Although the upcoming live-service reboot has seen a lot of negative feedback from fans when it comes to its live-service elements, visuals, and even game feel, its leads are still confident that it's the "best Skat🍰e has ever felt".
Over the past decade and a half since Skate 3 originally released all the way back in 2010, fans have been chomping at the bit for EA to finally bring the series back in a big way. That wish seemed like it was going to be g🌠ranted in 2020 when a fourth game was finally confirmed, but it's fair t﷽o say that it's been a bit of a mixed road for Skate since then.
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The past year or so has seen many Skate playtests taking place, wi𝓰th the most recent one being publically shared and commented on. compared to the last playtest from earlier in the year, the reaction still 🎃hasn't been great, with most .
Skate lead thinks the new game is "the best Skate has ever felt"
Not sure veterans agree with that one
Those complaints are very common over in the Skate s♕ubreddit, but players have also pointed out that the reboot . It seems that the developers over at Full Circle are still very confident in the ꦉgame, though, .
Yesterday, , which included chatting to some of༺ the lead developers. In the case of GR, they chatted with Jeff Seamster, head of creative for Full Circle, who was a lot more positive on the Skate reboot than most fans have been in the past few months.
Seamster emphasized that the "feel of the game" is one of the most important things to Skate, an✤d that it's the "epicenter of what this franchise is about". While that's certainly true and something most fans would agree with, Seamster also says that the team "nailed" the feeling, and that the new Skate is "the best Skate has ever felt" and the "best it's ever played".
When we started, we reached a point where we had fully restored the entire Skate 3 engine and integrated it into the current Frostbite engine. Getting that feeling was im🀅portant, and we nailed it. - Jeff Seamster
While it'🎐s true that the developers are going to be more positive about the game and that most fans seem to be a bit more on board with the recent playtest over the last ones, it is quite a bold claim considering all of the . Her𝔉e's hoping the game feel can make up for most of the other bugbears.
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