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haha, that's a good one too!

I can wipe out like nobody's business; the whole stay on the board and complete challenges isn't always easy.

Absolutely loving it despite my inability to complete challenges. Sucking horribly at a game but wanting to play it for hours is a great, great thing.

Well, this one required many, many bails before I got it right; the final landing is a bit hard, but better than a faceplant:

Who says you can't do Tony Hawk lines in Skate?

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_9fcPb-VtKkc/SXu2jQ1-p_I/AAAAAAAAAPk/mg29FxH82Kk/8869.jpg

My favorite pic so far.

ha tht's awesome

playing skate online noises me up so much because the cunts just do 180 360 flip to manual to 180 inward heelflip and get a stupid 3x multiplier and it makes you feel like an idiot. Really want to play it with like minded pwnz0rz of the ILG variety once I get it going.

plus that video was pretty sweet.

should I get skate or skate2? skate is cheaper obviously.

for PS3 BTW

Get Skate 2 for PS3 - I'd love to play online but as was pointed out most everyone are asshats.

Ooo. Skate 2. Starting now!!!1111111111111111

this seems quite a bit harder than the first one.

I didn't play the first, but this one is kicking my butt. My career is not going well, though I must admit just skating around and finding a fun line is cool.

I am complete ass at anything vert related.

Good thing about this game: the graphics creator, although it would obv be much better if you could draw your own shit mspaint stylee rather than use their shapes and etc. but the text has allowed me to have a black deck with Bawbag written in it in pink. Which is awesome.

I'm up and running with Skate 2. Let's do this thing!

It's crazy how early in the game they expect you to beat Danny Way in a big air challenge. That was one of the last challenges in skate 1.

haha, yeah. I found the challenge about as hard as that challenge in the first one as well. Steep learning curve for someone who is new to the game.

The point thresholds seem to be a little more forgiving, but otherwise it's pretty damned hard.

don't actually know how you find them, but if you're on Xbox live I uploaded a spot, it's just a rooftop jump in to the old pool but it's ok. My gamertag is JimMessina

polyphonique here.

ouch

Nice aim! Hard to get a head right on the rail.

My latest moment of zen - a switch 540 quad kickflip

Here's one of my first videos:

http://skatereel.ea.com/members/1/745951/119253.aspx

That's a hoot!

how does i shot "pumping"?

this duelling snakes race is killing me.

oh fuck off, a quick google tells me i have to trick through the checkpoints. doh.

This game is so much harder than the first one. I'm stuck on a bunch of different things, it's humiliating!

yeah I know, I have 4 pro challenges that I'm stuck on. One of them, the Alien manual shop, is definitely achievable, I've just made a mess of it a few times and got bored, the other ones, vert with the vampire, blaow!!, and can you spell girl? I'm nowhere near doing.

anyone figured out the easy way to do the danny way challenge yet?

the camera DLC looks neat, but fuck if I'd pay for something shd be in the retail game

I think I may have finished this game, apart from a few "Do this trick that is impossible for polyphonic to do on command" missions.

I think I might be done too, though there are many things left to accomplish. I hate the "do this trick and then this other one" and playing S.K.A.T.E. All the ones that let you decide what to do - do a grab over X, a flip over Y - I'll spend all day figuring out what line I need; but screw the other crap. I'll just freeskate so I can shut off pedestrians, traffic & security.

The races were a lot of fun. Adding an enormous mountain was a awesome idea.

I made another video last night:

http://skatereel.ea.com/members/1/745951/119253.aspx#Display

Whoops, I meant to post this one:

http://skatereel.ea.com/members/1/745951/219922.aspx#Display

Nicely done! I like the 2nd one you have up (up at the megapark) - I haven't been able to land that line.

I've updated mine - a few new vids and pics. This one made me laugh:

http://skatereel.ea.com/members/2/180734329/53763.aspx

Those are nice!

I hope it is okay for me to post an actual skate video in this thread:

That was pretty awesome.

Great vid. The flip at the end was absurd.

http://skatereel.ea.com/members/1/183115128.aspx

Triple heelflip to a grind, not a completely awesome video or anything but i totally surprised myself doing it and it's fairly sweet.

That is a great line! Be proud of it.

I gave up and sold this today. I was not going to progress without some fighting game learn all the nuances so you can pull out every trick on command bs. I just don't have the time. Plus, the asshole quotient online was way, way too high - if I asked for help on executing something, or tips on how to work a line I was booted. Nice people.

I don't regret buying it - the time until I plateaued was amazing - but repeating a line for an hour stopped the fun. Respect to all who master it, but like with fighting games, that's not why I play.

How far in did you get? As someone who has "beaten" both games, I don't think I'll ever get even close to as good as the dudes who play online.

Guessing from what I read online somewhere past the middle. I hate playing S.K.A.T.E., and it seems like there became more and more of these as time went on. Shutting off the volume helped me get through the Dyrdek stuff, but it seemed to lose the fun factor as it went on. Every time I unlocked something I didn't feel like I accomplished something but that I had unleashed more impending drudgery on myself.

Back to Burnout Paradise for my pick up and play fun game.

the replay value in this game for me has been going back to all the own the spot points and beating my xbox live friends high-scores just to be petty.

There are some similarities between my comments and "yahtzee's review":

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/553-Skate-2

Love that guy.

woo, frontflip in to grind.

http://skatereel.ea.com/members/1/183115128.aspx#Display

nice.

So, I played the demo of Skate 2 and really enjoyed it, but decided that seeing as I have many other games to work through I would wait and see if the price came down. HMV are now doing the original Skate for £9.99, while Play.com are doing Skate 2 for £24.99. Should I go with just Skate for now, or would I be better skipping it and going straight to Skate 2?

Obviously there's always the option of 'both', but if Skate 2 is way better than the original I might not play the original much. What a connundrum.