Much Worse Than I Remembered | Skate 1 Full (Re)Review 

I think this is the best game for free skating. There’s so much room for creativity. It doesn’t feel like everything is intentionally placed. I’ve found so many cool spots and gaps that just don’t exist in the following 2 games.

Did you beat this whole game, sticks reversed...without knowing that you could fast travel to challenges?

With all do respect Rad you are wrong in so many aspects there is fast travel in the game you can pick each challenge from the map!!!

Funny how I've never had all these issues you had lol

All 3 of the games have there own distinct feel too. The menus, physics, graphics, narratives, sound tracks, locations, and pro skaters are pretty varied.

Judging by the sudden shift in expression from the intro, I’m guessing flipping and catching the cases took you a LONG time

That Rob Dyrdek challenge is frustrating

You do realize you don't have to use the train stations for fast travel you can literally just click a mission and directly fast travel to it. This was a feature that was in the game since day one.

How to cheese games of skate: Do a 540. The computer's mind will be blown, opponent will throw out a random basic trick, then promptly eat pavement.

I was pretty sure fast travel was in this game, and other comments have confirmed it. So that complaint is pretty much a moot point. I do agree that running into people in competitions and the death races are really annoying in this series though.

You can literally click the challenge icons and fast travel directly to the challenges… also there are no challenges that you have to do in a timed fashion.. what the game does for mag covers is switch the legend filter to just that last icon, but if you press a button (I forget which) you can switch it back and do other challenges. User error are not negatives! Lol

I remember the first time I did an ollie by flicking the stick down then up. Shit was a revelation.

Deathraces are actually my favourite challenge, they feel real to me, it's just based on legit physics.. Also, the gates are green unless you've missed one. You're not really supposed to miss them. It's never impossible to get to the end without hitting cars. It is somewhat random as is real traffic and it's up to your skill level to handle it. I've never had trouble with the deathraces in any skate game. Not trying to shit on you, just disagree on some of your conclusions. Keep up the great work 👍

I enjoy playing Skate 1 to this day, the world design is interesting some parts of the map are obviously designed to be linear since you cant get off your board like in skate 2 and 3. I will always appreciate it for being so groundbreaking, even if it doesn't have the amount of features of Skate 3

The most realistic mission is following gonz

As soon as you get around to Skate 3 again, try the Deathraces there. The first one is trash aswell but every even after that is incredibly fun!

With limited time budget they excelled at everything they needed to (skating, controls, the city) for 1.0.

Tip for the broken games of skate (including Can You Spell Girl in Skate 2): triple flip and triple heel variations are your friend.

man, I picked used ps3 and the whole trilogy lately - fast travel IS there right on the map, you just have to zoom it to a specific district, pick the event/spot and voila, there you go. that was the first thing I checked. how did you miss it? I remember your zero stats run of thps4 when you mentioned you're not particularly good at picking things from the background on the fly - I'd guess it's just another case of that. thoroughly enjoyed the zero stats run tho :)

Just played this on Gamepass, and you can fast travel by opening the map, zooming in to a district and moving the cursor to a task - you then press X/A and can press X/A again to fast travel to the task

You need to change the filters on the map to be able to select spots and fast travel. I thought there was no fast travel too until I pressed Legend or Filter button whatever its called. I felt like an idiot

You actually can pick a challenge and fast travel to it.

Dill!! *Shakes fist*

Great review. Weirdly I've always liked the physics from Skate 1 more than what they gave us in Skate 2 though you could get off your board. Imo Skate 3 was just spot on and the quintessence of the series.

That shot at Ali wasn't necassary dude. Not very funny at all.

I loved death racing, I used to do that my skate friends so it was a cool feature.

Also every skate games intro is just amazing.

All these issues are just “you” problems. Skaters in contests are fine, you just don’t know how to work around it. And fast travel is there, as I’m sure you recently found out.

i loved the deathraces, and probably played them more than anything else, mostly for scenes like this 14:21, you got obliterated by a car into a mailbox! but the feeling of cheating death and maintaining speed was fun for me too, imo. the checkpoints are dumb and misleading, for sure though.

Skate 1 is an experience of its time and a mindblowing one too To sit down as an adult in 2021 and finding errors just for the sake of it is bs of course there are many but i rememember as a kid coming from thps that game blew my mind i didnt care how weird transport was yes i remember that no walking f... up big time because you could walk in thug but aside from that i dont think any game ever hit like skate

Ali Boulala didn't kill anyone. He had an accident where someone died.

I actually love jams because they make you feel like you're actually competing (even if AI sucks), compared to THPS, in which you're still just skating alone in competitions: no contenders, no audience, announcer or anything. Also races are actually pretty cool, even if traffic can get annoying.

I absolutely LOVE the original skate's art style, it's my favourite of any skateboarding game alongside the original Underground and Proving Grounds. I have a very personal and obsessive attachment to mid-late 2000s culture so I'm biased but this is my favourite skate game purely because its art style is SO strong and reminiscent of my favourite era. Not to mention that soundtrack, Band of Horses - The Funeral is so so so so so perfect for the menus. Even the map design is somehow nostalgic, and I'd say it has better graphics than any of the other skate games (compare it to skate 3 with the san van pack and it's obvious). But I'm DEFINITELY looking at things with rose tinted glasses and I understand why this is the least favourite of most people. Love your channel man and I'll always keep watching you 💙

another thing: on 360 this is a 30FPS game, and I see immediately 60FPS footage. That alone made 1 and 2 feel like they were worlds apart playability wise

"I'd have a lot more fun jamming a fork in a power outlet" lmao

The first game is good if not for a primer for number 2. 2 doesn't have a detailed map like 1 does but if you're familiar with the city by playing 1 then you'll notice all the changes and all the things they added in 2. If I had to choose only one of the titles to play, then it would be 2

In a game of S.K.A.T.E, you can do 540s using both sticks and the NPCs can’t do that. I do like the follow missions like if I was hanging out with another character. I also believe having other characters in a contest wether transition or street was a good choice, if it was real life I would like to see multiple skaters skate at once in a contest, besides you’ll be out of your comfort zone skating with others forcing you to adapt. Sure NPCs also blocked me a decent amount of times but eh, you win some lose some. I saw your gameplay, when I saw you going down that ramp with Jason Dill, going only straight bumping into him was suicide you should have gone left a little to gain more space or take the different ramp. But I’ll get it if you can’t do so. Deathraces are more different than you think, I loved the races myself, but just a few tips I can give for you, pushing doesn’t make you go faster unless you are below the 3 pushes, the timer is there to indicate if you still qualify for the race, skipping too many gates while being allowed, it can result in you being disqualified only if the timer reaches 0, keeping up speed is also important so I usually focus on my grounds, the slope I’m on.

You can fast travel to challenges. I figured it out halfway through my playthrough, but you can do it

I would honestly consider this to be my personal favorite Skate game if you could get off your board and walk around. I liked the design of the map much more in this game than in Skate 2, and then soundtrack was better too. It would be nice if we could see a rerelease where you can get off your board and walk, similar to how Metal Gear Solid 3 was later rereleased with a controllable 3D camera that the original version lacked, which improved the game drastically.

I bought SKATE for my nephew on launch day for xbox and played it, then went to Best Buy 2hrs later and bought a PS3 and SKATE. IMO best to worst is: 1. SKATE(best campaign, soundtrack, look and feel) 2. Best online experience 3. Didn't like it, doesn't look and feel like the original.

Oh man I never got along with Skate. It tried so hard to be 'realistic', it lost all the fun of actually playing a game.

Maybe it’s not the best idea to do a review of this game right after a play through with reversed controls 😂 The initial online Motes and multiplayer were not touched upon other than the skate-real aspect. The fact that you can play this game in so many different ways depending on your style and skill level is what has made players stick to this game for more than 10 years; perhaps, more freeskate and online play than what the career could ever offer. Glitches are also generally a thing which has made most of if not all of skateboarding games more interesting for a lot of players. It’s the same with improv in the Tony hawk games. Appreciate the video regardless RR, but I hope you won’t judge a game by letting your frustrations of a single mode such as death race have such a large impact on your overall evaluation.

I forgot about his beef with jason dill LMFAO ahh the memories

the rail challenge is meant to make you learn to use session markers. if you bailed on the 51 ft grind, you are supposed to teleport back to your marker. the grey gates in death race are because you missed the green gate before it. not hitting the gates hurts your time and their placement shows you the fastest route. crouching just lets you grab your board for faster turning.

Here in Brazil I have never been able to play Skate 1 or 2, by pure luck I found Skate 3 to buy from a collector, I really wanted to have the opportunity to play 1 and 2, very well done video, congratulations!

Haha I love your reviews of skateboarding games. Always fun to watch with good perspectives

I missed so many classes because of this game. To me it was perfection, everything I could ask for in a game at the time. I loved that after a long, grueling day of skating in the streets, I loved being able to come home and relax with some street skating.

How many takes did that double case hand flip take you

16:20 um the game actually has fast travel right to the mission. Open up the map and scroll to a mission on the map and press x (PlayStation) or A (Xbox).

You’ve never been more wrong. Skate 1 story mode/missions are 100x better than skate 3. Skate 1 is the best game u just can’t get off board

Very dumb points. You can fast travel by clicking on the quest area and you can also set a spot marker so you don't have to redo getting to a rail.

The game is backwards compatible if someone is asking

You do realise you can fast travel to most challenges? You just click on them on the map and it's loads you in like 5 foot in front of the pro or challenge spot hahahaha

"But I think Skate just wanted to show off their NPC skater engine or something because the contests are always jams... have more fun jamming a fork in a power outlet." holy fuck aron went nuclear there

8:38 which two skaters are you talking about?

I still have Thrasher's "Skate and Destroy". I remember that everyone of my friends didn't like it and couldn't handle it. I actually liked it even though it didn't make sense in a lot of ways and got really goot at it. I definetly have to play it again.

Thank you, Rad Rat! You rock, bro!

I went from Skate 3 to Skate after playing for a while and got bored of the map. I had no issues whatsoever transitioning and the game runs great on Xbox One!

yes

I recently played Skate 1 for the first time and maybe it’s just me loving Skate 2 and 3 but I absolutely did not see the hype behind Skate 1. Fast travel helps a lot but the weird yellow hue, not being able to get off your board, the challenges, the map. I didn’t really like any of it. I know that it launched Skate 2 and Skate 3 but I just wasn’t into it. I did like how you worked to get sponsored. That was fun. The physics were pretty good and I liked those better than Skate 3 physics aside from transition. I also hated the whole getting put into the wrong stance thing though

Each skate game has its own argument for not only best game in the series, but best game of all time 🤷‍♂️ Skate 1 is its tone and atmosphere. Skate 2 I'd say is the map but they're all great. Skate 3 with the online and the online team activity. You could JUST make film AND post it it was such a good time. And the creative stuff. I feel like it had the weakest map and tone but marginally. Sick soundtrack though. Session is almost there for my favorite. But the difficulty settings weight on skate so well that you can get a good sim feel. Session is so close even if it was just slightly less glitchy I'd be soooo on board constantly. But between that lack of grabs. Im still tackling the learning curve the freedom of the tricks you can do and with tbe experimental settings are just prime. Its i don't mind spending 40 minutes to get a challenge correct, i do mind when after an hour and half ive done it 3 times but the game wont accept it. Its 95% to being the best skateboarding game ever though i do love it. Um... love you a ton you can fast travel to the challenges though you gotta zoom in on the map but it lets you. I kinda just enjoy skating around enough that if it's not uphill im skating to it still.

Love the corporate soundtrack during the death race segment, lol

The trick with doing jams is to wait for the npc's to drop in or whatever, it only takes ab 5-6 seconds and it doesn't affect your line

What are your thoughts on the freestyle world-round up?

I never played skate games for the challenges. It's all about free skate and in skate 2 and 3 film

if you pressed the triangle you would be able to change the missions between magazines and if you press on the missions you can fast travel

Who was the 2nd murder I knew 1 was terry Kennedy

So I'm playing this game on Game Pass right now and I'm able to fast travel to challenges and to subways. Maybe this is a feature they somehow added in for the Game Pass version of the game, IDK.

I logged alot of hours Into skate 2 and skate 3, more so in skate2 due to glitches I was probably 15 when skate series hit, I didnt play much of skate 1 tho mainly beacuse not being able to get off your players board got frustrating real fast, awkward camera views, twitchy environments, skate2 had a shakey environment too but found 2 and 3 are my favorite. Also shout out to thps3 and thug2 I also spent countless hours into them old thps games!:)

I beat the entire game. Then a couple days later I started a new career. As I was playing I couldn’t help but recall how you didn’t know about fast travel. 😂. I feel like you should replay the game so you can give it a 2nd chance. After getting somewhat familiar with the controls and what the missions requirements are going to be from my first play through it was much easier on my 2nd play through. It actually got me loving Skate. Though the X games mega ramp part is kind of annoying. I feel like the judges are not scoring my tricks high enough. It basically just means in order to win I have hold L2/LT and Circle/B while spinning then hit the 2nd ramp and hold R2/RT and Circle/B while spinning the land then trick to win. I feel like those tricks are too easy. The tricks that I think are better and much harder to do end up not coming close to winning. So i basically hate how they did the x games part. Another thing I would criticize the game for is the lack of manual tricks. I think the only trick you can do while in a manual is revert. The game lacks a lot of tricks. I am not familiar with a lot of names for tricks. As I kid I knew a lot. Anyway the few I can recall that I see missing is Impossible, Boneless Ollie, darkslide grind. I don’t know the name of the trick but it’s basically where the skater goes up a quarter or half pipe and does a one arm hand stand while doing a grab trick. Anyway on my 2nd play through I realized I didn’t actually have to do everything to unlock it. I unlocked it halfway through the game. Whereas on my first career I had done everything 😂. Makes me think when I was a kid in 2007 I beat the x games and then just stopped playing. In my defense to why I can’t remember beating the game as a kid is one it is over 16 years ago. Two I only played the game for a short while. I didn’t even get to keep that Xbox 360 for that long. Three I played the game with my brother and we took turns. I don’t remember how we decided to take turns and for all I know he beat the game for us. Though then again I was always really good at video games. I might suck at the beginning but I usually am able to adapt. Makes me wish I was able to record all of my gameplay.

That intro! The man kickflipped two games at once !

Jason Dill is comming for you

Dills from Long Island not New York?

9:15 You only can't repeat the last 3 tricks. After that you're allowed to repeat

This game was the reason I bought an Xbox 360! Then I played the demo for weeks until I could afford the game because I was a teen and barely had money lol

I didn't know Harry Kane reviewed skateboarding games

Excellent double flip in the intro

Getting on top of the overpasses in the map was a good past time The method or grab and bail glitch was beyond entertaining

I love the soundtrack, btw

Skate was that game where I had no THPS games due to my brother having them. I remember that day where my mom gave me a copy of Skate.... good times.

the only thing that is not good is not being able to get off the board

When this game first came out it blew my mind. My friend and I played the DEMO all night long. If you have that much fun playing a demo then you know the game is good

You can fast travel to challenges

Rather jam a fork in a power outlet lmaooo

Miss this game. Loved it when I first played the demo

I'm missing your black void somehow xD

For me personally ones I played -and completed Skate 3 (I started from there (not counting demos)) there was no way back. Skate 3 to me is the best skateboarding game ever. Not overly realistic but physics based and challeging enough to have satisfying skateboarding. So I wanted to check 2 but the camera... I just cant

Hi. I'm aron.L and I used to make trick tips.

Anyone remember Gflip late kickfliping rails in skate2???

It’s crazy to think like 20 years ago you taught me how Ollie and shuv it lol

Today i wanted to start with Skate 1 campaign on Xbox One (Skate 2 was best skateboarding game ever longtime) but i figured that was only from nostalgia. I play SXL and Session and after that is too hard go back to Skate series… so i will play only new skate games … SXL and Session have great controls and it makes no fun to play Skate with its controls….

I only played the EA skate demo and thought it was good, i played alot of skate 2 and i thought it was the best. Skate 3 is fun but the most unrealistic of the series

Wait until you guys see what we have coming for the new skate.!

U can just press A or X on the challenge icon and it asks u if u want to fast travel

I've tried this game twice in my life. It's just no fun. Beginning with the control scheme, that just never works, sticks are just not precise enough for that, PS3 and 360. I guess THPS is the only Skateboarding game series that will ever be fun to me. Every other I tried was no fun. I even found more fun in Kelly Slaters Pro Surfer - and that game is full of water and nothing else xD

12:00 haha

The soundtrack tho 😫😫😫😩😩😩

There is fast travel in the game right from the start. I guess you didn’t find it?

Yeah alot of what you said in the first two minute had so many inaccuracies. For instance. You ollie high by holding the analog down for a sec. Not flicking it faster. And also the controls being flipped is on you, and the emulator. I hate people makimg reviews and getting so mucj wrong. Shows how much research you do and how much you understand.

there are so many spots in skate 3 that can be skated a million ways, or just make your own new skateparks! hardcore mode is the best