Giving up on S3 already...

[Bud Muhnquai]

So, I found myself teleporting around, looking for spots that I wanted to skate and realised that, even with everything that I love about S3, there's nowhere I really want to spend time skating. I think this is probably due to the repetition of spots between the first two games.

I've given up. I actually got bored of Skate for the first time in, what, 4 years? That and the real lack of anyone to play online with (apart from adda, who I've not had a chance to skate with yet - thanks for the add by the way) have really taken the wind out of the sails for me.

What a bummer.

Of course, this could also be to do with me getting Red Dead Redemption and being completely blown away... but really, I just can't find any excitement for S3 right now.

Perhaps if y'all added me and we hooked up online at some point, I'd get more out of it... but most of y'all are on the Xbox anyway, whereas I'm on PS3... sucks to be me in Port Carverton right now.

If anyone does fancy adding me and meeting up at some point, my PSN ID is budmuhnquai. Help me get back into it!

[The Revolutionist]

You can add me if ya want. I was actually thinking the same thing 2 days ago after i finished my video, then i just sat cruising around and not worrying about filming or anything again, and i keep finding new stuff to skate. You've also got the CAP to use too, so if you have a spot in your head, just build it. My PSN is ProjectOmega if you fancy it.

[quetonto1]

You can add me if ya want. I was actually thinking the same thing 2 days ago after i finished my video, then i just sat cruising around and not worrying about filming or anything again, and i keep finding new stuff to skate. You've also got the CAP to use too, so if you have a spot in your head, just build it..

well said,

sometimes you get the feeling of not playing it, and you know what you gotta do.....

thats right, don't play it =)

just play it when you feel like and don't feel as though you have to play it because its new/your making a video.

[Bud Muhnquai]

Thanks for the reassurance guys. I feel bad, because my girlfriend bought it for my birthday and I've rapidly lost interest. Perhaps once I'm done with RDR I'll get back to cracking on it - I'll add anyone that posts their ID in here and perhaps we can have a hook up sesh soon?

[The Revolutionist]

Centainly mate, i have noone else on my list that plays skate.

[bohemian]

i thk the city suxx balls too, its very uninspiring. its hard to say excatly why, but i feel you. last weeks ive been playing caps and custom spots exclusively, and loving it. ill drop into the city later maybe, but for now i have more than enough with customs.

[adda89ldn]

well i'm workin on a new park, so come sesh it with me when i'm done bud!

[Bud Muhnquai]

well i'm workin on a new park, so come sesh it with me when i'm done bud!

Sounds mighty fine to me.

[JayMosEnvied]

sometimes I get bored with the game but as mentioned if you find a good spot and be creative you can skate it for hours. there has to be a spot you like haha. take a break though then hop on when you really want to play. i might buy RDR haha

[rockerboy1013]

I personally loved s1. The way it was good to skate but not meant to skate seemed very realistic. And for some reason, i just really liked the old subway system of getting around. maybe its cus im an NYer. Maybe its because i had gotten bored of tony hawk and how every map in it had ramps and rails on the walls like theyre trying really hard. I loved the simplicity of skate 1, plain and simple.

[RWJReaL86]

The thing that's keeping me coming to S3 is, as thesignguy mentioned, how skateable the city really is. I've tried little tricks off of all kinds of things (some completely unrealistic) and found that it can at least be attempted in most cases. Makes for some fun clips.

I've played Skate since S1, but I'm not a good skater irl. I had to learn what good lines were and what to look for in spots to skate (once I got S2, I had a lot of help with that from the videos everyone here posts... thanks guys!) I was finally to the point where I could try some pretty gnarly tricks once the S3 demo came out. I instantly fell in love with hc mode. It has it's quirks, but it adds that challenge back to finding spots to hit.

Haven't even played with object dropper much, and haven't messed with cap yet. Minus all of that, NSV was my favorite city to skate because of where my learning curve was at the time. But with the added physical realism in the game, along with cap and the dropper, It's only a matter of time before PC becomes my favorite skate city... Or I'll just hit some parks

[weenus]

PC is without a doubt the worst of the 3 cities. At least if you're into realism, which I am.

PC offers some different flavors, but for the most part, it's all just overly scaled gigantic theme park areas. PC feels more like Tony Hawk than ever. Every area you skate is the size of a 16 lane super highway.

It's funny cause I was always a little pissed about S1 and S2's lack of good banks, or banks that you can grind at the top of or banks with ledges built midway, and S3 has beaten that horse to death, reanimated it, then beat it to death about four more times.

The entire city is full of banks and banks with ledges on them. Every single area you skate has a bank now. It's almost stupid. I have yet to find a small, intimate spot like you could find on S2. I mean, remember the hidden loading dock spot from New San Van? There seems to be little to nothing like that.

Every spot you skate feels like a skate park or a skate plaza. Nothing feels like a city anymore.

Don't get me wrong, I still love the franchise and will play S3 as much as I played S2, and I'm sure Skate 4's city will be even more of a Tony Hawk Rollercoaster World than Skate 3, but I'm disappointed in the direction.

[Jack]

This seems like an important discussion. I'm not bored with the city yet because I know I have not completely explored it completely, but there's some shit wrong with it. Object dropper is handicapped, I've completely frozen my xbox after creating a setup in the city maybe 10 or 11 times. None of the other Skates ever froze my xbox completely.

Some of the things we asked for are packed in though. I think we should wait for the patch before we give up. As it is, I've already made some shit happen that simply was not possible in skate 1 and Skate 2.

I'm not going to skate feverishly, but I'll skate steadily. I'll tell you this, access to roofs, plus roofs actually having respectable physicality, plus the new speed glitch, means people who like death defying gaps won't get bored anytime soon.

I found a massive roof to roof gap with a funky landing that's just barely possible that I spent over an hour mastering and I never felt bored.

And, anyone who wants to add me online is welcome to it. I'm pretty low key, just don't be a yappy 12 year old racist and we'll be good.

[heshfield]

[pawnluvguitarist]

personally I love the new city, its beautiful, very aesthetically pleasing. Not a lot of "perfect" handrails and sets, but a lot of opportunity for the quirky little things that i'm into. I like not being handed spot after spot, although there are quite a few nice ones, but i like being able to add on to pre-existing setups to make things work.

It kinda just comes down to your mindset and how you look at things. Seeing the possibilities, finding something where others see nothing. I kind of see the districts as just different backdrops for CAP, instead of starting from scratch, you are in a beautiful environment with a few obstacles already there as your starting point.

I dont see myself giving up on S3, im liking it far more than the other games, and with object dropper, CAP and hardcore mode, (and hopefully the patch that gives us more merging options) I think i'd be content if this was the final game.