Tony Hawk Will Be Your Friend… if You Play Ride

Excuse me, secretary, could you file this under O for “Oh, How the Mighty Have Fallen” please? Thank you.

Tony Hawk at one point was not only the greatest vert skater that ever lived but also the face of the greatest skateboarding series known to man. Now he is on Twitter offering hollow friendship if you only play his new game, the critical and most likely financial flop Ride. Now, I’m sure we are all just jaded and apathetic in the gaming journalism world and are reading too far into this. The guy honestly does believe none of us gave this game a fair shake, and this is just his way to reach out to his fans and encourage them to give it a chance with the offer of delicious friendship. On the other hand, Ride really does blow.

From Tony Hawk’s twitter:

And sorry to those that enountered a full friends list. Will do some Spring Cleaning tomorrow (hint: if you play @thride online, you’re in)

Maybe he only wants to add people who play Ride because he wants to keep his friends list small and manageable.

Burn.

I don’t think Ride would have bothered me so much if it weren’t for the fact Tony Hawk came out and said people only panned it because they “had their minds set” on hating it. Nobody spends $100+ on something they want to hate, and critics who got copies of the game for free aren’t the only people saying this thing is an unresponsive mess, so put two and two together. The thing that amuses me most is that I can picture people actually getting this game in order to be LIVE friends with Tony Hawk. But, like the rich kid we all knew in grade school that pulled out all the stops in order to get you to come to his birthday party, they won’t actually be there because they want to- they just want cake and horsey rides. Next up on Tony Hawk’s agenda: Offering video game journalists candy if they stop being so snarky, and also if they just get in his van and help him find his lost puppy…

[Source: Kotaku]