SKATE 3

[Abraham Smashington]

Yep. Another day one purchase.

This sounds great, and it'll be nice to get the BDR crew up in the game like I did with the PodCaust. I still play the 2nd one a lot. Screw Tony Hawk and his lame ass fake skateboard.

[B_Metal]

Dear EA,

FUCK using the analog sticks for everything. My brain is geared towards the last oh 20 years or so of pushing buttons to get shit done. Your insistence upon doing everything with the analog sticks really makes me hate you, and not buy your games.

Your friend,
The Angry Gamer.

[Abraham Smashington]

Except that using the sticks makes this game way more fun, more realistic and seperates it from the TH games. Now what I will agree with is that they need to stop the "missions" that are: "DO THIS ONE SPECIFIC MOVE ON THIS LEDGE" as it's always a pain in the ass especially when they get in to the fakey movies/crazy varials.

[Ed Hocken]

You must've been a huge fan of Top Skater back in the day.

[Abraham Smashington]

Fuck yeah. Back when arcades were fun.

[Ed Hocken]

"THOSE WERE DA DAYS!!!!!!!!!"

[BillyG]

I played a lot of Skate, and skipped Skate 2. How big was the jump between those?

[Abraham Smashington]

Skate 2 fixed alot of nagging issues with the controls and added the get off your board feature. Which helped tremendously.

[Abraham Smashington]

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INVISIBLE WALL!

[Abraham Smashington]

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[B_Metal]

Except that using the sticks makes this game way more fun, more realistic and seperates it from the TH games. Now what I will agree with is that they need to stop the "missions" that are: "DO THIS ONE SPECIFIC MOVE ON THIS LEDGE" as it's always a pain in the ass especially when they get in to the fakey movies/crazy varials.

It's only purpose is to separate it from TH games. That drives me crazy. I can play with the sticks but it's so backwards that I just can't get into it. And yeah specific move on specific spot is the new timed escort mission. Fucking stupid.

[Abraham Smashington]

And that purpose was great. TH grew so stagnant after part 3 that the game stopped being a "skating simulator" and turned into "press the y button to rail everything in the level for 10 mins". Coming from skateboarding for 10+ years, SKATE was the first game to actually simulate what skating is actually like. The thumbsticks were magnificent and still are, so long as they don't pull the specific move card.

[B_Metal]

I disagree. I'm fine with the mechanics and physics of Skate but I maintain they would work just as well with button presses. Just not a big fan of the thumbsticks being the focus in ANY game.

[Abraham Smashington]

But they wouldn't work as well, look at TH. If you're talking about the basics (ollie, nollie, flip, grind) then maybe, but I honestly think it's the best thing about it. I do hate the thumbsticks in Fight Night though, and I get shit for saying that. So we can agree to disagree.

[B_Metal]

Agreed/disagreed, I think. But yeah sticks in Fight Night is gay and anyone arguing for that is too.