8 Most Insulting Changes To Video Game Remakes

8. Giving You Less Content And More Bugs - Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD

When it was announced that the almighty Tony Hawk's Pro Skater was going to be getting a fresh coat of paint, some behind-the-scenes tweaks, and hopefully a new lease of life, fans who grew up with the title shredded their local bowls in excitement.

However, it turned out that this wasn't just a project that looked to polish the diamond, but was basically saying "no comply" to the original and was building everything from the ground up. Normally this wouldn't be such a terrible thing, but in the hands of Robomodo, it turned into a cavalcade of chaos.

Skaters were erased from history, music tracks were deleted and replaced with "oh hey my twelve-year-old brother listened to this" and entire features such as the create-a-park mode were dropped entirely. In essence, the devs cherry-picked the best content from the first three games but in the process removed any sense of charm. It felt like a soulless greatest hits album, and thanks to the shoddy controls ruining certain lines and combos, ended up feeling like a producer was smashing the "DJ DJ DJ" button between the tracks.

It wasn't a terrible package but it failed to recapture the greatness of the original games. Thankfully that problem was soon rectified by Activision's remaster that dropped in 2020.