ReSkate makes Skate playable offline, and enables custom servers and maps. It's been an instant hit.
  • THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    12 days ago

    I’ve been waiting for 15 years to pay full price for Skate 4. They never gave it to us.

    Not sure what it was about the new game that just didn’t pull me in.

  • AstroLightz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    11 days ago

    Might want to back it up if this is something that interests you. Never know when it’ll be shut down.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    11 days ago

    I haven’t played a skating game since the old Tony Hawk games. Honestly, this is tempting me to buy Skate.

    Is anyone here actually playing the mod?

    • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      If Tony Hawk is your only skating game experience, you’re going to be disappointed. The controls are completely different; instead of hitting buttons to do tricks, you move the right joystick. It’s intended to simulate real life skating. You’re not going to pull off a Triple Impossible in this game. Also, the gameplay is nothing at all like Tony Hawk.

      Also, unless you mean microtransactions, there’s nothing to buy. The game is F2P so go ahead and grab it from Steam and then see for yourself if you like it or not.

  • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    10 days ago

    How is that supposed to work, when the entire premise of the game is to skate with others? You’re just going to skate alone in an empty city?

    I mean seriously, the multiplayer aspect is the only decent part of this game. The only fun part is where you free skate around the city with others. This ain’t Skate 4; remove the multiplayer, and there’s no reason to play.

    • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      10 days ago

      I think the mod has been downloaded 350k times because they asked for Skate 4 and this is what they got instead.

      • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 days ago

        $20 says most people will give it a week and then realize there’s no substance to this game and quit.

        • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1·
          10 days ago

          Very well could be, but they don’t want the game as-is. The same thing happened with SimCity 13 years ago. And as a stat that keeps coming up from developers of online mulitplayer games, 70% of people don’t engage in the competitive modes, even of games where that’s seen as its main attraction, like PVP in an RTS or even the biggest MOBAs. I don’t know exactly how that translates to Skate, but it’s not surprising to me that people didn’t want a free to play online social version of this franchise.