Tony Hawk: Ride gets a date, price, and limited edition in UK

Get lost Kotick!

Ha! I can’t see anyone buying that.

Well, I think I speak for a lot of people when I say ‘ball of the sweatiest variety, Activision’.

I wouldn’t pay that even if I did want to pretend to actually skateboard whilst playing a skateboarding game.

wow i never wanted this anyway but damn thats way too dear, go out a buy a real skateboard for a 1/5 of the price.

I still can’t take this seriously.

People should just buy skateboards. It’s like buying a writing simulation game instead of a computer.

You can break your legs on a real skateboard, this sort of gives the same feel, without the risk of injury. Is that worth that amount of money? Not to me, there is no way in hell I’m buying it. Skating games aren’t fun enough to be spending that amount of money on.

But perhaps fans of the genre feel differently.

Although I have a feeling most people who like skating games, are actual skaters. In wich case it sort of defeats the point.

I’m sure if I tried it I’d have fun, but all it’d probably do is make me thing, ‘I should probably learn to skate.’ It’s the same reason Guitar Hero annoys me.

If you’re interested in skating to the tune of £99.99 wouldn’t you just get a skateboard?

That “People should do the same thing in real life” line of thinking is deeply flawed.

Playing TH on that silly plastic board won’t be anything like the real thing. BUT, it won’t require anyway near the same amount of commitment to have fun either.

I could say “People should get some cheap ass tickets and go see the world instead of playing video games” but that are two very different things.

If you want to skate then yes, buy a skate board. If you want to play a videogame where you stand on a plastic skateboard then buy this shit.

The game will have different rewards, and ask for different risks, than the real life counterpart. This goes for GH, Wii Sports, TW etc.

this is a train wreck just waiting to happen

It’s like buying a writing simulation game instead of a computer.
Or instead of a pen.

Playing TH on that silly plastic board won’t be anything like the real thing. BUT, it won’t require anyway near the same amount of commitment to have fun either.
Playing Guitar Hero is way easier than playing the real thing, but even if the latest is more difficult and probably less fun, learning how to play guitar requires just the same level of commitment as becoming a good Guitar Hero player.

Playing real guitar is less fun because you don’t get to play fancy rock music with a whole band behind you, but it’s a more interesting experience. And if you consider playing well to be a game, it’s a deeper game than Guitar Hero.

Good luck with that Kotick, and by that I mean die.

Hey, I agree with Pat. I have always thought Guitar Hero a bit stupid because these kids playing the music games act like they are Eddie Van fucking Halen when in real life they can’t even make a G chord much less play “And the Cradle will Rock” or, hell, even “Mary had a little lamb”. Actually playing guitar is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay harder and takes waaaaaaaaaay more dedication than playing those games. I’m not trying to knock the music games. If people play them and love them then cool. But it takes a LOT longer to learn music, music theory, circle of 5ths, chords, steps and half-steps, scales, etc, than it does to learn blue-red-yellow blue-red blue-red-yellow…’hey im playing Enter Sandman!. No..you’re not.
I like that people love those games and i really, really love that they introduce great music to a generation that doesn’t really have any, but please people…you are not going to be Tony Hawk riding a video game board, and you won’t be Randy Rhodes ‘playing’ Crazy Train with a plastic, no-stringed ‘guitar’.
I probably just pissed a billion people off, but its how I feel. Pat Garratt thinks similarly and that is all I really need! =>