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post #1 of 16
9/16/07 at 2:46am
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How they managed to ship this out the door without passing Microsofts scrutinizing QA team...baffling.

The game plays decently enough. New control scheme upstages Tony Hawk series by miles. Working my way through the game today...why the achievement for netting 10,000 hard earned points is only worth 5 Gamerscore is irritating. The challenges are pretty good - no cake walks. Online is pretty fun.

Holy hell this game has some stability issues. If you try to view a friend's skate footage or pictures using the xbox guide friends list the game will crash if said friend has never played the game. If you sit through a bonus unlocked clip featuring any of the skaters the game will soft-crash to a black screen when you're done seeing the clip. I also got tackled by a security guard in a no skate zone resulting in my character warping into oblivion - the camara went crazy and the game soft-crashed.

I remember Microsoft harshing out on one of our 2K Sports games for lesser issues resulting in the game needing to be resubmitted...but to find 3 crashes in 1 afternoon of playing. EA should be paying me to play their junk.
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post #2 of 16
9/16/07 at 3:52am
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(tried editing to add the link, no go)

didn't think to link the vid's...here's the soft-crash where things go to hell.

Soft-Crash, yayy...
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post #3 of 16
9/16/07 at 3:54am
You're surprised at this, coming from EA?
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post #4 of 16
9/16/07 at 4:07am
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Not surprised at EA's games having bugs. I'm surprised with Microsoft. I'd even go so far has to say it's somewhat fishy that EA can get away with shipping a slightly unstable game now that Peter Moore, who may still hold sway with his old employers, now works for them.
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post #5 of 16
9/17/07 at 1:26am
Played this for nearly 2 days straight at a buddies house. I don't give a damn about skating, and never liked the Tony Hawk games, but fuck this is fun.

The replay feature is pretty great. I don't know if I'll buy it myself, the challenges get pretty frustrating, but I am considering.
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post #6 of 16
9/17/07 at 6:23pm
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just some brutal falls you can have in the game. Replay feature is the shit. Spend a ton of time loading and reloading footage to the skate server. The top 21 shared list has some sweet clips too.

Here's more footage I did last night:

http://skate.share.ea.com/profiles/1...ts/152678.aspx

http://skate.share.ea.com/profiles/1...ts/131204.aspx
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post #7 of 16
9/17/07 at 7:00pm
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Originally Posted by mongycore
just some brutal falls you can have in the game. Replay feature is the shit. Spend a ton of time loading and reloading footage to the skate server. The top 21 shared list has some sweet clips too.

Here's more footage I did last night:

http://skate.share.ea.com/profiles/1...ts/152678.aspx

http://skate.share.ea.com/profiles/1...ts/131204.aspx
So I'm guessing that the game has won you over? Bugs and all.
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post #8 of 16
9/17/07 at 7:15pm
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barely. Replay feature plus some decent online modes save the game. It's just as repetitive as Stuntman but at least you get to plot out your own lines. A rental for me - but it really kills how you look and feel about any Tony Hawk game from here on out (unless Tony adopts a similar analog stick control scheme).

This game is so buggy. Found 2 more crashes last night. These aren't obscure crashes either. Just boot up the game, play it, and pow - no more game.

I'm sticking with it for a couple of more days before returning it to gamefly, gotta milk more achievements out of it...
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post #9 of 16
9/17/07 at 11:11pm
I think the thing that frustrates me most about this game (other than it crashing every time I try to load a saved replay) is the camera angle. The game wouldn't work quite so well, or look quite as cool without the camera where it is, but it gets in the way alot! Especially when doing vert or changing direction quickly.

That being said, I think the game is great. I've spent most of my time just skating around the city filming lines. Its pretty damn cool, after 25 attempts, to finally get that perfect line down.

The game has caused quite a few headaches for my in-game avatar, though.

http://skate.share.ea.com/profiles/1...ts/157615.aspx
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post #10 of 16
9/20/07 at 7:33pm
Not one, but two!
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post #11 of 16
9/21/07 at 12:35pm
I fucking love this game. That is all. Has anyone played it online yet?
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post #12 of 16
10/2/07 at 10:13pm
FINALLY got to play this today, and I'm loving the hell out of it. I don't think I'm competitive enough for online play though, because when I was playing with Rob Hughes earlier, I didn't at all care when I lost (which wasn't a rare thing).
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post #13 of 16
10/2/07 at 11:30pm
Yah that was pretty fun today. Still don't get how some of those guys were getting like 20k, but still fun nonetheless. It was nice to take a break from Halo for an hour...
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post #14 of 16
10/3/07 at 4:54pm
Not one, but two... old ladies
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post #15 of 16
10/3/07 at 7:03pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by mongycore
unless Tony adopts a similar analog stick control scheme
I'd bet on this happening, although I can't fathom how they'd manage to keep the arcadey style if they went this admittedly more difficult but much more realistic route.
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post #16 of 16
10/3/07 at 7:06pm
I honestly think that they will revamp Tony Hawk all together after this. There is no way people who play Skate. and enjoy it will ever go back to Tony. But once again hopefully some friendly competition will make both game studios up the ante.

All I really need in Skate. is the ability to do flatland tricks and have more freedom with the replay editor.
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