Tony Hawk Ride - final nail in the franchise coffin?

[norkusa]

So Tony Hawk's Ride was finally released this week but I'm not really hearing much buzz about it. In fact, I haven't heard *anything* about it yet. Does anyone care or is everyone pretty much bored to death of the franchise by now and playing Skate. instead? The skateboard controller definitely looks interesting but I have doubts about how comfortable it is to play with.

Also, news like this doesn't sound good either:

http://kotaku.com/5407059/reviewer-o...-on-a-saturday

[Gapporin]

Tony Hawk died for me after the fourth game. While THUG and THAW were fun, yes, by this time they had it down to a formula. Nothing new, same old, same old.

Anybody go back and play the first game and see how primitive it is compared to later series titles?

[norkusa]

Yeah, I bought Proving Ground and Project 8 only because I scored them on the cheap and I probably spent 1 hour total between the two. Almost felt like work trying to play them.

I had a blast with Skate 2 though. Hopefully EA doesn't run the franchise into the ground like how Activision did with TH. I'd really like to try out this new TH game though because I'm a sucker for accessories like this.

[kupomogli]

I never really liked any Tony Hawk after putting more than a couple hours into the first one I played. Underground was sort of cool but then it got boring quickly.

However, why is Skate even mentioned here? Never played the first one but the second one was worse than Tony Hawk every way but graphically.

[s1lence]

Hopefully yes...this will be the end


They can throw the GH games in there too.

[portnoyd]

It won't end. We'll get Tony Hawk 3000 next, it'll be Tony Hawk on a hoverboard and it'll be as bad as Airblade was.