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SSX screens and preview featuring Elise - Releasing January 2012
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AltogetherAndrews
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brb said:
See, that's what got on my nerves during the original reveal debacle. I don't think people get exactly how insane real snowboarding can be, and then with SSX flair and over-the-already-pretty-lofty-top style, I don't see ANY possibilities of dullness.
WANT. I love SSX so hard. Looove. I even made a GAF topic love story for SSX:
http://neogaf.net/forum/showthread.php?p=14903635
Tricky had a better style, better race courses (Garibaldi!) and the gameplay was arguably more "pure." Plus, it is absolutely unreal how much such a little thing like Run DMC's It's Tricky adds to the game. Hearing "TRICKAAAYYY!" after landing a big trick literally never got old, and just had a very good feel to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DRvglBFsY4
SSX3, in turn, was a "bigger" game, and succeeded brilliantly with it's "one mountain" set-up. The three "whole peak" races were sublime, and it was great that as you progressed through the game you were moving further and further up the mountain, and it got more threatening.
The freeride "backcountry" portions were fantastic, and the entire conceit of "DJ Atomika" watching the action through mountain cams worked super well, and did more than even most modern games to immerse the player in the environment. The line between "cool" and "trying to hard" can be very fine at times, and in SSX3 "EA Radio Big" is genuinely cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQEf80nAkto
An SSX that marries Tricky's sense of fun and varied tracks with SSX3's open world and sense of fun is literally a dream game, for me.
- Keep the collectable tokens from 3.
- Keep the continuous "one mountain" design.
- Keep The awesome radio, and even bring back Atomika, if you can write some good shit for him again (not like the cringe-inducing Burnout).
- Keep SSX3's great sense of choice. You could progress through the entire game with only tricks, only races, or only collectibles.
- Create more variations in the track designs, like Tricky. Maybe a volcano at the peak? A city at the foot?
http://neogaf.net/forum/showthread.php?p=14903635
Tricky had a better style, better race courses (Garibaldi!) and the gameplay was arguably more "pure." Plus, it is absolutely unreal how much such a little thing like Run DMC's It's Tricky adds to the game. Hearing "TRICKAAAYYY!" after landing a big trick literally never got old, and just had a very good feel to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DRvglBFsY4
SSX3, in turn, was a "bigger" game, and succeeded brilliantly with it's "one mountain" set-up. The three "whole peak" races were sublime, and it was great that as you progressed through the game you were moving further and further up the mountain, and it got more threatening.
The freeride "backcountry" portions were fantastic, and the entire conceit of "DJ Atomika" watching the action through mountain cams worked super well, and did more than even most modern games to immerse the player in the environment. The line between "cool" and "trying to hard" can be very fine at times, and in SSX3 "EA Radio Big" is genuinely cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQEf80nAkto
An SSX that marries Tricky's sense of fun and varied tracks with SSX3's open world and sense of fun is literally a dream game, for me.
- Keep the collectable tokens from 3.
- Keep the continuous "one mountain" design.
- Keep The awesome radio, and even bring back Atomika, if you can write some good shit for him again (not like the cringe-inducing Burnout).
- Keep SSX3's great sense of choice. You could progress through the entire game with only tricks, only races, or only collectibles.
- Create more variations in the track designs, like Tricky. Maybe a volcano at the peak? A city at the foot?
-bakalhau-
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Bgamer90 said:
I loved how it progressed. It started sunny and extreme (Snow Jam and Metro City), with a beautiful, (mostly) peaceful backcountry to ride on. Go to Peak 2 and the mountain starts to show its nature. Get to Peak 3 and you're riding on nearly completely destroyed racing tracks,and backcountry where every 10 seconds you can wipe out on some sort of andom natural disaster. Like IGN said on their review, on the Peak 3, it was brutal.
I won't get that kind of progression here I think, as it's not a single mountain with various peaks that get more dangerous as you go, but I'm sure we'll get some excellent stuff in Deadly Descents mode.
Appollowexx
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Launch trailer looked terrible (conceptually) - 3 seconds of gameplay footage in the developer diary and these screens look awesome - in keeping with the SSX of old. So I may well snap this up. Keep all that gritty, edgy, dudebro crap out of the game please EA, this is the way to do things.
Cuban Legend
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I've been playing my SSX 3 Gamecube rip on Dolphin and got the audio to work with full DJ Atomica Music Soundtracks and the game is running beautifully.
I wish it was appropriate to post screens in this thread since we've all liek to see what an HD re-release would look like. Let me just say that ast the high resolution with SuperSampling AntiAliasing , you can really see the limits of the game modeling and texture wise.
yet, the game still manages to wow me gameplay wise and graphically since its got so many great textures and geographical detail.
I wish it was appropriate to post screens in this thread since we've all liek to see what an HD re-release would look like. Let me just say that ast the high resolution with SuperSampling AntiAliasing , you can really see the limits of the game modeling and texture wise.
yet, the game still manages to wow me gameplay wise and graphically since its got so many great textures and geographical detail.
Jack Scofield
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Bgamer90 said:
Seriously. SSX Tricky was sublime. SSX3 was when the series started going downhill by taking itself a little too seriously. It had everything I despised: less diverse tracks (where's my Tokyo Megaplex?), less wacky and eccentric characters, a terrible soundtrack, and all-around less style.
Just give me SSX Tricky in HD and I will be a very happy man.
Neuromancer
Member
Only problem with that is I don't want to have to unlock every character, board and clothes again... My godJack Scofield said:
Cuban Legend
Member
I recently bought SSX3 for the xbox and the emulation for the xbox360's backwards compatibility only does 4:3 and doesn't seem to look sharp at all, which makes me wonder if it's even running at 480p as advertised. It's also got few times during a race when the screen gets filled with racers/geometry when it'll suffer framerate drops, but 95% of the time its at a solid 60fps.GDJustin said:
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iFootball
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SneakyStephan
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Whats with the weird grainy filter , it looks all soft and blurry too...
iFootball
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Neuromancer
Member
I blame PSN being down on the delay
Umm, here's Part 4.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMIWVDSGTjI
A few days old but nobody posted it, so...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMIWVDSGTjI
A few days old but nobody posted it, so...
Stormwatch
Member
SykoTech said:
We've been making new threads for each video. Here's the one for the 4th video: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=27492019
starchild excalibur
Member
So happy I didn't write it off completely with the initial teaser because the more and more I see, the more it's looking like a throwback to SSX 3 (the best one IMO).
Tokyo Megaplex-like levels were fun, but I'd be perfectly okay if the new one didn't have anything that crazy. As long as there are huge jumps and plenty of speed ala the gif above, I'll be happy.
Tokyo Megaplex-like levels were fun, but I'd be perfectly okay if the new one didn't have anything that crazy. As long as there are huge jumps and plenty of speed ala the gif above, I'll be happy.
sixteen-bit
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I'm getting excited for this. What a lovely gif