The Hobbit Game Nobody Talks About

[@MorriganAtwood]

My favorite thing about this game is how openly angry Bilbo is when the dwarves send him to get something like...firewood. And he just has to fight and platform for his life by himself, so when he makes it back several hours later and he's just like "AND I HOPE YOU CHOKE ON IT" and that is so relatable.

[@bobmathews9072]

“CONFUSTICATE THOSE DWARVES !!”

[@DragongodZenos]

In 2003, i was in grade 7, and the hobbit was a required reading for English class. we had to read it for book reports. i asked my teacher if i could play the game instead and he, in all his majesty, said yes. he altered for the format of my assignment and made me do a plot/level design report speaking about what actions i needed to complete the level and the aesthetics of the game as well as how it presented the plot. got b on the whole assignment

[@MerkhVision]

What a great teacher!

[@diamonddead8162]

Must have had this game that’s amazing

[@DucksAreNotWhatTheySeem]

That's really cool. Especially the fact he altered the teaching subject for you.

[@ishmael9356]

Dude I wish I had a teacher like that.

[@doublejace]

Had a similar experience myself when I was in college. Took the honest course for perspectives on Tolkien. This, Fellowship of the ring, Two Towers, and return of the king PS2 gameplay AND speech with a Thesis.

[@henriqueabreu9706]

This cartoonish style fits surprising well with The Lord of The Rings universe

[@benderbendingrodriguez420]

I'd say it fits The Hobbit more appropriately since Tolkien originally wrote it as a children's book to read to his kids

[@jaygooese4242]

Totally worth it

[@Odinarcade00]

The original hobbit movie had art style like this

[@VITAS874]

Its based on old cartoon...

[@_catulus]

Probably wouldn't work as well with LotR, but The Hobbit is a kids story, so it makes sense. This is why Peter Jackson's Hobbit franchise didn't do as well. It was both more serious (like LotR) and more whimsical and the same time, creating a weird tonal dissonance for the audience.

[@quackduck1510]

this game holds up better than Lord of the Rings: Gollum 2023

[@J__T]

You mean "Lord of Ring: Gollum"

[@quackduck1510]

no i do not@@J__T

[@J__T]

@@quackduck1510 It's what the developers called their own game in their apology letter that they later admitted to not knowing the company officially sent out. Tuly fascinating in scope and execution.

[@quackduck1510]

@@J__T still, i know what i wrote and i did it on purpose

[@J__T]

@@quackduck1510 I'm not saying you didn't?

[@elliepowder]

I would totally watch a live-action remake of the Hobbit with exactly this plot, the game is so good that i didn't even realize that the weird guys with firewood were supposed to be Thorin and his friends until the second half of the video :D

[@alexanderfinegan1506]

To be fair, the movies got the spirit of the Rube Goldberg machine during the barrel scene

[@therealcyanman]

I long for the day I can watch the masterpiece "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Group Of Unhelpful Weird Guys"

[@davidknudsen8923]

​@@therealcyanman I think that's a much better title for the actual book, I remember them being useless the whole time in that too lol

[@tommerker8063]

@@davidknudsen8923 yep, they relied entirely on gandalf and later on bilbo to get anything done.

[@leakyboat224]

Bilbo's drowning animation traumatized me as a kid lol

[@Davidofthelost]

Same. Just the struggle then closing his eyes as his jaw goes slack.

[@MoriDemonBornInHeaven]

Same😂

[@Mario_Angel_Medina]

I miss when 3-D videogames had a cartoony art-style, now everything is hyperrealistic or sometimes an artsy cell-shading if you're lucky

[@AUDHDlucy]

Artsy cell shading that requires the newest graphics card. We need games that look fun again. It's like we went back to 2002 but instead of the films all being dark and too high definition, it's the games. Games don't need to look like real life to be worth playing, and it's sad people think they do these days.

[@sethfeldpausch4337]

Oh my gosh, this gave me the biggest nostalgia wave of my life! I used to play this game all the time. Maybe it's just my childhood speaking, but in my opinion, this is still the best Middle Earth game!

[@therealcyanman]

Yeah the nostalgia this brought out was intense, played it to death years ago. This game was awesome

[@emilybarilla7077]

I agree. It's the best... (though I suppose I could be biased as well.... 🤣)

[@DeadAugur]

​@@therealcyanman I have an 18 year age gap with my younger siblings, they're finally old enough to play this game and it actually is still so much fun even as an adult, I'm so happy to be sharing it with them :)

[@Husker_XIII]

This game is actually what introduced me to LOTR it'll always have a special place in my heart.

[@naterksmr]

1. Despite beating this game over a dozen times as a kid, I never remembered the awesome “Hello there!” line by Gandalf until today. 2. The Hobbit movies would have been far better if they’d followed this game’s script 3. Was I the only one whose game crashed a lot, especially upon completing quests and ESPECIALLY during the mine level where you find the Ring at the end? 4. I’m glad I’m not the only one who was irritated by the dwarves’ complete inability to do anything themselves. “Hey, thanks for saving all our lives for the 7th time. Do you mind going on a fetch quest for me?” 5. Gandalf appearing in a flash of lightning between the armies of men, elves, and dwarves to warn them about the approaching goblins was the most badass thing ever. 6. 21:20 I love the idea that the first thing Beorn does when he finally gets ahold of Bolg is, rather than tearing him apart with his giant bear claws and teeth, he instead give him the world's most epic b*tch-slap

[@davbooms]

Maybe they should have made the dwarves playable characters

[@mrl2h2]

My game crashed every time I beat a boss and got showered with gems

[@tristenknight1988]

This was the first “real video game” I ever played as a kid. I just recently played through it again for the first time in probably over 15 years, and I really enjoyed it! I was not disappointed.

[@gaiustheconqueror6093]

God, I love this game. I still play it, start to finish, on my GameCube from time to time. By the way, I think the little guy, the one Bilbo is bowing to, from that storybook cutscene with Elrond, is Aragorn. He was ten during the time of the Hobbit, and was living in Rivendell at the time. Or so I think.

[@SnackPack913]

Dude all the voices you can do for the LOTR series is amazing. The jokes and edits you are able to pull off are very entertaining lol

[@williammcginnis7772]

I have memory of this place.

[@jordanhansen5934]

That’s strange considering all the head trauma that Bilbo received throughout this game

[@williammcginnis7772]

ptsd sticks with you man@@jordanhansen5934

[@tomniemann6823]

I love this game. I replay it every year for one time. First game in my childhood

[@sinconspicuous]

i forgot how absolutely unhinged this game was, I have vivid memories of getting caught in the maze in the shire because I was shit at games as a kid (still am) but I don't remember ever actually finishing the game. This was definitely a ride to watch, especially working a night shift while existing on too much caffeine. But thank you for the journey back to my childhood (there and back again, but its me with this stupid game I love so much) I will be subscribing

[@bluecrusader]

This game was so OG i remember dying endlessly to the spiders as a kid

[@creepyreptain8558]

Kinda sad that after the movies we can never get another game in this glorious art style

[@sr.alligator7569]

I think the reason being this game sold below Sieara Entertainment/Vivendi Universal expectations. Shame really, I think Inevitable Entertainment could have done wonders with the LOTR novels as video game adaptations.

[@Airehcaz]

This game itself came out after the movies though didn’t it?

[@sr.alligator7569]

@@Airehcaz It did yes, though I believe it began development in late 2001.

[@Charizarzar]

Sadly the same happened with the Harry Potter games, they lost charm once they started to make them more realistic. Though I do like Return of the King.

[@trigestigro4707]

I discovered about The Hobbit not from the movies or the book, but from this game. Classic

[@fangthedergon1863]

So many memories of this game. I have been a Tolkien fan since childhood watching the Rankin&Bass animated hobbit movie on repeat and playing this game way too much

[@kaankaraca2001]

The video’s sheer love for the Hobbit in all mediums, book, game, and movies, makes me really happy. Absolutely love all the movie references and especially the imitations! Uncanny!

[@tuckerhiggins4336]

The trolls break me, one glimpse of Bilbo and you're done

[@Seymourpepper]

Loved this game! And it was pretty close to the actual plot. Enough to further motivate me to read the book as a kid

[@retedeccelkara4575]

Remember it? I still play this game and my hatred for mirkwood is still strong

[@Annonere]

I love this game so much. I used to play it for hours on end in our basement when it first came out. I loved the music, especially the title screen music. This game is a nostalgia trip for me. Now I have to go dig out my copy!

[@deludedfruitcakesanonymous5593]

It's really quite strange that despite turning Bilbo Baggins into Rambo Baggins, this game managed to capture the feeling of adventure better than a multi-million dollar film trilogy. Screw that bottle puzzle though.

[@MetalHeadbanger7]

Oh god I know. It would have been fine if the clues mentioned to switch the red and blue bottles. I had to retry this puzzle so many times because of this error that I can still remember how the clues went 20 years later!

[@tylermcneeley3136]

Not really? The trilogy is great.

[@bobmathews9072]

it was the barrel puzzle that did me , took weeks

[@deludedfruitcakesanonymous5593]

@@bobmathews9072 Oh god, I remember that one. So many failed attempts, and the walk cycle was sooooo sloooooow.

[@Charizarzar]

@@bobmathews9072I loved this game to death but I made sure to have the solution written down and put in with the game manual so I could get past it really quickly 😂

[@benderbendingrodriguez420]

This game has a weird charm to it. It's in that odd era of LOTR games where the movies weren't out yet or at least weren't the focus point of the games just yet, & most of the games were based on the actual book series

[@DippKlippGuy]

Bless Rankin Bass for the art design here.

[@benderbendingrodriguez420]

@@DippKlippGuy ah is that who did it? Makes sense why I'm attracted to it aestheticly, love Rankin Bass

[@Scribblersys]

@@DippKlippGuy No, this is nothing like Rankin/Bass (& Topcraft)'s Hobbit from 1977

[@nikolaybelousov1070]

This game is strongly based on the 1977 animated movie.

[@kevinfromsales9445]

This game came out after the movies but weren't allowed in any way to reference them due to copyright.

[@IdkWhateverPs]

this game has a pretty sick speedrunning history and a video dedicated to it blew up not suuuuper long ago

[@HeroineOfTwilight]

A late friend of mine adored this game. This vid was a such a nice reminder of my pal, it's been so long since I've seen someone bring it up. Thanks for this!

[@macabeo]

Adore God only

[@AlteredState503]

My grandpa got me this game when I was 9 years old, i tried to get it to run on my family desktop, but we didnt have any graphics card. i used to look at the box a lot and wonder what the game was like. thanks for posting this, now i get to finally enjoy a gift from 21 years ago lol

[@gabrielcaro]

Thank you for covering this video game! It’s one of my favorite video games of all time, and I love coming back to it every so often to play it on the weekend. I love it when KZbinrs cover it from time to time, it reminds me of how life used to be. 😁

[@dangalfthedruid]

This video made me subscribe. I laughed out loud multiple times. The Smaug bit nearly made me fall out of my chair. Maybe I'm just loopy from lack of sleep, but this video was just fantastic. Subbed for more.

[@sulfuras1985]

This game was up there with third age and return of the king. 10/10

[@HervisDaubeny69]

The Hobbit 2003 was the first game I every went out of may to 100% every level. Collecting every coin and courage Cristal, finding every chest and completing every quest. All these years later now I’ve gotten 100% in Elden Ring and the Souls games. I guess you could say The Hobbit 2003 is the Dark Souls of LotR games.

[@mookosh]

Played this game loads when I was a kid. I used to spend hours just smacking goblins at the battle of 5 armies where they infinitely respawn. It was super fun

[@macabeo]

Infinetly?

[@mookosh]

@@macabeo infinitely

[@troo_6656]

Cyan has blessed us with another masterpiece of a video. I swear your videos are getting better and better with each one.

[@jzzym3talman789]

Thank you for making this video! This was one of my favorites back in the day, and still is one of favorites. Blast from the past, no doubt

[@SoloGamer42]

Honestly i've heard good things about this game, It can be difficult at times but i've only heard good things about it. There wasn't that many Zelda like games released on non Nintendo platforms so seeing one that was this polished is impressive

[@scorch6297]

I'm not gonna lie... watching this drunk, at 1AM in the morning while waxing and waning between consciousness makes for the perfect fever dream recipe. Just lettng you know, I found this thoroughly entertaining and I'm also setting this as a reminder to rewatch this later.

[@Lancelot0311]

Good man

[@davbooms]

I know what you mean

[@RrRr-wj4xv]

why do you wax and why are you drunk?

[@raynwise]

Dude!!! I was OBSESSED with this game back in the day!! 😊 LOLOL thanks for bringing back great memories! Still my favorite Tolkien-inspired game!

[@Aaron-pj3ky]

I have such nostalgia for this game. Thank you for reliving this nightmare so I don't have to.

[@quandrixtwincaster5738]

This is a fantastic game and breaks my heart more people don't talk about it. Legit one of my favorite PS2/GCN platformers.

[@LauranceDonMac]

I played this game constantly when I got it. One of my favorites on the GameCube.

[@Basic-enjoyer]

Love this game. I remember being so you and having a stroke trying that bottle puzzle. I listened to what he was saying so many times and writing it down cause I was young and couldn’t figure it out. “Yellow sits next to red and blue which is not next to black…”

[@ThegreatMizuti777]

I loved this game as a kid and it holds up very well.

[@chompythebeast]

This is the most of the Hobbit trilogy I've seen since the theaters

[@Lawrence_Talbot]

My dad got this game for us when it came out. my Brother and I thought it was so cool to kill things with rocks. Dang this brings back memories.

[@chubulousjr9872]

This was my introduction to The Hobbit as a kid. So many great memories and such a fun game. I’d love to see it remastered for modern consoles.

[@primewinister500]

Dude, right when I’m getting a hankering for this childhood masterpiece the Cyan beats me to it! 👏

[@realquiller]

Your best video, yet. Perfect balance between story telling and gameplay commentary.

[@Davidofthelost]

I played this game before reading the books or watching the movies. Still got it.

[@Munchkin895]

Man, I adored this game growing up. Almost always had it in my GameCube after asking for it for Christmas. The music, the exploration and the way it followed the book in so many ways. For me, it still holds up. Jumping mechanics still frustrating though lol

[@MoriDemonBornInHeaven]

This game is better than i remember for the fact that this is older than me its awesome

[@caverramos7581]

Jaja now i feel old

[@azorith6779]

I think about this game quite a bit, engrained in my brain for my childhood. The soundtrack, the gameplay- all pure nostalgia!

[@iBChaLuPAking]

Loved playing this game as a kid! I play it about once a year now for the nostalgia. A child-like sense of wonder and excitement to be sure! The game was very well done for the time, minus that screen control 😂 But the gameplay really immersed you into the world of Middle Earth. The puzzles were so much fun And the music/score!!! Phenomenal! To see others share similar experiences brings me joy!

[@linkfan160]

Yes! I played this game all the time as a kid! Thank you for covering it.

[@dallinadams9422]

Good game, an old childhood favorite

[@mattb6522]

Great video! I actually forgot about this game! My cousins and I played this when it came out. We actually enjoyed it! It was a simple, fun action game. The only thing is that I wished you could replay levels in case you missed something without having to start a new save file. I'm actually now a bit tempted to revisit this game again. 😅

[@adalyman773]

I played this so much.

[@robertgamer3112]

This game has a special place in my heart, it was my introduction to Tolkien.

[@tristan5538]

I remember playing this as a kid on the OG xbox couldnt get past the start

[@rusticgiraffe4262]

Oh! I had this when I was a little kid, literally before I even learned to read. As such, I never really made it very far, I guess I just liked running around, but I remember watching my older brothers play it.

[@_catulus]

Those impressions are seriously... impressive.

[@ahedgewitch]

I also borrowed mine from the library! My copy always got stuck in the mine carts so I couldn't finish it. I was so happy to someone else remembering this game!

[@MixedRealitySimRacing]

The "skips me memory" riddle was crazy, we were braking our heads over it in our playtheough.

[@TheSierraMadre_]

As someone who played this game RELIGIOUSLY as a child, this was a complete and utter masterpiece to watch. Laughed nearly constantly.

[@funnytrucks]

I adored this game as a kid. I just replayed the whole thing again for the first time in probably 8 or 9 years and I loved it. It was a lot harder than I remember, no help from my older siblings this time around lol. But it was genuinely the most fun I've had with a game in a long while. I'm biased for sure, but I definitely think this game is really solid. Bonus for Bilbo's sheer sass

[@macabeo]

You shall adore GOD only

[@funnytrucks]

@@macabeo I'm literally catholic. I enjoy this game, but obviously I don't place it over God. It is not sinful to enjoy a video game.

[@SleepingPepper]

Your video style reminds me of the glory days of youtube. Absolutely hilarious!

[@chrisdiokno5600]

This was legit my first exposure to anything Tolkien

[@sharpsonmusic]

The drama surrounding the Speed Running community and this game is phenomenal. Theres a great doc on youtube about it

[@jordanj190]

The crazy thing is, I just finished reading the hobbit book for the first time in my life today after being a fan of the movies for my entire life. I remember playing this game more than 15 years ago, and it randomly popped up in my memory, so I decided to look up a KZbin video and came across this one. Great work this video is hilarious.

[@ghyrdf]

I hope one day they’ll put that game to all consoles in the newest ones today, including the switch

[@womp4275]

Only came out 2 years after I was born, had it for ages but only properly played it when I was around 10. So much nostalgia. Really got you into the hobbit.

[@justins340]

Played this is a kid. I'm pretty sure that whirlpool is the reason I'm afraid of water

[@femoman]

Oh hell yes, I remember this game! This was back in the day that my mother actually used to play PC games a lot, and she actually completed this one. We were both terrified by the spider segments

[@quillfairy]

I loved this game as a kid! Honestly such a fun and charming adaptation. I remember spending way too much time getting the bottle order right, though… 😆 May just play it again!

[@saintsheepy6682]

This game introduced me to the universe of Tolkien, my brother and I both loved playing it and it still holds up to this day.

[@Gabagooch]

Such a blessing coming across this channel when I was just starting to get extremely bored of everything on my feed.

[@sheshome]

Almost died on my coffee watching the triple catapult shot barrels scene😂

[@rylanallen1629]

this game was one of the first games I played growing up, and my whole family fell in love with it and they still talk about it to this day

[@justlilolme8940]

I really liked some of the game over scenes, in this game. In the Shire, when Bilbo wakes up the chickens, or when he gets caught in the labyrinth. That farmer sure has many lines.

[@bookmaster621]

I had the gba version of this when I was younger, but I don't think I ever beat it. Thanks for bringing out some memories

[@lucasmaziotis3291]

Great game, if I can find it, I’d get it, hands down. No replay value but long and pretty difficult. More accurate then the damn movies.

[@Keblash]

Me and one of my childhood buddies played this game to death on his old pc in his garage. It has a special place in my heart for all of eternity. I e gone back and played it 2 or 3 times since then and its just as good as i remember it!

[@scottgraham298]

I got this for Christmas 2003, I was enthralled with it! I had a blast playing it at the time, and I loved the soundtrack. Good times...

[@stigish]

I remember this game vividly! It was my favorite game when I was tiny, the long jump with the walking stick was so satisfying. Omg, ty for the nostalgia. I hadn't read the Hobbit but I knew the entire story from playing this game and that's a huge accomplishment. When I did read it years later I was stunned how well the game did with the story

[@themthew638]

I know a lot of people hate this game, but as a kid it was funking awesome.

[@Nargon46]

This was my first ever proper video game, I must have played it through dozens and dozens of times, it taught me how to play real computer games. I wore out three copies between the ages of 5 and 12. When the second copy wore out they had stopped making the discs, but my aunt who knew how much I loved it managed to find me a new copy anyway. I used to borrow my dad's work laptop when he came home to play it. I found every secret, knew every cave, trap, and corridor (but I had to get my brother to play most of Mirkwood for me, I was pretty scared of spiders as a child!) The music and dialog are forever burned into my soul. I played it again recently, it felt like stepping through a portal right back into my childhood. I'm not sure nostalgia is a strong enough word to describe the feelings this game brings out in me, it's just memories of times when I experienced pure joy playing this game. I'm fairly sure I played this a little before my brother read me the book for the first time, and I remember being weirded out that my favorite characters, Leanna and Corwin, weren't in it. And yes, it was the first time I'd ever heard Jennifer Hale's voice. For years after, whenever I heard her, I'd go; "It's Leanna!". This game means more to me than I think any game ever will. Great video, Cyan!

[@majormetcalf1225]

The wine bottle puzzle was the greatest challenge of my life. And I actually restarted the game twice to avoid it.

[@Aleph3575]

5:52 My favorite thing about this level, is if you fall off at a certain point in the level, instead of dying, you just glitch through the remainder of the level into Gollum's Lair lol.

[@Steel-101]

Wow 🤩 ! This game is part of my childhood! Man nostalgia is hitting me like a truck right now. I played this game like crazy years ago. Actually I still play it on my laptop 💻. It works well and plus I was able to buy a brand new Hobbit PC disk for a low price.

[@therealcyanman]

Nice! I absolutely adored this game as a kid. When I played it years ago I had to continuously rent it from my local library of all things cause that's the only way I knew how to get a hold of it. I'd be able to keep it for like a week and I'd do that over and over. Totally worth it. Those were good times haha

[@Steel-101]

@@therealcyanman yup! this game builds up amazing memories. I wish they would remaster it and maybe make a Lord of the rings game with this cartoon style.

[@Shea_Noelle]

This game was the first rpg that I've ever played when I was a kid and it clicked so well I still think about it every day

[@ayyhowie]

This game was the first time a book I read was realized in front of me. Being able to run around the world I read about blew my 4th grade mind

[@karinsunny]

my brother and i got this for christmas one year then played it every year in december for like six years in a row. my favorite levels were the laketown level and the gathering of the clouds... i loved the puzzles and exploration!!

[@DreadedProtector]

I had this when I was younger but without a memory card and not being able to see on the old box tv I never finished it😭

[@slenderminion2229]

Words cannot express how much I hated that damn bottle puzzle in Lake Town as a kid. Nowadays it's not all that tough, sure, but a friend and I were stuck on that thing for days when we were younger. We made entire spreadsheets trying to figure out the instructions the old man gave.

[@joshl6310]

Yes. This was my #1 childhood game and taught me who Bilbo was and how he found the one ring. The gameplay and the fighting style was a 10/10 in my book for a game of it’s time and I still have it on my shelf for another play through.

[@chronoscat3371]

I was given a second hand copy of the PS2 version as a Christmas gift one year. While I was a big Tolkein fan I had never heard of this game so I wasn't expecting much from it. However, to my surprise I found it really fun, and I still look back on it quite fondly.

[@petermccarthy4475]

The weird game boy version of this was absolutely amazing. It's still sat in my DS lite

[@controlflix]

Bilbo is taking the gloss of that slicked-back do to a whole new level.