The New Walking Dead Game is Absolutely Terrible

[@ClashedPR]

As a walking dead fan, seeing the franchise go from falling apart to flat out not having any effort put into it anymore is so sad. AMC could’ve taken the smarter route of making this game better and more liked by lots, but rather took the cheap and fast route to get a quick cash grab. I haven’t played it yet, but I’m not looking forward to it.

[@RiskyOutcomes]

Why even pick it up???? Just pirate it if that’s the case

[@shanenonwolfe4109]

I'm sure this game will be I'm the 5 dollar bin soon

[@Yugga_Bubba]

ClashedPR have you watched the Walking Dad porn parody of TWD?

[@L_e_t_h_e_r_e_a_l]

Wow surprised to see you on a gman video. I watch your shorts all the time on KZbin and TikTok.

[@JefferyEpsteinOfficial]

Bro why don't you upload anymore your videos were so good

[@dracomalfoyvevo]

Happy that they decided to bring back the "mid-budget game you find in the gamestop bin" games back

[@blebblebberson9327]

Sneak King, my beloved

[@Timbo360]

They’ve been existing ala Steam, or do you mean more so these type games being released more “mainstream” ? Cuz that description is spot on for this 😂

[@biosupdate7449]

@@blebblebberson9327based

[@truegamercroatia]

​@@Timbo360i think it's the mainstream aspect. I mean, i haven't seen this ammount of crappy games based off licenced IPs in such a short period of time in over a decade

[@B.a.z.z796]

"Mid budget game you find in the gamestop bin but its actually 50$"

[@the_Googie]

Hershel in the Show: "They can be healed, don't kill them, they are people!!" Hershel in this game: "RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES, MUH ADRENALINE'S PUMPIN!"

[@michaelpapadopoulos3756]

Question is does Hershel get a perk/skill that allows for infinite ammo when using a shotgun?

[@liltiachan9694]

Lmao this comment is gold 🤣

[@espyiz]

16:47 😭😭😭

[@jessiehuynh7495]

​@@espyizthank you

[@yuuyakizami2133]

@@michaelpapadopoulos3756 Funny you asked that considering the one-liner Hershel scene has him wielding a revolver that somehow holds 12 rounds

[@MoistPinkTaco]

Creating this, Gollum and Kong all within 2 years is honestly fucking impressive ☠️☠️☠️

[@BLEKSIDE]

they are the publisher not the developer

[@Hypno_BPM]

you mean the same year

[@ekkcry]

Sorry to disappoint you, but Gollum was published by Daedalic... so yes Gollum is a absolutely abyssmal pos game but its not the failure of gamemill ... rather the corpo fucks at daedalic who are tho blame for that one. And no that does not make it better... If you are interested here is a documentary on the reasons why Deadalic screwed up Gollum so massively: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKTdl2SjrN50nNk

[@liamrorke4280]

When the games look like this, it's not that surprising

[@wellthen.......9384]

Kong was made by another company

[@Maceyoshiman]

This franchise just can't catch a break

[@Adrian2140]

I mean, it had a long successful break with telltale. It's post telltale that things went screwy.

[@trobriandstorm]

So many shitty games in a row, one of these so shitty that was canned

[@sgtsmith501]

Telltale had a simple formula with it that worked. Every other game however failed miserably especially Overkills FPS one

[@Sixstringman]

Maybe they should try not sucking.

[@Jesse__H]

This franchise has fully had its time in the sun. It needs to be sent to live on the farm.

[@dipdippotatochip9636]

The sad thing about this game is that it honestly had so much potential. The creativity of having multiple different paths you could take to an already established storyline is very intriguing. But unfortunately it was wasted by a game studio that is just a puppy mill for games (the studio cant even be smart enough to hide its own name) and an IP that clearly will give anyone with a half baked idea for it the greenlight.

[@jinxysaberk]

It could have been Detroit become human but a plot people actually care about but they’re so lazy. I would have waited 10 years on the game to make the quality better but it’s just so clear these devs didn’t care. I really hope someone else can make a sequel or something that actually justifies the premise cuz this is GOLD they’re sitting on a literal gold mine

[@mfgojira]

this is one of those developers that found out all you need to do to get your hands on an IP is ask

[@Fede0779]

You almost describe an scam , these games are scams . Was the gollum and the king kong games having any barely decent quality at all ?? Nope . How Sony or Microsoft allows these crap on their stores ??

[@vikingmetaldragon]

How is that creative when other games already have done it?

[@Dcookies100]

kid named Fate/Stay Night visual novel:

[@grimshwiz]

I love the new genre of Gollum-likes. Can't wait to see what they come up with next.

[@Biz5]

The Dark Souls of Gollum-likes

[@LadyLeomon]

GrimShwiz you fool, you doomed us all to a plague of terrible game! 😱😱😱

[@votpavel]

new gta will be promising(not) call of duty or battlefield or need for speed is another good examples they all ran themselves into the ground,destroying themselves from fame because of company greed. Make stupid lazy efford games- win stupid prizes

[@erso_returned2530]

@@votpavel Ahahaha shut up with your trolling.

[@erso_returned2530]

@@votpavel Gta is almost always promising and delivers! I can't swear just because we're in youtube but imagine I swear your mom, dad, sister or brother ok?

[@darkkahn100]

It seems like we have entered a new dark age of licensed game thanks to this game's publisher. How can you make three of the worst games of the year in quick succession? It actually impressive

[@ragnakak]

At least the Robocop game is good

[@Kaxology]

Hell no, that's way too much of an exaggeration. We just had Hogwarts Legacy, Spider-man 2 and that Robocop games that was covered on this channel like 2 weeks ago, what are you on about?

[@Hyde-dg7ef]

considerng that it was made by he same company who made the rise of kong and the gollum game, is it really that big of a surprise?

[@jfk8540]

@@ragnakakthe robocop game was published by nacon and developed by tayon that i think made the rambo game angry joe hates. nacon is also a shitty scummy publisher, because of what they did to the developer frogware for the sinking city game. but gamemill is the publisher responsible for gollum, skull island and this, which are without a doubt the three worst licensed games ever released as well as the worst games of 2023 😂

[@Helixium08]

​@@jfk8540Do you just use Angry Joe's opinions as your own?

[@julespetrikov]

The fact that The Walking Dead video games were reduced from fantastic Telltale titles to mobile game skins is just sad.

[@BrenTenkage]

Damn, not gonna lie, some of the mechanics seemed like an extremely good idea. Like altering the story, different skills for different characters which leads into altering the story for them for replayablity. It is a damn shame that instead of taking this rough gem and turning it into a jewel...they threw it into shit and called it a necklace

[@arnaldojunior8924]

I was about to write the same comment. It seems like a genuine good project, but only in paper

[@BrenTenkage]

@@arnaldojunior8924 exactly, the idea was there, but damn the potential squandered feels criminal

[@Ashleigh_Alexander]

In every bad studio there’s that one guy with actual talent, but their ideas can never be utilized bc of the incompetence of their leadership. In a lot of ways I actually feel kinda bad for the dev teams for being these really terrible games that have been coming out of late, working on these kinds of games would be so soul crushing

[@svenwalter4293]

Western people and their metaphors

[@FreelancerCZ]

All they need is a few patches and modding community that will fix the game mechanics. In 5 years modded for 5 euros ill get it. 😅

[@DwayneTheSquidJohnson]

It’s weird how this game has your choices matter more than the telltale games yet lacks all the heart soul and dedication than the telltale games

[@randomguy6679]

Hell, the telltale game has better visuals too lol

[@MrMortull]

I bet "Still not bitten" team could have made a better action RPG/narrative choice game. Even using the revamped Telltale engine. With half the budget.

[@thomasnielsen5580]

It has the same amount of 'choice matter' as Telltale. The choice is binary, and characters just replace each other in future chapters.

[@SuspiciousSilence]

Someone pitched it during a meeting. Great idea! Waaaay too much for them to handle, though.

[@HereticHydra]

@@randomguy6679 Yeah this crap looks like a ps2 game, and not a good looking ps2 game like God of War or Urban Reign.

[@hyperrein]

Seriously though, can you imagine a Walking Dead game where you gotta build up a community from scratch and you even come across some of the series villains and maybe even Ricks group along the way. Same with Game Of Thrones, such a vast universe to explore and yet not one developer seems to want to put any effort in at all??

[@caspernoir4028]

Game of thrones actually gets incredible modded support, like CK3 AGOT is the one of the best games I’ve ever played and if I wasn’t a ck fan before I could’ve been tricked into thinking it was an official ASOIAF Game

[@AbuHajarAlBugatti]

Basically state of decay 2 ?

[@JewTube001]

That's SoD. You don't play as one survivor but the whole group, and you can recruit more people, even smaller communities and then their bases become available for you to use.

[@Fede0779]

Seems like a decent developer don't care about these franchise

[@ineedscissors6176]

As others have said State of Decay 2 will certainly scratch that itch.

[@strikestorm]

Naming your company Game Mill is like admitting you run a puppy mill for video games.

[@fithianmt7468]

It's like a clothing brand calling naming itself Sweatshop Fits

[@chaseishere8460]

holy shit thats so funny

[@contentcop]

They def have like 60 Koreans chained to desk pumping games out.

[@DMusicSnob]

lol I know man I instantly associated their name with that shit They produce the equivalent of parvo for gaming

[@VolkovAlexandernovskiOfficial]

Please tell me you know Puppy mills is a nickname given to them. It's not an actual Mill. It's a slang reference to a factory or production plant. It's like saying "Puppy factory" that doesnt now make actual factories sound dodgy. What a weird way to think

[@H-Himbo]

Gollum was published by Nacon. GameMill was not involved with it. GameMill’s responsible for Rise of Kong and Walking Dead Destinies

[@PopeRogerFree]

🥛

[@weirdofromhalo]

And the new ATLA game

[@fisky8804]

And big rigs

[@SuspiciousSilence]

@@fisky8804 YOU'RE WINNER!

[@zaiz6018]

1:39 actually almost made me laugh out loud. They just put a random tank there, not even the same as in the movie. That’s probably a Leopard 2A6 or 2A7, which is German. Why is it in America with desert camo and was used to try and stop the zombies?

[@Hypno_BPM]

probably a free asset/reused asset they already had 😂

[@csat4363]

@@Hypno_BPM man, they too lazy to search for free/cheap abrams model in google? damn 😭

[@johnmv1140]

i mean the show had a random british chieftain tank from the 70s, at least they got hat aspect right

[@ErosXCaos]

If there’s one thing that could save this game, it’s the “choose your own adventure” aspect. “Script” your own plot and character choices, leading to a series of totally different story ending possibilities.

[@jasonensteinjag]

This is literally the 4th attempt (not counting Telltale's version) at making a Walking Dead shooter. This might as be a cursed genre

[@klimaxkid]

Or its just that amc have always been cheap af

[@oddgbmo3036]

Both saints and sinner game are pretty great

[@anubisfox5765]

Nah they just havent given the rights to a company worth a damn. Let obsidian make a wd shooter and itd be a game changing good zombie game bet money

[@Temp-nj8rm]

I don’t think it’s cursed. AMC is just cheap

[@riverstyx1973]

Saints and Sinners is good, but that's a VR game so the market for it is limited on that basis alone.

[@roofkorean6948]

Hey I actually liked Survival Instinct. I had my friend play it once, and I 100% swear to you on my life ( i wish I recorded it) that during that intro where Dixon's dad got overwhelmed, he actually didn't get overwhelmed. It was his very first time playing. He got headshots for all 8 rifle rounds he fired and rounded up the rest of them and ran a train just like in COD zombies in that tight space. It was one of the most impressive things I've ever witnessed in video games. It was pure skill, my jaw dropped. After a minute or two of 'edge of your seat' action and clutch after clutch, the screen just goes blank and cuts to the scene where he's being eaten. My friend was confused. He looks over at me and my jaw is still wide open. He's like, "What?" and I'm like, "You are literally not supposed to beat that part."

[@mr.ginger183]

I was actually looking forward to this game. Such a Triple A deserving concept ruined by small budget and greed.

[@MisiuAcademy]

Didn’t expect anything from the company that published rise of Kong 😂

[@legend7951]

When he started talking about how you can change the events of the TV show through choices I was like, holy shit what a missed opportunity. If they had picked a better dev team and given them more cash + got the og actors on board it would've been so cool

[@hannibalburgers477]

Lol. Lmao even

[@thomasnielsen5580]

@@legend7951 It would still be severely limited with more cash and actors included, unless the choices wasn't binary. It's the reason why Telltale Walking dead doesn't work on a fundamental level. How fun is it to play as Rick in Shane's body, you will do the same anyway, say the same, feel the same. Try to play Telltale WD again. Then replay a chapter where you have made a choice between 2 people. They will both serve the same function in that chapter, and in many cases say the same dialogue. It's boring and creates the illusion of choice. True concept of that type of game would be to create a tree, where choices leads to different outcomes, not just in terms of characters, but setting, story, gameplay and so on.

[@absolution6191]

​@@legend7951Imagine Naughty Dogs making this game.

[@thefezer456676]

Honestly with more time, a higher budget, and a production crew that cared, this could have been a really good game. I think the choice aspect that changes characters that strain from the original main story is really cool. Third person combat is definitely the way to go in a game like this. Overall, this still has potential if a major developer picked up on it instead.

[@bobbiggle4390]

Any shit game could be made decent with time, money, and people who care. Unfortunate it’s rare now

[@Roachcock_]

@@bobbiggle4390not gollum lol

[@merlotwilliams]

That first sentence pretty much sums up all Walking Dead titles save for Telltale's

[@MindinViolet]

Anytime I’m in a public place, and feel like some peace and quiet, I just pull out my personal puff of smoke and climb inside. Works like a charm.

[@alien8r33d]

The tank at 1:37 is supposed to be an Abrams, which is an American tank, the one shown in the game is a Leopard 2, which is a German tank. They even used stock assets.

[@magscorch7706]

As a no life War Thunder player, I recognized that immediately lmao

[@onesaucynougat7471]

Pretty sure the tank they used in the show wasn’t American too

[@alien8r33d]

@@onesaucynougat7471 Correct, I think it's a Chieftain, which is of course, British.

[@animq4ionboi.153]

I'm damn sure the tank on the show is a M60 Patton tank

[@alien8r33d]

@@animq4ionboi.153 It is an M60 during the prison related episodes. We're referring to S01E01 (I think that's correct), where Rick rides a horse into town and runs into a horde. He loses the horse and hides inside a tank.

[@anthonyjordanmoviesandmore2470]

This game looked like it had potential the concept was great too bad it was wasted on these developers

[@Fartucus]

Never once did it look like it had any potential.

[@Juref98]

Probably not the devs, most likely the publisher Gamemill being greedy and giving them no budget

[@red_menace1829]

Lmao tf are you talking about this franchise has been dead and rotting for well over a decade 😂

[@trianglemoebius]

@@Juref98 Yeah. I've played both this and Gollum, and the gameplay is actually well enough (when not weighed down by glitches, mostly visual). Even in terms of adaptation they seem to be good enough at knowing when to change (and how to change) and when to stick religiously to the source material. I'm content the cause of the problem is Gamemill handing AAA-level projects to a A-level studio - presumably because that's the cheapest way to do it - and on top of that not taking into account that doing so will AT LEAST require more time to complete. Get these devs a higher budget, more time to work on the game, and a bit more time to get actual experience (and maybe let them partner with an actual animation studio) and they'd probably do great... but god forbid any publishing company in 2023 respect developers enough to do that, right?

[@anthonyjordanmoviesandmore2470]

@@Fartucus the ability to play through the game and change key events there was a lot of potential replay value to this

[@Alex_Was_Taken]

I loved the walking dead when it was a show about surviving a zombie apocalypse but then it turned into drama that occasionally had zombies showing up.

[@chloroform2982]

If they wanted to make it still cinematics instead of animated cutscenes they couldve made the "Cutscenes" look like comic panels to actually make it stylistic and it would be pretty unique

[@therealyaddayaddaman7353]

Even if they did not want that, they couldve used graphic style used in the later tv intros/ed if they wanted to distance themselves from the comic.

[@Hypno_BPM]

wouldn’t comic panel drawings be more work than just taking the in game 3D models and just freeze them 😂

[@TylerMBuller12]

It would be cool if they let the studio that did Terminator Resistance and Robocop Rouge City do a Walking Dead game. The amount of respect they show liscensed franchises is amazing.

[@EDGE234]

They made two trash b grade games, don't overhype mediocrity. Put down the nostalgia goggles, both of those games were bad.

[@joseantonioparraayon3102]

@@EDGE234Cope and seethe

[@einfachnurtoni]

@@EDGE234 what's a good game then in your opinion? lmao

[@jarrygarry5316]

​@@EDGE234Robocop Rouge City is quite good.This game and Kong are worst than ps1 game

[@MeGongaga1999]

2:57 actually surprisingly they did bring a few of the actors back, I believe off the top of my head the actors are T-Dog, Lori, Beth and Sophia

[@boringmonkey6958]

Sarah Wayne Collins also reprised her role as Lori. And funnily enough, Chandler Riggs also did some voice acting for it too, just not as Carl. It says on his IMDB that he voices a random "Woodbury Goon".... 😂😂😂😂

[@connoro462]

Those Redfall cinematics 💀

[@MrBox009]

"And lemmie tell you something" when you're talking about Shane got a laugh out of me

[@archangel_josh]

"Gives off 'We've got Shane at home' vibes" Man I can't stop laughing! Best line ever.

[@lindvi0r]

You put more time into this video than the devs put into their game

[@dylanburton4955]

The workers probably gave it their best and weren’t able to deliver anything great

[@mr.ginger183]

@@dylanburton4955 It’s called GameMill for a reason. They give no time to work on the game and little budget.

[@genericwhitekidthesecond4330]

The sad part about The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct is that it could've been a really good game. The opening level is great and the base mechanics were unique. The problem is the publisher was trying to force them to release the game as soon as possible. So the version of Survival Instinct that we got was essentially an alpha if not pre-alpha that was quickly scrambled together for release without developer consent. It's basically the Big Rigs Over The Road racing of zombie survival games as a result.

[@merlotwilliams]

Both Survival Instinct and Destinies have the skeletons of good games. I remember they wanted to push SI to release prior to Merle's death in the show and was marketed as the prequel for Daryl and Merle. Due to the rush, it turned out as you stated. The case seems to be similar for Destinies but what I'm failing to understand is...why? Why rush this? The Walking Dead was at the height of it's powers in seasons 3 and 4 with something like 14 million weekly live viewers. So while it's scummy, I can see the dip shit corporate think of trying to release the game to capitalize on sales. With the series "finale" they barely cracked 1 million viewers and, save for the Daryl spin off, I can't see the audience being beyond that million or so die hard fans. So why rush this game? The Walking Dead has been...well...dead for years. Who are you rushing this title to sell to? It doesn't make sense to me. Destinies could have been an awesome alternate universe telling of The Walking Dead's universe like Gihren's Greed was for the Gundam universe. As it stands, they released this abomination.

[@AtlasNight]

The Walking Dead Survival Instinct came out March 19,2013 not 2015.

[@Drakeziel]

"We've got Shane at home", I cannot watch any farther in without waking the kids from laughing so hard!

[@mathewm6294]

Lol I actually woke mine up, he gave me a dirty look and everything too.

[@jordanwhite352]

Between, Redfall, the golem video game, the King Kong video game and now this... Not only are people who love terrible video games eating good but Matt Mc Muscles is going to have content for years.

[@PenguinDT]

Hey now, what if he is bankrolling them all with his KZbin moneyz as an investment? Just kidding, obviously, the game he was involved producing was actually good.

[@phillyboii1065]

This feels like a big missed opportunity. Story-wise wise it looks great and I really like that you can make alternative decisions based on what happens in the show. The game engine just looks so bad though.

[@CordlessJet549]

Small correction; Gollum was not published by Gamemill, it was self published by the development studio along with Nacon

[@jessemach5817]

Yeah gollum is made by completely different people common misconception

[@kayden232ou]

It might as well be lmao, these people can't be trusted.

[@BreadNButterComic]

⁠@@kayden232ou Well, GameMill just released a few weeks ago Nickelodeon All Star Brawl 2, and that’s a great game.

[@sillygoose4263]

doesn't even matter they are the same company atp

[@Radportalman]

I’ve never seen the show only played the first telltale game but let me tell you as a not very emotional person that games ending almost made me cry. This game just makes me contemplate why it exists

[@leithaziz2716]

The 1st and 4th season of Telltale's TWD is arguably the best thing that came out of this IP.

[@mr.ginger183]

@@leithaziz2716Don’t forget the VR games.

[@MikeMarlowe-ym3zy]

@@leithaziz2716I loved the first season so much, I’m considering playing the Michonne one, I just can’t justify buying any of them when I have to play as a female child which sounds insanely boring and annoying to me. When you play as Lee you know you can probably always sock someone in the face as a last resort if you need to, but I imagine the other seasons are just constantly running and hiding which sounds so lame, I liked leading a camp of survivors and protecting them

[@Samuel152]

I played the Telltale games before watching the show, and I felt more engrossed and immersed in the game's story than what the show had to offer.

[@filipgaecki5480]

​@@MikeMarlowe-ym3zywow. Never have I seen someone so wrong and moronic

[@DiddlyDoink]

props to them for actually finally making a walking dead game that actually is trying to be a playable version of the show, back in the day I would have loved this game, and it looks like they made the damn thing back in the day and only just remembered they forgot to release it

[@caseycat]

Hell nah bruh I mean half life 2 came out in 2007 and it looks 100x times better than this

[@CheeseChurger]

half life 2 came out in 2004 @@caseycat

[@judacris]

That's SHANE?! I thought he was one of the psychopaths on that dairy farm that ate people in the Telltale TWD game!

[@TheMaestroMizerous]

*Rubs head*

[@MoskHotel]

Lemme tell ya sumthin’, if ya gunna make Shane in da dang game, the least you can do is not make it shiet, man. *rubs head again*

[@SilentSnake1998]

@@MoskHotelLemme tell ya somethin’

[@powerjolt7215]

What is that HUEGH WHAT IS THAT!

[@MikeMarlowe-ym3zy]

This version of me can’t protect you, Lori! He can’t do what’s necessary!

[@accursedamygdala8241]

Life just hasn't been as good as playing Telltale's stories in a cold gamer cave as a young adult. Walking Dead used to be an event, phenomenon. By season 4 I remember most of America tuning in every week. Now? Well now, that's just times passed. A strong memory for me has become another blunted dart they through at the money board.

[@pilotmemes]

If we want games to be good we as consumers gotta figure a way to support developers that make good games. They keep getting lost cause they put out good games but aren't marketed correctly when they need it due to executives strange obsession with viewcounts and Twitter likes. Games can live and die now by the burn or praise of whoever gets a game code first and says something clever.

[@ohnoitschris]

incidentally, Season 5 is where I quit watching

[@justsumguy8193]

I quit watching during season 4. Even season 3 it started going downhill. Those first 2 seasons though, I remember being obsessed with it. Looking forward to the great big post apocalyptic world to explore. But they just kept running around the woods and the most boring places imaginable. Now they're going to france and new york but it's too late. I stopped caring soooooo long ago

[@filipgaecki5480]

All I see under this comment is just a show hating circle jerk lmao

[@evelynsahoe8896]

There is no way this game was made recently... it looks exactly like one of the million zombie survival games released a decade ago.

[@TrunkyDunks]

I refuse to let this game ever over shadow the amazing emotional roller coaster of our sweet and brave Clementine. She is the only game character that deserves the praise! Her story, the storyline, her bravery. She's such an admirable person from scared little girl to murderous protagonist with some humanity. This game is not TWD.

[@OBSDCC7]

What I really wanna see from a zombie game is one where Zombies don’t HAVE health. You can maim them, cut them up, whatever, but you NEED to destroy their head to keep them down. Seems like a severe missed opportunity for zombie games

[@bleaktoaster1286]

Ever tried rdr undead nightmare?

[@fabroski7113]

Eternal Darkness had a similar mechanic even though it’s not a zombie game

[@OBSDCC7]

@@bleaktoaster1286 I know I did but I was REALLY really little when I played it so I basically remember next to nothing

[@bleaktoaster1286]

@@OBSDCC7 definitely revisit it man, it seems just like what your looking for :D

[@pandosham]

Dang the timeline alteration sounds like such a cool idea

[@TKR-ox9ff]

Too bad the execution is doo-doo

[@unionblue21]

I’m pretty sure Survival Instinct also had a mechanic where you could send survivors on scavenging runs while you were doing missions and they could die on them so it even had a bit more Risk v Reward with your group members then this game does it seems.

[@CharlemagneGuy127]

Honestly the idea of retreading through the show and being able to see things play out differently like having Merle with the group, Carl dying, or the Governor becoming an ally has some intrigue to it in a “what if” fanfiction kind of way that would be appealing to fans, but the execution was just downright awful.

[@vividwizard6166]

This game is the perfect idea, but with literally the worst possible execution.

[@jasonrossouw343]

Sadly, GameMill was not the company to publish Gollum, would've made sense if it was though

[@TheL1festyler]

That's what i thought too lol

[@clevernamehere2812]

I coined a term in fiction called "Lost Syndrome." Basically, it's when a TV show kills off a character randomly mostly just for shock value in a fake attempt at raising the stakes. Lost was so popular that a lot of shows were doing it such as Heroes, The Walking Dead, and The 100. So when I heard that a game based off of those TV shows comes along and allows you to specifically alter the "destinies" of these pointless deaths for player engagement, that sounded like an instant game of the year premise. But to miss the landing this badly is so disappointing. The wasted potential is honestly the worst part of this whole thing. It could have been PS2-level graphics and gameplay and I would have been fine with that. The PS2 was good and had a lot of great games and the Destinies gimmick could have been leaned into to make up for it and it'd be an instant classic even as a budget game.

[@onesaucynougat7471]

The walking dead killed off popular characters in the season 7 premiere because that’s what happened in the comics.

[@blockyorbits2376]

The difference is that Lost didn't kill off characters just for shock value. Every death served a greater purpose to the plot. When the Walking Dead kills Abraham, it's obviously for shock value because he is literally never brought up ever again.

[@clevernamehere2812]

There are plenty of characters who have different fates between the two. Like Sophia and Carl are still alive in the comics. Rick noped out of the show.@@onesaucynougat7471

[@TheMightyCookieShow]

I don't understand why they were so lazy with their cutscenes. The the survival instinct game for the PlayStation 3 is vastly superior to this hame

[@savagesalvage9449]

It's to try an cash in on the IP as lazily as possible

[@TheManofthefuture101]

0:50 Correction : LoTR : Gollum was published by Nacon. GameMill is responsible for Rise of Kong, The Walking Dead Destinies and Big Rigs : Over the Road Racing.

[@aj_art7201]

being cheap is basically amcs whole deal. The reason the first season is so good is because they had a director who had a vision for the series, and they fired him. Then, they cut the budget to a miniscule amount and well here we are. AMC never cared about making anything good. they just want as much money for as little money spent as possible. The walking dead could have been so much better, which in return would have gotten them more profit, but instead all they could think about was how much they were going to get NOW.

[@armyofuno8196]

WOW, companies want money as fast as possible? This is outrageous!!! This has never happened before.

[@aj_art7201]

@@armyofuno8196 if you'd read my comment, yourd realize I was more frustrated by the shortsighted want for cash. They sacrificed much higher potential gains for easy quick cash. Which is the problem with most companies. All they can think about is upping their quarterly profits rather than trying to make their company ACTUALLY successful

[@Whompehomp]

The ideas the game shows aren’t bad, it’s the overall handling of presentation

[@TheOneTheyCallFrost]

This sucks, because I love the concept of this game so much. Even knowing how it is, part of that Walking Dead fan in me is tempted to get it. Definitely will get on a deep sale.

[@morgan3392]

It honestly looks like the devs had some interesting ideas going, and were trying for some cool mechanics. Hopefully the people that did those things finds a better team/publisher.

[@mattyice4878]

Hopefully one day someone can make a game that does the series justice. The premise of being able to choose was great on paper but they fumbled that football on literally everything else. I think Supermassive Games would've done a great job with this IP

[@bumbaclot813]

The slipped and the smoke commentary had me laughing so hard.

[@birdmadx]

slippled*

[@bumbaclot813]

@@birdmadx thanks mom.

[@weehoozy4454]

His accent when he said 'slippled' did it for me 😂

[@crispymormon5977]

The issue is that they could have made up for the games short comings very easily. If they changed the graphics of the cutscenes to look like pencil sketches it would harken back to the comic books, and make the still frames more acceptable. Changing the graphics of the game to be cell shaded would have done the same, and would have given the bland environment some life. It still would have been a wreck of a game, but it would have at least looked good, and hidden some of its shortcomings in an intelligent way. But now I’m thinking theres no way this “studio” who tricked a bunch of hollywood dumbasses don’t get sued into selling their organs to survive. They very clearly ripped off some executives.

[@johnboylan3832]

There is nothing intelligent about making a game based on a TV series and then emphasising its comic book version.

[@godfrey4461]

​@@johnboylan3832It would be going back to its root visually.

[@DiabandoBastardo]

There is if the alternative was this fucking mess@@johnboylan3832

[@pfitz9346]

They almost certainly planned to animate them but then lost the budget or couldn't make passable cutscenes so they just posed the characters and took screenshots like they were playing Garrys Mod. That's actually even cheaper than drawing them, maybe they didn't even have the budget for that.

[@greedyyawgoo5635]

It's really bad when you realize, porn games put more effort into 3D designs than this game.

[@LaCream973]

😂😂😂

[@SmokeFromHell]

the funniest thing is they had the ideas down properly with a faithful recreation of the show but with a twist of changing the destinies,all they had to do was make the gameplay fun,HAVE ACTUAL good artstyle and graphics,because come on man,its been like 2-3 years since ps5 came out,current gen games shouldnt come out looking like ps2 games. But somehow failed at every point.

[@powerjolt7215]

And bro the cutscenes.. Holy crap no

[@CaptainZlex]

The one idea I do think is worth salvaging is the ability to change the story of an established work through adaptation. I'd like to see more games let you make different choices from what happened in the source material.

[@Hypno_BPM]

this idea would be great for comic games. Imagine a Batman/Spider-man game where your choices changed the plot.

[@mateoorivera]

Telltale should’ve made this game, would’ve been great !!!

[@slavicbruh941]

but gman, the zombies used to be pedestrians! you can’t shoot them!

[@creepycassette]

came here just for these kinds of comments, seems like hes deleting them all now. liking the comment before its deleted.

[@kimtongun3663]

That was really weird to see him so butt hurt about that. It's almost like he was hacked!

[@creepycassette]

"hacked" is too convenient of an excuse, thats the same excuse you give when caught with cp, dude knew what he was doing 100% @@kimtongun3663

[@Zakkious]

what's the context, anyway?

[@Just4Fun-Zocker]

@@ZakkiousSomeone on Shitter said he wished there were more accessible buildings in GTA while showing a clip of him entering the hospital and gunning down people in the waiting area. Lots of the self proclaimed Shitter police than complained about the unnecessary violence against harmless NPC's, including our GmanLives. You know, the guy who keeps praising games for being "gloriously violent", saying how much fun it is to run amok in games like Postal and so on. He also claimed that there are no missions in GTA that make you kill civilians.

[@Its_PizzaTime]

This is such an interesting concept for a game. Not even just TWD, I mean you could do GoT, Breaking Bad, whatever. Playing a whole What If? type story where you can see what would have happened if certain characters were alive or if things played out differently is super intriguing. A shame that this game turned out so lame. I don’t think it’s the worst one of the year, but definitely bad

[@Ariamaki]

Small note for clarity: GameMill literally had nothing to do with the Gollum game, they just published Kong. Still a chain of tragedy but let's be accurate about what they did and didn't shit out. :V

[@Red_Eyed_Rebel]

For me personally, a game doesn’t have to have the best graphics as long as the premise of the game is interesting enough. I liked the idea of rewriting the story and seeing the outcome of your choices compared to the choices made in the show. However the choices just feel lack luster. It mainly just switches out one character for another and rolls with it. As a fan of the comics, I knew that Sophia was supposed to survive until the end of the comics so I thought that it would be interesting to see that we could save Sophia and not let her die in S2. But some characters just end up dying no matter what you do. Not to mention that some characters are just absent from the game entirely. (Andrea, Amy, Jim, Martinez, Jacqui, The Vatos, Otis, Patricia, Jimmy) If this game had a competent team of writers and the devs had passion for what they were working on, it would have been interesting to see what this game could have been.

[@satoshi-raven]

Man, I was willing to give this game a try if Andrea was in it, and make her live. Shes my fav and maybe its a good thing not see her in a game like this.

[@TheMC1102]

So this game was made by the same studio that's responsible for Gollum and Rise of Kong. Now it all starts to make sense.

[@HoganTon]

Gollum was developed and published by Daedalic Entertainment though

[@MeowRealest]

Not the same studio, the same publisher. Two different things. The gollum studio was actually somewhat respected for their point and clicks but they were extremely overworked and underprepared for gollum

[@kylele23]

@@MeowRealestAlso wrong, because Nacom published Gollum. Believe it or not it was pure coincidence that two different publishers at once released the early 2000’s shovelware movie tie in games this year.

[@Se7enBeatleofDoom]

They are the new LJN.

[@Gatorade69]

GameMill has nothing to do with Gollum.

[@NonPlayableChris]

State of decay is leagues above this, not even in the same ballpark, the saddest part is that this game had so much potential and now it's just that much harder to ever get a great open world walking dead game. kind of reminds me of how we may never get a good resident evil movie.

[@CaptainEggcellent]

The ‘who is that?’ meme never fails to make me laugh 😂😂😂

[@sweet-lara]

This looks like the kinda of footage you get when a game is mid development and everything is just a temporary replacer lol

[@milkman2266]

i have suspicions that this game was secretly developed by an AI. it just has that classic AI "misunderstanding human stuff" written all over it.

[@crashbandicoot5636]

Not gonna lie, this 100% gave me Ride to Hell Retribution flashbacks.

[@Temp-nj8rm]

Such an amazing concept being able to change canon stuff and it effecting the storyline down the line. Give this to any AAA developer and we’ve probably would’ve gotten a goty contender here

[@elrudep4001]

There are many great ideas for games. But most dont know how or cant implement them well

[@thomasnielsen5580]

nope, not really.

[@BananaDuck]

At first I thought the cut scenes were static from the editing…not how the final product is hahah

[@cincymutt]

The choices are actually interesting. Turning the Governor would've actually been more interesting.

[@powerjolt7215]

Right

[@teleportingpotatoe]

do they actually matter tho? i hate games when the choices dont matter. Wolf among us did choicing right when you get lots of ACTUAL endings

[@XeTrainExpress]

There is no way they looked at that gunplay at 7:07 and thought yep, looks great for a game releasing in 2023!

[@powerjolt7215]

Thanks for the timestamp man. I needed a good chuckle today! Have a good one

[@joshuaandrewson3091]

That shit feels like something straight outta some cashgrab mobile game.

[@Multi4299]

​@@joshuaandrewson3091there's a hundreds of mobile and even browser games looks way much better than this.

[@Akride]

Bro, OTWD was not cancelled by the devs. Skybound revoked the license. It's not nearly as bad as Survival Instinct or TWD: Destinies.

[@TheSearcheronYT]

You're right gman, we should just be grateful we have the Telltale games... and Kenny.

[@elrudep4001]

taletale was great until they started making more games at the same time with less time and budget

[@TheSearcheronYT]

@@elrudep4001 the walking dead and the wolf among us is all i need!

[@Samuel152]

​@@elrudep4001That's not really relevant to the conversation when all that was stated is that Telltale did a good job at making a Walking Dead game.

[@mr.ginger183]

@@TheSearcheronYT Batman The Telltale series is also really good. Season 2 kinda falls off but it can still deliver some good story. The series probably has some of the best writing in Batman media in general matching The Dark Knight, the Arkham series, and The Killing Joke.

[@WatcherKoops4677]

DON'T forget they once made that notoirous game back in early 2000s, big rig: off the road racing

[@lamlelamatsiliza8550]

No.... no way that's them. Are they?

[@Superintendent8814]

@@lamlelamatsiliza8550 Apparently they published the game, it was developed Stellar Stone. Have no idea in hell how such a company still exists after making/publishing such terrible games though.

[@WatcherKoops4677]

@@lamlelamatsiliza8550 ye

[@_Kuma_]

I just realized what the still cutscenes and animation “style” reminded me of… one of those old 2000s pr0n pc games 💀

[@Wnick1996]

Any game published by GameMill is automatically kissed by death

[@ohnoitschris]

"A mill is a device, often a structure, machine or kitchen appliance, that breaks solid materials into smaller pieces by grinding, crushing, or cutting."

[@Its_PizzaTime]

Nick All Stars Brawl 2 is the only gem

[@monkaWGiga]

​@@Its_PizzaTimeand even with that game you can see how the Devs were working on a shoestring budget.

[@LAST_STAND_FAN]

I had no idea it was them, no wonder it blows.

[@yory5000]

The fkcing dark souls rolls, the random lines when the character pick up loot, this game is hilarious they should've sell it as a parody of TWD

[@stitchedbyiron]

The faces in this game gives me "my face is tired" vibes

[@intercept4845]

Let’s hope that an actual good developer sees the potential of this game and actually makes it good

[@ATLAS-cy4xi]

Beth and Lori’s actor’s actually did reprise their roles and I believe T-Dog’s as well.

[@tommyg9719]

i honestly though Beth and Lori were the best ones. T-dog tho i think he phoned it in. haven’t seen enough of him tho

[@ATLAS-cy4xi]

@@tommyg9719 yeah their acting was pretty good

[@Daniel-Rain-YT]

Telltale The Walking Dead videogames are still the best.

[@perryjohnson3801]

I feel like if game had more money behind it and the actual backing of the IP with a more reputable developer it’d be an instant classic

[@8Bit-Tunes]

you must’ve had a hard time playing this game as the zombies must’ve reminded you of civilians 😔

[@ArcticVXR1]

yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah twitter nerd. Meanwhile, the original poster of that clip has gotten away scott free with what they meant by it. And all of the clowns from twitter are too braindead to notice what the clip actually meant.

[@jalikon175]

​@@ArcticVXR1that you can kill people in a game about killing people?

[@creepycassette]

liking this comment before it gets deleted since gman has very thin skin.

[@8Bit-Tunes]

@@creepycassette yup, always liked the dude but the hypocrisy is wild. seeing that take was wild

[@creepycassette]

same, my theory is either the Australian government is making him have such a c**ked take cause that country hates violence in video games, or gman wanted to impress some "hot" sjw on twitter and thought this would be his way in, either way its not a good look.@@8Bit-Tunes

[@c0mmanderKeen]

Hey Gman, the metal slug rocket launcher edit almost ruined my shirt when I snorted my coffee through my nose while trying to watch your video at work instead of working. Good stuff man.

[@MadBrax]

Y'know, with telltale back I can't help but feel that the concept of rewriting the story of the first 4 seasons would have been a perfect return to the walking dead for them. The idea is actually really good, but man the execution is sad.

[@Juicy_Lucyy]

I would argue that constantly auto aiming to a walkers head is actually very show accurate 😂😂😂

[@BEBAY]

“Easily the worst game I’ve played in 2023” I wonder if he got a chance to play The Day Before lol 😂

[@temblorjamesronald9427]

Perhaps we treated "Overkill's The Walking Dead" too harshly

[@elitereptilian200]

no

[@powerjolt7215]

Haha okay let's not go that far

[@tonybippitykaye]

No, they’re both terrible in their own right.

[@TheG_Boy]

Every Walking Dead games based on the TV show has been terrible

[@billross9132]

The tv show hasn't been that good for a few yrs now as well ☹️

[@XenoSpyro]

Don't diss my man Lee.

[@chungusamongus1410]

@@XenoSpyro the telltale series wasn’t based on the show. It’s set in the comic universe.

[@salliewagenblatt5188]

The walking dead arcade game is probably the only good one unfortunately its never been released on home consoles.

[@Samuel152]

​@@chungusamongus1410It's not even trying to adapt to the comic's story and such, as it just made It's own story.

[@stopdatsh3044]

We have the technology to go into space but we can't make games actually good im so disappointed.

[@HELLO_KORO]

We never went to space, don't let the woke matrix fool you

[@PXAbstraction]

Everything I can find says Nacon published Gollum. Gollum's budget was too high for GameMill. 🤣

[@goobergaminghah]

“lemme tell you somethin” -Shane

[@RubexQewb]

* aggressively rubs head *

[@Nico78Not]

How long before the devs tweet out an AI generated apology later and close their studios?

[@kingsorrow]

Sure you can handle this game bud? The walking dead is known for a lot of murder and shooting