That was pretty awesome.
― Bone Thugs-N-Harmony ft Phil Collins (jim), Thursday, 5 February 2009 19:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Great vid. The flip at the end was absurd.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 5 February 2009 19:46 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Bone Thugs-N-Harmony ft Phil Collins (jim), Thursday, 12 February 2009 21:25 (fifteen years ago) link
That is a great line! Be proud of it.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 12 February 2009 21:28 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 18:38 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 18:57 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:06 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Bone Thugs-N-Harmony ft Phil Collins (jim), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:14 (fifteen years ago) link
There are some similarities between my comments and "yahtzee's review":
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/553-Skate-2
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 19:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Love that guy.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 19:18 (fifteen years ago) link
woo, frontflip in to grind.
http://skatereel.ea.com/members/1/183115128.aspx#Display
― Bone Thugs-N-Harmony ft Phil Collins (jim), Thursday, 19 February 2009 21:03 (fifteen years ago) link
nice.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 19 February 2009 22:43 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― CraigG, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 12:46 (fifteen years ago) link
imo Skate 2 isn't much better than the original. A little bit better yes, but only small improvements.
― Blackout Crew are the Beatles of donk (jim), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 12:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Cool. I figure dropping £10 isn't exactly a big risk anyway; I've paid more for games that only got played once...
― CraigG, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 15:05 (fifteen years ago) link
been playing a lot of this lately for some reason while waiting for Infamous to hit; I really love it but ye gods does it make you confront how shitty you are at it. plus I haven't even played skate since I sold my 360 so I'm extra-crappy at the moment; I don't think I've even earned a single trophy. still, though, it's great.
― passed on the lead in "all i can do is crossups cuz ihave no skills" (jamescobo), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 03:12 (fifteen years ago) link
picked this up for a tenner
so good
― whoever started the punning usernames did ✈ ▌▌ (cozwn), Thursday, 16 July 2009 21:07 (fifteen years ago) link
skate.2 tht is
I finished it in like two days. :/
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Thursday, 16 July 2009 21:41 (fifteen years ago) link
I really want to get this game on stupid Goozex... sent liek 5 games, still gotten 0
― My Cozwn Vinny (Will M.), Thursday, 16 July 2009 21:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, I changed my username in response to your new one cozwn
― My Cozwn Vinny (Will M.), Thursday, 16 July 2009 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Where did you manage to find this for a tenner? I just finished Skate a couple of weeks ago, and am ready for Skate 2, but refuse to pay above £20 for games :)
― CraigG, Friday, 17 July 2009 08:54 (fifteen years ago) link
it ws a tenner at amazon but it's gone back up to £12.50 now
― whoever started the punning usernames did ✈ ▌▌ (cozwn), Friday, 17 July 2009 08:58 (fifteen years ago) link
I managed to get it for a tenner by buying Skate and the GAME employee putting the wrong disc/manual in the box. Probably not an approach to rely on though.
― if, Friday, 17 July 2009 09:01 (fifteen years ago) link
how did u like skate, craigg?
― whoever started the punning usernames did ✈ ▌▌ (cozwn), Friday, 17 July 2009 11:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks for the Amazon tip! managed to get it for £15.99, which is still within my £20 max price. I really enjoyed skate; I thought it was shorter than I'd hoped when I was nearing the end, then realised that I hadn't noticed the 'Thrasher' magazine stuff and was actually only approaching half way! It's surprisingly big (well, it really should be - it can't be that difficult to make 'missions' for it as a developer).
I didn't even mind just getting Skate after playing the demo of Skate 2, as the only things that bothered me being missing were the hand plants. Hoping the second one is a bit tougher, as once you learned to Christ Air + spin you could do pretty much every challenge if you got stuck trying to do it 'legitimately'. On the swimming pool jam I managed to front flip off the roof and land doing the 'coffin', which is without a doubt my proudest moment - though I didn't get anywhere near as many points as it deserves.
― CraigG, Friday, 17 July 2009 11:53 (fifteen years ago) link
In retrospect, it shows how infrequently I shop when I consider Amazon a 'tip'...
― CraigG, Friday, 17 July 2009 11:54 (fifteen years ago) link
htf do u do manuals? like if I want to do a bs tail it's says to do a qcf motion w/the right stick: in the air or when I'm on the ledge or what?
― cozwn, Friday, 17 July 2009 16:00 (fifteen years ago) link
not manuals, sorry, grinds
ok I thk I figured it out... u do an ollie then while in the air and lining up to grind, u gently do the qcf (don't flick else you'll tweak the board or whtever those are called) and land in the specific grind
hard
― cozwn, Friday, 17 July 2009 16:02 (fifteen years ago) link
also who is the wee guy who talks to you all the time? voice in yr head?
― cozwn, Friday, 17 July 2009 16:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Just got Skate 2 and played it a bit yesterday. I guess I must have largely played Skate with the sound down as I didn't notice that dude talking constantly. The specific grind ones are hard. There's one in Skate where you have to do a 360 flip to some specific grind. Shit took me about an hour, which I figure must literally be thousands of failed attempts.
Loving the way your guy slowly (or very quickly, actually) gets bloody as you fall over lots in Skate 2. Nice little touch. (maybe it did this in the first one, but my guy was dressed like a total goon, so I wouldn't have noticed.
― CraigG, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 09:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Your cameraman! He's kinda annoying.
I put in Skate 2 for the first time in awhile and noticed that they'd added some spots to the game. Nice little touch to keep the game fresh.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 16:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh nice new spots. Might give it a spin when i get my xbox fixed.
― De Mysteriis Dom Passantino (jim), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 16:22 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pVETXRpQo0
― cozwn (webinar), Thursday, 13 August 2009 09:26 (fifteen years ago) link
I like the 'crews' that get together to edit realistic parts, it's pretty sick. Also Guy Mariano's lakai part in skate:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_NzxrkuhIAi opened the real part in another window, he's even got a lot of the clothes matching and everything. this must have taken the kid ages!
― francisF, Thursday, 13 August 2009 16:23 (fifteen years ago) link
skate.3 announced
― cozwn, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link
It's funny because I was finally feeling like it had been long enough since the original skate came out that I was starting to feel ready to pick up skate 2. Now I don't know - maybe I should just wait until 3. It looks like maybe they've built a new city this time too?
― Jeff LeVine, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 16:47 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, it's seemingly a new city and the game has a co-op bent?
― cozwn, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 16:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Think I'm going to rent the next one instead of buying it, given that I finished 2 in like two days.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 17:42 (fifteen years ago) link
man f this, so hard.
― cialis morissette (goole), Monday, 26 October 2009 02:34 (fourteen years ago) link
oh, new Skate in a new city will be awesome. Looking fwd.
― Pedro Paramore (jim), Monday, 26 October 2009 02:36 (fourteen years ago) link
really beginning to dislike this, controls are so unforgiving, everything is too hard to line up, too hard to time, pools/halfpipes are incomprehensible. "pumping" works how?
― cialis morissette (goole), Monday, 26 October 2009 02:45 (fourteen years ago) link
At some point it became really easy for me, so maybe just give it time?
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Monday, 26 October 2009 02:49 (fourteen years ago) link
this isn't really all that difficult. Except for on Xbox live where everyone completely annihilated me when i tried to play it.
― Pedro Paramore (jim), Monday, 26 October 2009 03:01 (fourteen years ago) link
oh yeah and also what polyphonic said. How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
― Pedro Paramore (jim), Monday, 26 October 2009 03:02 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, I agree w/goole, I think this game is nails hard but eventually it just seems to click
try rolling out the moves quickly instead of inaccurately flicking them
― coz (webinar), Monday, 26 October 2009 10:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Hardcore mode dramatically alters the physics in the game and tunes them down to a really realistic level, so not only do your tricks pop way lower than in normal mode but your speed is cut way down as well. It should take at least 5 pushes with your foot to get to a decently fast speed, so you will mostly be hitting those rails and ledges at a more realistic speed with 3 or so pushes. You can still ollie somewhat high if you flick it hard enough but it is a little more challenging to get a lot of air. With the physics change comes less grind magnetism. Meaning, everything that is grind-able is way harder to get on. It won't magically suction you to that spot to grind just because you are in proximity with it, you literally will have to line up your trick and land exactly on to the ledge or rail or bank that you are trying to grind on.
Not only is it extremely difficult even for a seasoned Skate veteran like myself but it just makes the game so much more rewarding when you do land that trick that you have been trying to nail for the past half an hour. I cannot stress how much different the game feels when put into hardcore mode. Overall it adds a huge sense of accomplishment even with the simplest tricks or gaps. The physics are tuned down so much that you can actually fail a kick flip on flat ground, something that was not possible in the last two games. That in itself is something a lot of skateboarding realism fans will love. It actually feels like skateboarding—although with a controller—but it nails the realism with hardcore mode.
― a passing heavy daftie (cozen), Thursday, 18 February 2010 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
hmmmm
are your opponents similarly handicapped?
― greg dulli appointed feduhral mahshulls (goole), Thursday, 18 February 2010 19:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, do not want punishing physics for my dude while Danny Way pops 4 feet of air from a stand still...
― CraigG, Friday, 19 February 2010 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link