Thread 718427604

Are the Tony Hawk games the greatest sports series ever made?

>>718427604 (OP)
No one cares

>>718427604 (OP)
They are more like arcade games than actual sports games. Also, skateboarding isn't really a sport in the traditional sense.

Yes they're the greatest because they're not really sports games (kusoge genre)

>>718427604 (OP)
what about SSX op

>>718427604 (OP)
the og games sure but they haven't been good in over 20 years

>>718427604 (OP)
It's one of the best arcade game series, but it's not really a sports game. It's as much a sports game as San Francisco Rush is a racing simulator.
>>718428293
Do you know what kusoge actually means?

>>718427604 (OP)
That's not Top Spin

>>718428479
What about the remakes?

>>718428359
Dead series

Guys talk

>>718428293
Kusoge in spirit maybe, but not execution. Tony Hawk 1–3 were basically lightning in a bottle-jank in all the right ways, but polished enough to be addicting. It’s like if Sega Bass Fishing became a cultural phenomenon. Still, you're not wrong, they thrive more in the realm of cartoon physics and crunchy soundtracks than legit “sports”.

>>718429313
haven't played them but some like them and others don't. The artwork and animation style of the remakes seem strange and kind of souless to me.

>>718427604 (OP)
How we feeling about the Chris Cole allegations lads?

>>718432560
The who and the what?

100% yes

And btw, people who say THUG 1 isn't the best in the franchise, just didn't play it

>>718427604 (OP)
>want to talk about how cool it would be to bring back challenges and story elements
>instead, it's combonigs crying how they should do away with all of that and go back to it's roots with pure high scores and nothing more
them taking over the series feels like a war crime

On my run I saw a skater today but I didn't see him even Ollie he just wasted the sidewalk. But he's a good lad for giving me "the look" and trying to race me.

>>718434063
Chris Cole, one of the skaters listed on the cover of this game. Apparently he beat up his wife and made her change her name because Christine was too close to Chris which I think is kind of based.

>>718434324
Domestic abuse is not based, anon. Seek help.

>>718434627
If you were my wife I'd slap you for that

>>718434154
But THUG 2 is better

>>718434205
You nailed it, anon. The second they let the high score purists run the show, they stripped all the soul outta the series. The story modes in THUG and THUG2 weren’t just gimmicks-they made the games feel alive. You went from racking points in warehouse boxes to bombing cities on sketchy tours, and it actually meant something. Now it's all sterile mechanics and point-chasing with none of the charm. It's like asking for pizza and getting a bag of flour and a tomato.

>>718427604 (OP)
Tecmo Super Bowl

I love Virtua Tennis, shame Sega's own arcade skater was so under developed

>>718434154
THUG 1 doesn't even have manuals or reverse.

>>718436840
That was THPS 1 anon

>>718437237
Oh my god I'm retarded