Activision: There's a "Method" to Tony Hawk Shred's Bad Sales
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Rune Glifberg, Elissa Steamer, Bucky Lasek, Chad Muska, Bob Burnquist... yea I can name a few.
What Activision needs to do is an HD remake of Tony Hawk 2, with all of the maps/skateparks from the first 3 games. I'd buy that day 1. For real.
What Activision needs to do is an HD remake of Tony Hawk 2, with all of the maps/skateparks from the first 3 games. I'd buy that day 1. For real.
I didn't actually know this game existed until I read the article. 3,000 sales is just pathetically sad. Maybe it's time the Tony Hawk "franchise" just accepted death.
Its essentially the exact same game, except they put snowboarding in it for some inane stupid reason.RebellionXXI said:
Terry Kennedy
Ryan Sheckler
Rob Dydrek
Bam Margera
Chris Cole
I can name more than that, but I don't want to misspell some of their names. To me, I think Activision need to retire from the skateboard games since EA's Skate beat them. They already milked the Guitar Hero games by adding extra peripharels after Harmonix's Rock Band owned them.
Ryan Sheckler
Rob Dydrek
Bam Margera
Chris Cole
I can name more than that, but I don't want to misspell some of their names. To me, I think Activision need to retire from the skateboard games since EA's Skate beat them. They already milked the Guitar Hero games by adding extra peripharels after Harmonix's Rock Band owned them.
Why is it that big companies always take failure from a good product as "it sucked" and throw the creator under the bus while bad products aren't "understood" or "the sales will pick up after we pour 20 billion dollars into more advertising?"
"No, but like, dude, we TOTALLY meant for it to be a game for, y'know, the little rugrats and stuff. It'll sell, like, really well in the holiday season and... what? It's not even Thanksgiving? Oh, man, I totally blew it there. I must be sooooo baked."
...y'know, it's evidence like this that convinces me that yes, professional skateboarders DO have a lot of say in these games.
...y'know, it's evidence like this that convinces me that yes, professional skateboarders DO have a lot of say in these games.
Well to be honest, Skateboarding has always been a fringe thing. I don't think it will ever become "retro-hip" because if that was the case this would have been that second coming. I mean don't forget about the pre-Tony Hawk days with games like "Skate Or Die" and the like in arcades... to which there were comparisons when you started to see the current round of titles.
That said I pretty much agree that skating is falling off as a fad again, and another decade before it appears in the mainstream again is to be expected.
That said, I do think that falling out of the mainstream eye is a good thing for skating in general (even if I'm not into it). From what little I know, and have seen, it seems like when skating is heavily in the mainstream eye, it has a degenerative effect on the quality of the performances, and the subculture as a whole. You see tons of poseurs swarm into it, a lot of "five minutes of fame" celebrities who get lucky just dabbling with it, and so many people aping the culture that you start to see the public passing policies (which disappear when things ebb) to limit skating.
It's ironic, but some guys I've talked to who have been into skating for a ridiculous amount of time (even if I know very little about it personally) have talked about how some of the most recent skate games pretty much summarize the problem. In those games you literally have a focus on self-promotion and pimping skate gear and fashions. A player can basically do some halfway decent, but overall unspectacular things in "competitions" and then pick up a brand and roll a skateboard in front of some photographers while they get money thown at them. The kind of stuff "Yahtzee" has made fun of, yet it perfectly emulates what skating becomes like when there is mainstream interest. That and a proliferation of people who want to heckle injuries as opposed to appreciate the sport... catered to by things like "Hall Of Meat" mode.
Yes, very little of that has much to do with Tony Hawk and his games specifically, but the point is that I tend to agree that interest in skating dying down is probably going to be a good thing for those really into it.
That said I pretty much agree that skating is falling off as a fad again, and another decade before it appears in the mainstream again is to be expected.
That said, I do think that falling out of the mainstream eye is a good thing for skating in general (even if I'm not into it). From what little I know, and have seen, it seems like when skating is heavily in the mainstream eye, it has a degenerative effect on the quality of the performances, and the subculture as a whole. You see tons of poseurs swarm into it, a lot of "five minutes of fame" celebrities who get lucky just dabbling with it, and so many people aping the culture that you start to see the public passing policies (which disappear when things ebb) to limit skating.
It's ironic, but some guys I've talked to who have been into skating for a ridiculous amount of time (even if I know very little about it personally) have talked about how some of the most recent skate games pretty much summarize the problem. In those games you literally have a focus on self-promotion and pimping skate gear and fashions. A player can basically do some halfway decent, but overall unspectacular things in "competitions" and then pick up a brand and roll a skateboard in front of some photographers while they get money thown at them. The kind of stuff "Yahtzee" has made fun of, yet it perfectly emulates what skating becomes like when there is mainstream interest. That and a proliferation of people who want to heckle injuries as opposed to appreciate the sport... catered to by things like "Hall Of Meat" mode.
Yes, very little of that has much to do with Tony Hawk and his games specifically, but the point is that I tend to agree that interest in skating dying down is probably going to be a good thing for those really into it.
In before someone posts Light's 'JUST AS PLANNED' face.
Also I can name Bob Burnquist because I'm Brazilian and Brazilian gamers are supposed to be able to name Bob Burnquist.
Also I can name Bob Burnquist because I'm Brazilian and Brazilian gamers are supposed to be able to name Bob Burnquist.
I thought the method was to make Shaun White's Skateboarding look better by comparison.qbanknight said:
You haven't targeted this game to anyone! I haven't seen even the hint of an ad for this game, nor have I even heard of it! I saw it once in a Toys R Us while looking for a job, and I didn't think it was real because I rationalized that a game as horrible and poorly received as Ride wouldn't get a sequel. Hell, I've encountered a bunch of people who weren't even aware of this game's existence until articles of it's abysmal sales popped up.
Hell, this is selling worse than Rock Revolution (less than 8,000 copies if I remember right), and that's just sad.
Well shoot. If that was their plan it didn't work with me. I'm thinking of picking up New Vegas before some skateboarding game. I didn't even know this had come out o.o I was surpised they even still made them
