There are character voices. They're just not in this video. Check some of the actual gameplay videos.
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This is SSX (Trailer) + Uber Mondays
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There are character voices. They're just not in this video. Check some of the actual gameplay videos.
StrikerObi
Member
Guys I want this game so bad I that last night I dreamt about just playing the demo. Not even the full game. That's how bad I just want the DEMO. Is that sad?
I feel your pain. I want the demo more than any game available right now.
BruiserBear
Banned
I'm guessing this demo comes out next week.
Hale-XF11
Member
Baconsammy
Banned
These videos remind me that there's no replays. Yet the videos look like gameplay via a replay.
Frankenstrat
Member
Looks pretty damned badass. I'm going to be spending so much time in freeride it's not even funny.
Wait, seriously?!
Goddammit, a Skate 3 style replay editor would have been perfect for this game!
Baconsammy
Banned
Yep, a huge part of the fun of the past games was watching all the tricks and jumps in slow-mo from different angles etc.
I'm busy working on it as we speak. I should have it ready for the middle of Feburary. c:
Reluctant-Hero
Member
Sent, mine is: Hawk SE
P.S.: Don't worry about my LIVE status, I will be getting back on Gold here soon
Stormwatch
Member
The Explore website has updated with Africa and the Alps as well. I'm at work so I don't have sound on the videos, but I'm really digging the way Africa looks. I love the lava tube runs!
http://www.ea.com/ssx/1/explore-ssx
http://www.ea.com/ssx/1/explore-ssx
The Alps video is great. Love the destroyed chalets and broken down lift lines. The whole story behind them is that avalanches ruined them, IIRC. Looking forward to getting creative when making it down to the bottom!
SSX GAF is going to be so awesome.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
GAF is the main reason I'm still unsure on which version to get.
It would be a blast playing with you lot.
StrikerObi
Member
OMG YES PLEASE. NeoGAF WubWubDubHub or GAFWWDH for short.
New video basically confirms by omission that there will be no head to head races. If you drop in on an event your friend is in you might see them, but that's about it. Oh well. I think the score chasing aspect of the game will be enough to keep most players happy but it would have been nice to do head to head races.
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
I really have a tough decision on which system to go with. Friends on both consoles that I want to play with. Ugh.
Yeah PS3 is the way to go for Fuji. Picking it up day 1, if not a little after.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Wait so there's no online multiplayer? Or there's no way to play online multiplayer in a Friends Only Party?
Same here. What are these GT names you guys are talking about? Can you already register on ridernet?
Pretty hard to pass up another mountain assuming all things are equal.
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StrikerObi
Member
Well there is no lobby so if you wanted to start a race at the same time you would have to create a global event, limit it to friends only, and then you and your friends would all have to start it at the exact same time in order to be able to see each other on the mountain.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Ewwwwww!
Haha, I am stupid this morning. Mine is in my profile. Day 1 on PS3!
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
Pretty much makes this game console neutral for me.
Its odd, but there must be some sort of easy way to compete against each other in a race, so you can push and shove. Otherwise its not any different from the asynchronous mode they mentioned before.
They are pretty neat. So you want to make them difficult to find but not impossible as you dont get paid until they are picked up.
Seems like an odd decision. Hopefully they can patch in straight head-to-head races.
I've been hoping to really dive into a GAF gaming community for a while now and this could be the just the game to do it.
Fantastical
Death Prophet
They try to tout that they don't have lobbies, but that isn't impressive if you don't do what lobbies are built to do. I understand them being annoyed by lobbies, but it's kind of unfair to say "lobbies are boring, so we just scrapped anything that requires a lobby".
The online features are cool, but it would nice to have a traditional online mode.
The online features are cool, but it would nice to have a traditional online mode.
The problem I have with this is how expensive it is.
If only I could get it elsewhere and still get Mt. Fuji and Eddie...
I wonder if there will be a notification system for online friends?
I mean let me set up event details, then button to share to online friends and schedule it to start in 1 minute. Friends get notification, they accept, they are helicoptered to the starting line. We all start when event gates open with a 5 second countdown. Those who choose not to accept can take the challenge asynchronous later.
Sort of how you would free ride up to starting gates in SSX 3 and it transitioned to a gated race event.
So instead of waiting in a non game lobby, you ride around freely and go to events when they start.
They think the mountains are so wide open that you'll never run across your friends beyond the starting point and from the videos I've seen, that seems to be true. Still would like the option though.
Baconsammy
Banned
Ugh, same lame excuse given for not having replays.
iFootball
Member
Net_Wrecker
Member
So the Global Events ARE pretty much Trackmania: SSX.
I'm OK with this.
I'm OK with this.
Doubtful - because if there was they would have talked about how amazing and revolutionary such a thing is. If you're on PSN, get ready to send tons of PSN notifications yourself and wait for people to show up at a track. Then someone says "3,2,1 GO!" and that's how you start a race.
Frankenstrat
Member
Indeed it is.
Really makes me wish we could sort groups on PSN still.
-bakalhau-
Member
Yet they're as open as SSX Tricky/3. I have yet to see those huge, open mountains they talked about. There's no open mountain, there's tracks. Untracked was a huge, huge, wide track, at one point it divided into three and each one was as wide as a regular SSX course. I have yet to see anything as open as that. And then there's the couldn't-possibly-be-more-linear trees DD, and the most linear and narrow track in SSX history, that run in the Alps that's very difficult. If all tracks were super wide open, but only a few of them are. That Himalayas run is a regular SSX track, a few paths, shortcuts, the usual deal. Garibaldi on SSX Tricky has literally 2 paths almost the entire run. From what I've seen, I don't believe we'll see anything that's substantially wider or bigger than some of the courses we got earlier.
They seem to forget 2 things:
1. People might never see each other after the start, but that's not a reason to exclude real racing. Who are they to decide that's a reason to not include it? We still want racing no matter what. We never had a proper racing mode before. We had one on one's in SSX3 (PS2 only). Really?
2. People will find the best lines and stick to them with minor variations. HELLO!! This is pretty obvious. People will get better and find out the good lines in each track and stick to them. That means we'd be having tight, close racing some time after the game came out... If they included racing. Specially this being SSX, specially with them knowing VERY well how the community is. They even say they're all over Merqury City, they should know better the fansite WILL find the best lines, WILL post videos showing them and WILL attract lots of players that will see them. In return, online, people will then be applying what they saw and race the same lines over and over again. Specially when the community thins down and only the hardcore are left. Left with no proper racing mind you.
Also, I posted this idea at MC, I thought they'd do something like this because DDs are such a great part of the game:
But no...
Baconsammy
Banned
For anyone with a Redbox nearby, they listed this as a day 1 rental offering.
It might be a love it or hate it thing, but I think this method of competing against one another encourages more communication both inside and outside the game. You can party chat while you're on the same runs or simply challenging their other run scores.
Outside of the game, if they're really good friends of yours, you can text them (maybe the SSX app will let you message people through that) saying, "I just demolished your score on ___________."
I really don't mind this method of MP. There's no collisions and the mountains are fairly wide and offer multiple routes, so I don't see the need for synchronized MP. Now lag, for the most part, is out of the question. If the course designs were like previous SSX games (small and narrow) I'd bemoan the lack of collisions since players would often be near one another and there'd be an actual justification for not having synchronized MP. But here, with the new SSX, it makes sense from a design decision.
I'm basically sold on Global Events. I just want to see how RiderNet supports all of this.