10 TERRIBLE PS4 Games You Won't Believe Exist

8. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5

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While everyone will recognise the name Tony Hawk and its association with gaming, this one makes the list as its truly hard to believe they'd push out such a terrible game in a series that - apart from the odd misstep - is known for quality games.

This was meant to be Tony Hawk back to basics. Gone were the crazy antics of later games in the series in favour of a pared-back approach to the series, delivering a game more akin to the original 3 Tony Hawk titles.

Unfortunately, despite releasing in 2015, it didn't even play as well as the original titles. It honestly looks so bad it could have released for the PS2, combining muddy, drab textures with truly uninspired level design.

They even managed to !*$% up on what made the original games fun; combining together seamless combos to create truly badass skating moments. In this one, instead you have a 'slam' move which is mapped to triangle. Unfortunately, so is grind, and the game has a habit of not knowing whether you want to grind, or whether you want to slam. This routinely completely throws off your combos.

Then there's the physics. The world will routinely work against you, throwing you off your board with reckless abandon for no reason and throwing graphical glitches at you almost constantly.

How can you make a skating video game not fun? Make it in the same way as Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5. Now, can we have Skate 4 already please?

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Dan Curtis is approximately one-half videogame knowledge, and the other half inexplicable Geordie accent. He's also one quarter of the Factory Sealed Retro Gaming podcast.