Thank you for your sacrifice.
This feels like the kind of game that would come free from a McDonalds movie tie in happy meal
Everyone just needs to somehow play Peter Jackson's King Kong if they want a good Kong game, and friendly to the real Kong's origins.
Me in 2005
“PJ’s King Kong has the best graphics ever!”
Me after playing any game in the current decade
“PJ’s King Kong has best graphics ever!”
The UI elements are place so far in that it feels like the game was supposed to be letterboxed, which would be a terrible decision but the left the UI in place
The fact that developers are releasing this level of...idk what to even call it, is kinda wild af to me.
Being a kaiju fan has it's periods of ups and downs. I thought we were doing great right now with Godzilla Minus One, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, and Godzilla x Kong all coming out. But oh boy does this game hurt.
Man, that sound quality... top notch 👌
despite it atrocious gameplay, i do like how it gave some of the raptors fully feathered arms and ability to flap. Not to be too nerdy, Maniraptors were covered in feathers, and at least the smaller species may have had ability to use the arms to provide nominal lift in jumping or to scale steep terrain.
The funniest part is that out of the entire game the thing with the highest quality the most effort put into it was the subtitles
How tall is Kong supposed to be?! Like is he normal ape size and in a normal sized jungle? Or is he giant and everything is the size of a mountain?!
the texture was so good it has to grow overtime, thanks Kev for suffering thru this game! much appreciated
13:05
procedurally generating before your very eyes
I've noticed a lot of people wondering, "how'd they get the King Kong license for this shovelware?"
The answer is, I don't think they actually did. Due to some weird licensing shenanigans that I don't fully understand but that involves a novelization released too far ahead of the movie, several elements of the original story, including King Kong himself, are technically public domain. If there's any reason at all to release a Kong game in 2023 (and heck to just call it 'Kong' instead of 'KING Kong') it'd be to ride off the Monsterverse, but if they actually had a license, wouldn't you expect the enemies to be things like skull crawlers, and other additions that Legendary made to the mythos? Would the final boss be a generic Hasbro dinosaur named "Gaw," if they were working under a massive movie studio with close connections to *Toho?*
This is worse than licensed shovelware. Worse even than a bootleg. This is *legally distinct* shovelware.
Hasbro dinosaur 🤣
“They have hands on their arms. It’s disgusting, why do they have hands on their arms?”
Kevduit - October 2023
What a nobel sacrifice, I salute you solider.
Not all heroes wear capes
If the devs wanted to give a reason to fight enemy spam, they could have just went full Dark Souls and made them give "Fury points" on death. Those points could have then been put into boosting your HP, rage meter, attack power, etc.
Then they could have filled their huge, open levels with more enemies so they don't feel so uncomfortably empty.
After learning what the studio had to do in a year time with no budget under a frankly horrible publisher, it's a miracle the game even run, and a shame that players will associate them with it.
I looked up this game's publisher and it's the aptly named game mill, whose most famous game is called Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing and suddenly it all made sense.
Watching footage of this game should come with a Darwin Award cause I'm pretty sure I can feel my brain cells committing suicide knowing this dumpster fire exists 😅
You only get a Darwin award if you take yourself out of the gene pool
I mean whoever was the lead publisher probably isn't doing much with their genes so i say it's an honorable mention.
Gollum Award.
There’s this old like early 2000s Skull Island Game, heck it was a movie game I’m pretty sure, and it was better than this thing vastly in every category
A game so bad that even crazyloopynutcase Kevduit has lost the will to live? That cannot be!
I would like to say well done but you might not have recovered yet. If you ever get better, my good man, I and the rest of humanity would like to thank you for saving us from this hell. I may even ask King Charlie for you to receive an Honorary British Knighthood for bravery
The audio sounds like it came from a Wii controller
This game feels like it should be a mobile game 😂
This looks like a free to play game from 2010 that was supposed to release before a movie
Kev is a true Martyr, willing to endure the worst of the worst... so we don't have to.
Why does it seem that it is obvious to nobody but me that the crabs are using invincible counter-attacks
I was really hoping Kev will do this video.. His Gollum video was phenomenal. Grabbing popcorn and drinks for this one..
glad you enjoyed the Gollum one, you're in for a treat with this, haha
@@Kevduit THIS WAS AWESOME!! I mean I do feel bad that you had to go through all the agony of finishing the game, but BOI this entire video was hilarious to the core.. Your quick thinking and dialogue delivery is so on point that it catches me off guard.. I legit felt your pain at the point where it teleported you back to the first map without a warning.. I hope you get over 10M subs. You are the best!!
Kinda amazing how they made a Giant ape seem relatively tiny, true dedication from the devs to disappoint
and yet, Avatar the last airbender a quest for balance still might be worse than this game.
1:35 - +Kevduit - I fixed the intro provided here - "There are insanely difficult games played by fanatics, casual games played by the *casuls* , and utterly broken ones played by sadomasochists!"
I just never stopped laughing from start to finish 😂😂😂😂. I love your vids dude. Your suffering is not unnoticed 👍
When you take into account the King Kong game from 2005, it is truly a sad day when you realize that a game released almost 20 years ago is more graphically polished and stable than what we get today. I was under the impression that technology was supposed to get better with the passage of time, but with great power comes great laziness.
Peter Jackson King Kong for the PS2: "I am a masterpiece of entertainment".
Skull Island Rise of Kong: "I make Gollum look good"!!
Peter Jackson King Kong for the PS2: "Don't worry the videogame world will forget you and I will be the only Kong game Gamers will remember".
It sounds like you’re playing Donkey Kong Jungle Beat on the Wii but the TV is muted so the only thing you can hear is the speaker in the Wiimote.
This game is on someone's resume.
Ngl if i would've worked on this, i'd hide that fact from everyone and everything, i would NOT let anyone know lol
SO i like how it says for the trophy "Long Live the Queen" instead of "King". I guess it official Kong is a Queen instead of King now.