Was Retro Tony Hawk Better?

When I was just a wee lad with my PS1, Pizza Hut was giving away free demo discs if you bought a certain kind of pizza or something like that. One of the demos was Tony Hawk's Pro Skater.

I was in love.

Playing it for hours on end, I constantly tried to beat my score. I finally got over a million points :D

Afterwards, when it came out, I finally got a Tony Hawk game, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2. It was all I played for a year.

Recently however, I've tried playing the newer Tony Hawk games. I've tried the ones on WII and 360 and even PS2 and none of them seem to bring back the memories of the first two. It seems like the more they add, the more it takes away from the original. Sure some of the additions help, like getting off your board and ways to keep your combo going, but honestly, when did Tony Hawk become more about platforming or using slow-mo to nail more tricks? I'll admit, some of the jumps you can reach by getting off your board are sweet. But please don't try to turn a skateboarding game into a building-climbing game. Tony Hawk is still fun, but to me its at it's lowest point ever right now.

The first Tony Hawk game was an amazing accomplishment. The graphics and physics were way ahead of it's time. The game just doesn't have that, "god damn, did you see that?!" appeal anymore imo. Also the handling was amazing, there was no other game out that had the feel Tony Hawk had.
I think most developers have caught up in the graphics and physics department and the novel feel of the game has worn off.

I agree the older Tony Hawks were way better, seems the one now a days are more focused on doing everything but alot of skateboarding, alot of climbing, and spray painting and other ordeals that have nothing to do with getting on a skate board and just having a good time.

Agreed the new tony hawk games are garbage i was a loyal fan of the series since one i was obsessed with those games. it was around thaw2 i noticed the quaitly was a little degraded than in thaw it was the nail to the series coffin (though unlike alot of people i really liked thaw) but the quality was definitely way down and than the two games after that were just total garbage.

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Yeah I liked retro tony hawk games better

yeah, the new tony hawks are pretty much crap. i remember playing number 2 on my computer for a LONG time. IMO, it got bad after 4 :|

I can remember being addicted to TH3 for the longest time. And yes id agree with you. The Tony Hawks coming out now are TERRIBLE (except Project 8 wasnt bad)

Yeah, they were better. Up until the first Underground they were all good, but after then I just lost interest in them.

Well, I loved the first, second, Underground, and Underground 2, but those were the only ones I ever liked. The 3rd and 4th ones were crap in my opinion :/

I had 1, 2 and 3 when I was a kid...they were great...Number 1 on the N64...that was awesome.

The first one was my personal favorite one. It was just so simple to pull of move it made it really fun.

Underground was the last best one IMO.