Too many Tony Hawks

[flex wood]

Did anyone else prefer Grind Session over THPS? It had a much better soundtrack, Kool Kieth, GZA, and Jurassic 5 to name a few. It also had a balance meter before THPS did as well I can't remember but I want to say Grind Session also had manuals before THPS too but it's been so long since I've played it.

[Menegrothx]

No way could any real skater come close to pulling off that many tricks in like a 10 second period.

You'd be surprised.



Check your boy Jason Lee make sick moves at the 40- 44 sec mark. Ridiculous.

If you want to show off technical skateboarding, there's only one answer; Rodney Mullen.
Rodney Mullen vs Deawon Song (Almost Round 3)
Although Rodney Mullen will forever be the king of technical/freestyle skating, Daewon's part in that movie was very impressive. Mike V, Eric Koston and Chris Haslam are also nice choiches.


But the fact is that there's a lot of off in the THPS games, even in the first one. The games were never realistic to begin with, they just made ridicolously long chain combos possible and added a bunch of truly unrealistic tricks in the sequels.

Ever since the THPS games came out, professional skateboarding has advanced a lot. Today people are pulling off a lot of tricks that were thought to be impossible back in the day, some of those tricks were actually invented by the people who made the Tony Hawk games
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... dangle.jpg

[Luke]

This thread makes me all kind of sad that I haven't received a 411 VHS tape in the mail since my freshman year in undergrad.

[brainerdrainer]

Yeah but I don't really acknowledge those games. Sports games aren't for me unless it's Tecmo Super Bowl

[Metal Jesus]

It was the game that made you play as the Jackass idiots that killed the series for me (I forget which one). Riding around as Bam Margera with that stupid modified Segway just seemed like an afterthought... Also all the tagging, clothing shops, climbing parts just got old. THPS2 and 3 will always be the best if you just wanna skate.

[J T]

Anybody else like Go! Go! Hypergrind!? I thought it was a pretty fun comical take on Tony Hawk style skating gameplay.

[BurningDoom]

No way could any real skater come close to pulling off that many tricks in like a 10 second period.

You'd be surprised.



Check your boy Jason Lee make sick moves at the 40- 44 sec mark. Ridiculous.

If you want to show off technical skateboarding, there's only one answer; Rodney Mullen.
Rodney Mullen vs Deawon Song (Almost Round 3)
Although Rodney Mullen will forever be the king of technical/freestyle skating, Daewon's part in that movie was very impressive. Mike V, Eric Koston and Chris Haslam are also nice choiches.


But the fact is that there's a lot of off in the THPS games, even in the first one. The games were never realistic to begin with, they just made ridicolously long chain combos possible and added a bunch of truly unrealistic tricks in the sequels.

Ever since the THPS games came out, professional skateboarding has advanced a lot. Today people are pulling off a lot of tricks that were thought to be impossible back in the day, some of those tricks were actually invented by the people who made the Tony Hawk games
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... dangle.jpg

Andrew Reynolds was my favorite when I was skating back in middle school and high school. I was strictly street, since my town doesn't have a vert anywhere, and Reynolds was the man at street.

[Menegrothx]

Anybody else like Go! Go! Hypergrind!? I thought it was a pretty fun comical take on Tony Hawk style skating gameplay.

A parody game of THPS by the animaton studio behind Ren&Stimpy that I've never heard of before..... that was only released in the US. Just my luck

[Ziggy]

Don't know if this has already been mentioned or not, I only skimmed the thread, but has any one tried THPS HD?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hawk% ... _Skater_HD

It sounds like a no brainer, but it apparently got no-so-good reviews.

[jay_red]

Anybody else like Go! Go! Hypergrind!? I thought it was a pretty fun comical take on Tony Hawk style skating gameplay.

Never heard of it till now, but now I have to check it out!