Yeah, it's dogshit.

>>720838706
I was excited but that's what I get for wanting to enjoy a videogame in 2025

>>720838537
This is even worse than what happened with the Saints Row reboot. I can't believe how fucking shit this is on every level. Unreal

it released? i forgot it even existed. not surprised its shit though, given the state of things.

well at least you can easily play skate 3 on a softmodded 360 now so whatever.

>>720838537
was obvious from that cover art alone that it'd be terrible

>>720838537
them announcing it was free to play years ago already sealed the fact the game was going to be shit, and its EA did you really expect anything les s

>>720839831
Came out two hours ago

>>720838537
>woman on the cover
>nigger woman on the cover
>microtransactions
No thank you

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>>720838537
Why does it have that fucking corporate artstyle, it's like the most opposite style you can have for a skating game

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>>720840774
>2 hours
>already mixed and getting bombed
>Anakin Skywalker shares a screenshot that shows you log in to a fucking queue and it could take several minutes before you're actually playing

>>720841045
Because it was made by EA and the artstyle is supposed to be bland and inoffensive while also being superficially artsy. All of their sports games are in this artstyle. It's so hard being an extreme sports game fan, we don't have shit anymore. Guess I'll go play Steep and when I'm bored of that blow my brains out

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magabros, what now???

>>720838537
>body type A and B
yikes

>>720841447
>broly weed
Black

>>720838537
How's the physics? Ragdolls? I don't care about type A type B bullshit it's a game I'll play a game if it's good even if I'm forced to play as a tranny (i'm not tranny if something)

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>>720841612
either that or brown

>>720841635
>How's the physics? Ragdolls?
If you mean physics as in how it feels to walk around and skate, then bad. If you mean it as in how does the funny virtual guy go splat when he falls off his skateboard, then it's fine. There is no hall of meat and your character reacts realistically to bails sometimes but mostly you just flop around like a wet rag. Very obviously
>Craziest skate. ragdoll moments!
compilation bait.

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>>720838537
Kill everyone at EA for this

skate is my favorite franchise fuck them for this at downplaying skate culture to this kiddy slop

I want to have kiss vee, /v/.

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How can you make a skate game and not include ANYTHING from skate culture?
This is the most corporate, soulless take on skateboard ever made. I uninstalled, played some Skate 3 on my X360 and now I'm going to skateboard irl to get rid of this shit.
I wish I haven't ever touched this game

>>720844980
Well you can pay real money to buy branded skate clothes! Digital thrasher shirt that costs the same as it would in real life fuck yeah!

>>720842035
I'm a sucker for physics and ragdolls so...I'll give it a go once its out

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>No white male in character select

Bruh

>>720841635
The actual skate mechanics are mostly really good but at the same time a lot of the mechanics also need some polish. There's a bunch of new tricks and stuff that are great for more grounded skating, and then there's also a huge emphasis on teleporting on top of skyscrapers to spread eagle dive into the top of another building shaped like a mega ramp or for extreme ragdoll bails.

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lol end of service in less than a year

amazing how little charm this game has

definition of gentrification

Some tips for new players:
1. Go to sound options, turn VO Volume to 0 AND below that turn "Gameplay Vee Comments" off.
2. Close all menus, press left on dpad to open social menu, go to settings, and turn off Quick Drop objects showing from other players not in your party or friends list.
3. You'll eventually hit one of the "Tour" quests that wants you to invite someone to a party and do a co-op challenge. You can skip this, just look in the start menu, Missions page and you'll see the next Tour and how many challenge goals you have to do to unlock it, just do regular challenges until you get to that and leave the mandatory social shit behind. Unless you actually have friends or whatever.

it's a fucking skateboarding game who cares about art style

anyway the game took about 17 minutes to launch and now won't connect so I'm uninstalling

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>Export a video / photo
>"We've saved this to your local device"
Where the FUCK is it saving this shit I can't find it anywhere

>>720846931
I had to use everything.exe search for ".png" on my computer and sort by date modified to find them.
C:Users\[user]\AppData\Local\Skate\data\Screenshots

>No Hall of Meat
What the fuck man.

>>720846931
Appdata

>>720846478
cool, im not playing this faggot corporate garbage

>>720847331
>>720847420
That's absolutely insane, thanks though.

>>720847459
Okay

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>>720838537
>Still the best skating game nearly 20 years later

This genre is so sad

How's the performance? It ran alright in the play test with high framerates but CPU usage was weirdly high and it stuttered a lot (unsure if that was a software or network issue).

>>720838537
>>unintuitive control scheme
didn't read the rest
anyone want to talk about the game and not doompost hardcore tranny style?
I think skating feels really good it's just a shame everything else is a nightmare

>>720847759
its pretty good

Session is FAR better

>>720847759
Crossplay appears to cause a lot of the stuttering so i'd recommend that people disable that. The only area that causes hardware related performance issues for me is the church due to the stained glass lighting.

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>>720846931
>Going back through clips of old playtests and realising how much they've removed
Way more NPCs, smaller and denser areas, pop-up challenges, create-a-park, way more clothing options, even dumb shit like being able to put stickers on replay footage.
All completely dumped and I can't even post any of it because it's LITTERED in watermarks and I don't want to get anally fucked.

why is it so fucking FLAT

>>720847759
I haven't really been looking at any metrics or anything but seems mostly alright for me on my old ass 1080ti + i7-8700 PC. Definitely does get my fans going and warms my room up but I mean just look at my specs lol.
>>720847905
Yeah there's a ton of negative shit I can go on and on about but at the end of the day all I really care about is how good the skating feels and having some cool street spots to skate. I've been playing it a ton over the last 3 weeks and still enjoying it.

>>720838537
>unintuitive control scheme
Did they change it from the previous games? It was literally perfect.

>>720848063
Nah people are just overreacting because of a lot of other gay shit about the game.

>>720838537
What !!?
So you're telling me that an early access game made by trannys with fortnite visuals and trend chasing mechanics are actually bad?

Damn..i could've never see that coming...

>it's gay

Oh man

>>720846067
Ah yes all the famouse black female skaters such as

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>>720844980
i just think culture has been so diluted through so many different channels it's kind of hard for an outsider to look at it and know what skateboarding even is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkvwxVt3jI0&t=

>>720848490
Nyjah Huston

>>720848593
bazinga. made me smile

>>720848027
hills will be added in a future season to get player retention up
same as custom park sharing
same as a functional replay editor
same as it ever was.

>>720848593
Fake first name and misspelled city as a surname? I believe it

>>720848907
Jah is real he was a shota in THP8

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>>720848593

holy shit this actually feels even worse than I imagined

>>720849203
lmao

i only just started playing but i can already tell this is the best feeling skate game, it feels so smooth

>>720838537
Game is perfectly fine you tranny.

>>720849574
are you out of your mind I finished a replay of skate 2 like a month ago and this feels like floaty unresponsive dogshit

>>720838537
Why can’t I go Fucking Shirtless in this game!
This game was made by women and posers WTF is going on!
The music is so shit, they are completely divorced from modern skate culture.
Why can’t I take off my fucking shirt!

>>720839759
It feels just like that shit.
It’s so sanitized and safe.
This game has NO BALLS

>>720849790
the map doesnt compare to skate 1 and 2 but yes i am not joking

>>720848292
It’s gay in the way your homie holds your hand while you eat shit on a 12-stair and still hypes you up. Peak bromance. Game’s busted as hell but at least we’re suffering together.

I actually went in thinking hey the art style might be complete dog shit but it's also the only way to natively play skate on modern systems so if it feels good it might be worth just cruising around and skating from time to time
But no not only does it LOOK like shit but it plays like shit and the world is shit
It's all fucking shit
Fuck you EA THIS is where all that time and money went?

>>720849924
if body type B can't take off their shirt, then neither can body type A.
because We Are All the Same and nothing will divide us <3

1luv, my fellow youths.

>>720849790
lower your assist settings, I agree with him that it at feels pretty good. at least better than skate 2 as much as I love that game
>>720849924
you're lucky they removed the cock size slider. you think they'll let you take off your shirt?

>>720850148
I personally think the game *overall* feels really good but there's a lot of weird shit. Grind magnetism and pumping just feel inconsistent. There's a lot of random stuff that gives you bursts of speed, sometimes massive. Wallies are cool but pretty broken. The new transition grind mechanic feels good to get into grinds but getting out of them is often super wack looking. Game still needs work and a lot of polish.

>>720844980
Funny how the game literally asks you how interested you are in skate culture when it boots up
Like we've all seen the promotional material what could that possibly change

>>720838537
Right now this is the best skating game we're going to have for free, and it's exactly what I expected and maybe even a little better. But all the ways this game will disgust some gamers is so explicit and obvious that all you can do is smile and laugh and be grateful that you can still actually enjoy videogames even when they're corny.

You have a couple valid critiques the rest is just actual crying and using terminology like "floaty gamefeel" which shows you fundamentally don't want to enjoy the game and are willing to accuse the physics of not being fun. As skating goes, this is fun, it is "skate" and is about what you expect, it is not tony hawk arcade style skating where gravity feels dialed up and everything is super fast. It's exactly how you intend skate to feel.

The voiceovers could be worse, liz is fine but vee using skate lingo is really hard to ignore how cringe it is like it's incredibly not cool, it almost feels like something you would hear in a parody.

I turned music off a second time when skating a park and hearing the speakers blasting
>im goin hard for my peoples who were in chains
Listening to rap music that mentions slavery is the least hype skateboarding music imaginable. I can't listen to the music in this game.

>>720841045
Times have changed. This is genuinely what skateboarding is like now.

>>720850721
if it is, no one wants that

>Hold R2 to grab the right side of the board
>hold R2
>nothing happens
Cool, game is over already

>>720848063
OP started out falling on his face with that one. I think if someone had never played anything except tony hawk games they might struggle for a bit but the game is still "skate" the series and is exactly what I expected.

>>720849574
Yeah it's perfect for it's skate sim kind of roots, it feels pretty good to see your replays.

>>720846067
is that not a white guy to the right?

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>>720838537
It reminded me of how much I loved SKATE (1) for its realistic and grounded feel.
I was good just ollie and grind around small ledges and benches in suburbia.

Already with 2 they started to add odd shit, but this is on another level.

It's like they tried to have Tony Hawk's absurd stuff, but the soulless corporate version of it.

What a depressing experience.

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guys dont worry i figured out how to fix the game

Seemed to peak at about 75-80k on Steam so far, staying around there for now. Might bump up as people get home from work, and a bit more on the weekend but I'm not sure it'll be huge because by that time I think some people will be bouncing off already. As a sandbox skate game it's great but without a bunch of game modes and story to keep people who aren't into spending hundreds of hours just on sandbox skating interested it'll probably not do amazingly well.
>>720851360
I honestly think it does grounded skating really well. There's definitely a lot space dedicated to skateparks and megaramp type stuff around, and a bunch of plazas have a lot of dead space, but I still find plenty of really fun spots. I'm working on my settings and workflow to do clips for these threads which I hope to highlight cool lesser traveled spots and some new tricks/features. There's also the big suburban area you can see to the north across the water that will probably open up in a few months.
>>720851482
Yeah playing with the gameplay settings is pretty key to enjoy the game better. There's a lot of different ways to play so you gotta dial it in for you.

>>720838537
>unintuitive control scheme
I genuinely can't believe how fucking horrible the controls feel when directly compared to how awesome the THPS1+2 and 3+4 remakes feel. It's like going from feeling 100% in control of everything to feeling like your character isn't obeying your key presses like half of the time.

I understand that skate is trying to be more realistic, but there has to be some middle ground where it's both intuitive, feels good, and is also "realistic".

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>>720851360
I still rate 2 the highest just because of how much stuff they added to it, but I miss how grounded 1 was in terms of city design.

Now it's just a mess of empty plazas, mega ramps at every corner and half pipes on roof tops, and everything looks the fucking same.
We're a far cry from the Reg's and DIY park of old.

>finish tutorial
>fast travel to city
>endless loading
God this game is a fucking disaster, how the FUCK did this take them 5 years?

>>720851962
It might be copium but in this game Slappy mentions the Old San Van and I think one of the bridges leading to it. Maybe across to the east because to the north is the old playtest area "Fun City". I think it'd be a huge marketing thing for them to add skate 1's San Van at this game's 1st anniversary or something.

>>720852106
If nothing else, the earlier playtests had the Community Center as the tutorial area, so they could add that back in fairly easily.

>>720851360
desu i think the level design was a big part of the reason why it felt good. skate's realism falls apart when megas get involved and the whole approach since skate 3 has been about putting in as many megaramps as possible

>>720851482
>mininum

>>720851482
good start but turn grind assist all the way off
turn on Up To Pump so you can manually crouch, looks and feels much better and is more like old skate games.
turn off Prevent Low Air Spins so you can manny 180 off curbs and stuff easier.

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>>720851839
>I'm working on my settings and workflow to do clips for these threads
Very based. it's clunky as fuck but you can move the camera during the export process to kind of get a tracking shot. No keyframe yet though.

>>720851872
>I understand that skate is trying to be more realistic, but there has to be some middle ground where it's both intuitive, feels good, and is also "realistic"
No you said it yourself mentioning tony hawk, what you want is tony hawk. See

>>720850895
>I think if someone had never played anything except tony hawk games they might struggle for a bit
>>720850584
>it is "skate" and is about what you expect, it is not tony hawk arcade style skating

There are many other valid critiques about the game but just "it's skate and I don't like it" is just noobs complaining.

>>720852439
I'm finding the game's export function worse than just recording with OBS but, full disclosure, I am retarded.

>>720852027
for me it didn't even load. had to exit the game and come back and it just spawned me there

>>720851872
>tony hawk retard can't press X to awesome
don't worry you'll get used to the controls

>>720852607
The game is really jank in a lot of ways. I experienced quite a few softlocks that needed me to alt+f4 from challenge UI just disappearing and leaving me with no way to open the start menu or anything.

i like the climbing and parkour sections

>>720852539
Oh you'll definitely be better off with OBS I just can't be arsed setting it up

>>720851872
Skate 2 was my first skate game and once the controls clicked it was fantastic

>>720852803
I'm a big realistic-skating sperg but honestly when I see one of the "community" park areas has a jump puzzle type thing I always do it. When they're just normal boring parks I usually pass them up.

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>early access
This shitshow feels like an alpha at best
I give it a year before they pull the plug

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>>720851482
>>720852282
The fine tuning of so many settings to customize how you can skate and how it feels is pretty skater culture I think.

>>720851872
Youngins will never remember playing the original Skate demo which gave you 30 minutes to just free skate and learn. I was a master before the game even came out.

But just like Tony Hawk, it's all muscle memory eventually. You learn, you get good, and you never lose it.

>>720852974
Before yesterday there was still a watermark on the screen that said "pre-alpha gameplay".

>>720852974
>this is an alpha at best
Retarded take.

>>720853003
yeah too bad you cant choose your fucking trucks tightness or wheel hardness like old games
another setting that was in really old playtests and removed for some evil reason
>>720853132
this build literally had the words PRE-EARLY-ALPHA watermarked up until YESTERDAY and its the same build

>>720853132
BTFO by anon above you, fucking shit eater.

>>720853197
>same build
Not true, they nerfed XP gain in yesterday's patch.

>>720853120
>>720853197
For a third party to look at a game and say "this is an alpha at best" is cringe because you have no idea what the scope of the finished game is, furthermore this is a free to play game and they never stop updating so calling it an alpha or beta becomes even more meaningless. If the developers call it an alpha, that's one thing, but when people look at games and say "this is an alpha at best, this is a beta best, I say it's not even a demo yet" is always retarded.

>boards and cosmetics locked behind loot boxes
this game will be dead in 6 months

Game peaked with Skate 2.

>>720853329
>If the developers call it an alpha, that's one thing
But according to >>720853120 they did. So you lost the argument.

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>>720853329
>all this cope
Underage faggot or EA shill, call it

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>>720853329
you reek of newfaggotry

>>720853329
>For a third party to look at a game and say "this is an alpha at best" is cringe
do you know what the meaning of the word cringe is you stupid zoomer faggot? Nothing about that sentence ever made anyone cringe in the history of the planet

>>720853258
>>720853451
I read the post. Just say it's bad or not enough to do, but saying it's an alpha like it's barebones and there's nothing in it right now is retarded.

>>720853689
it is literally an alpha

>>720852974
>>720853461
seething

>>720853689
It's alpha by the software definition of the term. It is not feature complete. They are still talking about "updating the artstyle" whatever the fuck that means. they are advertising additional tricks that will be in future seasons. the fucking replay editor doesn't even work yet.
it's an alpha with $7 neon pink clogs. that sucks.

>>720853765
>baiting a circular argument
Read it again >>720853329

>>720853689
>devs says the build from yesterday was in a pre-alpha state
>today's build has no changes aside from some XP stuff
>random 4channer now thinks the game isn't in a pre-alpha state anymore despite being functionally the exact same as yesterday

>>720853969
>It's alpha by the software definition of the term
Read it again >>720853329

Started development in 2020 btw
But don't worry, it's still Early Access!

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>>720846067
I thought the whole point of playing Skate over Tony Hawk was the realism factor. What the fuck is this?

>>720854101
Read it again >>720853329

>>720854117
I read it and you're both being a pedantic faggot, and are objectively incorrect on all counts. they call it pre alpha themselves and the state of the game reflects that. fucking kill yourself retarded bitch

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>>720854191
>Tony Hawk is now more realistic than Skate
What a time to be alive

>>720853617
>>720853628
seething

One funny thing I find about the state of the game is how it's basically propped up on zoomers exploiting speed glitches, launches, etc. but they also desperately need to add actual game modes like death races (obviously in a hillier map like across the water to the north). But if they add death races without fixing speed glitches then those are dead on arrival, but if they get rid of speed glitches zoomies will riot.

>>720854230
Read it again >>720853329
>If the developers call it an alpha, that's one thing, but when people look at games and say "this is an alpha at best, this is a beta best, I say it's not even a demo yet" is always retarded

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Here's your Launch patch, by the way.
Don't play through those tutorial missions TOO fast!

>>720854398
Read it again >>720854230
>they call it pre alpha themselves and the state of the game reflects that

>>720854423
>gamins

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>faggot having a melty because someone called this garbage an alpha it is

>>720854454
Yeah I heard you the first time. What you've failed to do is actually listen to what is said. Read it again >>720853329

>>720854557
The Steam announcements are also early access

never played skate before, which assists should I turn off?

>>720854668
all
become strong

>>720854562
>still seething that calling an early access game an alpha isn't seen as some kind of epic games journalist critique

>>720854668
Just play with them anon, it's really all preference. If you feel like you're struggling to get into grinds, turn the grind assist up, etc. In my opinion there's really no shame in using assists or anything, it just all depends on what you're trying to skate. This isn't some skill based game or anything, it's just about doing things you think look cool and fun. Just get comfy with the basic flick-it controls while you're getting started.

>>720854732
>triggered by words
Keep heating up lil bro

Guys this early access game is early access at best. It's not even finished. The devs themselves even said so when they launched it to early access. It's like a demo at best.

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@720854942

>early access with monetized cosmetics and season passes
I know where this is going and I will just watch from a distance.

Anyone else feel strong second-hand embarrassment when reading these types of slap fights? Like even when one person is right or they're both equally right or wrong they both look like such fucking helpless retards with 0 self-control for continuing to engage. Nobody here is getting convinced of anything, just stop, please.

>>720855124
you lost alphatranny

Read it again.

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>>720844980
Because modern Skate culture is actually counter-culture right now in a real way and basedboys, unathletic numales, and women unironically do not fit in or understand anything about it.

>>720854367
Meta gamers aren't the target audience, enough people want to just play a skate game it will do fine even when they crack down on anomalous behavior. I mean the anti cheat is installed for a reason.

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>>720838537
Why did they take the game in such a slop direction and not add a Battle Royale mode? Would have been kind of cool to see 100 players trying to outscore eachother

>>720855852
Sounds horrible.
A 100 player death race would have been hilarious though

>>720855852
Throwdowns already have people spamming glitches to get high score so a BR mode would be a fucking nightmare

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>>720846395
There is a skating anime!? What is this?

>>720855959
If the game could handle collision with that many people that really would be fucking awesome.
>>720856019
Yeah scoring in this series is honestly just not worth caring about in my opinion. They'll never clean the physics up enough to prevent all the exploits and even if they did tricklining just feels bad and looks kooky in my opinion.

>>720856057
its maid dragon, its not a skating anime

there is a skating anime but its gay bait for fujoshi

>>720856168
>gay bait for fujoshi
go on

I like the "skateway". It kinda needs a bit more variety for stuff to skate along it but just like conceptually and stuff it's cool, if I lived in a gay city again that'd be something really nice to have.

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>>720856245
its called sk8 the infinity, its mostly focused on silly downhill racing slop with gay undertones, dont expect much

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>look at credits
>it's like 150 people
>more artists than programmers
>this is the result of 5 years in dev
>got fucking disconnected when i rolled the credits again for a proper count
Jesus fucking Christ no wonder industry is in the gutter with all the layoffs

>>720856245
Sk8 The Infinity
The first couple episodes are about learning skateboarding and how cool it is
Then it turns in to Initial D: Skateboarding Edition featuring Pedophile Dio and the main characters resolve their issues by fucking each other

>>720856539
WOAH I was worried for a second that he might SLAM but then he BUSTED a GRIND and snagged that LINE and SHUT IT DOWN, now he OWNS that SPOT. Wait till the DAKS hear about this!

>>720838537
>rapes my favorite Talking Heads song
This was the last straw

>>720838537
Sounds terrible.
I'd emulate Skate 2 but can't bother looking for the right config options for my hardware again. They could have made more money porting skate 2 and 3.

why would I skate anywhere when I can just curl up in a ball and roll around?

>>720850408
I played it for a few hours and I am struggling with it where 2&3 had no real issues. Something about the momentum and inconsistent magnetism. The flick trick detection is also off. What camera settings do you use?

>>720856764
He sure used his SKATER EYES and LOCKED IN! His female parent told him to knock those objectives out! Slappy's about to kill himself!

>>720856539
bitter about that show, thought it was a going to be a SOL with a focus on street tricks and character building. holy fuck was I wrong and retarded for thinking otherwise

>>720838537
Kids don't skateboard anymore and they were marketing to people who played skate 3 on ps3. Why not set it in the 1990s or early 2000s? You can include annoying music if it's nostalgic enough or accurate to the time period (buy it, use it, break it, fix it...)

>>720857347
Take Adam out completely and it'd be a pretty good anime.

So I've heard it's been in alpha for years, can someone explain what the fuck were they doing? Even putting the disconnects aside, this feels really undercooked and extra soulless

>>720838537
Skateboarding games have been dead since the Pro Skater franchise shat itself to death. This is known.

>>720857614
Anon above pointed out that the game's credits are like 85% artists 15% programmers. They also took it upon themselves to rebuild the game mechanics and everything on a newer engine (Frostbite) instead of reusing old stuff.

>>720857614
I genuinely don't know. I played a few of the playtests and the only things that really changed over time was the map.

Otherwise they just kept removing stuff. Original playtests had a text chat, create-a-park both for yourself and in the open world for everyone to build together, different challenge types (including parkour challenges but they kinda sucked) and far more customisation options. They just kept ripping stuff out over time and we ended up with this.

I'm so confused.

>>720857909
they spent the last 2 years trying to strip out enough stuff to get it on cellphones and they seem to have finally abandoned that idea. I assume that's why this art style happened at all. Maybe it will change if they drop the mobile version who knows

They know if they enable text chat, everyone is just going to talk about how dogshit the game is.

https://x.com/hadmyback/status/1968024439985246464
lmao wtf

>>720858041
I forgot they were putting this on mobile, for fuck sake that explains it then. What a mess.

>>720857614
idk but the whole insider thing was just a smokescreen for server stress test. Not a single piece of feedback was ever acknowledged on the playtester forums

>>720858136
You know, what doesn't bother me is the silly roll jumping, what bothers me is how flat that fucking map is.

>>720838537
man i really wanted to play a new skate so I can overlook the mtx shit and "woke" aesthetic but the actually game just feels like shit to play compared to 3

back to emulating i guess

>>720858136
You could kinda do this in Skate 3 but you'd lose your momentum relatively quickly. It was fun trying to see how far you could make it.

>>720858308
How's emulation for the Skate games? I'm dying to play Skate 2 again.

>>720858393
What's your CPU?

>>720858439
>AMD R5 2600
I'm fucked aren't I

You WILL play the EA slop and you WILL be happy. Don't forget to buy your Skatercoinz dudes and dudettes! 39.99 for a rainbow griptape for the next 24 hours only! Far out!

>>720858393
i got skate 3 running on steam deck with solid fps after some tweaking so I figure any decent pc should be just fine. that was the ps3 version and apperently xbox emulation is even better

>>720858592
Yeah forget it
I'm on 5800X3D and it still chugs sometimes

>>720857909
They took it out so they can sell it to you later.

I want people to play this so I can see funny glitchy or buggy webms like when Cyberpunk and Starfield first released

>>720858598
>Charge money for stupid cosmetics
>No one will even see them because the game hides other players whenever you're in a challenge
Top tier economy

>>720858692
it's not glitchy in that way, the only "funny glitches" you'll see are ragdolls launching around like every other fucking game with ragdolls ever made. this shit is peak zoomer. even the launch trailer has almost no skateboarding compared to people getting hit by cars and fortnight skydiving

>>720838537
>this game requires a controller
kek pc fags are gonna SEETHE

>>720858609
>xbox emulation is even better
Xbox emulation is shit because upscaling causes a fuckton of glitches in most games, Skate 2 included

>>720838537
alrighty then, back to session hell

>>720854423
they've had loads of feedback forms and i've complained multiple times the game was pointlessly grindy, and i imagine other did as well. like why the hell do i need to level up and grind to unlock fast travel points? and i still don't know what all the different types of currency, tokens, and xp icons are. its horrible.
but instead they just look at "The Data" and ignorantly nerf progression because "golly you guys are tearing through all the CONTENT*(repeated daily chores) way too fast!"
not a coincidence its also how you get stuff in game without paying for MTX.

>>720858692
Starfield wasn't glitchy it just had shitty looking NPCs and was generally lame.

>always online fortnite inspired nu-skate that spent 6 years in dev hell (double the amount of time the original trilogy took) is broken, unfinished corporate kusoslop
no one could have seen this coming

>>720847905
It would be cool to have a thread with people enjoying the game and talking about it. Kind of figures the only thread about it on /v/ today is this cryslop.

>>720860640
It'll unfortunately always be a very divisive game because it is hypergay in so many ways despite the gameplay being really good. Also it's just cool and feels good to dunk on stuff, and it's cringe to like things.

>>720860759
The gameplay is good yeah and having people everywhere skating is actually awesome. And the fact that this is all free is crazy.

>>720860640
It just launched and it feels a lot like the product of a soulless globohomo corp, so of course people will cry, even those who never cared about skate.
But the gameplay is decent enough so far, if you make a thread in a few days I'm sure you'll get plenty of people who are actually playing it and enjoying it. I had fun in the couple of hours I was able to play and will probably stick with it for a while, but it definitely doesn't hold a candle to the original trilogy..

>>720861113
Yeah especially down the line once everything is developed and fleshed out more, fill in all the missing tricks and game modes. It could be really sick. It's good already, and having a native PC skate game is a dream come true but some of it is a bit "monkey's paw".

>>720861113
It sucks that everyone disappears when you go into a challenge, makes everything feel pretty disconnected. But other than that bringing real people into the game world feels like the logical continuation of Skate 3 where they already filled the world with the skaters that people from your friends list created. One of the best things they've added for sure.
I added a rail up to a bus stop just for shits and giggles and a couple of other dudes started skating it too, pretty cool.

>>720838537
It has all the wrong vibes
>shitty stomp clap Audi commercial hipster music
>ugly Corporate Memphis fused with Life is Strange millennial slop artstyle
yep, this is the core of the issue imo. complete opposite of what the core scene actually is. If you can't even capture that then you won't appeal to people on anything else.

The dialogue from Vee is worse than fucking Reda from Skate 1/2. What the fuck were they thinking?

I really want them to add a fuckton more free cosmetics because I hate seeing the same like 5 looks on everyone all over the place. It's like being in the noob zones of an MMO which I guess maybe this eventually will have been the equivalent of that.

pretty good so far. I missed these games, man. chasing bearings and the hall of meat objectives are gay but everything else is fun

>>720861410
It's especially stupid because they actually kept the gameplay and it works fine. But many people who would enjoy it probably won't even try it because they'll be turned off by how it looks.

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>land sideways
>game sets you straight

>>720861489
It's day 1 so no one has anything unlocked. There's a lot of freebies but the lootboxes are progression gated and you need to grind currency to roll

>>720861489
There's a ton, have you seen how many boxes there are? For the first area alone there are like 12 boxes each with at least 10 cosmetics (some over 30), that plus what the challenges give you. There's probably over 1000 free cosmetics but it will take a lot of grinding to get everything.

>muh skate culture
there is no such thing anymore and none of you skate anyways shut up. why are we even talking about it it's not like anyone is surprised that new game bad, just fucking ignore it. use sage. don't watch videos about it. de algorithm this shit isn't hard.

>>720861617
At least there are no duplicates, so if you really like an item you can just roll the same box and you're guaranteed to get it within a reasonable amount of attempts. I honestly expected way worse from EA.

>>720861509
Honestly I kind of like a lot of the bearing challenges. Some of them are wack but most I find kinda fun to just cruise and nail a line. Main thing is again they need a lot more variety with these, you're doing the same handful of missions every day. It shouldn't be that hard to whip up ton of challenges, they aren't and don't need to be very intricate.
>>720861627
I've been playing the insider tests for a while, I'm even accounting for some of the stuff I have unlocked in later Market Miles boxes etc. Though we will get a lot more when they add Brickswich challenges and boxes, plus the skate.pass so it'll fill out over time.

>>720861679
skate culture is gay and filled with losers that never grew out of their catty highschool mindsets

>>720861679
There is plenty of skate culture, even if Obama sold out US manufacturers there is still a core western scene that isn't reliant on whatever gay ass shit is coming out of cali.

>>720861715
Yeah I think the complaints about the loot boxes are kinda overblown. The main thing is that they're slow to open. Definitely do just wish they'd have a regular store without FOMO rotations and limited selection and shit.

>>720838537
Don't care, just glad it puts more HelixSnake videos in my feed again.

I'm not allowed to play the funny ragdoll games like gta but this one is bussin because I can fall down stairs and get hit by cars

Climb the skateshop, it has a red ladder structure on it's left, then set your waypoint at the top of the roof which is actually a launch ramp. You can go absolutely flying down that long path up that everyone uses, then flying across that main plaza.

My new job is 1.5 miles from my apartment, decided I'd start skateboarding to and from work because it's easier to store than a bike. People would act like I was being cringe skateboarding as a 30 year old IT guy but they couldn't deny it was an efficient way to commute. Fuck them. I mastered a kickflip and ollie as a 30 year old boomer and some kids said I was "rad". That's what really matters right? Anyways I'm gonna learn how to grind next.

>>720838537
Game is fun. You will find yourself coming back to it regularly, this is clear even after the first day and just a couple hours. This is fun.