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Added by Jeff Gerstmann on Jan. 11, 2009
Joel Jewett
In the interview, Jewett confirms that Neversoft has moved on from the skateboarding genre that it made famous. Here's the relevant portion:
Neversoft plans to release more sequels to the "Guitar Hero" series — including the much-ballyhooed "Guitar Hero: Metallica" set for release during the first quarter of this year — but the company has let the Tony Hawk series go to another developer.
"It's probably best for the franchise ... it's time for someone else to add fresh ideas to it," Jewett said.
This isn't a huge surprise, but I'm pretty sure this is the first public admission that the company has moved on and left Tony Hawk to someone else. That someone else, if you remember the rumor we discussed on the podcast last summer, is likely to be Chicago-based Robomodo, a new developer headed by former EA Chicago and Studio Gigante heads. Officially, all Robomodo has said is that they exist, and that they're working on "a high-profile extreme sports title for Activision Blizzard."
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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.
"It's probably best for the franchise ... it's time for someone else to add fresh ideas to it,"
I couldn't have said that better myself. Tony Hawk needs something new because quite frankly Skate has really taken over the skateboard market imo.
I couldn't have said that better myself. Tony Hawk needs something new because quite frankly Skate has really taken over the skateboard market imo.
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.
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 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.
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
cant wait indeed
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.
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