more skill for skate?

i like skate. its cool. i enjoy the demo.

but.

its touted as being a 'thinking-man's tony hawk,' or that it actually takes more skill. but i kinda think the random button mashing is pretty much equivilant to random joystick-flicking. i played for about 20 minutes, and i just thought i'd see if i could do anything by randomly using the trigger and right thumb stick, and i did a perfect front flip and landed it. I couldn't even do that in tony hawk (i suck at that game).

i like the game, but is the learning curve as hard as advertised?

i like skate. its cool. i enjoy the demo.

but.

its touted as being a 'thinking-man's tony hawk,' or that it actually takes more skill. but i kinda think the random button mashing is pretty much equivilant to random joystick-flicking. i played for about 20 minutes, and i just thought i'd see if i could do anything by randomly using the trigger and right thumb stick, and i did a perfect front flip and landed it. I couldn't even do that in tony hawk (i suck at that game).

i like the game, but is the learning curve as hard as advertised?

mumotuma_man

It's not hardit just takes more practice and skill than Tony Hawk. It's pretty esy to do flip tricks in skate, but try to do a 360 flip to a boadrslide on SKATE and see how easy it is. I found myself trying to nail certain grinds over and over again becasue my timing and alignment was off. That makes it more realistc and challening, yet fun at the same time. Tony Hawk I could Kickflip grind a telephone wire and do the moonwalk while grinding!

I liked the demo, though probably not enough to buy the game (not until its cheap at least). I did pull off some cool stuff from just randomly flicking the analog sticks but I think the real challenge comes from lining up several cool stunts off several obstacles instead of one big insane stunt from a big jump off a ramp like Tony Hawk used to be.

The only problem I had, there were a few times I just couldn't figure out why I wiped out. Especially when grinding, I couldn't figure out if I was well balanced or not. And once I landed with my board across a wide ledge at a full stop, where there really was no chance of losing balance, but after a few seconds my guy just sorta flopped off the board.

I liked the demo, though probably not enough to buy the game (not until its cheap at least). I did pull off some cool stuff from just randomly flicking the analog sticks but I think the real challenge comes from lining up several cool stunts off several obstacles instead of one big insane stunt from a big jump off a ramp like Tony Hawk used to be.

The only problem I had, there were a few times I just couldn't figure out why I wiped out. Especially when grinding, I couldn't figure out if I was well balanced or not. And once I landed with my board across a wide ledge at a full stop, where there really was no chance of losing balance, but after a few seconds my guy just sorta flopped off the board.

Corvin

Were you going slow? I've fallen many times on a slow boardslide.