Feedback and Suggestions

I have been playing Skate. for a few days, and I have enjoyed it, particularly completing challenges with other people online. I wanted to make some suggestions that I think would be fun or helpful.

Map and Locations

• I think the map and the player's compass could use cardinal directions (North, South, East and West). It would be helpful for navigation and this is the first game I have played with the compass system (like Skyrim, etc.) that does not include cardinal directions.
•  It would be fun to have NPCs of different ages walking around town. Like children and the elderly.
• I like the NPC reactions to nearly hitting them, but it would be fun if once in a while you could knock them over.
• This is a thought I had, but I always look in the food trucks to see if anyone is working. I think it would be fun to see some NPC workers and customers in some of them. One of the funnest NPC locations is on the pier where everyone is sitting on the benches that you can grind and they all run away. But that is the only funny location with NPCs I have found.
• I like to explore, and a fun system to implement might be to find secret trophies/challenge points in obscure locations -- like Goat Simulator.

Music

• I like collecting music at the speakers. I wish the music menu would be more clear on which playlists and songs I have discovered, and maybe 'unknown' markers for playlists and songs I have not yet found. It is fun to collect and find new music.
• So far, the selection of music is fun. I do wonder if all the 'Beach Boys' style stuff is AI generated, however. I would prefer music created by contemporary and historical musicians rather than AI if that is the case.
• The music player controls could use a previous and next button. Both times I wanted to favorite a song, it had already passed and there was no way to find which song it was until it looped back around.
• The music player should understand that when it is paused or stopped that it needs to stay paused or stopped. If one wants to listen to their own music at home, the game restarts its own music at the beginning of each challenge, and sometimes just because a speaker nearby starts playing.
• I am a big fan of classical music. As a nitpick the Opera Buffo music collection is actually all Opera Seria and I actually think the choices on the playlist are difficult to skate to. The death sequence from Don Giovanni where he is dragged to hell by demons is a bold choice to put on there. If you need suggestions on opera songs that have a good beat to skate to, I can help. Some examples:
  • Handel - "Dopo Notte" from Ariodante, "Or la tromba" from Rinaldo
  • Vivaldi - "Agitata da due venti" from Griselda, "Or che cinto ho il crin d'alloro" from Il Giustino
  • Mozart - "Marten aller arten" from Die Entführung aus dem Serail, "Non piu andrai" from The Marriage of Figaro.
  • Bizet - ""Les tringles des sistres tintaient" (Gypsy song) from Carmen
  • Sullivan - "I am the very model of a modern major general" from The Pirates of Penzance

Clothing

• I would like my male character to have shirtless and open shirt options influenced by the Z-boys and the Lords of Dogtown. They always had some 70s style that included no shirt, or no shoes, but often did have skate pads. I know Elder scrolls online provides female equivalents to the male costumes with what are essentially sports bras.
• It would be fun to have tattoo and tattoo placement options even if just relegated to six places such as Left Arm, Right Arm, Chest, Back, Left Leg, Right Leg. 
• The 80s fashion is fun. It would be nice to see 70s fashion like the Z-boys. I am sure you will get to it in time. Formal fashion would be cute, like suits and ties or ballgowns -- which would be funny to mix with board shorts. The game provides fashion that is distinctly fashionable, and it might be fun to have some things that are distinctly not -- such as straw hats, overalls, a diaper, a cape, onesie, etc.
• Dyed hair options would be fun. 

Gameplay

• The daily and weekly tasks often do not register as being complete. This can be frustrating for more difficult achievements. 
• There doesn't seem to be a location for players to join teams with strangers. I have not had difficulty forming teams, but it would be nice if there was a zone where players could match up.
• I enjoy that the fast travel points open through progression and that the tall building points come with later levels. I think that encourages exploration.
• I would like to be able to grab on to cars in the style of Back to the Future.