Denial.

I actually wanted the game to be good.

Lol.  He should challenge his critics to a real life skate boarding contest like Uwe Boll challenged people to boxing.

Since I think tony is an ok guy Im going to ignore the parts of his response that i disagree with.

Jeff Gerstmann tried it. Jeff Gerstmann gave it a bad review. 
 
Tony Hawk is a lair!!

" Jeff Gerstmann tried it. Jeff Gerstmann gave it a bad review.  Tony Hawk is a lair!! "

Parents are always proud of their children, no matter how ugly they are.
 
Anyway...

1. He helped developing the game and thus lacks necessary distance to judge it.
2. He says it in order to boost sales.
3. He probably knows shit about good games.

" Well he is wrong.  Jeff even said it had potential back at E3, I hardly consider that dismissive.  We all saw it, they were't hiding anything in that Quick Look, the game just doesn't look that great.  Tony Hawk should have kept his mouth shut about this, let it die, then Activision should have taken a break with Tony Hawk games, maybe not as long as Jeff said, but still a couple years anyway.  After people start to forget about it, come back with Tony Hawk Pro Skater 5, pretend the other shit didn't exist, return to what made the game good and work on that.  Believe it or not every single game doesn't need to have motion controls or a peripheral, there is room for regular controller games too. "

T Mobile menu screen = Hawk approved! 
Yeah!

" Jeff Gerstmann tried it. Jeff Gerstmann gave it a bad review."

When I saw footage of it at E3, I really hoped they could pull this off, because I'm willing to give anything a shot as long as it's fun.

It's funny too, as the reviews I have read on RIDE have either been glowing by the media that obviously decided to do the  "play it for an hour at this review event and we'll let you post it up early" way and the rest being the negative ones that bought a retail copy to play it as much as possible. 
Is this going to be another Lair, where Hawk is going to mail out instructions on how you're supposed to use the board?

I was hoping it would be good, too, but I'm not a professional revooer. I think a lot of it was just the lack of faith from Activisions obvious lack of faith in the game. I also heard that when Tony Hawk gets on it, he does really really good. So is that it, then? Do you have to actually know how to skateboard in order to play the bloody thing? Then why am I not just skateboarding?

" @Metal_Gear_Sunny said:

" Jeff Gerstmann tried it. Jeff Gerstmann gave it a bad review.  Tony Hawk is a lair!! "

Tony Hawk = Lair?  Now it all makes sense. "

I think this is a case of Tony being more hurt that something bearing his name is getting such overwhelmingly negative reactions. His namesake video game franchise has gone from the peak of sporting games to a laughing stock.
 
I think the review scores from the major sources are pretty well in agreement. This game is a shoddy piece of software with a reasonably sturdy hardware that may or may not actually work. The added fact that Activision wouldn't even send anyone a review copy speaks volumes. This experiment turned out to be an unmitigated disaster that Activision is trying to push out the door and completely forget. Sorry Tony.

Hey, we all saw Jeff play it

There was probably a reason why Activision hid this game from the press Mr. Hawk.
 
I will give Tony credit in that he seems relatively active in actually promoting "his" games. And I don't think anyone thought the idea was that stupid. They were just wary of the execution and lack of attention Activision gave it.

if you have some skateboarding skills i bet the game is funner. But fuck. If you have some skateboarding skills, your out skateboarding.

" Lol.  He should challenge his critics to a real life skate boarding contest like Uwe Boll challenged people to boxing. "

I bet Activision set Tony Hawk up with the RIDE skateboard in front of a TV that was playing Skate, and someone in a back room somewhere was making what Hawk did on the skateboard happen in Skate. That would clearly explain everything.

Listening to the last Bombcast points out what they should first do.  Put out Tony Hawk Classic.  Remake the First 2 games with the mechanics of Tony Hawk 3, which is when the game reached its apex, and needed no more changes to the core gameplay.  Then put those first 3 games out on the XBLA and PSN with HD graphics.  Maybe the first two games dont need to be overhauled in gameplay to play like 3, but 3 was the best in the series but the first 2 have the real classic feel since they came out on the DC and PS1.

The idea was great.  The execution was poor.  Tony play-testing the game and calling it good is
@VWGTI said:

" Denial. "

" if you have some skateboarding skills i bet the game is funner. But fuck. If you have some skateboarding skills, your out skateboarding. "

Just cements Skate's dominance in the uh "Skateboarding Sim?" category.

Lots of decent games don't get their fair shake.. this isn't one. Every critic that tore into this game did so with accuracy and it was a lot more than an unresponsive piece of hardware that brought this half-assed game down.  
 
@VWGTI said:

" Denial. "

It still sucks ass.

Everything he says about the game is worthless.  No offense to him personally, he's trying to sell his game, he's not gonna be all like,  "hell yeah this game sucks!  What the hell were the developers thinking?"

" @Metal_Gear_Sunny said:

" Jeff Gerstmann tried it. Jeff Gerstmann gave it a bad review."

Jeff is going to fire himself for not giving it a good score. There's going to be a huge controversy, and he's going to start a new site with Ryan, Brad and Vinny. It's going to be called "GameCop", and a large chunk of its community is going to consist of ex-GiantBomb members who have grown tired of GiantBomb's biased reviews, opting for Jeff & Co's honest writing. "

I AM TONY HAWK I WILL KILL YOU ALL IF YOU DO NOT BUY MY GAME

" I actually wanted the game to be good. "