Earlier this year, when Activision first announced the remake collection, it also announced a list of skaters planned to be featured in the game. This list included every classic skater originally featured in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 and 4, except one – Bam Margera, known for his roles in Jackass, Viva La Bam and the Tony Hawk series, was seemingly missing.

Now, during a live stream on The Live Club skating podcast, it’s been claimed that Bam was added to the game at the last minute after Hawk demanded he be included.

  • ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I’m so sick of bam. Dude is a kook. Was he a pro skater? Sure. Did he do anything memorable? Nope. There are a lot of weirdos and “problem children” in skating. Mullen. Thomas. Addams. Templeton. Singleton. The list is long. But they all added something, changed something, or otherwise brought style and panache. Bam is an abusive drunken media whore. Fucking mook.

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      3 months ago

      I know my opinion doesn’t matter but I gave up on him in the podcast with Steve O.

      He was saying he was sober but all he could talk about was stories of how awesome everything was when they were drunk/on drugs, that’s a classic (massive) red flag, I think it even has a name “war stories”.

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      3 months ago

      Tbf, fuck Bam, I’d be mad if they removed him from the remake though, because he was in the original. I also think they should bring back all the secret skaters, though I know that may be unrealistic because of the copyright on some like Darth Maul.

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      3 months ago

      Tony Hawk 1+2 was good, if they literally just do that again, then yes. There are areas to improve, but the core gameplay, which is just the Tony Hawk games, is still fun.

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        3 months ago

        Skeptical after learning they are dropping the free roam nature of 4 and replacing it with the old 2 min runs

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        3 months ago

        Yeah but if you remake a game and don’t include all the original characters then it’s not really a remake now is it?

        Bam’s a shitty little attention whore but he’s not like, molesting kids, is he? I’m not sure there’s enough of a reason to exclude him from a remake of a game he was originally in.

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        3 months ago

        … I don’t know, is that why they tried to remove him? Are all the other skaters in the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater games notable in some way that he isn’t?

        I’m not trying to argue some point, I just know basically nothing about this and I’m curious.