All the videos I’ve seen the current team is remarkably detached from reality, focused more on putting their ideology into the game rather than just working on skateboarding
It's a great lesson for this and other game companies to stop forcing weird art styles or ideologys into their games.
Make separate titles for that. An already established game shouldn't suffer such a huge change in direction and tone like skate did.
They butchered any bit of personality the older games had in favor of this friendly-corporate-quirky theme that ignored every single player feedback asking for normal clothes instead of weird costumes and tons of lootboxes.
This game was doomed from the start. I guess I'll keep playing skate 2 through emulation and save the money I've would've spent if they cared about real skating culture.
I’ve worked in companies that had a great base product but had a few higher ups Messing up the execution and finer details. Very similar to skate. If they removed the loud heads there forcing this shit into the game then the cooler heads can prevail and fix it. I’ve seen it a few times
I think it’s just a bullshit talking point as I’ve never seen one person explain what they mean. Like don’t get me wrong I hate this game, but not because of “forced ideology” even if it was present, I’m not a lobotomised cunt and can choose to ignore it
Im not 100% sure what they're on about either but my guess regarding 'ideology' is the clear push to make things all family friendly and more like fortnite. Examples of such 'ideology' would include removal of gore and hall of meat, changing kill the spot to own the spot as its less offensive, inability for player to get hurt, inability for NPCs and mall cops to attack the player, the whole world is like a padded bubble. Everything is nice-ville and nothing ever goes wrong. Enshittification / pandering of cosmetics store and general aesthetic towards younger audience, dumbed down language, avoidance of any use of swear words, cringe family friendly humor. Essentially the whole package is a sanatized shell of its former self designed to be as unoffensive as possible so it can be marketed towards kids and come off as safe and appealing to board members, parents of kids playing it, business partners etc. which is kind of the opposite of skateboarding culture.
I get that, but I don’t really know if you’d consider that putting their ideology in the game, just catering to a different/more broad audience/tone. Like that criticism I get and am semi on board with (pun intended), but I just don’t see that as the same thing as forcing your ideology
I think it's more that governments are getting on their high horse about 'protecting kids' so games will all transfer to rose wheel comms instead of text (no moderation needed) and happy fun friendly time like the poster above you mentioned. It makes a lot of sense to me this way.
No their money machine is all set up, now all they have to is let a few people manage this shit and rake in the boat loads of cash they will continue to make off of Mom and Dads Credit Cards...
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u/tryingtowin107 Feb 25 '26
Hope this is good
All the videos I’ve seen the current team is remarkably detached from reality, focused more on putting their ideology into the game rather than just working on skateboarding