Adam Vale of The Koalition writes: I would think it’s safe to say that the skateboarding video game landscape has been pretty barren in recent years. However, when it was announced that skateboarding was going to be included in the 2020 Olympics, multiple studios started reporting that they were developing new skateboarding titles. This was great news for skaters and fans of the genre. Two major questions instantly emerged in the minds of gamers. Will we see the return of the Tony Hawk franchise? And if so will it be another dumpster fire that was Tony Hawk Pro Skater 5? I’m am absurdly thrilled to tell you that Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 is in fact a true to form THPS game and I believe it will go down in history as one of if not the best THPS title ever.
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 remakes are likely off the table forever, as new claims from anonymous Activision devs bury your hopes for good.
"Tony Hawk himself purported that plans were in place until Vicarious Visions’ obligations to Activision’s mammoth FPS game franchise, Call of Duty, got in the way"
Same what happened to Raven Softworks sadly
We'll never get Singularity 2
The article says it was too ambitious for them to remake 1-4 in a single package for the deadline they had, not that remakes of 3+4 are too ambitious to be made in general. So they cut back to 1+2.
They were going to remake 3+4 later but unfortunately they got diverted to the Call Of Duty mines.
If Microsoft want to prove that they have had any sort of positive influence on Activision whatsoever, I'll be expecting Pro Skater 3+4.
Just let Toys For Bob remake the maps. The mechanics are already perfect.
It's a pity they never got around to that second collection, I don't really care for Call of Duty much myself, so to hear they picked that over more Tony Hawk remakes stings a little.
Not sure what the issues were with this one, but in general, I would say one reason being player expectations for modern games. Games from the late 90s/early 2000s were small (less than 100) teams and the assets (3d models, textures, etc.) were very low quality and therefore didn't take as long as to develop/polish as they do today. There were a lot of really large scoped games back then that would be difficult to develop to today's standards.
There were 721 cars in Grand Turismo 4 (2004), for example.
This is kinda pathetic on Activision. Hire someone else to do a remake if you have to. Not every dev needs to be working on cod
Yeah, on top of that who wants to buy COD every year? Seriously.. any good MP game should easily be good for 2-3 years before needing a sequel if it has enough content or a few updates here and there.
They shat out modern warfare 3 with a 16 month development time that has them at a nice 56%(ps5) on metacritic and it was still the 2nd best selling game of 2023. Currently the 2nd best selling game of 2024. And modern warfare 2 was the 7th best selling game of last year.
Seems like everyone wants to buy it no matter what.
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If you're waiting for EA's Skate sequel, then pick up Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 for less than $20 on Xbox to revisit a classic experience.
Microsoft should force Activision to make Tony 3 and 4 remake. I hate how it was canceled for no reason.
A perfect example of how to make a solid remaster and a must-play for any fan of skateboarding.