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SSX: Deadly Descents - 2011 - Trailer - [Update: Website & Description]

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Oh no. :( What are they doing?

Whatever, I'm going to be optimistic. Seems EA doesn't understand what made this franchise amazing in the first place though. :(

EDIT: Release SSX Trilogy HD, EA. That way we can get our classic SSX as well.
 
You know, I don't have a problem with the trailer or the game it demoed. I just have a problem with said game's title. Take the "SSX" out of it and all is good. I might even pick up "T3h Hardcore Gritty Snowboarders of Fury" when it comes out. But I'll still be holding out for SSX 4...
 
Players will explore the story of a team who seek to be the first to descend the faces of the most treacherous mountain ranges on the planet. The team will travel the world to face the worst that Mother Nature can throw at them. From the peaks of the Himalayas, where the air is so thin that riders have to descend through the death zone at breakneck speeds to keep from blacking out, to the solid ice ranges of Antarctica, where a sunlit line is the only survival option when temperatures drop 50 degrees centigrade in the shade. And the mountain isn’t the only danger players will face
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SSX name and snowboarding should never be in this.

the thing is (from reading this lil Description) , a game , first person one , about surviving in the snowy mountains ( with no snowboarding ) can be really neat ,think Mirror's Edge in mount Mount Everest/Disaster Report Himalayas editions.
 
I don't think this is that bad an idea. It's like Split/Second with snowboards. I just don't understand why they bolted the SSX name onto it, it's not like that has any pull with modern audiences. I think a 'true' SSX follow-up would need freshening up, the tone of the old games has dated a bit, but nothing like this. All this does is piss on the dreams of SSX fans.
 
Why use the SSX name? Seriously, why?

They could of just made this a new IP and not ruin the SSX name, what the fuck is wrong with EA.
 
Just call it Deadly Descent, nix the SSX moniker. I am interested to see how the whole thing plays out with going off a 5 thousand foot chasm and opening your flying squirrel suit. But I do have lowered expectations for this game. Its not SSX in my book, but it might be a cool twist on the snowboarding genre.
 
I'm with you guys in thinking the SSX brand that we're used to is an awkward fit for this new game, but, honestly, EA couldn't have done anything else. Snowboarding games aren't popular mega-sellers anymore (if they ever were). That era lasted from the late '90s into the early '00s then tapered off. SSX is THE snowboarding brand at EA. They can't not use it when releasing a snowboarding game. I can almost guarantee that planning for this game started out as SSX, not as some far-fetched idea for a new IP that they decided to slap "SSX" onto. They knew that the snowboard genre doesn't have a huge market they can pump tons of experimental IPs into. They wanted to make a new SSX, yet they were probably tired of the colorful early '00s aesthetic of the originals and they wanted to try something else. Again, since SSX is THE snowboarding brand at EA, they can't release the new game as anything else. They decided "SSX" didn't have to be tied to the style of the earlier ones. Hardcore fans of the originals might be upset, but what the heck. They can't continue down that path forever.

Releasing it as something other than SSX would've strongly implied that a "real" SSX was in the works, which it isn't. This is now SSX, for better or worse.
 
Im not gonna overreact like the rest of you nuts. Id rather just take on a wait an see approach.

But why is everyone saying its been COD'd when it clearly looks like Killzone? Same muted color palette and everything.

More like Helgan Descents.
 
.GqueB. said:
Im not gonna overreact like the rest of you nuts. Id rather just take on a wait an see approach.

But why is everyone saying its been COD'd when it clearly looks like Killzone? Same muted color palette and everything.

More like Helgan Descents.
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Because I can't tell the difference.
 
brohmbel said:
I'm with you guys in thinking the SSX brand that we're used to is an awkward fit for this new game, but, honestly, EA couldn't have done anything else. Snowboarding games aren't popular mega-sellers anymore (if they ever were). That era lasted from the late '90s into the early '00s then tapered off. SSX is THE snowboarding brand at EA. They can't not use it when releasing a snowboarding game. I can almost guarantee that planning for this game started out as SSX, not as some far-fetched idea for a new IP that they decided to slap "SSX" onto. They knew that the snowboard genre doesn't have a huge market they can pump tons of experimental IPs into. They wanted to make a new SSX, yet they were probably tired of the colorful early '00s aesthetic of the originals and they wanted to try something else. Again, since SSX is THE snowboarding brand at EA, they can't release the new game as anything else. They decided "SSX" didn't have to be tied to the style of the earlier ones. Hardcore fans of the originals might be upset, but what the heck. They can't continue down that path forever.

Releasing it as something other than SSX would've strongly implied that a "real" SSX was in the works, which it isn't. This is now SSX, for better or worse.
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You are wise beyond your total post count. Frankly I think we're lucky EA is making a snowboarding game at all.
 
wind_steaker said:
does anyone know when we'll get to see some gameplay?
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Well now that the cat's out of the bag, information should be flowing a little more freely. My guess would be soon, maybe this month or next month.
 
brohmbel said:
I'm with you guys in thinking the SSX brand that we're used to is an awkward fit for this new game, but, honestly, EA couldn't have done anything else. Snowboarding games aren't popular mega-sellers anymore (if they ever were). That era lasted from the late '90s into the early '00s then tapered off.
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But how would anyone know that? There hasn't been a good SSX game since SSX 3. If you release low-quality games, then they will sell poorly. Has nothing to do with interest in the genre.
 
Dreamwriter said:
But how would anyone know that? There hasn't been a good SSX game since SSX 3. If you release low-quality games, then they will sell poorly. Has nothing to do with interest in the genre.
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Thank you. Why are we deciding a good and fun SSX wouldn't sell? What is this shit?
 
Dreamwriter said:
But how would anyone know that? There hasn't been a good SSX game since SSX 3. If you release low-quality games, then they will sell poorly. Has nothing to do with interest in the genre.
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Maybe.

I'm thinking, though ... if Deadly Descent ends up doing well and EA discovers that a big market is indeed there, then they have the freedom to experiment w/ offshoots. Maybe they're hoping this new game is to the SSX franchise what "Undercover" was to the NFS franchise: a big revitalizer. Sure, not everyone liked Undercover, but all the money that flowed in let them release tons of NFS offshoots in later years. Most of those were crappy, but there were some gems there.
 
I really hope the characters are goofy and over the top. That's really what makes SSX so special to me.

I still have faith in this, but that is a terrible first impression.
 
Really, I don't understand why people are hating on this. It's not the interpretation that any of us wanted, but that's not to say that it can't be awesome in its own right.

Also I just saw Inception. I wonder if EA will give us guns.
 
Socreges said:
Also I just saw Inception. I wonder if EA will give us guns.
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Eh I doubt it. It looks like some lame edgy bullshit Dark Summit, but I doubt it's going towards shooter-action.

And also....Bond did it first.
 
I can't wait for the NBA Street reboot where you play an ATF agent that has to infiltrate a cocaine operation by going undercover as a streetball player trying out for the crime syndicate sponsored team.
 
ShirAhava said:
R.I.P SSX

I'm going to rebuy SSX 1, Tricky and 3 for PS2 and XBOX and call it a gen :(
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It's been dead to me for a while now. Had fun with it back in the PS2 era, but it needs to stay there.. I'm surprised there is still so much interest around the franchise.

LOL@ the thread title.:lol I did a double take and just had to click on it.
 
Fantastical said:
Oh no. :( What are they doing?

Whatever, I'm going to be optimistic. Seems EA doesn't understand what made this franchise amazing in the first place though. :(

EDIT: Release SSX Trilogy HD, EA. That way we can get our classic SSX as well.
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Fuck... SSX needs the classics HD treatment.

i would buy the new one even if it averaged 2/10 if SSX HD was a pack in.
 
daoster said:
so much to "back to the roots"
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I <3 Memes said:
Why would they even say that? There isnt a single shred of truth to that statement. Why would they even bother to say that?
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The irony is SSX never left it's roots. Every game all the way up to Blur had the same wacky, "in-your-face" art style. They've just viciously ripped it out of the colourful garden it's been happy in all these years and planted it in the corner of some 13 year old emo kids bedroom. Watching Micheal Bay movies on repeat.
 
im not doubting at all that the game can be great

its just that ssx has a certain style (ie colorful, in your face style) that i really like and i just dont like another gritty game

there are plenty of them this gen
 
SSX was one of the biggest joys I had in the early days of the PS2. I'm smart enough not to completely write the game off yet, but sorry; for me, the characters, atmosphere, things like that were all part of what made the game for me.

Game will play great, I have no doubt about that. It isn't SSX, though, no matter how some may be telling us to stop whining and just accept what we're getting.
 
IAmtheFMan said:
Yeah, whatever. Sure it might be a good game in its own right, but EA is clearly going for an image with this game. And this is not it.

Can't wait to see Mac and Moby share witty banter while trying to stopp Psymon's drug terrorist plot supporting Al Qaeda and saving Kaori from her downward spiral of depression and suicide.
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:lol

Exactly my thought on it being a good game but it's not going to be the old kind of SSX, and that's what I want. Give me Tricky or 3 in HD please EA.
 
brohmbel said:
SSX is THE snowboarding brand at EA. They can't not use it when releasing a snowboarding game.
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Sure they can. It's easy. Call it "board" in all lowercase letters and say it's a spinoff of skate. Or just call it Deadly Descents

Broadly speaking, shoehorning something into a brand with entirely different core competencies but a single superficial similarity ("they're both about snowboarding!") is bad brand management, and is specifically the sort of thing that erodes whatever value a brand might have. This recent trend of games that have a totally random, unrelated IP slapped on top isn't sensible brand-stable management, it's trying to tick a box ("don't release new IPs because new IPs don't sell") without any sort of intelligent strategic decision-making going on about how the value of these brands should be utilized.
 
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