This is not what the fuck skate 3 is for this fucking monstrosity is not fucking skateboarding this is the reason playing on line is fucking terrible for the love of God it's just some fucking flip trick to late dark flip and it looks fuck atrocious it make me mad that the point system encourages this because whenever I think of something real it's not really worth shit bottom line trick-lining is fucking wack go actually learn about real skating and fucking do that and remember kids that skate 3 was made to be a skateboard simulator simulating real life and trick-lining isn't fucking real and stop being on UA-cam watching skate 3 videos and fucking go skate don't even read this go skate!
I played the entire game in hardcore mode, but there's a decade gap between me completing the game and getting the achievement "mass murderer" for killing 80+ challenges, from 2012-2022
i recorded myself doing this back in august of 2021 to make a video of it. I lost the external hard drive it was on for a while and gave up on the idea for it as I did not want to endure that ever again let alone play skate 3 for at least a month or two. I recently found the external hard drive the 261 GB of footage it was on and was thinking of starting to edit it again, and then I see this video. When I was researching this topic back when I first recorded it I couldn't find any other videos on it but major props to you for doing this because It was extremely difficult. Jumping over that Pluto thing is easily the worst challenge in the game, and I was even questioning whether or not it was even possible while doing it. I could only find one video of someone claiming to have done it on hardcore but they did not show the difficulty anywhere in the video if I am correct. The only thing different from my footage that I can think of from yours would be that I did it in basically one sitting and timed the entire thing. It took me 29 hours in total [specific final time of 29:06:11] . As much as I would want to edit it all together I'm not sure if I will anymore since you did a great job with this and my idea for the video was going to be to say that I was the first documented person to do this. I might still edit it together in the next few weeks here now that the footage is back in my possession but otherwise, I'm not entirely sure. Enjoyed the video though, and you should totally do more of these challenge type of videos.
I beat skate 3 on hardcore mode when I replayed it a few months ago. My thoughts? -Grinds of Destiny was Hell. -Jumping over that planet at the observatory was Hell. -I learned backwards man glitch specifically to not go insane killing challenges. -There's no achievement or reward to show for doing this challenge so I got nothing to show for my effort. Was it worth it? Not in the slightest... but yes.
@@hoopgamelarrydavid "You're never too young to have Vietnam Flashbacks" vibes right here. Air over Pluto was just pain, especially since failing the next task meant full reset.
Fun fact: UA-camr Mr. Ballen ranked 3rd in skate 3 back in the day without realising while still recovering from his medical discharge from the Navy Seals
I remember trying the game over on hardcore after playing Skater XL a bit and struggled with the grind tutorial too for a little haha. It’s a lot more challenging lining yourself up with the rail but I love the fact it doesn’t automatically grind so you can manual where you want to
I remember watching Vanoss' Skare 3 videos and that made me enthusiastic enough to buy a skateboard, that skateboard is now 6 years old and is just sitting in my grandparents shed rotting away. Couldn't skate for shit but it was fun whilst i had it.
Love the casual toss in of the song from the game PAIN while doing hall of meat lol. Loved that game, played it all the time and I feel like nobody has ever heard of it. Great song👍
THIS 14:50 is what stopped me from 100% in hardcore. Really thought it was impossible in hardcore, which i guess it is without the speed glitch. I hope skate 4 doesn't have impossible challenges, I like to do them realistically. But nice job.
Dang one of the challenges burned in my memory is this planetary thingie. Used to play the game in hardcore all the time, only tried easy when that youtuber with the fat avatar revealed his secret. The part where you need to do a no foot hand plant have no RNG. Usually the trick fails because there isn't enough time for the character to stabilize before it hits the gap, or should I say it stabilizes IN the gap, so it actually counts as you hitting the top of a ledge instead when you fall. When you are on top and start to go down you have to manually pull the character to the front a little instead of doing the usuall "leave it be untill it hit the ground strategy". Also, you need to get enough speed, for some reason going in slow makes the character not stabilize. Do it and you will hit it all the time in hardcore. Also, to get enough air to gap the spoke you have to learn to pump at the right time and hit the ledge on a good angle. You have to adjust the angle every time you've got air to land parallel to the wall in the exact start of the curve and pump on the exact start of the next curve. There is a specific flow to it. You can get pretty high when you get into the flow. The entire challenge is a test of your joystick manual skills in hardcore.
The stupidest thing about hardcore mode is the loss of max speed, makes absolutely no sense, especially since even in easy mode it's too slow compared to what any skater could go. (At least on flat)
4:43 Hidden Masters theme (didn't follow the license sadly, "You may use the song as long as you link this video in the description. You can always tweet at us if you have any questions.") I used to watch 'em during CoD Black Ops.
I remember a few years ago getting a big playstation group chat together for a bunch of us to all do a 6 player team freeskate and get the final trophy for platinum. We all got on the day we planned for and EA had shut the fucking servers down. To this day i have 99% trophy completion with 100% for all DLC's.
Consistent set ups for solar system are actually not too bad, airing the spoke fast is hard so that's why we don't kill it in the speedrun, but for the handplant you kind of just have to come at it diagonally and hit the corner of where the gap part of the quarter pipe is
I'm gonna come clean about this, I found a consistent set up after uploading this video. The game literally guides you with the arrows going up with wall, just by following it you'll get it every time
@@Syphrus Yeah you're right that's what I was describing, I suppose I never really looked at those and thought of it like that, but that's a good way to explain it to people learning
To make sure you hand plant on a higher surface you can hold up on the left stick and it will magnetize you to the higher place you can hand plant on. Works at the observatory and the backyard pool w/ the roof
Hardcore is so much better, pretty much the true Skate experience. All of the ott stuff is an understandable concession to appeal to a broader audience, and because sequels tend to inevitably expand in scope. But at the heart of it Skate was intended to be a simulation and to let someone skate way more lowkey lines with style and good execution, wringing more out of less space. Hardcore isn't just harder, it's more controlled. You can be 100x more steez with everything you do because there's variance and finetuning involved. Everyone loves doing insane shit on the mega ramp but people really shouldn't neglect the actually fantastic improvement to street skating and general tweakability hardcore provides. It's closer to a Session-lite than the more arcadey moments you get on Normal/Easy.
10:17 ik this video is like a year old but ima say it anyway, I found that you can actually hand plant on the concrete park next to the hole in the wall, and if your close enough to it, it counts
Ok, now do it on Expert+ mastercore definitive ultra extratone speedcore extra hard deathwish heaven hell knock on wood OH MY LEG dehydrated kirby meets smith n wesson 500 bone-collecter kamikaze platinum death adventure moon edition with dlc woman collecters gold edition.
As soon as I read the title I had instant flashbacks to Sign of the Grinds. Was not surprised to see it on the list of things you struggled with. It just does not feel like that challenge was tested in hardcore.
I’ve always played on hardcore and there are two missions that are impossible. Before watching the video, im going to guess that it’s almost impossible to complete the maloof NY tranny park OTL and there’s another OTL challenge in the rippon towers I think that’s definitely impossible. There’s one challenge in the rippon OTL that makes you grind three of the longest planters in the game in a sequence and I had to switch to normal because my skater wouldn’t hold any momentum. There’s plenty of other examples of challenges that are very difficult on hardcore mode but definitely possible after a bit of trying.
I’ve done that solar challenger at least twice and do not think I ever actually aired of the Pluto spoke; I just got to the same height next to it and it counted.
20:28 Half the time, even on easy mode, I wasn't able to get enough speed to even grind the ledge, let alone bluntslide it SPECIFICALLY. Also, I'm sorry, but bluntslides and tailslides are the exact same trick.
@@thelibyanplzcomeback Just like Feebles and Smiths, they are not because one you go over the rail and then lock your grind, the other you lock on the same side you ollied from
I never played this game on any other mode. I saw the name of the video and was kinda puzzled I kinda get it now. Also "sign of the grinds " was hard back then.
This is not what the fuck skate 3 is for this fucking monstrosity is not fucking skateboarding this is the reason playing on line is fucking terrible for the love of God it's just some fucking flip trick to late dark flip and it looks fuck atrocious it make me mad that the point system encourages this because whenever I think of something real it's not really worth shit bottom line trick-lining is fucking wack go actually learn about real skating and fucking do that and remember kids that skate 3 was made to be a skateboard simulator simulating real life and trick-lining isn't fucking real and stop being on UA-cam watching skate 3 videos and fucking go skate don't even read this go skate!
A legend
youre a god
real
i love you
@@jamesartz i love you too
I played the entire game in hardcore mode, but there's a decade gap between me completing the game and getting the achievement "mass murderer" for killing 80+ challenges, from 2012-2022
Man me too!
Wow, me too. I got Mass Murderer on July 26th. I haven't gotten an achievement on that game since 2013.
I am a mass murderer and got no achievement :(
i recorded myself doing this back in august of 2021 to make a video of it. I lost the external hard drive it was on for a while and gave up on the idea for it as I did not want to endure that ever again let alone play skate 3 for at least a month or two. I recently found the external hard drive the 261 GB of footage it was on and was thinking of starting to edit it again, and then I see this video. When I was researching this topic back when I first recorded it I couldn't find any other videos on it but major props to you for doing this because It was extremely difficult. Jumping over that Pluto thing is easily the worst challenge in the game, and I was even questioning whether or not it was even possible while doing it. I could only find one video of someone claiming to have done it on hardcore but they did not show the difficulty anywhere in the video if I am correct. The only thing different from my footage that I can think of from yours would be that I did it in basically one sitting and timed the entire thing. It took me 29 hours in total [specific final time of 29:06:11] . As much as I would want to edit it all together I'm not sure if I will anymore since you did a great job with this and my idea for the video was going to be to say that I was the first documented person to do this. I might still edit it together in the next few weeks here now that the footage is back in my possession but otherwise, I'm not entirely sure. Enjoyed the video though, and you should totally do more of these challenge type of videos.
Now I want to see how you would go about telling your experience on this challenge
Id say, send it, you already have the footage, the hard part is done!
GGs on doing it tho
I know it’s been a year but i would be very interested if you released the video on the experience
I beat skate 3 on hardcore mode when I replayed it a few months ago. My thoughts?
-Grinds of Destiny was Hell.
-Jumping over that planet at the observatory was Hell.
-I learned backwards man glitch specifically to not go insane killing challenges.
-There's no achievement or reward to show for doing this challenge so I got nothing to show for my effort.
Was it worth it? Not in the slightest... but yes.
Oml the mere mention of observatory one gives me PTSD flashbacks. Air over the Pluto spoke will be ingrained in my memory until the end of time.
@@hoopgamelarrydavid "You're never too young to have Vietnam Flashbacks" vibes right here. Air over Pluto was just pain, especially since failing the next task meant full reset.
But you accomplished it. Totally worth it
The fucking rooftop gap into the ghetto spot too. And also the DLC Marraffa own the lot was horrible
The difficulty arguments In multiplayer were hilarious “you aren’t good, play on hardcore and do the same trickline I do in easy mode”
Lmao
this reminded me that the ENTIRE TIME THAT I HAVE PLAYED SKATE 3 was on hardcore instead of normal
I remember seeing some promo video from 2010 and one of the devs said that their challenge was to kill everything in hardcore
remember what you said when it premieres
I’ll remind it if he’s not here then
Oohhhhhh
there is no way you predicted that
What an OG
Fun fact: UA-camr Mr. Ballen ranked 3rd in skate 3 back in the day without realising while still recovering from his medical discharge from the Navy Seals
Why dont you just do a nollie? 🤣👌
Nice 😅
nose ollie is an ollie
@@aussi286 *that's the joke*
@@aussi286 smartest youtube comment ever
@@aussi286 next level IQ
Very cool video! I think you should try beating the game without ollies next!
I might
Or without nollies next
@@Syphrus Do it without trickling
@@spicekingofwesternnewyork4752 I did
@@Syphrus I love
Man you’re bringing me back to the good old days when I discovered UA-cam when skate 2-3 dropped. Love these vibes.
This video genuinely made me laugh, love your comedic personality, awesome video and i cant even play on hardcore for my life lmao
10:36 The use of the main theme to pain for hall of meat is awesome
I remember trying the game over on hardcore after playing Skater XL a bit and struggled with the grind tutorial too for a little haha. It’s a lot more challenging lining yourself up with the rail but I love the fact it doesn’t automatically grind so you can manual where you want to
Instructions unclear. I killed myself on every challenge hardcore
glad i can assist
I remember watching Vanoss' Skare 3 videos and that made me enthusiastic enough to buy a skateboard, that skateboard is now 6 years old and is just sitting in my grandparents shed rotting away.
Couldn't skate for shit but it was fun whilst i had it.
Great video man just found your channel and I love the editing and writing, good stuff!
im still amazed how syphrus, a god at skate 3, doesnt know what fakie is
SYPHRUS GOING CRAZY RN
I like this video style a lot more, it seems more raw and genuine to me
Love the casual toss in of the song from the game PAIN while doing hall of meat lol. Loved that game, played it all the time and I feel like nobody has ever heard of it. Great song👍
originally it was a hard knock life, but copyright issues happened
4:20 that ssx theme fit weelll so much
THIS 14:50 is what stopped me from 100% in hardcore. Really thought it was impossible in hardcore, which i guess it is without the speed glitch. I hope skate 4 doesn't have impossible challenges, I like to do them realistically. But nice job.
Dang one of the challenges burned in my memory is this planetary thingie. Used to play the game in hardcore all the time, only tried easy when that youtuber with the fat avatar revealed his secret. The part where you need to do a no foot hand plant have no RNG. Usually the trick fails because there isn't enough time for the character to stabilize before it hits the gap, or should I say it stabilizes IN the gap, so it actually counts as you hitting the top of a ledge instead when you fall. When you are on top and start to go down you have to manually pull the character to the front a little instead of doing the usuall "leave it be untill it hit the ground strategy". Also, you need to get enough speed, for some reason going in slow makes the character not stabilize. Do it and you will hit it all the time in hardcore.
Also, to get enough air to gap the spoke you have to learn to pump at the right time and hit the ledge on a good angle. You have to adjust the angle every time you've got air to land parallel to the wall in the exact start of the curve and pump on the exact start of the next curve. There is a specific flow to it. You can get pretty high when you get into the flow.
The entire challenge is a test of your joystick manual skills in hardcore.
First video of yours, this was hilarious.. so awesome I subbed
21:09 me when I'm with the boys at a sleepover.
this is unironically high effort and good. the algorithm better bless this video
mirrors edge music made me subscribe
I’m just now finding you and you cracked me up bro this video was S tier!
The stupidest thing about hardcore mode is the loss of max speed, makes absolutely no sense, especially since even in easy mode it's too slow compared to what any skater could go. (At least on flat)
The fact you beat grinds of destiny that effortlessly at 16:25 makes me very sad
Im still confused by it. Like bro was never in the area .-.
@Vade4545 I guess that by hitting the side, it confuses the game into thinking that every trick you do in a combo afterwards counts into the score.
10:37 man love that music, it reminds me so much of playing pain.
Very nice touch with the Pain theme music during the hall of meat section, makes me wanna get my hands on a PS3 again
I did this one time out of boredom, it took me a little while but it was so much fun and quite gratifying to do them all
14:56 if i remember correctly you can grind from the high ledge to the low ledge and it counts as a grind-gap-grind and it’s way easier
Anyone else hear the “PAIN” theme song during the hall of meat section? That game used to be so fun back in the old gen days
4:43 Hidden Masters theme (didn't follow the license sadly, "You may use the song as long as you link this video in the description. You can always tweet at us if you have any questions.")
I used to watch 'em during CoD Black Ops.
Syphrus: “Is this vid gonna get recommended”
UA-cam: Yes.
I can’t unsee the guitar 😍
It’s okay that you can’t grind on skate 3, as long as you’re better at grinding elsewhere 😘
oh i know
aw man i loved this game as a kid, this vid makes me wanna pick it back up
I remember a few years ago getting a big playstation group chat together for a bunch of us to all do a 6 player team freeskate and get the final trophy for platinum. We all got on the day we planned for and EA had shut the fucking servers down. To this day i have 99% trophy completion with 100% for all DLC's.
Consistent set ups for solar system are actually not too bad, airing the spoke fast is hard so that's why we don't kill it in the speedrun, but for the handplant you kind of just have to come at it diagonally and hit the corner of where the gap part of the quarter pipe is
I'm gonna come clean about this, I found a consistent set up after uploading this video. The game literally guides you with the arrows going up with wall, just by following it you'll get it every time
@@Syphrus Yeah you're right that's what I was describing, I suppose I never really looked at those and thought of it like that, but that's a good way to explain it to people learning
To make sure you hand plant on a higher surface you can hold up on the left stick and it will magnetize you to the higher place you can hand plant on. Works at the observatory and the backyard pool w/ the roof
Hardcore is so much better, pretty much the true Skate experience. All of the ott stuff is an understandable concession to appeal to a broader audience, and because sequels tend to inevitably expand in scope. But at the heart of it Skate was intended to be a simulation and to let someone skate way more lowkey lines with style and good execution, wringing more out of less space. Hardcore isn't just harder, it's more controlled. You can be 100x more steez with everything you do because there's variance and finetuning involved.
Everyone loves doing insane shit on the mega ramp but people really shouldn't neglect the actually fantastic improvement to street skating and general tweakability hardcore provides. It's closer to a Session-lite than the more arcadey moments you get on Normal/Easy.
10:18 i might be wrong but if you push the left stick in the direction your trying to go you can avoid hitting the death gap
This video deserves so many more views lol
ikr
No it doesn’t lol
@@whodidyoudirty3323 Who hurt you in life bro?
0:54 “2 girls 1 skateboard”
Devious
This is of incredible production quality for someone with 50k subs… amazing job!
Pro tip that has nothing to do with the video Mr. Syphrus: Don't feed the trolls.
10:17 ik this video is like a year old but ima say it anyway, I found that you can actually hand plant on the concrete park next to the hole in the wall, and if your close enough to it, it counts
This dude has been playing this game for how long… and didn’t know what a crook was
I play blind folded most of the time
Bruh, Benny Fairfax's skate school challenge kills me every time cause he just bails on every run
nah nba street 2 music. you crazy lmao
I got this achievement a couple years ago on my 360. "Mass murderer" 😎
Ok, now do it on Expert+ mastercore definitive ultra extratone speedcore extra hard deathwish heaven hell knock on wood OH MY LEG dehydrated kirby meets smith n wesson 500 bone-collecter kamikaze platinum death adventure moon edition with dlc woman collecters gold edition.
will do that
Omg the Pain theme song during HoM 🤣
This vid deserves more (popped up on my recommended)
I don't understand how the "roof handplant" in the *Pool of Tricks* own the lot was not mentioned. That OTL nearly broke my meat computer 🧠
One must imagine syphrus happy
For the wall where you gymnast plant, you have to do the plant in regular. Im trying the same thing as you and I figured it out.
Glad i caught your vid in the recommended !
This was nostalgic seeing the challenges but if the nostalgia was put through a fever dream
I tried this when skate 3 became backwards compatible. Was able to kill almost everything, some missions are impossible lol.
thank you youtube algo! a new channel to follow. 10/10
As soon as I read the title I had instant flashbacks to Sign of the Grinds. Was not surprised to see it on the list of things you struggled with. It just does not feel like that challenge was tested in hardcore.
Im so hyped for SKATE 4!!!
21:06 when i bully a fat kid but then i see what he brought to lunch
ur so underrated WTFF this editing is amazing
I’ve always played on hardcore and there are two missions that are impossible. Before watching the video, im going to guess that it’s almost impossible to complete the maloof NY tranny park OTL and there’s another OTL challenge in the rippon towers I think that’s definitely impossible. There’s one challenge in the rippon OTL that makes you grind three of the longest planters in the game in a sequence and I had to switch to normal because my skater wouldn’t hold any momentum. There’s plenty of other examples of challenges that are very difficult on hardcore mode but definitely possible after a bit of trying.
Called it lol and I’m so pissed that you could totally cheesed the rippon towers OTL with a manual this whole time lmao
16:29 I hate you… you earned this sub
Benny Fairfax became a meme because of this game.
5:50 i have always had trouble with that sign even on easy...
Killing Sign of the grinds on hardcore had me stuck for longer than I care to admit
Would it not be a ukulele… because it’s his HAWAIIAN dream?
yeah that makes sense
Tip: Press down on the d pad to scare away pedestrians
scared the heck outta me when i heard him my name
Do the handplant in the observatory pool backside. Frontside handplants are pretty much impossible in real life so it makes sense
Shout out to the Hall of Meat part having the PS3 game PAIN's theme.
I’ve done that solar challenger at least twice and do not think I ever actually aired of the Pluto spoke; I just got to the same height next to it and it counted.
That's just owning it. To kill it you have to air over it
@@Syphrus that makes sense, thanks
ive been on this challenge on and off for years and i gotta say it sure is a fun way to spend your day
3:19 Ec tetera
I did this like 10 years ago. Pretty cool to watch someone else do it.
Awesome video+you used mirror's edge music for the background, i love it
20:28 Half the time, even on easy mode, I wasn't able to get enough speed to even grind the ledge, let alone bluntslide it SPECIFICALLY. Also, I'm sorry, but bluntslides and tailslides are the exact same trick.
No they aren’t lol
@@richardlindquist4061 literally how
@@thelibyanplzcomeback Just like Feebles and Smiths, they are not because one you go over the rail and then lock your grind, the other you lock on the same side you ollied from
@@dxfifa It requires pretty much the same motions, tho.
this dude got friends with him playing a single player game, id be a liar if i said i wasn’t jealous.
This guys good at the game he’s just messing up on purpose just to be funny
do NOT let pinksnowshogun find out about tony hawks pro skater and how unrealistic that game is
One thing i wish people covered was grinds in skate 3
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if you press down on the dpad, the pedestrians run away... no joke. Just press down on the dpad.
18:00 "I have a lot of things to say all the time I just don't say them till the opportunity presents itself" a real man once said.
I’ve been pondering whether I should do my first play through of skate 4 in hardcore or regular 🤔
Easy/ Normal to explore the world, second playthrough on hardcore. That's what I'm going to do at least.
Skate 4
Skate 4
Man ive been playing skate 3 on hardcore the whole time and i didnt even know 😭
The consistent way to gymnast plant is to hold it I believe
I would be impressed if you did this on easy mode
im surprised that u have 55k subs your videos are fun to watch men, good work
I never played this game on any other mode. I saw the name of the video and was kinda puzzled I kinda get it now. Also "sign of the grinds " was hard back then.
the low camera angle bothers me idk why i always change it to high
5:44 I hated this challenge spot so much it took forever
this is how i always played the game. And chose specific tricks to do. Wtp in rolling vaguely at somethng n flailing the stick randomly to win
lol right, imagine spending "more than 10k hours" on skate 3 but never learning to skate irl
You have to make sure to time jumps almost perfectly to get grinds in hardcore 🙃