Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4: The First Masterpiece Of The Series | A Personal Retrospective
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- čas přidán 29. 05. 2024
- Hello! I hope you're interested in watching a crazy man ramble about THPS4 for like 40 minutes!
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#masterpiece - Hry
As a teenage boy, unlocking daisy felt like the holy grail lmao
Maybe but if you had the scrambled spice channel at your disposal she was kinda mid
I'm revisiting THPS4 on PS2 lately and I have to say, this game is a lot greater than I remember as a teenager. It's been 15 years and I actually feel compelled to complete the levels and challenges. Neversoft was firing on all cylinders when they made this game. Only thing that would have made it better was a better secret skater lineup and a level or two that were more iconic for the franchise.
Yeah, man it is a special game isn't it? It's crazy how easy the game is to go back to, it just feels great to play
I have spent well over 20 hours alone hitting the huge transfers in the main menu half pipe with all the pros skating around haha. Fun times.
Dang you said exactly what the video said and didn’t acknowledge that at all. Are you sure this is your opinion?
Oddly enough i wrote this before i finished the video lmao. Felt like a idiot when it came up like 2 mins later.@@jeccdog7584
You really hit the nail on the head with your level description. There is some vibe/ kind of positive atmosphere to these levels which makes them really enjoyable to spend time in.
Same thing for me with the levels of thug2.
I have this for the Gamecube and everything you say is 100% accurate! I absolutely adore this game and I spent so many hours playing it growing up. The soundtrack is just so nostalgic , Shipyard and Alcatraz are two of the best if not the best levels in the whole series IMO
Agree 💯 %
THPS4 is the best game in the series. 3 and THUG are also great, but 4 was the perfect mix.
Mike V being a secret character hurt my head, since THUG is my most replayed game and he's chillin in rhe first level
Also the fact he pushes goofy and mongo
What a nice birthday surprise. Granted my birthday ended 2 hours ago at the time of commenting but that's neither here nor there.
Also shout outs to that early 2000s warmth. I wont bore you with my nostalgia for this time period for the 100th time but it's a feeling I miss dearly. It's like a childhood friend that you haven't talked to in ages and you end up wishing that you could go back to when times were simpler and had all the time in the world to have fun. At least that's how it is for me.
Hey happy birthday, dude!!!! Congratulations on being another year wiser and older and all that!
And hey, man I couldn’t bore me with early 2000s nostalgia, I could talk about it all day long lol. These games are like time machines, that’s a big reason as to why I like them. We were really lucky I think to grow up during the PS2 era. It felt like games had so much mystery to them. I miss it dearly!
I hear ya on wanting to go back sometimes, but hey we all gotta move forward through life and what not. I be nice to have a couple less responsibilities lol.
Really I find a large amount of comfort in playing old games or watching old anime from the era. Especially if there ones I’ve never experienced before. Theres still a lot to discover, ya know?
Thanks for watching like always, dude. Appreciate it a lot.
This game is the reason why I still play video games today and what got me hooked on bam Margera as a kid and viva la bam
I totally relate to you with the freestyle flatland combos. When I was a kid, that's all I would do for combos on challenges on THUG 1. Any high score challenge, all me and my brother would do is flatland tricks thinking it was the best way to get big combos. Pretty sure we were playing on easy. XD
Also, as someone who recently got 100% in this game, even though you said you don't feel the need to, I do suggest going for 100% in THPS4. It gives you an excuse to do everything there is to do in the game you love. Despite a really lame reward such as Daisy. XD
P.S: Shoutout to Jango Fett for having the most sick special in the game, Jango Jump Jett.
Nice glad to hear somebody else has the same history with the freestyle tricks as me. When you’re a kid it just feels like your almost cheating, like I thought I was a genius and figured out something about the game maybe no one else knew about. But I can guarantee you when I was a kid I was playing in easy lol.
Really the main thing stopping me from getting 100% is doing all the gaps. I’ve actually never done that in any Tony hawk game, it just seems so daunting! One of these days I’ll find the will to do it though maybe
THPS4 is my favorite as well. It was my intro to the series; I got it for my birthday in 02/03 and it's honestly one of my most nostalgic games. I remember friends and I putting in a low gravity cheatcode and trying to use Jango Fett's jetpack special to launch as I high as we could. The soundtrack was really great, and probably my first real experience with punk and ska.
24:27 manualing the switchbacks isn't the hardest goal, you just need to understand a few things:
1. go as fast as possible. if you go slow, it will harm your balance meter a lot more due to the fact that the game will make your balance meter go faster depending on how long you have been manualing, not your speed.
2. get full special before you do the switchback, it'll make you go faster.
now: it will take a few tries to get used to like just SPEEDING down this hill as fast as possible, but it's the best method i have for this mission.
now i do consider myself pretty good at these games so while i might not struggle with it, doesn't mean ya exactly suck for struggling with it.
You should come back and do some more of the series, this was a well made video
This was actually the Tony Hawk game I mainly grew up with. This one & Pro Skater 3. But THPS4 was a VERY big influence on me & has always been my favorite of the series.
It amazed me when I got online & found out so many didn't like this one.
Old school freestyle skating is still the best. Its what i started with as a teenager and its how i still skate. Mullen and valelly are always the goats
This game gets a lot of hate, everyone says they all went downhill after 3, but that's bollocks, THPS4 was the first one I played, The summer in between primary school and secondary school back in 2005.
I love this game tho, pretty much every level besides shipyard is sunny and reminds me of summer vacation, sitting indoors playing THPS4 before I go out to actually skate, also most of the clothes and environment textures in this game are some of the best in any 6th gen TH game, I played THPS3 after this cos my mate had it, then eventually I got a copy and didnt like it as much, I agree with the time limit thing. THAW was the next game I got after THPS4 and it was such an epic leap, and that game also gets a lot of hate, even tho imo it's right up there with THUG1 and love the punk rock aesthetic.
THPS4 has a clean feel to it, kinda like THP8, THP8 is the proper Pro Skater 5 cos it takes what THPS4 did and expands on it. THPS4 also got me into rap music and ska punk.
One mission in THPS4 does my head in is the Slalom run in Kona... I buy the slo-mo cheat for that mission (you can buy cheats and the game has a nice economy.) makes that mission a lot easier and also bam's pro challenge which is a nightmare.
Playing as Eddie from Iron Maiden or Jango Fett for his special movie Jango Jump Jett made the game super fun to explore plus easy access to higher ledges and building momentum
THPS 4 and THUG are the best ones. Best soundtracks as well. I remember some of the hardest goals were in Alcatraz.
THPS4 thru THAW were all amazing
Nothing can replicate how good the tony hawk engine was. THPS1+2 remake got it right but its not 100% wish the original neversoft team got together and made tony hawk games again.
Can’t wait to check this later!
You're literally bringing back Tony Hawk games without a game release you're a legend love these games
I will always love the first 3 games but pro skater 4 just changed everything. Pushing people into the ocean, crying out of frustration because I keep bailing 6 digit combos at the last second, breaking an elephant out of a zoo, and barreling down a hill on a shopping cart? Sing me tf up! THAW is my absolute favorite entry in the series, I hope you get to cover it sometime 🙂
25:30 - That goal is tricky when you're out of practice but after you've been playing it solidly for a few days/weeks/months and learn which tricks are the best it isn't that hard to hit a 250k combo in that area. I remember a few years ago I was playing 2 player with a friend and we had to stop playing trick attack because I had been playing for months and was hitting 2-10mil+ each time while he was lucky to break 100k most of the time. When we played as kids, he would have been hitting the mil ranges non-stop too.
It really is about the theory element. E.g. There are some tricks that net about 10k on their own and are quite easy to land (e.g. the 900) whereas other tricks only hit 300-1000. You have to be splicing in the golden tricks quite often. As soon as you know everything that's in your arsenal, and as long as your balance-meter management is solid, you can easily start breaking the million ranges every single time.
This is imo the best one, me and my family got every thps game from the first to thug 2. Thps4 was just the most fun of them all. Just the right amount of freedom.
Amazing video, wild I’m getting recommended this now
31:25 I actually know this. I don't recall if it was a video I watched or an article I read, but it was an interview with the guy who is actually taking the photos of Jenna. Someone during a meeting suggested putting a sexy girl in the game and everyone at the meeting was on board and enthusiastic about it. After the meeting the idea was more of a, "It'd be cool, but it's never gonna happen," kind of a thing. I don't remember if the girl being from the adult industry was part of the initial pitch, but someone at Neversoft starting asking adult actresses to be in the game and Jenna said yes. Now the way Mr. Photographer puts it is roughly,"Everyone at Neversoft working on THPS 4 was a huge nerd and kind of shy and socially awkward, so as soon as this beautiful girl walks into the office all these guys get nervous and clam up and start staring at the floor." Neversoft needed her photos to base her character model off of and that dude was literally the only one there that day with the cajones to pick up the camera.
Man you’re making me really appreciate 4 🎉 thank you!
My favorite of the series!! Almost
Done passing it just need 7 more pro points 🔥 currently 183/190
440th subscriber!! Great video, good luck on CZcams my friend
Love the video, so many good points that I agree with, THPS4 is just amazing when I was young I never used to 100% complete it, but I literally can't just play it and not do it especially with THPS4 cos i love seeing the note that says "see you in thps5" which i obviously find even funnier now that we did get that 'game' and they probably would have never wrote that if they knew the future...
But yeah for me the whole seires is so zen, I just zone out and have a magical time with no worries.
BTW I keep noticing in people's videos that no one seems to know what the Goats are referencing, in short it's a tribute to a clan that formed during THPS3 online on ps2, they were called the Greatest Glitche Of All Time [or something along those lines](aka GGOAT) and NS just decided to include a goat in each subsequent game as a tribute to these people's, obviously they turned it into a funny/weird egg but still really cool of them to acknowledge it and do that!
As a kid i played this for years without a memory card, hours and hours just on the first college level
I just started playing from 1+2 on PS4 from the 0 abilities. After finishing I wanted more so I'm currently on THPS4 on PS2 and damn - It is the hardest one from all of the classic Pro Skaters.
I recently just went out a got a ps2 and all the Tony Hawk games just to relive my childhood. Thanks for the vid!!
Tip: If you hold X on a manual you go faster which makes goals easier
Just brought this for my 35 mid life crisis birthday got the motorbike running sweet got the bean bags ready to pick up this should b delivered the day b4 gna take a sweet ride on the bike then lax out in my nean bag jam some thps4 and state of emergency then watch some rocket power weekenders and aaaggghhh real monsters cant wait
THPS 4 was the first skateboard game I ever played. A friend of mine got it for his ps2 and we would play the graffiti and the HORSE one with his little sister. Later i got the game for my self. Spent loads of hours in it. I love it!
Some of the challenges were such a pain but it was so much fun even when i got frustrated. Also the music was rad!
I played it for the first time at a friend's house when I was 10 in 2005. I had been skating for maybe a year but had no idea what professional skateboarding looked like, so the intro completely blew my mind.
@@luernios9075 are you still skating? I had only skated a tad bit as a child..I'm afraid I'll break if I fall of a skateboard now😂
@@kristi94 I haven't been on a skateboard in years... I'm in relatively bad physical health now so I might break too :p
@@luernios9075 well there's still THPS 4 for us to enjoy 🥳
@@kristi94 can't really play video games anymore either, due to arthritis 😅 but I can at least watch videos about them
Just bought THPS4 on the Gamecube and I agree 100% with this videos. Somethin I also love is the “Set Cust Restart” feature, I thought EA’s “Skate” invented it 🤯
doing a playthrough now and its still my fav by far, bigger and better in every way then the 1st three games and still used the same Arcady style then the more personal story style thug games. The voice acting and all the characters for the missions are so awesome.
Hardest goal for me was the pro goal in alcatraz, the one with the water tower. Took me about 100 million tries. Just completed it last week actually after 20 years of continuous tries.
as corny as this sounds , i wouldn’t be who i am without this game haha.
rented it from blockbusted when i was like 7/8 (i’m 28 now) and then begged my dad to buy me it and then a skateboard haha. without this game i wouldn’t have gotten into skateboarding and all the music that i like and i wouldn’t have wanted a guitar. its crazy
best game of the series imo
plus THUG 1+2 and american wasteland were amazing. thats my childhood right there
this game it so damn difficult imo!!! I've completed every regular goal except the Kona slalom and elephant skitch at the zoo.
This is great. I don't remember much from ps4 but i remember the manual tricks alot
i also used flatland tricks for combos since i didnt know revert to manual was a thing until THUG2
Tony Hawk's Underground is imo the best Tony Hawk game.
4 and the THUGs were peak THPS
thps 4, thug, and thug 2 - these are the masterpieces for me. thaw is good, 3 is alright, 2 is great, but it doesn't really hold up.
but, man, thps 4 still fucking great, went through it the other day, had a blast
3 was the first one to get it all right, but THUG was the one for me! I enjoyed Ride too
Great video
Fun fact atiba didn’t voice his character. He’s voice didn’t fit the voice over sound so they got another black guy to do it lol
dayum i felt the same playing this gem🙌
Daisy is not out of place, she is just Private Carrera 4 xD
Fun fact that isn’t Atiba’s voice it’s some random they pulled into the booth. I’ve always wanted to ask him about that
The first game I ever bought in the series and to this day maybe one of the best purchases I ever made.
Been revisiting my ps2 collection and playing this one and you are right about the difficulty. No shame in using slow-mo and moon gravity cheats to get through sometimes for me.
2:50 ahh i remember when i had that board
I thought I found a new channel to watch but then boom last upload 2-3 years ago 🥲
I think we would be best friends, this is my favorite game of all time.
Great video! Also, how are you so good at the game lol
Was about to call you out on the switch backs when you got into the hard pro challenges. Like bro don't you remember that one shitty Mullen goal. Dope nostalgia, still my favorite till this day.
@anyone out there
If you want the best experience playing this: Do yourself a favor and purchase it for PC (ebay, mercari, etc.) or download it (which is fine I guess since it's technically abandonware).
Installed + played flawlessly on Windows 8.1 / 10 running at High.
*Only thing i had to do was download + apply a widescreen fix. Google is your best friend to find a link.
The manual goal isn't hard if you hold the jump button while manualing since you go faster
"There's a cool Tone here"
Yeah Tony is pretty rad huh 😎
I played and loved THPS2 as a teen, but I just couldn't get into this one after I had bought it. I think the controls put me off, but I should try it out again if everyone praises it this much. I don't know what exactly the issue was.
I think that four on a gameplay standpoint was perfect... from the addition of the Spine Transfer, Freestyle for combos, the button combinations are a hue pivotal points for the evolution of the gameplay.... I feel if THPS3 had 4s controls, 4 wouldn't be talked about as good as it is.
However, I believe that THPS4 is the START of the decline...
And let’s not forget Eddie and Boba Fett being unlockable
The San Francisco manual one was also very difficult
28:55 I was JUST THINKING that it's kund if like a fighting game
THPS 4 Life!!.. ☮️
Best Tony Hawks for me
the 4th is absolutely beautiful and definitely the best from the series for me.
I beat the manual the switchbacks goal on the dolphin emulator on my phone using touch screen controls
katamari music in background i sub immediately
I also love that Eddie is in this game but I wish he looked more unique, he just kinda looks like a zombie when they could've given him his soldier uniform or atleast give him hair like Killers Eddie
I need to Meet this kind of people who likes to play this games
Still waiting for that THUG video man ❤❤
This and 5 are the only ones I’ve never played. This one just always avoided me for whatever reason I never saw it in stores growing up
I spent like 3 months playing this game nonstop everyday in 8thgrade in like 07, i was 13 almost 14. Ive been playing this series since 01? Ill cosign this being a master piece
31:08
The thought process is that Tony Hawk was targeted towards a male demographic and not zoomers who are either 20 genders or have ED
Liked & Subbed!!.. ☮️
Spent countless hours playing THPS games.
Loved everyone up until THUG1,then I went downhill imo.
Btw, what happened to the American Wasteland review 😢
Btw, this game has a native widescreen mode
BEACH BLANKET BONGOUT
This game wasnt so much Jackass-y. Shenanigans were a huge part of 90s skate culture
The first masterpiece is pro3 Imo its better than 4 by a small bit. Both are amazing and in top 5 of the franchise
wait thats defff not Atibas voice lmao
THUG 2 or THPS 4?
I just found this. I hope you’re doing well
flatland manual trick were added in thps3 not 4. in-fact they were nerfed in 4
I spent SO MANY hours playing online with people doing glitches. This and thug.
Are they fucking the goats? I laughed so hard when you said that.
Tip for the Kona Snake Run… set all of your stats to 0. It makes it so much easier! Trust me, you’ll thank me later.
Idk freestyle is the basis of street skating in real life. But I skate Fr in real life😂
5:58p.m. 12/21/2022
Anyone know which tony hawk game it was where a guy shits himself and blames it on having a fruit salad? It was at the start of the story/career mode i cant remember which one it was.
Finish this series bro
It goes 3, 2, THUG 1+2.... then 4
😂 no
@@iBMcFly I just dont see it. For my money 4 has the least and worst levels and the open nature of the challenges didn"t tickle my fancy. 3 is my clear #1.
Have you played American wasteland
THPS4 is definitely a masterpiece but the first of the series? Nah. The first masterpiece of the series was THPS3.
"The First Masterpiece Of The Series"
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 literally exists
I prefer THPS3 on PS2
34:44 yikes