EA’s Skate 2 PS3 version “runs like a dog,” says Aussie review

If it runs better then the first game I’m happy.

Dogs are pretty fast at running.

It looks pretty ropey on the demo but framerate issues less so but then again I will play it again and see what I mean.

the game is made by EA – nuff said. they really are lazy on the mullti-platform titles anyway

They have been really good as of recent actually.

Anyway, they are closing, so I understand.

JPickford – I believe the original saying is three legged dog… but it’s been shortened somewhat.

I’m confused by this as BlackBox were demoing at shows with the ps3 version.

And my demo runs super smooth and I’m very impressed.

Maybe it was bad luck, or maybe it was an older build. Haven’t got the demo yet.

You would have though issues like that would have been sorted.

ORRR, The PS3 is so shit, that it can’t do ‘skateboard physics’.

xD

Yeah, the demo runs pretty smooth for me as well.

I don’t recall any problems with the original game. How strange that they’ve managed to make it worse.

Maybe their PS3 is on the fritz.

Online was more or less unplayable in the original game and at 1080p it did run slower then at 720p. Nothing game braking though. If anything the demo is smoother.

*Microsoft walks away with a slightly emptier pockets, giggling as Gameplay.au buys a life-time supply of pick-n-mix*

xD

Well. In that case, I’m happy the developer is fucking going out of business.

Bah, on the 360 it was smoot as fuck, and was an incredible game. i’m gonna buy this one way or another this week! by the way @Gamoc, Black box/EA Canada do a crapload of good games…and theyre not going out of business, black box is being closed in march due to the cuts that EA are doing. also, a lot of the Black Box devs are just gonna move up to the EA Canada studios.

thats really racist! dog are faster than humans ^^

Good Point. hehe

Dammit! The PS3 demo was shocking but an EA bod reckoned it had since been sorted.

/cancels pre-order and adopts a “wait and see” stance

ahhhh don’t cancel! this is going to be an awesome game one way or another!

I meant specifically Black Box shutting down. ‘Going out of business’ was a bad choice of words, obviously.

Seriously, I’m pissed that this game sucks and I’m pissed that it doesn’t even run properly on my chosen console. Bastards.

“I meant specifically Black Box shutting down. ‘Going out of business’ was a bad choice of words, obviously.

Seriously, I’m pissed that this game sucks and I’m pissed that it doesn’t even run properly on my chosen console. Bastards.”

You might want to consider that it may actually be the fault of the PS3′s overly complicated hardware architecture than the fault of the develoopers…

No, I don’t want to think that at all. I have seen multiplatform games that run perfectly on PS3, so it’s the fault of the developer’s that this doesn’t.

“No, I don’t want to think that at all. I have seen multiplatform games that run perfectly on PS3, so it’s the fault of the developer’s that this doesn’t.”

Considering games runs on a plethora different engines, with different requirements, and different ways of handling things, that reasoning doesn’t work at all…

Well, they could have reduced the poly count, maybe? Would you be happy then, or would complain it doesn’t look at good? Computers can’t perform miracles, and if the PS3 didn’t have such a needlessly complex architecture, you can be pretty certain it would run just as well as the 360 version does…

You see, that’s because the PS3 has new technology in it.

If I can see multiplatform games that work so well on a PS3 it is down to the developers to make their games work on both systems. If they don’t it is simply their fault.

Thing is… if the game porting isn’t done well enough it’s down to consumers to put their wallet away and not buy the game. That’s the best way to send a company a message.

Of course, your average consumer wont give a shit, and your average internet warrior will spend all of their time saying that actually the differences are miniscule and that they should be ignored.

Company wins. Customers lose (what’s new?). That said, even if the customers didn’t buy the game you still don’t know if the company will even realise it was because a port was half arsed.

I’m pretty sure heavily stuttering frame rates would make the average consumer give a shit, but by that point they’ve already bought the game anyway. But in most cases, you’re right, they won’t care as long as it works.

Maybe I’ll pick this up preowned at some point. They won’t get money from me and I’ll still get the game.

OMG, the PS3 really is shit, isn’t it?

Rhythm and SilentLoner said the demo sucks, yet Syrok and tenthousandgothsonacid reckon it’s smooth as silk.

Which of you guys are lying then? Or more to the point, which of you are Microsoft employees? Chortle.

Much love.
T. Tibbs

I don’t think anyone has to be “lying”. Remember we’ve got lots of differing factors this generation even on machines which would appear to be identical – lots of different models, lots of different revisions, not everyone will be in running in the same resolution, background downloads, disk fragmentation, etc.

Should download it, and give you all the definitive answer.

Shouldn’t I?

Calm down Blerky boy. I thought the T.Tibbs bit would have given away my sarcasm.

It might have if I actually knew who T. Tibbs is/was.

IT ran pretty smoothly most of the time for me, but it jumped at little bit at inopportune times.

@Blerk

Ever heard of fonejacker?

Well… I downloaded the PS3 version to try and it killed my puppy. I hope you bastards are happy now.

“You see, that’s because the PS3 has new technology in it.”

There’s nothing “new” about the Cell proceccor. It’s just takes so novel (and typically detrimental) approaches to other processors. The simple fact that it attempts to do everything with only one chip makes it a *lot* more difficult for developers to make cross platform content, and the rest of the industry has very little interest in conforming to Sony’s complex ideals of “industry standard”.

It might have worked back when the PS2 was the only name in the industry that matters, but this is a very different generation of gaming.

What next, are you gonna point out that Cell is 1/4 as powerful as the human brain?

“If I can see multiplatform games that work so well on a PS3 it is down to the developers to make their games work on both systems. If they don’t it is simply their fault.”

Have you ever programmed a single thing in your life? Not everything that be just “made to work”. There’s far too much to consider. Any decent hardware should be able to run industry standard development anyway.

It must suck so bad to be a time constrained developer and have to deal with the PS3 dev environment. Thankfully though everyone has 4 + year and guaranteed 120 Million + funding to work with like Guerilla

i watched the video review on IGN, those guys don’ review the ps3/360 versions apart, so both reviews had the same text and video review.

the video review was from a ps3 very which was quite clear as we could see in the video, and the reviewer there also said that there were some ”hikes” in the game and slowdowns which sometimes can fuck up your landings.

oh well =/ im getting it for the 360, so what the fuck am i complaining about?