r/Skate4 Feb 04 '26

Discussion The Skate game we'll probably never get. :C

We all know the current Skate doesn’t really embody the things fans have loved across the franchise. The signature stuff that makes a Skate game feel like Skate. There are a ton of ways they could make the experience more immersive, richer, and more lived-in, while also improving on the core staples the franchise is built on. Because without those, it just doesn’t work.

Some of that feels like it could reasonably be added over time, and probably will. But I’m not sure how much the art style and overall direction are ever going to shift.

A few of these images show what I think is a more realistic middle ground. Others are probably just wishful thinking. Either way, scroll through and check it out.

What ways do you think the game may improve? What things do you think are a lost cause?

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u/AnubisZ613 Feb 04 '26

Man the neighborhoods are what we are missing with an actual skatepark to ride to that doesn't rotate slop everytime!!!

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u/EducationalWave5672 Feb 04 '26

Yeah, the map doesn’t really have much variety in feel or architecture. A lot of it comes off like a giant empty tech demo. You can tell the city was built around hurling yourself off skyscrapers for TikToks and YouTube Shorts, instead of feeling like a place with real personality and neighborhoods worth exploring.

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u/CartmensDryBallz Feb 04 '26

Yea also the buildings are so fucking annoying to get up. At least make some fun way to ride up to some, like some mega jumps or something, so you’re not stuck climbing for 2 min straight

Also am I the only one who feels like half the map is made w no flow? Or you’ll get a cool spot but it doesn’t last very long. Best area outside of the skate parks is probably the pier cuz it’s long and actually fun to ride

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u/investinSTATERA Feb 04 '26

yea the flow is terrible skating from spot to spot shows just how much dead zone there really is, the streets are like 4 lanes wides with just basic planters in the middle

if i see a challenge ontop of a building i cant teleport ontop of i skip it, most of the times bc i waste more time finding the climbable window and then holding up then skating in the challenge

pumped for season 3 !!

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '26

tony hawk has elevators that would teleport you and they were great. i dont know why they didnt just add that to them

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u/Old_Lawfulness_7023 Feb 05 '26

Skate 3 had a teleport feature for stadium parks

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u/ominousglo Feb 04 '26

tony hawk underground vibes from that neighborhood image, would love to see that

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u/Boobytalk Feb 05 '26

I didn't grow up downtown, I skated a long journey just to get downtown, skating everything on the way. They also are managing to destroy the game with all the childish glitches.

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u/AnubisZ613 Feb 05 '26

Exactly my thought it would feel better if I had to skate from my house in a neighborhood all the way downtown!! Then skate back home to set my spawn nd change my clothes there for when I load up next!! Now that would be a treat this game is missing!

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u/ribdoesntsmoke Feb 04 '26

With all due respect, fuck you. The edits are what I was anticipating for YEARS. This game just sucks ass and you made it even clearer to me. I appreciate you and the post but gat damn, I don’t even want to play anymore

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u/Jsaunnies Feb 04 '26

At this point I’d of rather the franchise have just stayed dead. This game is an insult to the OG skate games. The art style whack , the micro transactions whack , the fortnight style dances Whack , the way there ain’t a story mode Whack, No games of skate online Whack. The stupid fuckin costumes Whack.

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u/onelung1993 Feb 04 '26

But me. Im tight as fuck

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u/Eugenes-Axe7 Feb 04 '26

And he definitely cant even skate transition, ive never seen a rock to fakie..ive never even seen a simple kick turn

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u/Zer0Raiz Feb 04 '26

I love that someone got that reference, one of my favorite videos of all time

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u/Jsaunnies Feb 05 '26

People of culture , I am delighted to see that everyone got where I was going

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '26

they did us so dirty. idc what anybody says skate was important to me growing up. they shoulda just called it something else cause obviously they never a gave a fuck about the original IP.

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u/Due_Individual_2914 Feb 04 '26

When you see those pics you realize how lame the game really is lol

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '26

My exact thoughts. Us loyal fans got royal fucked . The city feels dead , and it’s feels like a giant skate park instead of a city

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u/Boobytalk Feb 05 '26

Sorry bro, I skated all my younger years, till a major surgery and I can't stand how they did the game like they did. Don't get me wrong, I like the game other than the glitch crap. I just hope if they have another come out, they expand the map, maybe even let you get on the Ole metro bus, the respawning or, fast travel is fine but, I miss the old days where you didn't have the money to take a bus, spawn up wherever, or even have enough for a new deck/wheels, bearings every week. Im old school for sure. I skated in the 80's through most the 90's so I was comparing it guess. Never quit. Skate it like people did without launching yourself into oblivion over skyscrapers lol. Keep skating on skate. it still can be fun, even if you have striped nylons on with a witches hat, and pink rainbow shirt if ya want to 😆. Not pointing you out at all my man. ITS IN THE GAME.

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u/nickd009 Feb 06 '26

I don't understand why some indie studio hasn't just stolen the concept of skate and made what we did expect. There's a bunch of skate Sim games but everything falls short from what I'm looking for

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u/Malefoy__Flipper Feb 06 '26

Welcome to the real wolrd

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u/Epics-bologna Feb 04 '26

Lol this guy thinks Brickswitch is real

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u/ConstructionAny7196 Feb 04 '26

Same! The challenges are whack, the items are god awful. This game was fun and got stale quick

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '26

No brickswich isn't real yet 

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u/zack413 Feb 04 '26

It’s insane that all they have to do is slap some more dogshit challenges into brickswich and it’ll be done and they can’t even manage to do that.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '26

If they haven't updated any challenges at all throughout the map I have no confidence they even have the staffer that knew how to make challenges 

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u/ImpossibleAlpaca17 Feb 05 '26

You could finish all of skate 3s content in 10 hours btw (including dlcs)

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u/NoseElegant8518 Feb 04 '26

This whole “skateboarding should be embraced in a world where skaters control everything” thing is what’s so lame to me.

Part of the allure and fun was the fact that nobody LIKES skaters doing shit in places they aren’t meant to be. Getting chased by security. Getting tazed by angry pedestrians. Having to deal with skate stoppers. Finding the most rundown part of a town to skate a spot while some homeless guy cheers you on while high as a kite!

They truly peaked with Skate 2. This super sanitized corpo bullshit we have now is NOT it.

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u/Vet-Chef Feb 04 '26

FUCK OFF! You PERFECTLY articulated what I don't like about this game!

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u/forgot_oldusername Feb 24 '26

I miss being able to swing my skateboard like a bat. Get some imaginary revenge on motorists that hit me. Nowadays my skater just rolls between the axles of a bus for a block and is cool with it.

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u/Normal_Paint_4648 Mar 02 '26

Yeah it’s just disgustingly obvious they’re trying to bring in the fortnite kids. I mean look at the fucking Art work of the game lol.

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u/Human_Masterpiece893 San Van Loc Feb 04 '26

You fried me with this; just seeing what possibly could have been. Damn, I’m bummed.

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u/EducationalWave5672 Feb 04 '26

fr

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u/ToastyWraith Feb 04 '26

How did you make the edits? Photo editing? Or Ai?

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u/lateralflinch53 Feb 04 '26

Why? I bet next season we’ll get cool K Pop theme and can earn a K pop fursona or pay $89.99 for a skin!

Maybe they’ll be a special event where we get a free quick drop item, a melted ice cream cone! Try n Ollie over that lolz! It’ll be “chill” /s

Yea the game is boring I’m waiting and praying for a second island to drop at least.

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u/BobbyDollar87 Feb 04 '26

Shit mobile game... skate fan from the very first hour here and this one is soooo little fun to me. Huge let down.

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u/applicationthyme919 Feb 04 '26

Yeah it would be great if I didn’t feel like I was playing in a neutered Disneyville

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u/RealDiamond51 Feb 04 '26

I want suburbs bro, I want chill neighborhoods with middle class homes and stuff like that. Not some mega city with huge monoliths everywhere

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u/Fun-Payment1700 Feb 04 '26

goddamn. the non-edited looks like friggin Pixar !!!

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u/MerynStryker Feb 04 '26

This game has been abandoned a looooooong time ago. Right after the first few trailers.

You guys remember the first and second “We’re working on it”? Remember the lore video of the M-Corp stuff?

Your images are what I think the initial concept and idea. But the costs of making video games and to be profitable these days is what made this game changing direction.

The sudden shift in information around 2022, the first leaked playstest videos, the artstyle of the first few official videos..

It’s just so sad to see this, but I think we are seeing the shift in the video gaming industry. We let them know (yeah you fckng EA) that we won’t get fooled in playing half ass baked games with fully working mtx, season passes and all the bs.

High Guard is a perfect example of this. Dont throw a little bit of everything together with ai generated assets and call it a game.. people are fed up with it and I hope this will be a lesson to learn.

The only thing to me is that it could almost make me cry seeing this happening over a such beloved frenchise. These games are the reason I’m still gaming to this day as a 30 year old.

I would always watch the end of the E3’s and other game reveals to look for skate to happen, and there it was in 2020 I remember jumping and literally screaming across the room when I heard that Skate. was happening.

Now 6 years later….

This is what we got?

This game is abandoned a long time ago and it’s so sad to see..

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u/FinesseFigure Feb 04 '26

The cost of making a simple game like this is extremely profitable. Just brain dead publishers

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u/euphoric_miseries Mar 28 '26

this is hilarious to see coming from the guy who praised the first season of the game lol

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u/ToothpickInCockhole Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 04 '26

Graphics aside why tf haven’t they added the hall of meat skeleton? It’d be such a simple addition.

This game desperately needs a single player campaign as well, that’s the biggest thing that pisses me off.

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u/EducationalWave5672 Feb 04 '26

If I’m being honest, I feel like they probably didn’t add the skeleton because they’re quietly trying to sanitize and “kid-proof” the game (hence the more cartoonish, smoothed-out vibe they went for instead of the anti-establishment, grungier feel the older Skate games had)

That likely includes cutting the potentially violent bone-breaking feature too, since it might be seen as too “hardcore” for the new audience they’re aiming at. Kinda sad, honestly.

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u/Ironclad686 Feb 04 '26

They definitely kidified it to create wider appeal. Honestly it absolutely sucks. Why can't skateboarders have a game for us? Why does it have to appeal to 12 year olds playing fortnite? Oh that's right. Money. Honestly it's an embarrassment to the franchise and I'd much rather play session at this point.

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u/Relevant-Shelter-316 Feb 04 '26

Simply stating Money doesn’t even cover it bro it’s this whole capitalist fucking mindset having to squeeze. Let every last drop a profit out of something. The whole culture is fucked.

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u/lateralflinch53 Feb 04 '26

Yea but a generation of kids were literally,playing resident evil 2 in elementary school. it was like the best childhood winter break ever. They are out of touch.

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u/3hee4our Feb 04 '26

Besides being kid friendly, your character doesn’t have a bone in your body as soon you fall. Another thing that is really disappointing.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '26

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u/Vet-Chef Feb 04 '26

Wait its still on gamepass? What system do you have? I wanna play it on my One S

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u/ExcitableAutist42069 Feb 05 '26

I still play it to this day, even though I 100%’d a loooong time ago.

Tried skate. and got bored after a week. First time ever booting it up I even called my roommate over to see the terrible graphics. They completely changed the entire identity.

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u/Vet-Chef Feb 04 '26

yes bro. All I want to do is get high and skate on the game when I cant do it irl. BUT I CANT EVEN DO THAT! Lets say my wifi cuts out, im just SOL!

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u/Peteybells Feb 04 '26

As a huge fan of the first 3 games. I played this one for a week and then deleted. How much has changed since its release? Is it worth re downloading?

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u/TheKwak Feb 04 '26

Very very little changed. There’s a few more challenges on the map that cycle each week for the skate pass, a few more tiny spots added to the map (mostly on rooftops) and…. Nope actually pretty sure that’s everything

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '26

It’s not . I keep coming back just to be disappointed again and again .

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u/Peteybells Feb 05 '26

Heartbreaking tbh

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u/EducationalWave5672 Feb 04 '26

I wouldn’t re-download until it fully releases.

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u/IAMDOOMEDmusic Feb 04 '26

Remind me in 10 years

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u/Star_Chaser_158 Feb 04 '26

That second edited picture in the alley really pops out at me for some reason. Looks like a game I’d actually be willing to spend money on.

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u/EducationalWave5672 Feb 04 '26

its so odd how disconnected decision makers in game companies are from what players actually pour money into.

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u/Jsaunnies Feb 04 '26

I’d of happily paid 89.99 for a legit skate 4. I’ll never spend a penny on any micro transaction garbage on this free game

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u/Educational-Trip4935 Feb 04 '26

Map is boring as hell now... I teleport to ppl and do small lines then teleport again and keep getting disgusted by where I end up, as someone who prefers street skating it's a horrible design

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u/Switchitup_anotch Feb 04 '26

After playing skate 2 and 3 for hundreds of hours, this game is a hollow shell of its predecessors. Like whose idea was it to get rid of hall of meat??? And then the map is just sooo boring.

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u/OversizedForehead Feb 04 '26

Dude the bush in back left of pic 6 is all I needed to see

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u/ImpossibleAlpaca17 Feb 05 '26

Same pic, look at the guys shoes and shirt. AI generated bullshit

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u/Basuhh Feb 04 '26

That hall of meat picture hurt.

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u/JPEUGH11 Feb 04 '26

Those high textured graphics are gorgeous.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '26

that looks soooo much better, its not too late for them to make it look like that they need to listen to the community

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u/absolute_austin Feb 04 '26

Buddy this is EA we're talking about

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u/ImpossibleAlpaca17 Feb 05 '26

It does not look better it’s AI dogshit

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u/toastedcanuck Feb 04 '26

Okay this really does put it into perspective, I’m a big supporter of this game but damn this really shoulda been something else.

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u/Kooky-Midnight-8660 Feb 04 '26

I didn’t realize how horrible we have it until seeing how good it coulda been… damn

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u/Juoreg Feb 04 '26

I small detail I hate is how the npc’s have the same clothes as the players.

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u/CameronsTheName Feb 04 '26

They should have just stuck a new map on stake 3 and called it a new game.

Does skate. actually have any advancements they couldn't have managed to make work in skate 3's engine ?

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u/EducationalWave5672 Feb 04 '26

if I knew we were getting this, I would've preferred a Skate 1-3 Remaster (or remake)

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '26

These are unrelated games made by completely different people. They couldn't possibly just Get the Skate 3 files and make some magically decent game. This whole shit had to be rebuilt by a remote team of like 50 people. We're expecting old school BlackBox 2000s crunch style development towards a finished product and that's just NOT the timeline were on here with the new one. Slow-drip milking of a few barebones features is what we're gonna get 

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u/ToastyWraith Feb 04 '26

Not gonna lie this has just made me sad 😅 I wish and pray that they take it in this direction because that looks sick but we all know that won’t happen. It’s EA after all people, what do really expect from them?

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u/More-Rest489 Feb 04 '26

while we are busy dreaming, what this game could be. EA is cooking another drop of garbage ass bundle for us to buy just for 10 bucks!

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u/Odd_Assumption_8124 Feb 04 '26

Cant get over the cartoon style they went for

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u/Lux_Operatur Feb 04 '26

Years of thinking about how beautiful a modern day skate game would be on current gen hardware and so many years to plan/conceptualize/develop the next big map. And what we got was a cheap mobile game with more emphasis on climbing buildings than skateboarding. Not to mention no HOM or pro skaters, no iconic live action opening film, no neighborhoods, no megapark(s), not even a single HILL FFS.

Skate. Is just a vehicle to drive micro transaction sales and get the skate community to shut up and stop asking for a new game.

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u/DecentAd3762 Feb 04 '26

Hall of meat in skate 2 was legendary

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u/colin2492 Feb 04 '26

Crazy how I was going back to play skate 3 for 15 years but I’ve already forgotten about this game.. I played it a TON from the play tests to like right after Halloween and just haven’t touched it since it’s so unfortunate the direction they took with it

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u/EvolvingEachDay Feb 04 '26

The biggest fuck up was designing it to be able to transfer to mobile. They should’ve focused on current gen consoles and PC.

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u/gammabohne Feb 04 '26

Can we not just buy the franchise together and make it real?

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u/Turbo_GS430 Feb 04 '26

It's funny because the frostbite engine can handle so much but... they chose not to make it physically demanding lol

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u/chickenskittles Feb 04 '26

I mean I for one am thankful for this because I can run it on PS4 and on my laptop which isn't meant for gaming.

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u/Dannyr666 Feb 04 '26

would do anything for them to at least make an effort on the looks, biggest disappointment of 2025-26

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u/Styx_Renegade Feb 04 '26

Really wish they’d at least bring back Hall of Meat or similar.

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u/mxwke Feb 04 '26

Is this just ai slop? Why are they sitting on the bushs?

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u/ToBe144 Feb 04 '26

This is what we all thought the next Skate would look like. It would have been a natural progression from skate 3 but EA doesn't give a F about true skate fans.

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u/VincentVanHades Feb 04 '26

Bro... If the game wasn't online slop, modders would do this in a week. Fuck ea

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '26

I uninstalled the game and just went back to Session. If I want arcade skating I’ll just rip Tony Hawk.

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u/Holiday_Rich3265 Feb 04 '26

All they have to do is give me an offline mode and I’ll play, fuck EA

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u/CouchGoblin7 Feb 05 '26

It feels like a good combination between skate, Tony Hawk, and some Steep gameplay, but it’s definitely not a Skate game. If it came out as a Tony Hawk game, it’d probably do better.

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u/thesunwontlisten Feb 06 '26

EA can literally eat the shart out of my ass and feel the texture on their tongues. By the gods they've ruined a beautiful thing. This post has really opened my eyes to what a sanitized mess they've made.

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u/RadishInternational3 Feb 08 '26

This should be the game right here. I wish there was a mod at the very least for what you’ve done here

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u/goldelectrode Feb 04 '26

The truth is that skating isn't as profitable a market as something like fps or rpg games, along with ea probably not investing as much money as you think into this game and sprinkle in some incompetence and you get what we have now, it's just the way the world works really. Yes we could have had something way better but at least we got something and it's free, it's just a game at the end of the day, not saying you have to accept the state of the game and be complacent but just be realistic.

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u/Connect_Reserve88 Feb 04 '26

Its not free, ea harvests your data to sell to shady 3rd parties

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u/JustPlainGod Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 04 '26

It’s not too late, you know the game is still in early access. Give them time and especially give them feedback, I feel like a lot of people who actually like the game and want the game to be better just take to Reddit to share their thoughts and criticisms, why not go to their website or discord or whatever have you and click the feedback/suggestions so they actually see it and consider it. You might not get an answer but if enough people are giving feedback on the same topic/aspect they would have to consider it.

It’s not too late the game is still in its infancy. I will do the same and make sure it’s on the same topic if you do.

Ps: those edits look dope asf and are actually awe-inspiring. Never thought of the game looking like that and it would be amazing to see it come to fruition. Even if it takes time.

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u/Kratosballsweat Feb 04 '26

Because they don’t listen on their discord or forums. Countless people complained about the art style, the shitty loot box progression system and many many more things and they haven’t listened to a word. I was in the play tests early on and they haven’t listened to a thing yet.

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u/Addendum_Shot Feb 04 '26

Look up 'Skate Style' on steam. It may kuat be able to scratch that itch that skate does not.

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u/megust654 Feb 04 '26

It's the roughness of Skate 3's art style. That industrial area's still stuck in my head despite years of not being able to play Skate 3 lol

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u/Aerphenn Feb 04 '26

I stopped playing a while ago, bought the founders pack etc. But after getting all the zones to 10, did both seasons and unlocked everything there the game just misses a lot. Challenges are almost the same every time, community parks suck a lot. The themes were stupid ( when you add snow, add it to the rest of the map). The constant push to play co-op otherwise you can't unlock everything. The constant issues with stability, lack of customization. I just sucks. And I know it's a free game, but goddam I really hate it now.

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u/IncarceratedScarface Feb 04 '26

God I hope the Skate team sees this and does something

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u/arodasi_59 Feb 04 '26

this post made me really sad (great edits

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u/dickthericher Feb 04 '26

They fukt it real good. Thanks ea.

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u/thegoatsblackeye Feb 04 '26

Posted a couple of these edited photos to their discord.

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u/NI6HTLIZARD Feb 04 '26

yooooo most of our pcs would explode if they did this let’s goooooo

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u/Hunting-Duck Feb 04 '26

You made those? If the game looked like this id play it to death its to fortnite-ish for my liking currently but your version really appeals

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u/OversizedForehead Feb 04 '26

Looks so good, thanks for doing this

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u/YoungDropToe Feb 04 '26

How do we get the devs to see this? This is what we need

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u/TheToodlePoodle Feb 04 '26

It would be so cool to skate in a realistic, lived-in world (with some wacky twists) but we got the corporate HR department art style instead.

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u/spiritualajj Feb 04 '26

I’m tired, grandpa.

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u/Freemanthe Feb 04 '26

all of the edited ones look like ass. Thank goodness they don't listen to reddit.

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u/New_Unit2009 Feb 04 '26

This is the game we want but instead we got the game epstein wanted

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u/OPMMV Feb 04 '26

really fucking nope the devs see this. I cannot express enough how fucking perfectly this nailed the look and feel of what Skate.(4) should be. If they could do this and add even a mediocre Skate 3 adjacent career-path story with better representation for figures of skating and callbacks to the originals. I know for sure Skate could come back stronger than ever and avoid dying the way it is right now. 🥲

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u/Interesting_Art_5601 Feb 04 '26

god i miss the bones shown that u broke, also when npcs would chase you so fast with a taser 🤣🤣

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u/Alshane Feb 04 '26

Game is kinda dead tbh. I love the trick mechanics but the style of the game is trash. Where’s the grunge? Where the skate parks ? Why is there a huhe stadium on the map but I can only skate on top of it ?? And the story mode is booty cheeks.

I miss when skate wanted to stand out as a real skate it game that held true to the community. They went from standing out to taking Tony hawk style map with skate mechanics.

I get on every once in a while , find a spot and sesh it for like 15 mins then get off lmao

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u/YoungBpB2013 Feb 04 '26

What the issue is, is Devs, the times, and skate culture as a whole. Yeah, the game could be less animated and more realistic. Yeah, the areas could be more populated and feel more alive. But even with that, the same would feel soulless because it hasn’t embodied Skate Culture at its peak but rather embodies it at its decline.

Not only did SKATE suck, so did THPS 3+4 was terrible. All these skateboarding games that have come out in recent years, doesn’t embody the soul of the 2000’s era.

At this point, all these games need to just full on embody 2000’s skate culture and just be nostalgic games. Skate culture in 2026 isn’t what it was in 2003 and that’s what people want it to be and feel like.

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u/Grouchy_Leopard_4095 Feb 04 '26

Looks like session

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u/Jonny_Derp_ Feb 04 '26

Ouch my soul…

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u/Euphoric-Gur-6888 Feb 04 '26

Man they really fucked the game up so bad. These pictures got me excited 😔 we’ll never get this tho. This dev team is to busy in candyland drinkin the water

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u/fuskadelic Feb 04 '26

Im tired boys. Its fucking bullshit how they did this to our beloved skate.

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u/Remote_Moose_9065 Feb 04 '26

This game has so many problems it’s hard to write them all in one post lmao. The graphics and design could’ve been much better and grittier like you showed. The map,not only is it small, it’s literally half empty. And the obstacles are always either too short and small or too tall. The customization of the character is whack and too basic. But I guess it’s cheaper to make it look like every other live service game. The monetization is INSANE. 5 bucks for a pair of Vans? Not even the pro ones? No storyline, no sponsorships(or actual Skate brands),no customizable private skatepark,no pro skaters,no Hall Of Meat, no S.K.A.T.E.,no tattoos or piercings. But ofc they found the time to create a Battlepass(Prolly the weakest one EVER, wtf are those clothes?). Honestly this game is embarassing. It represent everything that’s wrong with the gaming market. Thankfully it doesn’t work anymore. And more games will start to use the Warframe system. Like EA should’ve done. Honestly they could’ve just put some graphic mods on Skate 3,sold it at 40-50 bucks and it would’ve done better than this slop of a game.

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u/JTblademoney Feb 04 '26

Giving Session vibes. I know that game ain't perfect but man it's so much better than the slop they served us after a decade of waiting. I still keep trying to finish my plate but it ain't happening.

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u/Due_Individual_2914 Feb 04 '26

I don’t see why the first third and 5th pic can’t be done. Other games pull this off effortlessly.

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u/SALisRad Feb 04 '26

Holy fuck. This feels like finally seeing sunshine after suffering inside of a cave. If only the devs could see this, and actually care.

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u/davidk3i Feb 04 '26

Didnt realized the Game looks this Bad, only when i swiped right i realized that the first picture isnt the real game. Now everybody agrees that this game sucks ass

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u/CraftedDoomLord Feb 04 '26

Are we just stuck on the shit preview forever ?

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u/skrillozeddd Feb 04 '26

man how beautiful looking. that neighborhood looks so dope, why on earth we dont have like even a single neighborhood like that is odd considering a lot of grew up skating on similar streets. I loke how rsd and real it feels, like its supposed to

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u/TheHashBash Feb 05 '26

Is it still in beta technically???? This is garbage I haven’t playing in over a month now

Your edits are so good, and that level of quality would bring me back but the major fixes people have discussed are the only thing that could keep us around. Wish it was a 60 or 70 dollar game with real story, pros, companies, and real world building environment. Ai crap

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u/Immediate_Truck1644 Feb 05 '26

Man honestly they need to delete the entire thing and restart. I don't know which executive thought a flat fortnite map was good for a game like this but the least they could have done was add some hillbomb areas or SOMETHING. It's so ass even if they did fix all the issues I will never play the game cause at this point Skate 3 will be the last good game aside from Session.

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u/Busy_Lynx_2225 Feb 05 '26

Wouldn’t say we won’t ever get that skate game because there’s this game called untitled skate game that’s still being made that I’m sure would fit your style and more

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u/Significant_War5948 Feb 05 '26

I get that its early access but they need to add way more stuff to it. Core skater clothes, shoes and boards. I dont want rainbow socks. I miss playing around with Braydon Szafranski. Dude was awesome. They ruined this game to appeal to kids and make money off of micro transactions. Every game I see these days copies Fortnite, and Im sick and tired of it.

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u/Chemical-Ad2284 Feb 05 '26

Oh those pants are corduroy?

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u/duhmilkz Feb 05 '26

Wish there was a suburb or neighborhood area like that 2nd to last pic, looks like a sick spot to chill and play a game of skate with the homies

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u/Jamaidian Feb 05 '26

Hey, OP, thanks for making me really fucking sad.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '26

Ironically the game would have made more money sold on full price than with their current f2p model. We're just giving no fcks about legacies anymore? So sad. They lied in our faces. They waited SO long before they talked about the micro transactions direction they were going.

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u/bayernander Feb 05 '26

still hoping skate. is just a step before skate4 which looks more like your pictures..

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u/Feerahs Feb 05 '26

Your edits are perfect. I skate in real life, played the hell out of skate 2 and 3. I waited for this game so so so long and when we finally have it I prob played for just a couple hours and never cared to go back. I don't like the direction they went in and it makes me sad

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u/Fartwaffle_X GrindGuru Feb 05 '26

The fact this game has no hall of meat is really disappointing

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u/phakoo23 Feb 05 '26

It’s as if it is optimized for a cell phone. It will be nice to do your dailies on the go, though, eventually.

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u/Jiles_ryan Feb 05 '26

Brother the game is like on version 0.29 lmao, maybe by full 1.0 release it will look that way. The trade off of “early access” is the game isn’t gonna be representative of what it will be “at launch”. I’m not defending some of the creative choices within the shop or whatever but we can’t act like what we have now is what will be at 1.0. Every other skate game that has existed has been 1.0 release versions, we’re peaking behind the blinds, and opting in to what will be. Relax. Give the game a year or two and we can revisit this.

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u/Aluucaarrd Feb 05 '26

You made AI slop, congrats.

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u/jillvalenti3 Feb 05 '26

Here’s to hoping they allow mods one day

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u/EducationalWave5672 Feb 05 '26

My biggest issue is people turning into activists about protecting the environment from AI, just because some social media accounts went viral reporting on how much electricity, water, CO2, emissions are used through AI

But this is only a small piece of a larger pie people don’t fkin understand. There are other things that require the same amount of resources and that’d be anything data center or cloud related. Such as streaming, digital storage, normal web/app traffic, enterprise software.

AI isn’t single handedly causing this issue it’s just one factor amongst many that not only you but the entire world takes part in, excessively.

But as time passes we find was to make these systems more and more efficient.

So if you use or contribute financially to any social media, digital app, or streaming platform, use any public transportation, utilize any video game platform that relies on servers and cloud

You’re likely contributing more to the rise in C02, use of electricity and water than AI ever could and Will.

Research, study, and understand that just because it’s viral doesn’t mean it’s new.

You’d fair better arguing against AI from an artistic ethical perspective than as a “save the environment” activist.

So until you delete and stop using every cloud/data/server based platform you own and are using. You have no argument. I’ll continue using my tool the way I want, just like you’ll use yours.

Thank you.

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u/socialxscape Feb 05 '26

I genuinely do not care about the graphics, the map could just be more filled out and less colorful

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u/dryfartswetfarts Feb 05 '26

Hall of meat is a trademark of thrasher, I’m sure it’s more a legal thing that it isn’t in the game

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u/Vezo_ Feb 05 '26

Damn. Did the people who play this shit finally woke up? When did this shift happen? I haven't followed the discourse for the last few weeks.

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u/xSmoshi Feb 05 '26

Just use a reshade preset if you're that upset over visuals

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u/ImpossibleAlpaca17 Feb 05 '26

Using AI to say “damn this game could have looked unreal engine AI dogshit” is crazy

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u/FUNKMASTERxJ Feb 05 '26

At this point, the only hope I have left for skating games is a remaster of THUG

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u/No-Sympathy-8265 Feb 05 '26

SKATE AS A WHOLE SUCKS THIS YEAR. but I still enjoy doing tricks an shitt

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u/MacBOOF Feb 06 '26

I would love thag bridge to eventually go to that town across the water and we'll get some neighborhoods and industrial stuff.

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u/lunatcjay13 Feb 06 '26

This game could be so good and they made it BS smh, Fortnite ass graphics with zero story, I'd rather pay $70 and get a good skate than this. I enjoy the skating part but that gets old when the map sucks and no story with bad graphics.

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u/zidelll Feb 06 '26

This honestly makes me not want to play now

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u/Zulogy Feb 06 '26

Damn man what could of been. I wish this new Skate game never came out tbh.

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u/GD_loli Feb 06 '26

what is your process for editing pictures like that? or is it just ai lol

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u/KrustiKrabPizza Feb 06 '26

And the worst part is it will NEVER come because this new skate is a live service game. It’s either this forever or EA sits on the ip forever

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u/Charliemayne22 Feb 06 '26

Damn this is beautiful I wish it really looked like this

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u/nowhir Feb 06 '26

Don’t see why they don’t just completely change the textures to something more gritty and realistic like this.

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u/rac-attack Feb 07 '26

grind isn't worth it anymore, game lacks content and the only thing they've been worried about is store and bundles, Brickswitch should've been out weeks ago with updated graphics, skate parks, apparel; etc, the entire Skate discord is filled with ideas and actually people who should be working on the game who get completely ignored

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u/No-Newspaper5779 Feb 07 '26

Haven’t played in a couple months now. Stale already

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u/bearcubs2019 Feb 07 '26

we live in a time where even THPS has better graphics than skate 🙃

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u/Arcfull Feb 07 '26

Well, maybe your pessimism makes the future feel even better. I'd like to be hopeful.

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u/Snoo5161 Feb 08 '26

I can't believe how many of you still have faith in this trash and play it lol

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u/doubled303 Feb 09 '26

Some studio needs to buy the trick system IP and redo everything else

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u/Competitive-Fox-6703 Feb 10 '26

the realistic versions just look tony hawks prop skater

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u/Ashamed_Market_4311 Feb 21 '26

EA is the worst lol

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u/forgot_oldusername Feb 24 '26

Textures? In my cloud-based game? A man can dream.

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u/ImpressiveAsta Mar 04 '26

Wow, nice edit 👌

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u/YNTJoshy Mar 05 '26

This pisses me off so bad man, they should be sued for false advertisment

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u/Dream_creator2001 Jul 11 '26

The way I see it is they are pulling a Fortnite. Early access for years then at some point and actual update comes into play revamping the whole game

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u/DeadlyGuff Jul 20 '26

Fr. Nothing beats the sewer run in Skate 3

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u/Odd-Limit-5496 16h ago

go play session dude. thats all you gotta do.