No, these are not the Tony Hawk's Underground games that are being re-mastered, it's the original PS1 games Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 and 2.Wait, are these the Underground games? I am confused because he also made the pro skater games too.
I bought it for the Xbox, it was solid. I went back and played it last weekend. I forgot how good you need to be at knowing where everything is. Constantly bumping into everything and falling like I was new to video games, lol. The camera didn’t give you a good enough forward view like the remasters likely will. I won’t re-buy because I’ve bought them several times, but the rare THPS virgin is going to freaking love the remasters.They already had a great remake of tony hawk 1 and 2 before HD in 2x but nobody played it. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2x - Wikipedia
Did you play it on the original Xbox? all camera issues aside it runs really well and looks decent when you put the disc into a 360. I went though it last year but i needed to refer to an online guide to beat the game.I bought it for the Xbox, it was solid. I went back and played it last weekend. I forgot how good you need to be at knowing where everything is. Constantly bumping into everything and falling like I was new to video games, lol. The camera didn’t give you a good enough forward view like the remasters likely will. I won’t re-buy because I’ve bought them several times, but the rare THPS virgin is going to freaking love the remasters.
Did you play it on the original Xbox? all camera issues aside it runs really well and looks decent when you put the disc into a 360. I went though it last year but i needed to refer to an online guide to beat the game.
1st couple were great. Plus awesome soundtracks. Then they "enhanced" the controls and it tuned to trash.
1st couple were great. Plus awesome soundtracks. Then they "enhanced" the controls and it tuned to trash.
So. Much. This.
I’ll take the OG days of tapping Left, Left, Square or Up, Down, Circle while hitting a half pipe over this new enhanced shit any day. And I say this as someone who played and owned the original games when they came out.
Let’s be honest here, skateboarding is hard enough to do IRL. Therefore it should be simple enough so that anyone can do it in a video game at least.
Ever play thrasher, skate and destroy?
I’d heard of it back in the day but nope.
Hope its good.
Also, leaving out THPS3 is a crime. Its far and away the best in the series (outside of the soundtrack).
I want my revert!
Revert is in the game, I bet they'll add that game as DLC or a sequel at some point.
Now if we want to address what Activision did to Neversoft, making a studio change necessary in the first place, that's a ripe tomato I'm all too happy to throw. That was turning a development house into a support studio for a completely different genres/games than they made their name on until they just withered up and died.
I probably won't be playing it in the immediate future, Crusader Kings III & Flight Simulator have cornered the market on my gaming time for the time being, but I'm excited for this.
My history with skateboarding and these games is brief, pretty much just these two games, but man did I ever play the shit out of them. Later games just added more stuff that I couldn't keep up with because skateboarding itself has never interested me in the slightest and the terms are all gibberish to me, the games were just that good. I even got into some music I'd never have listened to otherwise because of it.
As for the remake issue...I think this one makes sense because a hard reset was necessary, and for a hard reset to land you gotta create demand. Reminding a generation of how much they loved these games will do just that and millennial parents who grew up with these games will introduce them to their children and whatnot. You couldn't just make THPS6 after the debacle of 5 and a fresh start would take time to win people over...because, again, it's been a long time since there's been a legitimately good skateboarding game. By making this remake you're bringing the brand back to relevance and creating demand for further games if they pull it off. As we saw with the first HD remakes, just putting it out there as a quick cash-in will do more to salt the market than fertilize it. I mean, they most definitely shat on consumers there, but it was a saltier shit than you'd expect from anyone this side of Konami.
I want to see more originality, for sure...but c'mon, this is Activision. If it weren't a Tony Hawk remake they'd have Vicarious Visions either remaking something else or working on the same line of games for years on end. Vicarious Visions is a 30 year-old development studio that's been owned by Activision for 15 years and doesn't have a single original property of their own worth noting, having almost exclusively worked on ports or in a supporting role (Guitar Hero, Skylanders). For as much shit as I'll toss at Activision with the slightest reasoning, they're utilizing that studio to its strengths right now. Especially considering it's a port & support studio that somehow made THPS2 legitimately awesome on the friggin' GameBoy Advance.
Now if we want to address what Activision did to Neversoft, making a studio change necessary in the first place, that's a ripe tomato I'm all too happy to throw. That was turning a development house into a support studio for a completely different genres/games than they made their name on until they just withered up and died.