As a goofy skater: *Rubs Hands Together And Laughs Malevolently*

Well, I skated Goofy and I'd like to point out that American Wasteland forces you to skate Regular, which bothered me just as much.

I have fond memories when it comes to Skate 1. I still remember being blown away by the first trailer back in 2007. I never seen anything like it, and since I was a skater it immediately caught my attention. I will never forget Christmas Day of 2007 when I got an Xbox 360 Elite with a copy of this game. Once I set it up to my shitty 90's TV I was absolutely blown away by it. Saying the game lived up to my expectations would be an understatement, I never played anything like it before. I also remember going up to the Factory skatepark in Dundee and skating a marble box that had a plaque attached to it with the Ea Skate logo. There was marble blocks designed for skateboarding put in skateparks across the UK to promote the game, and I'm happy to say that I was lucky enough to skate one of them. This is why I love Skate 1. I was there from the start, and I don't think that there will ever be a game that will catch my attention the same way again. I really liked Skate 2, but it didn't feel as unique to me as its predecessor. I don't really care for Skate 3 as that game does feel way too cartoony and it has kids doing that god awful tricklining rubbish thanks to the douchebag that is X7 Albert . Anyway, good video as always, Rad Rat. Looking forward to watching more of your reviews.

Skate 2 was my favorite by far. The city was still open and greatly improved from Skate 1. You could get off your board. Best soundtrack. And your skater could get beat up from bailing too much. Though I do think Skate 3 has the best control.

IMO, Skate 1 had the best soundtrack, Skate 2 had the best environment, and Skate 3 had the best gameplay mechanics. I wish there was some way to get some sort of Frankenstein monster video game out of all 3 of them.

Skate 1 is still my favorite. It is the prettiest and purest. I would love a 60fps port on some modern systems... PC why not!

That moment when there are three achievements for this game you'll never get because EA Nation closed down 😢 Forever 47/50

i almost died of laughter at that title. i felt the exact same way about the default goofy stance. it is weird for people who don't understand stance. i was playing this online freeskate back in the day and someone asked me how to do some trick, i dont remember, and i asked him what his stance was. he didnt know what i was talking about. it was very hard to explain.

17:58 lmao coming here after skate 4 announcement and im hyped

that hippie flip was dope!!! I spent hours in 2 trying to hippie flip bump to bars and would almost never get them

I Never Realised That Goofy Was The Default Setting Due To Skating Goofy Myself!

SKATE 1 is my favorite of the series. Loved the soundtrack, loved almost everything about the game. 2 was a step up in tricks and off the board, but I didn't like it nearly as much. 3 is fairly boring to me. Nothing will be the first game (for me).

Hey Rad Rat! Just wanted to say, as a 30 something year old ex-skateboarder, you are the only KZfaqr whose content I actually wait! Also you seem like a very likable person. All the best from Finland. PS. Also Skate 2 is the best in the series, clearly.

Skate 2 is my favorite. But I have the most fond memories of the first one. Skate 3 was a lazy cash grab that killed the community. Only positives were slightly improved graphics and stable 60 fps.

Love me some Thrasher: Skate and Destroy. One of my top five favorite games of all-time!

Hippy flips are definitely an intended feature, in one of the pro intros (I want to say it’s Jason Dill) they’re actually shown doing a hippy flip at that same location

I was surprised you said Joe Moore I see him around all the time I didn't know he was known out of the UK

i just watched a 20 minute review on a game i've already put 10000 hours into. the love is real! anyone remember when the timed demo came out? i probably put 100 hours just into that park. that park was my fave place to skate even after the full game came out. community centre for life! great video.

As a goofy skater I always make my character goofy and i start challenges regular sometimes i think you just start in the wrong stance sometimes no matter what your stance is it must be a glitch or something

Skate 2 was such a good game. Me and the lads had soooo much fun with the HALL OF MEAT thing. My mates werent skaters so they loved playing that! It was so well done that mode.

I can't wait to see you Jam with Danny Way in Skate 2. That took me forever but it was so goddamn satisfying when I finally beat him 2 - 1

6:32 - Can you imagine a game where you had to work up courage to do big gaps, like a skate RPG where you had to level up a charisma stat to pull of risky gap other wise your skate refuses to do the gap?

I really have been enjoying your vids for quite some time!! Keep up the good work RadRat!! 👍👌

One of the few youtubers I know of who dont come off as fake and annoying when they ask you to subscribe in the beginning of videos. He simply says what goes on here, and to subscribe if you want. Nothing pushy about it, And thats rare out here.

Skate 3 definitely has the best game mechanics. It runs so smooth even to this day. The original has the best city for sure, though. Skate 2 was good, and I like the city more than 3, but something about it makes me gravitate to the other two. Keep in mind when I got my ps3 the only game I had for a solid year was skate. That was honestly all I played, so naturally I was super pumped when skate 2 came out and probably overplayed it even more than the original. Oh, and 3 had the best challenges. Like "kill the spot" is really cool, and in some cases pretty challenging.

Reminds me of skate 3. It doesn't switch your stance on challenges, but if you're regular, and do a film or photo, your back will be facing the camera, which, imo doesn't look too great. Not to mention, they have a counter for Mongo pushes.

just about everything you said was bad about it is what makes it great in my opinion (except for always respawning goody, thats trash). the pedestrians and cars in deathraces actually makes it a challenge, anyone can bomb a hill when you have perfect balance in a game. the other people in contests means you actually have to time and plan your runs. and not knowing if your opponent is gunna stack or match your trick in SKATE makes you actually challenge yourself and try a trick that you might not be comfortable with flicking. just like in real games of skate. all these things make it more realistic and fun. and as for skating an empty shell of a city with no people, cars, or security, i couldnt think of anything worse.

wow I just realized it been over 10 years since i played this game. I miss it so much.

I still play EA Skate after 10 years, but Skate 2 is my favorite. 3 added on plenty of features, but the game did not feel complete.

That goofy glitch is the weirdest thing ive ever seen. Ive played this game so many hours and never experienced that while my stace was regular

I'm 32 never skated a day in my life but still watch your videos dude. Loved skate 2 and 3

I've been waiting for this video for so long man!

You need to review some BMX games, like the Matt Hoffman's and Dave Mirra's pro bmx games, Downhill domination or even... idk... BMX XXX?

I JUST REALIZED YOU CAN DO PIVOTS WHILE IN MANUALS OMG

6:32 Alright, so this man literally just explained the best part about the EA Skate series haha

This game will always remind me of the first time I played it. Friday night in 2007, just after it was released. 15 years old, Wendy’s Baconator for dinner, played this for hours and fell asleep watching “300”, rented on dvd from Hollywood Video. Simpler times, man.

There are so many hidden spots in this game that I’m still finding today and you can only get to them using the pop glitches

And now that all three games are backwards compatible on Xbox it's time to rewatch all of your Skate videos

"There's not gonna be a skate 4..." I'm aboutta ruin this whole man's career

lmao love the title. I always wondered why goofy was standard in that game.

I love all Skate games but especially #3. The city was a letdown but boy oh boy, that hardcore mode. Getting used to hardcore mode made it really hard going back to the older games.

Literally the only 2 bad things about skate 2 was the off board controls, how you can only jog and not much else. And the fact that body flips were damn near impossible to land compared to skate 3. Im still most definitely in love with the game and play it often due to the realistic feeling of skating the ghetto ran down places, the 24/7 beautiful sunset scenery in which the sun could sometime outshine the camera lense, and the art of finessing Mongo Corp lol (the security), skate 3 was definitely rushed in my opinion, but they did add alot of great improvements. But overall they lost the support of real skaters after they forced us to move to corny Port Carverton where its perfect weather and literally everything in the streets are from a skatepark, it was just too perfect and not grimy enough to feel authentic. I missed the hustle of finding hard to make spots and what not. Only serious improvement was the Park maker. Two thumbs up for that. Well anyways they need to bring back San Van. EA made so much money off of the Skate series, i have no idea why they would just abandon it smh.

Thank God ur back, i missed this channel

im pretty sure the hippy flips were put in the game, if i remember correctly, there is one in the intro sequence to the game. Its some guy doing one on a bank i think?

Skate 2 is the best to this day because the physics are not restricted.

I got into your videos with the tony hawk games, great great content friend 🔥👍

EA Skate games of S.K.A.T.E. were a huge deal between me and my friends back in the day. And I gained PS3 friends through playing that mode online. And the Big Air or trick contest or whatever it was.. I, for one, loved those modes.

My favourite game of the series is skate 3 just because of the bigger map, more advanced Tricks and an optimized replay editor. I spent so much time filming there :D. The spots are a little bit too clean though, but they got in a nice mix of different looks.

I'd love to see you do a video / video series on video games that include skateboarding, but aren't necessarily skateboarding video games (Dead Rising 1, for example)

Screw that 360 Flip to FS Crooked challenge. I had to do that shit for hours just to finally pass it.

Finally. Skate 1 is backwards compatible on Xbox One, and Skate 4 is in development!

Skate had the best feels Skate 2 is the most playable Skate 3 was a misstep

Skate broke tony hawk for me.

can't speak for skate 1 but skate 2 and 3 death races are some of my favourite shit to do in the game...especially online

Skate 1 and skate 2 soundtrack= pure fire Skate 3 soundtrack= some good songs but not as good

I loved this game. I never beat it though. I wasn't very good at doing advanced flip tricks. I'd always end up doing the wrong trick. Also, as you mentioned glitches at the end, the most I remember was falling through the map and a weird super bounce (Halo 2 glitch) type of glitch, and flying endlessly into the sky and the camera being weird but the skater was invisible. If you're unfamiliar with that last one, I have a very old video of it on my channel. It was very weird.

S.K.A.T.E. was fun online! I think because people weren't acclimated to the controls. Trying to do someone's hardflip was a challenge back then. I even gained some PSN buddies that just liked to play Skate online. Of course, nowadays people have mastered the controls.

I just recently saw a Tony Hawk interview where he sorta went off about how "regular" isn't regular cuz 80% (or something) of ppl skate "goofy", "But whatever".

4th Skate now in development.

Since a skate installment got confirmed, i just hope they get those chunky wood sounds back

It's funny, EA went from including hippy flips as a mistake (?) to outright advertising them in Skate 3 (maybe skate 2 as well, can't remember).

I've been skating goofy mongo forever...like before this guy was born. so now y'all know how it feels to have to play a game regular with a normal push... hahahaha

Crazy to think I was 10 years old when this game out, I remember loving everything about it. Playing it again earlier this year showed me that the star of the game is the mechanics and not the mission design. Deathraces were so dreadful, especially without the ability to set it to a high camera.

Thanks a lot for this very informative retrospective on Skate.

if you do a 540 rotation in the game of skate challenges they will get a letter every time, so ollie 540, k flip 540 ect. ect. you will win every time

That hippy flip was cool, the way it just looked so clean

The film challenges place you in whatever stance you were last in or were going in, so fakie would switch you, or any switch would spawn you in switch. This game is 10 years old as of this week so I just kinda think you could have been less hostile towards the game that changed so much

Skate 2 would be the best if it wasn't for the AWFUL controls when walking

I'm goofy stance when I skate and I prefer to use goofy skaters on skateboard games. I guess it makes sense since I'm also left handed.

hey Rad Rat, I have a question as someone who's used to the TH control scheme: do you ever have difficulty switching from the face-button trick gameplay of Tony Hawk to the right-stick trick gameplay of Skate, and vice versa? is there a disconnect or does the graphical style of the games help you distinguish which game your playing and you can adjust easily. i had been itching to give the Skate series a try, but I've been hesitant because I'm unsure if it would affect the play style I'm used to. as unrealistic as it is: i do enjoy the bat**** crazy style of playing those games from TH3-THAW

I remember downloading Skate. demo on X360, that had only a small area and was limited to 20 minutes per play , I think. I played the demo pretty much everyday until the game came out...

If they left out the ability to push mongo (take your front foot off of the board) you wouldn't be able to no-comply. Amongst other things. Like certain foot plant or grab variations or ollie norths. Good job EA. You did it right. You should know better rad rat.

those hippy flips are dope!

I gave up that 5-0 to tail slide challenge and gave up EA Skate completely all because I didn't know about needing to be in goofy :/

I skate Goofy in all games now because of learning the tut in Goofy, I skate regular in real life lol

I played this game to death literally everyday I can sit and just play free skate doing lines. I loved the different clothes shoes too. Skate 2 is my favourite.

I remember I had to set all my skaters to goofy on THUG

Iv played them all beaten everything but still never managed to pull off one hippy flip 😂

Games of Skate? LEFT OUT THE GAME??? Am I honestly the only person who loves these and wish they had been in Skate 3 too? (I know, I know - Carrol and Koston messed me up too)

Does anyone know the song that's playing in the background around 3:20? Info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

There was a glitch that I (might) have found on skate 1. this was like 2011. I managed to get on top of the subway sign and I ollied off of it. But right before I landed, I did a manual. I shot across the map for like 150ft and (of course) bailed.

after skate came out i dropped all tony hawks games, i was so addicted to the demo that came out and was hooked all the way upto 3.

Idk what you mean by "you were clearly not meant to do" when referring to hippie flips. The intro to Mark Gonzales ends with him doing a hippie flip, albeit its a single kickflip and not a double flip which is what you normally have to do in the game but they obviously intended for hippie flips to be possible.

I had a mobile version of Skate on my Motorola SLVR. Yeah.

Besides of people say about Skate 1. I still love that game to this day, and it's a true masterpiece in gaming. :)

dial up till skate 2 came out? damn you were living like 10 years in the past dude!

Honestly the death races to me are a lot of fun, mainly cause I like bombing down hills and its fun to do so while going against others (Even if it is CPU)

imo, Skate 1 was the best for me. it set the perfect skateboarding vibe, San Van was great to explore, the physics are good, and it has the best soundtrack.

BROOOOOOO skate 2 might be better but after not playing this game since 2 came out....holy shit its like falling in love all over again. the soundtrack is also so much better than i remember :O

skate had an original art style and feel that the other 2 couldnt do. if there was freecam in this game it would still be the best.

Skate felt the best to me, I like the grimey looking graphics and the way it feels to grind rails. That school yard and community center had so many little lines and gaps that you could skate for hours. I'm going to go play now!!

Rob & Big was impossible. The only way I beat that challenge was by accident one day.

When you see how much shit has been developed since the skate series, you realise just how much effort went into it. Especially the movement that actually seemed natural.

I didn't totally hate the games of skate but the pros were too good. At some point I just did really sketchy 540 tricks that they couldn't do by tweaking out 360 tricks

death races were fun as hell when you could find your own shortcuts

Skate had best spots and the animations were fluid, whereas Skate 3 had hardcore mode and park editor. I didn't care much about Skate 2 (sold the game 2 weeks after I bought it), but since I haven't played it much, it feels more fresh than the first and third.

They need to include like an Overall rating for every skater like in 2k, so in career mode you have to grow that.

Love your vids!!!

The pop glitch was awesome

That feel when you don't have any consoles. Feels bad mang.