We may be getting the game two weeks before you folks in the UK but look at it this way: now you have two more weeks to sell off your furniture and reorganize your living room for all your new plastic peripherals. Hooray!
Tony Hawk Ride pushed back to Dec. 4 in UK, arriving on time in NA
by Ben Gilbert 
on Oct 1st 2009 9:00PM
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We may be getting the game two weeks before you folks in the UK but look at it this way: now you have two more weeks to sell off your furniture and reorganize your living room for all your new plastic peripherals. Hooray!
Reader Comments (46)
Posted: Oct 1st 2009 9:35PM MarkezJM said
I demand that you charge into a local retailer outlet on release day and do just as much. Emphatically so.
"YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSS, CLEERK??? WELL I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAAAAAAAAAAAAY, THAT I FOR ONE, WILL NOT BE BUYING THIS! YOU ARE THE WEAKEST LINK! GOODBYE!"
And then I suppose you could follow it up elsewhere with something like:
"YEEEEEES BARKEEP!? 2 FINGERS OF MALIBU, PLEASE!!! POST HASTE!!!"
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"YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSS, CLEERK??? WELL I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAAAAAAAAAAAAY, THAT I FOR ONE, WILL NOT BE BUYING THIS! YOU ARE THE WEAKEST LINK! GOODBYE!"
And then I suppose you could follow it up elsewhere with something like:
"YEEEEEES BARKEEP!? 2 FINGERS OF MALIBU, PLEASE!!! POST HASTE!!!"
Posted: Oct 1st 2009 10:33PM (Unverified) said
Godd damn it, I only like gimmicks in my games. Not to play them with. You (THR) will go the way of your forefathers, the powerglove and gameboy printer. A pox on you. A pox I say.
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Posted: Oct 1st 2009 9:02PM (Unverified) said
Would Bobby care to explain this? Not that anyone cares, I just want to downvote him.
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Posted: Oct 2nd 2009 10:10AM PlatinumSkeet said
I wouldn't get this game even if it got had a perfect rating from every game site. I don't know if it's just me but I already pegged this game down that it's going to suck.
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Posted: Oct 1st 2009 9:03PM ArchiGamer said
And in about two months, it will arrive on the bargain bin.
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Posted: Oct 1st 2009 9:36PM I AM IRONHIDE said
Where's Kotick? I want to stress to him that he's over the weight limit for the board.
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Posted: Oct 1st 2009 9:44PM I AM IRONHIDE said
Hello Bobby Nodick, I am here today to stress to you that you are overweight for the Tony Hawk Ride official Skateboard.
Furthermore, you are a fat ass.
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Furthermore, you are a fat ass.
Posted: Oct 1st 2009 10:06PM (Unverified) said
Jeez, Bobby. Calm down. He was only stating a fact.
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Posted: Oct 1st 2009 9:57PM Tre said
It's a darn shame that Mr. "It's Your Money, But I Need It NOW!" (aka Bobby Kotick, aka No[Censored], aka Fatty McFatFat) can't even use the board.
Or maybe it might not be, because when he tries to ride one, he'll break it and it will be a loss to his company's money.
EA, please don't stoop this low. Skate is so much better than this hunk of plastic no one really needs (or necessarily wants).
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Or maybe it might not be, because when he tries to ride one, he'll break it and it will be a loss to his company's money.
EA, please don't stoop this low. Skate is so much better than this hunk of plastic no one really needs (or necessarily wants).
Posted: Oct 1st 2009 10:01PM Crusty Magic said
I for one can't wait for the lawsuits to start appearing on the evening news over this.
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Posted: Oct 1st 2009 10:19PM Tre said
Huh, that's strange, it cut me off.
Anyways, Activision loves money, and people will buy thing that will get them off of the couch (read: usually plastic in one form or another)
Hence, plastic = money = Bobby Kotick and his peons swimming in gold coins and laughing like hyenas.
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Anyways, Activision loves money, and people will buy thing that will get them off of the couch (read: usually plastic in one form or another)
Hence, plastic = money = Bobby Kotick and his peons swimming in gold coins and laughing like hyenas.
Posted: Oct 1st 2009 10:47PM U U D D L R L R B A SELECT START said
With the number of plastic peripherals I already own, I just realized that if a fire ever breaks out in my house my living room will afterward be coated with a hard, plasticy shell.
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Posted: Oct 1st 2009 10:56PM MystileArmor said
It's so they can claim the best selling peripheral game of December 2009...
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Posted: Oct 1st 2009 11:15PM deedubbadoo said
Still no option to use a regular controller? Still no money from me! This thing is going to fail miserably.
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Posted: Oct 2nd 2009 2:38PM (Unverified) said
Have you seen how simple the gameplay is?
The board is so awkward and laggy to use that the whole game runs like Tony Hawk 1's first training level: "How to ollie (jump)"
You want controller fun, get one of the many many old Tony Hawk games, they're still pretty good if you like to feel like your playing a fighting game with the controller.
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The board is so awkward and laggy to use that the whole game runs like Tony Hawk 1's first training level: "How to ollie (jump)"
You want controller fun, get one of the many many old Tony Hawk games, they're still pretty good if you like to feel like your playing a fighting game with the controller.
Posted: Oct 2nd 2009 4:45PM deedubbadoo said
I have no problem with them trying to evolve the series but to alienate that many potential consumers by forcing them to purchase the board is just down right dumb. I am no marketing genius by any means but I understand the bottom line is to make money and by not offering a controller solution, they are going to miss out on a lot of potential revenue. Just look what happened with Fight Night 4, people were irate that they took out the button mapping, but at least the game was able to be patched, I don't know if they can do that here and if they can't, someone dropped the ball.
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Posted: Oct 1st 2009 11:32PM Johnnynumber5 is powered by cell said
I don't know what they were thinking by not allowing users to use a standard controller. They could have actually moved some game units that way. Tony Hawk deserves better but he has become such a sellout that he would probably use this thing with a huge fucking grin at a public demonstration (if it hasn't already happened at E3) ... This is one of the absolute worst ideas I've ever seen.
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Posted: Oct 1st 2009 11:34PM Johnnynumber5 is powered by cell said
Let me also say that the board itself looks really cool. It almost looks like a real deck but the problem is how the hell is this even going to work? Players won't be able to actually do flip tricks so you end up squatting and pretending to do a flip trick? How is that going to be any fun at all or responsive in the least bit? I hate Activision so much.
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Posted: Oct 1st 2009 11:52PM MarkezJM said
I chalk it up as a result of the TH branding falling behind Skate, and little more. I wouldn't go as deep as calling him a sell-out, as I think he does believe in the branding and enjoys the direction it is going.
I just don't know if he ever really had the insight or appreciation into the buttonheads that were pulling off the silly, huge-point combos that made people love the game in the first place. Finished off my undergrad back in '04, I specifically remember kids back in the early 2000's doing silly combos and having a game experience they'd never had before. It was new, it was fresh, but that doesn't mean that Hawk himself ever knew or cared about that angle.
I agree, in that I don't think it's a great idea. But I think it's quite a stretch to call Tony a sellout, rather than perhaps a victim of a genre that he created that he fully doesn't understand the implications of?
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I just don't know if he ever really had the insight or appreciation into the buttonheads that were pulling off the silly, huge-point combos that made people love the game in the first place. Finished off my undergrad back in '04, I specifically remember kids back in the early 2000's doing silly combos and having a game experience they'd never had before. It was new, it was fresh, but that doesn't mean that Hawk himself ever knew or cared about that angle.
I agree, in that I don't think it's a great idea. But I think it's quite a stretch to call Tony a sellout, rather than perhaps a victim of a genre that he created that he fully doesn't understand the implications of?
Posted: Oct 2nd 2009 2:16AM markhill66 said
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this is going to sell better than expected. Just watch...
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Posted: Oct 2nd 2009 11:48AM (Unverified) said
Actually, I've played two Skateboard games on the ps3: Tony Hawk's Proving Grounds and Skate... Both were pretty bad but if I had to say one was better then it would probably be Proving Grounds actually. But I also know that I'm one of the few who thinks like this.
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Posted: Oct 2nd 2009 5:54AM (Unverified) said
It looks like a Hover Board, I wonder if it works on water.
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