Much Worse Than I Remembered | Skate 1 Full (Re)Review
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- Опубліковано 23 вер 2021
- Since I recently replayed this game all the way through, it felt like I should review it again. I originally reviewed it a few years ago, but how has it aged since then? Is it worth playing if you've never played the Skate series before? Why is Dill so terrible?
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Did you beat this whole game, sticks reversed...without knowing that you could fast travel to challenges?
Sure did
Yeah i remember you could just click on the challenges on the map and it would take you there right?
@@FRIEDWINGZ17 ya you can I just played it
Worst part is his comment section has been practically screaming this for 2 months and he never looked/noticed. Frustrating to see over and over again, but hey...it's how he films so 🤷♂️
@@jdrahonovsky yeah he does all these videos in like one sitting or over a few days and cuts them up and subsequently staggers out release so the thing we all notice he didn't notice a month prior
I think this is the best game for free skating. There’s so much room for creativity. It doesn’t feel like everything is intentionally placed. I’ve found so many cool spots and gaps that just don’t exist in the following 2 games.
Funny how I've never had all these issues you had lol
Same, there is fast travel, death races can suck but I just beat the game a few weeks ago and they're not that hard to win I usually had gigantic leads, and I know not being able to get off your board sucks but I didn't have neeearly as hard a time trying to get up things like he did, I do agree Skate the game mode sucks though
@@deejid8353 yeah I agree with that.
All 3 of the games have there own distinct feel too.
The menus, physics, graphics, narratives, sound tracks, locations, and pro skaters are pretty varied.
With all do respect Rad you are wrong in so many aspects there is fast travel in the game you can pick each challenge from the map!!!
NO
Judging by the sudden shift in expression from the intro, I’m guessing flipping and catching the cases took you a LONG time
How to cheese games of skate:
Do a 540. The computer's mind will be blown, opponent will throw out a random basic trick, then promptly eat pavement.
Even 360s with flips will slap their teeth more than Half the time. They're my favorite challenges personally i was upset skate 3 had MAYBE 1?
That Rob Dyrdek challenge is frustrating
I feel you. Ive only completed it once in all my playthroughs and it took me like 90 minutes of hucking myself at that stupid yellow bench just to finally get it by accident
I only pulled it off once I 5050 the bench into a Miracle 360 flip to the Crooked
You do realize you don't have to use the train stations for fast travel you can literally just click a mission and directly fast travel to it. This was a feature that was in the game since day one.
But clearly he didnt.
The most realistic mission is following gonz
I remember the first time I did an ollie by flicking the stick down then up. Shit was a revelation.
I was pretty sure fast travel was in this game, and other comments have confirmed it. So that complaint is pretty much a moot point. I do agree that running into people in competitions and the death races are really annoying in this series though.
You can literally click the challenge icons and fast travel directly to the challenges… also there are no challenges that you have to do in a timed fashion.. what the game does for mag covers is switch the legend filter to just that last icon, but if you press a button (I forget which) you can switch it back and do other challenges. User error are not negatives! Lol
If the game has these features, but doesn't tell you it has them, that's the game's fault, not the player's.
As soon as you get around to Skate 3 again, try the Deathraces there. The first one is trash aswell but every even after that is incredibly fun!
**hier "omg du bist hier!? Hätt' ich ja nie gedacht"-Kommentar einfügen**
i hate them i alwasy skip them no matter what
@@MrMaikiu Joa die meisten glauben ja auch dass er nix anderes schauen würde, mach ich doch auch, mein channel is auf musik ausgelegt, trotzdem schau ich mir alles andere auch ma an :D ne aber pfff Timm kennt sich denk ich ma aus, den ersten find ich trotzdem besser von der map/sound/soundtrack/ und die cam die sehr nahe an den skater geht beim grinden, des einfach herrlich :* oder zwei, bei Skate3 muss ma echt so seine 5-6 stunden an einem Park bauen mit dem Merge Glitch um da was cooles rauszuhauen und den dann im Hardcore Skaten weil man sich sehr gut mit dem Skaten ansich auskennt, DANN is Skate3 geil, den rest kannst schmeißen ;)
I enjoy playing Skate 1 to this day, the world design is interesting some parts of the map are obviously designed to be linear since you cant get off your board like in skate 2 and 3. I will always appreciate it for being so groundbreaking, even if it doesn't have the amount of features of Skate 3
With limited time budget they excelled at everything they needed to (skating, controls, the city) for 1.0.
Deathraces are actually my favourite challenge, they feel real to me, it's just based on legit physics.. Also, the gates are green unless you've missed one. You're not really supposed to miss them.
It's never impossible to get to the end without hitting cars. It is somewhat random as is real traffic and it's up to your skill level to handle it.
I've never had trouble with the deathraces in any skate game.
Not trying to shit on you, just disagree on some of your conclusions. Keep up the great work 👍
I hope online death races are in the new skate game
Tip for the broken games of skate (including Can You Spell Girl in Skate 2): triple flip and triple heel variations are your friend.
and 540 spins
@@qlazlo978 i loved how 540's made the AI skaters completely get the trick wrong, as if they didn't even want to try
@@peenurmobile 😂😂😂
Just played this on Gamepass, and you can fast travel by opening the map, zooming in to a district and moving the cursor to a task - you then press X/A and can press X/A again to fast travel to the task
You need to change the filters on the map to be able to select spots and fast travel. I thought there was no fast travel too until I pressed Legend or Filter button whatever its called. I felt like an idiot
Slow poke lol👎🏽😂😂😂😂
You actually can pick a challenge and fast travel to it.
man, I picked used ps3 and the whole trilogy lately - fast travel IS there right on the map, you just have to zoom it to a specific district, pick the event/spot and voila, there you go. that was the first thing I checked. how did you miss it? I remember your zero stats run of thps4 when you mentioned you're not particularly good at picking things from the background on the fly - I'd guess it's just another case of that. thoroughly enjoyed the zero stats run tho :)
I never noticed it on my own playthrough, and I kind of liked it better when I had to skate to spots. Reminded me of being a kid and having to skate everywhere. I never finished skate 2 because it felt like I was just jumping from challenge to challenge with no connection to the world itself
@@kojiur I don't even use it that much tbh, but it's still there if needed. San Van is too interesting to just pass on skating through it
I loved death racing, I used to do that my skate friends so it was a cool feature.
Dill!! *Shakes fist*
Also every skate games intro is just amazing.
Great review. Weirdly I've always liked the physics from Skate 1 more than what they gave us in Skate 2 though you could get off your board. Imo Skate 3 was just spot on and the quintessence of the series.
2 is by far my favorite because of the world and soundtrack but i wish it had realistic mode, thats my favorite part of 3
skate 3 map is trash and feels completely lifeless imo
@@skateboardingiscool1 i feel you on that lifeless part. i enjoy it, but it feels somehow robotic instead of an extension of me the way this game did.
like this game feels like painting with a paintbrush, and skate 3 feels like… i dunno, painting with a computer program or something?
it just feels more artificial and less like i feel like i am the skater.
@@skateboardingiscool1 fr i get bored of it in a couple minutes.
@@skateboardingiscool1 They definitely saw the success of the first and pumped out the next two because of it. I did like the park editor in #3 but feel it could have been made a lot better if you could just resize objects. Besides that, the graphics feel cartoony and the physics are either way too loose or too stiff, depending the difficulty. The city feels like someone just copy and pasted 20 real life spots into a mini-Pangea. Don't see them ever topping the skate 1 map.
Ali Boulala didn't kill anyone. He had an accident where someone died.
an accident he caused by being drunk.
he didn’t murder someone, but he did get a person killed. sure, shane chose to drink and get on the motorcycle with him, but ali chose to drive drunk.
he deserved to do his time, but he also deserves understanding and a second chance at life. last i checked, he’s still sober now.
@@fizzysh4rk I can agree with all of that. The main point we both share though is he deserves a second chance. I just don't like how he said it in the video. Ali is a good guy, I've met him in real life and he is wonderful.
another thing: on 360 this is a 30FPS game, and I see immediately 60FPS footage. That alone made 1 and 2 feel like they were worlds apart playability wise
You can fast travel to challenges.
I figured it out halfway through my playthrough, but you can do it
I actually love jams because they make you feel like you're actually competing (even if AI sucks), compared to THPS, in which you're still just skating alone in competitions: no contenders, no audience, announcer or anything.
Also races are actually pretty cool, even if traffic can get annoying.
"I'd have a lot more fun jamming a fork in a power outlet" lmao
i loved the deathraces, and probably played them more than anything else, mostly for scenes like this 14:21, you got obliterated by a car into a mailbox!
but the feeling of cheating death and maintaining speed was fun for me too, imo. the checkpoints are dumb and misleading, for sure though.
Skate 1 is an experience of its time and a mindblowing one too
To sit down as an adult in 2021 and finding errors just for the sake of it is bs of course there are many but i rememember as a kid coming from thps that game blew my mind i didnt care how weird transport was yes i remember that no walking f... up big time because you could walk in thug but aside from that i dont think any game ever hit like skate
i had to the same experience. it blew my mind and to this day is the most fun i’ve ever had with a skateboarding game. nothing has ever hit like it. but i have my hopes up for skate 4!
Me and my buddies would chill and play skate 1 and just find a random spot to set a marker and play a game of skate handing the controller back and forth haha. Best game to kill time on and create realistic lines.
I forgot about his beef with jason dill LMFAO ahh the memories
In a game of S.K.A.T.E, you can do 540s using both sticks and the NPCs can’t do that. I do like the follow missions like if I was hanging out with another character.
I also believe having other characters in a contest wether transition or street was a good choice, if it was real life I would like to see multiple skaters skate at once in a contest, besides you’ll be out of your comfort zone skating with others forcing you to adapt. Sure NPCs also blocked me a decent amount of times but eh, you win some lose some.
I saw your gameplay, when I saw you going down that ramp with Jason Dill, going only straight bumping into him was suicide you should have gone left a little to gain more space or take the different ramp. But I’ll get it if you can’t do so.
Deathraces are more different than you think, I loved the races myself, but just a few tips I can give for you,
pushing doesn’t make you go faster unless you are below the 3 pushes,
the timer is there to indicate if you still qualify for the race, skipping too many gates while being allowed, it can result in you being disqualified only if the timer reaches 0, keeping up speed is also important so I usually focus on my grounds, the slope I’m on.
Here in Brazil I have never been able to play Skate 1 or 2, by pure luck I found Skate 3 to buy from a collector, I really wanted to have the opportunity to play 1 and 2, very well done video, congratulations!
Haha I love your reviews of skateboarding games. Always fun to watch with good perspectives
I would honestly consider this to be my personal favorite Skate game if you could get off your board and walk around. I liked the design of the map much more in this game than in Skate 2, and then soundtrack was better too.
It would be nice if we could see a rerelease where you can get off your board and walk, similar to how Metal Gear Solid 3 was later rereleased with a controllable 3D camera that the original version lacked, which improved the game drastically.
I missed so many classes because of this game. To me it was perfection, everything I could ask for in a game at the time. I loved that after a long, grueling day of skating in the streets, I loved being able to come home and relax with some street skating.
I absolutely LOVE the original skate's art style, it's my favourite of any skateboarding game alongside the original Underground and Proving Grounds. I have a very personal and obsessive attachment to mid-late 2000s culture so I'm biased but this is my favourite skate game purely because its art style is SO strong and reminiscent of my favourite era. Not to mention that soundtrack, Band of Horses - The Funeral is so so so so so perfect for the menus. Even the map design is somehow nostalgic, and I'd say it has better graphics than any of the other skate games (compare it to skate 3 with the san van pack and it's obvious). But I'm DEFINITELY looking at things with rose tinted glasses and I understand why this is the least favourite of most people. Love your channel man and I'll always keep watching you 💙
the rail challenge is meant to make you learn to use session markers. if you bailed on the 51 ft grind, you are supposed to teleport back to your marker. the grey gates in death race are because you missed the green gate before it. not hitting the gates hurts your time and their placement shows you the fastest route. crouching just lets you grab your board for faster turning.
the rail challenge is MOST DEFINITELY not teaching you markers, it is WAAYYY too late in the game for it to still be giving you tutorials, and matrix plaza is a no skate zone, so you cant even set markers there in the first place.
How many takes did that double case hand flip take you
"But I think Skate just wanted to show off their NPC skater engine or something because the contests are always jams... have more fun jamming a fork in a power outlet."
holy fuck aron went nuclear there
Oh man I never got along with Skate. It tried so hard to be 'realistic', it lost all the fun of actually playing a game.
Love the corporate soundtrack during the death race segment, lol
Jason Dill is comming for you
Thank you, Rad Rat! You rock, bro!
The first game is good if not for a primer for number 2. 2 doesn't have a detailed map like 1 does but if you're familiar with the city by playing 1 then you'll notice all the changes and all the things they added in 2. If I had to choose only one of the titles to play, then it would be 2
if you pressed the triangle you would be able to change the missions between magazines and if you press on the missions you can fast travel
That intro! The man kickflipped two games at once !
The trick with doing jams is to wait for the npc's to drop in or whatever, it only takes ab 5-6 seconds and it doesn't affect your line
Getting on top of the overpasses in the map was a good past time
The method or grab and bail glitch was beyond entertaining
I never played skate games for the challenges. It's all about free skate and in skate 2 and 3 film
Skate was that game where I had no THPS games due to my brother having them.
I remember that day where my mom gave me a copy of Skate.... good times.
Maybe it’s not the best idea to do a review of this game right after a play through with reversed controls 😂
The initial online Motes and multiplayer were not touched upon other than the skate-real aspect. The fact that you can play this game in so many different ways depending on your style and skill level is what has made players stick to this game for more than 10 years; perhaps, more freeskate and online play than what the career could ever offer. Glitches are also generally a thing which has made most of if not all of skateboarding games more interesting for a lot of players. It’s the same with improv in the Tony hawk games.
Appreciate the video regardless RR, but I hope you won’t judge a game by letting your frustrations of a single mode such as death race have such a large impact on your overall evaluation.
The game is backwards compatible if someone is asking
I didn't know Harry Kane reviewed skateboarding games
What are your thoughts on the freestyle world-round up?
Excellent double flip in the intro
I still have Thrasher's "Skate and Destroy". I remember that everyone of my friends didn't like it and couldn't handle it. I actually liked it even though it didn't make sense in a lot of ways and got really goot at it. I definetly have to play it again.
It's really fun after some practicing, and has far superior analog steering than any Tony Hawk game I've played (only played 2, 3 and 4).
@@ultrairrelevantnobody1862 Yeah, it was way more realistic ... in most ways ;)
You do realise you can fast travel to most challenges? You just click on them on the map and it's loads you in like 5 foot in front of the pro or challenge spot hahahaha
Miss this game. Loved it when I first played the demo
Who was the 2nd murder I knew 1 was terry Kennedy
16:20 um the game actually has fast travel right to the mission. Open up the map and scroll to a mission on the map and press x (PlayStation) or A (Xbox).
That skit with “corporate” was hilarious. I loudly laughed in my quiet house.
8:38 which two skaters are you talking about?
So I'm playing this game on Game Pass right now and I'm able to fast travel to challenges and to subways. Maybe this is a feature they somehow added in for the Game Pass version of the game, IDK.
All these issues are just “you” problems. Skaters in contests are fine, you just don’t know how to work around it. And fast travel is there, as I’m sure you recently found out.
Lmfao skaters in contests will never be fine. Having to wait to do a trick is lame, especially when the timer is ticking down.
Very dumb points. You can fast travel by clicking on the quest area and you can also set a spot marker so you don't have to redo getting to a rail.
yes
Anyone remember Gflip late kickfliping rails in skate2???
I recently played Skate 1 for the first time and maybe it’s just me loving Skate 2 and 3 but I absolutely did not see the hype behind Skate 1. Fast travel helps a lot but the weird yellow hue, not being able to get off your board, the challenges, the map. I didn’t really like any of it. I know that it launched Skate 2 and Skate 3 but I just wasn’t into it.
I did like how you worked to get sponsored. That was fun. The physics were pretty good and I liked those better than Skate 3 physics aside from transition. I also hated the whole getting put into the wrong stance thing though
Yeah you would've had to play skate 1 before the other two to have a love for it. Otherwise it feels like a very downgraded version of the game
I'm missing your black void somehow xD
U can just press A or X on the challenge icon and it asks u if u want to fast travel
When this game first came out it blew my mind. My friend and I played the DEMO all night long. If you have that much fun playing a demo then you know the game is good
Same with the Heavy Rain Demo back in the day played it 20-30 times
Dills from Long Island not New York?
9:15 You only can't repeat the last 3 tricks. After that you're allowed to repeat
I bought SKATE for my nephew on launch day for xbox and played it, then went to Best Buy 2hrs later and bought a PS3 and SKATE.
IMO best to worst is:
1. SKATE(best campaign, soundtrack, look and feel)
2. Best online experience
3. Didn't like it, doesn't look and feel like the original.
i agree skate 3 just feels so fake imo. the city is so whck. the entire vibe/environment feels off asf
@@skateboardingiscool1 i’m so glad it’s not just me that feels that way. for me it’s mostly how the physics of it feel. it just doesn’t have that authentic feel this game has
i can only say #skate1neverdiez :D
Wait until you guys see what we have coming for the new skate.!
with the skate challenges, do a 540 and the computer can never copy it.
I love having other skaters in the jam challenges. It feels more alive to me and I like the extra challenge of avoiding them given how easy it is to make the points if you practise.
I love the soundtrack, btw
I logged alot of hours Into skate 2 and skate 3, more so in skate2 due to glitches I was probably 15 when skate series hit, I didnt play much of skate 1 tho mainly beacuse not being able to get off your players board got frustrating real fast, awkward camera views, twitchy environments, skate2 had a shakey environment too but found 2 and 3 are my favorite. Also shout out to thps3 and thug2 I also spent countless hours into them old thps games!:)
Yo you can fast travel by clicking on the challenge on the map and clicking A/X btw
Uhhh you know on Pat Duffy’s challenge you can just skate up the ramp on the left side of the matrix to get to the second floor? You didn’t have to do anything fancy 😂
Where's the next Playthrough?!? C'mon!
Rather jam a fork in a power outlet lmaooo
You can fast travel to challenges
I went from Skate 3 to Skate after playing for a while and got bored of the map. I had no issues whatsoever transitioning and the game runs great on Xbox One!
Skate 3 is awful imo
@@HonkeyKong54 ok but who asked?
Each skate game has its own argument for not only best game in the series, but best game of all time 🤷♂️
Skate 1 is its tone and atmosphere.
Skate 2 I'd say is the map but they're all great.
Skate 3 with the online and the online team activity. You could JUST make film AND post it it was such a good time. And the creative stuff. I feel like it had the weakest map and tone but marginally. Sick soundtrack though.
Session is almost there for my favorite. But the difficulty settings weight on skate so well that you can get a good sim feel.
Session is so close even if it was just slightly less glitchy I'd be soooo on board constantly. But between that lack of grabs. Im still tackling the learning curve the freedom of the tricks you can do and with tbe experimental settings are just prime.
Its i don't mind spending 40 minutes to get a challenge correct, i do mind when after an hour and half ive done it 3 times but the game wont accept it. Its 95% to being the best skateboarding game ever though i do love it.
Um... love you a ton you can fast travel to the challenges though you gotta zoom in on the map but it lets you. I kinda just enjoy skating around enough that if it's not uphill im skating to it still.
Such an Underrated channel
This game was the reason I bought an Xbox 360! Then I played the demo for weeks until I could afford the game because I was a teen and barely had money lol
I beat the entire game. Then a couple days later I started a new career. As I was playing I couldn’t help but recall how you didn’t know about fast travel. 😂. I feel like you should replay the game so you can give it a 2nd chance. After getting somewhat familiar with the controls and what the missions requirements are going to be from my first play through it was much easier on my 2nd play through. It actually got me loving Skate.
Though the X games mega ramp part is kind of annoying. I feel like the judges are not scoring my tricks high enough. It basically just means in order to win I have hold L2/LT and Circle/B while spinning then hit the 2nd ramp and hold R2/RT and Circle/B while spinning the land then trick to win. I feel like those tricks are too easy. The tricks that I think are better and much harder to do end up not coming close to winning. So i basically hate how they did the x games part.
Another thing I would criticize the game for is the lack of manual tricks.
I think the only trick you can do while in a manual is revert.
The game lacks a lot of tricks. I am not familiar with a lot of names for tricks. As I kid I knew a lot. Anyway the few I can recall that I see missing is Impossible, Boneless Ollie, darkslide grind.
I don’t know the name of the trick but it’s basically where the skater goes up a quarter or half pipe and does a one arm hand stand while doing a grab trick.
Anyway on my 2nd play through I realized I didn’t actually have to do everything to unlock it. I unlocked it halfway through the game. Whereas on my first career I had done everything 😂.
Makes me think when I was a kid in 2007 I beat the x games and then just stopped playing. In my defense to why I can’t remember beating the game as a kid is one it is over 16 years ago. Two I only played the game for a short while. I didn’t even get to keep that Xbox 360 for that long. Three I played the game with my brother and we took turns. I don’t remember how we decided to take turns and for all I know he beat the game for us. Though then again I was always really good at video games. I might suck at the beginning but I usually am able to adapt.
Makes me wish I was able to record all of my gameplay.
The soundtrack tho 😫😫😫😩😩😩
My only gripe was when you faced all the pros in skate. Took forever!
i remember how shocked i was when i bought this game and figured out you cant walk!
i put it aside for a very long time and one day started playing it and still kinda ended up enjoying it
The games called Skate. Not walk
@@mitchconner187 You called Conner, Mitch not Nintendo Switch. Now use this information for whatever its good for
the only thing that is not good is not being able to get off the board
for the games of skate just do every variation of 540
Bro!!!!!! You should review skate bird haha
You’ve never been more wrong. Skate 1 story mode/missions are 100x better than skate 3. Skate 1 is the best game u just can’t get off board