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Tony Hawk claims Activision ‘scrapped a planned 3 + 4 remake’
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
Damn. That fucking blows.
e: they probably cancelled it because he started to dye his eyebrows.
e: they probably cancelled it because he started to dye his eyebrows.
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TheDuskwalker
Member
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
uncle phil needs to rescue vicarious visions
ChorizoPicozo
Member
Smart business decision tbh.
bender
What time is it?
ChorizoPicozo
Member
I can’t unsee it now. It’s all I can see. Thanks for that lol.Damn. That fucking blows.
e: they probably cancelled it because he started to dye his eyebrows.
AeonGaidenRaiden
Member
Damn i was really looking forward to this. THPS 1+2 remake made me buy a skateboard at 35.
SteelCurtain 59
Member
Very sad, 3 and 4 were way better than 1 and 2 imo (4 being the best in the series, and 3 being the best of the original style of Tony Hawk games with a 2 minute time limit). I hope the Microsoft purchase will allow them to remaster those + at least the Underground games (if not all of them). These games need to be playable on modern consoles
Javthusiast
Banned
3+4 and possible Thug 1+2 sacrificed for fucking getting rolled into a Diablo factory.
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Javthusiast
Banned
Go Microsoft!
Them being absorbed into Blizzard I don't think they will be able to do any other games again outside Blizzard stuff. Vicarious Visions is dead.
kiphalfton
Member
Didn't something similar happen with Toys for Bob getting folded into the CoD churn machine?
Fuck Activision.
Fuck Activision.
Javthusiast
Banned
If there at least was a way to play those fucking games on new hardware even if not fully remastered. But no, companies don't care for their great legacy titles.
KyoZz
Tag, you're it.
Javthusiast
Banned
AeonGaidenRaiden
Member
Yes, yes and at 4K (but you gotta pay for the 4K upgrade)
scoobidoo112
Member
I'm not even surprised anymore. Everyone either works on Call Of Duty or is about to work on Call Of Duty, alongside some microtransaction-hell side project.
Kenneth Haight
Gold Member
The remasters are great but I didn’t play them for too long. They’re hard AF, I just don’t have the reactions any more. I’m glad people are still interested in these games though but my coordination is just not the same as what it used to be, to be able to enjoy these for a prolonged time.
Tangerine
Member
Guessing there's photos/film with him with grey eyebrows?Damn. That fucking blows.
e: they probably cancelled it because he started to dye his eyebrows.
It can happen naturally!
Unless the actor who played Father Ted, who's real name eludes me, was ONLY dying his eyebrows!
Do people think it's possible to reform VV with Phil in charge of Activision Blizzard?
Logistically I'm sure it could be done, but is it frowned upon massively to come in and undo previous company decisions? Kotick potentially will still be employed by MS after merger, potentially still a boss just not top dog... I hope not. Fuck the guy.
Course correct, Phil!
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lostinblue
Banned
Looks like spock/leonard nimoy in that photo.e: they probably cancelled it because he started to dye his eyebrows.
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
kraspkibble
Permabanned.
honestly i don't care THPS2 was the best. we don't really need remasters of 3+4.
Tangerine
Member
Oh wow. Beard/stubble next...then chest and pubes. Or maybe he'll surprise us all and change genders or some shit, cus you know... It's current year!Not quite....
My beard has some white patches and I've got a few white hairs on my head at 35 years old. I don't pluck em and as time goes on and they take over my head, replacing the brown with white like some western societal demographic change over time... but in reverse... I will never dye my hair. Grow old gracefully!
Spoken like a true man
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
Oh wow. Beard/stubble next...then chest and pubes. Or maybe he'll surprise us all and change genders or some shit, cus you know... It's current year!
My beard has some white patches and I've got a few white hairs on my head at 35 years old. I don't pluck em and as time goes on and they take over my head, replacing the brown with white like some western societal demographic change over time... but in reverse... I will never dye my hair. Grow old gracefully!
Spoken like a true man
Punished Miku
Gold Member
I'm waiting for 1+2 to hit GP. Back in the day I think I thought that 2 and 4 were the best ones, so hopefully they get back to this someday.
EverydayBeast
thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
Gamers are willing to pay for remasters if anything remaster underground’s games.
CamHostage
Member
Activision merged Vicarious Visions into Blizzard in January 2021 (and there were rumors that this was the plan back when word first broke that Vicarious Visions was working on Blizzard's Diablo II Resurrected.) Tony Hawk 1+2 came out September 2020, and had not launched on the Switch platform until after VV was announced as moving into Blizzard, not until June 2021. (PS5 and Xbox Series versions also came out in March; those were of course hot platforms, but also the game was cross-buy, so it's unclear what expectation of sales those two platforms had? Switch however was undeniably a core platform target even though that version arrived late.)
...So, Sept to Jan, that's a little early to tell the legs of a franchise (albeit it had at least gone through a Christmas season,) especially with three major platform releases still to come. A decision to end the franchise purely on numbers, sales would have to be catastrophic. By most available metrics, sales were not catastrophic.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattpe...-million-copies-sold-through/?sh=6e717ddf7059
True, Vicarious Visions being reassigned/moved left the franchise without a developer. And VV had a big game with Blizzard coming up (which didn't release until Sept 2021... Diablo II Resurrected wasn't even announced until Feb 2021, which was after Vicarious Visions was already moved over.) But Activision had choices beyond Vicarious Visions, with Toys for Bob being a prominent VV collaborator (although Bob is currently on assignment in the CoD mines and may never get out,) and external studios capable of contract work on an established title with a workprint from THPS1+2 set down. They just didn't.
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