Skate 2 Impressions

[Corey]

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The answer to the ships poop deck pool spot kill...

Oh brother, I'd think that would of occurred to me given that's how I got there in the first place.

Thanks!
(figured the camera out now too)

[calcutta]

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Man, the Pro challenge where you battle two pros in S.K.A.T.E. is a royal pain! They pretty much never bail and, like Skate, copying tricks is pure luck because the right stick simply isn't precise enough...even with the sharpest jabs of the RS I seem to always perform Pop Shuv-its. It's the last Pro Challenge i need to beat too

My other main gripe is the frustration caused by NPCs - peds, skaters (during Pro challenges) and even Big Black (during the final SBM shoot) all do an excellent job of getting in your way!

That said im loving the game and been playing it non-stop, even though the game has frozen on me 15 times...just played a 3-hour sesh w/o any issues though.

[spit_bubble]

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My final impressions... Continued from my previous ones...

Not nearly done with the game yet, but deep enough into it to see that it offers a significant amount over the first EA Skate. It still doesn't have that wow factor to it, but the game is good... Very good.

It does at times feel a bit arcade-ish, slightly more so than the first, due mostly in part to: 1. The city feeling at times not so much like a city, but rather one big skate park, and 2. Some of the skating can get pretty absurd.

But for every Tony Hawk type of moment the game has, it is balanced with a nice little area to skate where you can get back to what made the initial EA Skate so compelling: simple moves and sequences that are both challenging and pleasing.

There is still room for improvement with the series, but by my own estimation Skate 2 is a worthwhile game.

[goh]

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My other main gripe is the frustration caused by NPCs - peds, skaters (during Pro challenges) and even Big Black (during the final SBM shoot) all do an excellent job of getting in your way!

I just finished that GvR comp and during the last section of it got knocked down 4 times in the middle of big tricks. Should've won by DQ. Was the same mess in the first part at the hotel comp before that one too before I figured out a spot they weren't using.

[btown12]

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Just wait till you play SKATE with Koston and Carroll. They sometimes mess up their tricks when trying to set the trick just to give you a try, but Carroll never misses when you set the trick.

I've given up hope that I'll ever be able to beat this challenge. Carroll is pretty much unstoppable. I would have to say that I've spent close to an hour and a half on this challenge alone...and he's never missed a trick. By my calculation, that puts him at about 756 for 756 in the landing tricks department.

Anyone able to beat this yet? I even tried to cheese and use the 540 spins like you could in the first game...but can't pull them off either. It's gonna be very frustrating if this is the one challenge that keeps me from 100%.

[mgoblue]

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I've given up hope that I'll ever be able to beat this challenge. Carroll is pretty much unstoppable. I would have to say that I've spent close to an hour and a half on this challenge alone...and he's never missed a trick. By my calculation, that puts him at about 756 for 756 in the landing tricks department.

Anyone able to beat this yet? I even tried to cheese and use the 540 spins like you could in the first game...but can't pull them off either. It's gonna be very frustrating if this is the one challenge that keeps me from 100%.

I spent 10 minutes on it and gave up (it was late at night)...I don't have anywhere near the right stick control yet, and it seems like you'll have to be perfect in order to beat that pro challenge.

[TCrouch]

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I was actually up on both of them, no letters to S.K. each. I hit probably something like 50 tricks in a row and they never missed, so I canceled. I found that to be the most ridiculous challenge I've ever seen. It's the only thing listed in my "Career" challenges, and that's pretty silly if I have to beat that to get any more.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that found it ludicrous. I mean, I was pulling everything in the world that I could think of and they'd both hit it almost every time.

[oChaos_Nine]

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Whenever they do finally miss and I get to set the trick I end up hitting the rail? I never hit the rail when trying to copy, but when setting thats a different story.

[LP]

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I had a lot of trouble with this challenge as well. I finally beat it by using 540s and triple kickflips. I really didn't want to have to resort to those tactics, but doing tricks and having them replicated for 3 hrs. doesn't sound like fun.

[calcutta]

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I was making such great progress (800 Gamerpoints already), but this Koston/Carroll Pro challenge plus the ~25 Throwdowns (1-on-1 S.K.A.T.E. games against ALL Pros) will likely prevent any chance of me getting the full 1000

I still can't understand why such challenges are in career mode (even in Skate 1) when its based almost entirely on luck against CPU skaters. Leave it to multi only next time please.

[oChaos_Nine]

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I was making such great progress (800 Gamerpoints already), but this Koston/Carroll Pro challenge plus the ~25 Throwdowns (1-on-1 S.K.A.T.E. games against ALL Pros) will likely prevent any chance of me getting the full 1000

I still can't understand why such challenges are in career mode (even in Skate 1) when its based almost entirely on luck against CPU skaters. Leave it to multi only next time please.

I played my first throwdown against Dyrdek and it was easy. He missed his first trick and I beat him after about 8 tricks. I'm thinking they'll all be like that. But not the pro challenge. BTW I sometimes miss when trying to do 360's. How are you getting 540's off such a little ramp?

[GSW]

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im loving that in the challenges you can actually beat them by doing realistic things.

you dont have to do impossible flip tricks to grinds to flip tricks out spinnign around grabbing to beat them... pretty sick.

[Ruffy]

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Fairly new to the series...

Kept the demo for Skate on my PS3 for a pretty long time....enjoyed the 2nd demo and picked this puppy up. I'm still learning but online is dam fun....played with aukevin last night and we had some laughs doing some gap challenges.

Online is a bit like burnouts online.

Played a few hours of the career....It will be very hard for me to beat the game my stick skills aren't there yet!

Enjoying it a ton though...a great time waster.

Grinding is so dam satisfying!!

[Blzer]

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Question with playing S.K.A.T.E. versus the pros. Can you do grinds, grabs, and manuals this time and make them count? In the first Skate, they didn't register as tricks. It made it harder to come up with fresh moves to do (though this time it may not be as hard with some of the new things you can do).

[Corey]

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No, grinds and manuals, whatever don't count (at least in the Pro challenge).

I have heard (but didn't test) that you can pull cheap 540s with foot plants - initial 360 and 180 after the plant - and it will be scored as a 540. Someone should give that a try. I quit the pro challenge in disgust when it seemed like half the time on my turn the game would randomly start with a half kick and I couldn't even clear the stupid rail.

Question: I completed the first 2 SBM shoots and haven't seen another in a long time. Any idea what triggers the 3rd shoot? I've already got the Thrasher cover, and have been working on the contests and occasional race.