It starts with the name - carve down its long, winding streets - and continues with its factories, facilities, and forecourts conveniently laid out like well-designed skateparks.

Skate 3 takes place in a city built for skateboarders. The series as a whole, and Skate 3 in particular, was renowned for its more natural take on the sport, with a control scheme that really made it feel like you were on a board. First released in 2010 on the Xbox 360 and PS3, Skate 3 was developed by EA’s now defunct Black Box studio. It's also the same month that Titanfall 2, Dishonored 2, and Battlefield 1 made plays to dominate my time, but it was Skate 3's board-friendly world of Port Carverton that I spent longest in. That meant that in the same month that the president-elect of the United States appointed a white supremacist to one of the highest positions in his administration, the country of my birth slashed its economic projections for the future, and a tsunami threatened the country I now call home, I was able to forget the world by spending multiple hours trying to land a tailslide on a small bench. But there's been a solitary light in the darkness of November: Microsoft finally saw fit to make superlative skateboarding game Skate 3 playable on its Xbox One console. Between elections and earthquakes, the end of 2016 has started to feel a bit like the end of the world.

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