This is Sims: Skate. Not skate.
I didn’t wait 15 years to see the game series that helped shape my personality get turned into a sims game.
this genuinely hurts to play. It feels like you’re looking at skateboarding and calling it childish. When the other games at least took skating seriously. Made you feel like you were apart of the real life culture.
I did photography for local skaters because of the original skate trilogy. I learned to skate because I saw so many pros I looked up to in the games.
there’s no edge to this game. There’s no skaters. No private parks for customization. Just these abstract pads cause newsflash not everyone knows how to build.
After playing a few hours this game just feels like a bunch of women making what they think skaters want with a vague idea of the last games. I only say the thing about women cause somehow there’s 5 guy hairstyles and like 20 women and the only body modification sliders are for your **bleep** and butt. The only thing that feels like skate is the flick it system and that’s not even squared up in this game while at the same time feeling so guided that I can just do whatever tricks/grinds with no skill involved. No broken bones cause now we are just superhumans that just flop like a sack of potatoes canonically; lame. I’d spend legit hours of my childhood just trying to break all my bones in hall of meat and get high scores. That’s all gone.
this is so watered down that it hurts. If I hear one more unfunny quip from a hipster I’m gunna gouge my own ears out.
You should’ve just called this a different game series instead of ruining my childhood and getting my hopes up by saying this is a skate game. As an almost lifelong skate fan. I’m let down immensely.
edit: after putting in 10+ hours and getting done with the bulk of challenges.my opinion still stands. this feels like its made by someone who vaguely played skate 1-3 but really liked tony hawk pro skater.
to be exact. this feels like tony hawk project 8. i love video games; mainly skating ones so ive played dam near everything in my 28 years. i redownloaded tony hawk project 8 and it felt identical other than the flick it system. focus on highscores, own the trick, stunts. arcade stuff to unlock clothes.
theres no relation to the old skate games in this other than voice acting from shingo/slappy but unfortunately thats not enough. theres no drive to become pro, make film for magazines we recognize or anything really connected to skating other than what? dime, thrasher, vans? cool some mall brands.
the other games felt like they were giving you a peak into the lifestyle of being a skater.
this is nothing but a store for children.
re-edit: they didn't even put finger flips in the game. not a single body varial nothing.
