Skate transfers bad to video games. If you wanted 'real' shit it looked so underwhelming, because in an arean where people can fly 1000 yeards and sequencet millions of tricks it is. But yeah thrasher was the shitty, hapy to land a fkifklip type game of that era. Even THPS1 had you doing ridiculous shit effortlessly, and with thps2 combos/manuals it got ridilous.
They tried to save this for SKATE but it still didn't transfer well. You just CAN'T transcribe the full body aspect of skating into a few butoons and make it look natty. Also their control schem for popping tricks was meh. That's why I repsect sakting so much.... I KNOW what it takes to float this shitty uneven planter gap, or grodn down a 3-angle handrail