This or Skater XL?

[Up To The Wolves]

Which one should I buy? Tell me the pros and cons.

[Lil Quack]

Umm. Not unless you pay me. You can do your own research lmao.

[Up To The Wolves]

Originally posted by Quackers:

Umm. Not unless you pay me. You can do your own research lmao.

I am doing it right now by asking people who played it on it's forums lmao

[Sugar Tits]

meh.... SXL is more arcadey... you want a "skateboarding game" play Session hands down... period. real skateboarders know what im talking about ;)

[SiniXi]

Yeah I got both and hands down session is the best one, more customization map is bigger even with the update and overall I really dig the feel of session over skater XL

[GodOfGanja]

buy both

[AmpBlondy]

ignore the Controls are not good comment. I put in 44 hours already, and it just gets more intuitive. If you want a realistic sense of skateboarding and feel like the objects have life to then, i defintely recommend Session. If you wanna just mess around THPS status, then SkaterXL and their mods

[levixkelly]

Both fun games for different reasons. Buy both

[Kaelduur]

There is great potential in both games. You should buy both of them if you can.

Session already feels like a finished game. Object dropper is fun to play around. Character customization is better than SXL. Graphics and animations are better, it has day and night cycle. You can get off your board, walk etc.

Skater XL didn't receive updates for 10 months but it received a big update (beta) finally thanks to Session. Most of the new features are actually mods made by community. I believe the guy who made the replay system is now part of the developer team. So, if you want better mod support (there is already a big community) and gameplay closer to EA's Skate franchise, buy Skater XL.

If I have to choose one, I'd buy Session.

[FHWBW]

Personally, Session feels a lot more natural and I feel like it has a lot more replay ability. Session also looks miles better imo. Skater XL is definitely more like Skate 3 in an arcadey sense and for me that's a bad thing because it just gets old too quickly. Also, Session seems to be going in a better direction than Skater XL.

[Haunted Baby Shoes]

Originally posted by Sugar Tits:

meh.... SXL is more arcadey... you want a "skateboarding game" play Session hands down... period. real skateboarders know what im talking about ;)

real skaters are out skating, not gating keeping a video game. It's a video game you play with a controller.. unless you're playing with VR glasses and a tech deck.. shove the "this is close to skateboarding" crap and the other is "arcady".. If a controller is involved at all it's NOTHING close to skateboarding.

[Dunmer Punk]

Skater XL is slightly easier to get into at the moment, they just released the open beta which fixed some things. But as nice as the controls feel, the LA Courthouse and modded skateparks feel so sterile and lifeless.

Session has more options for you to tinker with in terms of how your board handles and how you want to play, though it is still early access, grinding is a pain with glitches. But the world is bigger and the soundtrack really livens it up, helps you to forget the glitches.

I own both, but after the first two hours of handling the new controls, I'm largely playing this one right now. (Session)

[_Gustavo]

Like i said in XL forums, both are recommended, i'll just copy paste the asnwer here, but i'll add that after play almost 30 hours of Session, i just can't touch XL anymore, because the controls feels "wrong", the current beta in XL also have some weird animations for pushes, and the general stance the caracter stays in the skate, but this is something that'll be adressed in the future.

Here's the paste :
Skater XL - West Coast spots (La Courthouse, Encinitas park), better grind and rotation mechanics atm. grabs are in the public beta and works like it should, really good support for mods turning it almost infinite in possibilities. Can't get off the skate

Session - Can get off the skate, walk and jump, NY Spots (Brooklyn Banks), potential for a much better and open world map, the current map is amazing with a lot of possibilities, better flip controls with a lot of control options to change, customization is better too (female skaters, various board format and sizes, better engine, animations, graphics and lightning (UE4, XL uses Unity wich is ok), day and night cycle, object dropper and better replay editor (wich is a little broken atm but already feels more "professional"), daily, weekly and historical challenges with money reward (wich in the future can be used to buy new gear and decorate your apartment)

[Professor Goat]

skate xl is literally a paid demo. they havent updated anything in over four years. theyre using steams early access program to fund development for console ports. literally a scam. sessions has already developed more than skate xl has shown

[Misfit]

yesterday there was an update for skater xl and its pretty good.
they added 2 of the most active modders to the team and integrated stuff from mods.

[Nex]

Neither. Both are sht. All these people calling Session a sim probably never left their mother's basement. They probably think survival games on here where you eat 20x your body wait are life sims, too.