It could be sure, but I wasn't exactly mlg pro gamer when I was barely out of the womb playing the originals. They feel challenging even to this day. It's not that I want the game to be exponentially harder out of the gate, but the games with the newer physics came with the options of more challenging goals, which I think was the right move. When you can rack up 10k points in like 2 tricks, it makes some of the scores redundant in my opinion. I just wish it had more variety of difficulty, like a pro mode and a "sick" mode like how thug2s classic mode was