The Tony Hawk Game You Didn't Know Existed
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- Опубліковано 25 лис 2024
- Dive into the lesser-known gem of the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater franchise with Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2X. This exclusive Xbox classic combines the best of the original Pro Skater series with enhanced graphics and gameplay, offering a nostalgic yet fresh experience for fans and newcomers alike.
In this video, I'll briefly discuss the impact of Tony Hawk’s games and explore the ups and down of the custom soundtrack feature of Pro Skater 2X. Watch as I "seamlessly" integrate iconic tracks from the first Pro Skater, enriching the 2X version with a personalized touch that echoes the era’s skate culture.
Pro Skater 2 is one of the greatest video games ever made, yet somehow this enhanced version managed to slip below the radar. Come take a look at what you're missing!
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This video stumbled its way into my feed and I couldn’t be happier. Keep it up brother
Thanks for watching! More to come soon 🤘🏻
The jump into excessive swearing after the history lesson intro killed me. So perfect
Foul language brings us all closer together ✌🏻
Adding the THPS1 soundtrack by burning it into the XBOX was a big brain move.
If only the Nintendo Switch had such feature, because that's where I play THPS1+2.
It'll be a while until I get myself a Portable Gaming PC and add the music to the game's files to experience such thing. Well, at least the songs that couldn't make it.
Man, it sucks that they didn't make it into The THPS Trilogy instead. I could had been perfectly fine with leaving THPS4 out.
I think that's what they would have done if Activision told Vicarious Visions beforehand this would be their last dance.
They really did Tony Hawk dirty with that one. The original deal was releasing the 4 THPS games in sets of 2. We were eventually getting THPS3+4, until out of nowhere Activision closed Vicarious Visions and spread it's employees across different projects. Thus, putting it 6 feet under.
Such a shame. 3+4 would have been amazing, but hey, there's always a chance it might happen someday.
They don't even want people knowing CDs exist anymore.
Big CD wants to know your location
I really hope the days of manufacturing blank CDs for consumer use never come to an end. I’ll always find a use for them.
That episode of regular show coming true
They don't want the masses having access to flawless versions of their "IP"
So glad you can just FTP music with a modded xbox..
2X had the 8 player system link as well, only 8 player hawk before the first underground.
I still have to mod my Xbox. I have all the stuff I need except for a compatible USB stick 😭
This is one of the most HELL YEAH inducing reviews on modern youtube, bringing the AVGN era energy back with raw power
I wasn't aware of this game until I saw it in a Gamestop for $5 back in 2010. I hadn't played THPS2 on the PS1 since 2003 or 2004 as I had invested all of my energy into my Xbox by then. The first time I played the New York level was the first time I had ever properly experienced the feeling of nostalgia, and I hold this game near to my heart as a result. I don't play 2x too often as I'm someone who prefers the original versions of games, but it's an excellent remake that's worth playing for any Tony Hawk fan.
Vigilante 8 ps1 you could pop a music cd in and listen to it once the level loaded.
You could on a few other games as well
This dude just casually burning a cd in 2024 is worth the price of admission lol
I don't know who you are or how I got here but after 2:12 I subscribed. You seem like a fun character.
Thanks a lot! I'm glad you enjoyed the video, so stay tuned for more!
I’ve been playing the THPS 1 & 2 Remake today on the Switch, and I had zero idea that this game existed, and that was only because after #5 from what I was hearing about it, it made me lose a lot of hope in this franchise. Suddenly the Winter Sale on the Eshop comes along, and I noticed it was on there on sale for a decent price that I could afford, and I read the reviews and people were giving 7, 8 or 9 out of 10, and I thought “There is absolutely NO WAY it is that good!”
So, I got it and took their word, and when I tell you this game made a grown 29 Year Old man cry happy tears from the overwhelming nostalgia I felt playing it, I absolutely mean it.
What an incredible and unexpected turnaround and comeback! Best remake I’ve seen in a long time! I absolutely love it! The Deluxe version has some pretty nice bonuses, too!
Love the Create A Skater feature, too! Love how it encourages the player to play every single mode to be able to collect more of the game’s currency to unlock more of the apparel from CAS, and gives you challenges to unlock special items! This is exactly what I wanted from a remake of this! Little disappointed the skater creator wasn’t a bit more fleshed out and in depth, but at this point, considering how entertained I have been by this game today, I honestly don’t care that much, because it’s just a happy throwback to my childhood. ❤️
Solid 8.5/10 for me. I really want to give it a 9, though. (Secretly.)
2x with a dualshock d-pad is what i imagine we'll have in heaven
yo great video btw, earned a Sub from me! kinda hate how burning a CD nowadays is "taking ya back to the past" ;)
This feels a bit like old-school AVGN era commentary, and I love it!
Thanks a lot, man! Glad you enjoyed it 🍻
@@TheSOSDude of course!
Never seen your content before, but I love the topic at hand. Your cussing throughout felt forced and unnecessary here. It was very distracting.
Couldn't make it past 3 minutes. The excessive cussing is absolutely ridiculous and sounds so cringey.
+1
Another here who noticed it too. If that's how you truly speak, then sure, OK, but the vibe was wrong??
Common guys… have you never watched Angra Vídeo Game Nerd? This is a ripoff
This
Really? Complaining cause he says fuck a couple of times? Grow the fuck up
they did com out with a "sharkboard" keyboard that attached to the controller memory card slot .. but if you cut a breakaway cable and solder the 4 wires to a usb hub and then plug in a keyboard it will work
This video had a heavy AVGN feel to it and I absolutely loved everything about it! Bravo Sir!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching, and stay tuned for more!
Man, it seems like you’ve done this whole content creator thing before. I’m guessing you’ve got some solid experience in front of the camera, are naturally comfortable and skilled at talking in front of one, or both! This is the kind of content one could expect from the most popular UA-camrs to date. Well done 👏
I wish you good fortune and success in your future, brother! Keep on keepin on 🎉
Thank you very much! I've been making videos since 2008 but I still feel like I have a long way to go. I really appreciate your kind words and I'm glad that you enjoyed my content. Stay tuned for more! I'm actually almost done with my latest project, so keep an eye out!
“The Tony hawk game you didn’t know existed”. Literally was playing this on my Xbox last week. Still have my same old files from when it first came out. Any Tony hawk fan back then that had an Xbox came up on this.
I see your a man of culture with that slim shady lp album
Nah I knew this version existed. Now you gotta change the dumb title
The XBox controller ports are just USB 1.1. Theoretically you could build an adapter and plug in any old USB keyboard. The retail dashboard probably wouldn't respond to it, though.
First time here on this channel. Your voice is 1 to 1 of the Patrick McReary from GTA4 even your shirt makes you looks like one of the brothers.
Right on, man! I love GTA IV
Thps2x is the equivalent to a hd remaster back in the day
Favourite TH game?
Mines Underground!
That’s a really tough one for me tbh but I think I like American Wasteland the most since that’s the one I played most growing up. I never actually had Underground.
@@TheSOSDude
yah that's a solid one as well! Not to many bad TH games right
oh im well aware this existed (im old). the feature to use music on your xbox was incredible
Ridge Racer on PS1 allows custom music, once the game is loaded, swap out the disc for a music CD
I actually just recently came across a video of someone doing that. It blew my mind!
Yes the PS1 was ahead of it's time
And twisted metal 4
Twisted Metal 3 and Vigilante 8 too
This was a fantastic watch, love this type of content!
Glad you enjoyed it! More to come soon 👌🏻
The XBox controller ports and memory card ports are simply USB with different connectors. You can absolutely get a USB adapter and use a keyboard with a lot of software.
I’ve gotta try that
Yeah I defiantly knew it existed. I actually won a xbox with Pro Skater 2x and Project Gotham racing from a Taco Bell promo at the time. Even though I already had one because I was working at gamecrazy.
Daaaamn! I never won anything that awesome in a contest before. I got hockey tickets once, but I’m not much of a sports guy so I didn’t really care lol
You have to enter the artist information manually when burning the CD. The Xbox should then be able to display them.
I played Pro Skater on the N64. I remember one night me and my dad were playing it when my mom came home from work came upstairs and she surprised me with a memory card. I think I'm going to have to buy 1 and 2 remake to get some of that good ol nostalgia.
I kno u feel sad thinking of those times its not the same anymore
Ahhh yeah. I had Pro Skater 2 on the N64 for years before I finally got a memory card 😂
The part about you being so excited you shit your pants earned a sub. 10/10 great video!
Thanks a lot! At least now those pants didn't die for nothing.
Glad to see someone covering 2X, giving it some love. Had that on my launch Xbox back in the day. Coming from the PSX versions to this made it feel like the definitive version of the game, minus the missing tracks, of course.
You have good productiom values here. I can tell you put a lot of time into this. Please, be yourself though. I feel like you're probably a likeable guy and could resonate with your audience even more that way. Thanks for the vid!
Much appreciated! Glad you liked the video 🙂
I bought this game with my first Xbox along with Crimson Skies. I still play both games to this day.
I always used to think Cyco Vision was 'Psycho Pigeon'.
I make that kind of mistake with song lyrics all the time 😂
I heard "psycho midget"
Birds aren't real
I picked up a copy of 2x right around when the 360 first launched. It was a really solid game! I honestly forgot about the THPS1 soundtrack being absent.
Also, the game includes a few extra levels. They’re mostly filler but are still bonus levels.
Yeah looking back I wish I talked about those bonus levels lol
Bro fuck yeah this is what the fuck I’m fuckin talking bout, my fucking guy is with the fucking shits
In fairness, ill bet the licensing rights to the music were up so they couldnt be reused, and probably would have been expensive to renew
I found out about this game from Rad Rat when I was younger. What a throwback! I've never played it cause I don't have an Xbox but I grew up loving Tony hawk games on n64, ps1 and ps2. I still play Underground 1 and Pro Skater 2/3/4 a lot. I gave you a sub for the nostalgic content.
These games are like time capsules, it's always to fun to revisit them and remember the past. Thanks for the sub!
@@TheSOSDude that's true! They're like a box of 90s movies like Grind and 90s and 2000s culture. No problem you're funny as hell
Your demeanor somehow reminds me of classic AVGN. 😂
That’s one hell of a complement man, thanks a lot 👌🏻
When this dropped I was blown away cuz I had the ps1 version and the n64 version my cousin got an Xbox on launch day an the store had a deal where you could pick 2 games as well for a lil more an my cousin got this one for me an I’ll never forget that was my first time graphics truly blew my mind. I went home turned on my 64 an was like yeaaaaaa lmao I need an Xbox never got one tho I have never owned a original Xbox.
Loved that game. Got it when it was released and I think wore it out from playign so much and had to rebuy it again back in like 2010
The first time custom soundtrack isn't entirely true. I know in ridge racer on PS1 you can swap the disc once it's loaded for a regular CD and you can listen to a custom soundtrack. I think there might've been a couple other games with this feature too
You’re definitely right about that, but I only learned about this after I uploaded the video. It blows my mind that this was possible with even a small handful of titles back in those days
I owned this, but I always preferred THPS1 and THPS2 on Dreamcast, even if they weren't all together on the same disc.
TH:PS2 was my first one; owned it for the PS1. Played Pro Skater afterwards and definitely enjoyed its successor more.
The THPS1+2 remake was incredible. Activision must have put those guys straight to work on 3 and 4
only in a perfect world lol…
Couldn't agree more. These games deserve it!
vicarious visions got shut down and merged rip it would have been amazing
Dude, I totally forgot about the build your own park on TH2
Was hoping you’d talk about the exclusive levels
I had that game. It was so good for the time.
I got this for Christmas with my Xbox when it released in 2001
Thanks for the content !
Good video with 2 observations, no mention of the extra exclusive levels on this one and the excessive toilet talk
Pretty sure on Ridge Racer Type 4 you could whip the disc out and replace it with a music cd and the game would play the music off the cd.
Yeah I heard about that after I made this video, I’m honestly shocked that it’s even possible!
am i the only one who didnt even notice the cussing until reading the comments lol
I've had this game for years. The cool thing is that they even made a few new levels in addition to THPS 1 and 2
The name thing with the songs was probably because you did it on the XBox rather than doing it on a PC where you can set the ID3 information for the song. ID3 is an information format that software uses to identify a song, not the the file name.
2x was nuts my friend had that he was a big Xbox guy when I was in middle school and it blew my mind there's cheats that turn into the entire level into a disco and stuff it's amazing. Also if you mod your Xbox you can send songs to it that way hahaha it's not seamless but I've done it because the lack of cdr
Whoa, I didn’t know you could scan your own CDs into an X-Box
It’s a pretty awesome feature, so now that you know you should definitely take advantage of it 👌🏻
They need to bring that back because the prices for these new consoles are ridiculous and do less than what we had
Getting AVGN vibes and I am here for it.
Taco Bell had a giveaway when the og Xbox was first coming out and I remember this game being advertised alongside it.
What about the bonus levels that aren’t on any other game!! Night club anyone?
Your humour reminds me of early avgn subbed immediately
Haha, thanks a lot! Glad you enjoyed the content 👌
I just said the same thing! 😆
Holy cow your custom soundtracks are like a time capsule lol. Good shit dude. Great game. I wish you had gone more in depth with the game itself, THPS1 goals with manuals are beyond broken, the bonus levels are fine at best, but still this is the best way to play both games to this day in my opinion. I don't want modern physics on these games, I want them to feel like they always did and THPS1+2 didn't deliver that.
I remember seeing this game in stores when it was new. It was made to be a holdover until THPS 3 was ready for the Xbox, so Microsoft had a Tony Hawk game at launch to not lose ground to Sony if I remember correctly . I already had 1/2 for the playstation so i never bothered with it.
I remember seeing 2x on the shelves at blockbuster
Good thing about the OG Xbox is you can play whatever music you want to. Which he mentioned as i was writing this.
That cack yourself story deserves a sub 😂
you sir have just gained a new subscriber lol
Glad to have you aboard 👌🏻
the cd burn montage got me
I’ll always try and find a reason to burn a CD. Even come 2053, I’ll still be doing it 😂
it hurts to see the make a park stuff cuz i know i cant ever get mine back. lol
As a major fan of the first two games, there are major collision detection and clipping issues in this game that break killer combo lines from the originals. I want to like this repackaged version but it fails in many ways to live up to the standards of those games.
While this game is really cool, I don't think it's the ideal way to play 1 or 2. It was more of a treat for the newer console generation, a cleaned up old game. The title of the game sums up what it really is, it's THPS 2 (plus more), not really THPS 1 and 2. Idealy you'd play 1 before playing 2, but the THPS 1 single plalyer isn't available right away and is only unlocked when beating 2, which shows it's just a bonus really. Plus the soundtrack like you mentioned. This is really just THPS2 but with THPS1 levels added in (which the PC vesrion of 2 already did).
I think 1 and 2 on dreamcast as separate games are the best way to play them. So you get the original games in their entirety and their own unique identity and atmosphere (2x doesn't even have the same menus as 2 so it feels different). So 2x is really cool, nothing bad about it, but to me it feels more like a cool refresh of games people likely already played on the previous gen consoles, but not the ideal way to play the games for the first time.
You make some really good points, and I never knew the PC version of 2 had the maps from 1!
Thps 2x was my first intro to the series. Love that game.
The grass effect were amazing for the time.
played it a fuck ton before the remake hit. still on the shelf
I love that this guy curses. Fuck y’all
Gotta show love to a youtuber who drops this many F bombs its truly some special with everyone caring bout the dang algy
Kids today don't know what burning a CD means.
Fuckin love this vid bro!😂😂😮💨
Glad you liked it! More coming soon 👌🏻
lol it's like you've been told you can swear as much as you like for the first time. The remake looks sick might actually try it. I loved thps2 I even listen to the soundtrack to this day.
FUCK YEAH ahah
i remember renting this from Jumbo Video back in the day, it was pretty awesome but I was already into THUG at the time. THPS2 changed my life though.
You and me both, brother 🛹
I remember when I said ‘fuck’ every other sentence too. I was the coolest kid in second grade.
Lmaooo this is funny, subbed!
Thanks a lot! More videos coming soon 👌
Fuck yeah love the video, whoever said you cuss too much just doesnt fuckin get it 😂
I'm glad you reviewed this fucking game because I had no fucking idea it existed. FUCK!
And now your life is that much better for it 😂 Glad to be of service!
I dig the AVGN vibes
Subbed
You could plug a keyboard into Xbox with some weird controller thing. I’d use it with pso
I really like this it like AVGN, but a little more modern.
I think on xbox you can make ur own playlist tho
Great video dude
Thanks!
The original THPS on playstation isn't quite spicy enough for me (THPS2 is where it's at), but a 2x spicy version might do the trick. Gonna check it out!
Definitely worth doing. Pro Skater 1 maps with Pro Skater 2 gameplay is where it's at!
Yeah. My brothers and i played this a lot when we were kids
thps 3 on the original playstation is also really different than the other versions
Yeah that’s the one I have and while I do enjoy it, it feels so janky compared to the other versions lol
Custom Soundtrack is literally one of the best features on the XBOX too bad the 360 was the last one to rip cds I wished the new Xbox was able to do that!
This video was fucking great. Like a other comment, had some old AVGN vibes, when the passion was still there. Hopefully more😌
Thanks a lot, I really appreciate that! I'm cooking up a new video right now, should have it up within a day or two. Thanks for watching!
Holy motherfuckin....SHIT!!! Me too, why fuck I never heard of this X2 on Xbox before? Fuckin mad really.
I was always a ps2 kid so i never knew too many xbox exclusives. This is one game thats on my list though, even if my og xbox is broken 😂
You can make a keyboard for the Xbox by cutting a USB keyboard wire and a xbox pad wire and join the xbox pad wire to the keyboard,
I remember having a Demo of this on the Dreamcast. When you performed combo tricks it would say I.e (kick flip to 50/50 to heel flip) then when it was released it was reverted to (kick flip + 50/50 + heel flip) sort of annoyed me 😂
This is an US only game. I will never forgive them for this. Well, I have hacked xbox and 360s now, so... Doesn't matter as much but still! Should've come to germany! It's the better 1+2 besides the optional motion blur that does not stay deactivated...
I didn't realize this game wasn't officially released in Europe. My friend in Romania plays it through an emulator and he says it runs really well.
@@TheSOSDude yeah you need to get an iso and emulate it or play it on a modded Xbox or 360. I imported it just to have it but the disc is useless to me.