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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater - Pretending I'm a Superman
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Remember Tony Hawk? He's back! In current-gen form.
Well, I mean, it'll playable on current-gen consoles. Some would argue that when it was revealed it didn't exactly look current-gen...
Maybe there's something that could be done about that? Maybe...throw a quick cel-shading job on it?
Much better! Not that it matters, THPS has never been a graphical showcase - a slick, consistent framerate is far more important. But I definitely dig the way that looks.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5. The fifth Tony Hawk's Pro Skater game.
After four amazing THPS games (1-4), Tony Hawk's Underground came out. You could get off the board, the death knell of a skateboarding game, and thus began the rapid decline of quality in the series that eventually led to an eight-year hiatus after the woefully bad Tony Hawk's Proving Ground (the ninth Tony Hawk game)
Now, like Days of Future Past came to retcon The Last Stand out of existence, here comes Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 to hopefully make us all forget that any post-THPS4 games ever happened
They announced the soundtrack today
Outside of Death and Skrillex, I've heard of none of these bands, but that's okay, because if THPS games have proven anything, it's that they're good at exposing people to music they've never heard of and will grow to love
Speaking of that, here's a Spotify playlist I made of the THPS1-4 soundtracks. I'll make one for 5 probably later on tonight
QUICK NOTES
- This game comes out in like, a month. September 29, 2015 to be exact.
- Unless you're planning on getting it for PS3/360, in which case it'll be hitting November 10th, 2015
- But maybe don't do that because the last-gen version doesn't have any online multi. Meanwhile, current-gen versions will have 20-person online multi
I have mad faith in this game, almost because, well, I have to. They're calling it Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5. This is their all-in, last chance they get at a true revival of this series. If they fuck this up, they frankly just won't get another shot at it. What I've seen of the game has me convinced, but unfortunately these games thrive on feel, which is something I can't possibly have first-hand knowledge of at the moment. Early impressions on the feel of the gameplay seem to be positive. I'm hopeful.
Well, I mean, it'll playable on current-gen consoles. Some would argue that when it was revealed it didn't exactly look current-gen...
Maybe there's something that could be done about that? Maybe...throw a quick cel-shading job on it?
Much better! Not that it matters, THPS has never been a graphical showcase - a slick, consistent framerate is far more important. But I definitely dig the way that looks.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5. The fifth Tony Hawk's Pro Skater game.
After four amazing THPS games (1-4), Tony Hawk's Underground came out. You could get off the board, the death knell of a skateboarding game, and thus began the rapid decline of quality in the series that eventually led to an eight-year hiatus after the woefully bad Tony Hawk's Proving Ground (the ninth Tony Hawk game)
Now, like Days of Future Past came to retcon The Last Stand out of existence, here comes Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 to hopefully make us all forget that any post-THPS4 games ever happened
They announced the soundtrack today
Anti-Flag - “Stars and Stripes”
Atmosphere - “Southsiders”
Black Pistol Fire - “Hipster Shakes”
Bully - “Milkman”
Cloud Nothings - “I’m Not Part of Me”
Cold Cave - “A Little Death to Laugh”
Connie Price and the Keystones - “International Hustler”
Crass Mammoth - “All 149”
Deaf Poets - “Degenerate Mind”
Death - "Keep On Knocking"
Death From Above 1979 - "Virgins"
Deer Mother - "When The Wolves Come Out"
Doomtree - “Mini Brute"
Fake P - “Rorschach”
Family Force 5 -"Raised By Wolves"
Four Year Strong -"Go Down In History"
Harlan - "Moment To Myself"
Hundred Visions - "Our Ritual"
Hungry Hands - “Highline”
Icon For Hire -"Cynics and Critics"
Killer Be Killed -"Wings of Feather and Wax"
New Politics -"Everywhere I Go"
Plague Vendor - “Black Sap Scriptures”
Ratatat -"Cream on Chrome"
RattBlack - "Skate Rock"
Royal Blood - "Little Monster"
State Champs - "Secrets"
Temples - "Shelter Song"
The Orwells - "Who Needs You"
The Schitzophonics - “Rat Trap”
The Sheds - "Bad Things are Bad"
Yogi & Skrillex - "Burial"
Outside of Death and Skrillex, I've heard of none of these bands, but that's okay, because if THPS games have proven anything, it's that they're good at exposing people to music they've never heard of and will grow to love
Speaking of that, here's a Spotify playlist I made of the THPS1-4 soundtracks. I'll make one for 5 probably later on tonight
QUICK NOTES
- This game comes out in like, a month. September 29, 2015 to be exact.
- Unless you're planning on getting it for PS3/360, in which case it'll be hitting November 10th, 2015
- But maybe don't do that because the last-gen version doesn't have any online multi. Meanwhile, current-gen versions will have 20-person online multi
I have mad faith in this game, almost because, well, I have to. They're calling it Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5. This is their all-in, last chance they get at a true revival of this series. If they fuck this up, they frankly just won't get another shot at it. What I've seen of the game has me convinced, but unfortunately these games thrive on feel, which is something I can't possibly have first-hand knowledge of at the moment. Early impressions on the feel of the gameplay seem to be positive. I'm hopeful.
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I thought I did for a second but it turned out I was thinking of Black Flag
I still remember the scars of buying THPS HD on launch day...
The old ones look like ass too but they are still fun to play.
Ratatat is also a good band.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
I just found out about Ratatat recently myself.
Especially because I've got a ton of nostalgia for 2 on the PS1
One level and two songs and we did that for hours on end
There is almost no way for Tony Hawks PS5 to live up to the memories that I have of the early games in the series and Skate has come and gone and forever changed the way that I think about skateboarding games. I want to like this new one, I do, but I don't think I will.
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Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
That looks way better than the reveal by nowhere near next gen.
I still remember buying THPS 2. Such an amazing jump from the first one.
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It looks shockingly bad, graphics wise. Like I realize that has no impact on the game play which is what really matters about THPS but dang this looks like a game from like 2008
Even before the graphical change, but especially now
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Like it is better but it still looks real bad
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I am not a big graphics guy but dang man your environments look a bit better but your game looks pretty comparable to a 5 year old game from a previous generation of consoles
Thats
Not super great
And I don't know, I guess it's just me!
In that comparison, Skate 3 looks awful and that THPS5 screenshot looks pretty rad
i played the hell out of the first three THPS titles, and sank a good bit of time into the series all the way up to THUG
there's something of the fighting game in the way they play in that execution and timing are critical to scoring well, and just one mistake can be so costly
i loved that
will i still? i don't know, i haven't played any of them since THAW, which i wasn't particularly enamored with, and i sank hundreds of hours into the skate series which kind of changed what i want out of playing a game about skateboarding
i'll probably still get this near launch, i'm just so conflicteeeeed
this looks like a preview screenshot for an early-gen ps3 game
i don't really give a shit about the graphics, as long as it runs completely hitch-free, but that's ugly even by the standards of way lower-profile games
the cel shading looks okay i suppose
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I'm far more excited for Project Session.
a good chunk of the fun in these games is exploring
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Indeed! I loved the style of those games
Even when American Wasteland was shitting it up on consoles, American Sk8land on DS was pretty damn rad
I kinda wish they'd make an HD version of the Advance games or something in that style, isometric skateboarding is rad as fuck
I think Tony Hawk's combo driven system after adding reverts in 3 really helped bring vert skating back to the series, but I think that belies the fact that the whole thing is burdened by being chained to this quest for bigger combos that mean less and less over time. They had to add reverts to make vert skating, the thing Tony Hawk the person is famous for, a viable option. Meanwhile the inclusion of more ways to chain moves together just made the street skating, the part that's always had way more focus, a convoluted mess that doesn't even resemble skateboarding.
Basically if you're giving me a skateboarding game in 2015 centered around vast open levels and the goal isn't to be more like Gou Miyagi you fucked up at having fun.
Skate is pure boredom distilled, and checking up on Project Session, I see this quote from one of the devs:
Which to me reads like "no fun at all" with just a bit of pretentiousness tacked on at the end
When...is...PAX? That question is answered with one click on this site. Geez, Vow....
It's Aug 28-31, though.
Black Pistol Fire (3rd listing down) are these guys (they open this set with Hipster Shakes):
First have they announced a PC version?
Second, are any of the DS versions good? I have the need to get some portable Tony Hawk on.