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Jeff Gerstmann's Pro Skater

Jeff Gerstmann's Pro Skater

Turns out being a pro skater is a grind!

How many benihanas can Jeff land as he plays through all the Tony Hawk games and an assortment of Tony Hawk knock-offs?

Sep. 27 2018

Cast: Jeff, Brad, Ben

Posted by: Jan

In This Episode:

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater

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This makes me happy.

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I just love the intros to features, whenever there's a new one I can't wait to see the intro, so so good! Also, hey, a new feature time which means the best time. This is gonna be good!

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Fuuuuckk ! I didn't know Jeff shredded so hard.

Lol amazing intro.

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The conversation gets so impossibly dull towards the end that I couldn't even leave it on in the background while playing Fortnite.

Not even Jeff can carry a 3 hour conversation

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Boy, you guys weren't kidding about the intro of this. That was incredible.

Also, it hurts my soul hearing that Jeff would take THUG over THPS1, but maybe that's just because I hated those THUG games and the nostalgia is there for the first one.

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This is the best intro Giant Bomb has produced.

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That's 90s bad intro movie that I can stand behind.

Also, I remember that Tony Hawk HD was panned, but I can't remember what was so bad about it again.

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It's just the first episode and I'm already in love with this series.

The Tony Hawk games (1-3) are great im general and that intro is just pure perfection.

This even turned into Breaking Jeff in the middle, which is always fun.

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Well this brings back memories! I was ten when this came out and immediately claimed my sister's Playstation as my own to play a bunch of it.

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Sweet Christmas, the intro game has been on point this year, great stuff.

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Whoa, I did not remember that there is an Unsane song on the soundtrack!

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That intro had me crying..... perfect

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I was thinking "hmmmayyyybe I don't wanna watch Jeff play TH for 3 hours", then I saw the intro.

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@elite49 said:

Rodney Mullen will always be my favorite and is equally as great as Tony Hawk.

Nah better.

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Here it is, Giant Bomb's magnum opus

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Enjoyed the stream and i'm looking forward to this series going forward, in saying that I hope they can address some of the long stretches of silence and general slowness of some of the conversations

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the only tony hawk games i played were american wasteland and proving ground. you could get off your skateboard and hit a goat with it in THAW. there was a story mode which, in retrospect, was trying so hard to be cool it became extremely lame. instead of loading screens you skated down really long empty corridors. i liked it but i was like 12

i feel like this series would probably be best if the games were played chronologically because itd be neat to see how the games evolve, and also itd probably be really hard to play a game with features like manuals and reverts and two weeks later playing a game without them? also i want to see jeff play bad tony hawk clones

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AN EMPHATIC "DUDE, YES"

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Incredible grace and style! What an intro

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I'm so stoked for the THPS2 episode. It was my entry into the series and is tied with 3 as my favorite. SCHOOL II! BAD RELIGION!

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That intro had my jaw on the floor

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Ben is the worst hype man I've seen.

"Get crazy man"

"There you go"

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Jesus, that intro. *chef's kiss*

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There have been a lot of good intros recently, but this one takes the cake. Tubular.

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Team Dog Mouth

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Video froze at this moment for Ben.

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I hope Jeff gets to Street Sk8er eventually.

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Hey guys... Thank you

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Holy shit that intro! Masterpiece.

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Hope he plays the PSOne version of THPS3. That was what I played when I was too poor for a PS2. Found memories.

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Anyone spend time with Aggressive Inline? I remember it being better than it had any right to be.

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RANKING OF SKATERS?!

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I hope this gets unlocked soon because I must share the intro with the world.

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Edited By elite49

@elite49 said:

Rodney Mullen will always be my favorite and is equally as great as Tony Hawk.

Nah better.

I didn't want to be the one to actually say it.

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That intro was a work of art.

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@voshinova: That intro was worth my recent premium sub ALONE.

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Project 8 is the best modern Tony Hawk game by far. It has everything.

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Another 5 star review of that intro here

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@garwalk: It has to be in the next best of right?

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@sir_topham_hatt: I want to say that Jeff has said a few times that he really enjoyed Aggressive Inline.

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Edited By johnnymcginley

I was really excited about this feature but I have to say I was hugely disappointed with it.

Here is what I didn't like, hopefully it comes across as constructive criticism as that is my intention as a premium member for years.

1) Brad was basically checked out for most of this stream, maybe doing the feature with people who are jazzed about Tony Hawk would be the best way to go. I feel like Rorie, Jan or Alex (cross coast) would be way more into THPS, the associated culture and music. Watching people half asleep is not fun and never will be.

2) Please take the laptop off Ben, for every slightly funny thing there is a deluge of bad tweets, long periods of silence where he is just reading it rudely and generally causing him to be disengaged with what the audience sees.

3) I didn't like when this essentially turned into Breaking Jeff. Just have fun with it, you don't need to get every gold medal for example, that's not what we are here for. Brad is the guy we love for that. I was hoping you would talk more about the game and the context of it releasing etc, but it just ended up you getting avoidably frustrated.

I reckon making this a pre-recorded feature with Alex/Rorie/Jan/a guest would give this much more life and actually celebrate the THPS series.

Hopefully it improves but if the next episode is like this I will have to check out. Not every feature needs to be UPF-lite.

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Think GB needs a "no laptop in the live show" rule.

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This intro is truly legendary.

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What an intro!

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This is the reason for my membership. Everything else is a bonus at this point.

@mraknid said:

Jeff's skate montage might be the best thing this website has ever produced

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finally a series for all the hardcore shredders on here, 10/10

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SSSS++ intro. Thank you.

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I honestly can't remember the last time i laughed as much as i did at that intro. I actually had real tears rolling down my face. It could have been something to do with the fact that i'm in the UK and i'd been up for 15 hours. I stayed and watched the whole thing till around 01:20am as well. I felt it this morning but it was worth it!