The Rise and Fall of Skate
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
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For a brief period of time in the early 2000s, skateboarding video games were inescapable. The countercultural sport had been adapted into bits and bytes many times in the past, but following the genre-defining release of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater in 1999, it became one of the hottest commodities in gaming. Year after year, players couldn’t stop shredding elaborate digital combos, and developers couldn’t stop pumping out opportunities for players to do so.
By 2007, however, the genre was getting tired. Its best games were struggling to advance beyond what had been established at the end of the preceding millennium, and its worst made it seem bloated and exploitative. It’s in this window that EA Black Box introduced the world to Skate. Where Pro Skater and most of the titles that succeeded it depicted skating as it appeared on TV - sensationalized and effortless - Skate attempted depict the sport with greater realism than ever before. Performing a trick meant moving the joystick in a way that mimicked whatever it is one wanted to perform, rather than press a button to instantly grind or ollie.
Skate would go on to become a critical and commercial darling, spawning a spin-off and two equally popular sequels in less than three years - only to disappear without a trace. Despite possessing considerable goodwill, extraneous factors would lead EA to abandon the series while it was ahead, leaving players hoping for a fourth Skate title out in the cold. Yet rather than move on, Skate’s fan base would only become more voracious overtime, transforming Skate 4 from an idle fantasy, into one of the most talked about video games that has never existed; a curse of unrequited love that continues to haunt EA to this very day on social media.
Credits:
Tony Hawk's Project 8 in 60fps (Xbox 360): • Tony Hawk's Project 8 ...
This is the rise and fall of Skate.
#Skate #Skate4 #MakeEASkateAgain
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Critics : skate 3 is too similar to skate 2.
Also critics : wow this new fifa game is totally different from the 5 previous ones
Oh FIFA is all equal it's scripted !
R.O.B. UNiQUE 🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️
EPIC JO i dont even see the differences in the past 5 fifa games these dumbass gamers who buy fifa every year like if they didnt buy it last year
@@Omnius.02 you have to play them to see the diff. It's more like an update every year. It's soccer wtf are they gonna change
@@ok-es6zq Yes, it's like an update, but costs like a full game...
I remember questioning whether I should pick up Skate 3, 8 months after release because I was concerned that Skate 4 would be announced soon...
This is sad
Same when I didn't pick up Half Life 2 until the Orange box because Half Life 3 was well into development.
Some say there are people still waiting to get skate 3 just in case of a 4th coming out soon
Scott EJ hah
I’d get Skate 1 skate 3 is pretty wack
This one hurts cause I remember just getting lost in the world of skate 3 for hours. Good times
Good game that could of been amazing af. I got tired of the unrealistic style of thps’s after underground 2 it got old then EA came with Skate and made tricks real and you needed some actual skill to play which made it funner. OneLove bro
Does anyone know the song at the beginning of the video?
Skate 3 sucked. It removed all the fun and soul of the first 2 games. Np wonder it killed the series. Such a shame, it should never have been released.
Yea man just redownloaded skate 3 on xb one, taking me back to the old days but tony hawk pro skater 1+2 remastered coming soon! Hopefully EA sees that as a reason too start up skate 4 again
I remember feeling the same for thps and skate. Just hours and hours of creative lines and sick spots
Gamers: can we get a skate 4?
EA: Best we can do is FIFA every year
That's the reason why we don't have Skate 4, they are too busy thinking about Soccer Moms to do anything to Skate 4
@@ultmatium2143 They're not thinking about soccer moms... they're thinking about catching whales :)
@@bateriayvr8988 As yes, my mistake
soccer is ruining EA
i love the skate games but EA is a business and Fifa makes them more money than skate ever will
I remember when the Skate demo first came out. I put hours into that like I had the full version
Fuck yeah! And when you got to meet Jason Dill and hear Funeral by Band of Horses for the first time. So, fucking, epic.
you and me both. Spent hours and hours in that one little parking lot, lmao
Yes!! Played it so much.
Same bro
Same man. My friend and I rode our bikes to target just to play the demo. That was before I got an xbox or ps3
EA saying they're "not interested in delving into their back catalog" is one of the most laughable quotes I've ever heard from a video game developer, ever.
Yet it is soo true!
You should’ve heard their response on Battlefront 2’s Lootboxes.
Need For Speed, Fifa, NHL, NBA... all back catalogue...
EA isn't or aren't game developers, they just have game developers on their team. The head of EA are just people focused on the marketing and business side of things, majority of them don't know shit about game developing.
I say let stop buying there games and see if they clean up there attitude.
this one hurts
Backwards compatible skate 3 is better than any current game
Right? Right in the feels. Session is fun though, it's coming.
it hurts deep
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I feel like Session will just never come close to skate. i know people say over and over "the animations are being worked on last", but why tease your game with said animations at an event as large as e3? I hope it turns out well, but I doubt it'll live up to Skate.
WHO'S BACK BECAUSE SKATE 4 JUST GOT ANNOUNCED?!? THE RISE ISN'T OVER YET BOYS
Thought you were joking then I clicked off the video and saw zexy zek video
I actually shed a tear of joy at the announcement man
Skater XL is coming out next month. Also a new one called Session. EA is only working on a new one after seeing the positive reception of new skate games and think it will be good marketing. They better not fuck it up
PsychoWhite yes I hope this is the case
Woo
My man sounds like he is hosting an episode of "Unsolved Mysteries" lol it's amazing.
Skate, Burnout, Black, Medal of Honor, Dead Space, Command & Conquer, Amy Hennig's Star Wars game...how many more amazing game must be buried under EA's foot?
They keep buying things to push as top industry titles then get mad when they find out that they're niche. They want to be the top dog and if it's not fifa or battle field levels of success then they're better off scrapping their possible niche money they could get. Even successful series get pushed to the brink with milking because they want to capitalize on their success and while it may work for their big titles like fifa and battlefield, them doing their big monster franchise business practices to smaller niche titles kind of hampers their potential. Along with this now that EA from what I understand makes more money ingame sales than actual GAME sales, its no surprise they're cleaning their hands on single player games. Even if a game is successful they dont like the risk of it possibly bombing or the possiblity its not going to disney avengers levels of money so much that they're even willing to kill off a lot of really safe bets like the single player star wars games. Its fine that they want to make money, they are a business after all, but they have this terrible way of dealing with their smaller franchises and studios to the point of absorbing while also being very careless and tactless with dealing with those niche communities and actively deterring them.
I imagine the reason they absorb all these small studios and stuff like bullfrog probably has to do with the idea that sooner or later one of them will churn out a hit that's so successful that it more than makes up for the rest of the """unsuccessful""" purchases that didnt do as such even if they did make money. They dont care about art after all, just making money like any other business and their business practices can get pretty destructive to franchises since they're like metal detector, going through anything and everything till that ONE spot strikes gold out of all the hundreds that dont.
You have forgotten battlefield
Yeah pretty sad, if you look to Ubisoft (one other major that sucks) but they have their major AAA-titles to create money, for smaller more independend (not moneywise, creativewise) developements. They really have a good balance there, they know they have back up for the big cash in, but they are willing to risk on nicheprojects (Beyond Good and Evil 2 for example) EA is just a shill of their former selfes. Maximum profit with minimum effort... nothing inbetween.
@@minecraftfreak1866 depends on how it does. Frankly there's a good chance that if Battlefield V underperforms, DICE might have a lot of employees reshuffled into EA's other studios, neutering them in the process. Also might mean that future Battlefield (and Star Wars Battlefront) games may be put on hold indefinitely.
Def Jam, FIFA street, EA Sport BIG, all the street games, and the list Goes on....
These videos are so nicely made
Great editing
Great narrator
Zero padding
No pointless attempts at comedy
Great video as always
Except for stretching 4:3.
...for those who dare
Every attempt at comedy in these videos actuslly have a point though
@@serglian8558 We are talking about him not having the ability to leave 4:3 alone and not stretch it.
LilShootDawg Eh, It’s only seen in a few clips. At least the creator had the decency to stretch the select few and not stretch *every* *single* *clip* like some people would do.
It jus sucks knowing that other kids won’t have a sick ass skate game in their childhood
Session & Skater XL will be those games, just give them some time. I'm lucky enough to have a computer that runs Steam games & have the early access versions of both. They are a ton of fun. I play a lot more Session than Skater XL, but they are both awesome. Also, Session has come a long way since this video and looks and feels much better than what is represented.
upset-Dreamz Couldn’t have said it better my g
@@consoulbeats Yeah, Im gonna like to see the competition between the 2 games. Like some people preferred tony hawks pro skater vs skate.
@@bransonbush6866 That is honestly a very similar comparison. Session is a much more realistic skateboarding simulator, much like skate 1 was considered back when it first came out. Skater XL on the other hand feels to me, more Arcade like. Not nearly to the extent of the THPS games. But they are two very different experiences. Some people will surely have hard opinions about both. But I am certainly able to enjoy both games. They are both a ton of fun in my opinion.
Well thankfully they are remastering THPS 1&2
Haven't watched it yet but this is the one that hurts me. I still keep a 360 hooked up for the SOLE purpose of Skate 3.
I have it on my Xbox 1 always refreshing to play
Skate 2 is much much better than Skate 3.
Doedsjarl for me skate 3 has just the right balance of sim and arcade in the gameplay, I can get crazy speed and do awesome tricks but it still takes some thought and setup into how to execute them and they won’t always pan out anyway if I get too carried away so it’s still not tony hawk level arcade but still a bit more forgiving than skate 2. The map itself is broken up into sections instead of one big down hill so to speak and I like that it feels like a relatively believable big city. The level of customization and being able to create parks as well has kept it fresh for me all these years.
@@Douthwaite I find both games to be more fun in their own ways. I haven't picked them up in a while, but I remember one of them (Skate 2?) had a vastly better local play system than the other, so I always turn to that one if I have friends over. And then for single player/screwing around on your own I find the mechanics of Skate 3 to be superior in almost every way as well as offering some fun community made maps. Again this is off of rusty memory, if I have some stuff backwards feel free to correct me lol
@@finismalorum9746 I think skate 2 is the better game objectively but I just find skate 3 more fun to dick around in + it's more smooth
I just want skate 4 with a mid 90s story with lots of partys and some crime and running from cops and a little bit of a coming of age story through skateboarding and becoming a pro at the end of the story mode.... we also need a open world online mode with achievements such as if you become a certain level you can take your shirt off and become a legend just like in nba 2k19. Edit: I was definitely high af writing this mb for the grammar 😂.
ty harris you’ve nailed it
ever heard of GTA?
ty harris hell yeah
@@suffyonthebeat4922 What does Gta have to do with anything?
Ever heard of that's never gonna happen?
Considering how Skate 4 would be a perfect game for EA's microtransaction business, I'm surprised that they haven't decided to give it a shot. Let's be real here, if they were to release a new Skate game, it would have microtransactions out your ass.
They absolutely would. So perhaps its better that a new Skate game doesn't come out.
Im guessing you're talking about things like board skins and such?
skins? forget about that, theyll probably add actual parts with better stats.
@@carldimayuga6419 my thoughts i hope session is good...
YarksieYax there was a ton of dlc for skate 3 i dont see how thatd be different
Skate 4: I'm about to ruin this man whole revenue
This dudes voice and delivery are so solid lol
I can't believe no one in the comments mentioned it was a robot. My ears can't take it.
His name is Steve Petitt
Ikr? It gives me some solid documentary vibes, very informative without feeling intrusive.
sounds like an erect penis is talking
butt lmfao
EA does not care about gamers. They care about the bottom line. Yes Skate will not make them oodles of money, but they will make a profit and please a large portion of gamers.
I don't think EA understands the value of good PR.
msidler84 i think they do.
Fact is, gamers have short memory.
The majority falls into some hype train and their wallets open up. When the game is shit they get mad for a while and when the next hype train comes
nah man, Skate 3 is still huge on youtube. If skate 4 came out it would make absolute bank. EA would be backing up the Brinks truck
EVERYBODY would buy skate 4 they would make BILLIONS!!! I CAN'T understand EA....
why would they care about gamers. the bottom line is way more important
Yeah, Skate 4 would definitely make plenty of money. I dont understand the issue.
I still remember how infuriating that Rob Dyrdeck challenge was. Was always attempting to treflip to crook grind every morning before class in middle school.
I hade problem with the gap at park n play
Don't tell me about it. Started skate 1 few years ago and then stopped playing for good for a while. I just restarted it recently and finished the game few days ago. That challenge plus the X games vert competitions have been the thoughest ones of the game. All the rest is pretty easy
Omg I was literally stuck on that challenge for a month !!! I couldn’t get the 3 flips down lol
yeah that took me a couple weeks lol
@JupiterLounge hahahahaha couldn't have said it better
It's honestly so cool how Skate 3 blew up from a community of players, not from it being advertised or anything. Just people wanting to have fun.
At least remaster it for ps4, xbox one ,switch and pc
Edit: call it skate threemastered
Bro it's been remastered for Xbox One X in 4K HDR. It's pretty fucking amazing and I'm playing Skate 3 every day again.
that's not a remaster. they just re visualised it, and you can hardly tell the difference anyway.
Nitroh, hardly tell the difference? Well I guess you don’t own a One X...call it whatever you want but it’s playable in 4K HDR and it looks like a completely new game. If Skate 4 looked like this it would be a great looking game. Track down some 4k footage on RUclips and tell me that shit looks the same. You Sony fanbois are delusional man. Only the most butthurt of fanboy would say 1080p looks the same as 4K HDR.
@@roundearthshill248only a butthurt console peasant would get so triggered over resolutions. Try 8K HDR with RTX on on PC bud.
GFuelieBoi and here you are calling me “triggered” over resolutions and what do you do? Talk about resolutions lmao. Are you new to this whole internet thing? Cause you’re not very good at it.
Skate on the ps3 was my jam back then, this video brought back so many great memories
Wiping out on custom parks, the best ever
< Skate 3 Peacocking weekly videos
I still play Skate 3 to this today multiple times a week sometimes everyday.. it's amazing.. every time i go and play it's not like any other game.. every time you play skate it's like going out to skate in real life.. you can do whatever you want..explore.. find new spots.. i usually just play for an hour or so but every time i start it up it's like a fresh new experience. Skate 4 would make millions, have of which from buyers that don't even skate.. that's how great the series is! A lot of my friends in high school didn't skate like i did but rode bmx.. like a dozen of them and every single one of them owned Skate haha.. Skate4life!
@IAmBetterThan YourDumbAss glitches?? what the hell is wrong with your game/disc!? haha didn't even know there were glitches possible.. what happens exactly?
@@Skateobyou dude, skate 3, like any game, has glitches. Nothing is wrong with his disc. In fact, some glitches are only possible with the downloadable version of the game
@@bonnibloop_ well, dude, he made it sound like his game encounters glitches while playing that are ruining his experience. No shit you can 'do' glitches but glitches don't just happen randomly.. you have to go out of your way to learn them such as the ramp launch
@@Skateobyou sorry I just thought you made it sound like there were no glitches, clearly I misinterpreted.
@@bonnibloop_ no worries i only mentioned his disc because of the way he described how his skate 3 plays so i guess i may have misinterpreted as well
"The rise and fall of Skate"
Session: "who said that?"
Skater XL: " wasn't me"
"The rise and fall of Skate"
Session: "who said that?"
Skater XL: " wasn't me"
Skate 4: "WASSUP MUHFUC********"
Skate 4: sorry I’m late traffic was hell
@@TuckyBlue only took 10 years
“The rise and fall of Skate”
Session: Y’all hear something?
Skater XL: Nope
Skate 4: UNLIMITED. POWWWERRRRRRR
Best features in Skate 3
-Park Creator (pretty much made the game)
-Skate Reel ( you had the option to upload clips and download them from their server and make montages without a capture card
-Graphics Creator (you can make graphics for decks, clothes, or branding for your created park)
Hands down the best skateboarding game anyone could ask for, but yet it was looked over, met longtime friends off of this game as well and had so many good times off S3
Justin B. - Same. I met my best friend on Skate 3’s demo and my most memorable gaming moments took place on Skate 3.
I met my wife in skate 3. We now live together.... SKATE 3 was simply the best thing to ever happen to me..
@@theoverwhelmer Thats wassup bruh its crazy how this game has impacted many lives, if it wasn't for this game I wouldn't of met one of my ride or die online friends and help him get an job working from home.
The park creator but where you said it made the game, made me sad.
I bought the game about 3 months ago, and everything but the online free skates and challenges are shut down again. I want to do skate.park especially, but it shut down again before I got the game. I wish I got the game once it got its servers back. I want the real and full skate 3 experience.
@@gamerplayer8882 Mannnn u fuckin missed out bruh lolol back then the skate park community was deep a few years back, when the servers where running. You had ppl posting remakes, headquarters, plazas and each year that went by ppl where getting better at making parks, I mean going in with full detail creating these parks that will have you scratching ur head especially when the merge glitch came out it was a wrap. If u wanna see how creative these park builders got look at christian owens channel he will show u lol
The Skate games are a classic game for all teens and preteens growing up in the late 2000s and early to mid 2010s
That's how I started skating
You failed to mention that Skate 3 has hardcore mode which makes the game much more realistic. Just that made it worth buying.
Which was just regular mode in Skate and Skate 2... that's why Skate 3 died... it failed to continue what Skate and Skate 2 were about... Skate 3 was far too easy
Really? How do you change the setting? I’ve had skate 3 for the longest time and didn’t know this lol
Andrew /\ H-TOWN pause the game, settings, gameplay, difficulty, you can choose normal, easy, hardcore
Skate 2 was the best all around imo. I loved trying to get the craziest knockouts from the security guards. Was my favorite thing to do.
@@lpmorgan90 It's definitely not regular mode, regular in skate 3 is the same as skate 2 was. Before hardcore you wouldn't have to hold and pop to land some flip tricks on flat. And normal mode on skate 1 and 2 (the only mode) also had grind assist making grinding much easier as it would suck you onto the rail like a magnet. The challenge with hardcore has always been grinding as it was the first time the series had the option to have no grind assist making it much harder to grind then ever before. Although hardcore mode was still pretty easy and far from sim it was the rushed and terrible maps and bland feel that put everyone off the game. Most people never even play on hardcore and play on easy making things appear like the game was much more unrealistic then it was and this also turned many people off the game. It's hard to even find online lobbies that aren't easy mode where everyone is tricklining and glitching
Long story short
The rise of skate: great three games
The fall of skate: managed not to drop skate 4
That's the rise and fall of skate
*Thank you*
Basically true
Sorry sir but this video goes more in depth and has more quality than your summary.
@@eric6rock no shit
YOOOOOOOO
Well guess what fucker
Rockstar should buy out the skate trademark and create amazing skatebording game, that would be heaven
big no no
@Jumbo Jango umm. GTA 5 and red dead 2?
Nah rockstar would ruin the skate industry
@Jumbo Jango Like you could do any better lol, please elaborate because gta 5 and rdr2 (offline) handle very well
rockstar recently has been a major disappointment. GTA V was a good game till they fired the lead director and turned it into a cesspool of in game purchases and made it nearly unplayable for those who were once familiar with how simple it was at launch. it would be insulting for them to do that to a community that needs a good game now more than ever.
Dude Skate 4 would be EAs best move. Listen to the fans. Take in ideas and utilize them.
@Faigornx skate 4 with a fully realized online world would make money out the butthole
Blackbox studios was shut down by EA. So the the only way there will be a Skate 4 is if EA takes risks and request a different studio to develop the game, similar to what they did for SSX. The only worry about that is, is that it might not be as good as the predecessors.
@@RonRyder Damn... who even played that latest Tony Hawk game? Like... damn..... talk about beating a dead horse. That Tony hawk one on the PS4 and Xbox One was just a wast of a game.
Is that what you really want? Micro transactions everywhere?
They'd muck it up with ridiculous micro transactions
The 90s and early 2000s were the bomb. I really miss that time period.
So do I but we've come so far be grateful
Seems there was an overabundant influx of inspiration, innovation and overall quality at that time. When things went fully-3D seems as everything changed, literally and not always for the best.
I guess it's technically and artistically more diffucult to build full 3D worlds then it is in a 2D/Isometric way with perhaps the illusion but also the immersion of fully rendered 3D worlds.
nah.. the internet was garbage back then, you had to wait 5 minutes for a picture of boobs to load, and nobody could use the phone at home when you were on the web. after living so long with the internet everywhere i couldn't go back
I don't like he dlc/micro-transactions shenanigans of the current era. Publishers have ruined developer vision and love for a lot of games nowadays
@@fixthesegames6303 neither do I but people pay so they keep pushing them. Developers also put way more money into games now compared to even 10 years ago
It's happening guys, Skate 4 is finally coming
Knowing EA, it will probably fail.
@@tstproductions2913 no bro its finally coming now but theres always that one chance 😂
@@lostdraft7021 ea aint doing it i think but skate 4 ill be coming end of 2023 or start of 2024 so around times were gta 6 might come
@@ItzDnZ it’s now cheap EA online free to play garbage.
Look how they massacred muh boy!
@@angelsackson yep i noticed it i hope it have story mode and only way to play it is u gotta buy the game multiplayer can free tho i dont mind it
Coming to this video after playing Skate 3 on PC on RPCS3 in 4K... I must say that Skate 3 left a mark on me that no other game managed to do. It's just so fun. It's unbelievable that despite imperfect emulation of PS3 I can still enjoy this game to the point of spending hours just screwing around in single player.
You have a tutorial on how to play Skate 3 on PC dude?
I'm calling shens RPCS3 compatibility list said it don't properly, Expect another year or so and we'll see PS3 Emulation being less buggy and less of a resource hog
@@PaulBadman If we donate and support them it could be less time. But most of the "fans" just demand: RDR, Uncharted, GOW and MGS4 so we won't be seeing that anytime soon...
SKATE WHAT HAPPENED?
SKATE!
SKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE
lmao MGS GAME OVER
Well, EA happened.. (I got the reference btw)
SKATE PLISKIN CANNOT BE DESTROYED!!
@@zetetick395 I've got the president, were coming home.
Hahaha glad I understand that reference
i'm surprised they never ported it to PC.
That’s literally impossible
Carson Tess, no it's not. There are plenty of console games ported to PC. Of course it would require a controller, but it's certainly possible.
You can play it quite well on the rpcs3 emulator
@@carsontess9629 Enlighten us
@@carsontess9629 It wouldn't, it would just be awkward with mouse and keyboard. (Fighting games are on pc as well even though they are awful to play with mouse and keyboard)
When Skate first came out, I would go to Walmart just play the demo because I didn’t have a ps3 yet. Once I got my ps3, it was the first game I bought.
Me and my brother did the same thing, but at a target lol
An underappreciated fact about this video is that the soundtracks to the games is used as your background music, something super nostalgic.
This just reminds me of how much i hate ea.
I feel that too bro
Man, I'll support Session. Even though it ain't Skate 4, the developers clearly want to keep the Skate world alive in their own way. I just hope it won't be as clunky and awkward as it looks in the clips you showed. Skate 3 was smooth with flip tricks and grinds/slides.
CPOMendez117 The game is still in Alpha so all animations you see are just place holders
There going to add motion capture animations
Oh sweet, yeah motion capture will clean it all up good :) Feeling pretty hopeful, the team behind it look passionate about it, so hopefully it'll kick ass!
I backed session on kickstarter and its a huge jump up from skate. Animations are still clunky as those say because of its early development but its so much more fun and realistic / sumalition like in a good way. You can have auto catch to just do a trick or manually change flip speed and catch timing
@@SambaJones97 Yeah, adding the ability to flip the board faster and for longer is sick. Can't wait to spend like 4 hours trying to land a triple 720 flip ;D
Been there and i'm pretty sure it did take 4 hours! I love it
The Skate4 comments on EA's IG is STILL happening. I love it.
@IT'S JUUUNEEE I actually shed a tear when I saw that. hahahaha During all the covid stuff and economy issues.. this was essentially a beam of light. :')
@IT'S JUUUNEEE Agreed!
EA: we don’t wanna delve into our back catalogue
Also EA: Mass Effect, Need For Speed, FIFA, Madden, Battlefield, Sims
@orange It's hard to come up with something truthful when you're lying.
@@mrgeneralism speak english. we dont know ur language
I enjoy the dude's so cinematic voice, that's the 80% reason I subscribed.Keep it up!
TheKingofPigs He's professional voice actor that can be hired.
TheKingofPigs he sounds like the guy from how it's made
when playing skat3, you can hear 2000's passing away...
deep
Watching this today makes me think only one thing “The Rise and Fall and Rise again of Skate”
let's hope they dont fuck it up
I think they will show something this year. Maybe release in 2023.
Your videos are so professional and so well structured. Feels like I'm watching espn 30 for 30 or the national geographic. Thank you for this, truly.
If EA would release Skate 4, if think it would be a bigger Cashgrab- Game then Battlefront 2
Unfortunately false. If you grew up in the 80s or 90s it's a no brainer, but our kind is on the way out. Has been for a while. Pretty soon all we'll have are all-online social standing murder simulators, where all anyone can do is shoot, screech out racial and homophobic slurs, and choose how much you want to pay to get good and look like an asshole. Games focused on fun, or telling a compelling story, that strive to improve mechanics in meaningful ways, will still be there, sure, though they will be trickled out to keep the old ones buying systems whenever there's a surplus the executives can't legally take without having to pay more than they're willing in taxes. And we shall weep at the sight of ours sons and daughters, with piss-yellow skunk stripes dyed in their hair, raging at their MicroSony XStation for not giving them the much coveted dildo helmet after $600 and 1500 loot boxes. The salt of our tears will bleach the earth, leaving nothing but barren wastes. The rivers of tears will once and for all fully submerge Manhattan, already shrunken down to the size of a few football fields due to rising sea levels, forever sealing away the ancestral home of Spider-Man.
Simply put skateboarding represents freedom, rebellion, personal discipline, passion, creativity, and fun. These are all things the rank and file morons buying FIFA, NFL, COD, and Battlefield games every year, play for a month and throw out because they either suck at them or get bored, neither respect nor give a second thought for. So unless skating comes to the cultural forefront in a way that eclipses football, basketball, soccer, and shooting people in the face while screaming obscenities like a child, Skate will sadly fade away (besides the inevitable $60 remaster that somehow has content removed and in its place are microtransactions).
But maybe some indie dev will make something, you never know... don't hold your breath for Sessions though.
Jared Emmett well that was deep
Jared Emmett I don’t know if you’re trolling or not but if so you are a pessimistic POS and need to go outside
Jared Emmett that was a very irrelevant rant
@@mysticwizard1943 as a fellow 90s kid I know exactly what you mean. These kids dont know what it was to hang out with your friends from dawn till dusk skating and riding bikes playing in the woods. Now all we can do is play old video games to try and remember when it was good.
Great video! Bittersweet to watch the history of skate. It was the reason i bought an Xbox in 2007 and I still play the games to this date. The community may have died down almost completely, but I still feel making montages is a great creative outlet for me.
Same here
One thing I’ve noticed watching these wonderful docs is that there is always a long pony tail tech guy in each studio. Lol
The Skate franchise is probably the only game franchise in existence that I'd be willing to buy a brand new console for no matter how expensive. The only one I'd continue to play a game that's years and years past it's general replay value even more so than brand new games that come out.
That being said, the thing that most clearly made Skate 3 flawed in comparison wasnt a 'lack of innovation', but rather a clear and transparent lack of effort put towards building a quality city to skate in. It's pretty obvious that Port Carverton was built in haste and with casual arcade players in mind. It oozes a vibe of 'copy & paste'. These casual gamers who want to see megaparks, 100 ft long rails, and things of the sort seem to sell more copies to a giant gaming corporation like EA. Hence, the game's focus is pointed in their direction rather than the sect of the game's fans who inspired it's creation and helped make it great in the first place.
i would hope if they made another one they would be smart enough to also realese it on PC
Honestly, as early as Skate 2 you started to see that, everything being on kind of a stacked format, but still was decent enough to get away with it.
Skate 3 had nowhere near the level of detail of skate 2. Skate 2 felt like a real lived in city with very nice textures and things to see down every alleyway. 3 had all these smooth grey textures and all the spots were made to get massive amounts of air instead of focusing on creating lines. Even if they just took the engine from 3, kept hardcore mode and used the map from 2, I would buy that game.
Ryan Portwood fight night... 😔
I agree about Skate 3's environments. The graphics also look plain compared to Skate 2, with less post-processing effects.
They tweaked the gameplay in 3 in important ways tho - the replays have a freely-rotating camera, the bail physics are way more complex, controls off the board are far better, and they added hardcore mode.
*_Don’t worry Skateboarding games will make a guaranteed return at around the Olympics... Skaters will prevail!_*
OMG YES
This just unleashed a new side of optimism in the community🤣
Song at 12:30 is called harder than you think by Public enemy. For those wondering
Alphonso Davies
thank you mate
Let em know!
Around 13:12 is Shimmy Shimmy Ya as well.
Just the comment I was looking for, it was on the edge of my tongue for the whole video
I remember when skate came out and how amazing it felt compared to Tony hawk. The amount of work that went into that board control system is crazy. Wish game studios were that inspired these days.
EA: “What’s best for the player?”
Also EA: “Nah, we don’t wanna continue our most loved series.”
SKATE IS BACK!!!
EA: 30 or so FIFA’s? Check!
30 or so maddens? Check!
About 10 or more need for speeds? Got that baby!
I think that’ll do for the fans...sorry what? Skate 4? Why do you still remember that take these games!
14:00 All that work to not even use the ramp
haha didn't even notice that at first !
"MAKE EA SKATE AGAIN" lmaooo that needs to go on a red hat
Rob Stretch MESA for president
They already have that actually lol
It’s also a song
It's BACK!!! Skate 4 baby!!! We did it boys!!!!
i have EVERY achivment in skate 2 and 3 on xbox, everytime my friends where at my house we played skate.
man i miss these days. almoust 10 years since skate came out. crazy how fast time passes.
damian resch I never even heard of skate but want to get it now after watching this video! I loved tony hawk 2
@@Fitforacting Have you played it now?
k no is it good?
this one is kinda hard to watch for me :(
Same I still play Skate 3 on my Xbox one.
sense I know.. those mongo pushes are so cringe lol
same here
Same here..
@@AntiBOtix I mean, thats kinda cringe, but they dont skate, so its acceptable. whats not acceptable though is how the skate series just gets left behind, even though rn would be the perfect time.
If ea created skate 4 now imagine the microtransactions
Oh you want a Baker board and Thunder trucks? Buy both for $7.99 USD
That's why Fortnite got billions. A free game loaded with micro transactions, damn smart buggers!!!
Yeah I could sadly see that, I feel like it'd be like that skate game on the phone called street league (or something its been years) where if you want a deck brand you have to buy a pack.
@@brandonb3273 what do you expect? For a free game to make money out of magic?
Voldemort's Nipple No, just for a free game to be uh, free as it clearly states it is.
I remember walking a ramp halfway across the map to get the best trick in skate2. Hands down! Skate2 was the best in my opinion! Multi player, editing, the introduction of walking and positioning world objects in whatever manner you’d like, the soundtrack just everything! Perfection!
Skate 2 was one of the greatest games ever.. anyone else remember doing all the glitches during online s.k.a.t.e sessions?
Skate 3 was just offensive , and then they had the cheek to only release skate 1 and 3 on backwards compat .
@@Williamstanway how was skate 3 offensive
@@soul6-6-6 because they sold us something which was half the previous game in soul , style, and content .
@@Williamstanway ok thx
The Skate series is by far the best skateboarding games ever made.. coming from a former long-time skateboarder.
who remembers turning on your Xbox and playing skate 3 with the boys
Still do lol everyone should hop back on skate 3 lol
My friend would always trip out when I played this game at his house because apparently I flicked the sticks too hard 🤦♂️
Lemme guess he thought you were gonna break his controller
OGX CLAN yeah like a dumbass
That's the weirdest concern to have ever lol
I play skate on my 360 about everyday
Lucky bastard
William Chikaonda haha what the. All he said was bruh, how does that make you hate every American
I still play skate 2 and 3 on a weekly basis
William Chikaonda You complain about someone saying a word i hate europeans. Do you understand your logic?
Aqua Craze no, I have absolutely no fucking clue what the actual rat shit you just said my guy
Do Midnight Club.
Yesss!
YEEESSSSSSS!!!!!!! 100% APPROVE
Did that series ever rise though ;))))))
No, I'm still crying over it
Midnight club was always trash, especially when you compare the first one to the need for speed of the time. It was awful. My only memory of midnight club is playing split screen and being pissed that wheels didn't turn when you played split screen..
And then Skater XL released in early access on Steam... well done documentation, thanks!
I spent hours playing skate2 pretending to be the character. There’s one house with ramp in the backyard and that was my house in my mind.
EA: Skating games are dying nobody will play it
Also EA: come play our "new" nba live game that will be just as trash as last year and won't sell
😂
@@theoggallon there will almost always be an audience for the major sports games as long as people still like the sport. unfortunately skateboarding has a fraction of the popularity it did 10+ years ago
Nobody ever talks about Thrasher Skate and Destroy. A skateboard game on PS1 by Rockstar Games that was amazing and way more realistic than Tony Hawk games. You had to actually choose your trick and your stance. The career was excellent and you got to choose sponsors and change your clothes and board depending on what sponsorships you had.
Most of these kids wouldn't remember that classic, Dope sound tracks on that too
Yeah, that shit was HARD!
Defintely my favorite skateboard game.
loved that game so much
I played that one when it was brand new. I thought it was terrible compared to Tony Hawk. It had potential, but the controls felt so bad, it wasn't fun to play.
The soundtracks to these games were amazing. Do dead space plz.
I like how this just popped up on my recommendation after skate 4 announcement last night
duuuuuuuuuuude! when that skate 2 music started i almost cryed! so much memories.. still can't belive they close Black Box after they revolutionize the genere, skate and nfs:underground series were masterpieces!
all the mongo pushing hurts, i would roast my mates about accidentally doing it hahaha
xD i was thinking the same
Very cool dude, hows that back tail shuv 270 out? Only a real core skater would worry about mongo pushing yeahhh skate life bro tony hawk rodney mullen thrasher hoodies on 24/7
Meowageddon Couldnt agree more. Why do people care how other people push? It always cracks me up when some shit skater is giving someone else hell cause they push mongo.
@@ICantMeow ItS nOt CoOl tO pUsH MoNgO
@@Nherdvous skateboarding is about style and mongo objectively looks bad and is worse for setting up for tricks.
I just don’t understand EA😤they really don’t understand how many people would buy skate 4, especially with skate brands like Supreme and Palace on the rise, people who don’t even skate are willing to buy $160 hoodies, I can guarantee you those same people would buy skate 4 just for the culture, they would follow the hype and since the hype right now is grounded by skate culture they would buy the game, not to mention the new very popular Mid90s movie by Jonah Hill, which is a movie friends of mine (who don’t even skate) went to watch just because they like the culture behind skateboarding. NOW is the time for a Skate 4 ! Its time for EA to open their eyes and take off their thick veil to a growing world of skateboarding culture 🛹
So, because a bunch of fucking posers want to dick ride the culture, EA has to make Skate 4. Fuck outta here.
@@nolessnomore6731 hes just saying their would be an audience
@@chyeaOGKush If the audience is all the kids that wear Supreme or Palace and think skating is about bagging on others while getting fucked up and turning up, then I don't want Skate 4 or the culture to survive.
@@nolessnomore6731 or just dont associate yourself with them.. whenever anythings popular enough your going to get that , just gotta ignore that shit..
@@chyeaOGKush I don't, it's just shitty whenever you go to a park to see kids getting shit on, because they are just starting out and can't do alot of tricks. Not to say that it didn't happen in the past, but It's happening more and more as time goes on. Plus as time goes on it's more about an image rather than skateboarding, people like to dress in skateboarding brands, but not actually skate.
session and skater XL are out, just like tony hawk's pro skater 1+2 and skate 4 has been confirmed to launch some place in the future. the skating genre is alive again
I remember playing the Skate 1 demo on PS3. It felt so good to just cruise around, the skaters had weight to them, unlike the Tony Hawk games.
WE WANT SKATE 4! 9 years is a helluva long time to wait...
Same for fight night
oh i got a hellava thing to tell you
@@esamirs1605 what's that?
i had flashbacks when green onions started playing
What's that
The music.
I cant believe youtube recommended me this video 3 days before the announcement of skate 4
We should make an event on Fb like raiding are 51 but instead of that we want EA to make skate 4 !! I think its not a bad idea
Your words are condescending rn
Watching a skate game brings me back when those were the only games I’ll play
Apparently as of recent, EA has hinted at bringing back older titles when asked about a skate 4 game. So maybe, just maybe we will have our wishes granted.
we did
Quinn Marchese so they are making Skate 4?
@@kensingtonwick yuh, EA announced it like 3 days ago. The Skate twitter account retweeted a five year old tweet from Tyler, the Creator saying "We're back"
@@quinnmarchese6313 Awesome!! Looking forward to seeing graphical improvements on the next generation consoles. I hope the stick with the same controller scheme. The control scheme for Skater XL is soooo fucking gay.
19:17 idk if that's a good reason, I mean, sure, it sold less than the big titles, but at the same time,, you know, mirrors edge got a sequel 8 years later, and the first one sold even less than skate 3
it could be that that was the first mirror's edge title while with skate 3 they felt it had more run its course
Holy cow am I early I get so hyped every time I see a new video from you guys keep up the great work
zillakami just posted this vid to his story lmao
That’s why i searched up this vid lol
Thats why im here aswell lol
Great guy
Who?
SaviorAssassin1996 some black guy with a rocket launcher
Everything EA touches turns to dust.
Dude, I think you're looking at it wrong. That's shit in front of us.
rise, fall... THEN RISE AGAIN SKATE 4 BABY
Imagine that moment when you crack open a fresh skate 4 and as soon as the game starts the main character is dancing orange justice
I would slap my projector🤦🏾♂️
OH NO >"
Skate never fell , it was killed , for some weird ass reason no one will ever know
Money and Greed
@@ammonha that is EXACTLY it. ea or at least its ceo need to go down with all their greed.. sadly not gonna happen anytime soon so they keep buying up and closing others.
I literally just made this comment. I am glad it made it in the top comments. This dude did the title a bogus one
For the same reason we got battlefront 2.
It's actually EA's fault as the kill their developers studio. EA takes big IP's (Individuals projects) as they killed off Black Box they have Possession of NFS and Skate. They can do whatever they want with them. So yes the blame is EA imagine if Black Box was still here, we would still have good NFS and Possibly Skate 4 but nope EA did them dirty.
If I'll be a billionaire one day, I'll rebuy EA Games and instantly get the old EA Skate devs for Skate 4
I hope y'all love San Van.
Can you make boba fett a playable character
rebuy means youve once sold them, and blackbox was disbanded, its not like EA has them in a closet lol
When the devs are 80 years old.
Not gonnal lie, I'm more of a Carverton guy myself
You're the hero we need
Almost the entire soundtrack has been used in various skate videos throughout the years. I appreciate that.
Skate 4 is finished but EA is trying to find a way to fit microtransactions into it
Lol
Hope they don't see what is happening over at smartphones with True Skate
At this point I would take skate 4 even with micro transactions
EA is the cancer of the industry
You start off with only being able to Ollie but have to buy tricks :(
Pop Shuv: $1
Kickflip: $3
Heelflip: $3
Varial Kickflip/Heelfip: $4.50
360 Flip: $360 :(
3:49
That dude, that one on the left.
He's my spirit animal.
Lol
Skate 3 though 👌
Cybernik The Robot meh
Wasnt that the one where you needed to buy DLC in order to play multiplayer?
+Rational Adult I guess so, I rarely play multiplayer on video games.
But the game is already perfect in singleplayer, just see Vinesauce, he had a lot of fun breaking the game.
Cybernik The Robot Yeah the game was still good but i cannot forget the amount of dissapointment when i finally got it for 360 and started playing with a friend, we probably messed around in the menu for good 20min until realizing that there is no local multiplayer this time.
I couldn't wrap my head around as to why wouldn't they implement it this time around as most fun i've ever had with said games were with friends.. Until i saw the DLC and it all made sense, in hindsight that was the first time i saw EA greed in action. Back to skate 2 for the multiplayer fix then.
Skate 2 was superior
Back here bc skate 4 is on the way baby
Anyone else seeing all the no skate 4 comments, after skate 4 is announced
i'm pretty sure tony hawk's underground allowed for players to get off their board WAY before the skate franchise came around
@Adam L what? The narrator said that lol
yh but EA skate allowed you to get rid of ur board if u just wanted to walk around. so thats cool i guess?
Tony hawk washed out after underground 2 it was the same thing over and over and was no where near realistic
@@TheBestCommenterEVER no he didnt. he said, basically, they knew when it came time for a sequel they'd want to get off their board as they didnt feature that in the first, so it was priority for the sequel. never said anything about it being done before or it being groundbreaking, just that it wasnt possible in the skate series up to that point. watch it again you thilly goose.
GTA has already a thriving city and sweet game engine, why not make a skate mode add-on ?
thats the dream
really hard to make all that map data / surfaces skateable.
@@salami99 harder than creating the whole game from scratch ? I've not studied enough to answer that
@@Matthew_Brookes Either way someone is manually going to every ridable surface GTA and programming what tricks and surfaces are ridable. From scratch, you can make a few models than reskin them to then make it a city. At least that's how SKATE games were developed. Gta is more artistic and has too many different surfaces and heights either their won't be enough of the map to be realistically skatable or the games gonna be really weird
And good parks. The venice park is in gta five. That'd be so sick.
And now sure enough here we are. Skate 4 is announced!