Tony Hawk: Ride Is Not Cheap

Wow, i was saying this was a failing effort when I considered the price point at $60--now, Wow, this will definitely not do well in any way. If they hadn't pumped so much money into the board, i'd say this is the end of Tony Hawk

MasterOmega

@Mit: How is it cheaper when you don't take into consideration medical bills that you accrue while learning how to do tricks while "actually" skateboarding? I need to find that study, that 98% of all active skateboarders have had all kinds of bad shit happen to them just while learning. And this isn't some horrible youtube crap either. The medical bills are an apparent and actual cost to skateboarding.

At least in the UK it will cost something like £290. Plastic Gaming controllers don't like coming overseas, not since Rock Band.

@roflwaffles learned to update his screen name: I agree with Lucas, just go now, don't turn back, I'll give you a ride back if you want, just never return. Please.

Well I WAS interested in the game up until this point. Which reminds me I still need to buy Rock Band 2.

Trying to win back the crowd with gimmicks. Honestly The franchise is dead..this is just the final nail...

@Lucas from Electric Gorillas: $10,000 for a plastic toilet to die on

Cool, more pieces of crappy plastic to throw into the closet.

@GDW1017: not to mention you will actually have to move around on the board which means you're adding more force on it than your simple weight.

@SurprisedFace: its only worth 60 bucks if it is very sturdy, you'll be jumping on this thing cause not all that plays it will be professionals. i predict a recall for the peripheral because it breaks too easily.

@JGab: hehehe, looking at my game and dvd/bluray collection.....dont even want to know how much i spent.

@Robert Orlick: i want one of those visors that go over one eye and shows you the heads up display from radar to ammo so all everyone sees on the tv is just like a movie, no screen checking on local play.....well a little less is more like it. hahaha. seriously though, that eye piece would be sick.

@Flyhawk: heres the thing, with rockband, theres a lot of replayability when new songs come out every week. tony hawk with this new board, like the wii, it gets old. i mean really, how long do you expect to play this game, go out and get a real skateboard and learn.

@Sooku: Dude, at least with Rock Band the price of simulating being an awesome band is significantly less than actually buying all the equipment to have a real one.

But this? The price on this garbage isn't just enough to get you a solid, complete setup...it's enough to have a nicely customized one, with room for good options on bearings, trucks, wheels, bushings, and/or grip.

So long as the prices haven't changed much in the last 6-7 years, of course.

Anyways, ugghh. EA (though I suppose NOT Black Box) must be laughing their asses off right now.

@KillerBee: from what i heard when tony hawk was interviewed on gametrailers tv that you will only be able to play the game with the board, no controllers.

@Some_Guy2: Actually, I would much rather have them taken an arcade route (something I've commented about a few times). Skip some elaborate storyline and big open world locations. I want a giant list of pure arcade goodness levels, tons of goals to complete in each one, tons of unlockable skaters/levels/videos, a very in depth skatepark editor with the ability to share and view other people's parks online and download new parks whenever you want, and future DLC and content to keep the game going (scrap the annual releases). Oh and, lots and lots of retro levels.

That's what I want. I would easily pay my $60 for that, and I think a lot of other people would as well. Quite possibly more than those that are going to buy Ride.

You can't drive a REAL Ferrari for $160 or whatever it costs to get Forza and a racing wheel. Same for learning to play guitar. The difference between Ride and rhythm games/racing sims, is that you could actually get the real experience for cheaper than the simulation (and GH/RB aren't much of simulations). And believe me, you don't have to be Tony Hawk to have fun skateboarding, all you really need are some friends to skate with.

@zanzibarlegend: And you're missing the part when they said you might actually need some skateboarding skills to do the harder stuff in the game.

@HueyFreeman: Skateboarding is a heck of a lot easier than learning a musical instrument, and the learning portion is actually fun once you're able to ollie and ride around with relative ease (which doesn't take long). Sure you might be lazy and don't want to actually learn to skateboard, but if you don't care to learn to skateboard, why would you care to spend $120 on a game that's trying to simulate it? (and is actually HARD to do because you have to learn some actual skateboarding techniques). If it's old-style Tony Hawk games or Skate I can see that. They're different, they have fun, easy to pick up control schemes and fun gameplay. Ride seems to be trying it's very hardest to make you feel like you're actually skateboarding, all the while charging you more than a real skateboard.

Also read moar. I said Wii Fit has the added benefit of customers believing they'll get in shape if they buy it. So they'll shell out the $90. People will look at Ride and see it as just another game, like say Guitar Hero, only now they have to pay $120 instead of $100, and have yet another peripheral laying around the house.

@SamuraiKyo:

It will fail with the price, seriously $120 that's very steep, kinda gets me worried about DJ hero!

I don't think many will buy this

Anyone who laughs it off immediately right now might have been laughing at the thought of a plastic guitar. Or waggle.

Psudonym

@develin:

I wont join, Rock Band solo or with a group is a ton of fun and that is where 90% of my gaming time is spent.

DanteSparda504

@dgd1542: I was just going to say it, but you said it first. A huge recession and they expect this to sell well? This will have to be real fantastic to get anyone to buy it. Even Rock Band sales have slowed significantly so how do they expect to sell a Tony Hawk at this crazy price.

Frosti1icus

I am surprised you didn't expect this, a game + a controller = a lot of money, at the very least $100.

$120 seems like a perfectly reasonable price and if I was into skating or Tony Hawk I wouldn't mind forking over the price.

DanteSparda504

i want screenshots of the game

unnamedXD

Anybody else joining my new protest group against plastic peripherals?

Ok, I did the Rock Band gig, but after realizing that neither my gf (always in the way), nor my neighbours (drums too loud) nor myself (in group RB is incredible fun, but alone it feels to me like a never ending QTE) really enjoy it enough, it now wastes space in my closet.

Honestly, Activision, STOP IT NOW!

develin

@Mit: I hope this game fails. Either way. Just your argument of "go buy a real skateboard" is stupid. You could go buy a lot of "real" things instead of simulating them in a video game. But people don't buy videogames to learn things, they buy them to have fun and be entertained. Skateboarding is hard. This game won't be nearly as hard as real skating, I guarantee you. If a person wanted to spend $120 on a skateboard, they would have done so well before this game ever came out. Also, the skateboard peripheral isn't really to help "get in shape" as it is a controller.

HueyFreeman

@HueyFreeman: seriously.

i think hes missing the part about the board not having wheels.

which totally throws out the immersion part of this silly idea for a SB game.

guess what for ten dollars more, u can get a custom setup in NYC.

im down with the whole GH thing, its fun without the concept being forced. and its pretty fucking cheap when u consider what a really good quality guitar will run you newayz. this snowboard with buttons screams "im desperate".

this game may have the possibility of totally confusing people on the concept of skateboarding... stay tuned.

@undefined: Ahh, gamers. Complain if they make "the same game", complain when they try something completely different because "it's too expensive". Would you rather the series just not exist?

And the whole "go learn to ride a REAL skateboard/play a REAL guitar" argument is quite possibly the dumbest thing anyone could say. Is buying a 360 racing wheel and Forza 2 stupid because you should "go drive a REAL Ferrari"?

Some_Guy2

Horrible peripheral at an even more horrible price. Just make the fucking game WITHOUT the stupid plastic thing. Let me play with the 360/PS3 controller that every other game uses.

This is a bad idea. When Rock Band came out, it was able to succeed at it's high price point, because people actually wanted to play the thing. I don't think anyone really wants Ride, I think Activisions only chance with this is if it's an impulse buy. And $120 is not an impulse buy.

Flyhawk

@Orionsaint: Not everybody likes Skate's controll method ya know. I think there is room for both in the market place. The reason Skate totally dominated the last Tony Hawk, was because people got burned out on the Hawk.

Flyhawk

@afrosheen: worthless! $120?! let me just play with a controller!

dreamfall

go ahead someone post the nothanks.jpg

I just wonder what the periphrial will be for modern warfare 2.

Robert Orlick

@SketchyIndividual: I dunno, I think a living room floor is the most dangerous place in the world, next to a shark. I mean, wow, standing inches from the ground is just asking for your teeth to be knocked out.

Oh this is not surprising. Gaming is a pricey thing to get into. And this generation has proven that. Someone who wants all 3 experiences has spent $949.97 on the consoles alone (and that's only if they get the Pro Xbox 360, and an 80 GB PS3) before taxes! And the only game you'll have to play (if the systems you bought didn't come with any) will be Wii Sports. And you can play by yourself.

If you decide you'd rather have all 4 controllers (3 extra for each console) you'll be set back $494.88.

Now, if you go out and buy the GH:WT band kit, an extra wireless guitar, and both Rock Band games (all for the 360) you'll be set back another $369.96.

Now, if you want the top 10 games on each platform according to Metacritic (without multi-platform games counting twice, and GH and RB already accounted for) you'll be spending...$389.90 for Xbox, $169.97 for PS3, and $354.91 for Wii.

Finally, add on Xbox Live for a year as well as making the Xbox wireless for $139.98, and a Wii balance board for 89.99 (have to buy it w/ Wii Fit) to complete everything you'll need (assuming you have an HD TV, and don't want to upgrade the cables).

You'll have then spent...$2959.56 before taxes. Add a sales tax of 6% it's 177.57 and a total: $3137.30. And this is only consoles with a total of 25 games...

@Mit: Actually, I think I actually am going to buy a skateboard instead.

bangbangblah

Wasn't going to buy the game any way, but DAMN that price is steep. They must be trying reaaaaaally hard to catch up with Skate.

@Pitchswitch: Because nobody has ever broken bones, lost teeth, or been injured on a carpet, amirite?

@Sooku: ...or that the PS3 version will require another stupid wireless dongle, completely ignoring THE BUILT IN BLUETOOTH THAT EVERY PS3 HAS.

/vent

afrosheen

@Sooku:lol, I can just see someone trying to do a trick and instead either launching their 360 or themselves.

@Noodle-Works:
[www.guitarcenter.com]
$230 and it comes with some nice goodies

Arc-

@FP Shindokie:

so would I. on day one. might be a little to much though having to keep the beat non stop for 2-10 min. or how ever long a level would be lol.

So Activision is forcing this peripheral on consumers if they want the game. That is just fantastic especially considering you would never use that peripheral to play any other game and of course it would make sense to force this on to the 20 people that are still faithful to the Tony Hawk franchise.

I'd rather spend $120 on Uncharted 2 and Modern Warfare 2 around that time of year instead of some game like TH: Ride that has a major chance to fail.

RONlN

Damn, usually I'm not for the whole "You can buy your own..." argument but you can buy a real skateboard for $30. Sure, it'll suck, but it's not a guitar here. Riding across town isn't the same as learning Free Bird on an $2000 axe. I've always wanted to feel like I was John Bonham on drums or Slash on the guitar but do I want to pay $120+ tax to feel like I'm at the X games? No. That could just be me though, but for most I think Skate 2 will do.

@Lucas from Electric Gorillas: LMAO! Recording Hero confirmed!

@HueyFreeman: It isn't... he's got a point and a well thought one, if you want to rebuke it be our guest but please refrain from landing on your head and then posting like you just did above.

@bloog: Yep, it's all about instant gratification, which means you can also be exploited in your quest for instant gratification.

Actually over the years that skateboard (Or ovation acoustic, or squire electric, not being too posh here) will have given you more entertainment than the yearly "upgrades" you'll get in Ride 2 with the new 2 handed controller, Ride 3 with the new controller with stationary wheels and Ride 4 with the controller that you bought for Ride 2 but only with a couple of cosmetic changes.

THUG HD REMIX, i would buy that in a heartbeat, this peripheral crap is useless. Honestly, I cant skate in real life, why does activision think i want to on some plastic instrument....

/rant

@KrylonBlue:
Well technically $60, because the game is $60 =P

HDShadow

@Orionsaint: I can understand limits, I don't expect something to hold someone 400 lbs, but around 300 lbs and below would be a nice wiggle space for people to use it.

Though, I would then question how long it'd be expected to last, especially when your pushing the limits. I may be able to use it, but if it only lasts a month, then I may as well have been too fat to have used it in the first place.

GDW1017

@Mit: Your whole argument is fail, and many people have pointed this out. Maybe you should just give up.

HueyFreeman

Yeah and if you thought the guitar hero controllers broke easily, imagine that but your jumping on it.

ctorrans

I rather buy a skateboard for that price.

I don't know why everyone is dissing them for innovating a bit. And it isn't that much if you think about it. 60$ for the game and another 60 for the peripheral isn't as bad as Guitar hero or Rockband.

SurprisedFace

@Lucas from Electric Gorillas: i lol'd

abort_user

@NukaCola: June can't come sooner.

Skinney is now KamikazeSim

@Lucas from Electric Gorillas:

Niceee

Why not just admit defeat Hawk or adopt the Skate controls, or better yet improve them and oh yeah, make a good skating game! Because you're blaming the tired controls for the recent bad Hawk games, but really the premise and activities you were required to do, sucked in your Hawk games. But no, you have to go all radical and release a plastic peripheral. It's not the first time this has been attempted ya know.

[cache.kotaku.com]

@Kobun: Well, I for one got into skating because of the old Tony Hawk games, although it certainly wasn't because of grinding on helicopter blades, it was because of the actual skate footage they let you watch after completing careers. Also, all I had to do was get a skateboard for about a hundred bucks and go at it. Addressed the guitar comparisons in my last comment.

On the price, I don't know, in the consumer's eye, there is a very large difference between $90 for a game and a board that will help you get in shape (supposively; the people who buy Wii Fit aren't the brightest bunch), and $120 for a game and a controller for the game to help you simulate skateboarding, with no other advantages beside that. They'll see it as something like shipping Gears of War 3 with a chainsaw controller for $120 that is necessary to play the game.

They also see three digits instead of two. It immediately becomes seemingly much more expensive than the $30 difference between it and Wii Fit because of that. It'll even seem a lot more expensive than Game+guitar bundles for $100, simply because it's over $100.

I don't know, I think it would take the gamer crowd to buy a game for $120, and they certainly aren't appealing to most gamers. I think it could be successful among the more casual crowd, but $120 is $20 too much in my opinion.

@ChewyChew:

What you apparently fail to realize is that it takes many MANY hours of hard work and practice to even get off the ground on a skateboard, much less do a 900 off a telephone wire.

They are two different things.
You can pay $120 and learn to do insane tricks in a video game within' an hour, OR you can pay $120 for a REAL skateboard and dedicate your life to the sport, and you might be kick-flipping of small curbs within a year...

Why is this so hard for people to understand?

You COULD buy a real guitar and spend years of hard practice to be able to play a decent song.
You could also buy Guitar Hero and get a virtual experience much cheaper, faster, and without investing innumerable hours.

bloog

@GDW1017:

Good point, most game makers never consider fat people and most will just say, well lose weight! well that's like saying lose weight if you wanna watch TV! Uh no, i shouldn't have to physically change my body to play a video game.

I want to know the weight limit on that thing, because that is a lot of money to waste on something that would snap like that... *snaps finger*.

GDW1017

I just hope when they make a NEXT-GEN SSX game you're not forced to use a god dang peripheral to play it, ugh!

@MDX:

I agree, the hawk franchise hasn't been good in years. it's not like a good next-gen hawk game is in demand. skateboarding in general just insn't as popular as it once was, they need to release a next gen SXX!

@Mexico619:

Exactly, call me old fashion, but nothing beats a nice gamepad or arcade stick for your hands. Let your fingers do the exploring, fighting and killing. if i wanted to swing my arms around or jump around. i'd go outside and do activities.

@SketchyIndividual: I think the odds of "most likely, crack your head open and lose teeth when you try to do anything in the hardest difficulty" is FAR more likely if you "actually learn how to skate". What are you, 47?

God forbid you fall off a STATIONARY PLASTIC BOARD ON A CARPETED LIVING ROOM

Economy in worst state in years? Check.

Hey you know what lets not only continue a dying franchise that is loosing fans at every new installment, but lets double the price of a standard MSRP game. Ok we go this, call tony.

Fox Hound

@Vanilla_Ninja:

Well played.

Fox Hound

@runandgun: How come I'm the only one that liked THUG2, sure it took the Jackass approach in some tricks but it was playable and that's what counts. Also P8 wasn't too bad, ragdolls were awesome.

@roflwaffles learned to update his screen name:

NICE ONE

Fox Hound

what's next a COD game with a plasic gun for $149.99?

@Noodle-Works: Yeah, you're right. Those playschool toys work well for 4-minute QTEs.

Delano_J

@Moonshadow101: But, unlike Skate or previous Tony Hawk games, you aren't emulating skateboarding through simple control schemes, you're trying to simulate actual skateboarding with a controller that is exactly like a skateboard deck.

Unlike GH/RB, the experience you're simulating is supposed to actually feel like the real thing.

And unlike GH/RB, you could get the REAL experience for the exact same price as the video game. And it isn't nearly as hard and doesn't take nearly as long to get decent at skateboarding as it does guitar. Without someone to teach you for free, you might be paying out the ass for lessons as well, in addition to buying your first crappy guitar that will likely cost more than $100, and then your eventual dive to get a much better, more expensive guitar.

If you're just looking to play a video game for a bit and don't want to dive into something like learning how to skateboard though, you could probably spend your $120 much better, on something other than simulating a sport you wouldn't actually be interesting in learning.

@Lucas from Electric Gorillas: Win.

I'll take 2! And gold plated Wii! While I'm pipe dreaming, Alan Wake!

Tony Hawk's moto for this game. You must use his peripheral. There's no other way to play this game. Oh too fat? Too bad! Too old, have a bad back? Too bad! Have the use of your arms and hands, but in a wheelchair and you really really really love the Tony Hawk franchise and have been really really really looking forward to the new Tony Hawk game? Hawk says too bad! You can only use your legs and feet to play my game. I don't give the player options. WTF do you think this is, a Democracy? It's my way or the highway, just give me your money!

@Moonshadow101: Actually, seems like you don't get it (or didn't read past the first sentence, because he only briefly mentioned the price-tag.

It's said that you need to know how to actually skate to be able to do well on the expert difficulty in the game, which is completely re-buttfucking-donkulous considering what the game is about.

If you're going to spend $120 to stand on a big plastic skateboard controller and, most likely, crack your head open and lose teeth when you try to do anything in the hardest difficulty, you might as well just go actually learn how to skate.

@Mit: Same can be said for all the plastic instruments out there being bought up $100's at a time for years now. Likewise, real skateboarding is hardly as thrilling as how it's been presented in the Pro Skater games -- no grinding on helicopter blades and so forth in real life.

Assuming the board is durable -- Wii Fit sells for less and can apparently accommodate Gerstmann-sized video game players -- the only thing that'll hold Ride back is the amount of physicality required to play it. In that sense, though it could be off putting to existing fans to a degree, it could be the 360/PSN's sort of Wii Fit and help bring in new people into real skateboarding as the plastic guitar Simon games have done for the real thing.

Nobody is gonna pay 120$ for a tony hawk game sorry folks but expect this to flop hardcore.

MDX

@NewYork214: I would buy that!

ha ha ha....
not thanks. Hawk you not getting my money for that game

@abort_user:

but... for the real thing, you'd spend well over $250... and those playschool toys work with a bunch of games. If you can point me to a nice quality electric guitar and amp for $250, i'd love to get one!

you can get a nice REAL skateboard for $120, and i would bet this control isn't going to work with rock band. yeah?

Noodle-Works

@abort_user: $4000 dollars for a plastic recording studio

@Vanilla_Ninja: Cmon, more realistically like #12374

omgCRAZY

Who want's a Tony Hawk game and a plastic skateboard with no wheels that much?
You could - y'know - just get a real skate board.

I never got into those plastic guitar games and I seriously hope this game fails! Because if it's successful. Will be riding a wave of expensive peripheral games for the rest of eternity. Everything from FPS, to sports games, will all come with special peripherals and $150 dollar price tags.

whats that ea's skate? huge vaginas? haha. i know, i know.

Eric Marty

@roflwaffles learned to update his screen name: no its ok, you can go home now

@jihadjoe343:

That's exactly word for word what I was going to type.

I didn't want it before, and now I want it less.

@FP Shindokie:

not me. unless they make Patapon PS3 with Pata, Pon, Chaka, and Don drums peripheral.

@ChewyChew: You don't really get it. It's not a question of value, it's a question of what you want to do. And what people want to do is play a video game, not skate. Or cleanse a starship of evil influences. Or play the guitar. Or whatever.

Moonshadow101

One hundred and twenty dollars and I bet SKATE will still be a more realistic (and fun) experience.

@the-hypnotoad: Poorly thought-out argument is poorly thought-out.

Unless they also make snowboarding games, along with EA jumping on board (ba-dum-psh) with the peripheral idea with Skate and SSX, this is definitely doomed to failure.

ViewtifulJason

@runandgun: THUG. The best in the series. No doubt.

Are they trying to purposely lower sale for the franchise? I'm guess making a game that costs $120 to use is a pretty good way to drive that game to lowered sales. Sure there will be plenty of people who say "Cool I want that!" but there are going to be plenty more saying "$120 for Tony Hawk, I can get Skate 2 for $40" or something else. Granted its possible Tony Hawk Ride will be an amazing game, but how many people are expecting that? :)

Eviltim

@jayntampa: True, but if I remember, that was a while before the game's release, no? This is out in around 5 months.

ha ha, nope. not buying this one.

Activision is seriously out to complicate retail life.

@KrylonBlue: $250 for some beatles themes playschool instruments.

abort_user

@runandgun: I'll be sticking to THPS2, if you don't mind.

@the-hypnotoad: The game is only 60 you big headed man. This costs as much as a real board. Not only that, but if Tony Hawk said you needed to know how to skate in real life in order to do well on expert, then might as well do the real deal and learn something MUCH more attractive.

ChewyChew

@Miksho: That last bit, please.

I'd even go so far as to slap down a Jefferson for THPS2 on XBLA rather then spend the money in gas it would take to drive down to my local GameStop and laugh at the people buying this on release day.

Why pay 119.99 for something that's "For Display Only"? Like SRSLY.

Well everyone else took all the other snappy one liners, what do you want from me?

NoHoldsBarred

That game won't sell.

@runandgun: Pro Skater 3 for me. I have not enjoyed any of them as much as I enjoyed Pro Skater 3.

AAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA Do not want. That's the cost of a full board.

ChewyChew

@Mit: I've decided I'm going to take this approach to Dead Space 2. Rather than buying the game I'm going to buy a real plasma cutter, a real spacesuit, and book myself a flight to the USS Ishimura.

That way I can stop being a poser and all the guys on the internet I want to impress will think I'm cool.

the-hypnotoad

I got me the 1s and 2s and a plastic skating board. Plethora of expensive plastic stuff in courtesy of Activision. What buyer's remorse?, WHOOOOO!

PsycheE

@LittleDeadEpic!: with* dammit!

I love that no one wants to wait until E3 and see how this really works and plays

Neon

@Trowble (XBL/PSN): I get it!

@FP Shindokie: michael phelps bong and swimmies.

abort_user

@armyofwires: no shit..

i bet $119.00

any takers?

@Mit: I guess it can be said about Guitar Hero/RB... but even then Guitar Hero was cheaper when it came out.

@Archaotic: give it time.. activision will milk all theyre franchise's to death..

COD123121 NOW WILL REALLY AK-47 = £2000

you know TH series used to be one of my childhood games.. and one of my most favourite franchises its sad to see it has to end like this ;-;

@NukaCola: Nooooooooooooooo

ima stick with Skate 2 thank you very much

Timothy Sou

Dead on Arrival.

ddhboy

@Trowble (XBL/PSN):

and Zing!

gecko7jlk is enjoying the killzone 2 map pack

@runandgun: Seconded.

It seems like Activision is on some sort of ego trip and thinks that bundling a game with a plastic peripheral is an automatic guarantee for sales.

I would say it's stupid to pay $120 for a plastic skateboard, but then again I've got a closet full of useless plastic guitars.

@Trowble (XBL/PSN): Eh, that'd make it go out like a hero. Making it ride in the dark is more like it.

DreamoftheEndless

@autob0n: Then I play the game... and sit and cry in the shower

autob0n

@Trowble (XBL/PSN): Well played.

ThisUserNameIsTooLong

Well, that seems overpriced. Wii Fit is what, $90? What makes a skateboarding peripheral that much more expensive than the Wii Balance Board?

kylenalepa

Just wait until EA/someone else releases a new snowboarding/skiing game. Definitely need life size peripherals for that!

Oh well this is a real deal breaker...

...who am i kidding, i stopped playing tony hawk after the first underground. That was the last Tony Hawk i still enjoyed. Never getting this. They should just tone everything down a bit , and go back to the roots.

*Puts on a dorky smile and opens wallet*

..... I try to be the customer Activision wants me to be.

autob0n

I wanna take you for a ride I wanna take you for a ride I wanna take you for a ride I wanna take you for a ride I wanna take you for a ride I wanna take you for a ride I wanna take you for a ride I wanna take you for a ride I wanna take you for a ride I wanna take you for a ride

I think that gets the point across.

so what does this show us kids.. ?
it shows us how a compony just made a very bad move..

i doubt this game will sell.. probs break a mill if theyre lucky.. but meh

They have been wrong on games w/ peripherals before ... as you recall, they listed Rock Band at $300.

Activision is determined to fully kill off this franchise, aren't they? They'll release it at an extremely high price point, watch nobody buy it, then can the series and go "HEY, IT'S YOUR FAULT FOR NOT BUYING IT".

Jerks.

@Mit: Me too... I guess unless EA fucks up Skate it'll be my choice for skating games.

No thanks. I played enough TH games in which I don't need to spend an extra $60 on another peripheral that would barely be used

Import98

As far as I'm concerned the game can ride off into the sunset... badum ching!

Trowble (XBL/PSN)

That's a lot of money to throw down on a franchise that is on life support...

genius, just as the recession is heating up introduce a crappy game that costs more than a PS2 and 70 bucks less than a 360 arcade.

Activision, needs a giant sledgehammer to the head

dgd1542

I was guessing $150.

Anyway, wasn't going to buy it for 150, not buying it for 120, wouldn't buy it for 80. But hey I'm sure some will enjoy it.

Matt0505

My soul wants the controller to be optional, and for the devs to offer "classic" THPS controls.

My heart knows that they wouldn't spend 2 years developing this peripheral to not use it.

Sigh. Can we just have the first 2 games on XBLA and PSN?

Ugh. That price is steep. They better wow me with what this board can do when E3 rolls around...

Also, I am suddenly reminded of this..

"I wanna take you for a ride!"
"I wanna take you for a ride!"
"I wanna take you for a ride!"
"I wanna take you for a ride!"

NukaCola

Yup.

Go buy a skateboard instead.

I'd rather buy myself another skateboard too, actually.

I'm not buying it regardless, but they really need this to be no more than $100 or it is not going to succeed. At all.

Wow... I was expecting 99.99 at MOST. Wow...

Day 1

MoeB

Ridiculous

ashdown

I wonder if the peripheral will work for any other games besides Tony Hawk.

Leanid

That's steep but this is probably going to appeal to those who've bought other overpriced games with peripherals, though...

Pass I think this game will fail badly

I'll just stick with Tony Hawk Underground 1.

runandgun

At the end of this gen, everybody is going to have some kind of gaming peripheral in their be it music or sport...

I predict the end of a franchise.

Reason #15627 why this is a bad idea

Ugh, it's Rock Band all over again. At this rate, the next announcement will be that the 360 version is wired.

Sooku

Ahahaha oh wow.

$120 for a plastic skateboard. what will they think of next!

Is it called "Ride" after what it does to your wallet?
I'll be here all week folks.

@MasterOmega:

Yeah, it's not so much the cost of the peripheral that's the issue. It's the idea of paying money for a Tony Hawk game.

dd528

@Orionsaint:

No it isn't. TV is non interactive. If they want to make a game with this peripheral that's their prerogative. If it's cost-prohibitive to make it so that it can support obese people, then those people won't be able to play it. Just the same as arthritic people will struggle to play Virtua Fighter, or paraplegics can't play DDR.

It's very unfortunate, sure, but that doesn't mean that there's not value in making those games for the people who are able to play them. By all means, campaign for more games that are accessible for disabled people. I will personally bitch at length to anyone who's interested about how some games are unplayable if you're colour blind, even though that's not something that affects me personally. But that doesn't mean that games like this shouldn't exist. If I was massively overweight I wouldn't want to spoil other people's fun just because I can't play this game.

dd528

Goodbye Tony Hawk and all your future videogames!

@Mexico619:

You say that as if a load of people didn't lay down large sums of money throughout the 90s and early 00s to buy lightguns that there were only ever about 3 decent games released for.

dd528

@Orionsaint: I don't think skateboarding is any less popular, I just think Tony Hawk games got shit.

dd528

@NoHoldsBarred: A cookie.

dd528

@Neon: I agree. It might be awesome. I doubt it, but you never know.

dd528

@Miksho:

I think the first game is on the UK PSN. Or did I imagine that? I tried to look it up on the Playstation website, but apparently I have to install some media manager software just so I can see a list of what Sony can sell me? No thanks.

dd528

@Pitchswitch:

Some of us live in countries where medical care is free. Maybe you should ask your government about that.

dd528

@Eran: Exactly.

dd528

@Noodle-Works: Pretty sure the Beatles themselves started out with a bunch of shitty second-hand instruments and it didn't seem to do them too much harm.

dd528

@Vanilla_Ninja: so this is why Bobby Kotick is selling off all of his stock they know it's going to fail hard...I get the feeling that Activision just wanted to fuck with Robomodo for two years...seriously, "here's a dying franchise, make it with a peripheral that nobody wants, built it from the ground up, and do it in a relatively short development cycle."

Sounds fair to Activision I guess.

RaginKaGin21

@Pitchswitch: I've busted my chin open once, and that was just from riding really fast trying to get somewhere and encountering an enormous crack in the road. That was my one adolescent injury that caused me to do to a hospital (well, it wasn't even a hospital, actually). Most people have had something happen like that like falling off a bike or something when they're younger.

I know plenty of skateboarders who haven't endured serious injuries, it's all about how smart you are. People who get injured are the kind who try stunts before they're sure they can land it. All you have to do is bail until you're sure you can land it, and by that point, even if you fall, it's likely you'll know how to fall and recover yourself well since you're so familiar with the trick.

Unless you're very good and are doing some truly dangerous stuff, but 90% of skateboarders (or more) do not get to amateur level. I'd say a very large percentage of skateboarder injuries happen from teenagers being dumb and having less regard for their health, and trying stunts to impress their friends before they can land them and end up paying for it.

As someone that has a TE Street Fighter stick, a complete Rock Band setup with M.I.C., mic stand, and rock throne, I think I can safely say Tony Hawk Ride has the most useless peripheral yet.

@FP Shindokie:

Not me either.

/hides Mario Kart plastic wheel under the bed.

puffa469

@Lucas from Electric Gorillas:

You're the burn master!

ShazBo

the gamestop price they are listing now is actually a special preorder deal. i think it says somewhere that the actual price will be 200 dollars. which is complete bullshit. i'm not paying 200 (or even 120)dollars for a plastic skateboard for a game with american wasteland graphics and what looks like completely broken gameplay. i'm sorry, but this game is going to FAIL...hard.

tripfalldie

to consumers: Please don't buy this shit.

to games industry: Stop trying to make me hate my favorite hobby.

hurtin4certain

@johnLD: If that is true it will be a total and complete failure.

I would buy this game for the peripheral and try to hack it to work with Skate 2. I would use the game disc for a coaster for my water when I get thirsty.

mantis350

@undefined: Really, you don't know why everybody is dissing them??!! You're f''in kidding right? The franchise itself is rubbish, it's done, over, 'splat'! Then, why in the world, now how, could this even be thought of as fun. I mean, the whole premise is flawed...yeah, pass your hands in front of the sensor to do a grab! Yay! This game is only a good idea on paper, and even there it's questionable.

MasterOmega

@Psudonym:

Well the Wii Balance Board was a success, but you don't see anyone excitedly talking about it.

@Lucas from Electric Gorillas: 300$ for a plastick BMX
1000$ for a plastic car
500$ for a plastic women
100$ for a plastic console

slimky

@undefined: Here's how it works, you pay a bunch of money for a game franchise that bottomed out almost 5 years ago, get on your "fun new...skateboard?", swivel around for an hour or so, and then feel like a complete jackass because the game sucks, and you bought it. Good enough? Now, go back to work for Robomodo while they are still open--and make sure you start collecting your work off their machines now!!

MasterOmega

@Some_Guy2: Erm, wait, what?
Complain if they make "the same game", complain when they try something completely different because "it's too expensive".
Yeah, I got pretty pissed off with Battlefield Bad Company 2 (same game) but since when was Mirror's Edge "too expensive"? Same arguement across the board. I honestly have no idea what you mean.

@runandgun: I'll stick with Skate 2. Wait, what?

What is activision doing? Creating a specific peripheral that they can't build any other games around? Look at the camera and the light guns...it even have more appeal and applications and it hardly sell any games. And activision think they can pull something like that off? This is a disaster

Thai Tea

@runandgun: I'll just stick with the PS1 demo disc from Pizza Hut.

SO HERE I AM
DOING EVERYTHING I CAN
HOLDING ON TO WHAT I AM
PRETENDING I'M A SUPERMAN

@abort_user:

I'd buy that for a dollar!

fenex13

@runandgun: That's my personal favorite too.

....No thanks, I think I'll go learn how to skate in RL for less money than that xD

NekuSakuraba

@runandgun: Anyone played Proving Ground, That game has tonnes of content and plays well with fun objectives and is a real fun TH game, it even has classic mode on tonnes of maps too.

@Lucas from Electric Gorillas: Are you gonna bring out the big stick with the hook to drag him out of here or should I?

@Mit: What you're saying is subjective though, and isn't backed by anything other than your opinion that you won't get fucked up. If you're going to say that it would be cheaper to actually just skateboard, then you need to take into account how expensive it would turn out to be by doing so.

And it's not like all these years, I've been in this constant state of flux where I just couldn't decide if I wanted to devote my time to learning how to skate for real. All of the sudden snap! A skating game comes out, but rather than buy it I suddenly have this realization that I really should learn the real thing instead! Why? Because it would be cheaper of all things silly!

Making the decision to learn how to skate is something that you do on your own, not because you're price shopping video games.

also i'm not in to this whole get up and move around era that seems to be moving in.

When i'm going to play games at home it's to sit and relax on my couch for hours, not to get up and wiggle around and wear myself out.

NerdyxTimx

for 120 i can get a complete and ride for real. which is way more fun than looking ridiculous in my livingroom.

(i wouldn't however make this same comment for GH or RB, even though i hate both of those games with a passion.)

NerdyxTimx

@dd528: Oh I make the laws I don't have to answer to anyone

I'll buy it if Sega releases a port of Top Skater that uses the skateboard. Man I miss the days when you could go to an arcade and there was one that actually worked.

@Pitchswitch: It seems to me though that you'd have to be atleast somewhat interested in learning how to skate if you're willing to shell out $120 for an electric skate deck to try and simulate skating using real skateboarding techniques. The old Tony Hawk games and Skate are fun through good old video gaming conventions. Fun, rewarding gameplay with intuitive control scheme. Ride seems more to me like a $1000 game with a guitar controller that has 6 strings and frets and it teaches you how to play guitar and other rad songs (although, that'd probably be even closer to the real thing than Ride).

I just think people who would consider buying this should actually consider buying a skateboard instead. I suppose I shouldn't try and force one to do so, but if you were one of those who are willing to shell out $120 for a skateboard simulation, I think it may actually take some thought for you to decide between the game and finally going out and learning to ride a skateboard yourself.

How much does real skateboard cost? anyone!!

orgil220

phew, forget that. pull the life support off this franchise, let it go in peace. ohh wait, its activision, they'll whore it out until time stops.

SlightDefect

@kylenalepa: At that price, they may as well give us a REAL skateboard.

RagingWolf

@d4ng3r0u5: I'M TRYING TO KEEP
THE GROUND ON MY FEET
IT SEEMS THE WORLD IS FALLING DOWN AROUND ME