@@SUPERMegaGaGaTV2 yeah but the concept won't change from now. What you see now is what you get. EA was probably annoyed by all the comments over the years to bring back skate. So they allowed it but they had to did in their way. Otherwise they wouldnt get any money
I don't know why I felt so surpised seeing the cartoon graphics they aimed for with this game. Just compare the previous Sims games to Sims 4, of course they would "renew" themselves by making it look like a Disney mobile game. It obviously has been working for them...
@@djtopp6958it’s not just the face, but the whole body. The style bleeds into other aspects of the game as well including the buildings, skateboard, and overall environment. EA is straying away from the target audience to make the game appeal more to children which will mean more money due to the loot boxes and micro-transactions.
@GHOST__BRAIN 😂😂. You and every 8 year old. It's a trash style designed to appeal to children, I'm glad your infantile brain likes it but it's still trash, even more so in a skate game.
@@djtopp6958😂 any adult or skater who wants to do pretend they skate 😂 like not every one is good but they can game why would any one want cartoon it’s never been cartoon they just want more money because they want it to run on mobile it’s such a shame
@@stezzaplays3979that is obviously not the fortnite art style, and a more realism cartoony art style. Also, the gameplay and skating IS completely skate, and more. You‘re just being toxic.
@@hi-iq7zdd study for a test you dumb youth lol. COD is famous for caring more about graphics than gameplay. If you want eye candy and grunge go play that. Or study for your test buddy
Right I signed up but no luck lol! Update I’m playing the game and it is great! If you love to play on normal easy and hardcore . The tricks is there and then some! Yea the game is 🔥🔥🔥🔥. The features are insane y’all gonna love it!
At this point I’m just disappointed in myself for believing they would continue the series and listen to 99% of the community…. The physics, animation and gameplay in general looks actually pretty good but yeah the whole ‚vibe‘ feels so soulless idk how to describe it… and the fact that I can’t have a physical disc and can’t play offline in single story mode for my own adventure like in previous games feels just off…
Skate 3 is one of my favourite games of all time, but that’s because of the amount of life and humour it has. Even though I’ll try this game out it seems so souless.
Don't try it...show them we will not accept it. They need no players on their online only game...by playing it at all you are letting them win with this trash. Be strong...put in skate 2 or 3 and have fun. Session is also really great but has a steep learning curve.
@ghastlynavigator this game is legit free to play so you can play the game without supporting the company at all since they make all the money on microtransactions, exert a little free will in your life and just dont buy the microtransactions and you can still enjoy this game for what it is
Its funny bc soon as they make da game too realistic yall gon be complaining i should be able to do dis dat n the thing niggas aint never happy js a bunch of sad niggas complaining abt a game for entertainment
As a longtime player of Skate 3 and Skate 2, I think this game doesn’t reflect at all what its predecessors did. What I loved was that gritty, street essence that surrounded everything about skateboarding. This one, even if the gameplay is excellent, is nowhere near anything like 2 and 3. Not to mention the story mode in Skate 3 (one of the best I’ve ever played). This feels like it was made to attract the Fortnite audience, not the skateboarding one.
There might be skateboards in this game, but not a bit of this is Skate. The 'vibe' people say is missing, is exactley what the franchise was built on. Emulating and taking inspiration from skateboard-culture. Hall of Meat originally came from Thrasher, they had professional skaters voice themselves in-game; as well as them having characteristically accurate quest to their respective skate-styles. The original games even recreated the feeling of going to a skateshop, having a backpack as the menu to access culturally relevent music, and being yelled at and/or fighting passerbyers. Skating isn't just tricks and baggy pants, there's so much more. Something which EA seems to have fundamentally forgotten along with BlackBox
@@johnnywaltman game comes out a the end of this fucking month. since i know you know absolutely nothing about game development for saying something like this, it takes more than 26 days (july release) to fix an entire game's art direction, thats typically a 1-2 year timeline.
????? Having an artstyle other than realistic makes it corporate? I thought making things realistic was corporate just look at every famous single player game
@@kurozikoasu1887why would you bring up single player if this game isn’t single player. Also Fortnite style. Fortnite ruined gaming in so many ways I can’t even count. The art style, the free to play with micro transactions, not being able to customize unless you pay or atleast having only terrible cosmetics, every game having a battle royale or trying to make it feel like one, battle pass system, etc.
@@michaeliannelli7725 True, thats why I dont spend more than I would if it were a paid game. Some of these F2P games have BP u can renew indefinitely after one purchase. It's whales that are the main issue.
Skate was always cartoony? And again this is a NEW skate game after 10 years, so it changing its art style just a little is not gonna kill you, nor is any game from such an old franchise gonna be the exact same, and it's good. Because a full price simple offline skate game would not work nor give them enough money. This is what skate should be and I'm excited to have a big developing online world tbh
i remember on the first trailer. one of these corny streamers saying "reminds me of skate 2". i wonder where the hell is that feeling bc this looks like sims/fortnite with skates
i agree with everyone, the game just doesnt feel right or raw like the previous ones. feels like they're trying to cater towards a broader audience and at the same time abandoning the real raw realism loving players.
I just think the game looks too vibrant, its almost like an eye-sore to look at. They need to make it more gritty, and real. The corporate cartoon art style they are going for is not working.
There’s no way EA doesn’t know this is gonna flop. People are steadily saying this ain’t it. I mean even in the discord, folks are complaining. Breaks my heart to see my favorite franchise get absolutely mutilated into a cash grab.
Please bring back Coach Frank. Give him some extra missions towards the end and you get his board or something as a reward. Either way we need the Goach.
Nah bro that would give this cartoon pile of dog shit some personality why would they ever do that? They clearly wanted to make a truly awful game and they succeeded😂😂😂
8:40 as I discovered back in 2008, Slappies arent new either... But props to EA for letting flip tricks hold out for as long as you hold the stick for tre flips and Lazerflips now and letting you max out board rotations for however long you can.
previous tests had me excited, animations and board control are great but after seeing the direction the game took regarding art style and monetization im so let down. Why have such fluid nice physically realistic controls and make the game look like an animated netflix show, big disconnect for no reason
Guys at least we still have SkaterXL and Session if anybody in the comments haven’t played those two skate games they’re really really good and the skate physics are actually pretty realistic. It almost feels like you’re actually skating. The controls do take a while to get used to but once you get them down you’re golden. It took me a couple hours to get used to the controls but that’s what I like about it. Makes it feel more realistic.
EA strikes again with ruining stuff. Just make the graphics realistic, give us broken bones, screams, and not an inZOI character doing a cartooney flip
gameplay’s looking really solid so far. would love to see a bit more of that rougher, grungy edge from the older games - not just visually, but in the feel too. something that blends that rawness with what modern hardware can really do.
@@Blitzkreeg21You're saying like they didn't openly say it was coming to mobile from the beginning. Because yeah they did. (And besides it doesn't mean much of anything, some stunning-looking games were also ported to mobile devices with crossplay, with great optimization. I think the biggest concern is, if it will run like crap on mobile or not. The console version will not be swayed by that direction).
Man.. what a disappointment. I'm honestly surprised.. This is how you kill a series. We just watched it with Saints Row. It was fun while it lasted! I'll continue to enjoy Skate 2 and 3.
why's everything so bright and clean in this game? No trash on the floor, no sweat marks on the player, no typical grunge/grimey atmosphere that you'd find in a skate game. This looks like a corperatized version of what the devs think skate culture is. This doesn't reflect real skate culture at all.
Its kind of crazy.. Fans loyally begged for Skate 4 for years.. Swore their loyalty with promises of full support of a Skate 4 game.... Then a corporation decided to take that genuine loyalty and milk it for all it's worth with this game. It'll be fun to watch creators such as Zexy play this, but it won't be enjoyable to play unfortunately. I hope fans still spam "Skate 4" during all of the future video game showcase streams as we always did, in resentment of this crap.
Have you played the test? It's in early pre alpha, and also after the big update today the game feels and looks sooo much better I'm ngl, my hopes went up after today's update.
@@Mazazaki0 it's being made to support mobile that's there biggest thing it's to make it shit enough it can be played on phone so not really expecting anything big
the amount of folks complaining in this comment section obviously don't understand "OPEN BETA/PRE-ALPHA". Im looking forward to seeing what this game can become
If they are smart they will ditch the cartoonish style and design something more in tone with the game's general aesthetic, but the microtransactions are here to stay, they're not going to back down on that, this is EA's model moving forward
@@CreatorHub2024 either way it’s a biased take if he’s sponsored, even if he didn’t like the game he wouldn’t be able to say it out of fear of upsetting his sponsor and ruining their relationship
People saying "it's only the beta. the devs said it'll improve with time" this game clearly has been mismanaged from the start. EA is only interested in appealing to new fans of the series and making them think this is the ultimate skate experience. They'll cut corners every way they can.
I played an old version that got leaked I think in 2021, a pre-pre alpha version that I've still got it somewhere actually, and it felt better then than the game does now. Plus there were key frames in the replay editor and now there are none. Absolutely insane to me that this game has gone backwards in a total of 4 years with a full team of developers. It's a joke honestly.
"oh its only beta, they will change stuff, they'll make everything better", yup fam, they will fix everyting, cuz its beta, BUT STILL HAS FUCKING INGAME MICROTRANSACTION. I totally lost hype
@@Ran1906its a free game why would it not have micro transactions, and guess what you dont have to buy them, you can earn everything ingame just by playing the game you dont have to spend a cent
It’s honestly fucked up how almost every game today feels soulless and half-assed, like they had no ideas or real plan except to make it as cheap and fast as possible. Nobody seems to get that if they just made a proper, quality game, they’d make way more money in the long run - probably double or more. It’s so frustrating to see so much potential wasted for quick cash grabs
EA has simultaneously made some of my favorite games of all times and some of my least favorite games of all time. But I really think they're missing all of their shots nowadays. With every year that comes they try to renew themselves by being al the more generic but the whole studio is losing their character and soul. They're so greedy as well. They think 40$ for a goddamn The Sims dlc is okay. A stressed and extremely underwhelming dlc at that. Because people still pay for it and then go whine on Reddit about how sloppily they made it. I could rant for hours about it but I don't want to be a burden.
Skate 1-3 still better imo. Everything feels floaty in the multiple playtests I've played. The hangtime and rotations feel off. Also it's missing the weighted board and realistic gravity. Graphics are terrible. It's missing the gritty urban realism we had previously. The grinding is better though - you can do super long grinds, it doesn't kick you off the rail anymore. I had fun with that at least.
@@luislorenzoomusicmonths away? How much do you think the game is gonna change in a few months??? I’ve never understood this logic. If a game is a few years away, okay. But to sit here and act like any real change is gonna come in a few months is just being plain slow…
@@Jasonwaaaytotuffungrateful? LOL bro these games cost money they’re not making this out of the kindness of their hearts LMFAO. Everyone is dense in this comment section apparently
Exactly. All these comments about how this game got it wrong are so overstated. The game physics look incredible, it just needs that old look from something like Skate 2 but with modern graphics.
They knew they had to pick a corpo shill to review the game…bro said everything is his full opinion but didn’t say one real criticism ab the game-you could tell he was holding back
@@IamLINErida two comments to two different people centered around depression? I’ve never seen someone project so much since Freud met his first patient.
I hate the art style honestly I miss the gritty look and feel of skate this just looks like Disney wipe their ass with it and proceeded to take a piss on it 💀
The graphics aren't that different from skate 3 at all it's just slightly shinier materials. You people are so wild lmfao. I make games and the art styles are literally so similar between them. Brain rotted
What made them think the cartoon style was a good idea like seriously, it looks like goat simulator I hate it - after further review I still don’t like the art style but the actual mechanics of the game look great I am still gonna play ts
It’s even more crazy when you look at the fact that the first 3 skate games were made and crafted in the span of just 4 years, and yet they have found a way to waste 5 years on this early access slop. Even when I try to be as objective as possible, because we are clearly not game developers here, it’s still crazy stupid that they built a game technically inferior to the 15+ year old predecessors, not in just graphics terms but even the gameplay, because some of this shit was so incredibly idiotic, like flipping the character on the grind.
@@timsik08it’s so unfortunate that I’ll just need to keep playing skate 3. Praying someone finds a way to extract the new map and make it a skate 3 mod
@@timsik08 dude it's bad, like people are so keen on "oh it's just an alpha", then why would they release an early playtest of the game if they didn't at least have some confidence to show off the gameplay. Its gonna be mostly like this on release. And as you said, 15+ YEARS. And THIS is what we got? A game that looks like i can make it in fortnites unreal engine tool. All they had to do was make a similar game to skate 3 or 2 and just higher quality textures, and some cool new tricks and new map. Instead it looks like session with mods
These f2p micro transaction games got to go. I’d rather have the whole experience when I purchase the game. Whatever happened to loot boxes unlocked by XP for actually playing the game? Even if they did a 10 dollar annual battlepass to add more skins and cosmetics in the game it would be better than the blood sucking leach crap these companies pull nowadays.
This cannot be the final look of this game. To say im disappointed is a complete understatement. EA is so terrible now they just cannot stop getting it wrong.
@@kurozikoasu1887 No, they did not in fact "say it from the start", there even was 2 years between their promise of doing what people commented (skate4) and the official cancellation and rebrand into Mobile F2P "Skate.". Also, cancelling your own promises has never been a good line of defense against backlash about the absence of said promises. "It's okay if what you're getting is not what you asked, because we canceled what you asked 3 years ago already!"
I'm admittedly not a "real" Skate player, and I don't have basically any hours in Skate 3, or any hours in any other, including skate., but I did really love watching people hit clips in Skate 3 and in turn gained a lot of love for the series. Because of that, I just want to say some stuff that's on my mind with this. Note that I just found out about the game being out today, and have only seen like 2.5 of Zek's videos on it and nothing else. I have not been following Skate recently, and I only found out because I got a YT notification for some reason. For one, this game (as many mentioned before) is a very different style than the others, moving from realism to being more cartoony. The locations are also more unrealistic as well and seem to be more architected specifically for skaters, which makes it feel more like you're in a society where skating is everything rather than one where you only make use of things by building parks or with an abundance of creativity. Really, it just feels like a new IP, but using the same base mechanical systems. For me, personally, I think that the idea of having more unrealistic locations (existed before as well, but now they're everywhere) is both awesome and uninteresting, making you feel like you're following paths the developers intended rather than making your own cool things and messing around, unlike in real life where you use various objects--made for other purposes--and adapt them for insane skating lines. Of course, it's not like you are *exactly* following intended paths, and really, the intent of the developers should be to enable creativity, but with this style of architecture, it makes it harder to feel like you are doing things on your own (whether you are or not). I also agree the cartoony characters are quite annoying to see, and I really do think that it's a pretty ignorant decision from the devs (or most likely the higher-ups). This extends into the "flying" mechanic. Why? Sure, it is almost certainly *possible* to skydive in a skateboard line, but you don't just LET GO of the board and randomly teleport it back to your hand mid-flight. If it is going to stay, then PLEASE make it just be possible to hold the board when bailing. Skate 3 was okay since you couldn't really do much inside tricks with the board teleporting (aside from glitches/exploits), but this quite literally does. It just feels so wrong and stupid to look at. I also was really disappointed at the lack of dynamic animations. In real life, people aren't just perfect and look like statues when doing tricks: They move, they shift, they adjust their head, they reposition. I don't care if the game is meant to be more cartoonish. In a game where you try to be and look as impressive as possible, graphics and animations are everything. Of course, the graphics are most certainly not complete, but from what it looks like, the trick/player animations practically are. I hope that's not the case. And then the enshittification with free-to-play. And online only. Stop Killing Games and other consumer rights legislation cannot come soon enough. Inherently, these aren't bad ideas, but my god just let me experience the game with one price tag and OWN IT. I could say a lot here on both sides, but that would take me hours, so I'm just gonna move on. Really, my last big note is how little seemed to get done for how long we've been waiting. I get it. Game dev is hard and takes a long time. I literally am an aspiring game dev myself, and I have experienced that stuff firsthand after the amount of games I've given up on. But we know this game has been in the works for YEARS. I could've sworn they said they had a decent state developed when they started having trouble with trademarking the name as Skate 4. So what happened? Did I just miss some news when I was away or did it stop getting developed or what? And don't get me started on the name. WHY IS THERE PUNCTUATION IN THE NAME????? I DONT WANT TO HAVE TO TYPE "skate." JUST SO THAT IT READS BARELY EASIER. I HATE THAT SHIT, AND THAT GOES FOR THIS TOO. Anyways, I want the game to be good. I'll keep watching it as it comes out, and I hope that for the first time in history, a corporation will listen to feedback. As a starving Pokemon addict, these shitty practices need to change. If someone can just lead the way, maybe the others will follow. Let me cope 💀
One thing that I LOVED about skate 3 is the gritty, realistic style and vibe that it brings. The story, side characters, missions and npcs you meet add something that keeps me invested and coming back. I really hope the humour and vibe of the older era come back; regardless of the new art style.
@@v3ngeful804 I know you feel really ‘special’ for being invited to play a game early so you’re looking at it through rose tinted glasses but yeah that’s all I’ll say lmao
@@Mdmbchdr nah, l am fortunate to have the opportunity to playtest, but lts stlll unflnlshed and l just want lt to come out. Doing my best to reassure the community that the wait ls well worth.
You are not wrong. Once you play the map for a solid few hours I cant stand to play more than 5 mins now. The challenge missions are lame especially when they told us they were going to reset our progress, so I'm not going to bother doing them just to get loot boxes 🙄
is it your graphic settings or does the game just look blurry around the edges of assets? looks like upscaling on the lowest setting i really hope its just your settings lol
This new Skate looks like someone typed ‘Hey ChatGPT, make me a skate game using Skate 3 and Riders Republic as inspiration’ and then just shipped the first draft. 😂 Games today are all about milking your wallet and copying whatever trend makes the most money. Zero soul. It’s wild how you can downgrade a game this much since 2010 it legit makes no sense. And seriously, how can anyone think this is cool? Is everyone just a robot today? There’s no way you actually think this is good. Honestly, Rockstar are the only ones who still have half a brain left everyone else is just corporate copy-paste. Sad times for gamers
You can't say all that and then say "look Rockstar are different" while they have been milking players money for more than 10 years with the same game, same mechanic, same cutscenes etc and releasing the game on 3 different generation, no free next gen upgrade and added a subscription. At least if you want to defend one, Idk protect CDPR or some indie dev team
@@KOBAYE_24 I get what you’re saying about Rockstar milking the same game for years, and yeah, that’s a fair critique. But what I mean is that, in general, their games are still really well-made and polished compared to a lot of other stuff out there. Most games today feel lazy and uninspired-like Far Cry 6 feels like an AI-generated copy, and all the recent Call of Duty titles just recycle the same tired formula with bad updates. Battlefield 2042 is another huge downgrade and feels completely dead. So, my point is just that Rockstar still knows how to make solid, well-crafted games, even if they push the same product too long
@@KOBAYE_24 Oh yeah, I totally forgot about those GTA remasters they did which were pretty bad. Besides that, I still think Rockstar generally knows how to make good, polished games
@Naruto10747 I can understand that. I agree on the most part. We'll see how GTA6 will be. A lot of the writers teams and a lot of devs, that were there even after RDR2, left. So we'll see how GTA6 is without a lot of people that made Rockstar what they are today
I like how the clothes move the faster you go. Flapping in the wind. Not sold on the cartoon aspect of it. And most importantly…is there a HALL OF MEAT??? We NEED that!!!
that would have required licensing to be paid to thrasher, which i assume is no longer in the game as well. Theres like maybe 4-5 real skate brands in the game....
What I don't like is how they gradually turn from Skate 1 which was more Realistic to this which is just another arcade skate game. What I love about the first skate games was that is was a realistic approach to the skating video games, and that's why people loved it so much. Now it's just a money making fortnite tony hawk game.
This dude is a partner with EA ofcourse he has nice things to say, we all know skate 4 isn't what anyone wants and i give it 5 years before it dies out
I hope that stop killing games will help to keep this game preserved atleast, but I don’t know the free to play aspect probably has doomed this from the start, because they can just pull the “we didn’t sell the game to you” statement and just destroy it in the next 5-10 years.
This game it's gonna be called "Skate." Maybe, the hope of a true Skate 4 is not gone... I want to think like that, and hope that it's not a lie I'm telling myself 😂
This looks super fun, the gameplay was always the biggest key for skate and I like the additions they've made. I enjoy the art style of the world and the lighting looks nice. Character models specifically aren't my favorite but that's lower down on the list of importance for me. As long as it's fun to mindlessly roam the city looking for those creative little spots you missed the first second or third time you went by, it'll be good for me.
@@LouFrazier_amg are you serious? Skate 3 physics were a buggy mess and your character was all stiff whenever you hit something, this one flows a lot better
Do people forget that SkaterXL and Session exist? Two new skate games that came out only a couple years ago that are actually pretty good and the skateboarding physics are pretty realistic
I rarely comment my thoughts on this game but DAMN this looks ROUGH 😭. I’m gonna play it regardless cause it’s something new and I’m down to get some lines going but damn man this art style is killin me 😂 not to mention this new currency/shop. Appreciate the video tho Zex 🤙🏾
I love that the speed you do the trick actually changes the speed of the trick. This will literally give everyone their own skate style. I hate that you have to unlock stuff in game and then buy it with in game currency that can be bought with real currency. But the game is free. I will say for it coming out this year sometime it looks a bit rough around the edges. Hopefully they get it polished up before release.
I’m currently playing the game, of course there are certain things missing that need to be added ( guys it’s in PRE ALPHA it’s not finished) but the general gameplay feels really good. They really nailed the physics and weight of everything. The animations are also really smooth. Even the small things like every surface and trick having a unique haptic in the dualsense is super immersive and satisfying.
I understand why it's called Skate. and not Skate 4 now...
Completely agree. Feels like they saw the failure of full skate sim - Session - and not wanting to just remake THPS. So makes sense.
prolly gonna be the last one
yknow what it is
It's pre alpha.
@@SUPERMegaGaGaTV2 yeah but the concept won't change from now. What you see now is what you get.
EA was probably annoyed by all the comments over the years to bring back skate. So they allowed it but they had to did in their way. Otherwise they wouldnt get any money
its not even out buddy, not even publicly available
Oh cool, a Skate expansion for The Sims 4, nice.
lmaoooo
I don't know why I felt so surpised seeing the cartoon graphics they aimed for with this game. Just compare the previous Sims games to Sims 4, of course they would "renew" themselves by making it look like a Disney mobile game. It obviously has been working for them...
Frrr
bro thinks this is the finished product...
😂😂😂
The whole cartoon style bothers the hell out of me. The Fortnite effect appears to still be in full effect
fortnite is awesome , i make fortnite videos ,i love the way it looks
How much time do people really spend staring at their character's face for this to be a problem? 🥴
@@djtopp6958it’s not just the face, but the whole body. The style bleeds into other aspects of the game as well including the buildings, skateboard, and overall environment. EA is straying away from the target audience to make the game appeal more to children which will mean more money due to the loot boxes and micro-transactions.
@GHOST__BRAIN 😂😂. You and every 8 year old.
It's a trash style designed to appeal to children, I'm glad your infantile brain likes it but it's still trash, even more so in a skate game.
@@djtopp6958😂 any adult or skater who wants to do pretend they skate 😂 like not every one is good but they can game why would any one want cartoon it’s never been cartoon they just want more money because they want it to run on mobile it’s such a shame
15 years for actual slop is nuts
Ikr im so dissapointed
And the bails/slams are SO BAD like why are they just using low quality ragdolls? Skate 3 bails were way better
They havn't been working on it for 15 years....
Not like it’s pre alpha or anything
4*
You could’ve told me this is a new gamemode inside of Fortnite.. and I would’ve believed you
Yeah okay buddy
@@abusive_kindness Nowhere near skate
Character skin in the exact same cartoonish style @@njv8001
@@abusive_kindness literally the same art style and everything looks nothing like skate at all
@@stezzaplays3979that is obviously not the fortnite art style, and a more realism cartoony art style. Also, the gameplay and skating IS completely skate, and more. You‘re just being toxic.
They went out of their way to make skate 4 look more like riders republic than skate 3
Riders republic looks way better than this garbage
@@step9624ya mama smokes crack rock
As long as the game is fun who cares lol. Frame rate, lighting, and post processing is more important to me fr. Go play COD or something
@@fuglong How do you even come to the conclusion to go play cod. Your brain is fried
@@hi-iq7zdd study for a test you dumb youth lol. COD is famous for caring more about graphics than gameplay. If you want eye candy and grunge go play that. Or study for your test buddy
welp, guess I'm sticking to the 15-year-old skate game
Right I signed up but no luck lol!
Update I’m playing the game and it is great! If you love to play on normal easy and hardcore . The tricks is there and then some! Yea the game is 🔥🔥🔥🔥. The features are insane y’all gonna love it!
@@underthesonson did u even read the email? It says they push invites every week. U will get to play
@@JayyTooFlighthey aren’t pushing out playtests until 3pm today so be patient
@@JayyTooFlighlol I did indeed read the email. Also I been trying for 2 years
No you’re not.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen an iconic series crash as hard as this.
Halo? Cod? Gears? You just talking and haven’t even played the FREE game all you people are corny 😂
@@bigounce8301 and soon enough even Grand Theft Auto ....
@@toplay1764sybau loser
Saints row!!!
halo, forza, monster hunter
This hurts my soul. 10 years for this is crazy...
15
It’s so bad isn’t it where’s all the monster park and all that
It’s nowhere near finished but I get your point
@@tonytonychoppas people are never happy. EA did not have to make this at all.
Fax
Skate went from 'kickflips and concrete' to 'emotes and espresso bars.'
Hudson stfu you don’t even skate
Modern gaming is woke and all about micro transactions
@@Jonah-i1u😂😂😂”woke” your a 30 year old man saying this bs
@@nathanbaca7004 He loves the Trump coolaid
Video games industry is fucked. They can't even make same 15 y/o game with slighty better visauals
At this point I’m just disappointed in myself for believing they would continue the series and listen to 99% of the community….
The physics, animation and gameplay in general looks actually pretty good but yeah the whole ‚vibe‘ feels so soulless idk how to describe it… and the fact that I can’t have a physical disc and can’t play offline in single story mode for my own adventure like in previous games feels just off…
of course they wouldn’t, it’s a multi million dollar company, not an indie dev trying to keep the soul alive from the first 3 games.
Betas usually have no soul since thats the actual point, there's no content in betas
pre alpha bud
it's not done yet lol. maybe it will be soulless but i feel like you're speaking too soon
it's too polished looking, lost it's gritty punkish charm that's associated with all skate games
5:34 Bro is so excited to open a loot box. 💀
It’s ridiculous
All they had to do was follow the old Skate gameplay and vibes
as usual, EA disappoints
Well gameplay wise it's the exact same just with parkour now the art style is what sucks
All you had to do was follow the damn train CJ!
Would have been great to keep everything as is and just add new maps, missions/stories, and more player/park customizations.
Atleast they didn’t fumble Assassin’s creed😅
@@oldsnake183 I also feel like its way to floaty
I never thought I'd see EA go back to loot boxes and unfortunately its in the only Skate game in 15 years.
saw it coming when they said it would be free to play :(
rather get lootboxes than a million battlepasses
@@3000spokesand guess what? It's still free to play! No one is forcing you to buy anything! Crazy concept!
It's free to play. So no surprise
@@oofbonk9741 I'm also free to play...
Free to play other skating games with heart and soul like Skater XL and Driftwood :)
The aesthetic of the game is such a buzz kill for me personally. Also wish that compass wasnt on the top of the screen.
it has been gen Zd
@@rso823gen alpha you mean
@@rso823yall are some bums holy shit it’s not this serious 😭
yea being the same exact art style as skate 2 and 3 is such a bummer.
@@get_rekt_454gg5 why are you even in this comment section
crazy how long we waited for a game worse than 1, 2, and 3. this has too be a joke
The golden age of gaming is over. Gaming has been taken over by Karens and DEI hires so now we get a lot of slop
“It’s because of you guys they made this game” looking at the footage I’m starting to doubt that
If i could show you a pic of the playtest forums...... Full Circle doesnt listen to anything
@@cambino66 they really dont, EA has shotguns to their head
Like, what did we do to EA? 😭😭😭
Skate 3 is one of my favourite games of all time, but that’s because of the amount of life and humour it has. Even though I’ll try this game out it seems so souless.
Don't try it...show them we will not accept it. They need no players on their online only game...by playing it at all you are letting them win with this trash. Be strong...put in skate 2 or 3 and have fun. Session is also really great but has a steep learning curve.
@ghastlynavigator 💀
@ghastlynavigator this game is legit free to play so you can play the game without supporting the company at all since they make all the money on microtransactions, exert a little free will in your life and just dont buy the microtransactions and you can still enjoy this game for what it is
@ghastlynavigatorsybau💔
@@w0rkhop555just had to throw in a single comma in that paragraph for good measure
Of course they go for the kid friendly fucking fortnite look. God I hate the current Gaming industry.
and skate 3 didn’t have a kid friendly look??
@@migly515you were probably born in 2010, so you don’t a right to speak on this topic kiddo
@@timsik08thank you
@@migly515nope
@@migly515 no... no it didnt
Coach frank didn’t die for this
Crucifranked
Real
9:50 looks absolutely horrendous -.-
Its funny bc soon as they make da game too realistic yall gon be complaining i should be able to do dis dat n the thing niggas aint never happy js a bunch of sad niggas complaining abt a game for entertainment
It’s a good thing the game is in pre-alpha then
People say this while the game isn't finished
@@ryanpeterson6797yes that is a very good thing, I’m excited to play it when it’s done
This is a pre alpha
Bro just remaster skate 3 at this point 😂
Skate 2!
@@theinfamousgjkyeah bro the bails looked so much better compared to to 3
@@theinfamousgjkskate it!
Nope
@@tony2handby now they shoulda been had all the games remastered they would of made bank and prolly still would be
As a longtime player of Skate 3 and Skate 2, I think this game doesn’t reflect at all what its predecessors did.
What I loved was that gritty, street essence that surrounded everything about skateboarding.
This one, even if the gameplay is excellent, is nowhere near anything like 2 and 3. Not to mention the story mode in Skate 3 (one of the best I’ve ever played).
This feels like it was made to attract the Fortnite audience, not the skateboarding one.
Was rocking with ur argument until you said it was meant for the Fortnite audience, I’ll be giving my self a lobotomy now
@@IsaacSanchez-u3d He said, *THIS* game was made for the Fortnite audience. Not actual skate games.
It defo was. Just look at the graphics
@@just_krisfully aware
@@just_krisjust checked, skate is an actual skate game
There might be skateboards in this game, but not a bit of this is Skate. The 'vibe' people say is missing, is exactley what the franchise was built on. Emulating and taking inspiration from skateboard-culture. Hall of Meat originally came from Thrasher, they had professional skaters voice themselves in-game; as well as them having characteristically accurate quest to their respective skate-styles. The original games even recreated the feeling of going to a skateshop, having a backpack as the menu to access culturally relevent music, and being yelled at and/or fighting passerbyers. Skating isn't just tricks and baggy pants, there's so much more. Something which EA seems to have fundamentally forgotten along with BlackBox
Its like the more i see, the less i get excited lol
same bruh same....skater xl and session are better...and made by smaller team....god damn shame
so dont play it mf
im the exact opposite ,this game looks amazing, i just really want them to add danny ways mega ramp and funtrack from skate 2
I swear, it's like it is popular to hate new games. It is stylized, has new features, doesn't ruin or overly change the formula, it looks sick!
i was giving it a chance until 1:32 🫤
What on earth were they thinking with that art style 😂(I’m crying inside)
Well Skate is a free-to-play game with micro transactions. So they copied the biggest F2P Micro transaction heavy game, Fortnite. 🤣
The game is still not finished. I seen a ea developer say the graphics aren’t finalized.
@@johnnywaltmanI hope you are right
@@johnnywaltman game comes out a the end of this fucking month. since i know you know absolutely nothing about game development for saying something like this, it takes more than 26 days (july release) to fix an entire game's art direction, thats typically a 1-2 year timeline.
wanna give a thumbs up but the counter on 420 so will do here 👍
1:49 that's not a cartoony art style, that's a corporate art style.
????? Having an artstyle other than realistic makes it corporate? I thought making things realistic was corporate just look at every famous single player game
@@kurozikoasu1887 its the same like the corporate memphis artstyle. Jet set radio has a Cartoony artstyle. This is just slop
@@kurozikoasu1887 it's sterile
@@kurozikoasu1887why would you bring up single player if this game isn’t single player. Also Fortnite style. Fortnite ruined gaming in so many ways I can’t even count. The art style, the free to play with micro transactions, not being able to customize unless you pay or atleast having only terrible cosmetics, every game having a battle royale or trying to make it feel like one, battle pass system, etc.
@@michaeliannelli7725 True, thats why I dont spend more than I would if it were a paid game. Some of these F2P games have BP u can renew indefinitely after one purchase. It's whales that are the main issue.
4:14 Most of the things you called significant update till this point were actually present in Skate 3 as well.
Looks cool but I don’t like the cartoon aspect doesn’t remind me of the skate I know really but at least there’s a city it looks nice.
It looks like a random skating game not skate I feel u bro 💔
@@Saleban they should bring back the realistic aspect of others skate (1,2,3) games
It looks like Fortnite Skate 👎. But hey the animation are good.
Skate was always cartoony? And again this is a NEW skate game after 10 years, so it changing its art style just a little is not gonna kill you, nor is any game from such an old franchise gonna be the exact same, and it's good. Because a full price simple offline skate game would not work nor give them enough money. This is what skate should be and I'm excited to have a big developing online world tbh
@@YetiMusicCitythat’s what I’m saying bro 😭
Reminder that SKATE 2 still exists and is amazing.
i remember on the first trailer. one of these corny streamers saying "reminds me of skate 2". i wonder where the hell is that feeling bc this looks like sims/fortnite with skates
Cause in trailer from 3 years ago the art design was totaly different @@gorkapascual5897
Skate 2 was PERFECT
Facts tho
@@mateozaragoza93facts
i agree with everyone, the game just doesnt feel right or raw like the previous ones. feels like they're trying to cater towards a broader audience and at the same time abandoning the real raw realism loving players.
graphics wise.
Skate games were never realistic im tired of seeing this brain dead take. Just say u never played the games and move on.
@@ChaosTheaterrgraphically it had a more natural look. This shit looks like Fortnite. Graphically it’s a regression to a more arcade style
I just think the game looks too vibrant, its almost like an eye-sore to look at. They need to make it more gritty, and real. The corporate cartoon art style they are going for is not working.
@@ChaosTheaterr look at skate 2s artstyle and map compared to this game its definitely alot more realistic and gritty looking
At 10:26 bro became a Roller Droid from Star Wars 😂
There’s no way EA doesn’t know this is gonna flop. People are steadily saying this ain’t it. I mean even in the discord, folks are complaining. Breaks my heart to see my favorite franchise get absolutely mutilated into a cash grab.
people are fiending in the discord what are you even talking about
how is it a cash grab its a free game with some paid cosmetics like fortnite
@JadaCloud nobody wants those shoes anyway 🤷♂️💀
@@samv2_ytFortnite is a billion dollar game despite being free, THINK SAMURAI THINK
@@JadaCloudthe extra stuff is an OPTIONAL PURCHASE
Now we know why it’s free
Wait no way it actually is? How far we've fallen.....
Free to play 😭, better then $70 for what we’ve seen
At least you won't have to spend money to be disappointed.
Please bring back Coach Frank. Give him some extra missions towards the end and you get his board or something as a reward. Either way we need the Goach.
Nah bro that would give this cartoon pile of dog shit some personality why would they ever do that? They clearly wanted to make a truly awful game and they succeeded😂😂😂
i’m sure they’ll add DLC, imagine they add a whole island or area completely dedicated to coach Frank
@@marktheguy 👎🏼
we aint going to get the Pro Skaters In game like 3, Impossible now as the game is Free, and looks like a SIMS add on
8:40 as I discovered back in 2008, Slappies arent new either... But props to EA for letting flip tricks hold out for as long as you hold the stick for tre flips and Lazerflips now and letting you max out board rotations for however long you can.
Tony hawks underground looks more real then this
Than*
@@jinsakai9729😂
Th is mid
Spent 10 min. Scrolling comments and it appears that there is nobody interested in this game lmao.
Good
Ish looks trash anyway
The physics look really good, the actual skating improved. But it does fr look like Fortnite characters, so wack
@@andyp9342I highly disagree about the physics, it looks very floaty
it looks fun and its free
previous tests had me excited, animations and board control are great but after seeing the direction the game took regarding art style and monetization im so let down. Why have such fluid nice physically realistic controls and make the game look like an animated netflix show, big disconnect for no reason
This looks like an indie game
Exactly, yet people are suprised that we compare it to the 3 others that were made by the same organization. @@the3rdvowel
Exactly, yet people are suprised that we compare it to the 3 others that were made by the same organization. @@the3rdvowel
It's so it can be on mobile. HD textures wouldn't work on mobile.
i 100% agree
Guys at least we still have SkaterXL and Session if anybody in the comments haven’t played those two skate games they’re really really good and the skate physics are actually pretty realistic. It almost feels like you’re actually skating. The controls do take a while to get used to but once you get them down you’re golden. It took me a couple hours to get used to the controls but that’s what I like about it. Makes it feel more realistic.
EA strikes again with ruining stuff. Just make the graphics realistic, give us broken bones, screams, and not an inZOI character doing a cartooney flip
HALLL OF MEAT!!!! Pause 0-o no diddy
bro is shilling hard everyone looks like a meta avatar
gameplay’s looking really solid so far. would love to see a bit more of that rougher, grungy edge from the older games - not just visually, but in the feel too. something that blends that rawness with what modern hardware can really do.
It looks like this because I feel like their plan is to eventually port this to mobile. Calling it now
@@Blitzkreeg21You're saying like they didn't openly say it was coming to mobile from the beginning. Because yeah they did.
(And besides it doesn't mean much of anything, some stunning-looking games were also ported to mobile devices with crossplay, with great optimization. I think the biggest concern is, if it will run like crap on mobile or not. The console version will not be swayed by that direction).
@@Blitzkreeg21 It IS coming to mobile, there's already been a mobile playtest.
@@woodlandcollectiveis there by any chance footage? I’m generally curious about how it handles.
@@woodlandcollectiveby how that sounds they probably shouldn’t continue with the mobile version.
The gameplay looks fire which is the most important thing
Can’t wait for the game. My only critique is the Fortnite style cartoon graphics
yeah the in the other games stuff looked used and old but now everything looks clean en cartooney
How's it fortnite? If anything it looks like riders republic mixed with session
@@raldoh3617it kinds looks like fortnite ngl
@Zestyballsauceif anything it literally looks like assets literally used in session
Am I going to play yes, am I gutted about the cartoon style and wacky outfits, clean city yes…
Man.. what a disappointment. I'm honestly surprised.. This is how you kill a series. We just watched it with Saints Row. It was fun while it lasted! I'll continue to enjoy Skate 2 and 3.
Hater
@@Zarkmoneybagsslop gobbler
hater
@@Zarkmoneybags "hater" 🤓
@@Zarkmoneybagshe right lowkey
why's everything so bright and clean in this game? No trash on the floor, no sweat marks on the player, no typical grunge/grimey atmosphere that you'd find in a skate game. This looks like a corperatized version of what the devs think skate culture is. This doesn't reflect real skate culture at all.
shhh
@@joemalone6994am I wrong though?
it aint even out yet
Cry a river
looks so cartoon, idk why they choose that ass style
Its kind of crazy.. Fans loyally begged for Skate 4 for years.. Swore their loyalty with promises of full support of a Skate 4 game.... Then a corporation decided to take that genuine loyalty and milk it for all it's worth with this game. It'll be fun to watch creators such as Zexy play this, but it won't be enjoyable to play unfortunately. I hope fans still spam "Skate 4" during all of the future video game showcase streams as we always did, in resentment of this crap.
This looks awful. Skate for Fortnite kids
I like how the game plays, that looks great. The aesthetic is killing me though. It's too clean.
its too clean. exactly my thought. doesnt feel at all real, i feel like im watching valorant or fortnite with a skateboard mode
terrible art design. it does look like the sims
looks like a DEI video game character design
@@LikeIverson3Just saying words
@@NezzBlessedboo hoo
This might be the biggest let down in video game history ☹️
At least it doesn't cost anything. I've already had my heartbreak with Gran Turismo 7.
@@waste4245 It costs my hopes and dreams.
Have you played the test? It's in early pre alpha, and also after the big update today the game feels and looks sooo much better I'm ngl, my hopes went up after today's update.
@@Mazazaki0 it's being made to support mobile that's there biggest thing it's to make it shit enough it can be played on phone so not really expecting anything big
How?
the amount of folks complaining in this comment section obviously don't understand "OPEN BETA/PRE-ALPHA". Im looking forward to seeing what this game can become
no we understand that this will not turn into anything and is a waste of the franchise.
@NeutronixRL Braindead reply ngl
@@trippin6210sure
If they are smart they will ditch the cartoonish style and design something more in tone with the game's general aesthetic, but the microtransactions are here to stay, they're not going to back down on that, this is EA's model moving forward
“This video is sponsored by EA” 5 seconds later “EA Didn’t pay me for this video” alright bud lol
LMAO for real
You do realize a sponsorship doesn't equal monetary gain, right? Right?
@@CreatorHub2024 either way it’s a biased take if he’s sponsored, even if he didn’t like the game he wouldn’t be able to say it out of fear of upsetting his sponsor and ruining their relationship
@@flurmple5587Red herring fallacy
@@CreatorHub2024How so? Seems pertinent to me?
Looks like one of those f2p anime games... Gives me mobile game vibes.
it is in fact a mobile game.
This does look like that
@@grantharvey4967it is also on mobile. i have it.
Nothing smells more like a mobile game than a f2p game with two currencies...
@@grantharvey4967they announced it’s coming to mobile so yeah it is
People saying "it's only the beta. the devs said it'll improve with time" this game clearly has been mismanaged from the start. EA is only interested in appealing to new fans of the series and making them think this is the ultimate skate experience. They'll cut corners every way they can.
Idk what your on but this game has gotten better since the first alpha
I played an old version that got leaked I think in 2021, a pre-pre alpha version that I've still got it somewhere actually, and it felt better then than the game does now. Plus there were key frames in the replay editor and now there are none. Absolutely insane to me that this game has gone backwards in a total of 4 years with a full team of developers. It's a joke honestly.
@@troy7910I wanted to say the same that the build i ve also played 3 years ago felt way smoother?!?
"oh its only beta, they will change stuff, they'll make everything better", yup fam, they will fix everyting, cuz its beta, BUT STILL HAS FUCKING INGAME MICROTRANSACTION. I totally lost hype
@@Ran1906its a free game why would it not have micro transactions, and guess what you dont have to buy them, you can earn everything ingame just by playing the game you dont have to spend a cent
The fence physics is kinda what got me , he climbed the fence 14:01 and the bar bent lol that’s really cool and I love the attention to that detail
They could've made this game so good, and they chose to suck the life out of it for the pursuit of money.
It’s honestly fucked up how almost every game today feels soulless and half-assed, like they had no ideas or real plan except to make it as cheap and fast as possible. Nobody seems to get that if they just made a proper, quality game, they’d make way more money in the long run - probably double or more. It’s so frustrating to see so much potential wasted for quick cash grabs
That's EA for you.
bro this sucks. been waiting so long for skate and now i can’t even skate in nikes without paying. sad to see
EA has simultaneously made some of my favorite games of all times and some of my least favorite games of all time. But I really think they're missing all of their shots nowadays. With every year that comes they try to renew themselves by being al the more generic but the whole studio is losing their character and soul. They're so greedy as well. They think 40$ for a goddamn The Sims dlc is okay. A stressed and extremely underwhelming dlc at that. Because people still pay for it and then go whine on Reddit about how sloppily they made it. I could rant for hours about it but I don't want to be a burden.
It looks great to me lol, go play other shit whiny
Skate 1-3 still better imo.
Everything feels floaty in the multiple playtests I've played. The hangtime and rotations feel off. Also it's missing the weighted board and realistic gravity.
Graphics are terrible. It's missing the gritty urban realism we had previously.
The grinding is better though - you can do super long grinds, it doesn't kick you off the rail anymore. I had fun with that at least.
you're comparing a game that is still months away from it's full release to fully finished games
Nah man I feel like your just a hater and your ungrateful like you are comparing
@@luislorenzoomusicexactly
@@luislorenzoomusicmonths away? How much do you think the game is gonna change in a few months??? I’ve never understood this logic. If a game is a few years away, okay. But to sit here and act like any real change is gonna come in a few months is just being plain slow…
@@Jasonwaaaytotuffungrateful? LOL bro these games cost money they’re not making this out of the kindness of their hearts LMFAO. Everyone is dense in this comment section apparently
I can't like all these hate comments at once!!!!
the perfectly line between Session, Skater XL and THPS is EA's skate. and when it launches later this summer it's going to be huge lol
Looks like new fortnite dlc.😂😂😂
For real bro
If only.
Sure buddy
@@abusive_kindnessit does, buddy…
sifu: skating edition
Lmaooo fr, I love sifu but bro you are so right.
😂😂😂😂
Facts
But the flip slow flip fast feature is dope af
Nah, Sifu is peak
Gameplay looks sweet but wish it wasn't so cartoony
Exactly. All these comments about how this game got it wrong are so overstated. The game physics look incredible, it just needs that old look from something like Skate 2 but with modern graphics.
100% agree, maybe they will put out a texture pack or something@@douglassmith9445
How did you get the early access? I applied but haven't heard anything back!
They knew they had to pick a corpo shill to review the game…bro said everything is his full opinion but didn’t say one real criticism ab the game-you could tell he was holding back
Sponsored by EA might have been a sliiiiight giveaway
Watch any of this guys videos; he’s a shill 100%. Everything about his videos are disingenuous and scripted excitement. It’s so cringe.
bruh, just cuz youre depressed doesnt mean you have to wish that on other people.
@@TheBourbonWrenchjust cuz you have to do deal with some random depression doesnt mean you have to wish that on others.
@@IamLINErida two comments to two different people centered around depression? I’ve never seen someone project so much since Freud met his first patient.
I hate the art style honestly I miss the gritty look and feel of skate this just looks like Disney wipe their ass with it and proceeded to take a piss on it 💀
Looks like a skateboarding game made by the LGTBQ 🌈 lmaoo
YES THANK YOU FINALLY SOMEONE POINTS IT OUT
Stuck in the past smdh
The graphics aren't that different from skate 3 at all it's just slightly shinier materials. You people are so wild lmfao. I make games and the art styles are literally so similar between them. Brain rotted
@@fuglongyou can tell everything about this game is so much more vanilla than the others 😂
What made them think the cartoon style was a good idea like seriously, it looks like goat simulator I hate it - after further review I still don’t like the art style but the actual mechanics of the game look great I am still gonna play ts
😂😂😂 it actually does
It’s even more crazy when you look at the fact that the first 3 skate games were made and crafted in the span of just 4 years, and yet they have found a way to waste 5 years on this early access slop.
Even when I try to be as objective as possible, because we are clearly not game developers here, it’s still crazy stupid that they built a game technically inferior to the 15+ year old predecessors, not in just graphics terms but even the gameplay, because some of this shit was so incredibly idiotic, like flipping the character on the grind.
@@timsik08it’s so unfortunate that I’ll just need to keep playing skate 3. Praying someone finds a way to extract the new map and make it a skate 3 mod
@@timsik08 dude it's bad, like people are so keen on "oh it's just an alpha", then why would they release an early playtest of the game if they didn't at least have some confidence to show off the gameplay. Its gonna be mostly like this on release. And as you said, 15+ YEARS. And THIS is what we got? A game that looks like i can make it in fortnites unreal engine tool. All they had to do was make a similar game to skate 3 or 2 and just higher quality textures, and some cool new tricks and new map. Instead it looks like session with mods
Goat simulator is realistic what are u smoking?
This should be called The Sims 4: Skateboarding Blast :D
These f2p micro transaction games got to go. I’d rather have the whole experience when I purchase the game. Whatever happened to loot boxes unlocked by XP for actually playing the game? Even if they did a 10 dollar annual battlepass to add more skins and cosmetics in the game it would be better than the blood sucking leach crap these companies pull nowadays.
it was very concerning when this game was announced f2p, this is why
You do earn lootboxes from xp and playing the game. There’s no duplicates and you can’t buy them with real money
This cannot be the final look of this game. To say im disappointed is a complete understatement. EA is so terrible now they just cannot stop getting it wrong.
dude it clearly isnt, its an alpha playtest
@@jeremymartin8962 still doesnt look promising . At all.
>People comment #skate4
>"We're doing it, you commented it into existence"
>Doesn't create Skate 4
I feel like there was a genuine push in EA to make a Skate 4 and then the corporate parasites of the company got involved and bastardised it.
They said from the start that this wasn't skate 4 bro 😂
@@kurozikoasu1887 No, they did not in fact "say it from the start", there even was 2 years between their promise of doing what people commented (skate4) and the official cancellation and rebrand into Mobile F2P "Skate.". Also, cancelling your own promises has never been a good line of defense against backlash about the absence of said promises. "It's okay if what you're getting is not what you asked, because we canceled what you asked 3 years ago already!"
@@ThePizza28 even then of this isnt what. Yall wanted complain ti developers and wait another 5 years for another realistic game
Not disappointed like the rest of yall, bus as fast travel so pretty realistic for real skaters
14:00 did the fence just bend???
That’s actually pretty cool
I played that shit back 5 times to make sure I wasn’t trippin! Came to the comments to say it but you beat me to the punch.
I was about to comment this lol that’s actually so sick
Yeah
💔5 years for these graphics
the psychics look good but that art style is killing me
fits so well, trust me.
@@v3ngeful804it’s trash
I'm admittedly not a "real" Skate player, and I don't have basically any hours in Skate 3, or any hours in any other, including skate., but I did really love watching people hit clips in Skate 3 and in turn gained a lot of love for the series. Because of that, I just want to say some stuff that's on my mind with this.
Note that I just found out about the game being out today, and have only seen like 2.5 of Zek's videos on it and nothing else. I have not been following Skate recently, and I only found out because I got a YT notification for some reason.
For one, this game (as many mentioned before) is a very different style than the others, moving from realism to being more cartoony. The locations are also more unrealistic as well and seem to be more architected specifically for skaters, which makes it feel more like you're in a society where skating is everything rather than one where you only make use of things by building parks or with an abundance of creativity. Really, it just feels like a new IP, but using the same base mechanical systems. For me, personally, I think that the idea of having more unrealistic locations (existed before as well, but now they're everywhere) is both awesome and uninteresting, making you feel like you're following paths the developers intended rather than making your own cool things and messing around, unlike in real life where you use various objects--made for other purposes--and adapt them for insane skating lines. Of course, it's not like you are *exactly* following intended paths, and really, the intent of the developers should be to enable creativity, but with this style of architecture, it makes it harder to feel like you are doing things on your own (whether you are or not). I also agree the cartoony characters are quite annoying to see, and I really do think that it's a pretty ignorant decision from the devs (or most likely the higher-ups).
This extends into the "flying" mechanic. Why? Sure, it is almost certainly *possible* to skydive in a skateboard line, but you don't just LET GO of the board and randomly teleport it back to your hand mid-flight. If it is going to stay, then PLEASE make it just be possible to hold the board when bailing. Skate 3 was okay since you couldn't really do much inside tricks with the board teleporting (aside from glitches/exploits), but this quite literally does. It just feels so wrong and stupid to look at.
I also was really disappointed at the lack of dynamic animations. In real life, people aren't just perfect and look like statues when doing tricks: They move, they shift, they adjust their head, they reposition. I don't care if the game is meant to be more cartoonish. In a game where you try to be and look as impressive as possible, graphics and animations are everything. Of course, the graphics are most certainly not complete, but from what it looks like, the trick/player animations practically are. I hope that's not the case.
And then the enshittification with free-to-play. And online only. Stop Killing Games and other consumer rights legislation cannot come soon enough. Inherently, these aren't bad ideas, but my god just let me experience the game with one price tag and OWN IT. I could say a lot here on both sides, but that would take me hours, so I'm just gonna move on.
Really, my last big note is how little seemed to get done for how long we've been waiting. I get it. Game dev is hard and takes a long time. I literally am an aspiring game dev myself, and I have experienced that stuff firsthand after the amount of games I've given up on. But we know this game has been in the works for YEARS. I could've sworn they said they had a decent state developed when they started having trouble with trademarking the name as Skate 4. So what happened? Did I just miss some news when I was away or did it stop getting developed or what? And don't get me started on the name. WHY IS THERE PUNCTUATION IN THE NAME????? I DONT WANT TO HAVE TO TYPE "skate." JUST SO THAT IT READS BARELY EASIER. I HATE THAT SHIT, AND THAT GOES FOR THIS TOO.
Anyways, I want the game to be good. I'll keep watching it as it comes out, and I hope that for the first time in history, a corporation will listen to feedback. As a starving Pokemon addict, these shitty practices need to change. If someone can just lead the way, maybe the others will follow. Let me cope 💀
One thing that I LOVED about skate 3 is the gritty, realistic style and vibe that it brings. The story, side characters, missions and npcs you meet add something that keeps me invested and coming back. I really hope the humour and vibe of the older era come back; regardless of the new art style.
I was really hoping for a gta type vibe but looks like we’ve gone with Fortnite
what gritty realistic style? this series has always had saturated colors. the art style is literally identical to skate 2 and 3.
@@teekz5621 absolutely nothing about this looks like fortnite. it doesn't even look like UE.
skate 3 was never gritty or realistic? only skate 1 went for that style.
@@ralphwiggum3463it’s realistic compared to the current art style tbf
15 Years for this... what were they doing this while time
while
EA where dreams die
5 years not 15
5*
Looks fun for like 5 mins
as a tester, I easily can skate around for hours.. so much to do! and its beautiful.
@@v3ngeful804 I know you feel really ‘special’ for being invited to play a game early so you’re looking at it through rose tinted glasses but
yeah that’s all I’ll say lmao
@@Mdmbchdr nah, l am fortunate to have the opportunity to playtest, but lts stlll unflnlshed and l just want lt to come out. Doing my best to reassure the community that the wait ls well worth.
You are not wrong. Once you play the map for a solid few hours I cant stand to play more than 5 mins now. The challenge missions are lame especially when they told us they were going to reset our progress, so I'm not going to bother doing them just to get loot boxes 🙄
Correct, have had this game all year and it gets boring after 10-15 min every time
is it your graphic settings or does the game just look blurry around the edges of assets? looks like upscaling on the lowest setting i really hope its just your settings lol
This new Skate looks like someone typed ‘Hey ChatGPT, make me a skate game using Skate 3 and Riders Republic as inspiration’ and then just shipped the first draft. 😂
Games today are all about milking your wallet and copying whatever trend makes the most money. Zero soul.
It’s wild how you can downgrade a game this much since 2010 it legit makes no sense.
And seriously, how can anyone think this is cool? Is everyone just a robot today? There’s no way you actually think this is good.
Honestly, Rockstar are the only ones who still have half a brain left everyone else is just corporate copy-paste. Sad times for gamers
Great way to put it, this new installment kinda ruins what made Skate, skate.
You can't say all that and then say "look Rockstar are different" while they have been milking players money for more than 10 years with the same game, same mechanic, same cutscenes etc and releasing the game on 3 different generation, no free next gen upgrade and added a subscription.
At least if you want to defend one, Idk protect CDPR or some indie dev team
@@KOBAYE_24 I get what you’re saying about Rockstar milking the same game for years, and yeah, that’s a fair critique. But what I mean is that, in general, their games are still really well-made and polished compared to a lot of other stuff out there. Most games today feel lazy and uninspired-like Far Cry 6 feels like an AI-generated copy, and all the recent Call of Duty titles just recycle the same tired formula with bad updates. Battlefield 2042 is another huge downgrade and feels completely dead. So, my point is just that Rockstar still knows how to make solid, well-crafted games, even if they push the same product too long
@@KOBAYE_24 Oh yeah, I totally forgot about those GTA remasters they did which were pretty bad. Besides that, I still think Rockstar generally knows how to make good, polished games
@Naruto10747 I can understand that. I agree on the most part. We'll see how GTA6 will be. A lot of the writers teams and a lot of devs, that were there even after RDR2, left. So we'll see how GTA6 is without a lot of people that made Rockstar what they are today
So, basically, it's the new Saint Row combined with Fortnite combined with loot boxes with a touch of Corporate Memphis art style.
😮💨🤮
fr i was dissapointed with the new saints row too smh
I like it
The art style is like shean white’s skateboarding along with the trick animations
Goated game tho. You bring back memorys!
@@LDEtheRealmost definitely
Shawn white skateboarding had more soul
this genuinely hurts to watch i miss skate 4 raw energy and unfiltered gameplay this feels more like a sims game than a skate game
I like how the clothes move the faster you go. Flapping in the wind. Not sold on the cartoon aspect of it. And most importantly…is there a HALL OF MEAT??? We NEED that!!!
im pretty sure in the one part it showed a different colour multiplier that was presumably for hall of meat points! We can only hope
@@jdizzle8035no hall of meat. No need for it
Of course there’s a need for it. It’s literally the best part of the franchise.
@@ProspektKendallwhack take
that would have required licensing to be paid to thrasher, which i assume is no longer in the game as well. Theres like maybe 4-5 real skate brands in the game....
What I don't like is how they gradually turn from Skate 1 which was more Realistic to this which is just another arcade skate game. What I love about the first skate games was that is was a realistic approach to the skating video games, and that's why people loved it so much. Now it's just a money making fortnite tony hawk game.
tbh tony hawk 3+4 looks a lot better than skate 4
7:25 “look how baggy those pants are” killed me 😂
Doesn't take much, does it 😂
@@orpheus0108it’s the story behind the pants
i absolutely love the new skateboard mechanics, ive gotten so used to it that skate 3 feels like your skateboard game is made of tungsten
This dude is a partner with EA ofcourse he has nice things to say, we all know skate 4 isn't what anyone wants and i give it 5 years before it dies out
u sound miserable as hell...
I hope that stop killing games will help to keep this game preserved atleast, but I don’t know the free to play aspect probably has doomed this from the start, because they can just pull the “we didn’t sell the game to you” statement and just destroy it in the next 5-10 years.
This game it's gonna be called "Skate."
Maybe, the hope of a true Skate 4 is not gone... I want to think like that, and hope that it's not a lie I'm telling myself 😂
Yeah I guess, ya never know aye. All we can do is pray 😅@@augustooliveira5803
*5 months
Andddd all this waiting for a cartoon skate game lmao
Mobile game energy
@@perfidious333110%
@@perfidious333thats why, it IS a mobile game
skate was always pretty cartoony this is just them fully playing into it
I like the Rematch/Sifu art style.
"A game for everyone, is a game for no one."
-Arrowhead Studios
So REAL dude, corpo garbage this game
This looks super fun, the gameplay was always the biggest key for skate and I like the additions they've made. I enjoy the art style of the world and the lighting looks nice. Character models specifically aren't my favorite but that's lower down on the list of importance for me. As long as it's fun to mindlessly roam the city looking for those creative little spots you missed the first second or third time you went by, it'll be good for me.
I am so glad that there is finally a new skate game. I just don’t like the cartoon aspect. The physics look really good
Skate 3 physics are in my opinion the best, could have been tweaked more for new Gen series but I don’t like this shit.. feels like a 3rd party remake
@@LouFrazier_amgyeah there’s no way people are saying this garbage animation is close to skate 3. 9:50
@@LouFrazier_amg are you serious? Skate 3 physics were a buggy mess and your character was all stiff whenever you hit something, this one flows a lot better
@@C0astinG4mer u cant even do that in skate 3... who's saying that?
Do people forget that SkaterXL and Session exist? Two new skate games that came out only a couple years ago that are actually pretty good and the skateboarding physics are pretty realistic
I rarely comment my thoughts on this game but DAMN this looks ROUGH 😭. I’m gonna play it regardless cause it’s something new and I’m down to get some lines going but damn man this art style is killin me 😂 not to mention this new currency/shop. Appreciate the video tho Zex 🤙🏾
Personally I hate the graphics but that could just be me
It's not just you. It's not good.
Looks too sterile. Skate needs to be kinda grungy and grimy looking.
Every people who have knew skate 1 and 2 are sad too se that graphic
Not just you going through these comments I have only seen people complaining that the game doesn't look like skate 2
@@tylercook8882 we wanted a better skate 2 not a worst skate 3
I love that the speed you do the trick actually changes the speed of the trick. This will literally give everyone their own skate style. I hate that you have to unlock stuff in game and then buy it with in game currency that can be bought with real currency. But the game is free. I will say for it coming out this year sometime it looks a bit rough around the edges. Hopefully they get it polished up before release.
Camera angle is way better to me when you’re not skating than it is when you’re skating. Can that be changed?
yeah, it probably can. It was changable in the skate 3 too
he has it on low instead of high
... the reason why the customization is good is because they're gonna charge you money later on for a multitude of things. That's the only reason.
Bro these animations look so nice, after playing session for so long it’s nice to see
I love session but no vert play and animation kinda pisses me off
the grinds look so clean. My least fav part of Session has been the grinds.
session has good animations
@@slumpxsnorlaxxx lmao sessions animations is incredibly stiff in comparision.
@@Houratronic kinda ig
I’m currently playing the game, of course there are certain things missing that need to be added ( guys it’s in PRE ALPHA it’s not finished) but the general gameplay feels really good. They really nailed the physics and weight of everything. The animations are also really smooth. Even the small things like every surface and trick having a unique haptic in the dualsense is super immersive and satisfying.