In reskate you can tweak a lot of settings that you can't in the base game. Things like gravity and what not. I haven't tried it myself yet, but pretty sure you can make it more realistic that way. If not, someone will make a mod for it, if there isn't already. I didn't hate the gameplay, but by god i wished it was more "realistic", that's the thing i liked about the series. In THPS, you had to pull a 5million shitass combo to get the same dopamine that a clead treflip boardslide gave you in skate.