Yeah but this is an especially egregious tale. I mean I'm one of the biggest critics of the Master Chief Collection and I HATE what 343 did to that, but you could at least say that the game, while buggy, still looked good and was generally functional upon release (minus multiplayer of course). Tony Hawk 5 isn't even that. When you have a patch that's bigger than the actual game, that means you didn't actually ship a completed game. I'm listening to
The Podquisition right now, which has 2 game reviewers on it, and one of them mentioned that if you don't install the massive patch that came out on Day 1, all you get is a tutorial level.
And I found this article corroborating that statement. And this fun tweet:
Activision claimed that it was for online support. Sorry, but online capabilities couldn't POSSIBLY encompass a bigger digital footprint than the standard game.
What Activision REALLY should have done was just delay this game. I realize time was of the essence because of the license running out but I have to imagine they could have pushed it back a month to fix the damn thing. A couple of bugs and crashes here and there are one thing. This is simply incomplete, and it's more insulting to us gamers because in most cases, we can't get a full refund when a company releases a broken thing like this. And finally, $60 for such a game is just insulting. This is like Godzilla for the PS4 insulting for such an ugly, limited game.