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Skate 3 Trailer

It's Team Hesh versus Team Fresh in the first trailer for Skate 3.

Nov. 6 2009

Posted by: Ryan

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Skate 3

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@MysteriousBob said:
" @MrKlorox said:
" @slaneesh said:
" @Tuggah said:
"Why they have to put out a game yearly is beyond me. "
It´s called the Activision Syndrome. "
You mean "Madden Syndrome". It is standard fare for an EA Sports title, which both are. "
Madden is American Football, right?  even though I never play sport games, I'm fairly sure they benefit from the roster update. A skateboarding has no benefits from an early sequel. "
Not true. There is still plenty left to implement into the Skate series. The finally added the ability to do tricks with the board upside down and there's still many types of tricks left. Whereas the biggest difference Madden has every year, the roster update, is mostly just text data.
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Would be cool if there was a filming mode, like you actually try to capture other peoples' stuff.  I guess I should give up and get into the film business.
 
Unfortunate schwa for the Fresh team.  Frsh. 

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All this trailer did was make me think that there need to be fewer games about skating and more games about metal panthers.

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@ChromaticPanther said:
" Hesh vs Fresh? More like white guys vs black guys. Anyone else notice that? Skate 3: Race Wars. "
In the future the race wars will be fought with skateboards and cliche racial associated slang!
I won't be bothering with this at all. I already felt that Skate2 was a little too soon. This is just a THPS ass disaster waiting to happen.
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Tiger growl!!!!

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I loved Skate. I then loved Skate 2 for its great improvements but really... I think its too soon for another Skate. There just isn't enough new things that can be added I don't thing to really make it worthy of another. 
 
They better make a whole new city though, no matter what. No more "re-making" the old city.

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The only massive bell ends are the people being neg in this thread.  Here's the facts:
 
The Skate series already revolutionised skating game control methods.  There is no need to fuck with that.
 
The joy of street skating is mastering your technique then finding new and interesting places to test your style.  Skate 3 is providing a WHOLE NEW CITY of spots to skate.
 
Another great thing about street skating is hanging out with your mates, and comparing footage/tricks/new clothes etc. etc. etc. 
 
Skate 3 is just improving on all the other stuff it hasn't yet.  And for the record, it's never taken itself too seriously, which is why all the character are totally batshit crazy.

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This literally does nothing for me. I know they have to keep adding stuff just like TH games had to be Skate feels like it's running out of ideas much quicker because it started with so much. They say they're listening to the fans but no one asked for teams. We wanted a new city that was as great to skate in as the first rather than the mess that Skate 2s city was. What fans of the original game want in a sequel actually isn't much. The realism of the first game, better animation, more tricks, and walking that doesn't suck. I even think graphically 2 didn't look as good as 1 and with this using the same engine as 2 this is going to look just like it and I think it's looking dated. I hope that after this, the team looks back at what really worked so well in the original and start again with a brand new engine.

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@redrum_redrum said:
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Skate is becoming Tony Hawk.......  and  Tony Hawk is becoming Skate....... "
Half of that statement was correct.
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Team Shorts Shorts I bet will easily defeat the other two teams.

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@Gunner said:
" metal.. and skateboarding?  Those two dont mix at all.   I miss punk. "
Ugh that wasnt even metal, it was like progressive/hard/trash
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metal.. and skateboarding?
 
Those two dont mix at all. 
 
I miss punk.

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When the first Skate came out, I remember being really impressed with how fluid the animations were. What happened? Did everything get choppier or am I having a nostalgia attack?

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AWESOME!

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Airwalk down a stairset? serious?? Even the Tony Hawk series isn't that revolting. I don't see Skate's original audience (actual skateboarders) being even remotely interested in this mess

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Cant wait!!!!!!!

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meh, i love skateboarding games, but this yearly games fever is making  the skate brand, pointless.

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@ChromaticPanther: 
 
I started to notice after like the 3rd shot of a black guy bail.
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Nothing will ever topple THPS4 :P

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Hesh vs Fresh? More like white guys vs black guys. Anyone else notice that? Skate 3: Race Wars.

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At around 1:12 that guy lands that Air Walk pretty high up. I wonder if the landing retrictions have been played around with because you couldn't land anything that high in Skate 2 without a sloped landing zone.

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@JJWeatherman:
I have to agree this trailer was terrible. I LOVED Skate. and Skate2 didn't apeal to me that much so I hope they make Skate 3 much better. But judging by this it mght have gotten worse. I guess we'll have to wait until May
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@MrKlorox said:
" @slaneesh said:
" @Tuggah said:
"Why they have to put out a game yearly is beyond me. "
It´s called the Activision Syndrome. "
You mean "Madden Syndrome". It is standard fare for an EA Sports title, which both are. "
Madden is American Football, right?  even though I never play sport games, I'm fairly sure they benefit from the roster update. A skateboarding has no benefits from an early sequel.
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@MysteriousBob said:
" I have a question. Why is every single Skate character, without exception, a massive bellend? "
that my friend is THE question
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Skate is becoming Tony Hawk.......  and  Tony Hawk is becoming Skate.......
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@nicklott said:
" Sorry to see it looks like they're Tony Hawking this franchise. Skate 1 was great and 2 improved just about everything from the first really making it feel like the definitive skating game. If all they're adding is "character", than no thank you sir. I remember the first skate footage I saw was just gameplay of a skater doing some unexageraterated tricks and it totally sold me. This is unfortunate. "
 
My thoughts exactly... Frankly, Skate 1 was one of the games i've played the most ever (time-wise), now, a while after it's release I've gotten kind of upset at Skate 2 being released pre-maturely, if they just would have tweaked it a bit more it could have been just as fresh and good as Skate 1 was.
Man... This just feels like tony hawk but with less 1080-quad-kick-flips-mc-twist.
 
And... Just for the record, I think the 'Madden economies of scale' theory, which is employed by many distributors, will in the long run prove to be detrimental to the industry. Done ranting now.
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Meh.

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Sucks.

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@slaneesh said:
" @Tuggah said:
"Why they have to put out a game yearly is beyond me. "
It´s called the Activision Syndrome. "
You mean "Madden Syndrome". It is standard fare for an EA Sports title, which both are.
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The skate team thing could potentially be interesting, as my friend and I had had a ton of fun doing the freeskate challenges in Skate 2 together, but this trailer honestly doesn't do much to get me excited.

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For those jumping to conclusions over this trailer, just because they don't focus on new moves, in this particular trailer, doesn't mean there aren't any. Why would  they blow there load so early? Also a brand new city and new features,  justifies a new game. They had decent post game DLC support for Skate 2, unlike with Skate 1.  To expect every developer to be like Criterion and release a years worth of DLC after launch is unrealistic.

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@Tuggah said:
"Why they have to put out a game yearly is beyond me. "

It´s called the Activision Syndrome. It´s a disease where money causes one to rape franchises over over until theyre sucked dry.  
 
You can be a victim of this disease as well.  
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Man, I fucking loved skate 1 and 2. Really, i still play skate 2. but i can't help but feel that graphically, this just looks bad. you can't jsut keep recycling the engine, adding new environments and calling it a new game. I remain cautiously optimistic, but part of me feels like this is where the series nukes the fridge.

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this looks fucking lame!  and I don't even feel like explaining why i feel this way

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This looks bad, don't they realize this was one of the reasons the Tony Hawk franchise died off? 
 
Seriously, Team Fresh vs Team Hesh? Could that sound more dull.

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When I heard the cougar cry, I literally thought that a large cat was going to leap down on the skaters.  For a split-second I was actually interested in what was going to happen.  Imagine, skating for your life while a cougar chases you through the city.
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@MrMiyagi said:
" Hesh and Fresh?   I loved the hell out of Skate 2, but I don't like this whole "TEAM UP AND SKATE!" thing. "
But Mr. Miyagi, who will become these young souls' zen master of guidance?
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Meh, looks like I'm skipping both Tony Hawk and this game this year.

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Sorry to see it looks like they're Tony Hawking this franchise. Skate 1 was great and 2 improved just about everything from the first really making it feel like the definitive skating game. If all they're adding is "character", than no thank you sir. I remember the first skate footage I saw was just gameplay of a skater doing some unexageraterated tricks and it totally sold me. This is unfortunate.

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EYES OF A PANTHER! YEAHHH!

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Hesh vs Fresh! Flesh! Resh! Rezesh! Mesh! 
 
Naming... tips.... :|

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Why they have to put out a game yearly is beyond me.

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This is a really bad way to create hype for a game

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I couldn't really get into the original Skate but thought they cleaned up a lot with Skate 2. That said, I think EA would have to make a lot of changes to get me into Skate 3.

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Oh man, that looks awful. It looks exactly the same as Skate 2.

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Looks like that 'beat my points' mode from THPS... with other people watching.

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Oh my god... this looks absolutely awful. 
 
I knew somehow the greatness of "Skate." would never go anywhere worthwhile. Lets just hope the series doesn't get as bad as the Tony Hawk series.

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The only thing about Skate that sucked was the multiplayer, so I like where this is going. They would have the team names rhyme, though.

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I hope they don't start overly concentrating on story. Don't get me wrong, I loves me a story and all but, as the Tony Hawks series has taught us, Story can make a game suffer pretty bad (Here's looking at you Underground 1 & 2)