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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.

oh yeah and also what polyphonic said. How do you get to Carnegie Hall?

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

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.

hmmmm

are your opponents similarly handicapped?

Yeah, do not want punishing physics for my dude while Danny Way pops 4 feet of air from a stand still...

psyched for this.

So their latest video shows that Skate 3 finally has a customize your own skate park feature. Looks pretty cool; you can share your skate park with the community (more importantly, download loads of skate parks made by people with the patients to piss around with level builders), and you can challenge people to come to your park for a jam. You can also, when free skating, dump objects like ramps, rails, etc, wherever you like to improve a location. All looking pretty sweet.

hippyjump

SKATE 3 DEMO coming April 15th to both XBOX Live and PSN.

STILL PSYCHED!

hmm, demo not particularly thrilling. Hardcore mode is pretty hard, i guess.

Yeah, there wasn't a lot going on in that demo, huh? Just downloaded it and gave it a whirl. Seems like much more of the same, which means I'll prolly buy it, but I'll wait til it's £20-£25 I reckon. Love the new damage indicators when you smash yourself and you go all x-ray though. nice touch.

gotta admit - I can't even drum up enough interest this time around to download and try out the demo for 3. For the most part I really enjoyed the first game, but yearly sequels seem completely pointless here & it just looks pretty much like they want you to buy the same game again. This series is the perfect example of how quickly a fresh, new approach can get completely stale, unfortunately.

such a great franchise doesn't deserve this treatment, I'd love if they at least took a couple of years between iterations and fully fleshed out their new ideas

When Skate came out, the thing that was so refreshing about it is that it felt much more like a simulation of skateboarding than the arcade style version of Tony Hawk. But now they add this bailing mini-game that is honestly less realistic than Tony Hawk even. Hey, throw yourself off a building and then dive headfirst into a dumpster for extra points! Turn yourself into a flying squirrel by holding your arms out!

I'm not sure it won't be fun, and hopefully they'll fix the graphics (especially of the characters, who looked terrible), but the demo definitely made me wonder. Think I'll rent this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1Acngq-das&feature=youtu.be

playing the skate3 demo got me back into playing skate2. and i'm into it! still hard as hell tho.

they really don't expect you to have all of those tricks at your fingertips, right? i basically look up what i need to do for a given challenge and then try to execute it. if i just go i end up doing the same things over and over again. and some of the challenges are damn near impossible. i always feel like i'm just half-assing my way through things -- getting my thumb to do the same thing consistently is basically beyond me i think.

but still, i'm really liking it. frustrating but it has me coming back. i'm excited for 3!

I think I'm more hyped at the rumours of a Skate 4 than I was about the recent Fallout teaser/rumours.

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