Chada Darkmane
01-05-2009, 11:46 AM
After seeing this game listed in the quick 1000 thread as a simple 900 GS i thought i would get it, but what i expected to be easy points soon turned into a 15+ hour nightmare and one of the most frustrating gaming experiences of my life. After battling through the career i eventually gave up at 850 as i didnt think my sanity could take anymore. I know this is mostly my fault as ive never played a skate boarding game and i made a few stupid mistake during the course of the game, but there are a few things i have discovered that i wish i had known at the start which would have made things a lot easier.
1. DO NOT turn on moon gravity until you need it. I had this on right from the start and found i was struggling in a few missions later on cause i keep over shooting the jumps. Took me a while to click that this was the problem.
2. If you are playing on easy you dont need to do all of the story missions to finish the game. I finished the story after only doing about 84 out of 94 missions. This will come in handy later in the game when you get up to the "recruit the pros" missions. Some of these are extremely hard so if your stuck on one just move on to the next.
3. When you have to do a trick for a mission and the button combo comes up in the right hand corner take it with a grain of salt. Sometimes they are very vague and dont include all the info. Sometime i found you had to hold buttons to get it to work, other times the button combo was around the wrong way, and sometimes a combo just wouldnt work the first 100 times i did it and then all of a sudden the trick would work properly. If stuff isnt working over and over and you are sure you are doing it properly take a step back and look at all possible angles. Most of the time i found it was just something simple that i wasnt aware i had to do that was the problem.
4. I know this is already in the guide but i just want to emphasis you dont have to do any of mindys high score challenges at the skate park. These stars looked pink to me so i did heaps of them before i realised they werent getting counted towards my mission total.
I also found a really good guide which helped a lot which the classic mode maps:
http://guides.gamepressure.com/tonyhawksamericanwasteland/guide.asp?ID=1223
Alright im done, just wanted to get that off my chest. I hope someone having problems with the game will find this helpful.
Thanks
1. DO NOT turn on moon gravity until you need it. I had this on right from the start and found i was struggling in a few missions later on cause i keep over shooting the jumps. Took me a while to click that this was the problem.
2. If you are playing on easy you dont need to do all of the story missions to finish the game. I finished the story after only doing about 84 out of 94 missions. This will come in handy later in the game when you get up to the "recruit the pros" missions. Some of these are extremely hard so if your stuck on one just move on to the next.
3. When you have to do a trick for a mission and the button combo comes up in the right hand corner take it with a grain of salt. Sometimes they are very vague and dont include all the info. Sometime i found you had to hold buttons to get it to work, other times the button combo was around the wrong way, and sometimes a combo just wouldnt work the first 100 times i did it and then all of a sudden the trick would work properly. If stuff isnt working over and over and you are sure you are doing it properly take a step back and look at all possible angles. Most of the time i found it was just something simple that i wasnt aware i had to do that was the problem.
4. I know this is already in the guide but i just want to emphasis you dont have to do any of mindys high score challenges at the skate park. These stars looked pink to me so i did heaps of them before i realised they werent getting counted towards my mission total.
I also found a really good guide which helped a lot which the classic mode maps:
http://guides.gamepressure.com/tonyhawksamericanwasteland/guide.asp?ID=1223
Alright im done, just wanted to get that off my chest. I hope someone having problems with the game will find this helpful.
Thanks