The future of the Pro Skater series may not look fruitful, but it isn't entirely hopeless.
But Blizzard had other plans for the studio, and they don't seem to include a continuation of the Pro Skater series. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 showed much promise for the future of the series, but it looks as though that promise will now go unrealized. Vicarious Visions created something truly special with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater remake, returning one of the greatest skateboarding franchises to its former glory after years of hibernation - and it looked as though it would be here to stay once again. Related: Tony Hawk Pro Skater: Best Things to Do After Beating The Game
The studio will now exclusively be working on Blizzard IPs, and it was recently reported that Vicarious Visions has been helping develop a Diablo 2 remake for the past year. In addition to the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater remaster, Vicarious Visions has also worked on games such as the Crash Bandicoot N. It does seem a shame that this had to happen, just as the series was making a superb comeback as well.The developer of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2, Vicarious Visions, was reassigned within Activision Blizzard, and it will now be focusing entirely on existing Blizzard games. I never imagined we’d do 1 and 2 20 years later, so…” I mean who knows – when all the dust settles maybe we’ll sort it out. I wish there was some way to bring it back. So they took other pitches from other studios like ‘what would you do with the THPS titles?’ And they didn’t like anything they heard, and that was it. They were actually… the truth of it was they were trying to find someone to do 3 and 4 but they just didn’t trust anyone the way they did Vicarious. We’re going 3+4 and then Vicarious got kind of absorbed and they were looking for other developers, and then it was over. “That was the plan,” Hawk said, referring to a potential THPS 3+4. It was only last night that Tony Hawk addressed the scrapped game in detail when he was a guest on a fan Twitch Livestream, with his disappointment there for all to see.
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