Skate 3 Announced!
Published Wednesday 16th of September 2009
Finally EA Skate 3 has been announced, I've been waiting for this ever since I finished 2!
As you can see in the trailer they've added underflips and darkslides. Part from that I have to say it looks pretty much the same as Skate 2. Here's a few things I wish they'd improve/add:
Make everything a little smaller. Grinding 90 ft rails and jumping 20 ft gaps is unrealistic. Just tone it down a little. A 3-stair kickflip in real life is cool. Make it cool in the game as well.
Work on the animations. How about throwing in some randomness to them so that they don't look exactly the same every time? I've seen people suggest some sort of attributes-system where you would be able to customize your tricks. Speed, catch, tweak etc. That would be wikkid!
Better physics. Skate is brilliant because of its physics but I would still like to see some improvement. I'd rather see the same tricks as in 2 with a better physics-engine than darkslides and underflips with the same engine.
Flipping off grinds should be difficult and the pop should be way less than from the ground. It's super-hard to make flips off grinds look realistic as it is.
Much better skater editor. Whatever you did with your character in Skate 2 he still looked like a friggin caveman!
Even better replay-editor. First of all fix all those annoying bugs that can completely mess up an entire replay simply because you put the camera too close to the ground. Second don't have us hack to get the angle we want, that's just stupid!
Make walking off your board normal. It's ridiculous how bad it was in 2. It's 2009 ffs! Climbing fences and stuff would be nice as well.
I like how they added bruises and stuff in 2, but I would definitely like to see boards breaking, clothes getting torn etc. After skating for a while it should look like it!
Optional blood-pack! Take Fallout 3's decapitating-engine and stick it in Skate. When you hit your head on a ledge in 60mph it should come off or explode :)
Better graphics. The graphics are OK but nowhere near what can be done on current-gen systems.
Oh, and include San Vanelona 1 and San Vanelona 2 as well as all the downloadable levels!
Basically I just want it to get even more realistic. When Skate 1 came out it totally blew me away because it was a 100 times more realistic than THPS. When Skate 2 came out it was definitely not more realistic than 1. I fear that when Skate 3 arrives it will be even further away from 1.
Improve on the brilliance that was Skate 1 instead of just adding new gimmicks.
What would you like to see?
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Published Friday 18th of September 2009
Nice list, but don't get your hopes up - it is EA after all.
BTW, this is a gorgeous site. "Wannabe" designer? Don't sell yourself short!
Published Friday 18th of September 2009
Yea you're probably right about that. For PS4/XBOX720 they'll have to update the engine at least and maybe then they'll have the power they need to improve the physics and animations to an extent where it looks as realistic as most of us want.
Thanks a lot :) I don't think I could do design for a living though, too much pressure :)
Published Sunday 27th of September 2009
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Published Sunday 27th of September 2009
This should probably be on the jquery plugin page instead, but here goes:
$('#my-list-of-checkboxes').dragToSelect({selectables: 'li', // each checkbox in its own li
onHide: function () {
$('#my-list-of-checkboxes :checkbox').attr('checked', false);
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Something like that should do it.