dose any one like tony hawk games any more

[game_over18]

I use to love those games and i still do but all i here from people now is that they suck, is there anyone out there???

[smalien1]

how many threads have you started in the past hour?

[TheRaven]

I never have gotten into them. I have the 2nd on the DC and prolly put in a little over an hour and havent played one since.

[zionoverfire]

how many threads have you started in the past hour?

Well at least this one kinda makes sense.

Anyhow Tony Hawk games aren't that great anymore. The company knows they will make a bundle so they don't even try anymore.

[Scrubking]

I thought THUG was awesome.

I might have checked out THUG 2 if it wasn't for the BAM factor.

[PapiChullo]

THUG is probably my favorite in the series. THUG 2 is ok, but not great. But to answer the question, I still like the games, and I think they're good.

[Scorch]

Catch the reference, win a prize..

http://www.ebgames.com/ebx_assets/thumbnails/243635.gif = http://www.sullacresta.it/squalo/Jumping%20great%20white%20shark.JPG

[janglypangly]

^^ going under?

[Gothic Walrus]

Tony Hawk has become the Madden of skateboarding games. Every year, a new rehash that's not too far removed from the year prior.

The games aren't bad, but more originality would be nice.

[smalien1]

Jumping the shark like with the fonz in happy days, it's a common saying with tv shows

[Trakan]

1-4 were great, thug sucked, haven't played thug 2.

[Tromack]

how many threads have you started in the past hour?

Well at least this one kinda makes sense.

Anyhow Tony Hawk games aren't that great anymore. The company knows they will make a bundle so they don't even try anymore.

I knew before I came into this thread that it was going to be by him. The "dose" gave it away.

[CapAmerica]

The series has Jumped the Shark.

How many TH games have been released this Gen?
TH2x, TH3, Th4, THUG, THUG2.
For crying out load we don't need this many TH games in one Gen 2 is plenty in my book. They are really milking the series which is turning me off from the series. its a good game. But I won't buy it any more.

[nikkai]

HOw about just a caption?

If you think that's scary, wait till you see what's chasing the shark.

[nikkai]

Or how about, "Even sharks run away from Tony Hawk games now"

I'm bored - need to finish studying.

[Cracka]

i had never had a tony hawk game until a few months ago. i bought Pro Skater 4 for $4.99 used at gamestop. Loved it, didnt finish it b/c i got to a part where i couldnt beat any of the missions, so i stopped playing it. Havent played the newer ones, but was planning on getting one of the new ones..but from what i've heard, maybe i should take it off my list of games to get...

[Scorch]

Or how about, "Even sharks run away from Tony Hawk games now"

I'm bored - need to finish studying.

..because "jumping the shark" is a common phrase that everyone here should know.

If you get any THPS game, get THUG1.

[Lootr2Core]

Catch the reference, win a prize..

http://www.ebgames.com/ebx_assets/thumbnails/243635.gif = http://www.sullacresta.it/squalo/Jumping%20great%20white%20shark.JPG

Tony Hawk has jumping sharks? Wow that is a strange reference...

maybe you can do some photoshop to show it jumping the shark,

[hiccupleftovers]

I like the TH games but it's getting old with them.

[tornadomann]

I have never really even played a Tony Hawk game!

[Moxio]

I thought things got too complex after 4.

[Magician]

I actually preferred THUG over TPS4. I'm not so sure about THUG2, though... The Destruction Derby thing doesn't seem too promising to me.

[evilmojo12542]

I enjoyed previous versions of TH but am not sure I really like the underground2

[alongx]

First TH game I got was THPS 2 for Dreamcast. I would have gotten Tony Hawk 1, but I knew 2 was coming out soon after. Then I got THPS4 for Xbox last year, because I was in the mood for some Hawk, and didn't want to fork over the cash for THUG.

[YoshiFan1]

I have all the THPS games up to THUG (I don't have 1 seperate but it's on 2X) and I like the series but I feel that it has been going downhill since THPS 3. THPS 3 was the perfect THPS game for me since it had great level design and it was just a lot of fun to play. I thought THUG was too mission based and THUG 2 seems to be even worse in that regard with the whole Bam vs. Tony Hawk setup.

I know there is classic mode but that wasn't really the way THUG 2 was meant to be played from what I have read.

I will still get THUG 2 but not until there is a price drop (under $20).

[JohnnyDrama]

I think the last Tony Hawk game I played was THPS3 for PS2, I never even bothered to try any other Hawk game after that. It's not that I dislike them, it's just that when I got my Xbox, there were more better games to try out than THPS.

[lurknomore]

The only THPS game that I like and would ever play anymore is THPS2 for Dreamcast....I have the others, but I simply don't find them to be fun at all. To each its own.

[regisphilbi0]

Three was AMAZING, 4 was good, but once the whole THUG thing started it turned me off. Sounds like an MTV show in a game.. .blah...

[punqsux]

Or how about, "Even sharks run away from Tony Hawk games now"

I'm bored - need to finish studying.

..because "jumping the shark" is a common phrase that everyone here should know.

If you get any THPS game, get THUG1.

i havent played thug 2, but i liked the other 5 games.

my favorite is 2 and least favorite is 3

[Nirvanaguy777]

I thought 3 and 4 were great, thug was also good, but thug 2 is one of the most godawful games I have ever played, I wont buy another tony hawk game ever.

[basketkase543]

4 was my last game. I didn't think that Tony should be able to get off his board and just start traveling around during a trick. The whole series just got a little stale as well around 4.

I know this isn't very good but hopefully it can better explain what Scorch was trying to say:

http://img28.exs.cx/img28/7701/shark5.jpg

[Masterkyo]

i never liked or played any TH or THUG games

[Alpha2]

http://img34.exs.cx/img34/8865/jump.jpg

I couldnt help it, when I saw the thread I tried it myself. Frankly I just kinda wish they;d wait for the next generation of systems.

[brainstorm]

anyone else like me and think that the first one was incredible and better than any of the others??? i mean the second one rocked too, when they added manuals and whatnot, but the first one completely rocked

[bignick]

4 was the turning point when they started to get shitty.

[Tricky]

I like the older versions of Tony Hawk better. I bought the last two for Xbox and did not play them that much.

[scuba]

I liked 1 and even 2 a little but once you could get 1,000,000,000,000 points it got pointless and stupid and once they started adding stupid characters and thousands of moves.
I LOVED the first one, soo much fun. I could play that for hours and try to beat my high score. Some people probably would never believe me. I got like 1,000,000 but of course it was on the first level.

[2poor]

after 2 it was the same thing over and over again

[PenguinMaster]

Up untill THUG they just kept getting better and better. THUG 2 sucked though.

I bought all of them for over $30 except THUG 2, I'm never buying that.

[Rig]

I rented one of them wayyyyy back in the day. I don't much care for them, and wouldn't ever purchase one.

[basketkase543]

http://img34.exs.cx/img34/8865/jump.jpg

I couldnt help it, when I saw the thread I tried it myself. Frankly I just kinda wish they;d wait for the next generation of systems.

How do you select an image so carefully that you can't even tell it was tampered with (I'm assuming you used photoshop)? In my pic above I outlined Tony Hawk manually because there didn't seem to be any other way to do it. What tool do you use?

[Wet Ninja]

The Tony Hawk series have been some of my favorite games since I played the demo for Tony Hawk 2 on a demo disc from Official Sega Dreamcast Magazine. For me, my favorite was Tony Hawk 4, followed by 3, THUG, and 2. I thought the level design in 4 was really good (especially Alcatraz...brilliant), and I liked the varied challenges like the pro challenges and the ones where people call out tricks and you have to nail them. I'm not quite halfway through THUG2, so I can't say yet how that fits in with the rest. I'm enjoying it so far, and some of the level design is really good, but it doesn't seem as new as previous iterations. Of course, when nothing new is added to something I already greatly enjoy, that's not necessarily a bad thing.

[dpatel]

The first one was one of my favorite games of all time because it was so different and innovative. I didn't care too much for 2. 3 is my favorite of the series. It had the best levels and gameplay. 4 was decent but the levels were too huge and not that fun. I haven't tried either THUG's but they don't seem that great.

[Nematode]

The first game and even the second were great, but I kinda lost interest after that. I got addicted to FPS games. They breakthru of the series was the invention afterwards it kinda just was the same old thing.

[Alpha2]

How do you select an image so carefully that you can't even tell it was tampered with (I'm assuming you used photoshop)? In my pic above I outlined Tony Hawk manually because there didn't seem to be any other way to do it. What tool do you use?

Mostly from lots and lots of practice, but yeah in Photoshop I use the polygonal lasso tool for percision (actually it's just the Lasso tool with Alt held down which gives the same action but makes it easier because I dont have to connect the end of the marquee to the begining for it to set). I zoomed in and went around the skateboard as close as possible removing the BG but then I just got lazy and marqueed the rest of him by eye. :P

Then I dragged the selected Tony off of his original picture and dropped him on his own layer on a new picture, scaled him down a bit to fit the image (this sort of blurs the pixels on his outer edge) then I tossed in a color gradient back ground which had colors close to the edges (this further camoflages them). I then tossed the photoshopped shark on a layer inbetween and erased a little to make it blend in with the color BG.

I dont often use Feathered selection areas but maybe once in a while I might use the Antialias, I didnt here though.

[evilpenguin9000]

I'd say that most of the series have been pretty good, but it's easy to get tired of if you play it a lot. I really didn't care for THUG 2 tho. It seems thrown together and unpolished.