The Lord of the Rings: Gollum - Angry Review [WORST GAME OF THE YEAR!?!]

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AngryJoe Reviews possibly truly the WORST Game of the YEAR maybe EVER for a High-Profile licensed game, Lord of the Rings: Gollum - Let the AWFULNESS COMMENCE and the ANGRY FLOW!
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[@Mythical6255]

We finally get a 1 out of 10 from Joe after 6-7 years

[@doccoke8782]

It honestly should’ve been a zero.

[@nobodyspecial4676]

@@doccoke8782the game is technically a game. so 1 is good

[@CookiesOnaMilkyRiver]

Afraid to give a zero. Worst game I’ve ever seen or played. Thank god I played it at a friends house for 10 minutes 😂

[@jameswayton2340]

Ok... wich game is worse.. gollum.... OR.... Ride to hell:retribution?... 🤣🤣

[@Shadowtopia69]

@@jameswayton2340Oh boy, that game felt like a Ride To Hell, but it couldn’t afford a Retribution😂

[@izaruburs9389]

This game is brilliant and should be treated as such. The player slowly descents into madness and turns into a screaming creature that talks to itself in self hatred, just like Gollum. A masterpiece of immersion.

[@Loyal_Lion]

so meta

[@JohnB-nj5io]

Written by Neil Druckmann

[@andrews.7754]

@@JohnB-nj5io More like Neil Breen.

[@ivan55599]

Slowly descending to madness- like Gollum.

[@derman1907]

@@andrews.7754"Isn’t that corrupt?"

[@mingyuhuang8944]

This game made me feel like Gollum. I'm now broken, insane and severely mentally ill. Truly incredible and absolutely immersive.

[@ryanm.8720]

They takes it from us, Precious! Tricksy hobbitses stole our money! GOLLUM. GOLLUM.

[@superfuss1984]

Did it put a Ring on you?

[@arthurfleck629]

@@superfuss1984Ahaha

[@Niclouyat]

How I feel right now

[@erainmartinez8175]

How does that count as a Game Over Screen? 18:09

[@jessaminehaak8253]

In regards to the question of "how they got the license in the first place," the answer is pretty simple (and depressing). While Christopher Tolkien was still alive, he used to be really strict with the kinds of things the Tolkien Estate was allowed to sell licenses to, but as soon as he died, whoever took over from him just started licensing it to whoever wanted to give them money. This game (and the Amazon show...) were literally made over Tolkien's son's dead body, because he would never have said yes while he was alive.

[@Prince__Teclis]

I think whoever is in charge now just wants to get as much out of the licence now as possible over the next couple decades before the series becomes public domain.

[@ziephel-6780]

It pretty much has little difference over vandalizing a graveyard. Amazon and Daedalic are grave-diggers. Except more legalized form of grave-digging.

[@jordanpowell2242]

Kinda of the same with SpongeBob the creator didn’t want any spins-offs or anything like as soon as he kicked the bucket Nickelodeon threw that out the window

[@UndeadSlayer5]

Wasn’t this the same guy who didn’t like the lord of the rings movies

[@volk4523]

Capitalism being pervasive and corrupt by design.

[@cd328]

The part where they were arguing with each other because nobody wanted to play this god awful game is GOLD!!! 😂😂😂

[@srai5333]

i mean can u blame em its torture

[@sharpester7277]

Agreed.

[@Dzifii]

the "You play it" "No you play it!" always got me 😂😂

[@user-tl1sz5xs7l]

Reminded me when Joe and other Joe left the room and Alex stayed there alone to play Abby in TLOU2

[@ihave7sacks]

It took 3 of them to finish it lol. Imagine how hard it would be to do it alone.

[@mohammedriadh4990]

It took almost a decade but we finally got another 1/10 rating game

[@Matt-ih4ff]

I’m afraid to ask: what was the last one? 😅

[@SpideyfanX]

​@@Matt-ih4ffPower Rangers game. Essentially so bad to the point that Joe broke. That was the day Corporate Commander won against Joe for the first time.

[@serraramayfield9230]

@@SpideyfanXBased on the way he describes it, it's worse than even RtH:Retribution/Mindjack. At least those games he laughed at

[@antonioramirez3676]

@@serraramayfield9230 oh my GOD i forgot about mindjack😆🤦🏽‍♂️💀

[@austindevine248]

a well deserved one at that

[@keeblar209]

I started crying laughing when the credits started dropping frames 😂

[@lawrencemajor7176]

Same here...im weak 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@thefirsttrillionaire2925]

@@lawrencemajor7176AAAHHHH🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@toniheikkila5607]

Propably the people whose names are in the credits collectively trying to use psychic powerd to stop the credits rolling.

[@Rifky809]

​@@toniheikkila5607the ring itself is influencing the game itself to tempt you to keep playing the game

[@DragonHeart613]

I've honestly never seen that happen before in any other game. OMG.

[@jacobmayer8916]

Let’s not forget the fact Gollum hadn’t heard his name for 600 years until the events of the Two Towers when Frodo calls him Sméagol. It sounded like an absolute foreign word to him, yet here he is before that referring to himself as Sméagol. Did they not at least watch the films?

[@Wearywastrel]

Are you serious? 😂 The people who worked on this game probably weren't alive when the movies came out.

[@aslychair3096]

​@@WearywastrelThis is definitely a product of Boomers making games.

[@thecanadian9105]

Completely the other way around.@@aslychair3096

[@standowner6979]

* That doesn't make sense. The first film in the trilogy was released in 2001. * Most game developers, that work for companies, are at least 22 years old.

[@richardmorgan9594]

​@@aslychair3096you can't be serious? 😂 "Boomers" made Pac-Man, Super Mario Bros, Castlevania, Final Fantasy and Legend of Zelda.... And you're trying to blame them for this pile of dog!!!! This was the product of some alt college kids getting given job opportunities for the sake of diversity 😂😂😂

[@akmal94ibrahim]

The game made them argue with each other just like Gollum and Smeagol argues. Very immersive. 10/10

[@tannersmith5887]

Or like the one ring does to the fellowship. This game makes you live lord of the rings.

[@MundaneThingsBackwards]

@@tannersmith5887 Lord of Ring*

[@mogarisready7664]

😂😂😂

[@coffeebean_tamer]

He looks like myth addict.... skinny Pete was my 1st though t.

[@kane5911]

what?

[@Mugenz00]

It’s crazy that we’re in 2023 and there’s still some developers fighting for worst game ever made.

[@WafflezDay]

The whole game's development is weird, too. Daedalic Games has never made any game like this, before. The real question is HOW DID THEY GET THE LICENSE!? It doesn't make sense. They've made some small scale platformers, sure. So why the fuck are they making a 3D LotR game? Somebody at the Tolkien Estate approved this, and I hope they feel awful for it. Give the license to a developer that can handle that kind of expectation, not to mention the development, itself. I do not look forward to another waste of the LotR license be it from Daedalic or another studio.

[@Krystian-st3is]

@@WafflezDay lol

[@alexsilva28]

Huh, humans have made, continue to make and will make awful things as long as things get made

[@Solus749]

but is gollum as bad as ride to hell?

[@HumanPerson_final]

“G-games are too expensive to make. We can’t afford to charge less than $70 and sell in-game items” And also “Here, we spent millions on this polished turd. Bring your wallets, kids!”

[@grum7140]

I love how you each started getting legitimately pissed at each other as you each argued about who’s turn it was to play. Damn fine review

[@Pozorrogo]

"Are those Orcs?" ".. more like DORCS" best quote of the whole video

[@jackkenseng2164]

Achieving less than 1 FPS for your opening cutscene, that's a talented dev team right there.

[@datboiashy2957]

Dont forget the end credits too, the processing power it takes to get letter up and down the screen is taxing 🤣🤣🤣

[@tzera_rhuon]

They did their best to capture the 'one sentence per second' experience of reading the book.

[@probium2832]

It's not frames per second anymore It's seconds per frame...

[@joelrobinson5457]

​@@datboiashy2957genuinely HOW!?

[@vampiricpig1392]

OJ's costumes never disappoint

[@Stroudzy]

Had me rolling

[@nikolozgilles]

oj is precious to the world 😊❤

[@idontcare6662]

Straight quality

[@tomboyraider1015]

It’s the costume’s eyes 😂😂

[@elperronimo]

My valuable

[@NotARealPerson12345]

"the credits are frame dropping" i laughed so hard ... this game rocks!

[@markironside9818]

Even Tolkien knew in the 1950s that nobody cared what happened to Gollum so he skipped through it in the books

[@Jordan-uo5bp]

I was literally crying during this. I could not stop laughing. OJ's Gollum outfit was a 10/10.

[@shinrailp1416]

Kind of a missed opportunity to call im Joellum but still funny as hell xD

[@samflood5631]

Were you crying because of how terrible the Gollum game is?

[@SirFigsAlot]

WE HATES IT LOL. Them arguing about who's gonna play. Game was so bad it ruined their friendship

[@SuperPeterok]

MY VALUABLES!

[@Kaunte]

The existence of this game was worth it for this video

[@kabirkumar3368]

The credits dropping frames was just god damn legendary!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Ioganstone]

My reaction was laughter to bewilderment, then I realize they probably are scrolling through an enlarged menu item lol

[@richardhockey8442]

the pros of Gollum: you can quit it you can uninstall it cons: it exists

[@KhiemNguyen-ly1wz]

Honestly even the pros are kinda moot considering you'd first have to install and play it

[@just_bladeok2041]

​@@KhiemNguyen-ly1wz tbf their still pros, imagine if Gollum permanently stuck itself to your console and was physically impossible to uninstall/quit the game

[@KhiemNguyen-ly1wz]

@@just_bladeok2041 At that point it would just cease to be a game and just go straight into malware

[@HopingForDawn]

It's such a shame. Daedalic used to be amazing, but the founder Poli left the Studio exactly around the time Gollum was made. The studio used to be about Point and click adventures (The Deponia Series is a masterpiece). I am so disappointed.

[@AstaIsAMonster]

Exactly! Sadly this game is 🚮

[@nicowokeuplikethis9145]

The fact that this made Redfall looked like a decent playable game says a lot about it's quality.

[@CallofDutyBlackOps28]

it wasn't half the year over and calling redfall bad, I literally went "Lmao; bet" and then the gollum game comes out and i'm "holy fuck, i wasn't expecting a worse game to come out THAT fast!"

[@austin3001]

Thank you for suffering through this for us Joe!

[@kobra6660]

Somehow managed to be more broken than fallout 76

[@Tribal_Sky75]

I mean this was going to fail from the start who wants to play a game as Gollum? lol

[@ZaWardo151]

Wonder when Jedi survivor is gonna get a good review since it’s a 8/10 only because of the performance issues if that wasn’t there it would be 9.5

[@matthewtaylorthomaskawaipu9448]

I agree 👍👍 angry Joe show suffered through an absolutely complete garbage game

[@erainmartinez8175]

Oh boy you're telling me

[@doomspud6302]

The sad thing is, I have seen people trying to defend this game. Claiming that its just a small indie team, so we should cut them some slack. Two problems with that: One, we live in a world where a single person can make a masterpiece like ULTRAKILL or Stardew Valley with basically zero budget, so a team with a budget of any size making this atrocity is inexcusable. Two, they are charging "AAA" prices for this game, so we need to judge as harshly as a "AAA" game. In the end, if it looks like shit, plays like shit, and runs like shit, no matter how you slice it, its gonna be shit.

[@masterinsatiable6656]

27:34 is probably the funniest shit I’ve seen in such a horrible game in a while. The quick “gollum” before the cut is fantastic.

[@MarkArandjus]

It began with the forging of the great tags Three were given to Angry Joe, angriest and loudest of all creatures... Eight to Other Joe, great zombie game player and thespian... A nine... nine tags were given to Alex, who above else desires quality...

[@janrautenstrauch4729]

But one was forged to rule them all... by corporate commander.

[@syricstheconquerer3608]

But for all of them were deceived, for another tag was made, forged in secret in the fires of mount corporate a master tag. Corporate commander with all of his malice and hatred put into this tag... one tag to rule them all. How did I do?

[@ziephel-6780]

@@syricstheconquerer3608 You should've said *'corporate commander, with all of his malice and greed, put into this tag... 'one tag to scam them all'*

[@trutherx3440]

I bet the IRS is going after the devs for tag evasion. There are to many hints in this game

[@yuptogun]

10:22 Joe: give me one good thing about this game *Joe thinks as hardest as he can* 10:29 Joe: …the… checkpoint system! What a professional reviewer 😂 👍

[@Oshroth]

The checkpoint system is also bad. I saw multiple people who had to restart chapters because certain story triggers broke (or Gollum stopped responding to their input) and reloading last checkpoint (as well as closing and reopening the game) didn't fix it, so they had to restart chapter

[@v.emiltheii-nd.8094]

This is like going inside Gollum's mind while being tortured by Sauron's goons. More agonising than Agony itself.

[@Howlingburd19]

Truly one of the games of all time. The story was, the characters were, the gameplay was, the level design was, the progression system was, and the graphics were

[@510tuber]

Do people feel clever when they use a joke that's already been used a billion times before?

[@tartatovsky]

​@@510tuberif its still funny, why not? Do you feel miserable ALL THE TIME due to seeing other people having fun?

[@pbluma]

@@510tuber ''Let people have f-'' ''No''

[@42Mrgreenman]

...but the game just wasn't...

[@polloloco3]

This game is actually brilliant. It simulates perfectly the burden of carrying the ring. Now you know how Frodo felt. 10/10

[@mask938]

I hate that fucking ring.

[@Quoisboy]

I’m ded 😂😭

[@DragonHeart613]

🤣

[@RKroese]

I would like your comment, but its on 999, so I won't

[@ElderNewt]

Joe's cosplay in this is a 10/10 badass seal of approval.

[@KronnangDunn]

The Joesplay is better than the actual game....

[@mingyuhuang8944]

This game made me feel like Gollum. I'm not broken, insane and severely mentally ill. Truly incredible and absolutely immersive.😢

[@YoungCub]

Joe great job 30 people got laid off at the company today but at least you got some laughs in

[@ElderNewt]

@@YoungCub I feel bad for anyone getting the sack. But if you make a terrible game. Why would you expect to keep your job.

[@sbamba3027]

At least the gollum jumping cutscene hit pretty good…

[@v.emiltheii-nd.8094]

Know what's funny? This Gollum looks and sounds more like Dobby from Harry Potter....if Dobby was a rabid bipolar baby.

[@Ryan-jy5ck]

17:55 when someone you work with does something stupid🤣

[@666MaRius9991]

😂

[@A.E.S.R]

Admit it, this was the most anticipated angry review of the entire year. Nothing will beat this angry review. LMAO.

[@serraramayfield9230]

it's even worse than RtH:Retribution

[@miel307]

Depends if Madden can top it

[@stkkjj]

​@AdamJohnson-ot7ivmadden never disappoints

[@Revan-eb1wb]

@@serraramayfield9230 normally I would say ''dont exaggerate'' but.... I think you are right this time lol

[@DubberRucks]

Madden and NFTs (the trailer reaction) is all I've got to say to that lol let's wait until the full thing drops for real before we pick a winner lol

[@TornadoSponge]

It took 6 years, but AngryJoe finally gave a game 1/10. Awesome job on the review, man!

[@TheExecutorr]

every 2/10 game was rated 2 because he felt that it could be even worse, usually even a bad game has one or two things that at least work somehow. It really shows how terrible this game is.

[@antreasjohn12]

1/10 oh my God thank you for saving me angry Joe I didn’t buy it right now

[@xernoiva4443]

I never touched this game, but I’d give it a 0. A 1/10 score is too generous.

[@CelebrityAsh]

it should've got a 0

[@awhbr1]

Angry joe only gives 0 qhen something simply wont run. The idea is that it is impossible to review if you literally cant play or watch it. And there was that star trek series, of course

[@psycropticqc]

37:04 IHATEIT-IHATEIT-IHATEIT-IHATEIT-IHATEIT !!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHAHAHA!! This one came from the bottom of his heart and it rescent...No acting on this for sure! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@TechnoBot17]

"I think we came up with something really .... you know... really." That is such a beautiful sentence, I loved the skit

[@BeczaBot]

I loved that line too!

[@Irunts]

The fact that you three got into an argument on who has to play the game had me on the floor!

[@Muramasa1794]

Lol foreal had me dead 😂

[@Matt7895]

I nearly broke when the game had intense framerate issues in the closing credits. It really must have been deliberate on their part. They wanted to make an awful game.

[@sgtjohnson49]

It's like The Room of video games lol

[@potatostuffing5643]

And now they want to make another.

[@spacejunk2186]

You've got to have nerves of steel to get to the end credits of this game.

[@netweed09]

🤣

[@Amb252]

​@sgtjohnson49 the room is definitely better than this game 😂😂😂😂😂

[@jjrj8568]

They made a miserable game because being Gollum is supposed to be miserable> the most pitiful being on Middle Earth/worst game of 2023; makes sense.

[@kravor5341]

10/10 for frame drops during credits

[@silveripekka2339]

38:01 Not even lying, literally the moment Gollum got roasted, a barbeque ad started playing, cheerfully singing ”What should we barbeque today?”, and I just lost it😂

[@roflBeck]

lmao

[@FaultyGear9]

That's absolutely perfect

[@williamwoolhouse5018]

OJ is a national treasure, and should be protected at all costs.

[@garudanathanael5257]

We need a movie about OJ.

[@AdamJones-pr9ee]

@@garudanathanael5257 There's already series called The People vs OJ Simpson

[@aligmal5031]

@@AdamJones-pr9ee jajajajaja but jokes aside this series is 10/10

[@ZeddPlay]

I haven't seen Joe be so angry in a long time

[@jaythomas468]

I SWEAR TO GOD, OP-I was ABOUT TO WRITE the EXACT SAME THING. God bless OJ for always being a good sport with the goofy and idiotic costumes they’re always putting him in for these reviews.

[@mask938]

I’d be interested in a game about Sméagol’s corruption into Gollum and his slow descent into madness. It’s an aspect of the world of Hobbit and LOR that I don’t think is explored enough and I think it would make a very interesting story. They could even work the corruption into the gameplay by making Gollum move slower as the Ring weighs down on him until he can’t stand up anymore and making Gollum enter a kind of withdrawal period if he’s separated from the Ring for too long that gradually gets longer as the Ring corrupts him more and more. Instead, we got this broken mess that made us all feel like Gollum by punishing and torturing us until we went insane.

[@grilledleeks6514]

He killed someone 5 seconds after getting the ring. He was always a little shit

[@BladeMaster84]

Now THIS is what i would call an ANGRY Review. This game...is literal GARBAGE.

[@wealth4rmwisdom]

The game may have gotten a 1/10 but that Gollum costume is forever 10/10 with a bad ass seal of approval 😂😂😂

[@Ari19904]

Whose golem?

[@JoshuaRAWRR]

Gollum. C'mon bro the names in the fucking title.

[@wealth4rmwisdom]

Y’all act like phones don’t auto correct… chill… it’s not that serious 🤣

[@NotLegendary_YT]

That costume is better than any single part of the game its based on

[@mikedzee]

Other joe is a national treasure. Near the end when he said “ we hates it” I almost died. Thank you for the outtakes at the end!

[@FriskyMeerkat]

Other Joe is awesome!

[@Jay.McCarty]

36:46

[@megaton_a]

I Rich Evans laughed at the end. I didn't even know I could do that.

[@VerbalGOAT]

"my valuable"

[@MiguelRPD]

41:50 ahh

[@Idengard]

27:12 the way his beard moves when he talks 😂

[@megamasterx9003]

This game is the perfect embodiment of the classic Angry Video Game Nerd's "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING??" phrase.

[@nahuelkid]

Shitty games are eternal

[@DjTittySprinklez]

Exactly

[@kobra6660]

I'd rather have ea make another lord of the rings rts game

[@Longshanks1690]

@@kobra6660Fr, BFME was the 🐐

[@Trizzle2Jernts]

💩 🌮 💩 🍕 💩 🚙

[@kunnapongkhewwatchan1551]

This game really makes you feel like being Gollum.

[@bthsr7113]

Which is why it's bad.

[@Poignant_Ritual]

​@@bthsr7113GAME really makes you feel like CHARACTER is a meme.

[@KittyKatty999]

It truly makes you *FEEL* the misery of being Gollum

[@Jason0binladen]

But if you want to say my precious that's an extra dlc purchase

[@coffeebean_tamer]

This game is going to reach unintentional cult status of 10 bad you need play before you die MK4 eat your heart out. 😂

[@BlackJaguarGX64]

17:59 Here comes the "WTF" meme

[@xpendabull]

At this point I don’t know why the Tolkien estate even lets anyone use the license at all. After Rings of Power and this I’d be fine never seeing another show or video game based on Tolkien’s lore.

[@dragondude9637]

Simon Tolkien is the reason. He flipped off his father and grandfathers legacy and story lore, and gave the rights to people (Amazon's Rings of Power for example) who abused it for their own gains.

[@JackTheripper911]

Its lord of the rings lmfao lets not act like its something to hold in high regard lmfao. Books about people walking, wow what wonder. 🙄 shits so overrated its pathetic.

[@thunderbird7020]

Fun fact. This game released literally a few hours after Joe’s redfall review was uploaded. Meaning the title of the Redfall review was almost immediately outdated.

[@xlinkkaisaintsrow2365]

How this year is gonna be bad for videobgames.

[@planescaped]

If Joe had played this before first then Redfall likely would have gotten a better rating just by comparison, lol.

[@TheWhalsh]

AJS is the only reason why I'm a little excited when something this horrendous comes out. Some of the best reviews happen from these gaming atrocities, and this one definitely joins the Angry Review hall of fame, at least in my eyes. Awesome job!

[@gregheard4181]

Scuffed Gollum is going down as one of their best definitely!

[@laharlkent]

"Hey Joe, Wanna play a zombie game?" "Noooo!!" "Hey Joe, Wanna play a Gollum game?" "What zombie game we playin?"

[@Never_heart]

Well this game did so badly, the studio not only canceled another upcoming Tolkien game, but also haslce decided to completely cease all game development. It is switching to exclusively publishing work

[@AndreB23]

Took a whole decade, but someone actually managed to make a worse game than Ride to Hell. Wow.

[@shiv100p]

Lets not go that far lol

[@kassandraofodyssey6475]

@@shiv100p No, let us go THAT FAR. I’ve never seen a game this buggy since Ride To Hell, not even Cyberpunk or Fallout 76 could topple the beast that is Ride to Hell!

[@maxmcqueen1196]

Comparing this to Ride to Hell is tricky in that they both have things that make one superior over the other. LOTR Gollum's "interesting" art design and the lore it's based on immediately make it better in one way, yet Ride to Hell actually allows you to interact with the world instead of having you move through level after level, even if done poorly. Both are painful to look at it. They both take the term boring to new heights.

[@kinagrill]

Ride to hell is at least hilarious with things... like 'electric fence, gotta get past that' and the Main Character decides to get a truck... and crash it into the POWERPLANT supplying power to the fence... and then return to just crawl up on the rocks nearby and jump over the fence that way... completely negating the damn need for the truck, dealing with the electric fence to begin with, etc. XD

[@Dylan03917]

​@@kinagrillride to hell is like watching the room. The voice, acting, look, everything was so bad it was funny. This one is the same, but so boring at the same time that it's not even funny anymore and just bad.

[@ZakkWith2Kz]

Props for eventually keeping a straight face while recording with JOllum, and props to OJ as always for incredible work like JOllum. Incredible stuff guys.

[@franciscorodriguez8915]

Jollum 😂

[@akmal94ibrahim]

Jollum and Smeajoel

[@OGgluttonoustoad]

Funniest angry review in a minute. OJ as Gollum had me fucking dying

[@Zaradorian]

@@OGgluttonoustoad was in tears XD

[@jordinagel1184]

I was wondering why they pronounced Gollum as “golem,” but it would make sense if they tried to make it rhyme with “Joe” ( the only way in which it would make sense)

[@PsykoDenzo]

The game was so bad that angry joe didn't say "I'll see you guys on the next Angry Joe Show."

[@drabent99]

Gollum is so bad you guys argued who had to play😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@spideymon]

Props for actually finishing the game, i cant even handle watching someone play it .

[@michaelmacorso4479]

It's really painful to watch this game but angry joe made it great.

[@animationstation1005]

It took 7 years, but we finally have another 1/10 on the AngryJoeShow! And man does this shit excuse of a "game" absolutely deserve it!

[@xernoiva4443]

That score is way too generous for a game like this! It deserves a 0!

[@automatedinsanity]

when was that 1/10? the ghostbusters review?

[@LieutenantSkittles]

​​@@automatedinsanityope, it was Power Rangers Mega Battle.

[@animationstation1005]

@@automatedinsanity Yep

[@Amb252]

​@LieutenantSkittles unfortunately they can never make a good power rangers video game

[@iancalandro8180]

This is the second time this year that a game was so bad that the studio that made it was shut down.

[@jxchamb]

Yeah, I just read about that. Real sad that we won't get to see an Angry Joe video of the canceled sequel.

[@greenmaze6089]

I just saw this review, I had no intention of watching it to the end, I actually came looking for a much older review for another game but the Gollum costume and "my valuable" got me😂. Epic review

[@colesmith193]

The “we hates it” skit had me crying 😂

[@-JungleHunter1987-]

Tricksies They tricksed us😆

[@user-mt2ql5fd7d]

So funny, best part of the video. OJ is a really good Gollum

[@NumbuhONE]

What's the time stamp?

[@user-mt2ql5fd7d]

@@NumbuhONE 36:47

[@sharpester7277]

This is a classic Joe review. With Joe constantly yelling his lungs out, him constantly making funny gestures, and a funny cutaway intro.

[@tekktori]

yeah i really felt the old school vibes in this one. what a freakin treat

[@fernandov.3302]

The credits dropping frames was the icing on the cake.

[@enjoythestruggle]

33:30 - The character design in this is truly something else. The Elven King's shoulder pads or whatever those are are just floating off his shoulders. He has a palisade collar that appears to be simply jutting out of his shoulders and isn't attached in any meaningful sort of way. He also looks really bloody old. Awful.

[@tylercalhoun6407]

It's been 6 years since Joe gave a 1/10 score. Since that Power Rangers game back in 2017. It's great to have that 1/10 giving Joe back.

[@DELTAGAMlNG]

Should been 0/10

[@blowbert9126]

@@DELTAGAMlNG it tecnically works so he cant :D

[@warcrimeconnoisseur5238]

​@@blowbert9126Barely

[@Eonflare55]

Really? That long. Interesting bit of Angry Joe Trivia.

[@idiatico]

The fact that that argument about who has to play was actually serious and not just a joke is hilarious.

[@Andrew-1828]

I want you all to remember one thing, we lost Lego lord of the rings, but this game….exists

[@DRAGONSSCREAM]

I've always loved Joe, one of the few guys who could make a game review so entertaining you could replay it and not even care about the review or game in question

[@cuckoophendula8211]

Seeing Joe actually get sad when he chose to kill the bird out of his real world anger was pretty funny

[@jamesobrien4013]

32:23 for those curious

[@cleanerben9636]

the bird is the only good looking thing from the game it's so cute.

[@aquakittykat]

That gollum costume was ON POINT!

[@GingerofMassDestruction]

I dread the day we see a 0/10 or a negative.

[@patrickholzer6415]

I really hate what this did to Daedaalics reputation. They used to make amazing point&click games with amazing characters and hand drawn worlds. I can't fathom what happened to lead to.... this.

[@halfdemonamanda]

I was crying laughing through this whole video 😂 so sorry you all had to suffer for it, but this was absolutely HILARIOUS and definitely made my day.

[@deffloyd]

Jollum and OJ had me dying. I hope we see more of Jolleum.

[@ryanthomas9543]

As someone who also played, and best the game, I am with you. I'm died of laughter. Everything is so true. I knew the game was terrible when I bought it, and my god it didn't disappoint. Anyone who has beaten this game should be given a share of the Tolkien family estate for surviving this travesty.

[@avax9308]

I share the same sentiment

[@Dnizzle227]

Ride to Hell will remain King

[@timeforringydingy]

Too much screaming and forced anger. Not in the good books when it comes to your content but instead incredibly cringe.

[@guillermoortiz2620]

“These are different tags” I lost it at that point. I never wish for a bad game to come out but when it does Joe is extra hilarious when ripping it apart. 😂

[@kirbylovespizza2488]

Only thing that's good about shit games

[@N12015]

This deserves your classic ONE OUT OF TEN. The game just has no redeeming qualities.

[@WurrzagsMorkyMischeif]

*Joe falls through the floor* Sauron: THERE IS NO LIFE IN THE VOID

[@alexl.4362]

Only..Death

[@Eva01-jy2qu7pu9r]

AJ, OJ and Alex did a better job designing Gollum than any of the people who worked on this game.

[@netweed09]

🤣 Add to that the fact AJ and co didn't even bother with a game. There are people out there actually believing stuff like this is worth money. I think that's the real plot of this game.

[@MarioLuizTDM]

I'm just thinking how Joe would deal with those bad games if OJ and Alex wasn't with him, their friendship saves Joe's heart from exploding 😂

[@ziephel-6780]

Joe did not have to deal with the One Ring by himself.

[@Meyna86]

He wouldn't be called Angry Joe. He'd be Cardiac Arrest Joe.

[@pantheman2842]

Considering this game even fought back against the friendship itself, it would be impossible alone.

[@justinkarvelot3381]

3:20 "Mordor's flaming butthole."😂

[@swimmingbird3240]

Yesss, embrace your hate Joe. Review more games the way you used to. Seethe your hate.

[@CurseOrGame]

oj is simply a human treasure at this point, protect him at all costs

[@DubberRucks]

"Hey Joe, wanna play a mf'n Gollum game?!"

[@KanieX]

OJ is my precious

[@GeetMonke]

@@KanieX valuable* lol

[@omniking3216]

​@Cunnie123 yea I like orange juice also

[@EclipsisTenebris]

I hope that's not marker on his teeth.

[@bestgirl2500]

It had been 10 years since Joe did a proper "WORST GAME EVER?!" and now he's had 2 in one year.

[@webrider117]

That was ride to hell if I remember correctly 🤣 although we came close with godzillla on ps4

[@sluumppp]

@@webrider117don’t forget mindjack or whatever that shit is called

[@penalozaxxx]

2 so far

[@aracuscesar]

whats the other one? i remember the old ones: ride to hell harry potter deathly hallows part 1 and 2 sonic free riders mind jack godzilla battleship

[@osmosisjones2822]

I rewatch that review from time to time, been a hell of a decade for Angry Joe, other Joe and Alex!

[@GraizenBrann]

Bruh said 💍 "my valuable" 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

[@salmanazman1098]

WE NEED MORE BAD GAMES SO WE CAN WATCH THIS GOLD OF A CLASSIC JOE'S REACTION!! not to mention both other joe and alex did great too!! can't stop laughing guys. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@0211brucetube]

Would love to see a documentary on just HOW a game as clearly unfinished as this gets a release. Like what is the process, what is happening inside the dev team and the publishing house?

[@rpgadventurer32]

It's not just unfinished, it's one of the worst game designs ever made.

[@cleanerben9636]

usually it goes, in no particular order: -no clear direction or end goal for the product -high developer turnover -no publisher oversight -QA not even being an afterthought -hands-off management or conversely poor/aggravating management -inexperienced developers -inflexible launch window I heard that Daedelic had a lot of staff leave either before or during this games development so that's probably the main factor. It'd still fall on management for not hiring enough capable staff and/or not allowing new staff to get accustomed to the systems they would be using(little to no training) yet expecting to meet goal markers for the project all the same.

[@waltlock8805]

The accountant makes a call saying the money will run out in X days. Game ships.

[@johnnysparkle]

Matt McMuscles will find a way

[@FunZies.]

Yep. Looking forward to that inevitable _Wha' Happend?_ episode, lol.

[@jandeiification]

"The game sucks, we started to fight each other... It's tearing us apart" That got me... can't wipe the stupid grin off my face.

[@NinoCristianini]

You know it's bad when friends are arguing, so they DONT have to play the game.

[@KORNEWARRIOR]

Its the ring

[@plasmanade666]

It went ZERO frames a second 🤣

[@doctorc.1442]

They're making it a point to utterly DESTROY anything that is even remotely related to the Lord of the Rings world. Like ROP wasn't enough already, goddamit.

[@JackTheripper911]

Its lord of the rings. Books/movies about people walking lmfao. Not much to destroy there. Already a shitty concept in a shitty series. Anyone who thought this was gonna be good is a delusional fanboy

[@TrueTotalImmersion]

There is something genuinely soul touching about watching a stoic man like Alex break, thanks for the deleted scenes!

[@oatkungar]

Haven't seen Joe this angry for a loooong while. What a great game.

[@hussien04]

He was this angry in the redfall review

[@oatkungar]

@@hussien04 nah dude Redfall was just his normal bad game reaction.

[@SuperPeterok]

Brought me back to Mindjack

[@Stalkingwolf]

you missed Redfall? 2023 is finally a year were Joe can be Angry Joe again.

[@kliajesal4592]

When I saw this game up for pre-order on Steam I put it on my wishlist because I'm a big Tolkien fan. But I only put it on my wishlist because of the lessons learned from the late, great, TotalBiscuit. I will never pre-order a game, this game is a perfect example of why. Thank you for your service, Joe, you suffered so the rest of us don't have to. God Fuckin' Speed from the RazorForce.

[@NinoCristianini]

Omg im crying, I want TB back just so he can destroy this game with his perfect eloquence

[@42Mrgreenman]

@@NinoCristianini Thank you both and the AJ crew sincerely for keeping TB's flame of consumer advocacy alive!

[@Velosirraton]

Well, these kind of games will keep existing if people are stupid enough to buy on pre order, and people are stupid enough. Cristopher Tolkien was right when he said he didn't want the legacy of his father to be used by the Cinema, or any industry. They just take advantage of what a genius created and make shitty products with little to no effort involved, they milk the fans and destroy Tolkien's legacy in the process. If you want to expand on the lore, go read The Silmarillion, Beren and Luthien, The fall of Gondolin, Unfinished Tales, The Children of Hurin, etc.

[@olpuddinsock]

“Gollum just going through a phase” I’ve replayed that part 20 times and it’s still hilarious.

[@rodneyjones1990]

PUT YOUR FAITH AND TRUST IN JESUS CHRIST AND HIS FINISHED WORK UPON THE CROSS ON WHICH HE SHED HIS BLOOD FOR OUR FORGIVENESS OF SINS AND HEALING BECAUSE YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN TO HAVE GOD'S TRUE FORGIVENESS OF SIN and TRUE HEALING and TRUE PEACE and TRUE REST FOR YOUR SOUL AND TRUST AND BELIEVE IN HIS RESURRECTION BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY GHOST BY WHICH HE ROSE AGAIN TO GIVE US HIS ETERNAL EVERLASTING LIFE AND IN HIS ASCENSION TO THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD OUR FATHER AFTER WHICH HE SENT THE HOLY SPIRIT TO US YOU AND ME DID WE MAY ALL BE ABLE TO BELIEVE AND TRUST AND KNOW THAT GOD IS TRUE AND REAL AND EXISTS AND BE BORN AGAIN BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY GHOST WHO CONVICTS US OF OUR SINS END OF THE JUDGMENT OF THE WORLD AND THE RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH IS IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD FOR IT IS ONLY THROUGH THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND HIS FINISHED WORK UPON THE CROSS (NOT OUR OWN WORKS BUT HIS) THAT WE CAN EVEN BE MADE RIGHTEOUS AT ALL BEFORE GOD THE FATHER FOR OUR SINS ARE MANY BUT GOD RICH IN MERCY SENT HIS SON JESUS CHRIST WHO IS GOD HIMSELF IN HUMAN FORM YET WITHOUT SIN TO BE THE PERFECT SACRIFICE FOR OUR SINS TO TAKE THE PUNISHMENT THAT WE DESERVED FOR OUR SINS UPON HIMSELF SO THAT WE COULD BE FORGIVEN AND BE SPARED GOD'S WRATH FOR OUR SINS AND INSTEAD BE JUSTIFIED BEFORE GOD AND HAVE HIS SALVATION AND HIS ETERNAL EVERLASTING LIFE AND NO LONGER FEAR THE STING OF DEATH AND FEAR GOING TO HELL BUT INSTEAD REMAIN AT REST IN GOD THROUGH CHRIST BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH ABIDING GOD'S TRUE REST AND TRUE PEACE WHICH SURPASSES ALL UNDERSTANDING AND IN GOD'S THE FULL OF ASSURANCE OF SALVATION KNOWING THAT WE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE (AND THOUGH OUR FLESHLY BODIES WON'T LAST FOREVER) OUR SOULS WILL GO ON AND LIVE FOREVER AND GO TO HEAVEN TO BE HOME WITH GOD OUR FATHER AND NOT DIE AND GO TO HELL FOR OUR SINS FOR FOR WE WHO HAVE FAITH AND TRUST AND BELIEVE INTO JESUS CHRIST THE ROCK OF OUR SALVATION OUR TRUE SAVIOR, AND LORD, AND OUR TRUE HUSBAND, HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN OF ALL OUR SINS PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE IN JESUS CHRIST BY THE BLOOD OF CHRIST AND WE KNOW THIS BY HIS HOLY SPIRIT WHOM HE GOD HAS GIVEN US AS A SEAL AND TESTIMONY TO TESTIFY TO US THAT WE BELONG TO CHRIST AND ARE SAVED IN CHRIST JESUS BY THE POWER OF HIS BLOOD WHICH HE SHED FOR US UPON HIS CROSS IN JESUS NAME I DECLARE THIS OVER YOU AMEN! AMEN! HALLELUJAH! PRAISE GOD!

[@Beanibirb]

@@rodneyjones1990 He doesn't exist, also press the caps lock button

[@YourLocalEldritchHorror]

​@Godzillafan2100 it's a bot It lacks a fundamental understanding of the concept of caps lock All it knows is Jesus

[@mas8705]

That intro was just... just wonderful. Also kudos to you for being one of the few people who was able to fight their way through to the end (even though it is apparent within the first few minutes of the game just what kind of experience you're signing up for). I just find it to be the greatest irony just how fast Gollum swept Redfall's leg to take the title of "Worst game of the year." Redfall didn't even get a chance to celebrate it for more than a few weeks before it was ripped away.

[@alexandraadamus3131]

I saw a review of this game on metacritic and the person who posted it said that this game is better then Elden ring, TOTK, RE4 remake, and other “OvERaTeD” games. The funny part is that I’m not even that angry (Heh, get it?), I’m just really intrigued. Like are they ok?

[@Idkwhtpsipto]

13:09 gollum just going through a phase 😂😂😂😂😂😂