Zero Punctuation: Skate 2
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It's usually because they respond before it was humanly possible for them to have watched the entire video. You'll see comments on a 5-minute long video a minute or two after people can start watching it. And sometimes you'll see the above combined with the usual "1st post!" comments and nothing else.The Amazing Orgazmo said:
Just my take on the situation, though.
Call me old fashioned, but the only skate game I was ever into was Skate or Die. I can't get into skate boarding at all. This was definitely funny.
It's...on the 360 as well. Yahtzee just seems to be getting more PS3 versions of console games than 360 versions.LesIsMore said:
From a person who had no idea what a pop shuvit was when going to play Skate 1, I actually learned quite a bit about skateboarding and the culture that goes along with it. Rob Dyrdek is now one of my favorite celebrities, because he's funny, generous, and he grew up 5 minutes from where I did. (and designed and funded one of the first ever skate plazas in his hometown)
Now I can at least describe to you the basic idea behind tricks and recognize a few skateboarding people if I happen to see highlights on TV (fairly recently Danny Way had a nasty-looking wipeout on a megaramp which was covered on basically every sports segment).
So basically, I kind of agree with Yahtzee on some of his points, but mostly he was an ignorant asshole who saw the game was more difficult to learn than average and didn't feel like reading the DAMN DICTIONARY OF TERMS THE GAME PROVIDES IN THE TRICK LIST. Personally, as a skateboarding noob/wannabe, I found it very enlightening.
In advance...double post, sry.CruzChaos said:
Anyway, definitely try it. I wasn't into skating games at all, and my friend talked me into playing Skate 1. I got hooked really fast. It's absolutely nothing like Tony Hawk, where you press one button to jump and another to grind at 50 mph. Tony Hawk fell out of vogue when they progressively made the challenges even more ridiculous (like jumping over the Empire State Building or something). In Skate, doing a kickflip, grinding for a few seconds on the curb, and kickflipping off of it makes you feel like a damned rockstar. It's the simple stuff.
i skate and maybe that´s the reason did´nt laugh as much as i normally do watching zp. i am not offended or so, but the truth is that every skating game so far came up with all that "yo, dude, extreme, sick!!!" bullshit, except the old thrasher game on psone(not that much at least...). and although i really like the game i can understand that many people think its too difficult. yeah right, being a skater actually really helps understanding the controls better. the best thing about skate 2(as well as in skate.) is when you have mastered the controls and you cruise around the city and do what you want, but if you are no skateboarder yourself and/or you don´t wanna wait til you learn all the controls properly, chances are you have no interest in something like building spots or exploring the city at all. but personally, i am always bummed about how they always characterize skateboarding in games because all these games make skaters look like retards in general with all that cliché-shit and stupid slang-speech.its just annoying to skaters as well as non-skaters. but who cares, anyway...
that´s like a start for a bad stand-up comedy. "you know bananas? i don´t get these bananas. why do people eat bananas? they are so fucking yellow! and they are curved, too! and they eat it! how crazy is that?!" (followed by little applaus from some people who either didn´t listen because it was so boring but follow the duty of applausing to almost everything you say to them or are so old, senile, stoned, etc. that they are unable to follow anything the guy in front of the brickwall(?) said but give him applause due to good maneurs).bartholen said:
i don´t know why i did that, sorry. i´m just angry because of women.
I'm guessing immersion is sometimes a bad thing. Oh well better dust off THPS3 at some point because it is a good skating game where you don't need to press six buttons at the same time just to move and the arcade like objective based gameplay wasn't bad and 1000 pts is not hard to get.
I downloaded the demo, and found the controls to be a lot more intuitive than, say, Tony Hawk. Here, to grind you have to land on a ledge a certain way by maneuvering it there, instead of just pressing triangle. I kinda liked that better, but this could be a case of not seeing the horrors of the full game here.
Skate 2 is fun, but I do agree about the learning curve, which has kept the game on the shelf a bit more than I wished. Put enough time into the game and it's quite rewarding but unfortunately during this economic downturn I don't have the free time I use to.
Speaking of which, what in the name of the great space goat was with the child molestation game?MaxTheReaper said: