DO NOT BUY Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 Remastered - BAD Game

Tony Hawk's Remastered is one of the worst

games that I have ever played this week,

and I wanted to talk about this game since

I've noticed a lot of other YouTubers,

gaming YouTubers, have been talking about

it, and I thought I would chime in with my

own opinion after playing the game for

roughly 2 days. As a person who grew

up in the '90s as a kid, skating and

skateboarding used to be a very, very big

part of my life, and I was a teenager

around the time that Tony Hawk's and all

that lot were blowing up and becoming

insanely popular. But as a teenager, me

and my friends were absolutely obsessed

with skateboarding. We used to dress up in

the skating gear. We listened to the

skateboard music like Linkin Park. We used

to go to skate parks and do skateboarding

around the village, around the school. I

used to be able to do a heelflip,

actually, and my friend could do a

heelflip and a kickflip. I was always kind

of jealous of him because he was so much

better at skateboarding than I was. He

could do a kickflip and land it whilst

moving, whilst I had to stay still to be

able to land my heelflips. And I wasn't

very good at skateboarding. I didn't

really like skating around the area

because I thought it made too much noise.

So I'd always carry my skateboard and walk

to the place that we were going to be

skating at. Well, at the time,

skateboarding was insanely popular and

huge, and the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater games

had just started to come out. And I had a

PlayStation 1. So did my friends. And we

started playing the Tony Hawk's

skateboarding games because we love

skateboarding so much. So I used to play a

lot of the Tony Hawk skateboarding games

as part of my childhood. I think I played

1 and 2 and maybe 3, but after that I grew

up and I kind of grew out of the whole

skateboarding phase and didn't really

interest me anymore. And now, 15 years

later, what am I seeing? The Tony Hawk

games trying to make a comeback with this

brand new remastered version. And I have

to say, Nice try, Activision, but I think

you kind of fell flat on your face.

No pun intended here, but the game has

completely failed to exceed my

expectations. And for some reason, I feel

like the game isn't even as good as the

original version, which doesn't make any

sense because it's remastered and it's

supposed to be better than the original

version. But in every aspect, it just kind

of flops and it flops hard. And here's

why. So my first complaint would be with

the controls. Now anyone who's played Tony

Hawk's games before knows that the

controls are the most important aspect to

the game because it's a game that requires

skill, dexterity, agility, and

gracefulness to pull off the tricks and

combos you need to get those high scores.

And if the controls aren't responsive and

reactive as they're supposed to be, then

you're just not going to be able to pull

off those tricks in any suitable fashion.

Now the problem is I don't understand why,

but somehow they've managed to botch up

the controls responsiveness completely.

And every time I play this game with my

control pad, it just seems to be like

there seems to be this 0.4-second delay on

every single thing. I cannot land a combo

or trick or manual grind to save my life

because— not because I suck at the game,

no, I used to be really good at game. I

was way better than my stupid friends.

But for some reason I can't get a very

good high score now because of this stupid

control system that just seems to be so

laggy and unresponsive. I'm not impressed.

I don't understand why it's 2020, they

can't even make a decent remastered

version of a 20-year-old game. It's just,

it's just really, really substandard and

poor production management quality

control here. I don't know why this

happened or how it slips through, but it

really did and it really upset me.

My second complaint will be with the

graphics. Now, the graphics in this game

are okay, but they're just not that good

and they're definitely not up to my

standards. I still feel like even though

this is a remastered version, it's

supposed to be better and updated than the

original version. That's the whole meaning

of remastered. But somehow, I don't know

how they've managed to do this, but

somehow the graphics look substantially

worse than the original version. And the

original version came out over 15 years

ago. On consoles at least 4 generations

behind the current consoles. And for some

reason, I don't know if this is

rose-tinted glasses playing the part here,

but I just feel like this remastered

version, the graphics, they don't seem to

be very good, or they don't seem to be as

good as they really should be on the

latest hardware and the latest software.

I feel like the graphics should be way

better, way more detailed, way more

rendered than they are in this edition of

the game. And they just aren't. And I feel

like it's just not a very good update from

the original version. You might as well

just play the original version and you

won't really notice that much of a big

difference. They seem to have taken out

some features from the original game and

not included them in the remastered

version of the game. I don't understand

why they've done this. You get a

remastered version of the game that has

less features than the original version.

So these features are missing are number

one, the character creation mode isn't as

customizable as the original. So you can't

make a short person, you can't make a fat

skater. You just kind of have the generic

looks to skaters. So if you want a generic

looking skater, then I guess you won't

really care. But if you're like me and you

like to be a short fatty on a skateboard,

then you're going to be out of luck here

because I guess maybe because of political

correctness, they've taken out the

possibility, the ability, the capability

to make a really fat person in the game

has been removed, and that really makes me

sad because there's just nothing more

funny or hilarious than seeing a

really fat person on a skateboard.

Another thing they've removed from this

remastered version is the editing, the map

editor. Now if you remember back in the

day, uh, the first Tony Hawk games didn't

actually have a map editor, and it wasn't

until the 3rd or 4th rendition of the Tony

Hawk series that they decided to include a

map editor. And at the time, this was a

really big deal. Everyone was raving about

how amazing having a map editor is, and it

was. It was really fun making your own

maps, making all kind of crazy ramps and

loop-the-loops. But for some reason, in

Tony Hawk's Remastered, I cannot for the

life of me find where you can access the

map editor. Now I'm just going to assume

that they've decided not to include it

because, I don't know, maybe they ran out

of time, Maybe they ran out of money,

maybe they couldn't be bothered, but for

some reason they've decided to omit the

map editor from the remastered version of

this game, which is just really, really

poor. My next problem with the game is the

price. The price is $40. Yeah,

I know you're shocked as much as I'm

shocked. I can't believe they are

charging— $40 is like the amount of money

you'd pay for a new game in 2020.

I don't want to pay $40 for price for a

brand new game, for a game that is a

remake of a really, really old game. This

game is almost 20 years old,

and I played this when I was a kid, and

back then it cost— how much did it cost?

Probably £30, definitely not $40. And now

you're charging more money for it. It's

not even a new game. It has less features

than the original version. Why don't I

just buy the original version? That'd be

way cheaper. And the other problem is it's

only out on PS4, Xbox One, and PC.

Um, hello, what about the Nintendo Switch?

What about mobile phones? I'm pretty sure

the Switch could easily run this really

old game with these crappy graphics on the

remake version, but for some reason

they've decided not to sell it on the

Nintendo Switch, which really sucks

because I have a Nintendo Switch Lite. I

don't have a laptop because I left it in

Japan when I left my wife. I don't have an

Xbox One or PS4 because then I'd also have

to buy a TV, and since I travel around a

lot, I don't really want to be lugging

around an Xbox and the TV. I don't want to

be lugging around a gaming laptop. All I

have is my Switch Lite, and I think Tony

Hawk's would have been perfect on the

Switch. It's got thumbstick controls which

you can use for the game. It's a portable

solution and device to play the game

wherever you want to, and it's the perfect

kind of arcadey game that you might want

to play on the train or on the plane or

whilst you're waiting for the bus. But for

some reason, no, they decided not to

release it on the Switch Lite, which is

the only console I own. The only console I

own, they decide not to put it on. I feel

like they're just out to get me at this

point. So in conclusion, unfortunately, I

will have to rate this game 1.7 out of 10.

It's just way too expensive for what it

is. Graphics aren't very good, hardly any

improvement over the original. They've

omitted certain features which really made

the Tony Hawk's games really, really

great. And worst of all, they haven't put

it on the Switch. So sorry about that,

but I do not recommend buying this game.