Yeah I find that often upon starting a level or respawning. Takes a half sec to start accepting inputs. Can be annoying.

Also having trouble sometimes inputting manuals after reverts. Either my timing is shit, my up or down on my dpad is on the way out, or their timing window is skewed sightly. Fuck knows.

Moot_Geeza wrote:

Anyone else noticed an occasional refusal to recognise that you're holding the A button in this? It's happened often enough for me to wonder of they'll patch it. Could be my pad I guess - even with the button held your character doesn't switch to a ready-to-ollie stance.

Yes! Got me as well.

I'm done with this now, definitely one of my most rewarding purchases this year though. The basics have stood the test of time so much better than Cool Boarders.

Having said that I'd probably be day one on an Amped collection.

So turns out I didn't play 2 ever... As I don't recall hangar or school 2. Ah well. Working my way through it and still having a great time. Focusing on some of the challenges as well and it's so easy to have an hour or two pass without realising

Sons Christmas present arrived:

Apparently this board will take my weight so I'm sure I'll be having a go as well! Wonder if I can still ollie

Cool, need to get back in for some skatin'

I landed that ollie lol.

A bit more on the update if anyone's on the fence.

New maps - expanded the NYC Pyramid Ledges including a few more streets, buildings and plazas. There's also as Boozy mentioned the legendary Philly "LOVE" Park, which folk will recognise from pretty much every skate vid ever, or, it was a level in THPS 2. There's now NPC quest givers. Doing the first guys first two sets unlocks all items at the now new Skate Shop, and also another NPC who will unlock you all the items for the item placement mode.

Visually, on the X at least, it's rock solid 4K60. There's now a full suite of camera options, including height/zoom, on board/off board, and grind angles. Also filters and fisheye lenses. There's also a suite of physics options, so you can change truck tightness, pop height, gravity, rotation speed, the lot. Its extremely deep but also massively rewarding. That loop of "find spot, think of an idea, place items, place marker, and go" is still there, and you can lose hours at a single spot messing around with ramps, lights, angles, and time of day. It is just intoxicating to me. Feels incredible when you pull something off.

In summary: it is still the Dark Souls of skateboarding, but when it's this good, it's hard to see that as a bad thing. Get involved, folks. Stunning game. Trial available!

Sweet, I love seeing your footage. And yes, I should play it more. But I'm pretty bad at actually playing things these days

THPS is getting a next gen upgrade, but if you bought the vanilla game on last gen, it'll cost you $10.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-02-23-tony-hawks-pro-skater-1-2-has-a-convoluted-usd10-upgrade-for-ps5-xbox-series-s-x

They can fuck off. I'd maybe consider it if it meant a doubling of fps for me, but it doesn't, so I won't.

Preeeeeeeetty sure it also had "enhanced for Xbox One X" on retail boxes so the amount of work is even smaller. No mention of ray-tracing either.

Fuck all the way off.


Play Session more, Liv.

LivDiv wrote:

1. Its only been out 5 minutes and isnt the most complex of games, I very much doubt a next gen version has been some huge undertaking.

It'd take a bunch of tech artists, engineers and QA at least I'd have thought. Not saying it's on par with making a new game but c'mon, it's not just flip the dial up to next gen. Admittedly I haven't read about what's included.

*sweats in production*

Fair