Fuck! I’m pretty sure COD 4 came out around the same time too.
MW lobby’s RIP 
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So good
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Yeah, I enjoyed that era, so to speak.
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We put so many hours into that and mw2 at uni. I still remember the moment I got my one and only mw2 nuke - on wasteland with a thermal barret 50cal. Pwning noobs.
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That was my weekends, Skate till 10pm ish, then smash COD and get fucked off energy drinks haha
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Haha, a couple of cans of Relentless and playing Call of Duty until 5am.
Exactly this.
I’ve had a quick go on it and the basic movement makes lining up to grind anything nearly impossible.
The first push gets you going a bit and the second push has this weird lag where you whooosh off super fast. It also seems to take forever to actually turn left and right.
Compared to the original games it feels like trying to control a very fast supertanker.
There are plus points for it though that I noticed.
When you lock into a slide you don’t have to press anything and you will keep sliding for ages. Even when you get to the end of your momentum you stay in a tail stall or nosestall and don’t drop off the ledge.
If you try pushing left or right on a nose or tailslide you do a quick pop over movement which could look quite cool when it stops being annoying when I stop accidentally doing it all the time.
Flatground reverts look cool so you can do nice looking frontside 360 flips on the floor.
When you grind through kinks you stick to the rail. This was one of the most annoying things in the orginal games so this is a good upgrade.
Your push button is mapped to one button rather than needing to swap when you go reg to fakie. Again, i think this will be good after i get used to it.
Me and my son spent absolutely ages climbing and climbing and climbing a huge skyscraper. The instant we got to the top the whole game blue screened on me and crashed. That was fun.
I HATE all the online players whizzing about. Just fuck right off.
It seems ok…and its free so it’s hard to complain.
There might be some settings to adjust the controls because at the moment they are way off what they were. In the original games I could do some tricks every time (like smooth backtails, noseblunts, smithgrinds etc) but I’m struggling with this.
It feels like it’s still physics based but with some weird snapping going on in the background that I can’t get used to.
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I’ve turned off the score multiplier, gamertags, HUD etc and it feels way better. After tweaking the settings a little I’m quite enjoying it now. No complies look pretty good in this one and wallies is a nice new touch.
Spent a while doing sick cab flips like that.
On the tranny side, I got some fs 5-0s down pretty quick but the re entry is shite.
THPS 4 you could tap a shoulder button and go back into the ramps. It needs a mechanism like that.
There’s a heap of YouTube videos talking through realistic settings. Annoying as they are, they have some good pointers.
One thing I picked up from a chap named pigeon thief is if you have them on your controller on PC is to map the paddle buttons to your pushing buttons to make no complies easier. Especially straight ones and bs 360 ones.
Played for 10 minutes and I like the way your tricks can look different and you can easily get off ledges or rails on both sides. Noseslide pop overs etc
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Booked tomorrow off to play all day 
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To play skate? Fuck it tempted to join you.
If anyone has screen grabs of settings they have found that make it better please share!
Tempted to try this. All the reviews I’ve seen have been mostly negative, but you’ve all maybe swayed me
It’s more playable than session and less frustrating, but more Arcade like
I’ve never played Skate which one would you recommend? I’ve a ps5 and a switch 2.
Skate 3
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I’m trying to get a quick ten minutes in whilst my wifes back is turned and I’m in a massive queue…to play a computer game. I don’t get the world.
I couldn’t give a monkeys toss about online anything. If I buy it can I play an offline mode?
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Nah unfortunately not.
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Finally got in.
The basic controls are a horror show. Pressing left and right makes you shoot off steeply to the side a half second after you press it or sometimes barely move at all.
I’m trying to do a trick down a rail and i can’t point the skater at it. You have to go back, tic tac until you get the perfect angle so you can hit it in a dead straight line and then set a session marker.
I’m going to put skate 3 on now to see how it handles basic movement because I know I didn’t have this problem in any of those games.
Grumble grumble.
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