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ScarySquirrel said:
I found it clicked pretty much straight away for me. Not sure how others feel. Grinds are dead easy though, what problem are you having with them?
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Just lining them up and making sure I land on the rail (rather than to either side or bail before I get high enough). Also after doing ollies having to pull off moves with the same stick in such a small amount of time. Lastly doing Manuals (is it where you go along on the nose of the board after an ollie) is so touchy with the stick i.e I press it a little bit too far up or not enough most of the time which gets fustrating. I tried the Tony Hawks demo today and with that game i'm fine I was pulling off all sorts of long combos etc.

Maybe I'm just getting old or trying to play it too much like Tony Hawks. :confused:
 
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I had a shot of this in a shop today and i managed a number of tricks, and my god i think i could play this for hours.

buying a 360 and this next week as i enjoy it so much
 
Hostile17 said:
Just lining them up and making sure I land on the rail (rather than to either side or bail before I get high enough). Also after doing ollies having to pull off moves with the same stick in such a small amount of time. Lastly doing Manuals (is it where you go along on the nose of the board after an ollie) is so touchy with the stick i.e I press it a little bit too far up or not enough most of the time which gets fustrating. I tried the Tony Hawks demo today and with that game i'm fine I was pulling off all sorts of long combos etc.

Maybe I'm just getting old or trying to play it too much like Tony Hawks. :confused:
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No wonder you're struggling. As said already, don't ollie and then trick (although you can do this for late kickflips etc.)

I am surprised you don't know this, surely the first thing you did was the tutorial as you're only playing the demo, it shows you how to do tricks in that.
 
Thanks for that tutorial ScarySquirrel spent about an hour trying to do that challenge before using your help :)
 
ScarySquirrel said:
I am surprised you don't know this, surely the first thing you did was the tutorial as you're only playing the demo, it shows you how to do tricks in that.
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I do know how to do them its just doing them in any kind of consistent manner I'm finding hard. For example that first challenge in the skate park to grind down the stairs for that man with the camera - that takes me about 5-15 attempts. Its very strange as I'm usually good at most games with this it feels like I'm battling with the controls rather than enjoying the game. Anyways no worries, I'll give it more time tomorrow. :)
 
Argh, glitches all over the place.

I cant get the Racing achievements as its glitched, it says i need",0" for the next race ranking. So there's another thing that it wont give me. O well...

Josh
 
Hostile17 said:
I do know how to do them its just doing them in any kind of consistent manner I'm finding hard. For example that first challenge in the skate park to grind down the stairs for that man with the camera - that takes me about 5-15 attempts. Its very strange as I'm usually good at most games with this it feels like I'm battling with the controls rather than enjoying the game. Anyways no worries, I'll give it more time tomorrow. :)
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Oh I see. Do you find yourself just moving the stick in the hope of doing something good rather than actually doing what you planned to do? (if that makes sense?)

Keep at it mate, it will come :)
 
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help needed.
Im on one off the pro challenges where you have to nollie 360 flip onto the hubba.
Now for the life of me i dont no what a hubba is. I tried it onto the ledge of the steps but still didnt show and i also tried it on the steps to the left but still no luck. A nollie 360 kick flip is fine for this one isnt it?
 
ScarySquirrel said:
For anyone struggling with the P-Rod challenge, I have made a tutorial. See if it helps:
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I'm not sure why so many people have had a problem with this I did it second attempt and only because I did a nollie 360 shuv it on the first attempt!

I am now at the stage in the game where I think I have completed everything apart from finding and owning all the spots, getting all the milestones and completing the online achievements
 
Scarecrow said:
what sort of flip? not a back flip or something?
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Look in the trick guide by pressing select on the controller.

All your tricks are in there, look under advanced tricks and you'll find it there.

There's a couple of tutorials in this thread already as most people had issues with it last week.

The hubba is the ledge on your right that you need to grind... why people don't know what to do when there is a big arrow pointing to the things you need to trick on/off is beyond me :confused:


Sorry for the mini rant, ******* work-men turned off the power to the whole street this morning and didn't inform anyone, so I'm sleepy and turned up for work almost an hour late :mad:

They maybe attempted to tell us but Royal Mail being on strike would mean we wouldn't have got the letter until midweek anyway :mad:
 
So,

How is everyone finding this game? I've played through Bioshock twice (Got all the achievements) and currently finishing off Forza 2. Soon I will be in need of a new game, I'm not a big Halo 3 fan, so will get that when its cheap. Is skate worth £40? I used to love Tony Hawk games on playstation 1 + 2.
 
From my point of view this is one of the only games that has lived up to it's price tag.

Try the demo see what you think, it is a break from the mould type game great controls and open gameplay. It is a very good pick up and play game no matter whether you have compelted the 'career' mode or not.
 
Larnica said:
So,

How is everyone finding this game? I've played through Bioshock twice (Got all the achievements) and currently finishing off Forza 2. Soon I will be in need of a new game, I'm not a big Halo 3 fan, so will get that when its cheap. Is skate worth £40? I used to love Tony Hawk games on playstation 1 + 2.
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I'd say it's definitely worth £30-£40 yes.

But it is completely incomparable to the THPS games, the only real common link to the two is that they're skateboarding games... and you can use that term quite loosely to describe a Tony Hawk game these days (unfortunately).

Skate is a rewarding, time consuming game that will have you cheering with joy when you've just pulled off a simple kickflip to manual, to grind but will have you shouting profanities at your xbox 360 for twenty minutes before hand because you haven't quite landed it to perfection, or missed a ledge, not landed a grind properly.

It's a game that requires patience to learn, and skill to master.

Download the demo and give it a crack to see if you like it :)


Sorry for sounding like an EA Skate employee or marketeer here, but it is a cracking good game :)
 
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