10 "Deluxe Editions" Of Video Games That Insulted Fans
7. Tony Hawk Ride's Special Plastic Skateboard
What's worse than buying a useless peripheral for one game that will stop being supported? Buying a special edition useless gaming peripheral in the first place! Yup, this was precisely what you could look forward to with the special edition of Tony Hawk's Ride.
Ride's special edition promised you literally nothing else apart from a slightly more interesting paintjob on your bizarre plastic skateboard controller. The only difference was that the special edition board was red and featured an eagle motif painted on. No behind the scenes DVDs, no additional in-game rewards, nothing. Just a less bland crappy controller replacement. What a treat!
Ride was received so poorly that it must have been devastating to have even attempted to play it and try out tricks in the first place with the Ride skateboard controller, let alone spend extra money for a potential death trap with a slightly fancier paintjob than the regular plain black one.
Anyone who was unfortunate to have received, or worst still, purchased this themselves, must really have had money to burn. If you're gonna break your ankle attempting a kick-flip on a shag carpet, you might as well do it in style.