/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8111168
nice job impersonating me bro, you now have my tony hawk seal of approval

Everyone:
>Favorite TH game
>Level
Soundtrack
>Skater

couldn't you find a worse capture?

No.

>>8111168
Can’t say that about many remakes but there’s literally no reason to play the original when the new gen version exists

>>8111352
>no superman

>>8111176
>Anonymous
Technically everyone's impersonating you.

Each new school year Jeremy Adams, a teacher in Bakersfield, Calif., gives the same lesson. When he shows pictures of celebrities like Kendall Jenner or Miley Cyrus to his students on a screen, they immediately recognize them. But faced with photos of policymakers like Mike Pence or Nancy Pelosi, the children stare blankly.

That ignorance is no joke to Adams, he writes in his new book, “Hollowed Out: A Warning About America’s Next Generation” (Regnery Publishing), out now.

“We need to brace ourselves for what Adams frets that today’s youngsters are “barren of the behavior, values and hopes from which human beings have traditionally found higher meaning . . . or even simple contentment.” Adams calls them “hollowed out,” a generation living solitary lives, hyperconnected to technology but unattached from their families, churches or communities. He cites statistics showing teen depression rose 63 percent from 2007 to 2017 while teen suicide grew 56 percent. Tragically, he writes, suicide has become the second-leading cause of death for the young.

While teachers once helped students become their “best selves” by putting the focus on curriculums, lesson plans and test scores, he writes, that’s given way to trying to “understand” young people through programs emphasizing suicide and depression awareness, human trafficking concerns, or bullying, gangs and shootings.

Adams blames the dissolution of the American family for this shift, with marriage rates down and the number of traditional two-parent homes plummeting. Although studies have shown that regular family dinners leads to less youth “smoking, binge drinking, marijuana use, violence, school problems, eating disorders and sexual activity,” most of Adams’ students say they eat dinner alone each night, focused not on family but the device in their hand.

The neglect of family life is one of the greatest causes of the hollowing out not only of students, but of American life.

>>8111252
he booted the game up and navigated the game menu for that picture. probably break his wrists trying to ollie. fuckin game journalists, man

>>8111176
THPS 2
Foundry
THPS 2
Chad Muska

1 is okay. THPS is at it's height when you can chain manuals together infinitely for millions of points.

>>8111168
But Tony Hawk 2, 3, 4, Wasteland and THUG1+2 are better

>>8111176
>THPS4
>College
>THPS2
>Custom skater

First game best

>>8111352
>new gen
S O U L L E S S

>>8111352
they look way different and the remakes feel a lot faster, also they do the weird teleporting thing instead of blood. i prefer the remake nowadays but i disagree that the original is not worth playing

>>8111792
I still reckon the originals are better than the remake. Call me a nostalgiafag but the true 'vibe' of the games are the originals, not the modern remake.

>>8111176
"nice job impersonating me"
You don't get dibs on making a THPS thread, fuck off.

THPS1 is still the goat and has the hardest lines out of any of the games in the series.

>>8111761

>>8111834
not everything is supposed to be an "argument", this isn't debate club

>>8111841
Yes it is

>>8111897
No it isn't.

>>8111841
>4channel.org
>not a debate club

0/10, apply yourself

>>8111912
the kids on this site can't handle a mild disagreement about video game minutia without having a meltdown like i'm attacking their very personhood or some shit. it just gets a little tiresome, i prefer threads where everyone is on the same page (so to speak)

>>8111483
based muska

>>8111930
There’s a great website out there just for you, wish I could remember the name…

>>8111930
Why wouldn’t you want to attack their personhood?

>>8111176
THUG2
Barcelona
THUG2
Burnquist

>>8111819
Yeah but I got dibs on your mom

>>8111168
Grind Session is a better Tony Hawk 1 than Tony Hawk 1

>>8111829
stupid take

THE UNIVERSE SAYS WHAT IT SAYS

>>8111950
yes its called bigdickcity.com

>>8111352
not gonna buy your shitty remake shill
FUCK REMAKES

>>8111352
They ruined the goal design in THPS1 levels by adding more goals, they ruined the flow of THPS2 levels by removing cash icons. In terms of gameplay and trick options it plays like THPS4 and it does it pretty well, but structurally it's all fucked up. Play the originals instead, they are genuinely more thoughtfully designed.

>>8112331
if im chasing combos then 1+2 is the go-to

>>8112432
whatever you say shill

>>8112476
what

>>8111352
the controls and physics are off in the remake. dont know what it is but its better in the original

>>8112482
the physics are based on the ps2 games, if you didn't like them there then yeah especially won't like them put into 1 and 2

>>8111176
THUG 2
Airport
THPS2
Secret Characters

>>8112331
What is wrong with having more goals? I haven't played the remakes, but that looks actually fine, like more things to do in a map.

>>8112482
>the controls and physics are off in the remake
Definitely. It's about 95% of the way there but there are definitely some bugs (which certainly won't be ironed out now). Play a created level for example and you will definitely bail just by going up a half pipe or else clip through assets.
The story levels sometimes, though rarely, have the same issues.

>>8111176
THPS3
Vans Park
THPS3
The black one

>>8111176
THPS2
Santa Monica
THUG1
Jamie Thomas

>>8112503
I always liked playing these games and trying to get all the goals in each level down to 1 run. It's still definitely possible in the remake, there are even leaderboards for it, but it's nowhere near as enjoyable as it originally was. The original had a flow to it that got completely disrupted with the new goals.
The problem with adding goals to the THPS1 levels and removing cash icons from THPS2 levels is that if you're already really familiar with the originals, THPS1 levels end up taking about twice as long as they originally did and THPS2 levels, which are actually better levels, end up taking half the time they originally did. They completely destroyed the original games' pitch perfect difficulty balancing and the pacing is all horrible. If they had left it alone and just presented all of the levels, goals, and cash icons as they originally were I'd be singing that remake's praises, because everything else it pretty much gets right, but as it is I have no reason to play it over the originals. I see people all the time suggesting that these remakes completely replace the originals but they're not even remotely the same games because of the changes that were made.

>>8111168
>Play Tony Hawk 1.
nah. I’m fine with 720°

>>8112480
shill: Someone who tries to sell something to people

QUANTA, MESONS, HADRONS, PHOTONS, NEUTRONS
ELECTRONS AND PROTONS COMBINING TO FORM
ATOMS AND MOLECULES AND COMPOUNDS AND CELLS
TISSUES AND ORGANS IN A SYSTEM OF A BEING
ON THE PLANET EARTH, SPINNING AROUND ITS AXIS
REVOLVING AROUND THE SUN, REVOLVING AROUND THE CENTER
OF THE MILKY WAY GALAXY IN A SUPERCLUSTER OF GALAXIES
WILL IT EVER BE YOU AND ME

HERE AND NOW?

>>8111176

THPS 2
SCHOOL 2
Evil Eye - Fu Manchu
Rodney Mullen

>>8111176
THPS3
Cruise Ship
THPS1
picrel

>>8112782
That's not what a shill is.

>>8112937
yes it is. read a fucking book once in a while

>>8111168
Played through it this week, still fun, but I enjoyed it more in my single digits.

>>8111168
Why is Tony Hawk's head balding in all his games?

>>8111168
I have beaten this on dreamcast and n64 and psx, I have no reason to replay.

>>8111176
>game
THUG

>level
for each game...
THPS 1 - burnside & minneapolis
THPS 2 - venice & new york
THPS 3 - los angeles & cruise ship
THPS 4 - college, kona, & san francisco
THUG - new jersey & hawaii
THUG 2 - boston, australia, kyoto & new orleans
THAW - east LA & downtown LA

>soundtrack
fall back down by rancid

>skater
CaS, spiderman, doomguy & officer dick.

>>8111352
>>8112563
i like the remaster but i can get why purists wouldn't it's just too easy i cleared the game 100% with my CaS in less than a week and i didn't have a desire to replay it since.

>>8111176
>THPS3 for the classics, American Wasteland otherwise.
>THPS3 L.A (I used to always get stuck in air doing the kick flip over the elevator lobby. I remember telling my uncle and busting out laughing when he said the same thing happened to him. Very memorable.)
>THPS3 again. Memorable songs such as that annoying ass CKY riff, AFI when they were a generic hardcore band instead of a generic pop band, YOU GOTTA WASH YO AYUSS IF YOU MUST.
>I think I played as Rodney Mullen in THPS3, but all the secret skaters I eventually unlocked took the cake. Demoness WOWZA.

>>8111168
I am. On my PS4, on my 4K TV.

>>8112320
go study moonrunes homo

>>8111168
>Tony Hawk
Pfft. Play Skate or Die. Or T&C Surf Designs.

How bout my nigga Higgins?

>>8111176
THPS3
Cruiseship
>Dub Pistols - Cyclone
Chad Muska

>>8113931
Skate 1 is still unsurpassed

>>8111371
underrated

>>8111176
>THPS1 N64
>School or Warehouse
>THPS1+2, the only song I dislike is bring the noise
>Geoff Rowley, Elissa Steamer (THPS1) and Rodney Mullen (THPS2, Playstation of course)

Unlocking Rodney Mullen's video was what got me really serious about skateboarding. I was frustrated that I couldn't kickflip and then I started doing his street tricks like caspers and darkslide stalls and primo flips and I got way better control of my feet so I could do heelflips and varials.

>>8111168
Honestly anyone who says this game aged like crap is a goddamn idiot.

Has it been surpassed by later installments? Sure. But what is there is still fundamentally fun and provides the same level of challenge it always did. It's the perfect of an example of a game that aged just fine.

The only thing that I would say fell out of utility was the fact Switch tricks don't incur a stat handicap, which does make sense and is a functional addition to future titles. Everything else is good as it ever was.

>>8111176
>THPS3
>Manhattan from THUG
>THUG. Love the more hip hop focused soundtrack
>Andrew Reynolds

i did https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M9fkOdgeR8

>>8111352
>no Blue Thunder
PASS. I'll stick to my Dreamcast copies, thanks.

>>8115454
THUG
Manhattan
Imaginary Places
Rodney Mullen

>>8111168
I did when it first released. I played it all night after my heart was broken.

SO HERE I AM

DOING EVERYTHING I CAN

>>8118890
>>8119170
NEW GIRL

>>8114842
>Honestly anyone who says this game aged like crap is a goddamn idiot.
>Has it been surpassed by later installments? Sure.
isn't that basically saying it aged?

>>8119178
THIS IS HOW I GOT A

>>8119219
Not the same anon but I can see their point. Something can have aged well but be inferior when compared with a modern installment.

>>8111168
Actually just did very recently. Played THPS2 a bunch when it came out but only ever played a Warehouse demo of 1.

it was a fun little nember. 100%'d with Jamie Thomas in like an hour. Felt like a more primitive version of 2, which makes sense. Feel done with it now.

Coolest thing about it were the downhill tracks. Should have made a return.

>>8111595
>nostalgshits be like

>>8111841
debatable

>>8118683
rodney mullen is my hero and i recently bought a skateboard from him. my favorite game is unironically underground and underground 2, as, you know, you can get off the fucking board. thanks for reminding me i need to buy shoes op

I
GOT
PSCYCHOBITCHES

>>8111168
Only skating game I ever played, unless JSRF counts, is Skate 3. So sell me on this old shit when I have something way more advanced and I'm sure even slightly newer TH games are better?

>>8119854
super fun arcadey combo stuff, sort of like a solo fighting game but with a lot of fun tricks. look up andythps tournaments and old combo videos of him, or stuff like the American wasteland demo. you'll see what makes it fun.

demo at https://youtu.be/IvzwUf_1Gsw

>>8114248
Skate isn’t fun whatsoever, it tries to be too realistic and that’s where the fun leaves. Tony Hawk was fun because it didn’t take itself seriously and let you perform ridiculous stunts

>>8119854
skate and tony hawk (except for project 8 and proving ground) are very different. Pro skater 1/2/3 are fast paced arcade-like action where you're thrown into a level and have 2 minutes to complete the objectives. you need to make combos to get high scores, and it gets exhilarating when you're good enough to hold a combo that goes into the 5 mill, 10mil, 100 mil, while you're listening to the excellent soundtracks that enhance your play sessions.

>>8121537
As someone who knows THPS, explain Skate to me in these terms. I only played a demo but I couldn't get into it.

>>8121565
The best way i can explain it is skate is much more technical while Tony Hawk is very arcade style. If Tony Hawk is like Need for Speed, then Skate is like Forza

>>8121565
if you're tired of flying around the level and holding intense focus for upwards of 10 minutes, skate 1(only one ive played) can be a refreshing, almost calming experience. It's a true open world(not like american wasteland) and when you get used to the interesting yet satisfying controls, you'll feel like a god skating through the areas. unlike tony hawk, your combos don't have to held together by manualing everywhere so you can grind down this rail and flip out, then kick back to full speed and ollie off of another stair case, then you could skate back up the ramp and do it again without having to struggle against a manual balance or spam grinding up the wall to get back up. I'm not too familiar with the soundtrack but I know skate 2 has some great songs.

>>8112654
Based /vr/chad.

>>8113931
>>8113937
There's no way the new sticky zoomers here (90% of this thread) know what any of these games are.

i think tonys 540s look gay and that he should feel bad
embedrel is how to 540
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAyG6ZyU9I0
>b-but muh flat 540s are harder
isnt that a shame?
they still look gayer

mctwist or mcfuckoff

>>8119219
Only in the sense that "the original game didn't have features thought up after the core game was crafted".

In other words the DNA of the original game is still fully intact in the more "robust" installments. I would say something aged badly when later installments managed extract things from the core experience and replace them with something better.

What worked in THPS1 still exists in the later games exactly as it did in THPS1, hence why THPS1 still holds up. The same kind of challenge that comes from the later games can be found in the original game, just in a more limited fashion.

>>8121565
if you dont/didnt skate irl, i honestly wouldnt recommend it. the controls will likely come off as obtuse to you. that said it is definitely a game that rewards you heavily for "gitting gud™", so the more you put into it, the more youll get out of it

if you did skate irl even if you succcced, get it. fucking any of them. its easily one of the best games ever to just fuck around in. the controls are very intuitive for those with irl experience skating, and that makes it very very satisfying to play
idk how EA let an honest-to-god good game slip by like that, let alone 3 of them.
of course, they eventually shut down black box studios and fired everyone, so maybe i shouldnt be too surprised

>>8113884
Anon knows what's good in life.

>>8121565
cont
1 is great. good map, good single-player

2 is arguably my favorite, best map, best single-player

3 at first comes off as the worst. arcade-y due to its setting, has a segmented open-world 3 different islands you can warp to (but cant skate between... bummer), kinda thoughtless single-player etc
however, it has some saving graces that make it arguably the best
>custom park editor
what it says on the tin. it used to be even better when the serbs were still up, as there were dozens of great community built parks you could DL. a bit restrictive of an editor at first glance, as you can only merge/countersink a couple pieces together. that is until you use the
>merge glitch
not gonna explain how to do it its very ez tho, but this allows you to merge/countersink any objects infinitely (or until you crash your PS3). with this glitch and a lot of time and tism, its easily the best park creator ever made. some of the incredible stuff people used to make now sadly only exists in jewtube vids, or on HDDs that still have it downloaded, but its still worth mentioning as you can pretty much make any spot you can dream of
and finally
>hardcore mode
HC turns up the realism factor by A LOT.
lowers your ollies, slows your spins, lowers your acceleration and top speed slightly, eliminates the subtle "snap-to-rail/lip" mechanic. all sounds rather shit on paper, but it makes skate 3 basically infinitely replayable imo. if you wanna do a FS boardslide down a handrail, you need to get a good run up, approach at the right angle, ollie high enough, turn your board the right way, balance on the rail, then quickly straighten your board back out to land.
the satisfaction of gitting gud is turned up exponentially in HC mode

tl;dr
start on 1 or 2 2 preferably, and then if you like it enough and wanna play HC mode or use the park editor, get 3
theyre all still pretty cheap and available at most used game shops ive been in

>>8112654
>being this Ataripilled
Cool

>>8121537
I don't do time limits, it's the same reason I hate JSR but enjoy JSRF, so that's a nope from me.

>>8123525
there's also free skate modes and the later ones don't have an ever present world timer in story mode (4 onward)

>>8121864
did you know tony hawk started on the 5th generation of consoles?

>>8123525
yeah like >>8123598 said, the 2 minute timer was cut in tony hawk 4 and every tony hawk game since lets you freeskate as long as you want, then you talk to someone and initiate a mission which then might give you a timer to complete only that one, then it goes back to freeskate.

>>8111168
HERE I AM

>>8113884
>annoying
I had to look up if it was quite bitter beings you're talking about because I only ever played a cousin's copy of it a long time ago and barely remember it but whatchu is be talkin willis, that's a great riff.

>>8111176
>game
THPS 4
>level
Kona
>soundtrack
THPS 2
>skater
Rodney Mullen

It seems like PC didn't get much love for this series, but it did get a few games here and there. How do they hold up to the console versions. Good ports or janky half baked cash grabs? Did it miss out on any good titles, or did it by chance get most of the good ones?

>>8111168
Jerry was a racecar driver
He drove so goddamn fast

>>8125515
PC has ports of every game between THPS2 to THAW inclusive (so every good game in the series). Physical copies are tough to find but that's why the internet exists. They're good ports across the board- only 2 is weird because it's old, 30fps locked, and uses DirectDraw- but sometimes annoying to run reliably on modern systems. There's patches for that. There's even THUG Pro, a community mod of THUG 2 that fixes up multiplayer and includes most all the maps from the series up to THAW.

>>8124280
Anything before atari doesnt really count so I'd say it's 4th
even atari sucked and shouldnt really count

>>8125864
theres a fix to remove the frame cap making it 60+