Tony Hawk: Critics “Snarky”
Nothing to do with his game being a bit crap and expensive.Published 07/12/2009 at 15:00 by Tuffcub
Tony Hawk is not a happpy bunny. His new game, ‘Ride’ has a metacritic rating of 48 and on it’s first week of release it has shot in to the UK all formats charts at number.. oh it hasn’t, the game has not made it in to top 40. Tony had this to say about the reviews,
“Most snarky critics had their minds set before ever seeing/playing the game,” Hawk tweeted, “I’m proud of what we created; it’s innovative, responsive and fun.”
It does seem like the bubble has burst on expensive peripherals, DJ Hero has flopped and so has Ride. As one reviewer pointed out, you can buy a real skateboard for less than the Ride game.
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Vaile23 | 07/12/2009 15:04
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gone downhill since pro skater 2 IMO. they need to stick to proper games (i.e. controller based) instead of making us look like t*ts playing plastic instruments, etc.
seedaripper1973 | 07/12/2009 15:05
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sorry, but LOL @ Tony (i used to be a skater, and had a great amount of respect for him, pullin a 900 is sick) but he’s done nothing but whore his name out to increasingly shite games (the 1st on PS1 is still the best) ah well, skate is a much better franchise now, see ya tones
Mick939 | 07/12/2009 18:39
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Really hate skate, dull stuff, i loved the hawk games even the crazy ones, but this monstrosoty looks to have ruined the franchise.
C_S15 | 07/12/2009 15:05
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Isn’t this because people want to play a game that merely represents skateboarding (Skate) and not BE a skater? I mean, as the article points out, buying a real skateboard to skateboard for real is cheaper.
bajere | 07/12/2009 15:07
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I havent heard ONE good thing about ride…DJ Hero on the other hand has had alot of good talk, and i played a few mixes on it in HMV and it seemed very fun after a few goes. The price is its down fall. activision should take a hit on the initial purchase of DJhero and make the money back in lots of good DLC’s.
as for ride, activision should just take it on the chin as a crap game…how can you do a 360 or 720 on a plastic board in your living room?!?…its a game for a proper pad IMO. i loved the 1st few tony hawk games too.
shields_t | 07/12/2009 15:11
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Activision’s other big problem though is expecting people to buy 100 quid’s worth of kit to play one game, I mean I can’t see the next Skate incorporating whatever the Tony Hawk peripheral is called, and it doesn’t look too likely that DJ Hero will have sold enough to warrant a sequel.
bajere | 08/12/2009 09:35
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good point…but if they dont really need to whore out DJ:hero games like they do gutarHero. they just need to give us good solid DLC for a few years.like Rockband.
cam the man | 07/12/2009 15:15
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“I’m proud of what we created; it’s innovative, responsive and fun.” – Well he would say that, it’s his game.
Bilbo_bobbins | 07/12/2009 17:23
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exactly, and wants his pay cheque ASAP. Shame he wont get one it seems.
andytorr | 07/12/2009 15:20
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I loved THPS 1 & 2. The 3rd and 4th games were a clear sign that neversoft were slipping a bit. After all these Underground games, Project 8 and that other disaster that came out, I just gave up. What they’ve done with Ride might be innovative, but it’s too much of a faff. People just want to pick up and control, and play HORSE. I don’t want to be jumping around on a plastic board. Especially considering my entire house has laminate flooring. It’s too loud!
Lorcan | 07/12/2009 22:11
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I’d agree with you there, but I actually really enjoyed the first Underground.
It tried new stuff, I enjoyed the story aspect and also the freedom you had.
The problems came in all the others after that when it just became a Jackass game.
djdustb | 07/12/2009 15:23
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I quite liked the older games on the PS2 but the idea of this does not appeal to me at all. I haven’t skated since I was a kid and I was crap at it then. I can’t the fun in being rubbish at this game. Add a few drinks and to be honest this could be dangerous (or amusing for others)
shields_t | 07/12/2009 16:07
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Or rather dangerous, at least the only things I damage when playing drunken singstar are other people’s eardrums!
davidjmclare | 07/12/2009 15:27
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just deleted a mammoth comment in favour of this:
Tony… you must have expected this, your games suck.
TctclMvPhase | 07/12/2009 15:33
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The should have just remade Top Skater…
hazelam | 07/12/2009 15:40
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maybe if the devs concentrated on improving the gameplay rather than tacky overpriced plastic crap then maybe the game might have got better reviews.
nofi | 07/12/2009 15:43
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I’m still waiting for Activision to actually acknowledge we exist. Would be nice to have a go at this, but they can fuck off if they think I’ve got £100 to throw down on it.
BIGAL-1992 | 07/12/2009 15:47
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I agree, these pricks think were walking, dumb piggy banks, when in fact we can tell what’s good and what’s completely shit.
seedaripper1973 | 07/12/2009 15:51
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oooh i love it when you swear nofi…
cc_star | 07/12/2009 15:52
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Umm I’m with Tony Hawks & Jason Bradbury on this… there is so much negativity around, that people had decided this was a bag of shit when it was first shown off at E3
It /may/ well be a bag of shit, but whats with all the negativity – it’s not like SCEE are involved
BIGAL-1992 | 07/12/2009 16:04
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But cc_star, the game IS a bag of shit. I’ve played it on a friends console, and the problems I had just controlling the damn thing was a nightmare, never mind playing.
Raen | 07/12/2009 16:12
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Actually a lot of it is about down right glitches in the game, people skating on the ceiling, broken physics, hard to control grinds. In addition I’ve been hearing bad stuff about the board (bad lag issues, and apparently to recalibrate in play you have to drop out of the game).
cc_star | 07/12/2009 16:22
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Fair points you two… but my point was that people decided this was a bag of shit back in June, and nothing would change their minds… I presume TH Ride 2 will only be on the Wii (like Shaun White’s Snowboarding) where people just play a game for fun and don’t even realise its broken
BIGAL-1992 | 07/12/2009 17:47
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I see what you mean cc. I only heard about it until last month, but it is bad, full stop.
iiekka | 07/12/2009 20:04
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who in there right mind would want to stand on a pretend skateboard, i think everyone has the right to consider this a bag of shit before playing lol
Raen | 08/12/2009 09:46
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That is fair, I think a lot of people decided it was going to be bad and made their mind up ahead of time. I was kind of open to it, in the same way I’m open to Heavy Rain. I just really want to see how they work, how they effect the market, that sort of thing.
davidjmclare | 08/12/2009 00:08
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considering this it would have been a great opportunity for TH to prove the quality of the game and prove everyone wrong, unfortunately it seems everyone was right.
i wanna have a go on it, just so i can back up my points, but then again… i dont want to waste my time
rossthebassist | 07/12/2009 16:32
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well as a friend of a disabled user who loves the tony hawks games. innovation ment exclusion for him. the new game had to controled via the board. tell me mr hawk how are the disabled patrons of the gaming world supposed to play your game?
i for one lost intrest in the tony hawks games after the pro skater series finnished. i much prefered it being track based rather than free roam. but what am i supposed to know im only a punter.
parker | 07/12/2009 17:07
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And another Activision-peripheral-based-over-expensive-game flops.
Muahaha, Take that Kotick.
iNsAnE_gAmInG | 07/12/2009 17:22
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I agree with Tony tbh.
Everybody has been critical of Ride prior to it even coming close to release as everybody has moved to Skate after Tony Hawks: Project 8 or Proving Ground or whatever being a drop in form for the franchise.
Nobody wants this new TH game to be good as with Skate 3 on the way and not coming with some expensive peripheral, people would just rather stick with a franchise they know is currently on top form, despite the fact the old Tony Hawk’s games used to be brilliant fun.
BIGAL-1992 | 07/12/2009 17:49
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Mate, have you played this game? It’s awful, just look at what I said earlier on cc_star comment.
nofi | 07/12/2009 17:50
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insane_gaming doesn’t play games, he just has opinions on them. It’s part of TSA tradition. :p
BIGAL-1992 | 07/12/2009 17:59
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Right. I was in the mindset that I was on CVG. Still, RIDE is a bad game, and I’d rather shoot myself in the foot than play it again.