Activision Insists Tony Hawk Series Still Relevant
- Thread starter Logan Westbrook
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Ha ha well at least Kotick didn't come out saying we should expect a subscription based Tonk Hawk game
To be honest I thought the Tony Hawk games where irrelevent ever since the first ones on the 360.
To be honest I thought the Tony Hawk games where irrelevent ever since the first ones on the 360.
It would also help if Tony Hawk didn't completely sell out and actually kept skateboarding like Bam Margera does...
Ah, I remember those days...me being 11, and trying my luck at skateboarding with some of my friends. Strangely enough, most of these attempts ended with at least one of us landing on our face...tehweave said:
Anyway, that was 11 years ago. Hear that Activision, Skating hasn't been cool for 11 years! Now if you'll excuse me, I've gotta get home to yell at children to stay off my goddamn lawn...
Out of loyalty to the brand, I played them right up until they introduced the stupid skateboard controller. Not entirely out of protest, you understand - I can't skate in real life and, even if I could, I don't have the space to use that sort of thing.
Problem is, the Tony Hawk games haven't been good for a long time now. By my reckoning (and most people who've been with the series since it started), the last truly excellent one was THPS4 way back in 2002. It all started to go wrong when the developers decided these games need storylines. Underground was less than brilliant; Underground 2 was abysmal, the worst in the series by a considerable margin. I actually quite enjoyed American Wasteland, perhaps because the storyline was only 'pretty stupid' rather than the 'double-strength retarded with a side of bullshit' of the two that came directly before. I barely even remember the two that came afterwards, to the point where I've been thinking of re-buying them just to see what they were like. All I really know is that the last one was made completely confusing and redundant by the fact that I was playing Skate right alongside it.
So... yeah. It's sad, but what was once my favourite franchise in all of gaming is now all but dead to me. I'll be open to revising that claim if they revert to regular controllers, but even then I'd still have to rent the game before buying it. There's absolutely no way to say this without sounding like some sort of retro idiot who's afraid of change, which I'm not, but I'll go ahead and say it anyway: long story short, the only way they'll get me truly interested again would be to go back to the style of the first three games. They demonstrated little notion of realism, it was frustrating as hell to run out of time just before achieving an objective, they had no storyline and no sense of context other than "you're here to skate, go do that"... but they were brilliant. That shit just worked.
Problem is, the Tony Hawk games haven't been good for a long time now. By my reckoning (and most people who've been with the series since it started), the last truly excellent one was THPS4 way back in 2002. It all started to go wrong when the developers decided these games need storylines. Underground was less than brilliant; Underground 2 was abysmal, the worst in the series by a considerable margin. I actually quite enjoyed American Wasteland, perhaps because the storyline was only 'pretty stupid' rather than the 'double-strength retarded with a side of bullshit' of the two that came directly before. I barely even remember the two that came afterwards, to the point where I've been thinking of re-buying them just to see what they were like. All I really know is that the last one was made completely confusing and redundant by the fact that I was playing Skate right alongside it.
So... yeah. It's sad, but what was once my favourite franchise in all of gaming is now all but dead to me. I'll be open to revising that claim if they revert to regular controllers, but even then I'd still have to rent the game before buying it. There's absolutely no way to say this without sounding like some sort of retro idiot who's afraid of change, which I'm not, but I'll go ahead and say it anyway: long story short, the only way they'll get me truly interested again would be to go back to the style of the first three games. They demonstrated little notion of realism, it was frustrating as hell to run out of time just before achieving an objective, they had no storyline and no sense of context other than "you're here to skate, go do that"... but they were brilliant. That shit just worked.
No no NO this series needs to be dead now!
run it over with a semi-truck! shoot it with a fully loaded shotgun in the face! then light it on fire and throw it off a 10 story building into a wood chipper! then take the remains and tie 40 pounds of C-4 onto it and throw it into a pit of lava complete with lava monsters deamons and sharks!
i REALL REALLY REALLY want them to stop making these games
run it over with a semi-truck! shoot it with a fully loaded shotgun in the face! then light it on fire and throw it off a 10 story building into a wood chipper! then take the remains and tie 40 pounds of C-4 onto it and throw it into a pit of lava complete with lava monsters deamons and sharks!
i REALL REALLY REALLY want them to stop making these games
Pfft, 3 was way better. The revert made comboing vert moves feasible, and opened up the gameplay options significantly and gave much more options for ingenious lines . The balance meters and combo manuals helped too.rosac said:
3 (or arguably 4) was the the pinnacle, it went swiftly downhill from there.
I'm not even gonna question the game's quality. The real thing to talk about is 3000 copies two days! I don't care if the week was really two days, that's still absolutely abysmal. There are games that can sell that much to two minutes, or at the very least two hours. Most games that aren't even that mainstream can sell at least in the tens of thousands in that amount of time. The really popular indie games for that matter. I don't know how any company can support something like this.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!Logan Westbrook said:
Newsflash, Activision: You're the only people who believe that!
I'm sorry Activision, but the first game that used the skatebored controller sucked too. The fact that you managed to sucker in 3,000 people is pretty impressive from the standpoint that you managed to fool that many people with your scam, but don't kid yourself. This game was dead on arrival. If this is the way Activision is willing to treat franchises that they know aren't selling, then I would start praying for a miracle when Call of Duty starts to lose its luster.
