Why did the series go downhill? Why didn't it recover?

>>387131353

Activision-Blizzard, contract obligations, disconnect between what the fans wanted and what the publishers thought the fans wanted, too much emphasis on music licence fees.

It was recently released from the burden of Activision, and Tony Hawk said he had something really cool in mind with the series that he can't talk about yet, so we'll see how shit goes down.

It had a good 10 years on top.

It did everything it could do

>>387131353
Yearly franchise milking.

Skate came along and made sure it couldn't recover.

>>387131353
No one skateboards or cares about pro stakeboraders anymore.

Milked to shit with cynical annual cash grabs until Skate came along and stole its crown... and then did the same fucking thing in an even shorter amount of time.

REMEMBER WHEN
REMEMBER WHEN

>>387132576
Extremely untrue

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>>387131353
Let go

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>>387132576
So that made the games bad? They were using Xtreme energy of fans to develop?

>>387133196
I listened to that unironically.

>>387131353
That's the Guitar Hero of skateboard games, we had too many of them in a small time window, nothing past 4 managed to deliver the same quality, they just kept doing it because money and partnerships.

Tony Hawk Ride was the ultimate "we don't care, just buy it, it's cool" from Activision.

>>387132576
Nobody cares about pros anymore because skating has evolved to a point where unsponsored literally whos can do the things that we used to worship the pros for.

>>387131353
It went downhill when the series tried to be an rpg instead of a skateboarding game

Pro skater 2 >>>>> 3

>>387133454
3 is the superior game and one of the reasons PS2 became relevant. It went downhill after 3, though 4 is still decent.

You can tell around pro skater 4 they didn't know what the fuck to do with the ip

>>387133401
4 was the weakest game in the main series, a total rehash with bad minigames everywhere.

>>387131353

The TH games hard a couple of so-so games and SKATE swept in. TH tried to copy what SKATE was doing but did it poorly, isolating traditional fans (even more) while failing to capture new ones. So in the end we had an uninspired game series that wasn't as realistic as SKATE or fun like the older games, with shitty music (although SKATE wasn't any good either, the move from high energy pop-punk/punk etc to low intensity rap/hip hop was disappointing).
They should have split the series into a realistic THUG line and a super fun party/arcade THPS line.

All that said, skating had pretty much run its course by the time all this happened. It's on its way back though