general skate. gameplay review and feedback

skate. feedback

the current skate. feels like a dystopian city without really feeling truly alive, before this game came out i used to play a lot of skate 3 and these are mainly what i noticed from 200+ hours of gameplay on the new one throughout the public early access, feedback suggestions and such..

theres no industrial district which adds to the question of how things (benches/rails/anything in the city) gets made) and a port with shipment facilities and crates and such in the same area which makes the city feel quite like a big bland corperate plant where it only has tall buildings, no private housing with private back yards and private pools and such (which could also align with the house's roof and such), huge stages, huge malls and stuff) while those buildings are well built and detailed with the roof places (which some of have ramps that basically lead to nowhere leaving you to fall onto the ground confused what youre even supposed to do, and adding ramps doesnt really help since theres a 5 item limitation and i cant save the placements for my next sessions so even if the server crashes for a sec all of it is gone and im back placing new stuff all over again since the large drop ramps lead to nothing)

it would be nice to see some small details like beer bottles and cigarette butts on the floor at chill sitting places to add to the illusion of someone already being sat there, and also maybe some fingerprints/ scratches on the back of the board to show usage, also i saw that tattoos are going to be added and i think with that piercings could also be quite a nice addition of expression,

currently there arnt really any real band tees and its only brand names with a "metal" style to the text and while it does look nice it doesnt really stand for anything and i think some band tee collabs could add more to the game, and obv different genres of music (idieally the music yall started adding to the game since it would make sense, MORE PUNK AND METAL PLSSS!!)

also more interaction with the world itself would be nice, like handplanting onto a car to gain speed from it and handplanting a corner/streetlight to spin the character around it which could lead to more interaction and trick sequencing.

the npc's compared to skate 3's also could use work, it seems like if you hit an npc it avoids any kind of interaction and just walks away where as in skate 3 they would sometimes start fights with you or there was this old lady npc that would pull out a taser and would drop you to the ground which was just a funny detail, idk sometimes having them interact differently adds more soul to the game i feel like since now it just feels like a dystopian world with the fun mechanics of the series but not completely there,

it also seems that with each season the whole map gets a new overall style (this time it being the 80s ligting and color) which makes the map feel a bit bland where as if each section of the map had its own style due to having its own "communities" and different interests would add more diversity and depth to the map as a whole i feel like.

i know the game is in early access and this is obviously just feedback, but id love to see this game succeed and right now it just doesnt feel there yet, anyways thanks for letting us play the game early and i hope my feedback helps understand what the game feels missing better.