20 Recent Video Games EVERYONE Knew Would Suck

Though we all wanted the new Skate to bring the series back to its former glory, let's be honest - the writing was on the wall long before it came out.

For one, EA decided to release the game free-to-play with microtransactions, and perhaps more concerningly, they made it always-online, meaning you can only keep playing it for as long as the publisher continues to maintain the servers.

It didn't set a great tone from the start, and the various betas of Skate basically split the fanbase down the middle, many criticising it for feeling like an overly corporate, extremely un-cool version of Skate with a generic, soulless live service design.

And that's exactly what the early access release bore out, arriving without a scrap of the original trilogy's personality and offering up a barebones suite of features. 

Sure, it has its defenders, but this is such a steep drop from the brilliance of its predecessors.