Tony Hawk's Proving Ground Comments by John Walker

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@ FluffyTucker

not really

oi oi oi

That Jake Brown video made me groan in pain.

That wasn't nice.

NO WAI!!!!

Radish

Tunnels?! No!

@ Santino

yes really, skate has just destroyed the tired formula that is tony hawks, it is a breath of fresh air and i don't think proving ground can compete.

Preview was a bit meh but that video was amazing!

And yes, no other developer has been half-way intelligent enough to notice yet, but perhaps Proving Ground's further development of the Nail The Trick mode will slap some of them awake.

Lived in a bubble recently? :)

skate demo was good and i can see why some people may prefer it as it is more down to earth, but i don't see the point in a comparison as it is similar to comparing burnout to PGR or something, they aren't trying to do the same thing its pointless. Some people will find TH games more fun and potentially deeper simple as that.

We shall see when the finished version comes out.

I'm obviously hoping Skate is teh awsomez.

Skate get's my vote, although I did enjoy TH ion the past.

They should work on the framerate though. It seriously fucks up the game and combosystem.

I've spent hours just tooling around in the skate demo, it's just really fun, and feels so much like skating.. i even keep doing the same tricks i used to do over and over.. yet i've never sat down and actually worked out what they were, it just came instinctively.(sp)

No PC version. And there is a cellphone version in the works, apparently. Coupled with Wii's success, it seems people have finally tired of having cutting edge hardware gathering dust just for bragging rights. Good riddance.

"i never could get into the Tony Hawk series, yet i was more than willing to play Aggressive Inline when it was released. odd."

It was the bouncing boobies wasn't it?

I used to be pretty good at skating, and I still snowboard quite a lot, but JESUS the demo of skate drove me nuts.

Nothing wrong with the game at all, it just realised what a cack handed freak I am. I could hop around the place in an amateur enough way I suppose, but when it came to grinding I spend more time smacking over things in all sorts of painful looking ways that I did racking up pityful scores for grinds that would make a grandmother laugh and call me n00b.

Oh, the camera was a bit cack at times too. Very atmospheric, but not very good for player ease of use (which is very EA I guess). I'll definitely try a demo of this, as I've been missing my board games since the Amped series went all shit (and I'll probably give Skate another try too, no pain no gain etc).

those insane yankie morons waving their clothes around in that vid are funny

"those insane yankie morons waving their clothes around"

Sorry but I think you are getting this mixed up with the Halo 3 press conference.

There is nothing wrong with a bit of variety, right?

Skate tends to focus on the realism aspects of skateboarding whereas Tony Hawk's offers the usual classic mode (arcade-ish) and the career mode, which offers both a shade of proper skating and over-the-top-ness.

Choice = good.

skate. is too realistic for me, I'll stick with Tony Hawk.

bit of a derail, but i think the acid test of whether skate will be good or not will rely on the goals in it.
If it's going to rely on 'do a 360flip to bluntslide down that block then manual to the next one and varial heelflip off' level of technicality then I think it will get very old very fast... I don't want to have to redo stuff over and over because i missed an angle on one of the sticks by 2 degrees in the middle of a 5 move combo. :p

Yes that will be realistic to learning to skate, the muscle memory and practice of exactly what nuances of movement you must go through, but it will not be fun.

If the goals are less specific or the game is driven in a different way that the TH series then I will be happy... but the tutorial tasks seemed to suggest that the structure would be similar. 'follow me doing nollies' etc.

no tony hawk game can compare to the amazing feel of skate.

I hadn't watched that Jake Brown clip before - you can feel the wind flying out of his lungs!

(link in the caption)

how many left until the license expires? 14?

That vidoe hurt just to watch. The way his feet waggle in the air before he lands face first, its lika cartoon.

Ow.

That guy did an awesome job of just turning himself around in midair, which I think is really what saved him. If he had hit the ground facing forward I'm pretty sure his collarbones would have landed in the carpark.

When I saw the vid at normal speed I thought he had managed to get himself level and land quite flat (best thing to do if you can't roll), but watching the landing in slowmo later in the clip he came down first on his feet and then (it looked like he) landed on his arse really hard. I'm amazed he didn't crush half the discs in his back. If that had been my ageing body the front row would have been taken out by the shrapnel.

Hope he was ok afterwards; adrenaline can do weird things to people in the after minutes, especially with back injuries as might result from a fall like that.

"Hope he was ok afterwards;"

I'm pretty sure he broke his arse....can't remember the latin name for the bone right now, but it's the one that means 'I'll be sh***ing in a bag for the next 24 months'.

Ahhh, those crazzzzy skaterzz.

I really enjoyed the controls on the skate demo. I found it really satisfying. I prefer the realism to Tony Hawks Combo Fest 9.

@jonnyreb

Cochix? (spelling is almost certainly wrong). I figured that too, given that kids break it when someone pulls out their chair. That was the king of all chair pulling incidents.