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Quick Look: Tony Hawk: RIDE

Get on board The Great Skate Coaster with Jeff and the gang!

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Nov. 19 2009

Cast: Jeff, Ryan, Brad

Posted by: Vinny

In This Episode:

Tony Hawk: RIDE

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Edited By Cazamalos

Polo , Nathan , Polo...oh i mean Brad

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Edited By Irish87

Less Jeff more Vinny. I need ma'h fix!

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Edited By ThePhenomenal1

something about the ending of that video totally overshadowed everything else before it

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@freakin said:
" kicking shoes Jeff!  And man, that board, those moves, complete 1:1! "
Total immersion!
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Wicked 

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Edited By RobotHamster

Hmmm I wonder if this game will support natal? 
 
Also, lol at the beginning, ending, and watching Jeff's feet for longer than most people ever wil.

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Edited By beargirl1

greatest ending ever? 

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That has to be the greatest opening ever.  Whoever came up with having a bunch of assholes with plastic instruments standing around is a genius.  Thank you Giant Bomb for the gigglies.

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Edited By ObsideonDarman

Awesome, that was just Awesome!

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omg I LOL'd in the beginning when it freeze frames on jeff and he makes that wacky sound, but it doesn't freeze until after he has started making the sound a little. omg so good.

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Edited By Death_Burnout

That intro was very Time Trotters-ey
 
Ok scratch that, the ending is fucking Time Trotters-ey!!!

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Edited By historiography

Brilliant.

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Edited By Slayer

Best ending on a QL yet, great job giantbomb crew great job ! :)

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Edited By ms3boy

Jeff is gleaming the cube!
 
As much as you guys kinda bagged on it, seeing it in action made me want it...once it gets price slashed.

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Oh man. Such a pity the game doesn't seem worthy of such a humorous treatment. The actual QL was pretty sad, but great vid!

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This looks freaking terrible. What the hell good is a motion controller that abstracts away everything it's supposed to simulate into something not even vaguely resembling them. I mean you need some serious acid to be thinking this is anything like skateboarding.
 
What a fucking waste of time. Skate 3 plz.

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Awesome! That was one of the best Quick Looks! I loved the ending. ;)

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I'll deff be skipping this.

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Edited By mnB

Awesome quicklook! Stuff like this is the reason why you guys stand out from other video game websites. Loads of personality and not just another dry place. Keep it up guys :)
 
The game looks horrible btw.

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That ending was more awesome then any skating game could hope to be.

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Epic ending!

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Edited By Sharpfilly

Haha, awesome! Thanks for the laugh :D
 
This game looks neat for kids who are short enough to reach the sensors and not confident/skilled enough to ride a real skateboard... which I think makes Tony Hawk Ride a good thing.

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Edited By Xeiphyer

Great ending! Totally worth it!

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Probably one of the funniest quick looks yet. The ending was awesome.

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This games looks bad and stupidly complicated.

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@Sharpfilly: The thing is that riding a board around is actually really easy, and a big deal of the appeal. It just feels good. To me it looks like they didn't even land that basic part of standing on a board and making it go where you want.
 
You don't have to trick to appreciate skateboarding; It's all in the ride, and they went and effed that up. If the riding doesn't work, nothing else can make up for it.
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Edited By _Phara0h_

WOW a Olie simulator....

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Oh noes he is everywhere!

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Edited By ITSSEXYTIME

Game looks like it could be fun, but I don't know if it's $100+ fun.


I could totally see something like this in an arcade though.  Shame arcade's are pretty much dead these days.

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Lmao at ending.
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Love the ending!
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This game looks like shit. 

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are you guys getting paid for marketing this game? if you aren't you should, because you are doing a great job at it, even if the game seems mediocre.

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Lots of branding in there and some not so great music. Loved the Excite Bike green screen action at the end.
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Good job, Vinny!

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I really thought that you'd really need to do a kickflip to kickflip. That would have been too insane, but now it's just a glorified balanceboard with sensors.

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Man, this game is...not good.
 
The video is AWESOME though!

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That game looks really bad, however, the ending was pretty great.

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I vote that all Quick Looks be like this.

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I don't know about you guys but i'm gonna go out there and SHRED!  
 
Ending totally made my day LOL

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lol @ the way Brad exits the first scene.

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Edited By Jensonb

Well the game looks about as bad as I expected, but this Quick Look is so awesome it justifies the game's existence!
 
But on the subject of the game looking bad, it kind of makes me want to go buy a real skateboard just out of spite.

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The beginning and ending are as Epic as Epic gets.

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All videos should end with that.

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the intro and ending of this video alone were a good enough reason for this game to have been made.

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I think I could potentially have more fun with a green screen than with Tony Hawk Ride... The price difference is a little steep, but I think it would be worth it.

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Edited By Starsimon

I don’t think the physics are quite right as jeffs skateboarding speed never really changed much towards the end of the quicklook.    

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Edited By twillfast

This game seems like it'd be fun if you like playing menus.
 
Also, the ending was epic x10011011. JEFF GERSTMANN WAS IN CALIFORNIA GAMES DUDE, HOW COULD I HAVE MISSED THIS!?!?