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Post by akumajobelmont on Mar 16, 2015 0:26:25 GMT -5
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1-3 were pretty much flawless. THPS2 is my personal favourite, but 3 is right up there too. Everything after that, I despise. Couldn't stand 4, and they just got worse. I hated the open-world elements that came in eventually. I didn't need any other reason to keep playing apart from the awesome controls and tight level design. Everything else was filler.
I'm slightly excited at the recent news of a full reboot. I'm hoping it goes back to the first 3 - they were truly golden.
And on that HD Remix thingy - I actually didn't mind it. Felt a little floaty though, with some bizarre ramp and crash physics. Still a million times better than anything THPS4 and after though.
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Post by X-pert74 on Mar 16, 2015 1:51:26 GMT -5
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1-3 were pretty much flawless. THPS2 is my personal favourite, but 3 is right up there too. Everything after that, I despise. Couldn't stand 4, and they just got worse. I hated the open-world elements that came in eventually. I didn't need any other reason to keep playing apart from the awesome controls and tight level design. Everything else was filler. I'm slightly excited at the recent news of a full reboot. I'm hoping it goes back to the first 3 - they were truly golden. And on that HD Remix thingy - I actually didn't mind it. Felt a little floaty though, with some bizarre ramp and crash physics. Still a million times better than anything THPS4 and after though. You might be interested in checking out Tony Hawk's Underground 2 and American Wasteland; along with the open-world main modes, they have Classic Modes too, that involve two-minute time limits skating around a level while accomplishing goals and trying to get as high a score as possible.
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Post by akumajobelmont on Mar 16, 2015 3:34:03 GMT -5
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1-3 were pretty much flawless. THPS2 is my personal favourite, but 3 is right up there too. Everything after that, I despise. Couldn't stand 4, and they just got worse. I hated the open-world elements that came in eventually. I didn't need any other reason to keep playing apart from the awesome controls and tight level design. Everything else was filler. I'm slightly excited at the recent news of a full reboot. I'm hoping it goes back to the first 3 - they were truly golden. And on that HD Remix thingy - I actually didn't mind it. Felt a little floaty though, with some bizarre ramp and crash physics. Still a million times better than anything THPS4 and after though. You might be interested in checking out Tony Hawk's Underground 2 and American Wasteland; along with the open-world main modes, they have Classic Modes too, that involve two-minute time limits skating around a level while accomplishing goals and trying to get as high a score as possible. Yeah, after Undergroud, I wasn't too impressed, so I didn't try THUG2. I did try American Sk8land on the DS, and it was decent, but didn't hold my attention for too long. Might have to get THUG2 for my GameCube and give it a crack
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Post by 16bitter on May 10, 2015 12:49:07 GMT -5
Just picked up a PS2 copy of THPS 4 for five bucks! The market for that system is at its all time low, so despite the quality of the titles, it's so been easy to clean up. I've managed to boost my PS2 collection from like 60-70 titles to well over 300 in roughly two months for less than my PS4 cost =]
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Post by X-pert74 on May 10, 2015 15:29:00 GMT -5
Almost all of the Tony Hawk games are super cheap, which I have mixed feelings about. On one hand it saddens me that there doesn't seem to be more demand for them, but at the same time they were published on so many platforms, and it's nice that they're still easily obtainable considering their licensed nature means that digital rereleases are just about impossible to do.
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Post by X-pert74 on Sept 29, 2015 16:09:57 GMT -5
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 is now out on PS4 and Xbone, and it is a huge mess.
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Post by Chronis on Sept 29, 2015 17:38:34 GMT -5
I remember when Tony himself was saying how he was working with the devs to ensure it'd be a good game that captured the classic feel. Oh Tony, how you've led us astray.
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Post by Allie on Sept 29, 2015 17:47:55 GMT -5
Just picked up a PS2 copy of THPS 4 for five bucks! The market for that system is at its all time low, so despite the quality of the titles, it's so been easy to clean up. I've managed to boost my PS2 collection from like 60-70 titles to well over 300 in roughly two months for less than my PS4 cost =] I sort of want to exponentially drive up my PS2 library again (it'd be both neat and pathetic to stretch out from around 360 to 500), but I don't think there's anything sitting out there that I want but don't already have. Sure, there are some games that are considered desirable and probably worth purchasing, but I just don't really want them at all (examples : La Pucelle, DBZ Budokai 3). Every time I go into an old used game store around here, I see a ton of PS2 games, and very few are any sort of expensive... I just can't bring myself to want to purchase any of them.
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Post by Feynman on Sept 29, 2015 18:10:22 GMT -5
Yeah, this is a disaster. Activision is in full greedy scumbag mode with this release.
There's A 7.7 gigabyte day-one patch that is almost twice as large as the data on the disc itself (4 gigabytes), and you can't play any of the actual content until the patch is installed. Plus the game has a level of glitchiness one would normally not associate with a completed retail title - let us not forget that this game is a full60 dollars. You aren't downloading a patch, you're downing the game. The game was unfinished, and was knowingly rushed out the door in an incomplete state. The discs were created and shipped to retail long before the game was close to even finished.
Why would Activision do that? Probably because their Tony Hawk license expires at the end of this year. Activision never had any intention of making a good game with this, all they cared about was extracting every last dollar they could out of their licensing agreement. They let a sub-par developer handle the game, gave them next to no budget, then likely gave the game such a tiny development cycle that it never had a chance to be decent.
This isn't just a bad game. This is a deliberate attempt by Activision to fleece consumers by providing an unfinished product in bad faith, just so that they can squeeze a few last drops of cash out of an expiring license. This is the same kind of Atari-era cynical bullshit that caused the console market to crash in the early 80's.
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Post by JDarkside on Sept 29, 2015 18:24:22 GMT -5
They pulled the same shit with that one X-Men game (Destiny, I think) ...though I heard that title was also fucked over by its director funneling money from it to his own project, ala Gearbox shitting out Aliens CM for the sake of Borderlands 2. www.cracked.com/article_21920_the-5-craziest-ways-creators-ruined-awesome-video-games.htmlOh right, it was the Eternal Darkness guy again. Kinda love Activision tried to force him to do his fucking job by putting his studio's rep on the line.
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Post by 🧀Son of Suzy Creamcheese🧀 on Sept 30, 2015 17:32:54 GMT -5
This reminds me of when everyone was watching Skate 3 glitches when that came out.
Except those were, and still are, funny, and this is just a depressing case all-round.
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Post by Neo Rasa on Sept 30, 2015 18:14:13 GMT -5
The difference though is that Skate 3 just had super loose physics. This is just nuts with the amount of falling through the floor. It's so bad I even spent this morning writing a Kusoge piece about its release.
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Post by Joseph Joestar on Sept 30, 2015 18:27:41 GMT -5
The difference though is that Skate 3 just had super loose physics. This is just nuts with the amount of falling through the floor. It's so bad I even spent this morning writing a Kusoge piece about its release. That ought to be interesting, I'm looking forward to hearing what you have to say about it - it just looks so broken. So does Activision still have the license because of this game, or does it just expire anyway? I haven't been able to get a straight answer on that - I was wondering if this was basically their Fantastic Four or not.
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Post by Feynman on Sept 30, 2015 18:43:18 GMT -5
The license was going to expire whether they made this game or not, so at the very least they aren't going to be squatting on a license forever. Doesn't make Tony Hawk 5 any less of an underhanded cash grab, though.
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Post by Neo Rasa on Sept 30, 2015 22:13:41 GMT -5
The difference though is that Skate 3 just had super loose physics. This is just nuts with the amount of falling through the floor. It's so bad I even spent this morning writing a Kusoge piece about its release. That ought to be interesting, I'm looking forward to hearing what you have to say about it - it just looks so broken. So does Activision still have the license because of this game, or does it just expire anyway? I haven't been able to get a straight answer on that - I was wondering if this was basically their Fantastic Four or not. All mysteries revealed: www.hardcoregaming101.net/kusoge/kusoge-tonyhawk5.htm
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