skate all the way

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skate flickit is funs good missions also u can show people videos of yourplayer doing that trick u spent forever mastering well when u werent playing halo 3

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I have only played the demos for both games, but I VASTLY prefer Tony Hawk. Maybe I just need to play skate longer to get used to the new control scheme, but I probably won't until I buy and get bored of Proving Ground.

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I haven't played skate or the new Tony yet, but I haven't had nearly as much fun with ANY recent iteration of Tony Hawk since THPS 2.

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I played both and I own Skate. It's awesome, period. And huge too!!

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This is old fashioned! Does skates even exist nowadays? lol

Marcelo
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Tony Hawk's Underground 2, all the way!
I played the Proving Ground demo and I was disgusted at the controls.

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I'm gald skate is smashing Tony Hawk. This shows how important it is to INNOVATE! Skate was good enough to get someone to buy it (me) who never bought one Tony Hawk game. And I've never even skateboarded in my entire life. The game is jsut plain fun, and for those who haven't played Tony Hawk games, the controls are really easy to learn and incredibly intutive and as I have mentioned before, they are fun to use.

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skate is an awesome game. it takes a little while to get used to the controls, but once u do it is sooooo fun! i could play for hours just setting up lines and trying to nail certain tricks

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@ #15 Exactly! It does feel like Jackass with skateboards.

Not to mention the physics of the Tony Hawk games really bug me. I know that isn't a problem for some people, seeing as how it's just a video game.

Skate ftw

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next poll- do you play halo 3?
lets see how lopsided that one is

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skate, and I'm a HUGE Tony Hawk fan. Well, was.

When the demo for skate hit XBLA I couldn't put it down. When the demo for THPG came out, I forced myself to play through it.

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im stopping myself from voting due to me not having played proving ground yet, but im about 400% sure i'd still vote for skate if/when i do. whoever said skate was 'gimicky' obviously hasn't played hawks since... well ever!

i think what should be pointed out (and a few people have touched on it already) is that skate is (presumably) the first in a series, TH1 was flawed in far too many places to point out but these were addressed in later installments. once we get to skate 2/3 i think it will be unstoppable.

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definitely still a devoted tony hawk fan.

yes, the series may have gone downhill from previous versions, but i still love it.
and the skate controls may be innovative and unique, but i find them far too tedious for the game to be any fun. you need to be perfectly lined up to a rail in order to grind it? that's just annoying. yeah that makes it more realistic, but that doesn't mean it's fun. just like guitar hero would not be fun if they made it play more like a real guitar.

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based on what everyone's saying...skate.

But then again...I've hated every TH game that was made after THUG 2...because they've become unnecessarily complicated. Why can't it be the button mashing goodness from 5-10 years ago? :(

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Is this a serious question? I don't even think there are any Tony Hawk fans left after the Skate DEMO came out. Every game has been a rehash of the last one "ohnoes my skateboard fell apart and theres one piece somehow on the roof of each one of these skyscrapers. Do 90 backflips off this curb and onto the roof and get the pieces plzthnksbai".

Skate > THPG

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I think the reason Skate is so engrossing is because it allows a sort of convincing escapism. Playing the game you feel like you've actually skated and not just completed a list of objectives to progress in the game. The physics centric nature of the game lends a much more intimate, natural, and tangible interaction with the environment, which I think is one of the most alluring aspects of real skating to begin with.

Even though it's not as feature rich as Proving Ground, the core game itself is new, different, and reminiscent of the unsuccessful Tony Hawk competitor game Thrasher for the PS1, which was a more realistic game (to a fault) at a time when people probably weren't ready for that level of simulation.

Skate's 'back to basics' approach works because the basics feel so right, unlike Tony Hawk where your skater feels like a stiff robot riding a wheeled rocket that's capable of flying faster than a ferrari. Skate's slower pace not only adds realism but encourages you to savor the details that went into the visuals and the excellent level design. Skate's laid back attitude also makes playing the game a relaxing, zen-like experience rather than the wacky task list/token collecting of the TH games (which can also be fun, but after almost 10 games.....)

I suspect the TH team will be doing some deep thinking after seeing the sales figures compared to their new competition. Proving Ground is a step in the right direction, offering more diversity on HOW you play the game (particularly merging the level editor into the single player with the clever 'rigger' class) but the core game just feels like every other TH game with high poly characters and overexagerrated highlights. I think TH should take a different direction entirely than Skate, since I see little point in them trying to continue trying to obtain 'street cred' like with Proving Ground. Maybe they should try adding those off road earth boards to the game and have environments outside of the city? Something that NO skateboard game has done yet and still allows for plenty of craziness. It may be a stretch for the Tony Hawk branding, but at this point they've been beat at their own game, so they need to change the game significantly.

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Its down to personal choice.

Either you like a well rounded skate sim with a few rough edges and missing (IMO) features...

Or Ollie-The-Bum...

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Skate hands down, and that comes from a history of playing and owning every Tony Hawk game thus far. It is such a different approach, and for the better. Rather than it be about getting 99999999999 points in one combo or getting some objects while running from dock workers(honestly it doesn't get much gimicky than that) it is about skating. The ride. I played the demo endlessly and now that I have the full game it is so easy to just pop it in, ride around, and do some cool stuff. Points don't even matter to me. Free skate, shut the HUD off, and then just ride. Don't know if you just did a uber cool trick? Well you do, when you get a multiplier the colors get bright and intense letting you know you are badass. This brightness is even more intense when you are high. Not that I condone that behavior, it's not for everyone, but Skate is surely in the top 5 games to play when high, as my roommate and I will attest to.

The only this this tony hawk has going for it is that it is the same old crap. Some people love it, and by some I mean a minority as the poll shows. Some people don't want to change their aybxybyxabyxrrr ways claiming the skate controls are hard to learn. No way, intuitive as it gets. You gotta try harder or just get better at games, cause your failing on one of those.

In the end, Skate > Tony Hawk any day anywhere.

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@ 28: You DO realize the irony of emphatically stating "the importance of innovation" and having an EA game in the same breath where you're NOT putting down EA for not being innovative...RIGHT?

that aside, as a long-time Tony player, the subsequent sequels have gotten stale, and I'm playing the SHIT outta "Skate".

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