Skate 2 Impressions

[ChubbyBanana]

Quote: Originally Posted by LP

I beat that by dragging a ramp up the stairs and using it to get enough air. Don't forget to attach it to your marker, sometimes security will push it out of position.

I got past that one. Once I gave it a second look I couldn't believe how easy it was...

Now I'm facing off against some guy in the huge compound. He always outscores me like crazy...

I'm sorry I don't remember the names. I haven't followed skating in awhile, so I don't know who the pros are...

[metallicatz]

I hope they program the ability to beat pedestrians and other skaters with your board into the next game. So frustrating to be lining up a trick and some pedestrian gets in your way......or some skater at a contest. You should be able to beat them to a bloody pulp with your board in frustration.

[MC Fatigue]

Quote: Originally Posted by metallicatz

I hope they program the ability to beat pedestrians and other skaters with your board into the next game. So frustrating to be lining up a trick and some pedestrian gets in your way......or some skater at a contest. You should be able to beat them to a bloody pulp with your board in frustration.

Skate 2: GTA Edition?

That would be awesome.

[metallicatz]

It would certainly cut down on broken controllers. At least then you could take your frustration out on the source. I'm not advocating programming guns or flamethrowers into the game, just the ability to crush skulls with a well-placed truck to the dome or break limbs with your board.

[Corey]

I can confirm that you can use kickplants for easy 540s on the SKATE challenge.

However, just getting to the point you can set a trick is still a collosal pain in the butt. I got Carrol out and had Koston down to one letter but I lost control and Koston did really simple tricks that I missed because my flickit skills aren't precise enough.

Best chance to pass this with the least effort possible is to restart every single time Koston lands his first trick and hope you get Carrol to bail or repeat a trick before you get all your letters and then spam 540s using a kickplant. With any luck you won't somehow accidentally hit the rail before you get all 5 letters on them. That last part is what has kept me from finishing this once and for all.

[mgoblue]

Quote: Originally Posted by Corey

I can confirm that you can use kickplants for easy 540s on the SKATE challenge. However, just getting to the point you can set a trick is still a collosal pain in the butt. I got Carrol out and had Koston down to one letter but I lost control and Koston did really simple tricks that I missed because my flickit skills aren't precise enough. Best chance to pass this with the least effort possible is to restart every single time Koston lands his first trick and hope you get Carrol to bail or repeat a trick before you get all your letters and then spam 540s using a kickplant. With any luck you won't somehow accidentally hit the rail before you get all 5 letters on them. That last part is what has kept me from finishing this once and for all.

That's what a lot of people at GameFAQS are saying too...I'm just gonna pass on this one for a while though, I don't think I could pull off 5 in a row quite yet.

[Shinyhubcaps]

The only tricks I know Koston/Carroll cannot do are 540s (someone said that they called a 540 trick, but I know they cannot repeat them). So if you can swing it to do a 540, then they will generally take the letter and not even attempt it. I'm glad others here have picked up on that. I can only do it with nollie laser flips, though. I haven't tried the kickplants.

Absolutely hard challenge. I took over an hour doing it, and my winning try was about a half hour. I had only one letter that time, but I had to pull out 2 540s. The worst thing is that if you answer every one of their challenge tricks, they can still keep going. I'm glad that they occasionally botch tricks or repeat the same tricks.

By the way, the "Already Been Done" list for the first game was 3. This one is 5, so you need to vary your tricks more.

[Corey]

Quote: Originally Posted by Shinyhubcaps

By the way, the "Already Been Done" list for the first game was 3. This one is 5, so you need to vary your tricks more.

Yes that killed me more than once, because with 3 tricks it was easy to make sure you had no accidental repeats by doing pop shove-its in opposite directions and one ollie/kick/heel flip, then do nollies of each. I guess the best thing here is to do 3 actual tricks and then do a couple throwaways that you know have no chance of bailing.