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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.

imo Skate 2 isn't much better than the original. A little bit better yes, but only small improvements.

Cool. I figure dropping £10 isn't exactly a big risk anyway; I've paid more for games that only got played once...

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.

picked this up for a tenner

so good

skate.2 tht is

I finished it in like two days. :/

I really want to get this game on stupid Goozex... sent liek 5 games, still gotten 0

Also, I changed my username in response to your new one cozwn

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 :)

it ws a tenner at amazon but it's gone back up to £12.50 now

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.

how did u like skate, craigg?

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.

In retrospect, it shows how infrequently I shop when I consider Amazon a 'tip'...

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?

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

also who is the wee guy who talks to you all the time? voice in yr head?

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.

also who is the wee guy who talks to you all the time? voice in yr head?

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.

Oh nice new spots. Might give it a spin when i get my xbox fixed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pVETXRpQo0

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_NzxrkuhIA
i 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!

skate.3 announced

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?

yeah, it's seemingly a new city and the game has a co-op bent?

Think I'm going to rent the next one instead of buying it, given that I finished 2 in like two days.

man f this, so hard.

oh, new Skate in a new city will be awesome. Looking fwd.

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?

At some point it became really easy for me, so maybe just give it time?

this isn't really all that difficult. Except for on Xbox live where everyone completely annihilated me when i tried to play it.