Been playing the shit out of this for the last 4 months, and psyched on the full release. I'm on an Xbox One and have noticed a few things that may be helpful to folks with older consoles/XBox.
Set your graphics mode to "Performance", that helps with the motion blur. Turn off or turn down the pedestrian density (they love hanging out in front of out ledges anyway, just like real pedestrians). If you're still having trouble, turn off the physical animations, that should help with blur. Hopefully they fix those issues soon.
Oh, and on XBox, 360 flips and variations are currently screwed up if using manual catch - for now, I've just been not tre flipping unless it's mission required and if so I just set it to autocatch instead, and then flip it back.
Philly contest- the key is to not fall. Do a good 3 trick line (flip in/flip out on the benches is a great score booster) and then just chill for the rest of the alloted time. Bails are weighted really heavily against makes, so a sick line with a couple bails thrown into the heat will score less than a decent line with no bails.
The Crea-Ture park isnt't listed- to get to it, go to the brooklyn banks OG spawn spot, skate up until you see the doors on your left, one of those will get you into the park.
Powerslides are so much fun, I've been having fun messing around with some of the wedges at LES, sliding up the wall a bit and then hitting grinds or lipslides.
Anyway I'm loving this game.