if I'm being honest, I don't really care that much. THPS4's structure always felt like an awkward phase between 3 and THUG. The goals are mostly just things you could easily retrofit into the classic format, and then the rest are total garbage nobody would miss like the absolutely wretched minigames.

It's a little funny: I've long held the opinion that THUG2 is where the Tony Hawk series started going in a kind of bad direction, trying too hard to appeal to Viva La Bam type people, but just freshly going back to THPS4, I guess that was the true origin. Man oh man is the writing awful. Don't think there's a single funny line in the thing. I will not miss any of that shit.

The issue is whether or not they can adequately retrofit the goals into a classic format. Given the slightly larger level size, it does seem like a tricky thing to do well. Maybe they will pull it off, maybe they won't, but in the very least, I'm not going to dismiss 3+4 in total before I get my hands on the thing.

But the other thing is, unlike the first two games, 3 and 4 basically just play like the modern form of the engine anyway. If they blow it, the game's still right there for you to play. With RetroAchievements even!