Together Retro: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2

[Flake]

Does anyone remember where the secret tape is on the school level?

I barely remember that there is a school level.

[ksloth]

I will be playing on the PS1, unless I can find my DC copy. Great game.

[noiseredux]

by request, my desktop for this month:

[harper]

Does anyone remember where the secret tape is on the school level?

I barely remember that there is a school level.

You can't have a skateboarding game without a school level. haha

[RyaNtheSlayA]

I'll be playing the PS1 version as well, since all I've got is a PS3.

This was one of my favorite games as a kid. Was great with friends.

[Menegrothx]

This is kinda offtopic, but THPS 2 was my first Tony Hawk game and I bought every game from the first up to Underground 2. I have played all of the games through multiple times and spent way too much of my life playing them, so I would like to know if American Wasteland or any of the other more recent titles are worth the time for a series ”veteran”?

[GameMasterGuy]

I still need to get this... I still have 4 laying around somewhere, but I haven't touched it since around launch.

[Flake]

This is kinda offtopic, but THPS 2 was my first Tony Hawk game and I bought every game from the first up to Underground 2. I have played all of the games through multiple times and spent way too much of my life playing them, so I would like to know if American Wasteland or any of the other more recent titles are worth the time for a series ”veteran”?

Not off topic at all. The "Legacy" of the games we play is very much a topic for discussion.

I think I gave up on the series about the same time you did, so I cannot be much help. I do know that the Nintendo DS Tony Hawks were actually pretty good. I played one of those non-stop during a deployment back in 2006.

[noiseredux]

I love THPS 1-4. THUG was a letdown for me though. I did play one of the DS games (was it Downhill? Can't remember.) And it was good, as Flake mentioned. I really haven't checked out much of the post-Pro Skater stuff though. I feel like too much extra stuff was added to them that took away from just classic skating.

EDIT: oh and the GBC games are terrible, especially the first. Though the GBA port of THPS2 is actually really fun and impressive.

[Flake]

Yeah, Tony Hawk was better when the developers realized it was essentially an arcade game and were okay with that.