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Kid Presentable
06-20-2006, 09:30 AM
I haven't played Wasteland, so somebody might want to fill me in.
I only ever played 4 briefly, but have heard it's the best of the series. I think THUG is the best one. After all of the games in my collection start pissing me off, I just fire up a new story-mode in THUG and it's all good.
I think the physics are perfect in this one. Objects seem to be the right size, and the GTA feel really works here. It's also got School 2 as a secret level (my favourite T-Hawks level.).
Other than that, following the ground-breaking first iteration, T-Hawks 2 is still incredible. I remember getting wasted and just playing for like 24 hours straight. the 'SKATE' and graffiti battles were great. Marseilles was released as a playable demo, and we wore our copy out. Number 3 never really did it for me.
THUG 2 is a little too cartoony, and Bam Margera fucks it up by being there.
These games are gold.
zorra_chiflada
06-20-2006, 09:31 AM
yes, number two was my favourite too. still have it sitting there actually. i'd probably get joe to to all the hard parts for me.
Kid Presentable
06-20-2006, 09:39 AM
yes, number two was my favourite too. still have it sitting there actually. i'd probably get joe to to all the hard parts for me.
I'm gonna fire up THUG for half an hour, you should do the same with two, and we can compare notes.
/nizzerd
zorra_chiflada
06-20-2006, 09:40 AM
I'm gonna fire up THUG for half an hour, you should do the same with two, and we can compare notes.
/nizzerd
oh man, i can't play it anymore, seriously. i'd die :(
when i overplay games, i can never go back to them.
ericlee
06-20-2006, 10:02 AM
I was all over the first and second ones when they came out.
Haven't even played the ones that came out on the ps2 or xbox and there's no reason because I love that series.
I should definitly get Wasteland because the sondtrack is perfect
zorra_chiflada
06-20-2006, 10:04 AM
i have th3 for pc, but i gave up on it because it's really fucking hard to control with a keyboard.
ericlee
06-20-2006, 10:10 AM
There are some games that just aren't made for the p.c. and I can see that any TH game would fit in that catagory.
Tony Hawks 2 and 4 for me. haven't touched wasteland or underground.
2 and 4 are the best, in my opinion. 1 was cool, but a little clunky, 2 was a huge improvement. 3 didn't add enough to make it worth a sequel, and 4 was the next big improvement. in my opinion, THUG didn't really add anything significant from 4 (nothing cool, anyway).
also, THUG is annoying because it's turning the game away from being a skating game...they have you driving and walking and doing wacky stunts with bam margera, it's kind of lame.
TH2 was a fond memory of growing up. i remember unlocking rodney mullin's skate video and being blown away. the shit he does in real life is more unreal than the shit you can do in the game. he inspired me to start skateboarding myself. well, sort of. i never actually started skating, but i was totally serious about starting eventually for a long time.
i haven't played wasteland. i'm not going to bother, either, if THUGS 1+2 are any indication.
Planetary
06-20-2006, 11:37 AM
school2 = best level ever.
atm i own thug2 and thAW.
i remember buzzin off thps1 with all my mates back in the day. horse rules.
Kid Presentable
06-20-2006, 11:51 AM
THUG cost $16 at the post-office. I need to find THPS 4, it seems.
Deep_Sea_Rain
06-20-2006, 12:27 PM
I played the first two THPS games for the Dreamcast to death, did everything in them. Then so many Hawk games started coming out, I lost track....and interest.
I picked up Tony Hawk's American Sk8land for the DS, and it kinda revived my interest in the series. You can go skate vs. others online, use the mic to make your own voice clips for when you fall or do a trick, and design your own board.
Oh yeah, Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam for the Wii looks sweet too. (y)
TH2 was a fond memory of growing up. i remember unlocking rodney mullin's skate video and being blown away.
ahahaha yeah. i have his TH4 video on my comp.
"Hi i'm rodney, i started skateboarding at a pretty early age.. these were the best places in my town *lol* so i got pretty good at flatland. i never really fit into team sports etc etc"
Burnquist's vid was cool too. i only seem to remember the levels of TH1 more than i do of 2 - i'm really blank there - did number 2 have the huge half pipe thing on the boat? that was so dope.
zorra_chiflada
06-21-2006, 01:58 AM
Was a fan up until THPS4, never went past that. They all pretty much had great music and they were great games! I played them for hours trying to get the highscores and used to get SO stressed when I couldn't do it. I think I burst a few vessels in my brain playing them.
you should get joe to do the hard bits. that's what i do when i can't be fucked trying over and over. but after a while he gets annoyed, so you have to whine at him until he does it. he's handy for finishing hard games.
ahahaha yeah. i have his TH4 video on my comp.
"Hi i'm rodney, i started skateboarding at a pretty early age.. these were the best places in my town *lol* so i got pretty good at flatland. i never really fit into team sports etc etc"
Burnquist's vid was cool too. i only seem to remember the levels of TH1 more than i do of 2 - i'm really blank there - did number 2 have the huge half pipe thing on the boat? that was so dope.
i think that one was 4. i have a video of a guy doing one continuous 2 minute long trick on that level, he got over 1,000,000 points on it. my best is only 200,000 on one trick, i think, in TH2. once they introduced manuals and reverts, huge combos became much more doable.
and yeah, the music is one of my favorite things about the series.
Rancid_Beasties
06-21-2006, 08:05 AM
The best ones were 1, 2 and 4, as the consensus seems to be.
Ace42X
06-21-2006, 08:10 AM
I have THUG2: Remix on the PSP - it works really well as a handheld game.
i think that one was 4. i have a video of a guy doing one continuous 2 minute long trick on that level, he got over 1,000,000 points on it. my best is only 200,000 on one trick, i think, in TH2. once they introduced manuals and reverts, huge combos became much more doable.
and yeah, the music is one of my favorite things about the series.
without cheats?
with cheats, i used to get muska or someone with a special manual move, sit in one spot, get into the special manual, sit it there for about 5 actual minutes, ollie + rotate and do a 360 flip or something BACK into the special manual, another 5 mins, do the same for fucking ages. hitting 1 mill was easy as that way :p and if you did the 2 min challenge thing; it wouldn't stop if you kept landing into the manual.. just kept going.
Planetary
06-21-2006, 11:47 AM
my biggest combo on thug2 was 2.6 million on the skatopia level. :)
without cheats?
with cheats, i used to get muska or someone with a special manual move, sit in one spot, get into the special manual, sit it there for about 5 actual minutes, ollie + rotate and do a 360 flip or something BACK into the special manual, another 5 mins, do the same for fucking ages. hitting 1 mill was easy as that way :p and if you did the 2 min challenge thing; it wouldn't stop if you kept landing into the manual.. just kept going.
mine or the other guy's? well, doesn't matter, they were both cheat-free. at least i can vouch for my mine, the other guy's at least LOOKED legit. it was cool, it was even kind of synched up to the music a little, the trick ended exactly when the song did.
i got my 200,000 in the marseilles skatepark level. i couldn't do it again if you paid me, i was just in the zone, my timing was flawless. i probably could have gone higher but i didn't want to risk crashing and losing the whole thing.
was this on the demo? you had to get 200,000 right?
was this on the demo? you had to get 200,000 right?
no, it was on the full version, i think it was a competition level or something. maybe it's not as impressive as i remember, i don't know, but i thought getting 200,000 all in one combo was neat. especially in tony hawk 2, that was before they introduced reverts, meaning it all had to be done in one street trick, you couldn't use the halfpipe.
Kid Presentable
06-21-2006, 01:02 PM
no, it was on the full version, i think it was a competition level or something. maybe it's not as impressive as i remember, i don't know, but i thought getting 200,000 all in one combo was neat. especially in tony hawk 2, that was before they introduced reverts, meaning it all had to be done in one street trick, you couldn't use the halfpipe.
In marseilles you could flip trick off those bowl lips, out of grinds onto the flat. I think.
In marseilles you could flip trick off those bowl lips, out of grinds onto the flat. I think.
well there's that but i just mean you couldn't use vert tricks at all, those give you lots of points, especially if you insert them into a combo.
now that i'm thinking of it,in a lot of ways, TH2 required a lot of finesse to get huge combos, you constantly had to be balancing.
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