Skate is a great game, in spite of what haters say.
It is basically the STEEP of skateboarding. A balance of realism and fun. Okay, they could add a No HUD Mode and grunge up the map and characters a bit. But for Early Access it is really well-polished and the game play is very solid. You should have seen how bad DayZ was in Early Access for comparison. So yeah, the haters are mostly just Skate 3 fanboys holding an irrational grudge against a company they already despise for irrational reasons. The sane among us know that Skate is the greatest skateboarding game of all time. All time.This game is so sick.
I absolutely love how every time there is an update, I have to redownload the game, remake my character, lose all of my prog, and get forced into a tutorial for a game that I've been playing since I was 12. Its so fun and in no way making me never want to touch this game ever again.Skate early access feedback
Hello! So far I’ve played for about 5-6 hours straight since early access launched and it finished downloading. Currently I’m at level 5 for hedgemont and level 1 for gullcrest. I know this is going to be worked on over time but I’d really like to see more clothing and customization options; for example in skate 3 we could customize our own clothing to have custom colors based on the cmyk scale built in with the games character creator, and I think that would be awesome to bring back. Another thing is that I’d like to see more hair colors and maybe eye colors? If the game’s gonna be goofy and ridiculous anyways then why not have some fun eye and hair colors? Also id love to have some goth clothing options or maybe some free banners with pride flags so that players can express themselves and celebrate how they identify. Also please add more grip tape colors and designs, and maybe allow us to have free placement over the stickers on our boards, it would be really cool to try and remake my real life board where I have an enjoi sticker under my trucks or along the edges. I’ve been liking the game so far but I’m hoping the environment will be a little grittier over time, maybe some trashed street grates or dumpsters to grind and trick over. There are so many things I’d love for you guys to add but this probably won’t be seen by the developers but I’m pleading and begging with all my heart, please please if someone does see this and can add at least one idea over time, more customization and shirt options for each piece if possible like button downs, flannels, more skirt and shorts options, more socks, hoodies with adjustable hoods like in skate 3, and maybe more crop tops or tied shirts? I really want my skater to look like a skater and not just a girl that waltzed out of a really poorly stocked zumiez store. Anyway… thank you for making skate. At first I was skeptical but it’s really fun once you give it a shot, the core gameplay has felt pretty good but some challenges are **bleep** near impossible. TLDR: please add more clothing and customization options + colors and styles, and please adjust the geometry collision physics for some larger sky dive drop in challenges. Thank you Skate. DevsAlmost There… (My Honest Feedback on Skate.)
I played the early access for about 4 hours this afternoon. And I can honestly say I’m at least hopeful. But I can’t help but feel like it’s not quite what I wanted it to be. I’m a lifelong skateboarder and fan of the franchise since the first skate in 2007. And I tend to play the game from the perspective of realism. And that much I feel like they did a pretty good job! The fluidity feels great and they’ve made some serious upgrades to style and feel! The street skating is great, crooks actually pinch now! The live service aspect is kind whack but at least you can earn some cosmetics through challenges n’ such. However as of now, I feel like the negatives outweigh the positives, which is ok, as long as they are actually addressed… the server issues are an obvious one, but I don’t expect that to be as big of an issue after day 1. Despite the map being large and filled with skateable obstacles, it feels very soulless and curated (Fortniteified if you will). I loved the old games for the gritty environment and dedication to real life skate spots around the world (particularly skate 2). And unfortunately I’m not seeing much of that here. The dialogue is unbearably cringe as well, besides my boi David Gravette voicing slappy, he gets a pass. My biggest gripe however is the Transition skating. And coming from a real life transition skater, it’s horrendous… Everyone loves blasting huge airs right? Well too bad you can’t, because keeping speed is pretty much impossible in all of the like 3 bowls throughout the map. No idea what the thought process was there. Lip tricks like frontside grinds and tailslides feel incredibly clunky at best, that is if I don’t just randomly tweak out and bail from the grind for no reason. In skate 3 you could glide right into a grind, and just press X or A (depending on your console) for a clean dismount, where’d that go?! It’s just very frustrating for me to see such clear steps back when this was the aspect of the game I was most looking forward to! Major bummer. Overall though, the game has serious potential. And I sincerely hope that EA and the devs are sifting through these forums with a fine tooth comb. AND TAKING IT SERIOUSLY! This is one of my favorite games of all time, and I’d hate to see it fade into mediocrity. Thank you for listening to my TED talk, peace ✌🏻
Not Quite Skate
This game so far is a mixed bag of fun and awful. It's fun to skate around San Van, and the world is full of secrets if you're willing to look for them, but the game feels like it was designed for shareholders instead of people interested in skateboarding. The voice acting sounds like it's AI generated, the Shingo and Slappy feel like completely different people than they were in past skate games. The tutorial takes twice the time past skate games took to teach the same things and isn't optional, and the "story" missions take you out of the loop of leveling up areas. Getting new stuff shouldn't require opening packs, especially when those packs don't allow duplicates. The sound balancing is broken, where 70% SFX is loud while 90% Music is a whisper. Tricks don't register correctly, and that makes doing the challenges a pain. Personally I don't mind the multiplayer direction the game is taking, but lag and load times hurt the experience greatly. Overall the best way to describe this game is "Not Skate." If I were to suggest someone who wants to play the Skate series which games to get, this game would be my 5th choice after Skate It. This game desperately needs more development time, and some major rethinking of what it wants to be because at the moment it's gentrified skateboarding with silly ragdolls, and that's not what Skate is.Quality Of Life
This game is so fun! I’ve already completed all of the first areas challenges and felt that I had a few things that just bugged me and a couple extra ideas. When we open boxes it’d be nice if we had an option to just open all the ones we can afford like a quick open option. maybe in the future if you could introduce body sliders including face morphing. With a city this large and how open and free we are it’d be cool if inclusion to allowing us to place ramps and other objects if we could save presets and maybe even develop a way for us to graffiti them.Skate Feedback
Definitely not what I was expecting. Feels different than the first 3 skates. It has a lot of potential. I noticed Dark-slide trick was removed I really enjoyed that and the coffin, could do some pretty rad tricks with both of those. Grabbing cars or any vehicle while skating was such a favourite of mine. Really sick way to traverse. Wear and tare of the environment and boards was really awesome too having the deck and grip tape get scratched up just gave that real skate culture experience & made the game unique. Hall of meat with all the building and cranes and heights to fall off of with the new roll and flip add on. Really surprised the hall of meat isn’t already in the game. Would be cool to see especially with the change of art style and graphics would be so cool to see. I noticed while skating around I’d have trouble getting onto certain rails or ledges which should be easy to grind considering the board can go high enough. Found myself having a half decent run then all of a sudden my board would clip a bush or something minor and then I would bail. Acid drops from super high places and my characters legs give out don’t remember the off board skates before ever having difficulty dropping and landing from unbelievable spots to be an issue. It’s a video game meant to be fun if I wanna drop off a building and land on my board would be nice for the character to stay on the board. Just makes for some really sick runs. Considering it is early access, it has been very buggy can’t go into my settings at all. I’m still stuck on opening the item shop have been since launch. It won’t let me proceed past that says missions and the store are locked. I was unable to join my friend’s game after multiple invites. I’m a huge fan of all the skates before especially 2 & 3 I really hope these suggestions from all the day one fans will be considered and improved. I’d hate to not enjoy playing one of my all time favourite franchises. Good to be back! Thanks so much for all the memories here’s to many more in the next coming years.
Game preview feedback
So im assuming public feedback is allowed since when i try to scan the QR code for feedback in game it says i dont have access to the forum. So far the game is great, gameplay has all the best aspects of skate 1 and skate 3 combined! However the tutorial is way too interrupting and long, it couldve been way more open ended instead of forcing you to try out every single mechanic, especially if you chose that you are a returning skate veteran. Other than that this has been a solid return to skating so far! Very excited to see what more they add!