From 1991 till 2021, Vicarious Visions was the identify of a studio that made a ton of fairly cool licensed video games, however which had additionally contributed to the beloved Tony Hawk Professional Skater sequence. Then Activision stepped in and made some modifications.
In January 2021, having simply launched a remake of Tony Hawk Professional Skater 1+2, Activision introduced that the builders had been being merged into Blizzard, and would even be receiving a reputation change, successfully killing off the studio as we knew it.
I mentioned on the time “This sucks!”, however it sucks even extra now due to the claims—from somebody who would know—that the builders had been planning on repeating the remake remedy with Tony Hawk Professional Skater 3+4.
On a latest stream by Neversoft and Vicarious veteran andyTHPS Tony Hawk himself was there for an interview, and casually dropped the truth that, proper up till the second of THPS 1+2’s launch, “the plan” had been to then transfer on and convey out a remastered bundle of THPS 3+4.
I imply that was the plan, you already know, even up till the discharge date of [THPS1+2] we had been going 3+4, after which Vicarious bought type of absorbed, and so they had been in search of different builders, after which it was over.
We don’t know how far alongside that plan was. Perhaps THPS 3+4 was nothing greater than a bullet level on a whiteboard, one thing the crew had needed to get began on subsequent however had been by no means given the prospect (although we’ve reached out to Activision to see if they will present extra info). So we additionally don’t know how onerous Activision regarded for “different builders” (none of whom apparently may very well be “trusted” like Vicarious may, even when requested to pitch concepts for a Tony Hawk undertaking), or who these different studios had been because it looks like everybody on the firm is both making Name of Responsibility or Blizzard video games. Regardless of the details, although, like I mentioned above, this sucks!
You may see the dialog beneath at 2:26:25:
