Are you any good at the Tony Hawk games?

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

I had them for both N64 and PS1 and, while I enjoyed the concept, the music, and some of the map design, I basically turned them into 'falling-on-your-face simulators' over and over again, resulting on me never unlocking anything and getting stuck replaying the 'Free Skate' mode every time I felt like going back to it.

It was endlessly frustrating to me because some of my friends could play it blindfolded, but I could never figure out the timing, controls and tricks well enough to do anything more than laughing at my own character for getting ragdolled.

You?

 

[Dr.Kisaragi Dr.Kisaragi]

Well I'm good at Jak 2 and 3 Hover board tricks and thinking to myself maybe I can play Tony Hawk seriously so I try the Underground 2 psp version but I already failed tutorial on the direction pad I was like man is already tough I don't if this right to start or there is easy skateboard games (but in real life I can skateboard but not tricks)

 

[Megarockman _1987 Megarockman _1987]

No really, I've been playing Tony hawk underground 2 for GameCube, I can do some tricks but i am not a pro player yet. (But I am practicing skate IRL (yes I can do a Ollie))
But I have a cousin is stupidity pro in EVERY Tony hawk's games, he always kick my ass, and if you are wondering
No, he don't touch grass

 

[ArchienineArchienine's icon]

Not good at sports games in overall

 

[Cheeks]

I WAS good at the THPS games before quitting at American Wasteland. It was a matter of 100% completion which took a lot of time, plenty of time to get better. That was all ages ago.

 

[ZombieFish]

I was the same way when they were first coming out, but a couple of years ago I got back into them and halfway figured them out, with the assistance of slowed down emulation. Once I got the hang of it that way I worked back up to full speed. I can’t say that it was really worth the hours I poured into it, but I can say I’ve beaten all of them up to THUG2. When I go back to play them for fun I still slow it down to 70/80% speed. Ruins the music, but that’s what .mp3s are for.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

but I already failed tutorial on the direction pad I was like man is already tough I don't if this right to start or there is easy skateboard games

Yeah, that's my problem as well... Even the tutorials are ruthlessly difficult, which completely ruins them for me.

I was the same way when they were first coming out, but a couple of years ago I got back into them and halfway figured them out, with the assistance of slowed down emulation. Once I got the hang of it that way I worked back up to full speed. I can’t say that it was really worth the hours I poured into it, but I can say I’ve beaten all of them up to THUG2. When I go back to play them for fun I still slow it down to 70/80% speed. Ruins the music, but that’s what .mp3s are for.

Slowing them down may be a legit pro-tip, man. I'll have to try that out!

 

[IyoTheHelpfulWolf]

Try Tony Hawk's Underground. The Neversoft era games are more responsive with snappy animations that better suit the arcade gameplay, and Underground does a decent job teaching and skill checking you throughout the campaign. It also follows a mission based structure where you only have a time limit for a given objective instead of for the entire level, so you can explore, practice, and look for collectables at your own pace in between missions. A good story about a small town skater making a name for themself, leveling up your stats, and unlocking features like board customization give further incentive to beat the campaign and learn how to play.

 

[BrawlMan]

I was, but I have not touch a TH game since Underground 2.

 

[Heidegger of Shinra]

I wouldn't say good, but I cheezed through the Underground games by exploiting flatland combos. Manual, pogo, handstand etc. You could also string these kind of combos together on the lip of the half-pipe. It's not the most fun way to play, but it brings in huge numbers.

 

[MajesticSiN]

Very much so but that was a long time ago

 

[SoThankful]

I always believed I was good because I could beat my friends and 100 percent games, until I went online with some people I met on Discord. They were on another level.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

Try Tony Hawk's Underground. The Neversoft era games are more responsive with snappy animations that better suit the arcade gameplay, and Underground does a decent job teaching and skill checking you throughout the campaign. It also follows a mission based structure where you only have a time limit for a given objective instead of for the entire level, so you can explore, practice, and look for collectables at your own pace in between missions. A good story about a small town skater making a name for themself, leveling up your stats, and unlocking features like board customization give further incentive to beat the campaign and learn how to play.

I'll look into that.

Thank you!

I was marginally better at the multiplayer, but that was because we all sucked XD

 

[Abecero]

I never really was much into the THPS games, mainly 'cus I've never found too appealing games that have a "realistic" look, I more lean into cartoony stuff, but I have played a couple of TH games, kinda: Disney Extreme Skate Adventure (guess it counts, since it uses THPS' 4 engine for it?), and a PC port of one of them games 'cus it had mod support and just played around with some chars I like, lol.

As for being good or not at these games, I consider myself to be decent at them, I guess? Like, lemme get the hang of the controls/physics and lemme learn the levels, and I can pull trick after trick and rack up a huge score, heh.

I did manage to get quite good at these two skating games, I guess:

 

[Graw]

I guess I was good enough to 100% the first THPS game on n64 back in the day but I feel like it was more just persistence and time than anything else. I'm pretty sure for a lot of the Tony Hawk's games after the first one I just kind of abused the hell out of manuals and super easy tricks to rack up points for basically anything that needed a high score or combos.

Me and my cousins and most of our friends spent a lot of time actually skateboarding for real at the time and were pretty into it so we did play the THPS games a lot back in the day. I've played and beaten them all up to Underground 2 and I'm pretty sure we unlocked most of everything in all the games.

Most of them after the first few games weren't really that hard anyway. They got kind of gimmicky and over the top and the tricks and physics got kind of ridiculous and cartoony and took away a lot of the challenge and feel of actual skateboarding the earlier games had. The first one had it's own over the top moments but for the time, it was basically like playing through your own skate video with all the people from the videos you and your buddies used to pass around and share with eachother.

 

[Princess Viola]

I mean compared to the people who've been playing these games for years and years, I ain't good. But like if you're someone who is dogshit or just 'OK' at them, you'd think 'Oh shit this girl is pretty good at this' if you saw me play.

 

[Zerohour2k12]

Remains to be seen as I haven't played any yet.Though I do suck at Jet Set Radio and the like, so....

 

[Mojacko Amano]

Not really. Not a skateboard fantastic.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

Remains to be seen as I haven't played any yet.Though I do suck at Jet Set Radio and the like, so....

I'm actually quite decent at that one (and even beat it on GBA) for some reason, but the DC controller and I had a bet going to see how cheap each of us was prepared to be XD

Maybe I was good because I actually rollerskated IRL?

 

[Retro Doomer]

I suck at them and that badly played it on the 360.

It was frustrating as hell at least I managed the first level somehow.

 

[Burzuru Burzuru]

i play them on occasion but im not as good as some of the people you can see in combo videos on youtube.

 

[Sumea]

I got through every one pretty easily.
Pick a game. I come back after I play the one named for 30 minutes.

 

[Galamzer]

The only Tony Hawk's Pro Skater game I used to play was Pro Skater. I was very addicted great music

 

[PhrawzT]

I used to be good at Tony Hawk 1 & 2 on the original Playstation and had beaten them both 100%, however I tried to play the remake that recently came out and my reflexes have gotten much worse with age.

 

[PrismRed]

Try Tony Hawk's Underground. The Neversoft era games are more responsive with snappy animations that better suit the arcade gameplay, and Underground does a decent job teaching and skill checking you throughout the campaign. It also follows a mission based structure where you only have a time limit for a given objective instead of for the entire level, so you can explore, practice, and look for collectables at your own pace in between missions. A good story about a small town skater making a name for themself, leveling up your stats, and unlocking features like board customization give further incentive to beat the campaign and learn how to play.

I can vouch for this, I'm bad at sports game but I managed to play decently because THUG's campaign scaled the difficulty just right between the maps.