UPDATED Skate series in review
Kind of a diary of sorts. I will ad with time
I wanted to make a (possible) final part including all 3 games. I never went back to any since the next came out. So each one is fresh again and my pros/cons are unbiased.*
S1:
The city is "better" no denying this point, it's the best but... It's not a plethora of spots back to back. There are plenty of areas that there is nothing to skate. The only difference is that each spot is unique and individual IE not cut and pasted over and over. And a lot of these spots are used in both other games or the color/texture is changed and pushed off as new.*
Pros: original, best map, colors seem the best as far as not over the top. You can set you session mark in more precise increments. Best soundtrack for what it's worth.
Cons: can't get off your board, this to me is the most frustrating con of all 3 games. Not only for getting up certain areas but for looking at areas or stoping. Ollie height seems horrible, impossible to barely Ollie or shuvs. Reel only stores 8 clips (ridiculous but they had no idea we would geek out this feature)
No handplants, 1 foots, no comply, movables and a slew of other things. The cam makes a lot of things impossible to film.
I was really let down going back. I expected to never want to play the other games again. In some way I wish the last 2 were never made because I never had that feeling I had with playing the first game and apparently I never will again.*
S2:
I'm only one night into it. It might actually be my favorite. It has plenty of places to skate/cam/new things you can do/movables
Update: this is the experience I expected og to be. The city is much better than I expected. The added tricks we got for s2 was amazing. I remember a lot of peeps saying s2 was more of a Skate 1.5 those statements were premature and couldn't be further from the truth. The city was a 1.5 I guess but thank god, I wish s3 was this way. The community was at it's best in s2 as well. The og's were much better and the new guys actually brought something to the table.
Pros:
AFC this opened sooo many doors for sharing different styles that just weren't possible before. Now you can do much more technical stuff and see it where before it might be impossible to even see the trick. The city is not much worse than OG shit half of the old city is there. GC customizing stuff brought on a entire new level of sharing and supporting on and off the game. New tricks, just getting off the board was a blessing let alone a sure fire way of getting in switch if needed and every other new gem. Larger clip storage on and offline. Easier to get around the map. Smaller lower pops, definitely more controllable.
Cons: cams are flukey, confusing at times why it spazzes out. Ghosting is extremely frustrating especially with fisheye, amazing how much closer you can get in s3. Quarky glitches, lots of odd leg shakes and invisible holes that movables fall in to.
Overall: if you just want to pop in a game and skate you just can't beet s2
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