No, I'm just kidding, that stuff is pretty fucking stupid, IMO.
I mean, I get why skateboards are cool and why riding one makes you look cool. I understand how some people think that being crazy and dangerous is awesome, but it still isn't me. However, growing up we played the shit out of these games. You had your snowboarding games and your skateboarding games and in later years the bad ass rally car games. Hell, ever Gran Turismo had some rally inspired stuff in it. All of it was super cool and a whole lot of fun, but none of it seems to work as well these days.
Sure they have new versions of some of these games but they all managed to either dumb it down or have some dumbass gimmick that make playing it kind of pointless. I'm sure if I honed my Tony Hawk thumbs again that I'd be a badass, but I could spend my time playing plenty of other games that had a real pay off to them.
I'm not sure when the last time I even saw a snowboarding game was, yet back in my day we had 3 or so of them for the PlayStation that were pretty fun. They worked basically like a skateboarding game.... with snow. Cool tricks and neat landscapes made most of it worthwhile.
Maybe it is because we didn't have all of the Halos and CoDs so widely available to everyone that these games thrived. I don't know. All I know is that it seems like a genre that has seen much better days and doesn't look to be getting much better anytime soon.
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