Two unfinished games – Skater XL (basically a mod platform with no real career) – Session (solid mechanics but still janky and underbaked after years in Early Access)
Two emulated games – Skate 2 – Skate 3
…and that’s it. EA had a 15-year window to deliver a polished Skate 4 and instead launched a live-service experiment. Now the only way to get a complete, authentic skateboarding experience is to emulate decade-old titles or play unfinished indie sims.
not into Tony Hawk
smh
I’m an outsider to the skate culture but like what more than THPS and Skate 1 - 3 do you need. This feels kind of like a solved problem
The humble OlliOlli 2:
Well there is also SkateLab but it’s uhhh… just a physics driven sandbox. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2983940/SkateLab/
I will play THPS3 and nobody will stop me.
It’s probably too much to ask from EA to ever get a port of the Skate games, they could just remove all the expired licensed music if that was a problem. Activision is evil, but I have to give them credit for getting the rights to almost all the songs for the THPS remakes.
I saw redditors calling Skate 4 “gentrified Skate” and if that’s what redditors are saying you fucking know it must be soulless because those piggies thought Starfield was good until 2-3months after release.
who needs wheels when all four good SSX games run great on ps2 and gamecube emulation
I hear that floating sword game is pretty good
I haven’t heard of this one, what’s it called
Sword of the Sea maybe?
Surfing? That’s not skateboarding at all!
That’s the one
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There’s also Grind Session (legally distinct THPS, but not as gravity defying as THPS gets), and Thrasher Skate and Destroy (it’s sorta more realistic like Skate is to a degree). Both on the PS1, of which makes them filed under emulating decades old games as well.
I played about 10 hours of skate 4, it doesnt seem any sillier than skate 3, i enjoyed it before my hands got sore flipping the sticks around
sucks its always online but whatever it was free
