We need a skate and jet set radio video. Your videos are top tier well made, and you actually engage with your audience. Keep up the good work man 👍

One of the few actual reviews of shred/ride that doesn't just rehash whats been said for years, diging it 🤘

Definitely appreciate the honest reviews on this channel, so many reviewers just copy what everyone else says. Without mentioning the backstory, or the crunch the devs went through.

Love the background music. Not sure how you got it past copyright, but love it regardless

"Do you see that massive amount of footage?" I was like, "No. I'm waiting for you to leave this clothing screen.." That was pretty huge! Glad you mentioned it

I'd definitely be down for some wrestling/fighting game reviews from you, especially the first 2 Def Jam games. Great and in depth review like always, keep up the great work.

I have some huge nostalgia for these games. Still have both in my collection. Gonna have to look into emulating it at some point.

Considering this was done by a Midway offshoot like Def Jam Icon, I think they had some sort of curse. Ride was this game that few people liked, more people hated and even more people (myself included, peripherical controllers aren't my cup of tea) just flat out didn't care about it. I do remember plenty of people having a miserable time with the controller, most oftenly not even getting it to work well. I think those loading screen tips were more of them just sort of playing with the reception for Ride. People got pissed at the previous game, after all.

I love what you said about how easy it is to be negative on a game if you don't care about the people behind it. It's not just games, I saw and still see it happen for TV programmes, films, et cetera. People in general, including me if I'm having a very bad day, feel this desire to shit on the staff for doing something that doesn't agree with them. I've since labeled these people as pretentious, always feeling the motivation to either give them a taste of their own medicine, knowing they'll likely react with no self-awareness of themselves, or rhetorically give them a challenge, saying I want to see you try, lol. Apologies if I sounded vitriol. It's just that, overtime, I've become intolerant of negative social media influenced individuals, to the point that even playing or watching the worst pieces of media eventually provided more healthy engagement. If it isn't for bright spots like yours and some others' content, and some friends I made through online discussions, I would have taken Dad's advice and dropped social media forever. Excellent video as always. It has me interested in trying out this duology someday. 💫🌟✨💜

“Perhaps I treated you too harshly” has never rung truer and so deep for me as it did while watching this. I saw the effort put into those two games, but I was too blinded by those around me to actually recognize them for genuine attempts that they were at keeping the franchise alive. I wouldnt mind picking up copy and a board next time I have an opportunity.

Having used multiple of the boards, i think you may have gotten an outlier board. Problem with the board also having been rushed is their quality and responsiveness varied pretty widely. If you got the board more recently it would make sense that only the better working and/or repaired/upgraded boards would be out there and most of the worse boards would have been tossed at this point.

when i was young, i got shred, so this might be nostalgia, but i loooooved that game lmao. i’ll always stand by it 🫡

nice shuv attempt! keep skating lol i’m still holding out for the redberylftw street part

Really awesome review!! I could never really get this game to work right for me but the idea of it has always been such a good memory. I definitely have to give it another shot!

Really good review. I like your perspective about the game devs and the abysmal circumstances they were under. Many don’t take that into consideration. As one who wasn’t into peripheral controllers(let’s just say I was majorly disappointed by the Wii and wanted a GameCube 2.0 lol), I just kinda slept on these despite being a major fan of the Tony Hawk series. The graphics and game play footage here were pretty good. Reminds me of what the original Tony Hawk series was supposed to be with the downhill courses. Which could have been a cool thing for Robomodo to do to make it their own. If they didn’t use the peripheral controls, I probably would have been pretty into it. That’s just me being nit picky tho lol.

Dope video dawg, keep it up.

Man, these are both games that have been sitting in my Xbox 360 collection for ages. I got them for maybe 2$ each not realizing I needed a board. This video is making me really wanna get a board and finally give these little bargain bin games some use haha

TH games always have great soundtracks. Thug2 was my first TH game and i remember hearing deadly sinners the first time that's actually a demo version of the song. I own the 3 inches of blood CD premonition of pain i think it's called and thug2 and it isn't the same song. Side note how TF was destroy the orcs not used in a game??? That's the most video game song I've ever heard. Rancid the explosion bad religion the doors between that GTA VC nfsug and the ea big street games the ps2 shaped my musical taste as an adult. Idk if I would play guitar if not for those games. Hearing Slayer maiden and preist at 6 years old was genuinely life changing

Fight Night Round 2 YAY!!! 😮

Glad to hear your takes on both of these games, majority of the people in the community (including myself) haven't actually touched them due to two reasons: 1. You need a peripheral to play it, 2. Everyone said it wasn't worth playing. Everytime I see footage the these games I do imagine how they'd play in a THPS engine rather than their own, because some of these maps do look like they would make great downhill levels in THUGPro. I will say the bird's eye view camera angle in Ride makes the game look more difficult to navigate which is why they changed it in Shred to the standard behind the character view. But yeah I don't really have much to talk to ye about this one so I'll end this post here lol. Good video lad!

Saw a ride board for the wii at Goodwill. Almost wanted it just to cleam it up and decorate with it

Always have thought Ride and Shred get unecessary bad rep for no factual reason and you've confirmed it here, I regret never getting the Wii versions (all I had back then) due to lack of space in my home 😂 And Japanese pro wrestling games?! SIGN ME UP!!!!

have a good day

Both of these game are very good but this is sad and skate 1 too 2 and 3 it is still better than both of ride and shred that's say also awesome brother keep up the amazing work.

Yes, you got me. Never played it, will pick it up now, thanks for the video. You're awesome dude ❤️🔥🤘

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Ride soundtrack is so massive it has a song you can only hear in full in the game. Bad Storm by Disbelievers plays in game, and has never been released outside of it. Since people trash on the game so much, no one has a full rip of the song ANYWHERE.

that was a solid knee banger... also did u make me ur character lol

now you have to find a suitable arcade and make a video on top skater and air trix 😂

17:16 Skip to Snowboarding section of Tony Hawk Shred

lol did you emulate this game using rpcs3 or something? i noticed some graphical bugs and performance issues, and i'm wondering if that was the game's fault lol

I admit to playing most games on easy 😅 however I will bump up the difficulty when it gets too easy for me

You got done Ride and Shred you brave, these were literally the Tony Hawk games that ruined the franchise. I honestly thought the controls were go gonna be so bad that you were going to forfeit

Excellent vid as per usual! I wonder if these games would have been received a bit better if they'd come out a few years earlier as by the time they were released, skateboarding videogame (especially Tony Hawk titles) fatigue had set in. Even with the jank, I think if they existed around the THUG era they would have blown peoples tits off the hinges. Ach I guess we'll never know.

i recommend you check out carve and splashdown. two arcadey waterski racing games, carve exclusive to og xbox and splashdowns sequel exclusive to ps2. two games trying to do the same idea in two different ways. i think you would enjoy at least one of them, since we seem to have similar taste

I played Ride on the Wii and hated it for it’s wonkyness PS: I believe the Ride board was wired.

Last thing I want to do when playing a game is put my shoes on. I'll play kingdom hearts 1.5 and hopefully finally beat seperoth finally after twenty years.... I just finished hollow bastion today at like lvl 52 so i got a bit of grinding to do before I'm even gonna try. I couldn't get passed the behemoth in the Hades cup FFS. I died to yufi GODDAMN YUFI THE FIRST TIME. Idk if I should grind the cups for XP or try and get more synthesizer items.

I feel skateboarding was the wrong sport for this controller, a well thought out surfing game would work much better. I honestly didnt play it because i felt id have more fun just skateboarding lol.

im honestly surprise this is the only semi positive video of a most hated game, and i watched the square eyed jak and many others video of these two games and he and everyone else tore into them and had to use the on rails mode just to get the game playable, the ride board is the worst board that hardly even worked, shreds board is alot better.

Good picks covering Thrasher and Sled Storm (psx). You should cover X Games Pro Boarder for psx @redberylFTW