It Sucked ASS.
Okay, is it just me, but was the last hard game THPS3? Sometimes I think they should never have incorporated the Story Mode, because now all the goals are easy as *beep* and never take more than a couple tries to beat (except for Impossibling down the steps, that was tricky to master). I mean, seriously, OMG, hit X twice! What a difficult goal! And I mean, there's no chance that I'll ever be able to score 1,000 points! The Tony Hawk series has definitely been made for new players now. It literally took me longer to beat THUG1 on Easy than it did THAW on Sick. And I'm not even including the time it took to get all the combo markers (the final goal on THUG1).
I wish Story Mode was never incorporated. All the goals are as easy as hell. THPS4 wasn't even too hard, but it was better getting to do the goals in any order you want. No one cares about a story line, it's a freaking skateboarding game.