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My name is Eric and I am a 29 year old video game collector. I have been playing games since I was 4 years old starting with Atari and have gotten all of the main stream systems from then until now throughout the years. I currently have over 2500+ games in my collection spanning over 20 systems from Atari to Xbox 360. I am a big collector of video game related things in general such as t-shirts, some figures, posters and other such stuff.

I was a former Game Crazy (former video game store; attached to Hollywood video) employee for 5 years before the company went bankrupt in June of 2010.

I enjoy video game music, be it original scores, symphony, chiptune, remixes, or whatever else. I also listen to metal/hard rock. I am currently listening to bands like Poets of the Fall, Skillet, and Mudvayne. My all time favorite band is Soundgarden, and my all time favorite artist is Chris Cornell.

I am also a wicked sci-fi nerd, primarily Star Trek. I also love Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate SG-1, etc..etc..
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So this blog is going to be short and sweet. What the HELL were they thinking having NO local multiplayer in Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD? I get it, it's 2012, Xbox live and online gaming in general are huge. But WHY are all these game companies forgetting that friends like to hang out TOGETHER? I don't want to be hanging with my friend and then say "OK so go to your house so we can play tony hawk online!" I was JUST with him.. why does he need to go home so we can play a game of HORSE in THPSHD?

This game is useless to me now. Not only did this discourage me and make me not want to play it ever, but now my friend isn't getting the game on Xbox live for the same reason.. NO LOCAL MULTIPLAYER. A game series that has been 2 players since its incarnation, gets remade in HD (and the levels do look great...well Hangar does since I played it once and despised the fact that it's not 2 players and can't bare to look at it anymore), and then we get this garbage.

The blood and character models still look like crap too! They basically redid all the maps graphically and that's it.. That's really all they did. I wish I looked at reviews but I honestly though "How can Activision mess it up... it's a remake of the first 2 THPS games, the best ones" But they found a way. I completely miss when games had online multiplayer AND offline multiplayer. I mean is it because "no one wants to play split screen"?

You know who says that? People with 20 inch televisions. My 40 inch TV begs to differ. Since I was a child I couldn't wait until TV's got bigger (even then I knew they would), so I could play 4 player split screen with my friends more easily. And here we are, 2012, and all game companies want is for me and my friends to all buy their game, and play online in our own homes. Greedy pieces of trash.

So screw you Activision. Enjoy my $15 because it's the last of my money that you will ever see.

Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD blows.

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I think the token excuse these days is that they have to lower the quality of character models and environments to get split-screen to work without overtaxing the hardware.

Of course, that excuse exposes the solution so the real excuse is to keep it on the higher end of HD so they can sell more copies. Its been the Activision way since, oh, the earliest Xbox Live days. These days companies like EA and Activision don't want friends sharing games so they come up with ways to stop games from being truly social experiences like they were in the arcade and earlier console cycles.

All the more reason to leave these publishers behind, I say.
Wait a fucking minute. NO LOCAL? Awww hell naw.
Not into this series, but I really do miss local multiplayer. And you're right, with huge HDTVs split-screen is more appealing than ever. Developers say it's a matter of technical limitations, but frankly I think it's just laziness. Seriously, if the Nintendo 64 can manage to run Goldeneye split-screen what's the problem with the current gen systems?
There's... There's NO split-screen in this version?

Fuck. That.
This whole "its overtaxing the hardware for splitscreen multiplayer" nonsense is just more proof companies are pushing to far too fast. With left 4 Dead 2 Valve even said they were only able to put 2 player split screen in not 4 player because of hardware limitations on the 360.
I can understand companies being more reluctant to put 4 player split screen in but with Tony Hawk 2 player split screen is almost a staple of the series.
Yea. And people on other sites argue, "well you should've read the description" and yea, I should've, but the original had 2p mode... so why would its hd remake not? Its so illogical it boggles the mind. Would've sold more copies. Best part is, activisions support links currently don't work. They throw me on call of dutys acivision support and I can't even email them anything. There's a spot to type inyour problem but when u choose the customer support line for the drop down, it goes to. Cod support. So yea, screw you activision.
What a waste of potential!
Funny you mention HORSE, Tony Hawk HD doesn't have that gamemode either.

The entire game is a disaster with money milking DLC plan written all over it, it doesn't help that the game was made by the people responsible for shred and ride and boy does it show, they completely fucked up the physics.
It doesnt have HORSE??!! Oh MAN. I didnt even get that far into the game to find out this nugget of information. THAT'S THE ONLY MODE I PLAY. lol Oh man this just gets better and better! Is tony Hawk even in the game? good lord this game is a mess. They better hope their support center doesnt get up and running soon or they are getting spammed with requests from me. And if Best buy always caves to me and has given me over $200 in certificates for my troubles over the last 2-3 years, then they will cave as well. Amazon bends to my will quite often too.
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