As a goofy skater: *Rubs Hands Together And Laughs Malevolently*

Well, I skated Goofy and I'd like to point out that American Wasteland forces you to skate Regular, which bothered me just as much.

@PanicDr

6 жыл бұрын

Grzegorz Sokólski EXACTLY!

@technofaza

5 жыл бұрын

it does, all 5 of the default career skaters are regular

@reecejamesvickers

4 жыл бұрын

Most of the pro’s had their stances wrongly assigned in THAW too and it really irked me as a kid.

@JoeBug

4 жыл бұрын

But American wasteland made almost all pros goofy. A goofy Andrew Reynolds? Bs

@mycatisdumb99

3 жыл бұрын

@@JoeBug it had tony doing a 900 in regular too lol

I have fond memories when it comes to Skate 1. I still remember being blown away by the first trailer back in 2007. I never seen anything like it, and since I was a skater it immediately caught my attention. I will never forget Christmas Day of 2007 when I got an Xbox 360 Elite with a copy of this game. Once I set it up to my shitty 90's TV I was absolutely blown away by it. Saying the game lived up to my expectations would be an understatement, I never played anything like it before. I also remember going up to the Factory skatepark in Dundee and skating a marble box that had a plaque attached to it with the Ea Skate logo. There was marble blocks designed for skateboarding put in skateparks across the UK to promote the game, and I'm happy to say that I was lucky enough to skate one of them. This is why I love Skate 1. I was there from the start, and I don't think that there will ever be a game that will catch my attention the same way again. I really liked Skate 2, but it didn't feel as unique to me as its predecessor. I don't really care for Skate 3 as that game does feel way too cartoony and it has kids doing that god awful tricklining rubbish thanks to the douchebag that is X7 Albert . Anyway, good video as always, Rad Rat. Looking forward to watching more of your reviews.

Skate 2 was my favorite by far. The city was still open and greatly improved from Skate 1. You could get off your board. Best soundtrack. And your skater could get beat up from bailing too much. Though I do think Skate 3 has the best control.

@oku1317

6 жыл бұрын

True. Although what I found was frustrating was how the camera would zoom out when chased by a guard. Although this made it easier to see around you and avoid the guards compared to the default low camera, skating with a camera that zoomed out felt really arcade. Apart from that I loved it and it gave a great feel to the game.

@xrossingspeedrun

4 жыл бұрын

I preferred skate 1s soundtrack

@Ceas3

4 жыл бұрын

So at the time of this comment I played skate 3 every once in a while then I lost my disk 2 years later I bore myself playing that game u can play for one day and remember the entire map which isn't even worth exploring,it is boring and is a downgrade from any other of the other skate games

@insomniacbritgaming1632

4 жыл бұрын

I miss the security chases from Skate 1 and 2... if you had skate 3, with Skate 1 and 2's world... with the security and skate stop stuff... would be perfect

@charlyabarca3881

4 жыл бұрын

Skate 1 had the best soundtrack but skate 2 is by far the best game aside from the soundtrack

IMO, Skate 1 had the best soundtrack, Skate 2 had the best environment, and Skate 3 had the best gameplay mechanics. I wish there was some way to get some sort of Frankenstein monster video game out of all 3 of them.

@KookoCraft

6 жыл бұрын

skate 2 had a good soundtrack as well, but skate 3 wasn't too good with the bails.

@mescaliiiiine

6 жыл бұрын

Maybe in Skate 4 scheduled for 2028

@Deathano0bGaming

6 жыл бұрын

Roger Flores you are spot on with that i liked 3 but it had the worst map and campain compared to the other 2 but had the most tricks

@Lieutenaantdan

5 жыл бұрын

This is why I always wanted a skate 4 from the jump so we could get all 3 put into one .... but sadly that never happened 😪

@treysmith3550

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah that would be crazy something like skate 4

Skate 1 is still my favorite. It is the prettiest and purest. I would love a 60fps port on some modern systems... PC why not!

@irunasoft

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah skate 1 is awesome

@ceeso2002

4 жыл бұрын

Its compatible on the Xbox One which is as close as it gets to playing it on the modern systems so...

@dudemydude4969

4 жыл бұрын

I have skate 1 on my pc with a ps3 emulator The lowest I got was 30 FPS

@_lucatron48_2

4 жыл бұрын

Dude my Dude I have skate 3 on my pc and I don’t go under 60

@Kevin-yx8lm

4 жыл бұрын

_ lucatron48 _ I have Skate 2 on my PC and it averages 10 - 20 FPS

That moment when there are three achievements for this game you'll never get because EA Nation closed down 😢 Forever 47/50

@zetetick395

3 жыл бұрын

Just one more reason to throw on the huge, flaming dumpster-heap of reasons as to why EA are the fkn WORST! \🙄/

i almost died of laughter at that title. i felt the exact same way about the default goofy stance. it is weird for people who don't understand stance. i was playing this online freeskate back in the day and someone asked me how to do some trick, i dont remember, and i asked him what his stance was. he didnt know what i was talking about. it was very hard to explain.

Hey Rad Rat! Just wanted to say, as a 30 something year old ex-skateboarder, you are the only KZreadr whose content I actually wait! Also you seem like a very likable person. All the best from Finland. PS. Also Skate 2 is the best in the series, clearly.

@KL_Stereo

3 жыл бұрын

Näin se kyllä on.

@MightyALX

2 жыл бұрын

Näin se on.

Skate 2 is my favorite. But I have the most fond memories of the first one. Skate 3 was a lazy cash grab that killed the community. Only positives were slightly improved graphics and stable 60 fps.

@superfly6

6 жыл бұрын

M L i've always thought Skate 3's graphics looked a bit too much like a cartoon compared to Skate 2's somewhat realistic graphics

@user-og6ol2im7v

6 жыл бұрын

exactly

@DSled

6 жыл бұрын

Skate 3 had hardcore mode, and park creator. Definitely spent my most time on Skate 3, but I get your point. Nothing beats the original San Van, also the soundtrack on Skate 1 was god tier

@elderrusty541

6 жыл бұрын

M L Skate was fun but he environment of Skate 2 was much better and the guard system was awesome having to get around gaurds to get to cool skate spots

@Sk8bordinAdiction11

6 жыл бұрын

Literally the only 2 bad things about skate 2 was the off board controls, how you can only jog and not much else. And the fact that body flips were damn near impossible to land compared to skate 3. Im still most definitely in love with the game and play it often due to the realistic feeling of skating the ghetto ran down places, the 24/7 beautiful sunset scenery in which the sun could sometime outshine the camera lense, and the art of finessing Mongo Corp lol (the security), skate 3 was definitely rushed in my opinion, but they did add alot of great improvements. But overall they lost the support of real skaters after they forced us to move to corny Port Carverton where its perfect weather and literally everything in the streets are from a skatepark, it was just too perfect and not grimy enough to feel authentic. I missed the hustle of finding hard to make spots and what not. Only serious improvement was the Park maker. Two thumbs up for that. Well anyways they need to bring back San Van. EA made so much money off of the Skate series, i have no idea why they would just abandon it smh.

17:58 lmao coming here after skate 4 announcement and im hyped

I Never Realised That Goofy Was The Default Setting Due To Skating Goofy Myself!

that hippie flip was dope!!! I spent hours in 2 trying to hippie flip bump to bars and would almost never get them

SKATE 1 is my favorite of the series. Loved the soundtrack, loved almost everything about the game. 2 was a step up in tricks and off the board, but I didn't like it nearly as much. 3 is fairly boring to me. Nothing will be the first game (for me).

I was surprised you said Joe Moore I see him around all the time I didn't know he was known out of the UK

@jackcowling3314

6 жыл бұрын

instagram

@squashua7727

4 жыл бұрын

@@jackcowling3314 even so joe moore is one of the best uk skaters and is in some not so well known footage on youtube search up micklefield skate park summers day and youll see some good stuff

@quiettimegaming3642

4 жыл бұрын

I know about him because of Brett Novak’s “short skate film” he had Joe in.

Love me some Thrasher: Skate and Destroy. One of my top five favorite games of all-time!

@fastinradfordable

4 жыл бұрын

Same.

I really have been enjoying your vids for quite some time!! Keep up the good work RadRat!! 👍👌

i just watched a 20 minute review on a game i've already put 10000 hours into. the love is real! anyone remember when the timed demo came out? i probably put 100 hours just into that park. that park was my fave place to skate even after the full game came out. community centre for life! great video.

Hippy flips are definitely an intended feature, in one of the pro intros (I want to say it’s Jason Dill) they’re actually shown doing a hippy flip at that same location

I can't wait to see you Jam with Danny Way in Skate 2. That took me forever but it was so goddamn satisfying when I finally beat him 2 - 1

Skate 2 was such a good game. Me and the lads had soooo much fun with the HALL OF MEAT thing. My mates werent skaters so they loved playing that! It was so well done that mode.

As a goofy skater I always make my character goofy and i start challenges regular sometimes i think you just start in the wrong stance sometimes no matter what your stance is it must be a glitch or something

wow I just realized it been over 10 years since i played this game. I miss it so much.

@crazyhiphopp

2 жыл бұрын

Buy it

6:32 - Can you imagine a game where you had to work up courage to do big gaps, like a skate RPG where you had to level up a charisma stat to pull of risky gap other wise your skate refuses to do the gap?

Reminds me of skate 3. It doesn't switch your stance on challenges, but if you're regular, and do a film or photo, your back will be facing the camera, which, imo doesn't look too great. Not to mention, they have a counter for Mongo pushes.

I'm 32 never skated a day in my life but still watch your videos dude. Loved skate 2 and 3

I've been waiting for this video for so long man!

One of the few youtubers I know of who dont come off as fake and annoying when they ask you to subscribe in the beginning of videos. He simply says what goes on here, and to subscribe if you want. Nothing pushy about it, And thats rare out here.

I still play EA Skate after 10 years, but Skate 2 is my favorite. 3 added on plenty of features, but the game did not feel complete.

There are so many hidden spots in this game that I’m still finding today and you can only get to them using the pop glitches

just about everything you said was bad about it is what makes it great in my opinion (except for always respawning goody, thats trash). the pedestrians and cars in deathraces actually makes it a challenge, anyone can bomb a hill when you have perfect balance in a game. the other people in contests means you actually have to time and plan your runs. and not knowing if your opponent is gunna stack or match your trick in SKATE makes you actually challenge yourself and try a trick that you might not be comfortable with flicking. just like in real games of skate. all these things make it more realistic and fun. and as for skating an empty shell of a city with no people, cars, or security, i couldnt think of anything worse.

I'd love to see you do a video / video series on video games that include skateboarding, but aren't necessarily skateboarding video games (Dead Rising 1, for example)

I JUST REALIZED YOU CAN DO PIVOTS WHILE IN MANUALS OMG

You need to review some BMX games, like the Matt Hoffman's and Dave Mirra's pro bmx games, Downhill domination or even... idk... BMX XXX?

@davidaames64

4 жыл бұрын

BMX XXX was fun and crazy af... also it has a big selling point. 🍊🍊😅 such a classic. 😁

Does anyone know the song that's playing in the background around 3:20 ? Info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

There was a glitch that I (might) have found on skate 1. this was like 2011. I managed to get on top of the subway sign and I ollied off of it. But right before I landed, I did a manual. I shot across the map for like 150ft and (of course) bailed.

This game will always remind me of the first time I played it. Friday night in 2007, just after it was released. 15 years old, Wendy’s Baconator for dinner, played this for hours and fell asleep watching “300”, rented on dvd from Hollywood Video. Simpler times, man.

@jusssrelax2247

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a good night bro

I got into your videos with the tony hawk games, great great content friend 🔥👍

lmao love the title. I always wondered why goofy was standard in that game.

@animetodamaximum

6 жыл бұрын

Hate At Chee Because it is the best stance. XD

@elusivelogic6704

5 жыл бұрын

@@animetodamaximum yeah you're right man. People who write with their right hand but flick their skate boards with their left foot are just plain goofy.

That goofy glitch is the weirdest thing ive ever seen. Ive played this game so many hours and never experienced that while my stace was regular

Thank God ur back, i missed this channel

Skate 3 definitely has the best game mechanics. It runs so smooth even to this day. The original has the best city for sure, though. Skate 2 was good, and I like the city more than 3, but something about it makes me gravitate to the other two. Keep in mind when I got my ps3 the only game I had for a solid year was skate. That was honestly all I played, so naturally I was super pumped when skate 2 came out and probably overplayed it even more than the original. Oh, and 3 had the best challenges. Like "kill the spot" is really cool, and in some cases pretty challenging.

That hippy flip was cool, the way it just looked so clean

If you watch the Intro video (not the opening cutscene) Mark Gonzales is seen doing a Hippie-Flip

im pretty sure the hippy flips were put in the game, if i remember correctly, there is one in the intro sequence to the game. Its some guy doing one on a bank i think?

@k0naisedging

6 жыл бұрын

P00RKN0W yeah it was in the game

@varianmanek9561

6 жыл бұрын

Mark Gonzales does it in his pro challenge intro video

Crazy to think I was 10 years old when this game out, I remember loving everything about it. Playing it again earlier this year showed me that the star of the game is the mechanics and not the mission design. Deathraces were so dreadful, especially without the ability to set it to a high camera.

hey Rad Rat, I have a question as someone who's used to the TH control scheme: do you ever have difficulty switching from the face-button trick gameplay of Tony Hawk to the right-stick trick gameplay of Skate, and vice versa? is there a disconnect or does the graphical style of the games help you distinguish which game your playing and you can adjust easily. i had been itching to give the Skate series a try, but I've been hesitant because I'm unsure if it would affect the play style I'm used to. as unrealistic as it is: i do enjoy the bat**** crazy style of playing those games from TH3-THAW

@metallicafan416

6 жыл бұрын

SonicRyan1992 definite learning curve jumping into skate but honestly never played a TH game after skate came out

I love all Skate games but especially #3. The city was a letdown but boy oh boy, that hardcore mode. Getting used to hardcore mode made it really hard going back to the older games.

after skate came out i dropped all tony hawks games, i was so addicted to the demo that came out and was hooked all the way upto 3.

I remember downloading Skate. demo on X360, that had only a small area and was limited to 20 minutes per play , I think. I played the demo pretty much everyday until the game came out...

those hippy flips are dope!

I loved this game. I never beat it though. I wasn't very good at doing advanced flip tricks. I'd always end up doing the wrong trick. Also, as you mentioned glitches at the end, the most I remember was falling through the map and a weird super bounce (Halo 2 glitch) type of glitch, and flying endlessly into the sky and the camera being weird but the skater was invisible. If you're unfamiliar with that last one, I have a very old video of it on my channel. It was very weird.

Thanks a lot for this very informative retrospective on Skate.

And now that all three games are backwards compatible on Xbox it's time to rewatch all of your Skate videos

if you do a 540 rotation in the game of skate challenges they will get a letter every time, so ollie 540, k flip 540 ect. ect. you will win every time

My favourite game of the series is skate 3 just because of the bigger map, more advanced Tricks and an optimized replay editor. I spent so much time filming there :D. The spots are a little bit too clean though, but they got in a nice mix of different looks.

Skate broke tony hawk for me.

It's funny, EA went from including hippy flips as a mistake (?) to outright advertising them in Skate 3 (maybe skate 2 as well, can't remember).

I played this game to death literally everyday I can sit and just play free skate doing lines. I loved the different clothes shoes too. Skate 2 is my favourite.

I just recently saw a Tony Hawk interview where he sorta went off about how "regular" isn't regular cuz 80% (or something) of ppl skate "goofy", "But whatever".

Honestly the death races to me are a lot of fun, mainly cause I like bombing down hills and its fun to do so while going against others (Even if it is CPU)

EA Skate games of S.K.A.T.E. were a huge deal between me and my friends back in the day. And I gained PS3 friends through playing that mode online. And the Big Air or trick contest or whatever it was.. I, for one, loved those modes.

I skate regular irl and it helps to be in game so I more easily flick the sticks the way I flick my foot for a kickflip

Hippie flips was shown on the skate demo.

They need to include like an Overall rating for every skater like in 2k, so in career mode you have to grow that.

@wintermute8315

3 жыл бұрын

Skate is about improving by growing your own skills, not just grinding some virtual number. That's the entire point of it. 2K, on the other hand, just wants you to spend money.

Since a skate installment got confirmed, i just hope they get those chunky wood sounds back

The pop glitch was awesome

I had a mobile version of Skate on my Motorola SLVR. Yeah.

Honestly I think it just doesn’t that depending on your stance when you land. I’m goofy and it put me in switch alot

i have the most fond memories of the original one for the wii skate it it opened my life and people said they cant play it well im 80% done i never played it since should probably bust out the wii for christmas xd

Screw that 360 Flip to FS Crooked challenge. I had to do that shit for hours just to finally pass it.

Perfect review you missed online but its still convenient since you didn't get the chance to enjoy it.

6:32 Alright, so this man literally just explained the best part about the EA Skate series haha

I loved Skate 1 but completely went off Skate 2. Never bothered with 3 because of that, and so when I bought it 2 months back it was so nice playing it as though it were brand new! I think I'll go back and pick up 2 again and see if I like it more now.

@Bokator2

6 жыл бұрын

You want regret it skate 2 is still a masterpiece over 3. I advise you not to spend money on skate 3 as it is to cartoon and the bails are stiff. Skate 2 has an urban feel and when controlling the board it feels better and easier. Take it from the blobfish

Love your vids!!!

Iv played them all beaten everything but still never managed to pull off one hippy flip 😂

@dollarpiranha

5 жыл бұрын

James Twigg facts 😂

Crazy that 4 is coming

I gave up that 5-0 to tail slide challenge and gave up EA Skate completely all because I didn't know about needing to be in goofy :/

@shockafter7

2 жыл бұрын

Been playing it again since it’s on game pass on Xbox. Finally did it haha almost forgot about the goofy thing. Got to the x games yesterday, was pretty fun and I think I love it more than skate 3.

Skate 2 is the best to this day because the physics are not restricted.

Skate felt the best to me, I like the grimey looking graphics and the way it feels to grind rails. That school yard and community center had so many little lines and gaps that you could skate for hours. I'm going to go play now!!

S.K.A.T.E. was fun online! I think because people weren't acclimated to the controls. Trying to do someone's hardflip was a challenge back then. I even gained some PSN buddies that just liked to play Skate online. Of course, nowadays people have mastered the controls.

Literally the only 2 bad things about skate 2 was the off board controls, how you can only jog and not much else. And the fact that body flips were damn near impossible to land compared to skate 3. Im still most definitely in love with the game and play it often due to the realistic feeling of skating the ghetto ran down places, the 24/7 beautiful sunset scenery in which the sun could sometime outshine the camera lense, and the art of finessing Mongo Corp lol (the security), skate 3 was definitely rushed in my opinion, but they did add alot of great improvements. But overall they lost the support of real skaters after they forced us to move to corny Port Carverton where its perfect weather and literally everything in the streets are from a skatepark, it was just too perfect and not grimy enough to feel authentic. I missed the hustle of finding hard to make spots and what not. Only serious improvement was the Park maker. Two thumbs up for that. Well anyways they need to bring back San Van. EA made so much money off of the Skate series, i have no idea why they would just abandon it smh.

Besides of people say about Skate 1. I still love that game to this day, and it's a true masterpiece in gaming. :)

"There's not gonna be a skate 4..." I'm aboutta ruin this whole man's career

can't speak for skate 1 but skate 2 and 3 death races are some of my favourite shit to do in the game...especially online

I remember playing this on 360 for years, all the skate games actually. Then i tried it for the first time on ps3 and the dualshock sticks were SO much better feeling for tricks, wasnt too choppy but fun as fuck

I'm goofy stance when I skate and I prefer to use goofy skaters on skateboard games. I guess it makes sense since I'm also left handed.

I remember owning skate but the disc was so bad all my textures would be green and purple

Skate 2 would be the best if it wasn't for the AWFUL controls when walking

@ceeso2002

6 жыл бұрын

Noah Zimmerer the walking wasn't awful. It was just jaggy as shit but still a little functional

@noyyii

6 жыл бұрын

Jackass For me atleast, when I press a direction it takes 1/2 of a second until I finally move. It's so bad.

@PhattBudz

6 жыл бұрын

Noah Zimmerer that's your tv, playboy.

@noyyii

6 жыл бұрын

PhattBudz Then why does it work just fine in Skate 3?

4th Skate now in development.

Actually, hippy flips are intentional, and are even in the skate or skate 3 opening title cutscene (I can’t remember which)

I remember I had to set all my skaters to goofy on THUG

You left out a part where when you play skate if you used those extra analog turns where you get some extra degree on a spin and do a 540 trick the enemy AI can’t match 540s or even spin that fast so you beat the AI every time if you can land huge spins

Only got to play Skate 3 on the XB1 as I can't find anymore copies of Skate 1 or 2 at any local store. Though I do keep reading a lot about how the previous games were better and makes me hope that a PS3 emulator can run either game someday.

@xKAOTICZ

6 жыл бұрын

thatmotorfreak you can find them online try amazon

I skate Goofy in all games now because of learning the tut in Goofy, I skate regular in real life lol

I stuck with the Goofy stance in Skate 1 and just used Square to push, I find it easier to go from Square to the right analog stick than X. I don't skate but played a lot of Tony Hawk's games on the PS1 and PS2 so I knew most of the terms from them and didn't really find this game confusing.

Perhaps my ps3 is about to die / replayed this game recently. Had horrendous fps issues. Made most challenges pretty frustrating, with the exception of the death races where the system slow down made it easier.

When you get around to skate 3, you should discuss hardcore mode. I think it's one of the best things it has going for it.

Yoo the commentator for the pro challenges is the same commentator from prostreet

I find skate 2 wants you to be reg always switching me around. Nice vid