Much anticipated EA Skate 4 Release
The EA Skate Game Series titles have tasted success from the very first day of their launch and all eyes are looking for the next EA Skate title that might come up. Codenamed EA Skate 4, the actual existence of this game in development is being speculated upon and it seems that we have to wait EA be releasing the fourth game in the EA Skate game series.
Skate 4 - When EA Games will release it?! I want to play this new Skate Game!!
While there are many fans eagerly anticipating the next installment of EA’s Skate Game series, namely Skate 4, it is highly unlikely that it will be released anytime soon – if at all. This is at least, is the opinion of EA boss John Riccitiello. Declining sales in the series, and a general consumer shift away from games that feature skateboarding in general, have been cited as the reasons for shelving the Skate Game sequel.
John Riccitiello said in an interview with Kotaku in December 2010, that the gaming industry has seen a huge surge in popularity in the skating and music genres, but that the popularity is only there for a limited time period. According to him, both skating games and Guitar Hero / Rock Band type games, have had their run of success for now.
This does not rule out the possibility of new music or skating games in the future – it all depends on the market interest and changes in technology. The Skate Game series has been very successful, with the first installment outselling rival Activisions Tony Hawk: Proving Ground by a ratio of 2:1 in 2007. The game was developed for the XBox 360 and the Sony PS3.
EA Skate games focused on accuracy, and the mechanics behind pulling off stunts and tricks, rather than story lines, upgrades and unlocks – that detracted from the Tony Hawk Skate Games. All tricks were unlocked and available from the beginning of the game, so players concentrated on just learning all the tricks they could, rather than grinding through levels to unlock them.
The second skate game in the series, Skate 2, was released in 2008. While the first one was regarded as innovative and heading in a new direction, the sequel was criticized for adding a story line that many described as ‘silly’, and for not adding much new content to the original. EA decided to do a third installment, due to good sales figures for Skate 2.
EA Skate 3 - One of the beste Skate Games!
Skate 3 was released in May of 2010, and while it got good reviews, and was quite a polished game, it did not do well enough in sales to justify the immediate development of a sequel. The core of the series, namely the fine controls and accuracy needed to pull of tricks, was ‘dumbed down’ to allow the majority of casual gamers to enjoy the skate game. This alienated the hard core gamer following to the series, and it was not as well received as its predecessors.
In a similar move, Activision decided to cancel any plans for a Tony Hawk Skate Game sequel, for the same reasons EA is stopping development of future Skate games. Part of the reason for Activision’s poor sales figures, is the fact that the latest Tony Hawk skate games were bundled with controllers that players actually stood on, to perform the in-game actions. This pushed up the price of the skate games, and made it less attractive to casual gamers.
EA CEO Tony Riccitiello also stated (2010) that music and skate games have a limited sustainability as a series, in comparison to sports titles such as FIFA, NHL and the Grand Prix racing games. Other sporting games date quickly, since the real-world rosters change every year, but the same basic gameplay and core design is acceptable as a periodic re-release.
Rumors about EA Skate 4 ….today
Even though there has been no official announcement from EA, and the statements from Tony Riccitiello from 2010, the rumor mills are working overnight to get us the latest on EA Skate 4. Out of all the rumors we have heard till date, the most interesting ones indicate at the obvious reasons why EA could launch a new Skate (4) game. The biggest reason behind this is, that the first two skate games has been a highly profitable for EA, with all the Skate titles getting them nice, hefty shares in this gaming domain. Starting from EA Skate 1, the success and collections from the Skate titles have gone up with time and for me the EA Skate 1 and Skate 2 is regarded as one of the best skateboarding titles that have been made for consoles till date. …OK Skate 3 is a great game title too, but in Skate 3 the game loose too much realness for me. And because of not good sales of Skate 3, EA sadly dont´t release a new Skate 4 game for now. But in order to maintain their position in this genre, it is evident that EA would have to come up with Skate 4 by time. Further, it is obvious that there would be another EA Skate title when the right time come, is no other skateboarding title in the market, with Tony Hawk Pro Skater series getting scrapped. We will see what the new Tony Hawk´s Pro Skater HD brings for us (the only new skate game we have for now). So I hope by time EA will make a new Skate game for us skate phreakz! 
Expectations from Skate 4
Since the entire concept of EA Skate production has changed from a regular, annual affair to a more spread out fashion, it is expected that the Skate 4 title could be a great improvement over the EA Skate 3. These expectations are based on some clear cut examples that are present for console titles. Taking the example of GTA series, the games in GTA had a huge gap between releases, particularly when GTA 4 was due. However, this huge gap meant that the developers were working hard and it was evident in the overall experience that was provided by GTA 4. The same is being expected from Skate 4, and this is definitely going to be hard for EA Games. Since the last version of the EA Skate games, Skate 3, had no good sales. The developers behind Skate 4 should make sure that the successful aspects of Skate 3 are improved and the cons of the game are weeded out. In my opinion they should make the new skate game such as realistic as possible. I read that the Skate 1 and 2 title had much more success as the skate 3 game, and the reason of this I think is because this first two skate games was more realistic than Skate 3. I read a lot that people don´t like skate 3 because its unrealistic skillz. I daresay the main customers are the real skaters and they (we 
) want realness. So this is going to be a big task, EA is known for great games and I hopefully think they focus what we fans want in a new skate game.
EA Skate 4 Trailer
Like every other EA Skate enthusiast, I have been hunting around for the latest news on Skate 4 since a long time. But there is nothing out there. Any news or Skate 4 trailers that come about would definitely be shared with you, so keep watching this space for more updates on Skate 4!
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a game based off of biking would be insane for one and is getting really popular for two so garuntee youcould make a good suum of money and ot would be an awesome game
Hi Christian,
yeah thought about that too. A cool BMX game with cool (real) parks would be awesome too
cheers
well they did have the BMX games, they came out about the same time as the tony hawk games, but the mechanics of the games weren’t that good. but i would love to see a skate. game have both skating and biking even though that would defeat the purpose of the game being called skate.
now what they really need is to make is a snowboarding game. the bikes would be cool but they could make “snow” an awesome game! we need a realistic snowboarding game and it could easily be done
well there is the SSX games and they have a new one coming out that looks REALLY good
I couldn’t be agree more. A realistic snowboarding game by EA black box would be great!
yes, BUT, the makers of mx vs atv probly thought the same thing when introducing atv’s.. but it was a huge hit.. they could very easily call it skate vs bmx ( or something along the lines) and skaters would love it, and bmxers (like myself) would like it even more!
hi,
do you not think when they make more than one genre in a one game. That we loose quality for each skate game and bmx game when it´s combined?!! I think they should better make a seperately BMX game!
cheers
They did that in a Tony Hawk game. It Sucked. A bmx game by itself would be cool.
Do not try to mix skate and bmx in the same game. Tony hawk tried to do that its two different worlds completely.
I miss the realistic street atmosphere of Skate 2. Please bring that back, Skate 3′s a little too pretty for me.
yeapp, I´m with you buddy. Skate 2 was my favourite skate game too
I haven’t played any other skate but in my opinion Skate 3 is a great game and that BMX idea would be pretty awsome
Yeah Skate 3 is a great game, I love all the Skate Games, but Skate 2 was a little bit more realistic than Skate 3. Whatever… we need a new Skate Game
skate 2 was better than skate three brcuse of the envioment skate 3 was too down u gota make us wona skate something we gota find and ther was no multiplayer for me and the homies
ya that was the biggest thing for me! i was hopin for some free roam multiplayer action… but instead they ditch it all together! multiplayer is the ONLY thing tony hawk has on skate…
Skate 4 needs more teams and mare skaters like Shane o’neill on skate
Mental, Wes kermer on sk8mafia, and add guys like levi brown,Jamie Thomas, Rick Howard, Sean malto,theotis Beasley, Ryan decenzo, kenny hoyle, Daewon song, Torey pudwill, jimmy carlin, Stefan janoski and bring back paul rodriguez. They should add some ams too like felipe Gustavo, Elijah Berle, stevie perez,Scott decenzo,and Sasha Daley. They should also add the berrics and the berrics west Chester park where you could do stuff like a first try Fridays,battle royal, bangin,and battle comanders. They should also do updates where you can get updated deck graphics too
Hola Zach,
haha… your suggestion is great ! ! !
I´m complete with you for bringing back Paul Rodriguez.
Would be cool too add own deck graphics. I love to play online, would be incredible when they make multiplayer Skate Contests.
cheers
Damien
Yeah they should bring back where you can buy property an put in private parks or buy other parks. They should also bring back diamond supply co
Dude I’m totally with you on the pros (especially P.Rod) and your idea about the Berrics would be sick!!! It would be so fun to pretend like you’re filming with Chase for a Battle Commander or Bangin’! or something. Also, for the First Try Fridays idea and just for the whole game in general, they should make it so if you try to do a nollie flip or something and you don’t flick the analog stick right then the board doesn’t flip right, like maybe overflip or underflip and you’ll miss it same goes with grinds that would be awesome!!
How ’bout an EA Shred for us snowboarders!
LOL firstly I need my Skate 4 … hahahaha
ya buddy!! shaun white was cool, but TOO UNREALISTIC!!
SSX… comes out next month…
That would be awesome. I really hope they make a realistic snowboard franchise like they did with the skate games
to be really honest and i dont want to dissapoint people , but blackbox is bankrupt thats why there is was no announcement at e3 , skate one got took down
plus has anyone noticed how bad the servers are on skate 2 and 3
in my opinion i want a skate 4 to come out , but sorry i dont think its gonna
ps….
RiP Skate 1 ( Skate. )
When they release no new Skate 4 there will come another Skate game. C´mon dudes time will come for a new skate game
why cant there be a scooter game for scooterers
because you scooter
cuz no 1 will buy it
i used to get down on them things and if i see one in a buddies garage ill hop on it! idk about a whole game for scooters though. we need a universal game to where we can skate bike scooter snowboard and even for the fags we could put blades in it! but i just need a new skate game!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecx_NVl-2NU&feature=related
Im with lewis scooters are popular now with crazy riders like r willy
Hola Tanner,
yapp cool idea
It would make skate 4 even cooler if we get to put sticker on our board.we should also be able to pick our own griptape like shakejunt and grizzly.Also it might need new pros like eric ellington,ryan shecklar,p rod,torey pudwill,chaz ortiz and new supra shoes like the tk society.And be able to put pros on our team.
Need board damage too
would be awesome
ill drink to that all night
cheers
im with you on the pros
oh my god i Love TK’s shoe line. i have like three pairs of the TK stacks.
skates are really fun video games.. it all goes back to the wars the publishers are having. tony hawk was made by the makers that made call of duty black ops. now ea controls more of the sports and extreme sports video gaming market and they want to rub it in others face.
yupp, think so too
sick website man. I sure hope they are making skate 4. If not skate, maybe a good BMX game
hola,
yeah that would I like 2. A cool BMX game with a great technology behind and with a lot of details to get realness.
If i didnt think it would defeat the purpose of having seperate games for skating, bmx, and snowbording i would love to see EA come out with just an extreme sport game with all of them packed into one with a story line based off of one person’s rise to fame through all of the different forms of extreme sports.
hay,
I think when´s too much in one game the quality is less. We see that in actual games. They should focus on one game, and this they have to make 120% percent. Then I think the people out there will buy their product again. And they have no problem like with skate 3.
Would really awesome to have one game with all in it, skate game, bmx game, surf game and snowboarding game. But how I said before, then we get no good quality.
well i was kinda just playing at what the Tony Hawk games kinda did, in undergroud they added a little bit of car mechanics, and in American wasteland they introduced bikes and it was really fun and had missions based off of that, but i do agree with you the more they put into it the lower the quality.
Dude they shud bring out a game with skating for us skaters, bmx for the bmxers , and sumtin like snowboarding for the snowboarders, and you get to choose which story you wanna play
The thing that mostly put me off about Skate 3 is that there’s NO playing S.K.A.T.E. …I mean c’mon! And no multiplayer?!.. I definitly want the old classics back in Skate 4.. And I want that Reda guy from Skate 2 to be the commentator again! He actually entertained me a little! =P
Viva La Skate..!!
I think you should have bmx, skateboarding an scootering in a game that would just be sick
Yeah multiplayer in these times is a must. Skate multiplayer with virtual skate contests on real skate parks I want!!
VIVA LA SKATE
What I’d do first off to have both styles is have the choice of realism and just arcade. That was kind of done in Skate 3 depending on the difficulty but maybe get further into it. Maybe not in difficulty but maybe just a whole mode with arcade mechanics, games, tricks, etc. About realism: semi-permanent damage on your board and skater in the sense that you will stay damaged until you decided to restart. Also do what Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland did which is make you go to the store skating or walking to actually buy clothes or yeah make you have to buy your stuff not just unlock. That goes with paying for a haircut and actually going to a barber shop
Maybe more insane parks? More well known skaters? More customization? Maybe end up doing a whole new engine for the game too or use some engine out there and modify it. Now to top it off and make it the best game in history I’d say add BMX like TH’s: American Wasteland had. I loved it yet so many trash talked about it for some reason. And no, no scooters. That was fun in the 90s and lets keep it that way. lol 
hay,
sick suggestions IceKoldKilla
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They have to make one right skate game and that they should make that right. As soon as another thing is in, we get less quality in other parts of the game. The developers should more hear to their customers. When the real skaters are happy with a skate game they have won, because this are the long time customers. And then they have no problems to selling it. But when they shot out some crap game like Skate 3 before its updates, where I can make 10feet olli´s – Instead I can buy Spongebob Surf & Skate Roadtrip 
Skate 3 is really not bad, but where was the realness which we all want… and then EA´s just wondering because it bad sellings…
Maybe the guys from EA Games read some ideas on this place too. So it´s good to post ideas and what you dudes want to have in a new Skate 4 Game.
Think Scooter is waste of time too, no one wants this garbage..
amen to that man!
No skate 4. EA Blackbox in Vancouver was closed, and they said a long time ago that skate was a trilogy. Look online as much as you want, but no skate 4 is being worked on.
Damien,
not to crush your hopes here, I’d love to see this game as well. But sales of both Skate 2 and 3 were less then Skate 1, with the later of the two having the lowest of the 3 titles…
EA is about making money, not making fun games… It’s a long shot that this will happen unless they can find a way to get it back to the awesomeness that was Skate 1 instead of taking the unrealistic approach they did in 2 and 3…
Hay James,
you do not crush my hopes. I think Skate 3 is not the last game we will see. When the next skate game is not called Skate 4 then EA will surely give another cool name. I said before it´s all about money when skating is in the mainstream again, and EA think they can make money again they surely will develop a new skate game. Another point is, that EA should more hear to the hardcore skate customers. When they shot out some shit like Sakte 3 where you can make unbelievable high ollies the main customers (real skaters) dont buy it. The most skate game players don´t like unrealistic moves and tricks because the most are real skaters, and they (me too) want to play as real as possible.
Looking forward to read some more opinions for a new Skate Game dudes
they need to make it possible to break your board cuz if you do a big gap or if you have been skating you board it should break and you should have to buy a new one
The boardbreaking idea is really cool. We will see what EA will do for us in the future.
The problem is, the “real” skaters aren’t a big enough audience to create a game just for them. Most gamers do want to skate faster than real life and jump crazy stuff because it is unbelievable and fun. If we wanted to spend all day trying to get a 3 inch ollie, we would just get on a real board. All three skate games were great, each was better than the one before it…but the elitist complaints helped convince EA that they were on the wrong track. They made the game, and it didn’t sell as much as the first, and then on top of that, all the “real” skaters filled forums with complaints about unrealistic ollies and spins….why should they bother to spend more money making a game just to have people get mad at them? I wouldn’t.
yeah but not only the “real” skaters want to have more realness. For example look at the ego shooter genre. They develop it realistic as possible because all gamers want it realistic as possible. Look on the racing genre realistic as possible, and they have success with it. Basketball games, soccer games all going to be to have more realness in it. Why not in skate games?
It is subjective. Soccer games are not that realistic when you have the ability to score a bunch of points against the other team. In Fifa, I have regularly won games by 10 or more points…real soccer has much lower scores. Basketball has both, because many people like NBA Jam which is over the top and arcade. Racing has multiple types…Need for Speed, Midnight Club, or realistic like Gran Turismo or Forza.
With skate, I think they kept a good balance. It was exciting for people like me, and had enough realism that it should have pleased more skaters than it did. The fact that people were nit-picking over how easy it was to ollie onto a table top is proof that the game was really made well. Plus, for the people who didn’t want to “Jump The Shark”, you never had to do it. You could spend all day skating on one stair case trying to get the perfect grind and edit the film to make everything perfect….that would drive me nuts, but some people would be pleased….the game was balanced like that.
I honestly believe the combination of lower sales, and extreme complaining from the elitists is what helped EA make the decision to end the series. If you aren’t pleasing the small group you are targeting, it is better to shut it down and keep making games that are pleasing their audience. The sad thing for us is they were making people happy, and now we have to suffer because of people refusing to be pleased with what they get.
hola compadré,
ya I´m mostly with you, it´s impossible to match everybodys expectations. Anyway I think when they hear more to the customers and make market analysis. It´s possible to have success with a new Skate game. Look on Activision they try it again with Tony Hawk´s Pro Skater HD. It´s not save that they have success with this new skate game re-realease, but they tryin´ it ..and that´s kool!
We will see what we get in the future. I try for next Tony Hawk´s Pro Skater
i agree they should make a skate game with snoboardin in it
I challenge you to find a multisport game that didn’t fail.
mx vs atv unleashed/ untaimed/ and reflex… alive failed miserably
and i still play mx vs atv unleashed! it has heli’s, planes, dirt bikes, atv’s, GOLF CARTS, trucks, etc. idk one person who has played it and doesn’t love it.. its a great game! but eric… snowboarding… really? not in a skate game. I’m a hardcore snowboarder, so id personally rather EA make a strictly snowboard/ ski game, and hell throw in a snowmobile for the heck of it! but the contrast between skating and snowboarding is too big to do doubles on that… HAPPY SHREDING!
c´mon a ski game will never bring sellings for EA that they make some good game for us. The same when they combine a snowboarding game with a skiing game. When they should focus on one snowboard game. And this they have to make 120%. Out there you can´t match everybodys opinions but when you make one in the write way it´s better if they make 3 games inside all all 3 are crappy. To develop a game costs much time and money. And to develop a two or three game combination like. Skate game, snowboarding game and BMX game in one. It´s very expensive and the history shows us that all these combination games are bullshit. One game and this in da right way
VIVA LA SKATE DUDEZ
If any game developer is gonna make another good skate game with realistic physics. It’ll probably not be EA or Activision. Maybe Rockstar will give it a shot and make a skate game.
Did you ever do the insane jumps in the GTA games? You want realistic physics, Rockstar should be your last call. Of course, I love slightly unrealistic physics, so I would probably love their skate game…but I doubt it would be what you are looking for.
You are forgetting something! What about “Thrasher Skate and Destroy” for PS? That is the most realistic skate game ever made according to me. You fix your stance before you pop and you set your landing before you land.
It’s made by Z-Axis and published by Rockstar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j21ISBV99dc
skates an awesome game buh if there was to be a ea bmx dam!! you’d make so much more than a skate bored game , not trying to start an argument here buh bmxing is more popular that skating and thats not just me saying it, its a fact bmxings way more mane stream compared to skate bored with is kept more underground …
jamie walsh I completely agree with you, aha I’m not even into bmx buh ied for sure much prefer it to skateboarding, sounds lame but all i do on skate any ways is pretend to be a bike aha kick out the flairsss
I love all the skate games but i think skate 3 is the best, with the feel of the skater and the darkslides etc its so much better, skate 2 city was the best but skate 3′s mechanics of the game where the best, in skate 3 there just wasnt enough to skate, too much space wasted, in skate 2 everything was crammed in but with a decent enough space, plus in skate 3 you cant see where you are in the map so you can set a session marker or somthing to skate later, i for one will buy skate 4 the day it comes out, and i hope it delivers
I´m with you buddy.
But I think we have to wait for a new Skate 4 game, or whatever a new skate game named by EA. For now we have to focus on Tony Hawk´s Pro Skater HD as a new skate game.
cheerio
yo whats goin on homie, I suggested this in a ‘what would you like to see in skate 2′ forum a while back, and people seemed to think it was a great idea. Instead of having a selected playlist, i thought it would be dope to have sponsors like skullcandy, and apple or even zune… My point with these companies would allow you to have an ipod/zune IN GAME where you can select your own music. Just use a usb flash drive and upload what tunes you want to the game. We all know the skate playlists are memorable, but sometimes annoying… and it would be fuckin wicked to always have music bumpin instead of rolling past a spot and it goes in and out.
Not to mention, i know for a fact skullcandy would get behind it. theyve got a damn mini in their wearhouse, can you smell secret mini?!
hola,
yeah that would be nice. I would love some kind of details in a new skate game, but it´s expensive to make it real because the developers have to buy all licences. ….and I think for example a Apple licence is not cheap
they should make it where you can buy houses and build your own backyard sktepark out of wood and planks and where you are a new person who has just starting skateboarding and not a pro(like the first one). you would start off in a small apartment and get side jobs for whenever you where running low on money(like cab driver or helping out at skate shops) and no fast travling… you could have a car to drive places… and have it where your boards break and you have to buy newones everytime( it got boring when i had every board and they just sat there… if they are gona have more time to work on it… make it more realistic to how skaters live not just how they ride
… lol SIMS Skate or a GTA Skate Game
In my eyes I don´t need to buy houses. Think as much they put in as less we get the skating in the main thing. They should focus on good skating, skateparks, mechanics, then on cool details like, board health, graphics…
They need 2 player free skate,blood,more challenges,and a bigger landscape. Also a snowboarding game with the same mechanics would be amazing.Bring on Skate 4!
Hay Chezwick,
haha cool idea with blood and the possibility to die or break, legs, arms and neck
And a awesome big Landscape would be dope too buddy.
I want skate 4, cuz skate3 website didn’t work :/
what for a skate 3 site do you mean? For me the Skate 3 game website from EA works >> http://www.ea.com/skate-3
each new skate is the same basically. they need to make a skate 4 that has real changes here are some ideas
1. maybe when you flick the stick to do the trick you have to hold it and watch it come around and then either have a catch button or let go of the stick or something like that. and depending on how good of a catch it was you could land sketchy or clean.
2. skating tranny sucks on the first 3 skates, you can only really do airs lip tricks arent good. they wouldnt even have to change it completely maybe just make a miniramp mode where everythings different and you could skate it like real life. an example is to do a rock to fakie you could roll up pull alil back on one of the sticks to lean back and push forward to make it tap the coping then back to come back in then forward to get your front wheels back on the ground
3. switch the sticks around when your riding switch so its harder and really is switch
4. add ways to style tricks like in the other games you cant do a bs flip by landing 90 and reverting quickly all sexy how pros do it, or if they did my first idea you could flick it in a way that tweaks it and catch it boned
anybody else have ideas along these lines?
dope ideas dude!
point 3 is really sick with switched sticks ….muaahahaha
Hope EA is reading with us to see what for nice ideas we have.
Some more here wrote for boardbreaking.
- Sick Soundtrack with some oldslool hiphop titles
- boardbreaking
- bonebreaking (maybe with blood)
- …
Give some more ideas dudez!
best ideas on here dude
Man, all we need now is a pro skater with masses of money to invest in EA skate. The bigger, the better!
anyway I think skate 4 possibly wants two story lines. Still keep it free roam like GTA but I love city AND parks, so one story line being a semi-pro skater in the suburbs and the other totally opposite with pro skateboarding and ALOT of pro competitions like the x-games or maybe the Dew tour?
great suggestion dude
Just make skate 4 at least have the option of horrendous gore for all the hard bails. That’d make it so much fun, instead of the hall of meat diagram telling you what happened… come on, i wanna see what happened! HAHA
there is a realistic snowboarding game its called stoked
Hola Rob,
yeah it´s a lil bit old, think it from ´08
– But it´s a cool snowboarding game!
I think if they make a Skate 4, they should make more stairset actually hit-able instead of having to just hit handrails and hubbas all day. They should also bring back the option of picking sponsors and whatnot
Would be sick to make some tricks like Rodney Mullen in this vid
ive got an idea what about a game where its a massive mountain and you can get down it by snowboardind,BMXing,skating and maybe canoeing.Also there could be challanges down the mountani in which you can unlock better formus of transport and new gear.plus mybe a hang glider?whats you thoughts?
Skate 4 would’nt need much, adding in flatland like primo slides etc, better off board experience such as climbing, hell even parkour would be awesome, I’m a skater so keeping the mechanics realistic is what makes it SKATE. For ps3 like burnout paradise did adding in your own custom playlist ass I have skate 3 for Xbox and nothings better than crusing to my favourite tunes like I do in real life, they should keep BMX out of it, and keep it seperate, adding long boards for faster travel would be great. ea trust me it’s a master piece leaving us wanting more.
Cant wait to see skate4. Best skateboard game ever!!! soo fun and gnar to play. it would be awesome if EA make snowboard game. But without much powder, more street. Bunshee Bungee, drops, rails, stairs ledges etc. That would be Sick. I think some day something like that will came up.. SW snowboarding was really poor, Stoked was better, but its not how it should looked like. It should be like skate. About skate 4, it would be awesome if stuff would get ussed and not good to ride, like broke board, ripped clothets. I hope to see it soon!!! Good Job EA!
i loved shaun white snowboardiong! I discovered a glitch on how to get out of the map on Japan but never showed anybody. lol but that game is AMAZING
Skate 4 definately would need to be more like skate1 and 2 and act like skate 3 never existed. Adding darkslides was a cool idea, but when it came to doing them it looked clunky and the animations were rather hurrendous, especially when flicking out of them. They need to add things like board damage, freestyle tricks, more flick tricks that are harder to do (impossibles, casper flips), breakable bones (where u can actually see the arm or leg bent). It just needs to be a better game in general. AND MORE MULTIPLAYER MODES!
yeah carl i agree with you man E.A have to start reading theese and taking some of the fans ideas into consideration so skate 4 can become anodr bestselling game like skate 1 and skate 2 also i think you shud have to wax ledges and buy new griptape like you have to do in real life skating and they have to introduce more companies like grizzly griptape and itbe cool if you were able to make yur own company and to do challenges nd interviews to promote yur own skate companies in the game there better be skate 4
Skate4? Just bring back skate1!! I was ranked 64 overall and #1 in the world for s.k.a.t.e! On xbox , Unbeatable. Spent years playing and loving that game, best online game ever to me (probably cause I was so good). I miss it so bad. Skate2 was alright, skate 3 was a FLOP online. Only liked S3 for darksides and create a park. Bring back S1! Naow (: I get massive urges to play it but can’t, just go online and set my favourite trick, sucks how they took it down. EA sucks. Now I just play mw3 all the time. Would be s1, but noooo.
i think that if they would mix up the atmosphere from OG skate and skate realisticness and skate 3 tricks(and add some new of course ;D)it would be really coooool
they need to find a way to stop trick spamming. ya know cuz that really pissed a lot of people off in skate 3
I have to disagree, te introduction of hardcore mode made it oodles more realistic then skate 1 skate 2. As well as the create mode. Skate 1 had best Map and story but skate 3 has the absolute most realistic physics
Skate 3 is official i skate for real. So my experience with all 3 skates has been like really going out. Theres tons of stuff to do now, i mean the tricks and the way you do them is so realistic its like the analogs are your feet. Skate 4 should have new areas like cities google mapped and stuff. And they need to put a jamie thomas character in the game wth. New old tricks like impossibles and daffy manuels. I liked the story idea it worked for me they should do that again maybe a few more contests like germany. Thanx for reading my thoughts.
They most likely wont release a new one until the next gen consoles are released, and the situation of blackbox kind of makes me wonder how would make it if not them and what it would be like. I love the series the third is my favourite simply because how polished and non-glitchy it is (this is what bugged me with S2) but I hope EA wont make some quick rip off just to make a buck. It would seem like a good idea to make a new skate for the launch of the new consoles, so they could make greater improvements into the physics and graphics of the game. I think on the current hardware the Skate series is already pretty much perfect
Yeah, and as a longboarder it would be cool to see longboards in the next game!
The game would be cooler with skateboards, and biking, but it defeats the purpose of it being called Skate, or they can just call it Ride. But it would get EA more cash, since the population of BMXers’ have increased decently in the last few years.
I think they should make a game with bmx and skating thats what american wasteland did.
A sick BMX game would be awesome.
They should it make real like skate 2. But I think before we get such kind of BMX game, EA will firstly make the new Skate 4 or however the next skate game title from EA will be named.
cheers dudes
Viva La Skate
I still think rather than individual players, they should have teams. Like board company pros and ams, and also shoe company pros and ams. It’d be much better. I want more customization
ithink alot of these ideas are sweet, but why not make a game called RIDE
Moutain biking bmx and skateboarding,snowboarding no blades or scooters fuck that, make the missions like the nitro circus show, hell throw dirt bikes atvs, even snowmobiles too, of all the games ive played im a extream skate fan, #2 for me, anyways ive never seen a realistic snowmobile game, or snowboarding and bmx.
Actually make a double pack game, one called ride for skateboarding, snowboarding,moutain biking and bmx and a game called brrrap for dirt bikes, atvs, and snowmobiles make it realistic, brand name stuff, blood gore, fighting, they should hire all of us fans to make the games since were the ones with the ideas here, lol what they do is make fan pages for that reason, take all are good fuckin ideas lol, all im trying to get at is make anouther skate game there awesome, but if they made something from one choice id pick eather bmx or snowboarding, make something different so ppl are left woundering what its about, thats how ya make money and sales
I would like to see Skate become more realistic.I’m mostly annoyed by the fact that players can switch their stance during a game of SKATE instead of doing the trick they’re given.
this is so lame skate makes you feel like your skateboarding. me and my friends allways i repeat allways play skate then any sport game out there it be stupid to stop making it. if skate stops i will no longer have respect for ea any games and i will stop playing systems and ill tell everyone i know not to buy another ea game.skate is still in the gene music sucks for video games thats why music cant survive as a game if i wanted to play some music ill play my guitar
honestly in my opinion if EA would put as much time into the skate series as they do with the same old boring and stupid Madden and NBA games they could make Skate 4 awesome and they good do a really good story like the whole getting sponserd thing if they wanted like you start from nothing and work your way up and put actual skate parks and sponsers like flow and work up to like plan b and stuff they need to have actual pro skaters help them with ideas and put the game setting in a new location.
I would love to see a super realistic snowboarding game from EA which includes:
Real Physics
Very High Detailed Graphics
A ton of fully licensed snowboarders
Winter X games
Open World Mountains and Resorts
A entertaining, realistic Career
Ability to create your own character
Epic Atmosphere (very important)
Good, fitting Music and Soundtrack
Real Mountains and Places
Licensed Brands and Stuff
Well I hope that game comes out sometime…
It should be called The Art of Flight
OK first off we should be able to create/ edit video for our sponsors and or just because. I would also like to see more tricks like casper flips, primos, 540 flips, pressure flips and slot more. Skate4 should also have real shops and more realistic Parks. Oh yea and add more skaters like Shane oneil , Paul rodriguez, Steve Berra, Richie Jackson, ex.. Also make hippie flips manageable!
ya this kind of new tricks were dope. I think when it comes to a new Skate 4 they will make actual pros in it. We will see when and what we get in a new skate title
Thanx 4 all ur ideas dudes. A supa doopa realistic snowboard game were sick too mate. For me personally a BMX game were dope. But I think all this games should be come separately. One game with all in it will be crap. When all is in it I swear then we get low quality at all. One game, but this in perfection..
I´m looking forward to the new Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD. It´s not Skate 4, but with THPS we´ll get a new skate game 4 now. A lil´light at the end of the tunnel
Hope EA will read here to get your sick ideas!
EA is not reading this. They just aren’t. They don’t care about your ideas. They care about money. They are not going to listen to gamers. Not gonna happen. EA is gonna do what EA is gonna do. Some of these ideas will probably end up in Skate 4 (if it ever even happens) not because they’re good ideas from you people, but because they’re just common sense to have. Stop kidding yourselves folks, you’re just wasting your breath. BMX games were tried, inline skating games were tried, neither faired well. And a scootering game?! Are you serious?! Real skateboarders will not buy a scootering game. Thats just ridiculous. EA would go bankrupt if they released a scootering game. A realistic snowboarding game on the eve of SSX coming out is pretty likely. Skate 4 is probably not gonna happen. Wanna know the real reason why? Its not Mass Effect, not Battlefield, not any mainstream sports game, not the Sims. These games can be released on a annual basis and do better in sales every year. Skate won’t. Best case scenario, they release another Skate, probably downloadable. To shut you up, and do as little as possible because they know you’re still gonna buy it.
You guys have all got great suggestions, boardbreaking and death and stuff, but I’ve got one that rocks. You may remember Tony Hawk’s Project 8, which had what I always thought was the white house. Basically I’m suggesting that EA put in not just real life parks, but real life monuments as well. And not to start a big thread or anythng but EA have been selfish not letting Turn 10 have the licensing to put Porsches in Forza Motorsport 4. Also add me on Xbox Live I am TBoneSteak19.
What would be awsome is if at the start you could choos out of aggresive inline skate, skateboard or bmx
i like skate 2 more than skate 3 mainly because i could do the skate 2 story , then i went online with my friend and did all the challanges and it made it last alot longer and gave the game more meaning because i got to do those challanges with a friend .
I think they would implement BMX and Longboards!
They could try fixing the servers first… But bmx would be a fun addition.
it should be all types bmx,scooter,skatebording and long bords to giv a bigger option would be amazing;)
You said you dont think Skate 3 was realistic, or at least less realistic than 1&2. My question is did you even play “hardcore mode”? Cus’ i mean i’ve went back to 1&2 and they are waaaaayy too easy :p
Plz can we do a scooter game
If EA has a track record of anything it’s keeping franchises going so I expect another skate game to come out eventually.
If anyone who works at EA or Black Box or whatever reads this, which is likely since this is skate4.com, you guys….
…should set skate 4 in 3 different cities (north america, europe, asia?) in order to provide a variety of new and interesting spots.
…should remove the 3 difficulties that Skate 3 implemented, instead going back to Skate 2′s single difficulty, which was more between Normal and Hardcore on Skate 3).
…should bring back the Fun Track from Skate 2 as well, no questions asked.
…should improve the matchmaking system to make it easier to find people to skate with
…should not try to combine bmxing and scootering into it like people have said above, if you want to make a bmx game make it stand alone from the series to keep the quality of gameplay high
…should improve on the park creator’s abilities/capacities and allow people to make their own spot battles to play online, there was the spot creator in Skate 2, but you could only download other spots and play it by yourself. And in Skate 3 you could only freeskate at the custom parks, not play an actual match with score kept at them.
…should change the rules of SKATE back to Skate 2′s rules from Skate 3 to make it more playable.
I’m sure I’ll think of many other things later, but really, whoever makes Skate 4, just use your creativity and listen to what people want in the game, and it will surely sell millions of copies +DLC so just do it.
ALSO add new flip tricks/grabs/flips!!!
oh and ALSO change the flipping system so it’s more like Skate 2, Skate 3 flips looked really weird…
we need a new bmx game
They should make skate 4 about the history of skating showing people like alva Christian hosoi and John cardiel!!
ea should make a bmx game make it realistic like if you get a flat you have to go to your local bmx shop and buy the tube or if your pedals wear down you have to buy new ones like tht like you have to buy everything like you start off with a shitty bike and start building it from there and make your own company tht be rad.
You guys should add new brands like Supreme, and more vans gears !
It’ll also be cool to have some odd future goodies
Honestly, I really think EA is missing some big moneys, when they aren’t making any skates on pc thought…There would be lots of gamers on pc too, like me. And SSX should be on pc too. Nowadays, there are console gamers but they really should think about making games on many different platforms. Hope this is going to be on pc too and soon
Of course it’s hard to make keyboard controls, but many of pc gamers do have gamepad nowadays..
Hi, can you please make it available for wii? It’s all I have…. Please
have broken boards
It’d be sick if you tried, say, a nollie heel and if you flick the stick incorrectly then the board overflips or underflips and you mess up, like in “real life.”
It could have a day and night cycle, that would be cool.
I’d be soo hyped if they made a skate 4! i’d buy 2, no 3, heck 4 copies to help their sales i loved all the skate games for they own way. skate 1 was soo sick cause it was completely new and tricks were super hard to do. skate 2 was great but walking sucked haha Skate 3 was pretty dope too but i hate how the whole map isn’t connected. Straight up HAve a FULL MAP thats is all yo u need and fucking boss looking catch on your tricks. steeze grinds. MAKE SKATE 4! PLEASE
Thanks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiJTUZO7op4&feature=related this is proof that they will eventually make a skate 4
k im sorry just make a skate 4 like obviously people w ill buy it youll make hella more money so why not straight up. shit to add maybe like be able to break your board n shit and make a better story add more skaters and when people snake you be able to gat the shit outta kfc hciken bone noisojn wheres the foo man
hey guys umm so this would be awesome if they made this game and it would be so amazing but I have a couple of requests:
- new pros and maybe ams- Al Partenen, Wes Kremer, David Gonzalez, Jimmy Carlin, and others because im so tired of having the same pro skaters. (no offense to these amazing skatebarders)
- have more parks or spots that are in real life- Crailtap park, Rincon stairs, and maybe some other spots.
- smoother transition and less glitches.
This would be cool. Its and open world w/no loading times (except for cut scenes). You start with trying to start a career in any sport, your broke and like other sports so when you win in competitions you make money and buy skateboards , bikes, scooters, snowboards,…. etc(w/unlimited possibilities). Each with their own competitions to make money. Say you want to snowboard, not only do you need to get to the mountains (an adventure by itself) you need to make enough money to buy a car to get there and buy equipment(RPG type of aspects). And say you go to the beach you can ride the waves. and snorkel and catch fish(i’m just saying). You got to win competitions to get cash do more stuff. Everything would be extreme sports at its core…. Not necessarily a skate game but it would be cool.
I honest to God would buy a new console for Skate 4. I miss Skate 3 enough I almost want to buy another xbox just for it. :/
The suggestions above would be so cool you start off with a crappy board like a walmart or something and you have to buy new parts and decks.Also they should make the actual board look more realistic by adding colored wood to the plys and colored nuts and bushings.
I think they should put in real time events
right off the bat i just want to say i dont see at all how skate 3 is perceived as unrealistic compared to skate 1 & 2.. not only does hardcore mode make it more realistic, but normal mode (which i prefer) correct me if i’m wrong is the exact same gameplay as skate 2.. which would contradict the statement that skate 2 is more realistic than skate 3.
now for “skate 4″ i’m a bit stuck. i don’t really see what else EA can possibly do to make another skate game given the conditions.. of course any skateboarder who enjois the skate games will buy it.. but that may be it, which makes me understand why there is no confirmed skate 4. however, i have a few suggestions:
-add in slappies, wallies, and wallrides (i know you can do them but from flat doing an ollie onto a wall and riding it looks retarded.. i’m sure EA can figure out how to make it so you can slap onto the wall from flat and do a realistic wallride)
-in relation with my first suggestion, basing the whole game off NYC would be a solid idea, considering the recent upcoming of “raw east coast skating” as i like to call it. (i’m a new yorker myself) i feel that this would also allow a large area/map/level to exist
-i thought i’d come up with more, but again, adding to why there is no confirmed skate 4, there really isn’t much EA can do to make skate 4 better/different/better-selling than the previous 3 games, and my second idea is a little out there.. and will likely be criticized by anyone who thinks “east coast rawness” is a joke, such as tech dudes or cali rippers (though a skate game based on NYC would be a amazing in my opinion)
-so that’s it!
-just read, add impossibles! and maybe primo slides.. that’d be sweet.
-a longboard option! imagine you could ‘edit skater’ and choose a longboard or a regular board! and you would be all geared up with gloves and everything, bomb a huge ass hill, and using the left analog start doing a layback powerslide for miles! that’d be tight.
Yeah they should add longboards.A New York one would be dope!
it would be cool if it had scooters on and you could custom them
they should add the ability to break your deck and bring back caps and security and all the spots from skate skate2 and skate 3 and BRING BACK BIG BLACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As well as add street leauge skateboarding
also if it had scooters,bmx’s,skate boards and roller blades and you could pick which a charter for each different skater.Also it should have skate parks on it from real life so like vickie park and other in door ones like bones and ramp city and the others
it would be good if you travel all over the world.