I hadn't even thought that they wouldn't do another one until this post.

Tony Hawk's got stale over the years, it's good to see another developer taking the reigns and I'll be interested to see what they can pull off.

Like the man said. Its best to get a new set of eyeys on this franchise. Hope they can make Tony Hawk fun again :)

I just wish the Tony Hawk Series would die off, it went downhill after 4.

Good. Hopefully a change in developer is what the franchise needs. It started to suck after THPS4, although THUG wasn't horrible.

As long as it doesn't require a peripheral, I'm cautiously optimistic.

I used to LOVE the Tony Hawk series... But I think I'm over the whole skateboard games genre right now.

This is the one with that rumored peripheral right? This is of course stupid, I hope they realize this. We don't want more plastic crap in our homes. At least I don't. All it'll do is raise the price of thing so it sells less and then they go and start firing people and everybody dies.

Other than that, yeah, this could only be a good thing.

Good going for the developers walking around with hard-ons too...I guess. At least they get to run a different franchise into the ground.

I'd say it was a good idea were it not for the idea that this new game will have some peripheral with it. This doesn't sound good in any way, shape or form.

It's called Skate.

Well I might give the franchise one more chance, but after that....

It was eventually going to happen due to all the crap GH spin-offs that they are going to have to make.

Looks like the franchise is going to bite the dust, along with Need for Speed. This is a direct result of annually "exploiting" them.

Skate is the only skateboarding game I am interested in anymore. Its too bad, because I loved the Tony Hawk games for a while.

sad

Tony Hawk is completely dead for me. They would have to give the franchise a big overhaul to get me interested in it again. I've pretty much moved on to skate., although I'm not sure I'll get Skate 2.

im curious to see the horrific piece of hardware they are going to impose upon the gamer to play this next game.
cant wait indeed

Probably for the best

The Skate series is a nice new,fresh alternative to Tony Hawk games. However, I still think I've had much more fun playing the Tony Hawk Underground games much more then the Skate games. World Destruction was hilarious,fast-paced,over-the-top fun all the way through.

Just axe Tony Hawk already. The world only needs so many Tony Hawk games...

Damn, I guess they stooped milking Tony Hawk and time to milk Guitar Hero now.

I'm just curious as to how many skate board fans there are who want to sit in side and play the game rather than being out on a board

The last one I played was THPS4. In six years, haven't seen a reason to come back.

Funny, I actually read that article from the Great Falls Tribune today (I live in MT), but didn't care.

"Tony Hawk's got stale over the years, it's good to see another developer taking the reigns and I'll be interested to see what they can pull off."

I agree that the games need to be work on by another developer for some new fresh take, but I gotta point out that his company is just doing paint by numbers guitar hero games!!!  I think Neversoft needs to do something else besides these really boring GH games.  Sure I jammed with the 3rd game but a year later and i am bored with that style of game play. Get some crazy, creative ideas going for a new game man.

Studio Gigante? Isn't that Mortal Kombat co-creator John Tobias' company? Interesting... Goro as an unlockable skater, perhaps? Sweet.

Anyway, I'm bummed that Neversoft has ditched their flagship series. I've always been a huge fan of the THPS series. Sure, it's had some ups and downs, with Proving Ground being waaaay down, but I did think Tony Hawk's Project 8 ended up being a solid transition to next-gen consoles. I've heard rumors of Tony Hawk now going peripheral based, like Skate It, using the Wii Balance Board and such. I certainly hope that's not the case. Regardless, I just hope the new company does justice to the series. Neversoft has sadly milked it long enough. Now it looks like they've moved on to milking Guitar Hero, and already that act is getting way old.

how could they have possibly let this happen? i still am totally blown away with how they are letting Skate overtake the Tony Hawk franchise. I remember Tony Hawk 3 got a 10 (correct me if im wrong) on gamespot. its unbelievable that these dumbasses at neversoft decided that completely copying another studios franchise would be a better idea, and yet they still manage to release an inferior game. how many people work for neversoft? you mean to tell me nobody there can come up with fresh ideas for the franchise? hell they're so experienced with copying other by now (world tour for example) they could easily try to match what EA's Skate is doing, and totally outdo them and have a game full of more well known names. 

It's called Thrasher - Skate and Destroy. Skate is only the reinvention of the same concept except using thumbsticks. T:S&D never got a sequel because of the tone of the first game. People wanted frantic action, not slow deliberation -- hence the success and lack of actual iteration THPS received.

Rockstar missed the boat on skateboarding games when they could have become the next Activision.

Count me out, Tony Hawks games are dead to me now. 

"Scooper said:

"Tony Hawk's got stale over the years, it's good to see another developer taking the reigns and I'll be interested to see what they can pull off."

*points at Tomb Raider*

Yes, because switching developers works...

*EDIT*

*points at Guitar Hero*

Yes, because switching developers works...

"

You know what, even if the game will have some useless peripheral, at least they're acknowledging that the game has been getting stale over the years. I love Skate, and I'm definitely buying the sequel in a few weeks, but I'm pretty excited to see what the new developer can dish out.

Can't say that I'll be too excited for the yearly renditions of the game if it really ends up taking off though.

The Tony Hawk video game franchise needs to re-think it's whole... everything. Skate simply blows it out of the water, especially with the Flick-it controls. ReTarDedFisHy really hopes they can make Tony Hawk fun again. But wow, Neversoft not doing the next Tony Hawk... odd, to say the least.

Tony Hawk is dead, Hawk skateboards are dead, Tony Hawk the video games is dead. The universe is over people

Let's be honest, as good as the old Tony Hawk games were, the most recent ones were dissapointing.  I think this series is dead.

Might sound bad but could be a good thing getting someone new to dev it lets face it the last tony hawks game was an epic failur what was a shame considering im a big fan of the series

It will be interesting to see new developers do new things. Hopefully improve the franchise.

their too busy mucking up Guitar Hero

"I used to LOVE the Tony Hawk series... But I think I'm over the whole skateboard games genre right now."

I'm very pessimistic as far as people that worked at EA Chicago taking the Tony Hawk games in a "new direction".  After all, EA Chicago was the developer that ruined the Def Jam series by adding some interesting concepts (environment events controlled by the music playing) but at the sacrifice of the core gameplay being very meh.  I really wish the Aiki developed Def Jam Fight For NY got at least one sequel that was more of the same (fighting/wrestling game mechanic similar to the THQ N64 Aiki wretling games, over the top/tongue in cheek story, and crazy amount of character customization options).  The only positive I see right now is that this time they're taking over a series that has been run into the ground, where as with Def Jam, it was a series that reached its high point in the previous game.

So a confirmed dead horse beating cow milker is now going to stop milking Cow A and instead milk Cow B.

Guitar Hero is a soulless shell of the true music game of Rock Band.  Further proof that simply owning a license may generate cash, but the quality almost always drops

THPS 3 and 4 were easily the pinnacle of the series, after that Neversoft's idea of "refreshing the series", was just to add more stuff onto the skating, instead of actually refining the gameplay itself. Hopefully the skate series doesn't fall to the same gimmicky-ness that plagued the later iterations of THPS.

So instead of killing tony hawk there now gonna do the same shit to guitar hero releasing 50 bajillion more guitar based games.

"So instead of killing tony hawk there now gonna do the same shit to guitar hero releasing 50 bajillion more guitar based games."

well, hopefully the next Tony Hawk will be reborn

Nice 'stache.

Just wanted to resurrect this topic to point out how horribly off the positive predictions were for this game.