Thread 720403905

5 days until Skate 4. The more gameplay I see the more it grows on me, it looks very smooth and buttery.

my cousin and I will be playing it when it comes out, but considering this is modern EA we are talking about, we are both expecting nothing

I think it looks fucking terrible

>>720403905 (OP)
I could talk for an hour about this game. A lot about it really sucks. Like some things are fucking absurdly bad (voice acting/writing). But honestly the gameplay is really damn good so far. I was really bummed on the city at first but playing it a few hours a day for the last couple weeks and it's grown on me a lot. Always online is retarded, but free to play + cross-play with even broke ass niggas on last gen consoles and stuff is neat. Lack of story is a bummer but honestly who *really* cares about the story in these games, they're sandbox skateboarding games first and foremost. The culture isn't there but it wasn't really there in Skate 3 either which was my favorite because of gameplay (hardcore mode) and content (DLC + community parks from autists).
I dunno, overall I like the game to be honest. Hope it does well and they can deliver a bunch of content over a few years, then eventually shut down so we can have private servers and offline clients.

>>720403905 (OP)
I was ready to gobble up any amount of live service crap to play more Skate but they somehow made the game suck. Was bored in an hour.

>>720404201
wow what a brave opinion

>>720405056
at least this dude has some nuts and can air his legitimate problems with the game

It's 2025.
There is a 99% chance that it will be fucking garbage, or inferior to its predecessors.

skateboard culture is cringe now

>>720405370
It's still missing a lot from the previous games like a variety of handplants, dark catches and darkslides, death races, and some other things. And they really need to clean up some of the mechanics and animations (look at just turning and carving around in this new one vs the old ones, very stiff and retarded looking). But I really do think overall the animations are really good and the base skate mechanics are great. The new tricks are fun as fuck and mostly really smooth. Nudging out of grinds (ie grinding on a ledge and bump out straight into manual on it), winding up for faster spins, grind switchups, slappes, wallies, transition grinds are way better, you can actually grind a kinked rail without getting bumped off (though they're maybe a slight bit too sticky). Hopefully the quarterly updates are actually good because this game could easily eclipse the others with bit of polish on the new mechanics and animations, and some more skateable areas.

>early access
>f2p
>dailies, chores, and every other predatory system designed to waste time and maximize engagement
>micro transactions, battle pass, and faggy features like it all 110% developed and ready while the rest of the game is shit
>bugs up and down out the ass at the current build (the one that is going to be released)
>missing features everywhere, devs arent added most of it back
>what they are adding back is in the roadmap and will take years
Worthless hogwash designed for only the stupidest and darkest of retard

you can play it right now and see it's absolute slop meant to entice kids to use mommies credit card

>>720406125
You can only play it before the 16th if you signed up for the "insider playtests" before like mid-June iirc.

>>720403905 (OP)
skating in it feels good.
everything else about it is insufferable.
ill keep playing skate2 and 3.

skate is fun for somewhat realistic skating compared to THPS, but session is peak skate gameplay, too bad its buggy and abandoned now

wow I had literally no idea this was actually coming out
I should go replay the old ones and then not play this

>>720409680
Session is embarrassing at this point in my opinion. So janky and ugly. It was cool 10 years ago when there was hope it'd get better. I was really into the autistically uber-realistic gameplay of Session and Skater XL back then but nowadays I like the comfiness that the EA skate series provides, it's a nice middle ground where you can really flow around the maps hitting cool grounded stuff. Plus the transition skating sucks ass in Session.

One bump, thred probly ded though