Tony Hawk is about 60% water so it makes sense water will naturally master the half pipe.

Yes. Let's have more regurgitated bullshit. These big corporations hardly every create anything new...they just buy some company that has a cool idea and run it into the ground with 8 sequels while charging every moron $15 for DLC "extras" that were really just things stripped from the original game.

Yes. Wave hello Call of Duty, Total Annihilation (Supreme Commander), Command & Conquer, Medal of Honor, Need for Speed, Rock Band, Guitar Hero, Wolfenstein, Tony Hawk, blah blah fucking blah.

Sequels are one thing. Giving people more of what they want is fine. It's the stripping of features, massive "reboots", etc, that I have a problem with. If you change the game enough that it isn't much like the original, fuck you, do not use the name again.

If they reboot the Mechwarrior series and do a good job, awesome. If a "reboot" game is a lot like the original but updated for new technology, great. But, if all your new shooter has in common with the original game is that it's a shooter created by a studio that still employs the janitor that was cleaning the toilets when the original was made, call it something else. All of you know God of War IV or Call of Duty 8...THOUSAND will be a giant pile of crap.

Don't give in. Open your eyes. Buy something else.

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It's like a real-life Tony Hawk game!!

...except with consequences.

>> ^hixsonj:
I knew before I watched this that he was going to give this game a slightly unfair review, simply because he's not a skater himself. He does admit that it's a game by and for skateboarders and might not be easy to play or appeal to gamers in general.
I used to skate quite a bit so to me, these games are amazing. The controls, cameras, etc are all spot-on for those in the scene. I'll never go back to Tony Hawk.


I am never going to play a Tony Hawk game again as long as there are Skate games.

I was one of those people who entered the realism cheat in TH2 so it would feel more like real skating.
I hated the fact that I had to do all these crazy unrealistic moves. I wanted a game where a 360 kickflip to 5-0 was worth a good score and TH definitely was not that sort of game.

I knew before I watched this that he was going to give this game a slightly unfair review, simply because he's not a skater himself. He does admit that it's a game by and for skateboarders and might not be easy to play or appeal to gamers in general.

I used to skate quite a bit so to me, these games are amazing. The controls, cameras, etc are all spot-on for those in the scene. I'll never go back to Tony Hawk.

>> ^cybrbeast:
Poolcleaner I do think you miss the point of VATS in Fallout. Fallout is an RPG based on a turn-based RPG. It's not necessarily about quick reflexes, it's about tactics. Bringing the best equipment into the battle and using it strategically. Going into VATS gives you the pause of a turn based games and lets you think about your actions. Sure it can be quite easy, but there's harder difficulty and mods coming out on the PC.


Naw, I get it. The reason I mention Fallout 3 is because it's an example of one of the MANY games that cater to newbies. (Fallout 3 being an example of a GOOD game that does this.)

Bottom line, I think this video is dead wrong. The people who don't play video games are not looking for an easy game, they just don't want to play video games. (If you think video games are hard now, you're dumb.) I grew up playing hundreds of games that I could never beat, yet I continued to play them because I liked to play. I know A LOT of people who just don't care about games. Do you think they even bothered to wonder if a game was too difficult? No, because they don't care.

Looking at demographics and percentages of people who do anything at all is so gimmicky to me. It's like he's comparing video games to television. It's the silent victim in this horrid review. Why have gamers not exceeded the television audience? It's rather silly to do these comparisons. From the perspective of the aficionado, you could say the same thing about anything, really. Skateboards versus Basketball: Only 20% of people skateboard despite the rise of Tony Hawk as a popular sports figure.

Holy jesus, why is skateboarding less popular than basketball? Why can I walk into any Wal Mart and buy a Spalding basketball, sponsored by the NBA, yet I need to go to a specialty store to get a skateboard that doesn't have trucks made out of fisher Price plastic. Oh, I know! It's because skateboarding is too hard!

Skateboarding is pretty hard, but those who are going to skateboard will skateboard despite the difficulty. So the answer is to dumb down the experience? Put some training wheels on the fucker? As if training wheels on bicycles weren't bad enough. Did I use training wheels? No, I scraped up my fuckin' knees, bleeding upon the cement like Jesus Christ down the streets of Jerusalem.

Television and (perhaps basketball was the improper comparison) baseball are learned behaviors, taught in more households than video games. AND it's accepted by more families -- though video games are slowly making their way, the violence/sex issue has some families in the closet. Many, many, many families grow up around the boob tube. Hell, that's where video games became and remain popular: in front of the television. We see people watch it, we watch it, other people watch us watch it, we play our video games on it. Also, sports and television = match made in heaven. I grew up in a television family; almost everyone in the family watches television, talks about it, breathes it, it permeates all aspects of life. Oh, did you see what's his face on American Idol? Oh, no! I can't believe he was kicked off the island -- he made such good soufflé!

It really isn't surprising at all that video games haven't touched the same demographics as television: Not everyone wants to play a game. Most people just wanna stare at something and not think. And when they are thinking, they're thinking that video games are for nerds that kill their classmates in bouts of gnerd rage. Not that that's true, but I understand the people and that's what they think.

(Also, if you have ever played World of Warcraft, you already know what types of people are drawn into a game when it's dumbed down. Do not want.)

According to the YT comments this clip is from Tony Hawk's Proving Ground
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hawk%27s_Proving_Ground
*videogames

I can't imagine playing, say, Tony Hawk or the similar parts of Prince of Persia from this perspective - be too hard to control. I think this might suffer from the same fate. I mean, how many times have you wished your FPS had more jumping puzzles?

No Duckhunt?! Blasphemy.

Seriously though, pretty okay list. They could have had Tony Hawk or Team Fortress or a lot of other games that the super-nerds would have loved to complain about... "so-and-so did that idea first!"... so good job on their part. I liked the inclusion of Body Harvest.

Oh my does this take me back to the days...

I remember trying those moves on a cheap supermarket deck with a fiery snake on the bottom (and failing miserably of course). Moved on to a Claus Grabke and then a Nolan Ryan deck. Still without a nosetail back then and all with the ever so fashionable fish shape...

My favourite movie of the time was "Gleaming the Cube" (called "Gleaming Heart" in Germany) and I had neon shoelaces in my LA Gear shoes. Rodney did a double for Christian Slater in that film which can be found here.

This inspired me to post the opening scene of Gleaming the cube featuring a very young Christian Slater and Tony Hawk.

The lyrics, stolen shamelessly from Digg:
Brohemian Rhapsody

Is this the frat life
This is so phat to me
Hittin' the ice-luge
This is the sickest party
Open your thighs
Give my bros high fives, so sweet
I'm just a frat boy, taking virginities
Because it's golf pros, tennis hoes
Gettin' high with my bros
Anyway this bitch blows, doesnt really matter to me
To me

Harlan, just killed a keg
God I rule at Tony Hawk
Dude you suck, don't even talk
Duncan, we're up at beer pong
If you don't sink 5 cups you're such a gay
You guys, brooos
I'm so effing drunk
If I'm not out of bed on time tomorrow
Wake me up, wake me up
I can't miss Western Civ

Oh great, I have to piss
Break the seal yeah now it's time
What the hell is with this line
Goodbye everybody, I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and pee outside
Oh no, duuude (There's a cop car)
Damn you Gamma Pi
I sometimes wish I never had pledged at all

I see a little party foul over there
What a douche, what a douche someone get the mop bucket
Chad and Moose are fighting
What is with this lighting here
Broke a lamp, broke a lamp
Broke a lamp, broke a lamp
Shards of glass inside my foot
Oh God oh ow ow ow ow
I tried to jump it, thought I could clear it
He tried to jump it, he's a drunk idiot
Get him some gauze for his lamp injury
Easy Trent, easy bro, think I'm bout to blow
(Vomit noise) No! We will not let you bro, let me bro!
(Vomit noise) No! We will not let you bro, let me bro!
(Vomit noise) No! We will not let you bro, let me bro!
Will not let you bro, let me bro!
Will not let you bro, let me bro!
No, no, no, no, no, no, no!
Dude I'm gonna, dude I'm gonna, dude I'm gonna let me bro
Fuck all you guys, I'm gonna puke and rally, rally, rally

Swear to God I'm not crying, there's shit in my eye
You guys promised to love me until we all died
Oh Logan, can't do this to me Logan
Just gotta get hugged, just gotta hug it out here

Brotherhood's forever,
Anyone can see,
Nothing really matters, Bro-dy

cheers geeza

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