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    Hey, Tony Hawk, Might Be Time To Hang Up The Skates...Well, Skateboard

    We Prefer The Tony Hawk: Ride Prototype

    Tony Hawk Keen On Kelly Slater Revival

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    Image of lolgreg lolgreg
    08:11 AM

    In reply to Hey, Tony Hawk, Might Be Time To Hang Up The Skates...Well, Skateboard
    Sk8 or Die
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    07:30 AM

    In reply to Hey, Tony Hawk, Might Be Time To Hang Up The Skates...Well, Skateboard
    I thought we weren't allowed to make "jumping the shark" references here on Kotaku.
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    Image of zåɳzißårléɠёпȡ zåɳzißårléɠёпȡ
    07:15 AM

    In reply to Hey, Tony Hawk, Might Be Time To Hang Up The Skates...Well, Skateboard
    from THPS 1-4 you had the pinnacle of good ol arcade style of SB plus those four first games had some of the best soundtracks in a game ever.

    to be frank that era was a great time for me as i was just coming back into the fold of playing games hardcore.

    in some twisted fantasy i wish tony hawk and others would just join forces with skate and make the greatest skateboard game ever.

    it feels wrong to pull a 900 in SKATE without thinking that Tony should be in there.
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    Image of cb8673 cb8673
    07:30 AM

    @zåɳzißårléɠёпȡ: Yeah, I hear you. Hell, the first TH got me into skateboarding proper. I remember showing it to a friend, and he said later that he had as little clue about it as I did. He said he thought, "What's this game gonna be, just rolling around? That can't be fun."

    How wrong we both were back then.
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    Image of dd528 dd528
    06:48 AM

    In reply to Hey, Tony Hawk, Might Be Time To Hang Up The Skates...Well, Skateboard
    The real question is: where is our new Thrasher Skate and Destroy?
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    Image of exion exion
    06:43 AM

    In reply to Hey, Tony Hawk, Might Be Time To Hang Up The Skates...Well, Skateboard
    to this day I still think they should have called T.H.U.G THunderground... it just sounds cooler!

    Skateboarding, as popular genres go, was almost certainly a fad... After THPS3 the interest had pretty much died down and I remember not even realising/caring that they made a 4th game...

    I think a major reason for it's downfall was that activision truly raped the franchise with a new title practically every year without focusing on the mechanics. Most of the new features were little more than gimmicks, and once SKATE was released, the Tony Hawks series just felt obsolete.
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    Image of Chirotera Chirotera
    05:52 AM

    In reply to Hey, Tony Hawk, Might Be Time To Hang Up The Skates...Well, Skateboard
    I never realized how many games the Tony Hawk series has pumped out. Even before it's 'shark jumping' moment. Granted I was never a fan of the series (just not my cup o' tea).

    Either way, it's kind of impressive.
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    Image of Blore07 Blore07
    05:47 AM

    In reply to Hey, Tony Hawk, Might Be Time To Hang Up The Skates...Well, Skateboard
    wasnt someone banned and Dean de-starred yesterday because they made a jumping the shark joke?

    I agree with this chart, the last tony hawk game I had fun with was underground.
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    Image of D-K, Anarchist D-K, Anarchist
    06:57 AM

    @Blore07: That was directed at Kotaku.. Me and some guys took dean out back, hung him on some string, and beat some sense in to him.

    He's fine now..
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    Image of rich8606 rich8606
    05:44 AM

    In reply to Hey, Tony Hawk, Might Be Time To Hang Up The Skates...Well, Skateboard
    THPS3, My bro and I used to play that shit till my PS1 broke.
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    Image of ZeroAnd09 ZeroAnd09
    07:12 AM

    @rich8606: THPS3 was for PS2...
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    Image of rich8606 rich8606
    08:29 AM

    @ZeroAnd09: I played the PS1 version, My last Tony hawk game was THPS4 on PS2.
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    Image of rainofwalrus rainofwalrus
    11/25/09

    In reply to Tony Hawk Keen On Kelly Slater Revival
    surfing needs to go the EA SKATE route and provide more realism over aerials. I'll go a step further and say it needs a little GTA too; in the form of driving from beach to beach. Hire the WaveRace 64 team to do the water.
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    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    11/25/09

    In reply to We Prefer The Tony Hawk: Ride Prototype
    Certainly is a better representation to real skating... not destroyed enough though.
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    Image of rainofwalrus rainofwalrus
    11/25/09

    In reply to Tony Hawk Keen On Kelly Slater Revival
    as a surfer IRL, I've yet to find a surfing game that had the same "waterman" appeal that Waverace 64 had.

    WR64 really made you *feel* like you were out there in it.

    as opposed to ALL surfing games that only *looked* like you were out there in it.
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    Image of xot xot
    11/25/09

    @rainofwalrus: Well said, I totally agree. I'm not a surfer, but I work in both the surfing and gaming industries and a decent surfing game has yet to happen. WaveRace 64 remains the gold standard.
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    Image of rainofwalrus rainofwalrus
    11/25/09

    @xot: funny how WaveRace 64 has duck-diving, while most surfing games lack this fundamental trick.
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    Image of rainofwalrus rainofwalrus
    11/25/09

    In reply to We Prefer The Tony Hawk: Ride Prototype
    HAPP buttons!
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    Image of Shin Shin
    11/25/09

    @rainofwalrus: hehe, HAPP indeed ^^
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    Image of rainofwalrus rainofwalrus
    11/25/09

    @Shin: too often you see prototypes rocking generic switches.
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    Image of Timstuff Timstuff
    11/25/09

    @rainofwalrus: Happ is awesome! Although I must admit I do prefer the convex IL versions to the concave ones shown here.
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    Image of rainofwalrus rainofwalrus
    11/25/09

    @Timstuff: JDM is why. I cant talk. I rock Sanwa all the way.

    #speakup
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    Image of RaginKaGin21 RaginKaGin21
    11/25/09

    In reply to We Prefer The Tony Hawk: Ride Prototype
    I heard a rumor that they were using this until a week before beta, and that they only had 3 or 4 of them built, and that ACTIVISION was requiring that you couldn't even test things unless you were using a board...
    #ReasonsToIgnoreEverythingActiv...

    Luckily when Robomodo was struggling to make a game ACTIVISION was out there promoting the cool looking(poorly functioning) board they had just announced for it.
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    Image of Daizzy Daizzy
    11/25/09

    In reply to We Prefer The Tony Hawk: Ride Prototype
    I thought you're not supposed to skate on Vans slip-ons. This reflects badly on the developer for me. I know they're not really flipping the board on your feet so it wouldn't matter. But if they really did do real tricks outside, they should know well enough that you need to wear something else when skating.
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    Image of Timodge Timodge
    11/25/09

    @Daizzy: You can wear whatever you like on your feet if you're good enough at skating.

    And if you re-grip your deck regularly it'll shred your shoes so fast, so what better to shred than crappy Vans?
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    Image of orijimi orijimi
    11/25/09

    In reply to We Prefer The Tony Hawk: Ride Prototype
    Another brilliant article by Luke "is entitled and encouraged to invoke his opinion" Plunkett.
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    Image of shaunmcilroy shaunmcilroy
    11/25/09

    @orijimi: Nice comment (of the week it ain't)
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