They can use whatever peripherals and inputs they like, but if you have performing typical THPS 'zany' antics at the behest of Bam Margera and the Jackass crew, then no. Bad.
Hell, the thought of trying to pull of a THPS combo on this, assuming it's meant to function like a skateboard at all, is a nightmare.
I'm now expecting the next Madden game to ship with a giant plastic linebacker who smashes into you every time you get tackled.
Dear Activision: The reason I play skateboarding games is not to learn how to skate, it's because there's no way in hell an unco-ordinated spastic person such as myself can stay balanced on a rolling hunk of wood and plastic for more than a second and a half.
It's the same reason I play Call Of Duty instead of joining the fucking Army.
I do predict that the price markdowns on this clusterfuck will put those for Guitar Hero Aerosmith to shame.
This is an exceptionally impressively terrible idea.
Cosigned. I feel like it should be an article from the Onion.
I'm pretty sure we all made "olol Tony Hawk shipping with giant plastic skateboard" jokes two years ago when Activision started ramping up its Guitar Hero action, and look where we are today.
I'm clearly in the minority but I really dig this. I think the best part of it is its not Neversoft, who went from a Tony Hawk farm to one of the 3 or 4 Guitar Hero farms.
I guess it could be good. I just don't get how it works. If anyone jumps on that thing it's going to snap. if they don't want people to jump on it they're crazy. I need to see it in action.
No. Wrong Answer. Exactly what I DON'T want with a Tony Hawk game.
I'd lime just about every response in this thread, but this one pretty much captures my thoughts to a tee.
It seems like they figure "welp, we can't out-Skate Skate, so we'll go in a completely different direction". Too bad, really. The guys at Neversoft really did have a solid product there for a while. THPS 1-4, THUG and Project 8 were all really solid games. The rest were Jackass-infused garbage.
Oh well, looks like I'll be holding on to my copy of Skate for a long time to come.
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It really is a shame - I remember the feeling I got when I played the first THPS on a demo station at a Target years ago. It was like a light bulb went off in my head; "holy shit, why didn't anyone think of doing this sooner?" The gameplay was genius, but more importantly, the controls were absolutely spot-on.
They spawned plenty of knock offs, but THPS was the reigning king for so long. It's just sad to see such a once-proud franchise turned into liquid shit like this, jesus. The guys at Black Box must be laughing their balls off right now.
Man, if nothing else Activision has balls. Like others have said, this is either going to be really good or really, really bad.
I know some people compare this to Guitar Hero/Rock Band, but at least the transition from real to plastic could sort of be envisioned with little difficulty. This thing though? How are you going to do jumps, grabs, grinds, etc?
And damn, this part is going to make me sound like a cliche gamer, but I'm not sure I want to do that much work. It's going to have to walk a really fine line between making you feel like a skater, and making you feel like you should just go out and skate.
How far in development is the game? The graphics aren't that impressive so far.
I honestly stopped playing Tony Hawk games at around 3, so this isn't exactly a deal breaker for me. But I would like to see how they plan on making it work.
But really, this whole peripheral craze has just got to stop.
they need to release it bundled with the peripheral at 59.99.
they might take a hit on it, but that would be the best way to get it into homes, and at that point you could use it for other games, and those games would be more likely to sell to people that have the board already.
It seems that Activision is hellbent on making sure every game in your entire library is accompanied by some sort of special peripheral.
By the end of it we'll all have a dozen plastic guitars, three sets of drums, twenty microphones, four turntables, two skateboards and, probably, at least one large inflatable woman.
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How do you push/Mongo? Do you have bend over and put your hand on the board to do any sort of grabs, like the video suggests?
And what the fuck happens when the inevitable mission occurs when there's a character standing off to the side, yelling out complicated combos for you to try and pull off on a pipe, on a time limit?
A god damn lot of broken peripherals, that's what.
I really wish they would just reach back and put THPS4 on the PSP.
God, I would buy it so hard.
On a lighter note, with Activision's current trend with Guitar Hero, DJ Hero and now Tony Hawk: Ride, I for one cannot wait for Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX 3.
Unrelated: Man, the THPS2 soundtrack was so great.
All four of the first THPS games were guilty of having amazing soundtracks.
In fact, licensed soundtracks on extreme sports games in general were pretty damn amazing in the PS1/PS2 era.
Also with kickass soundtracks: Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX, Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2, MTV Sports: Pure Ride, Thrasher: Skate and Destroy, and finally Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX 1, which has the best licensed soundtrack of any non-music game as far as I'm concerned.
I really wish they would just reach back and put THPS4 on the PSP.
God, I would buy it so hard.
On a lighter note, with Activision's current trend with Guitar Hero, DJ Hero and now Tony Hawk: Ride, I for one cannot wait for Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX 3.
Then EA will see the ridiculously high sales from their competitor's games, figure the peripheral is what's doing it (which it kind of would be, but more from morbid curiosity than actual playability), and release something for the Fight Night series that punches you in the face. In fact, they could make a combination peripheral, so you have the punch-to-face action from Fight Night, studs-to-shins from Fifa, stick-to-the-gut from NHL, and the giant plastic linebacker for Madden that was mentioned earlier...
To any staff at EA who happen to read this : NO. Just NO. Don't even THINK about doing this.
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There were others? THPS2 was so good I didn't realize I needed to move on any more from there.
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Hell, the thought of trying to pull of a THPS combo on this, assuming it's meant to function like a skateboard at all, is a nightmare.
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WITH THIS!
Also, what was the name of that arcade skateboarding game that had a board and you did left and right movements to pull off tricks?
Dear Activision: The reason I play skateboarding games is not to learn how to skate, it's because there's no way in hell an unco-ordinated spastic person such as myself can stay balanced on a rolling hunk of wood and plastic for more than a second and a half.
It's the same reason I play Call Of Duty instead of joining the fucking Army.
I do predict that the price markdowns on this clusterfuck will put those for Guitar Hero Aerosmith to shame.
Cosigned. I feel like it should be an article from the Onion.
I'm pretty sure we all made "olol Tony Hawk shipping with giant plastic skateboard" jokes two years ago when Activision started ramping up its Guitar Hero action, and look where we are today.
like we need another hunk of plastic to store
it is playable with out the board right? not that it matters, proving ground sucked so hard i have pretty much given up on the whole franchise
Ollie King? It was the one by sega which was JSRF with skateboards.
Top Skater was actually what I was thinking about.
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another great example of them doing it wrong
It seems like they figure "welp, we can't out-Skate Skate, so we'll go in a completely different direction". Too bad, really. The guys at Neversoft really did have a solid product there for a while. THPS 1-4, THUG and Project 8 were all really solid games. The rest were Jackass-infused garbage.
Oh well, looks like I'll be holding on to my copy of Skate for a long time to come.
a once-great franchise that has lost its way. Like much of the rest of Activision's lineup.
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They spawned plenty of knock offs, but THPS was the reigning king for so long. It's just sad to see such a once-proud franchise turned into liquid shit like this, jesus. The guys at Black Box must be laughing their balls off right now.
I know some people compare this to Guitar Hero/Rock Band, but at least the transition from real to plastic could sort of be envisioned with little difficulty. This thing though? How are you going to do jumps, grabs, grinds, etc?
And damn, this part is going to make me sound like a cliche gamer, but I'm not sure I want to do that much work. It's going to have to walk a really fine line between making you feel like a skater, and making you feel like you should just go out and skate.
How far in development is the game? The graphics aren't that impressive so far.
...
Activision learned exactly the wrong lesson from the success of Guitar Hero/Rock Band/Wii Fit.
I may be the only person on earth interested in this and wanting to learn more.
I honestly stopped playing Tony Hawk games at around 3, so this isn't exactly a deal breaker for me. But I would like to see how they plan on making it work.
But really, this whole peripheral craze has just got to stop.
they might take a hit on it, but that would be the best way to get it into homes, and at that point you could use it for other games, and those games would be more likely to sell to people that have the board already.
that said, they're probably not gonna do that.
Much more like the old PS1 games.
By the end of it we'll all have a dozen plastic guitars, three sets of drums, twenty microphones, four turntables, two skateboards and, probably, at least one large inflatable woman.
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Because that's where it's at, you see.
goddammit.
Thanks to DJ Hero, you'll get at least one.
How do you push/Mongo? Do you have bend over and put your hand on the board to do any sort of grabs, like the video suggests?
And what the fuck happens when the inevitable mission occurs when there's a character standing off to the side, yelling out complicated combos for you to try and pull off on a pipe, on a time limit?
This'll be a big mistake.
Whoa what
Suddenly I'm interested in a DS Tony Hawk game.
I mean, there's still some stupid story tacked-on, but it has a timed mode with different objectives in various areas exactly like THPS2.
No free-roaming cities, off-board sections, random stunts or anything like that.
God, I would buy it so hard.
On a lighter note, with Activision's current trend with Guitar Hero, DJ Hero and now Tony Hawk: Ride, I for one cannot wait for Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX 3.
All four of the first THPS games were guilty of having amazing soundtracks.
In fact, licensed soundtracks on extreme sports games in general were pretty damn amazing in the PS1/PS2 era.
Also with kickass soundtracks: Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX, Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2, MTV Sports: Pure Ride, Thrasher: Skate and Destroy, and finally Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX 1, which has the best licensed soundtrack of any non-music game as far as I'm concerned.
Then EA will see the ridiculously high sales from their competitor's games, figure the peripheral is what's doing it (which it kind of would be, but more from morbid curiosity than actual playability), and release something for the Fight Night series that punches you in the face. In fact, they could make a combination peripheral, so you have the punch-to-face action from Fight Night, studs-to-shins from Fifa, stick-to-the-gut from NHL, and the giant plastic linebacker for Madden that was mentioned earlier...
To any staff at EA who happen to read this : NO. Just NO. Don't even THINK about doing this.
And Rock Band wipes the fucking floor with Guitar Hero and pisses all over its remains.
So I would probably check out these injury peripherals from EA.
Me either!