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So here I am..

>> No.5936206
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>> No.5936209

>>5936142
THPS2 was in every way superior.

>> No.5936245

TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT THAT WE GOT THE TRUCK

>> No.5936275

>>5936209
yeah, but the first was still fun

>> No.5936298
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You put a smile on your face (don't you?)
To try to hide behind your lies (don't you?)
But that just magnifies the pain in your soul
I see with my cyco vision

>> No.5936528

>>5936209
they get better and better until THAW.

>> No.5936554

>>5936142
DOIN EVERYTHING I CAN

>> No.5936798

>>5936298
I could barely comprehend what they were saying or understand any words other than "Die, you psycho bitches" which I found out was totally wrong like 8 years later.

>> No.5936806

>>5936528
The biggest jump was 2 to 3 and then P8. I liked it, but I get that it wasn't everyone's bag

>> No.5936904

>>5936554
HOLDIN ON TO WHAT I AM

>> No.5936962

>>5936298
>tfw the Freedumb album cover is on a wall in School
Love that album. I wish they had chosen another song from it rather than the one that's like 2 minutes long.

>> No.5937326

>>5936245
Based anon who remembers the actual theme song of the game.

>> No.5937458

>>5936554
>>5936904
>>5936142

I NEVER THOUGHT, I'D DIE ALONE

...Adam's song was on one of the Tony Hawk's wasn't it?

>> No.5938057 [DELETED] 

>Ollie the Bum
peak poetry.

>> No.5938059

>Ollie the Magic Bum
peak poetry.

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https://youtu.be/c34DDE4a1XE

>> No.5938137

>>5936528
They stopped at THUG2. THAW was meh and everything after was lmao shit.

>> No.5938139

>>5936142
upvoted

>> No.5938662

>>5936528
>>5936806
>>5938137

I remember renting 1 and having a blast with it at 10 years old. It was really popular with everybody in my class and a bunch of us got skateboards because of it. I also remember when the 2nd game came out and it improved on everything from the first one and again the kids in my class were ecstatic and the first guy who got the game invited us all over and we played it for hours. Even when the third game came out and the only guy with a PS2 rented it he invited the 5 of us over and we had so much fun. It improved on everything the 2nd one had improved on.

I remember the 4th game coming out for XBOX and one guy on my hockey team had it (XBOX was fucking expensive so nobody had it at first) and he was describing it and I was like damn that sounds pretty awesome. It would take a couple months before one of my friends got the game and another couple before I got it but after 4 I don't remember much about the improvements. I remember playing one game on my gamecube and it was really fun but it's all a blur around that time.


I remember getting THPS2 for christmas for my PS1 and freaking out (even though it was a year or two old at that point) and playing it non stop for the next couple months. I even rented it for the N64 to compare the differences.

>> No.5938706

>>5938662
I missed out on the first one. I remember playing it at a demo kiosk once, but that was about it. My first skateboarding game was Grind Session, then THPS2, then the PS1 port of THPS3. My brother ended up pirating the PC version of 3. Coming from the PS1 port, I was pretty blown away by it. It was cool that you could modify the game soundtrack too.
The first time I played 1 was at a friend's house on N64. Another friend that was over brought THPS4 for PS1. That one always struck me as odd.
My first PS2 THPS was THUG 2. I wasn't too big on the Jackass theme, but I still played theit a lot. I skipped the original THUG (still never played it once but I probably should)
I played THAW once on an original Xbox. At the time, I wasn't fond of the emo-ish black and pink aesthetic but it's probably a fun game.
P8 on X360 was the last one I played start to end. It felt like a huge jump to me. Lots of throwbacks to the old games, great OST, with a lot of the cool THUG elements too
Never tried PG. I might've played a demo of it once, but it's a vague memory

>> No.5938715

>>5938706
Even going back and playing 1 and 2 is very satisfying. 3 isn't as fun to play on the N64 but it's pretty good on the PS2.

I think they kind of jumped the shark after 4 but it still kept my interest a bit. There is a game for the PS1 (skate and destroy?) that has really difficult to master controls by comparison to the THPS series but it's very satisfying to play. Doing a kickflip and landing it takes a lot of effort and you can't do crazy insane tricks.

This reminds me that unlocking Spiderman and his video were pretty fucking awesome as a kid. My only regret is never unlocking Skater Heaven because I thought you needed to complete every gap jump to unlock it and I got so close to completing them all (took me months) and then lent my game to a friend and never got it back.

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>>5938715
The N64 ports were a good effort. They looked great. THPS1 is my favorite of the three. I played 2 and 3 on PS1 first and got spoiled by them. Acclimating to the controller wasn't too hard, but the soundtrack really suffered. I wonder if it's possible to do romhacks to restore the full ost now that cartridge space isn't an issue.
THPS4 is very hazy to me. In retrospect, it seems confused between the old and new. Back then, I remember being disappointed that it was open-ended instead of an arcade-style time attack like 3. In all fairness, how could they have topped 3 at that? I gotta hand it to them for trying something new. The idea of dismounting in the original THUG was a huge deal. The combos you could pull off in the later PS2 games like THUG 2 were insane.
>Skate Heaven
Kek, thank you for jogging my memory. I haven't seen that stage since the early 2000s. Whenever you fall off the cliff, the devil taunts you (YOU SUCK)
Good effort trying to 100% it with every character. I did with 1 or 2 characters and eventually used cheat codes to get Officer Dick, Spiderman, and Skate Heaven

>> No.5938748

>>5936528
2s the best cause it has skate heaven and spiderman

>> No.5938772

>>5938747
I unlocked everything except for Skater Heaven because I was concentrating on completing the gap list to unlock it (only recently did I learn this was wrong and you had to beat the game with one of the unlocked characters) and the last two gaps I had to find were "Are you serious?" and something on the Bull Ring level.
https://www.ign.com/boards/threads/thps2-gaps.2604858/ I thought this was pretty cool

The combos in the later games just seemed so crazy that it didn't matter anymore. You were just making unlimited points. I was blown away by the fact that you could free roam and dismount in the later games though.

>> No.5938795

>>5938748
Spidey flipping over the wall in school 2 was peak Hawk

>> No.5938907

>>5938772
>The combos in the later games just seemed so crazy that it didn't matter anymore. You were just making unlimited points.
Yeah. First came the revert, then the timed dismount, then the sticker slaps
I felt content being able to break 1 million points in 3. Others can break 100 million like it's nothing.

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>>5936142
Post the song you dip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeNKhm09Q88

>> No.5940598

'CAUSE I DON'T CARE WHERE I BELONG NO MORE

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>>5940598
WHAT WE SHARE OR NOT I WILL IGNORE

>> No.5942210

>>5938907
That's why the series shifted gears with THUG. It wasn't just scores anymore. But now there was a plot and missions and blah, blah, blah.

>> No.5942238

THERES A PLACE WHERE EVERYONE CAN BE HAPPY

>> No.5942684

>>5942238
It's the most beautiful place in the whole ---- world

>> No.5942767

>>5936142
My fav game of all time. Same age as me.

>> No.5942809

>>5936142
https://youtu.be/-7RwgypAfTo

>> No.5942810
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Honest question here. Did anybody know any of these 'pro' skaters before playing the game? I had no idea who they were but I was also like 8 at the time that I first rented THPS1 so I guess that's reasonable.

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>>5936142
ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE

>> No.5942819

AND IN THE EEEEND
IT DOESN'T EVEN MAAAAATTEEEEEEER

>> No.5942824

>>5936209
But THPS3 for PC is the definitive experience.

>> No.5942825

>>5942810
I remember seeing Tony Hawk and Bob Burnquist in the X Games before I played THPS2

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>>5936142
THPS2 was one of 'the' games you had to have when you were younger. It was as popular as Smash Brothers and 007 and even Power Stone on the Dreamcast. These were the popular games that everybody knew about depending on which system they had. The dreamcast wasn't popular where I lived and the only game any of us ever knew about was Powerstone and we didn't even believe the one kid who said he had Tony Hawk on it because we all thought it was only on Playstation.

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>>5942810
Nah. Most who did were probably from California
In Saved by the Bell, Kelly Kapowski has a Tony Hawk poster in her room

>> No.5944007

>>5942810
I knew of Tony Hawk

>> No.5944195

IT'S JUST ANOTHER SATURDAY

>> No.5944197

>>5944195
Eat my shit you cumgoblin

>> No.5944316

>>5936142
A dead franchise.

>> No.5944480

>>5944197
whoa! talk about uncalled for!

>> No.5945120

>>5942810
from the original roster I already knew of Bob Burnquist, Kareem Campbell, Buckey Lasek, Chad Muska, Geoff Rowley and Jamie Thomas. and obviously Tony Hawk

Elissa Steamer (what a name), Rune Glifberg, Andrew Reynolds and Jamie Thomas were new to me. I only skated street and had no interest in vert but it was in the same magazines

fun game, I wish I could skate irl without worrying about getting injured and that having serious consequences now I'm old

>> No.5945282

>>5942238
ITS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACE IN THE WHOLE FUCKIN WORLD