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This game was the death of the Tony Hawk franchise. Where new features stopped being things you couldn't imagine having lived without and started being idiotic gimmicks. Where the juvenile humor because a crutch rather than an undercurrent. You can read all about it in my Master's Thesis, The Decline of a Juggernaut.
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Vifs posted:Honestly when THUG2 came out, I didn't really mind the story that much cause I liked jackass back then, but now that I'm older I'm just kinda uhhhh about it. I guess as someone who tried to learn how to skateboard as a kid, THUG 1 just seemed like a more awesome story to me. Plus I played THUG 1 way more back when I was younger so I have a lot more nostalgia for it to overlook some of its crap. Conversely, the story mode of THUG 2 is all about destruction and mayhem and gently caress the police. The gameplay is adjusted accordingly. Even beyond the goals, which are consistently about destroying objects that represent order and authority, you have the simple wallplant changed to a STICKER SLAP, because that's more EXTREME and REBELLIOUS, which is what skating is REALLY about, rather than expressing yourself through sweet tricks like it was in the last game. THUG 2 represents the point that the philosophy of the entire series switches from a reverence of skateboarding to a "rebellion" against "THE SYSTEM" in a franchise that is released on every gaming system. It's essentially the sports video game equivalent of this:  Edit: I go to one of the most prestigious universities in the United States of America.
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Jul 22, 2013 07:30
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Edit: Disregard, I just got up.
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Jul 22, 2013 13:43
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Apparently someone is upset that I interfered with the famed Vifs/Zackcat dynamic.
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Aug 2, 2013 23:51
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What am I,
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Aug 13, 2013 16:40
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Toffile posted:Eric Sparrow.
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Aug 14, 2013 05:36
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I loving hate this level because when I was a kid I was like "Oh, awesome! Skatopia! Finally we can drop this destruction gimmick bullshit and just focus on landing sweet-rear end tricks in an awesome skate park!" And then it was a farm or some poo poo. I loving hate this game.
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Oct 18, 2013 20:02
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You are all terrible people.
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Oct 20, 2013 04:09
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Vifs posted:Do people read the thread?
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Oct 20, 2013 04:21
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Ometeotl posted:The red just makes it look like Steve carved that on his flesh himself.
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Oct 29, 2013 16:03
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Ometeotl posted:Where was I just linked to and why do I feel the need to bathe my laptop in acid to clean it?
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Oct 30, 2013 19:55
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That's okay though because THUG 1's story mode was not intolerable.
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