• I swear there are framerate issues at certain points in the park and during Hall of Meat™ bails. Forums assure me, angrily, that this is just slow motion. Regardless, it's a jittery slow motion and it's jarring and sucks. Spot battle has no slowdown, so that's great.


• The addition of the feet buttons to the tricks doesn't feel too intrusive to the Flick-It™ system, but I'm sure this will result in my friends reverting to their face button instincts. Our spot battles will see them doing nothing but judos and one-foots.


• 360/540/720 one-foot moves look terrible and ridiculous and should've been taken out.


• OMG I love inverts. I do all the gay ones, the gayer the better. Gymnast, judo, you name it.


• Grinds have less "lock on" and sloppier grinds that result in a roll-off are more common. Hooray! That sounds sarcastic but it's not. Perfect long grinds were too easy before.


• Frontflips and backflips are WAY faster. I'm against this Tony Hawkization.


• Spot battle scores are now accumulated from all tricks you perform on the target spot, not your single greatest trick. Also the score multiplier is gone. I think this is a great move.


• Photo sequence shots!


• I still don't care either way about the moveable shit, but one great side effect is that physics now affect these world objects. They fall, topple, and slide when you crash into them. Subtle stuff like a picnic table tipping up as you skate off the edge is just awesome and looks great in the replays.


• You can't cycle through camera views at the press of a button in the replays! You have to mark a clip and drill down to the next set of options. HORRIBLE.


• When your board gets a little caught up you'll sometimes just run off safely, which is nice because...


• Scrapes and bruises appear on your character! They seem to not last too long, but it's a nice move into the Fable 2 direction.


• I'm not sure I get the fun behind the Hall of Meat™ versus mode, but Bodybag says he loves it.

forgeforsaken
Social Worker

Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Gamertag: forgeforsaken
Posts: 4,772

I'm not a fan of the whole GTA just got out of the joint storyline attached to this.

bahimiron
New Romantic

Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 5,513

I realize this is probably a pretty dumb reason, but the first Skate just lost me due to the documentary presentation with the darkened corners. I've got a bigass TV. If I wanted to play things with less viewing space, I'd have spent less money.

Adree
Neo Acoustic

Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Canton, GA Gamertag - Adree1
Posts: 1,570

The graphics look worse than the original, and the camera is even more fisheyed which gets old fast. Controls seem a bit more relaxed at least but the flick-it system still sucks. Worst character creation system I've seen in a long time.