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If you’re a skateboarding game fan in 2025 (and not into Tony Hawk), your choices look like this: (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 months ago by NoahFuel@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

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Two unfinished games – Skater XL (basically a mod platform with no real career) – Session (solid mechanics but still janky and underbaked after years in Early Access)

Two emulated games – Skate 2 – Skate 3

…and that’s it. EA had a 15-year window to deliver a polished Skate 4 and instead launched a live-service experiment. Now the only way to get a complete, authentic skateboarding experience is to emulate decade-old titles or play unfinished indie sims.

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[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

not into Tony Hawk

smh

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 months ago

there is also skate horse

[–] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 6 points 3 months ago

Well there is also SkateLab but it’s uhhh… just a physics driven sandbox. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2983940/SkateLab/

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

The humble OlliOlli 2:

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

It's probably too much to ask from EA to ever get a port of the Skate games, they could just remove all the expired licensed music if that was a problem. Activision is evil, but I have to give them credit for getting the rights to almost all the songs for the THPS remakes.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

I will play THPS3 and nobody will stop me.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

who needs wheels when all four good SSX games run great on ps2 and gamecube emulation

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

I saw redditors calling Skate 4 "gentrified Skate" and if that's what redditors are saying you fucking know it must be soulless because those piggies thought Starfield was good until 2-3months after release.

[–] serfraser@lemmy.today 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I hear that floating sword game is pretty good

[–] booty@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I haven't heard of this one, what's it called

[–] Strayce 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Sword of the Sea maybe?

[–] booty@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

Surfing? That's not skateboarding at all!

[–] serfraser@lemmy.today 3 points 3 months ago

That's the one

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

There's also Grind Session (legally distinct THPS, but not as gravity defying as THPS gets), and Thrasher Skate and Destroy (it's sorta more realistic like Skate is to a degree). Both on the PS1, of which makes them filed under emulating decades old games as well.

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

I'm an outsider to the skate culture but like what more than THPS and Skate 1 - 3 do you need. This feels kind of like a solved problem

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

I played about 10 hours of skate 4, it doesnt seem any sillier than skate 3, i enjoyed it before my hands got sore flipping the sticks around

sucks its always online but whatever it was free

[–] Strayce 1 points 4 weeks ago

Sorry for the necro but Skate Story just crossed my path and I remembered this thread. Demo is free.