After the Skate series was left alone for 15 years, I was optimistic that the fourth game would breathe new life into it. However, if you also fell into this trap and you're yet to delve into its free-to-play addition,"skate.", I think you should lower your expectations now. It's certainly a skateboarding game, and it has decent bones to grow into something better, but as it currently stands in early access it feels half-baked, and could seriously improve some areas before it's held to the same standard as the series is known for.
Being on your board is fun, which is the most important gold star a game about skateboarding can really receive. It's also quite challenging to mess that part up. Cruising around street-skating, pulling off curb grinds and flip tricks is easily the best part, and is what I spent a lot of my time doing. After all, that's what this whole experience is about. There is a significant "one more run" mentality, which led to a number of hours poured into runs of tricks I'm still yet to perfect.
