[Official] Skate 2 - released!

[habnad]

AJ, Larry and I will be playing quite a bit of Skate 2 online hopefully, others are free to join :)

Let's just say I'm not going to be playing just yet. I may not be buying this right away. As you and DL both know, I have a couple vehicular related incidents I have to clear up first monetarily...and then there's that whole new Blu Ray player thing... ;)

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

This better not be an excuse because you won't give up WaW :p

[jonmoseley8]

Got my copy of OPM today and they gave it 8 out of 10. Full review attached (With the crap games section too). :)

Their review doesn't put me off though, as I am still waiting for it, Hopefully Amazon will ship it to me before the release day so I have it on Thursday. :)

[t0mbi]

Maybe a mod could remove the 'Demo details added' from the thread name due to the game being out???

I got the game today been mucking around in it and betting on races and stuff..GREAT GAME!

Maybe we should all have that Neowin Session? Im going to be playing it in about 24hrs from now if anyone wants to get owned :)

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

No need for a mod to do it, I can edit the title myself :)

[Spookie]

Rawr! I love the new city.

But. So far. I've found some of the challenges to be... Out of whack with the rest of them. SKATE with the girl team is nigh ****ing impossible. and the 8m grind along the coping & MASSIVE hip transfer has had me stumped for over 2 hrs. While others I could nail in one go.

But so far, so good. :)

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

The only thing thats pretty sucky about the new city (albeit intentional) is all the stoppers on rails etc. I know it's part of the story and the rebuild of the city, but it's just annoying when you find a would-be-cool spot, and you can't pull them off cause of the stoppers :(

We want skate simulation without the crappy real-life limitations!

The walking controls are definitely borked too. You'd think they would add an animation which lets you climb up walls (unless they did?), but I went up to a short wall and tried to jump up and my guy somehow jumps like 4ft on the spot over it...wtf :no:

[Spookie]

Some of these challenges are utterly ######.

I simply can't get sponsored by girl. I spend 2 hrs on it and broke my 360 pad in frustration. Flick it? More like **** it. :/

[Olemus]

I think spookies talking about skate1 (cant see skate2 on his tag :o)

[Brad.]

I love it, hard but damn good (Y)

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

I think spookies talking about skate1 (cant see skate2 on his tag :o)

No he is talking about Skate 2 :p

[Spookie]

I think spookies talking about skate1 (cant see skate2 on his tag :o)

I'm not connected to live that's why. I'm managed to nail all the pro challenges xpt 3. One because it's IMPOSSIBLE to air the gap, the girl one for flawless AI and one because I simply can't get high enough up the pipe.

All seem ridiculously hard considering they are smack bang at the start of the game. Did no one think: "this isn't going to appeal to new comers".

The Tail to Nose over a gap challenge closes a close "lol wtf morons" 4th.

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

To get more height you need to pump, but I'm sure you already knew that, just posting for others as well.

To pump you need to grab the board while going up the pipe and then push forward on the left stick.

[Spookie]

To get more height you need to pump, but I'm sure you already knew that, just posting for others as well.

To pump you need to grab the board while going up the pipe and then push forward on the left stick.

I'll take a photo of what you have to do in a moment. Some of these are ****ing stupid imo.

edit:

You HAVE to land on the hip not an inch short or it doesn't count. It's worse than battletoads! :(

edit II:

HAHA only took me 2 hrs but I f-ing nailed it YAY! :D

Now I've just got to do the girl S.K.A.T.E. (- with the flawless AI) and I'm done with the pros. :)

Edited January 21, 2009 by Spookie

[Brad.]

Holy **** Spookie, i'm dreading that part -_-

[Spookie]

You don't HAVE to do it to progress the game, but you have to do it if you want sponsorship from that team. There is a thrasher piece, on the other hand, that you have to do where you handplant on a basketball backboard which is another nightmare. Though to be fair looks amazing when you nail it.

[Brad.]

You don't HAVE to do it to progress the game, but you have to do it if you want sponsorship from that team. There is a thrasher piece, on the other hand, that you have to do where you handplant on a basketball backboard which is another nightmare. Though to be fair looks amazing when you nail it.

I'm sure it does, I'll attempt it for sure. I love it so much. I keep bailing into cars lmfao, I fractured my skull from an awesome bail earlier, uploaded but not sure where to view it (or even if the site has gone live yet)...

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

Wow that gap does look pretty huge :|

I absolutely love making my own spots in this game, so much fun :heart:

[Spookie]

Yay just got both covers. Thrashers Dam drop is: :D

Serious sense of speed when you're flying down it too. :)

I absolutely love making my own spots in this game, so much fun :heart:

You'll love the stacks, lots of hidden bank drops, lots of levels to gap off. :D

[DirtyLarry Veteran]

Picked up the game last night, after trade ins, a gift card I had, and including Killzone 2 on pre-order, it cost me $1.69 for all of that...

Barely got to play though, and so far I love the actual gameplay that is the same, and really wish they did something with the off the board walking, so so bad, but I guess it is a game about Skating...

I found myself way into bailing though, I was somewhere, I forget the name, maybe The Stacks, where it is a 55 foot drop down, and I just kept seeing how bad I could hurt myself and got caught up in that for over an Hour.

Amazing how one of the first tutorials was something I never knew how to do on the old one, pumping on a half pipe. Had no clue if you pressed RT that helped you get higher...

Looking forward to the online, I kept getting a disconnect error from EA Nation last night, but sounds like fun

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

Yeah I wasn't able to connect to EA Nation until last night, I think there must have been a few launch hiccups. it works fine for me now though (Y)

[Spookie]

Anyone up for a free skate tonight or tommorow? :)

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

I'm in (Y)

[Spookie]

EA servers aren't behaving by the looks of it. :/

Oh yeah finished the game. :p

With slappy mentioning having a mini-slappy in brazil does that mean Skate 3 will be relocating from San Van?

Edited January 23, 2009 by Spookie

[habnad]

EA servers aren't behaving by the looks of it. :/

Oh yeah finished the game. :p

You're kidding right???