Skate vs. Tony Hawk: skate wins

skate. is the first skating game I ever bought or played. I played the tony hawk demo after I had been playing the skate demo for about a week and couldn't understand why people still though TH was better. To each their own.

I just hope they don't rush skate 2 out to soon. But we are talking about EA...

This is good for Tony Hawk games. They've been a little too comfortable lately, and it shows. The recent Tony Hawk games have sucked big time.

The main thing that will probably come of this will be Tony Hawk copying skate as much as possible, in my opinion.

I actually saw about 20 copies of the special edition of the last Tony Hawk for $9 at Target the other day. I ALMOST bought it.

I'm probably alone on this but I really felt that skate was at least worthy of a nomination for Game of the Year. It's done more for its genre than any of the other games up for GotY. Feature-wise, it almost matches up to Halo 3 in terms of replays and sharing and voting. I think Proving Grounds actually had a pretty robust replay system as well. Gameplay-wise, it's revitalized skateboarding games.

My understanding though is that only games that were submitted to the various rating councils were considered - which would mean that EA did not submit skate of course.

I haven't owned a Tony Hawk game since the original Tony Hawk on the original playstation. I've played them, but never could get into them and their arcadiness.

Skate on the other hand is awesome! Easily sports game of the year. It makes landing a trick mean something.

Does anyone remember Thrasher: Skate and Destroy? It was the best skateboarding game of it's generation that no one played. It's realism qualities remind a bit of skate.

skate is so amazing. The replay value is pretty much endless.

I hope TNA Impact does the same to WWE Smackdown vs. Raw series :D. That way WWE can stop releasing crap wrestling games. The best games I've played were WWF No Mercy/Wrestlemania 2000 for N64. Some of the Smackdown games for PS2 were good but not a lot.

I guess when they took the F out, they took the Fun out.

God what I really love about the Tony Hawk games is the amount of work I don't have to do... the lack of realism in the game play... and the fact that I can jump over buildings!

/sarcasm

i haven't beat skate yet, i picked it up in December but been to busy to play... im going to go fire that up tonight :)

and i agree i have played every single tony hawk, but skate is its killer.... (though i hope they fix some things in skate2)

Honestly, what turns me off of the Tony Hawk games now is the "Do this" factor.

You know, the whole game is basically someone saying "Do this" (where "this" is the task you have to complete, meaning the exact button presses you're required to duplicate) and then you have to do it, exactly, or face having to do it again, and again, until you get it right.

Sure, they added some freestyle stuff, but to progress in the game, you're still just playing Simon with your gamepad.

Honestly, it's not much different than Parappa the Rapper. You see a sequence on the screen, and then you duplicate. The difference is the presentation of the sequence and the visual reward for doing it right.

I like games where I can just GO and do things however I want. I HATE being told I have to hit THESE buttons, EXACTLY the same as I'm told, and that I'll punished for doing it any differently than prescribed.

If I want to play something like that, I'll get Guitar Hero, which does the "Simon" thing better and with much more entertainment value.

How about a skating game that's like GTA with the whole sandbox thing? Let me figure out HOW to complete the missions, and let me have the run of the city without limits.

Imagine trying to skate away from cops chasing you on foot or on bikes. Imagine a game where you have a storyline that isn't "Compete to become a famous skater" but instead just uses skating as your character's means of getting things done.

I think Sega was on the right path with their inline skating/tagging game (forget the title). A little less linear, a little more fun and M-rated, and you'd have something interesting.

ehh f**k skate

I've played almost every single TH game and when i first saw skate. commercial i thought it could nvr live up to the TH feel and that it couldn't outsell Th. BUT after the demo of skate. came out TH js became garbage and i have never played a th game ever since.lol

TH Project 8 was the best Hawk game ever, but at that point it was almost sickening to see them make more Hawk games........played the PG demo and said enough of Hawk forever.......

Skate is incredible and should be in everyones collection regardless, one of the best games of last year, easily...........