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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 June 01, 2023
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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
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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?
Is there any digital game store which would do that?

Even Sony apparently doesn't when they released the broken PS version of Cyberpunk, and only later pulled it due to user feedback.
Posted June 01, 2023
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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
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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?
Like octalot said, these deals are normally signed months ahead of the release, if you start refusing games because the graphics look bad, or gut feeling... publishers might stop working with you enterily
And to be fair, Gollum is still way more playable than Cyberpunk was at launch :P
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?
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timppu: Is there any digital game store which would do that?

Even Sony apparently doesn't when they released the broken PS version of Cyberpunk, and only later pulled it due to user feedback.
One clarification, Sony removed Cyberpunk because they didn't want to refund customers, not because they give a damn about the status of a video game. They have hundreds of broken games and shovelware on their store but they don't care because there aren't thousands of refunds to make.
Posted June 01, 2023
The backgrounds are surprisingly detailed, but the character models look dated. This looks more like a game we'd see in the mid 360 era.
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?
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octalot: 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.
It seems reasonable to assume that a new game from a big studio is going to be well-optimized and bug-free on launch? Sorry, I can't help but laugh ...

Gollum is precisely the sort of game that should have been filtered out by a competent curation system.

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Memecchi: Like octalot said, these deals are normally signed months ahead of the release, if you start refusing games because the graphics look bad, or gut feeling... publishers might stop working with you enterily
If GOG is supposedly maintaining a 'curation system', then yes, to me that implies that GOG is doing some sort of testing/QA on their side for new releases. Otherwise, what is the 'curation' based on, flipping coins? Oh, hang on ... ;-)

Cyberpunk shouldn't have gotten through the curation filter either (regardless of who the publisher is).
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Posted June 01, 2023
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Time4Tea: If GOG is supposedly maintaining a 'curation system', then yes, to me that implies that GOG is doing some sort of testing/QA on their side for new releases. Otherwise, what is the 'curation' based on, flipping coins? Oh, hang on ... ;-)

Cyberpunk shouldn't have gotten through the curation filter either (regardless of who the publisher is).
For games already on the market, absolutely, but publishers don't send "test builds" for games that are still in development (early access titles aside, but those are mostly indie), you either trust the studio behind it... or refuse to have the game at launch, and potentially miss out on all those sweet launch sales
Posted June 02, 2023
Pretty good game , gave me lots of fun.
Posted June 02, 2023
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Memecchi: For games already on the market, absolutely, but publishers don't send "test builds" for games that are still in development (early access titles aside, but those are mostly indie), you either trust the studio behind it... or refuse to have the game at launch, and potentially miss out on all those sweet launch sales
I see your point. But then, perhaps GOG should have something built into their contracts that allows them to delist new games after launch, if they clearly fall short of the curation quality threshold? In today's game development climate, even large publishers like EA, Ubisoft can't be trusted to release a quality product.

Personally, I would like to see GOG being more proactive in removing games like this, which are broken and poor quality.
Posted June 02, 2023
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Memecchi: For games already on the market, absolutely, but publishers don't send "test builds" for games that are still in development (early access titles aside, but those are mostly indie), you either trust the studio behind it... or refuse to have the game at launch, and potentially miss out on all those sweet launch sales
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Time4Tea: I see your point. But then, perhaps GOG should have something built into their contracts that allows them to delist new games after launch, if they clearly fall short of the curation quality threshold? In today's game development climate, even large publishers like EA, Ubisoft can't be trusted to release a quality product.

Personally, I would like to see GOG being more proactive in removing games like this, which are broken and poor quality.
you should know by now that there is no "curation quality threshold". curation is subjective, and therefore arbitrary.
Posted June 03, 2023
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amok: you should know by now that there is no "curation quality threshold". curation is subjective, and therefore arbitrary.
If GOG is going to implement a curation system, then it should be done consistently, based on a set of objective quality criteria. Otherwise, I agree it is arbitrary (as well as ineffective, if this sort of junk is getting through).
Posted June 03, 2023
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amok: you should know by now that there is no "curation quality threshold". curation is subjective, and therefore arbitrary.
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Time4Tea: If GOG is going to implement a curation system, then it should be done consistently, based on a set of objective quality criteria. Otherwise, I agree it is arbitrary (as well as ineffective, if this sort of junk is getting through).
gOg has a curation system, it has always had one. one of the key things about curation is that it is, and always will be, subjective.
Posted June 03, 2023
Still though, I'd like to hear the subjective reasons to keep Gollum here. So few they are I expect, that it amounts to an objective reason not to.
Posted June 03, 2023
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LegoDnD: Still though, I'd like to hear the subjective reasons to keep Gollum here.
Because curation is quietly being curtailed, in favour of customers being given more choice. The opencritic ratings mean people can quickly make somewhat informed decisions. And if people want to disregard critics and gamers' opinions, because, for example, they have some special interest in Tolkien or whatever, more power to them.
Posted June 03, 2023
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LegoDnD: Still though, I'd like to hear the subjective reasons to keep Gollum here. So few they are I expect, that it amounts to an objective reason not to.
What harm is the Standard Edition doing? There are a lot of things that I'd prefer GOG to spend time on, rather than the complexity of unwinding contracts in order to remove a page that has plenty of 1-star reviews protecting anyone from an uninformed purchase.

The Precious Edition is more confusing to me - that only has a 5-star review, so I'm wondering if reviews have been deleted from that page. Having it in that state, regardless of whether reviews have been deleted or not, makes GOG look like they're deleting reviews.
Posted June 03, 2023
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Is that Morgoth laughing? Sauron joining in on that laughter? There's Saruman. A huge choir of orcs laughing. And now it's.. Ancalagon. Shelob. Ung...Ungoliant. I didn't know a world-ending abomination in the form of a spider could even... a completely impossible sound, yet there it is.

What possessed you to do this, Daedalic?

Now they're laughing simultaneously from their assholes as well.

Make it stop.
MAKE IT STOP.
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? DESTROY THIS GAME. DESTROY IT!
Post edited June 03, 2023 by flayeddeath
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