The Life And Death Of Skateboarding Games

To clear up some confusion, Skate 4 wasn't mentioned in this video specifically due to a lack of news about it right up until the day this video came out. I thought that it was going to be a Metroid prime 4 situation, announced but would never actually see the light of day. It would appear I was incorrect.

I really want an action RPG where a skateboard functions as both your form of travel and your blunt melee weapon. Work of beauty as usual leon

Insane how deep you went into this video! Great job man

As much as I love your videos on fighting games, It's very nice to see you talk about other genres, specific games, and what made them work or... not work. You're a very compelling person to listen to, and I'm eager to see more of your content in the future.

Allright so at 1:08:30 there's an interlude with the song "theme from harry's game" and the phrase "the turtles hiding in shells" which seems to be the latest installment in a possible cross youtuber ARG mystery thingy. The first installment I can find is from Noodle's Need for speed video at 9:03 with the phrase "i can be anywhere" then FUNKe's Concept album video at 6:04 with "light into water reflections" and Mandalore's Marathon video at 9:27 with "we all have a real first floor" any others I don't know about? anybody know what this is all about? anybody noticing these at all?

Im being 100% honest when i say this, but my god this is one of the CLEANEST scripts I've heard from a YouTube video. You do a perfect job of allowing your personality to shrine through, while still allowing viewers to get all the information they'd want about the history of these games. The pacing is also fantastic, and honestly the video just completely flew by for me. Absolute gold

I love the Skate Series

Never seen this channel before, but YouTube's algorithm figured I loved skateboarding games enough to throw a video that's only been uploaded for 9 minutes right at me. I'm glad it did, I'm really enjoying it!

I almost feel like I don't deserve this kind of quality content for free.

It's weird how much power a video like this has. There's a lot of comments from people who never played a skateboarding game but now care about the genre (me being one of those people) and I think it's really cool to have people teach about why certain games were loved. My parents never bought me a console growing up, so I only know of these games form my friends at school who used to talk about them, but right now I'd love to play Skate, and I'll definitely look into whatever game in the genre comes next.

What I expected : A glorificative nostalgia bait of THPS2 What I got : a hella good video essay about a genre I didn't care for the last 10 years and also 𝐭 𝐡 𝐞 𝐭 𝐮 𝐫 𝐭 𝐥 𝐞 𝐬 𝐡 𝐢 𝐝 𝐢 𝐧 𝐠 𝐢 𝐧 𝐬 𝐡 𝐞 𝐥 𝐥 𝐬

This is the best video you've ever made. If this is a hint toward the future of your content, I will watch them again and again, easy.

This is like the new age version of watching how its made or any history channel show. But its ACTUALLY interesting and appreciates the time you spend watching it. Even though its over an hour long, there are so many split second gags that I found myself floored. By both how funny the gag was and by how much more effort was put into this one video compared to modern traditional media. Loved this.

I'm surprised you didn't mention my favorite indie subgenre from the last decade, "insane abstract artistic experiences(via skateboarding)", comprised of titles like griptape backbone, perfect stride, and the upcoming weirdly ambitious looking skate story Also, Jackass was a highly popular TV show(with several spinoffs) before it was ever a movie series, and I as an american cannot let that heinous slight to my culture slide

I love THUG 2. It completed the gameplay mechanics from previous games by adding sticker slapping. And then fans made THUG Pro, and it was great too.

This video was amazing. I've never played a skateboard game but you've kept he engrossed the entire time. Thank you.

I remember when 1+2 came out and hearing all the positive feedback. I actually couldn’t believe it until I picked it up for myself, and it was every bit as good as I had thought it would be and then some. Not only the nostalgia factor, but they really made a game that played like what child me always imagined those games to be.

I've been watching you for years Leon, and when you pivoted from fighting games towards other genres, I was worried that, like a lot of other people, the transition might knock them out, especially since the stuff you were covering was really niche in the modern landscape. And even though you've been doing this for over a year at this point, I was still worried. This video killed those doubts. To me this is your best work. (And I never imagined in a million years I'd get teary eyed by the end of a damn Skateboarding genre documentary). Bravo.

I've never played a skateboarding game since finishing THUG1 a few days ago. Amazing job on this deep dive friend.

The only skateboarding game I've ever played is 10 minutes of a tony hawk on the n64 as a child and this is still an enthralling video. Absolutely insane work and I hope dearly this gets as much attention as possible.