skate

the framerate is a solid 60fps now I read?

you walk too slow when you get off the board I thought : /

it's nice you can change cameras this time tho why they omitted that from the demo I don't know

i've played this demo a lot, definitely getting this. Took me a while to get used to the controls and the way the game is in comparison to Tony Hawk's (i.e. you ollie with the right stick, you can't do stupidly mental strings of tricks, 1080 double kickflip backflip nosebone with grind for 50 metres, you have to actually land your grinds yourself etc.) but now I'm really enjoying it, especially the grinds.

Based on 2 hours of playing the game last night, I honestly think skate 1 is better. There are a lot of glitchy things that make me think the game was rushed to retail. I'm surprised by how poorly they implemented walking and dragging. It looks very nice, and I'm sure I'll play it a fuckload, but I'm a little disappointed.

The film editor is highly inferior to the one in the first game.

The ability to place a marker when you're trying to accomplish a trick is a great, great thing.

if this is worse than the last one then I better pick that up as well.

you should definitely pick up skate. jim; I think it's pennies these days and it's def a great game

boom, bought. Thank you internet for allowing my unemployed ass to impulse buy.

now I want to give my copy ANOTHER another go but my littlest bro knocked it

so I did go back and give it another go and suddenly everything just clicked: I can see the best lines, I am having fun finding cool spots to session and find the good lines, the tricks now seem possible cos I realise it's best to flick the stick rather than roll it (yeah this was a "no shit" moment for me)

the only bother is that my disc has some massive scratches on it (literally 2mm ring of scratches round the whole circumference -> this must be the drive that's caused it) so sometimes the game hard freezes the 360, or I'll be skating around and fall into massive black holes where the art hasn't loaded in

tempted to pick up skate.2 now for this reason

they really did a great job with the city in this game: there are hardly any spots where it isn't fun to skate, there's always something to trick off or grind on and it all loos pretty different from area to area

also I've uploaded some of my replays but I can't find them on EA's www
: ////

polyphonic, why's the film editor worse in the second one? the editor in the first one is really well implemented, I thought, and very easy to use

also what does this mean: The ability to place a marker when you're trying to accomplish a trick is a great, great thing.

boom, bought. Thank you internet for allowing my unemployed ass to impulse buy.

― Women can be captains too, you know? (jim), Tuesday, January 13, 2009 11:50 PM (5 days ago)

hurry up ffs, play.com!

the marker is a thing you can place at a spot so that you can automatically go back to that spot, in the demo for instance you're up the top of this ramp which gives you sweet air when you get to the bottom and you can keep just going straight back there by pressing LB plus up on the dpad or something.

oh, I thought it might've been something difft cos you can do that in skate.1

ah right, i assume that's what he meant, might be wrong.

If this doesn't arrive tomorrow I may be forced to actually try and get a job.

oh, I thought it might've been something difft cos you can do that in skate.1

You can? I never noticed it. I can't tell you how many times I would fail some trick and then spend an eternity trying to get back in position to try again, very frustrating.

polyphonic, why's the film editor worse in the second one?

To be fair I didn't spend a lot of time with it, but the first one was much more intuitive. I made something cool with it on my first try.

blimey

how does he jump so high?

you can glitch out of the map in skate.2 and just skate around in the city for 6mins, which is nice

also apparently the skate.2 video editor has a moveable tripod camera? tht sounds like it'd be great for setting up some nice shots

so glad you can walk up stairs this time, the little dude in skate. was one dalek-ass motherfucker!

haha, true. I got skate today and am really enjoying except for my inability to do a nollie 360 flip except unintentionally. need to do one on to a grind for a challenge and it's driving me crazy.

ah, just did it now, the relief.

we should play some party play! gt is cozeny

I just aced the hole in the wall challenge in two goes : D

oh yeah that nollie 360 flip challenge is driving me mad too... the one where you have to nollie 360 flip onto a grind off the stairs of hubba (??) or something; can't do it for the life of me

oh you did it! a pox on you

when did it come out? i thought it was like tomorrow or wednesday for some reason!

we're playing the old original!

xposts. I have you on my xbox live already Cozen, we played a bit of the COD beta on it. I'm going to blaze through the career mode but should be up for some party play in a day or two once that's done.

how do you get to wear the pro outfits when you've unlocked them? they're not in the shops, not in my backpack : /

ohh nice! if my time zone didn't disclude me i'd play with you, been puting that in a fair bit recently!

xpost. No idea. Too bad as well because I wouldn't mind trying on notorious vehicular homicide merchant Ali Boulala's weird get up.

yeah I just want to fashion my skater into the preacher from the poltergeist w/aid of his hat

oh yeah that nollie 360 flip challenge is driving me mad too... the one where you have to nollie 360 flip onto a grind off the stairs of hubba (??) or something; can't do it for the life of me

I never accomplished this. :(

:( It was pretty tough.

xpost. Still haven't worked out about the kit.

Bit of a crossover with the thread about achievements but I uploaded this slow-motion pastelised video of me doing a really long, but not very impressive, grind solely in order to get the "exhibitionist" achievement. http://skate.share.ea.com/profiles/67033/posts/1466489.aspx

this is the only one I've uploaded so far, might some of the rest up later

I DID IT!

the tech challenges are hard: did the grind fs5-0 to fs tail one earlier

the year-end skateboard mag photo challenge was doing my head in too : /

game keeps freezing too; think I'm going to pick up skate.2

anyone else buying?

i'm gonna get skate 2, yeah. I'm just trying to do this challenge at the Matrix for Rob Drydek and Big Black where you grind to 360 Flip to FS Crooked. It's annoying me.

see that video you put up cozen, I never thought to do that spot by grinding so did some stupid combination of fliptrick to manual to fliptrick. It took me ages. Doh.

ah right, this rob and big black thing is just 360 flip to fs crooked not grind first, nailed it!

I couldn't seem to 360 flip up high enough to grind that thing.

i went for the middle spot where it's lowest and got it eventually.

took my old video down. Here's a new one with a lame grind.

oh god playing this online was horrific. Some dudes are so good, was playing spot battles, the guy does a bunch of 360 flips, hardflips etc. connected with manuals, gets up a 3x multiplier and then hit up a grind and did a bunch of flips on that, he got like 5000, I got about 800 :(

Me getting knocked the fuck out.

ow

haha, awesome.

I'm actually proud of this one!.

That was awesome!

I just picked up Skate 2 (I didn't play the first one as I just recently got a PS3) and managed to get a very strange bail about 5 minutes after I left the tutorial park:

spinning bulldog

haha, that's some WWF shit right there.

Really want to be playing Skate 2 today but I feel a bit shitty so didn't go to the shops and I don't have any CDRs or working newsgroups to hax0r it.

I apparently trigger all sorts of weird physics when I bail:

Bench Launcg

i think i'm more hyped at the prospect of gifs of hilariously janky physics in a potential skate 4 than i was about the recent skate 4 rumours

I think if they can combine the traditional janky physics of the Skate series with the revolutionary jankiness of Mass Effect Andromeda we could be in for a real treat

next-gen jank

next-jank