Thread 714964630

So you’re telling me a game people have waited for longer than the wait for GTA 6, and there’s zero hype… and the game is set to release in EA by the end of the Summer. Did I forget to mention that it looks like absolute zoomer Fortnite slop?

Because the other games aren't on PC

>>714964630 (OP)
I've seen so many retards in YouTube comments defending this shit by saying "it's just in pre alpha it'll be better at launch". No the fuck it won't and it's gonna bomb and go offline within 2 years MAX.

>>714964630 (OP)
>check on how the game is progressing
>it now looks like nu-saints row now
am I losing my mind it didn't look like this a year ago what is this

>>714964797
Check out the video I linked >>714964818
it looks like absolute slop, and the best part, watch until he shows off the fucking micro transactions. It’s literally $5 for a brand less skate deck and of course the designs look exactly what you’d imagine a millennial would create for zoomer Fortnite addicts.

Another game made by investors. Slop.

This is how big the starting map is lmfao

>>714964630 (OP)
Bump

>>714964630 (OP)
I've played every play test so far and let me tell you, it's turned to Fortnite cartoony style in like, the last 2 playtest. it's unreal how bad it just suddenly became.

The map still is unchanged in size and the only other area in the playtest is the tutorial place.

in the early playtest the game just had big skate jams like public events popping up on the map, and honestly if they are gonna do always online service shit that was as fun enough as it needed to be.
now you have to opt in to everything in a group and guess what? no one does. i'm stuck on a mission to do co-op activities and literally can't lol. the one time someone accepted my party invite, the game completely bugged out and i had to alt-f4.

monetization aside, even in game funbux purchases are random loot boxes. you can't just buy the shit you want. maybe you get the griptape or shoes you actually want, maybe you get some fluff literally no one cares about like a profile icon. "engagement metrics", i guess.

honestly the city is pretty good. not the realistic vibe of Skate 1, but as a giant skate themepark city, its good.
the skating is also ok in some areas. i really like how you can just steer out of grinds and do slappies on curbs. since popping out of grinds/slides is often to high and unrealistic.
but in general it is more towards arcade-y, probably even more than Skate3. and there's a bunch of "stunt" slop because haha funny physics slams.

the aesthetics, yeah no need to add more said already, you already know its soulless gender-neutral everything and the mission NPCs are literally AI robots or HR plants. i literally do not know who the vibe would appeal too. not skaters and not general gamers either.

Should've just ported skate 1-3 to steam and left it at that

just no... this isn't it. Probably should have left it alone unc.

They'd never do it, but offering a one-time $60 pass granting access to any and all content released for the game in perpetuity would make my cunt ache a bit less.

>>714964797
The snivveling trannies telling people to leave the devs alone are really something. I didn't know someone could be born with the express purpose of being raped.

>>714964630 (OP)
>SKATE 4
>called "SKATE"
>not "SK4TE"
fair enough, you had *more* than one job but still

>>714969759
>i literally do not know who the vibe would appeal too
fortnite players

>>714964630 (OP)
>skate 4
>modern EA
>ugly free to play phone slop looking garbage
>not made by blackbox
>made by some retard literal who modern millennial core faggots
Yeah, why even bother getting hype?

>>714977384
fortnite has fine ass bitches and tons of cosmetics though. this is just like, default skin fortnite with some fluff lootboxes, 99% of it looks like more default shit that should be in character creator.

>>714964797
these dumbasses never learn anon people said the same shit about the monster hunter beta "it looks ugly it performs like shit b-b-but its a beeeetaaaaa" and look where we are now

>>714977887
oh god they've laid the groundwork for a future where people are gooning to skate character models...

>>714964818
this guy keeps saying the gameplay looks smooth but even that I would disagree with
it looks very slow and very stiff in both the animation and physics

They keep killing my childhood games :(

>>714965782
ok but how big are the starting maps for the other games?
i have no context for how much land vidya skating consumes

>>714965782
>This is how big the starting map is
Doesn't really matter, Skate 1/2 were so fucking good you could spend 50 hours in an area no bigger than my backyard and love every second of it because the mechanics and physics were that fucking good.

If the map design is good, and the physics and mechanics are good, it's not a problem.

I'm betting on it all being shit though.

>>714964818
Fucking christ what is this art style.

>>714964630 (OP)
>Skate 4 gets announced
>Everybody loses it, tons of hype
>Radio silence for ages
>Eventually come out and say "it's in a really really really early state so don't get excited too quick"
>More radio silence
>Hype dies down
>Come out and say "actually it's not Skate 4 it's a reboot and it's gonna be free to play"
>All hype instantly dies
This game is going to either be DOA or dead within 2 weeks and EA will never fund anything Skate-related again.

>>714983220
>All hype instantly dies
I was still hyped right up until I saw the fact that it looks like fortnite and half the gameplay of the original games is missing.

As another anon said, they should have just ported Skate 1-3 to PC.

>>714964818
>$5 a board
lol
lmfao

>>714984010
Keep watching, it gets worse.

https://youtu.be/ueTSXCGy9oo?t=540

Ahahahaha fucking janky ass backflips whilst grinding.

>>714964630 (OP)
Id rather play Nortubel

>>714983593
You had more faith than I did. I hadn't even seen any current gameplay footage until I opened this thread

When was the last time EA released a good game and didn't try to fleece you for it?

>>714985379
>You had more faith than I did.
Honestly I didn't think even AAA tards could fuck it up this bad. We've got Sessions, Skater XL, Skate 1-3, they know what people want and like gameplay wise and it's well understood what people will endure on the F2P side of things even if the game is fantastic. Somehow they've managed to include none of the things people liked about Skate and the worst of F2P in a game that looks like shit and doesn't play like Skate at all.

I wasn't expecting much, but fuck.

>>714964818
Kill yourself shill faggot

>>714985838
Split Fiction

>>714985838
>When was the last time EA released a good game and didn't try to fleece you for it?
Unironically Skate 3.

>>714985963
It’s not my channel, but considering this guy only has 1k subscribers and reached 250k views says a lot. He basically summarized perfectly what anyone with half a brain is thinking about this reboot.

>>714964630 (OP)
ive been playing it for years already.
skating is fun but everything surrounding it is a nightmare. old skate fans will drop the game within a couple weeks and the only new audience they will bring in are kids on chinese cellphones who want to watch funny ragdolls but arent allowed to play GTA
every time I say anything about the game some cockriding child tells me its just alpha bro stop complaining dude as if my eyes have been lying to me for the years of playtesting. like I am somehow wrong about the shit I see and they are right about the shit they imagine. kill all shill niggers
>>714964818
Flippy's video is better. dude is mad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YZT-Z9QpZg

I'M BREAKING MY NDA
mechanically the game is fine, skating feels okay and it's expanded from skate 3 (still haven't seen darkslides though)
the world is skateable but small
there's a huge emphasis on verticality with every faggot skyscraper having a gay vert park on it
the challenges are easy
the atmosphere is sanitized as shit, there's no actual respect or regard for skate culture
character customization is ass and the cartoony fortnite vibe is a huge detriment to the game

>>714987239
>it's expanded from skate 3 (still haven't seen darkslides though)
whats expanded? the wallies that are literally broken? they didnt include darkcatches, fingerflips, or grabs during grinds. that is objectively less skating tricks than in the previous games.
agree about the rest

>>714986792
> every time I say anything about the game some cockriding child tells me its just alpha bro stop complaining dude as if my eyes have been lying to me for the years of playtesting.
Funny you mention that, because I’m still baffled how after years of play testing nothing really changed. In fact it seems to appear that they’ve even removed content. I rewatched some of the official Skate reboot YouTube videos from their channel and the whole thing reeks of corporate bullshit, I can’t believe I was fooled into thinking it might have had some soul and was being revived by pseudo indie developers.

>>714987385
double flips for diagonal tricks, that's really the only thing I noticed lol but I like being able to do 720 flips or double lasers

>>714987468
>nothing really changed
things changed, they removed the fun objects from object dropper and made it harder to stack manny pads to climb stuff!
non-shitpost though, there originally was offboard """parkour""" challenges that were just collectathon sprints with climbing, they sucked absolute shit and they removed them because nobody liked them

>>714986792
Man it didn't even have the fortnite art back then. They really are going out of their way to fuck this shit.

>>714987468
>In fact it seems to appear that they’ve even removed content.
they did in fact have working replays with custom cameras and shit. removed. they also had custom park sharing over 2 years ago and the first playtest map was twice the size of the current one. both removed. its insulting. I am insulted.
>>714987487
oh yeah, and yet you cant hold 360 fliptricks anymore for some reason. I do not understand what arbitrary lines they draw to decide what stays and is cut. fuck EA and fuck Full Circle

>>714986792
Depressing that the early footage looks 100X better than what we're getting.

>>714987718
The cherry on top regarding the “art” style is that this game is being made on the Frost-Bite Engine… yeahhhhh
>>714987741
The new map almost seems like a Call of Duty: WWII scenario where they create a shitty online hub just to flaunt your LootBox gear.

Pic unrelated

>>714986792
>>714964818
This is so sad man. I was skating in the 80's, I am "ok boomer". What the Tony Hawk games did for skateboarding was incredible at the time and Skate 1-3 are in my opinion the last truly next-gen games. They did something radically different to what came before, genuinely new and innovative. The physics, controls, customization and community, everything. That was 18 years ago. Tony Hawk was 25 years ago. But their success has trapped you all in this corporate hellscape, for some it's probably all you know.

Safeguard your communities man, I really mean that, go and find something for yourselves that you truly love or dig through history and rediscover something, but don't grow it, don't try and bring it to the world, don't monetize it, youtube it, enjoy it with those around you and then let it die a natural death less the parasites find it.

There are truly rotten people out there that aren't human at all.

>>714987239
>the atmosphere is sanitized as shit, there's no actual respect or regard for skate culture
Please expound for us non-skaters

>playtesters have been telling the devs for over a YEAR that the artstyle is dogshit
>literally the most high rated threads in the playtester forums are complaints about this
>they double down in the last update
Yeah it's fucking over and don't even get me started on the abysmal soundtrack

>>714992557
you know what Fortnite looks like? it's like that. know what a skateboarder looks like? It's not like that.

>>714988843
>this game is being made on the Frost-Bite Engine… yeahhhhh

i literally see no problem with this
frosty is well understood by the modding community even if it is kind of a piece of shit

>>714992557
all sunshine and rainbows
there's no grit or grime
there's no blood, you don't even get decent bails, just floaty bouncy kid's game physics

>>714992967
it's a bad engine for all these different genres because it was made specifically as an FPS engine, then retrofitted for racing games, then raped and distorted until they could get sports games running on it, and now comes a a game entirely about rolling and sliding physics and it's jank as fuck. The fact the skateboard doesn't roll if you aren't touching it says a lot.

>>714992621
most of the soundtrack is shit but there's some songs I actually liked on there
like this one I genuinely enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U06zf3X2z_w

>>714992967
>mods will fix skate 4
lol
lmfao

>>714993195
Yeah there's a couple of outliers like Wallows and Earth, Wind & Fire that sadly get drowned in a sea of shit

>>714993052
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFRtZvicVXA

>>714993592
What is your point? I never said it was good in 3 either, but at least hall of meat was functional and focused on actually bailing.
The stunt missions that replaced hall of meat are fucking shit, they're literally just
>fly to this specific spot
>fly to that specific spot
>land here
>score [random amount of points]
At least hall of meat had injury-related goals.

>>714993592
I sincerely hope you're not trying to imply it was always this way.

>>714993715
>>714993796
Fuck settle down, I was just posting a vid of how good hall of meat, the bails and the xray stuff was.

>>714993926
I'm on go right now anon I got a full clip for everyone

>>714993926
yeah that's why I didn't assume you were showing it was always "silly" or whatever.
Even though these types of missions where you jump off a tall thing were the worst part of skate 3 and the beginning of the end, at least it featured the x-ray system that was cool
Hall of meat peaked in 2 when you had to do crazy bails but it still involved skating

>>714964630 (OP)
>EA
yes, I will never be hyped for an EA game

All games will to F2P slop after SKG wins. Don’t like it? Too bad, no refunds.

>>714994071
Oh and the new game calls the "Stunt" missions. There is already thrasher shit in the game so it's not about branding problems, they just want the game to be rated E10 instead of T

There is also only a single PVP mode and it's a score attack in a tiny little circle.
You cannot play SKATE in this game titled Skate.
There are no death races (not that they could have any on a tiny map with no hills), no spot battles, nothing. Literally fucking nothing. I've never been more let down by a game than this one

>>714992916
>>714993052
So they made a game for kids instead of a game for teenagers? Do they think little kids are into skateboards?

>>714994670
>it's a score attack in a tiny little circle
the worst part is that throwdowns were actually fun when the object dropper had better street items in it
it's fucking shit with the generic rails and ramps

wake me up when they make an anime skateboard game.

>ew anime
Whatever dude. Better than 50 games of your sims looking crap.

I had no expectations. Ill probably give it a go for shits and giggles when it drops but EA fumbling this doesn't surprise me one bit. Really is surprising just how shit the visuals are, I dunno if it's actually because it's an alpha or something but it looks like a PS3 game

Skate was a terrible game to begin with

>>714996302
t. no dexterity

>>714996153
its a mobile game. it is releasing on cellphones.

>>714996574
>t. No Taste

>>714996990
oh please great arbiter of taste, bless us with your wisdom and tell us what a good skateboarding game is

>>714964630 (OP)
I'll be picking up pro skater 3 & 4 instead. Hopefully we get thug 1 and 2 remaster next

>>714997732
skate's free

>>714997732
I wish I shared your optimism.
I'm thinking of refunding already.

the minute I saw the parkour shit I noped the fuck out

>>714997732
>I'll be picking up pro skater 3 & 4 instead.
Save your money, the 1+2 remake was great, 3+4 is half assed shit (I pre-ordered but also pirated), 4 campaign is butchered to all fuck, lots removed from both, nerfed soundtracks, trannies and legless skaters shoehorned in etc. The originals still play great on PC so just go and pirate them.

>>714985840
It actually makes me more confused than angry. There have been plenty of times that a series has been dumbed down for mass appeal, but that isn't even really what's happening here. Nobody who liked the Skate trilogy wanted Skate 4 to be like this, and the audience that actually plays games like this isn't really interested in Skate. There's no real audience for it, which is why it will die within months if not immediately. This whole thing reeks of a bunch of out of touch old fucks in a board room trying to maximize the profit from an old series without understanding anything about it. I wouldn't be surprised if EA shuts down the new studio that made it and never touches Skate again, not even for a modern port of the originals.

I'm pretty sure a dev or marketing is watching this thread. I don't hate you guys but I'm not feeling this.

>>715007232
They aren't looking at this thread. They didn't even look at the official fucking forums and you think they are lurking here?

>>715004146
This. What a fucking shame

>>715007394
Yep, a lot of people post on 4chan. And they all deny it.

>>715004146
It's a response to 2 things
First is obviously Fortnite. It's why every trailer has a skydiving clip in it. Literally "looks a little like dropping from the battle bus" I'm not joking.
And second is Riders Republic. It's the only other extreme sports game getting active updates, and they want to emulate that cringe fucking Ubisoft corporate gnarly aesthetic. It's insane because everyone on the planet has complained about this art style and yet here we are still getting it. It feels like pure spite for all the people begging them to listen

>>715007583
I more mean that if they aren't even bothering to look at all the official feedback locations, I highly doubt anyone is looking at the random discussions online. They definitely haven't seen a single youtube comment in the last 3 years because 80% of them are desperately asking for an offline mode and story

>>715007842
Sounds like you're trying to convince yourself more than me. Believe whatever you want to, anon.

>>715007995
I have evidence that suggests they are not looking at any feedback, if you have something that indicates otherwise then I will listen
but it seems highly unlikely when we look at everything they've done so far

Unless you are a dev, in which case I hope you work on the gameplay and not the art because that shit is embarrassing.

>>715007842
>an offline mode and story

not necessarily disagreeing with your point, but that's a terrible example. EA aren't going to change the fundamental scope of the product they've funded, to that level, whether or not they are "listening to feedback".

it's F2P, it's live service, it's going to be "engagement" led with daily challenges and lootboxes instead of real content like a story campaign.
you are on a different planet if you think that's the kind of feedback and adjustments this kind of product would take, especially at this point.

>>715009435
people asked for #skate4 they didnt ask for #skateonmyphone or any of this other shit. I would argue that they have been ignoring feedback since the game's inception.

but if I'm going to meet you on the same level that they cannot change the product scope now, then I will still point to the many hundreds of threads in the playtest forums dating back a whole year asking them to change the character designs. people asking to at least have sliders for like arm and foot size, instead of only genital sliders. thats what we still have a year later. they are not listening to constructive and actionable feedback.

>>715009775
>#skateonmyphone
I thought this was a meme but now the art direction and map size makes total sense now. I asked ChatGPT and they plan to release this game on current and last Gen Consoles, annnnddd last but not least IOS and Android…

They’ve been really deceptive about what the game would really be like at launch to the point where it never crossed my mind that this would had ended up as mobile phone slop… wow

>>715009775
>people asked for #skate4 they didnt ask for #skateonmyphone

oh sure, on that level i get where you're coming from. but i still think those people were pretty delusional if they really thought a social media campaign to get a new Skate game, was going to end up turning out well for them and what EA were ever going for with Skate 4.

again, i've also been in since the early tests and doubt my feedback is worth a shit. my only hope is to get the freemium shit and lifeless dull aesthetic out the way as much as possible so i can at least enjoy the core Skate experience in there a bit, maybe make a few montages (which is in there, the core formula with the controls and more grounded feel of the franchise compared to THPS has always been good) - although as the tests go on i doubt more and more, that i can even get that much out of it.

>>714964630 (OP)
Skipped all of the replies desu, and I never played Fortnite, but thought it (and Fortnite) looked like basically the Sims 4 aesthetic and the Sims 4 level of shameless greed, just testing the limits of developer laziness and greed in another genre?

EA milking idiots as ever, Skate 4=Sims4 for this series, so you know it'll be a lesser product at its core as well. From a business standpoint it makes sense, but I have no interest left in either series. Whatever retarded paypigs they get can have them and keep them