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Posted May 25, 2023
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™ – story rich, adventure fantasy title and an official adaptation based on the literary works of J.R.R. Tolkien is now available on GOG!

It’s time for you to play as Gollum on his quest to retrieve his Precious. You will need to climb the mountains of Mordor, sneak around Mirkwood and make difficult choices. Who will gain the upper hand: the cunning Gollum or the innocent Smeagol?

After being corrupted by the Ring over hundreds of years, Gollum has developed exceptional agility and sharp wits. Use his unique skills to explore and infiltrate legendary locations and dizzying heights. Find your way past the Orcs as you climb the Dark Tower of Barad-dûr and give the Elves the slip in the mysterious Mirkwood.

While Gollum is no fighter, he is more than capable of strangling a careless enemy when the opportunity presents itself… or of finding a more creative and less risky way of getting out of trouble.

Additionally, alongside The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™, you grab its DLCs: Original Soundtrack, Emotes Pack, Sindarin VO, Lore Compendium, Art Exhibition, or pick the Precious Edition which contains all of the above besides the Emote Pack.

Grab The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™ now!
Posted May 29, 2023
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LegoDnD: This game crashes more frequently than a fleet of Titanics in an arctic naval battle, anything short of perfect specs will compel all hair to flicker and flip like an Olympian wearing strobe lights, platforming controls are finnicky and nightmarishly unreliable, and the story is a prison-break where the title character is wildly out-of-character.

Gollum is tasked with "breeding" a bird, which means performing a few menial tasks exactly right so that the egg doesn't vanish and you start over. When the bird hatches, it becomes a loyal pet to Gollum who normally wouldn't think twice as he stuffs a live hatchling down his gullet. The mechanics to command the bird are then re-purposed with a human, even though there's not a single tall humanoid in all of Middle Earth that would let Gollum tell them what to do.
I'll wait for bug fixes. Poor performance is unfortunate, but nothing new. Everspace 2 performs badly too, but is still enjoyable. If they can improve it - all the better.

Is it Unreal Engine 4? That could explain bad performance.
Post edited May 29, 2023 by shmerl
Posted May 29, 2023
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shmerl: Haven't really read all the comments, but what are the main issues? I do like LoTR so I was looking forward to buying this.
Crap presentation, boring gameplay, bad controls, high system requirements despite the simple graphics and something like a talking bird running along, very LOTR like.
Post edited May 29, 2023 by neumi5694
Posted May 29, 2023
Yay! Curation! Keep putting shitty games on here GOG!
Posted May 29, 2023
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paladin181: Yay! Curation! Keep putting shitty games on here GOG!
No curation team can predict when a game will be such a shitshow, there were some signs like the requirements, of course, but that's just not enough to refuse a game
Posted May 29, 2023
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paladin181: Yay! Curation! Keep putting shitty games on here GOG!
With all the shovelware porn, I thought we put the myth of "GOG curation" to bed a long time ago. Hell, I've considered it little better than a joke even long before that, since they started to allow unfinished "in development" titles.
Posted May 29, 2023
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Crosmando: I'll never know why they haven't made just a straight Fellowship RPG, Legolas (Ranger), Aragorn (Ranger/Fighter), Gandalf (Wizard), Frodo (Rogue), etc.
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Crosmando: I guess what I'm saying is, the Fellowship were basically the original inspiration for the D&D style RPG party, but we've actually yet to see a video game about them.
They will never release games with the main characters as heroes and tell a story that is different from the original one. The licence holders (Tolkien foundation?) are very strict about that.
In LotRO you can encounter the main characters, or play part of the story with them, but these events are always very close to the books.

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Breja: With all the shovelware porn, I thought we put the myth of "GOG curation" to bed a long time ago. Hell, I've considered it little better than a joke even long before that, since they started to allow unfinished "in development" titles.
Just say 'shovelware', we also have that without adult content.
Post edited May 29, 2023 by neumi5694
Posted May 29, 2023
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neumi5694: Just say 'shovelware', we also have that without adult content.
Perhaps. I haven't been following the going ons to closely for a while, but still every time I did open GOG I was greeted by a banner of another identical anime porn thing, so that's what stuck out for me.
Post edited May 29, 2023 by Breja
Posted May 29, 2023
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neumi5694: Just say 'shovelware', we also have that without adult content.
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Breja: Perhaps. I haven't been following the going ons to closely for a while, but still every time I did open GOG I was greeted by a banner of another identical anime porn thing, so that's what stuck out for me.
I don't think all of these are about porn :P We have a awful lot of anime style games that don't look different :) And I am not interested in these either.
Posted June 01, 2023
OneyPlays video of Gollum
Posted June 01, 2023
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tfishell: OneyPlays video of Gollum
What's the verdict. Wait for more bug fixes?
Posted June 01, 2023
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tfishell: OneyPlays video of Gollum
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shmerl: What's the verdict. Wait for more bug fixes?
It's just a 20 min video of them goofing off. The main issue for them, from what I could tell, was the framerate drops.
Posted June 01, 2023
It is odd that to me it looks like a reasonably fun game based on the gameplay videos, but still everyone hates the game. I guess you see the real problems only when you play the game...

Then again, I loved playing Far Cry 2, while everyone else in the world seemed to hate the game. Or e.g. Croc: The Legend of the Gobbos with its awful(?) Tomb Raider-like tank controls. So maybe it is just me, I like weird games.

Maybe I still buy Gollum in some sale, currently it is a bit too pricey, especially if it really is as bad as the consensus seems to be (or then it is just trendy to hate the game, jump into the bandwagon yee-haw!). I mean, System Shock Remake seems to be liked much more, and it is much cheaper too.

EDIT: So yeah, I wishlisted Precious Edition. Maybe I'll get it in some sale after a few bug fixes, if any.
Post edited June 01, 2023 by timppu
Posted June 01, 2023
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timppu: Then again, I loved playing Far Cry 2.
Far Cry 2 is a fine game. I think it's pretty well liked, except among people for whom the first one is their favourite game ever, and outside of user reviews on GOG

I take your point, though
Post edited June 01, 2023 by maxpoweruser
Posted June 01, 2023
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paladin181: Yay! Curation! Keep putting shitty games on here GOG!
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Memecchi: No curation team can predict when a game will be such a shitshow, there were some signs like the requirements, of course, but that's just not enough to refuse a game
You mean ... a curation system shouldn't involve testing new games to make sure they meet some basic level of functionality/quality, and that they aren't a complete mess?
Posted June 01, 2023
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Time4Tea: You mean ... a curation system shouldn't involve testing new games to make sure they meet some basic level of functionality/quality, and that they aren't a complete mess?
I'd cut them some slack here, they probably made the decision accept it on GOG months before the release. Given that it's an established studio with a big license, it would seem reasonable, if naive, to assume that the studio would have planned time to fix bugs between then and now.
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