Neversoft plans to release more sequels to the "Guitar Hero" series — including the much-ballyhooed "Guitar Hero: Metallica" set for release during the first quarter of this year — but the company has let the Tony Hawk series go to another developer.
"It's probably best for the franchise ... it's time for someone else to add fresh ideas to it," Jewett said.
Tony Hawk: RIDE
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Neversoft Head Confirms They're Not Doing Next Tony Hawk
Neversoft plans to release more sequels to the "Guitar Hero" series — including the much-ballyhooed "Guitar Hero: Metallica" set for release during the first quarter of this year — but the company has let the Tony Hawk series go to another developer.
"It's probably best for the franchise ... it's time for someone else to add fresh ideas to it," Jewett said.
Good. Hopefully a change in developer is what the franchise needs. It started to suck after THPS4, although THUG wasn't horrible.
I couldn't have said that better myself. Tony Hawk needs something new because quite frankly Skate has really taken over the skateboard market imo.
I used to LOVE the Tony Hawk series... But I think I'm over the whole skateboard games genre right now.
This is the one with that rumored peripheral right? This is of course stupid, I hope they realize this. We don't want more plastic crap in our homes. At least I don't. All it'll do is raise the price of thing so it sells less and then they go and start firing people and everybody dies.
Other than that, yeah, this could only be a good thing.
Good going for the developers walking around with hard-ons too...I guess. At least they get to run a different franchise into the ground.
I'd say it was a good idea were it not for the idea that this new game will have some peripheral with it. This doesn't sound good in any way, shape or form.
It was eventually going to happen due to all the crap GH spin-offs that they are going to have to make.
I'm just curious as to how many skate board fans there are who want to sit in side and play the game rather than being out on a board
Funny, I actually read that article from the Great Falls Tribune today (I live in MT), but didn't care.
"Tony Hawk's got stale over the years, it's good to see another developer taking the reigns and I'll be interested to see what they can pull off."*points at Tomb Raider*
I agree that the games need to be work on by another developer for some new fresh take, but I gotta point out that his company is just doing paint by numbers guitar hero games!!! I think Neversoft needs to do something else besides these really boring GH games. Sure I jammed with the 3rd game but a year later and i am bored with that style of game play. Get some crazy, creative ideas going for a new game man.
Studio Gigante? Isn't that Mortal Kombat co-creator John Tobias' company? Interesting... Goro as an unlockable skater, perhaps? Sweet.
Anyway, I'm bummed that Neversoft has ditched their flagship series. I've always been a huge fan of the THPS series. Sure, it's had some ups and downs, with Proving Ground being waaaay down, but I did think Tony Hawk's Project 8 ended up being a solid transition to next-gen consoles. I've heard rumors of Tony Hawk now going peripheral based, like Skate It, using the Wii Balance Board and such. I certainly hope that's not the case. Regardless, I just hope the new company does justice to the series. Neversoft has sadly milked it long enough. Now it looks like they've moved on to milking Guitar Hero, and already that act is getting way old.
how could they have possibly let this happen? i still am totally blown away with how they are letting Skate overtake the Tony Hawk franchise. I remember Tony Hawk 3 got a 10 (correct me if im wrong) on gamespot. its unbelievable that these dumbasses at neversoft decided that completely copying another studios franchise would be a better idea, and yet they still manage to release an inferior game. how many people work for neversoft? you mean to tell me nobody there can come up with fresh ideas for the franchise? hell they're so experienced with copying other by now (world tour for example) they could easily try to match what EA's Skate is doing, and totally outdo them and have a game full of more well known names.
It's called Thrasher - Skate and Destroy. Skate is only the reinvention of the same concept except using thumbsticks. T:S&D never got a sequel because of the tone of the first game. People wanted frantic action, not slow deliberation -- hence the success and lack of actual iteration THPS received.
Rockstar missed the boat on skateboarding games when they could have become the next Activision.
"Scooper said:*points at Fallout 3*"Tony Hawk's got stale over the years, it's good to see another developer taking the reigns and I'll be interested to see what they can pull off."*points at Tomb Raider*Yes, because switching developers works...*EDIT**points at Guitar Hero*Yes, because switching developers works..."
You know what, even if the game will have some useless peripheral, at least they're acknowledging that the game has been getting stale over the years. I love Skate, and I'm definitely buying the sequel in a few weeks, but I'm pretty excited to see what the new developer can dish out.
Can't say that I'll be too excited for the yearly renditions of the game if it really ends up taking off though.
The Tony Hawk video game franchise needs to re-think it's whole... everything. Skate simply blows it out of the water, especially with the Flick-it controls. ReTarDedFisHy really hopes they can make Tony Hawk fun again. But wow, Neversoft not doing the next Tony Hawk... odd, to say the least.
Tony Hawk is dead, Hawk skateboards are dead, Tony Hawk the video games is dead. The universe is over people
Might sound bad but could be a good thing getting someone new to dev it lets face it the last tony hawks game was an epic failur what was a shame considering im a big fan of the series
I'm very pessimistic as far as people that worked at EA Chicago taking the Tony Hawk games in a "new direction". After all, EA Chicago was the developer that ruined the Def Jam series by adding some interesting concepts (environment events controlled by the music playing) but at the sacrifice of the core gameplay being very meh. I really wish the Aiki developed Def Jam Fight For NY got at least one sequel that was more of the same (fighting/wrestling game mechanic similar to the THQ N64 Aiki wretling games, over the top/tongue in cheek story, and crazy amount of character customization options). The only positive I see right now is that this time they're taking over a series that has been run into the ground, where as with Def Jam, it was a series that reached its high point in the previous game.
THPS 3 and 4 were easily the pinnacle of the series, after that Neversoft's idea of "refreshing the series", was just to add more stuff onto the skating, instead of actually refining the gameplay itself. Hopefully the skate series doesn't fall to the same gimmicky-ness that plagued the later iterations of THPS.
So instead of killing tony hawk there now gonna do the same shit to guitar hero releasing 50 bajillion more guitar based games.
"So instead of killing tony hawk there now gonna do the same shit to guitar hero releasing 50 bajillion more guitar based games."Blame Activision, they give the marching orders and pay the bills. THe choice is either Milk Guitar Hero until it becomes unplayable nonsense like THPS became, OR get laid off.
I think all of us here would chose to milk away mon capiton!
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