Comfortably Joe

Learned this the hard way when I opted in to help run the player facing public betas for fall guys from the playtest side. Grateful I did it or else I would not be in my current role but holy moly I was not prepared for how every word would be scrutinized or misconstrued

Haha, I feel that, I don't mind it generally for the subreddits that are just videos but understand

discord.gg/zQ8kn9vhZ I enjoy this one the most as the overall skill level is a bit closer to beginner than pro

But this is the biggest and most active for 30y/o+
discord.gg/BPkvCur3

Hell yeah!

Not sure if it's your bag but there's a pretty decent community for oldskaters on Discord/Reddit, generally just a cool mix of posts from former very good skaters getting back into it or very new folks starting for the first time
Tony Hawk just posts there too which is neat

Yup, for sure! thankful for my helmet/pads gear

I will admit an odd part of me does kind of like the adrenaline from falling and getting back up to try it again? Idk, it feels really good to be able to improve on things every session, very mad I never started when I was younger

Youch! Slip outs from under are the worst and scariest thing, I've been trying to be extra careful with not leaning back at all since I took this fairly hard slam last time - afaict theres basically never a good time to lean back so if you have to bail then bailing forwards is definitely better

Manual progress, really struggling to understand what makes a good one or a bad one but definitely some signs of improvement

I started this year for the first time at 30, it's been sick
do it

I've not done a game jam in years... Hmm..

We've found our "don't fall in love with a loan" for this season I see

A perfect boop

He proceeded to roll over as if innocent to his crimes

He does his best

One of my dogs very visibly booped the other

Micolash feels like a bit of a DeS boss to me, it definitely is still a bit standard 1on1-y in parts but you spend a lot of that fight just trying to run after the dude

Wish they would do more interesting gimmicks like that

He's about to deliver the sickest Swanton Bomb you've ever seen

Kill bill?

bsky.app/profile/henn...

For my birthday I will take a mild concussion, thanks

(Always wear a helmet)

Made it to 31, waddup waddup 🐸

I will spend some of it learning how to pump a mini ramp

Maybe I just accept that's not profitable and rely on games like Session and SkateXL to give that feeling

I think there's space for crazy ridiculous tricks and set pieces - the fantasy of being able to skate the things you could never do in real life - but I feel like that should be the territory of Tony Hawk games and Skate should show the pain/struggle of what skating really is like (fucking hard)

I don't think it would be as egregious if everything else was up to par but it definitely doesn't help. I really wish I wasn't so negative on it but so many of the decisions feel like they have come from 'above' 😅

The overall vibe is very corporate, sanitised or "how do you do fellow kids" - feels antithetical to what the game stood for

It's live service so they can turn around the mission variety on offer but the vibe and level design feel so ingrained to the experience that I don't imagine that will 😔

also I hate that I have to call it skate 1 now because skate 1 was "skate." and now this is "skate." and games should stop doing that, why do they all do that

I actually DO like the online/mmo part of it, it is nice to have it feel social (even Skate 1 did this though by having NPC skaters show up as you cruised around)

The skate gameplay is okay but there's no reason I would play this over Session imo

Really disappointed with Skate.

I know it was a pipe dream for it to go back to its roots but still bummed out about it.

No comps or s.k.a.t.e, the characters are horrendous, barely any actual boards or gear, the 'stunt' ragdoll stuff is a turn off, I liked Skate 1 for its more grounded approach

Also has an insanely good OST

PS1 Small Soldiers a little bit, uses green/yellow/red keycards, different weapons for different enemies and interesting level design - I actually remade one of them in Quake a while back

Very cool game in general, takes place not in the movie but in the fictional universe the movie said happened

360 had a lot of those original IP spawned trilogies where I preferred the first game as they progressively got flanderised

Skate, Crackdown, Saints Row, could probably chuck Mass Effect on there too

I wish she got to meet Wesker in what could only have been described as an anxiety-off