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This is SSX (Trailer) + Uber Mondays
- Thread starter Fantastical
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It will be easy to do awesome stuff, I'm sure.
But then you'll see people on MerquryCity.com trouncing your scores by powers of ten.
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
The challenge is the key to purchase for me. If everyone is special, then no one is truly special.
Watching the GB QL now. The avalanche VFX have improved so much. So has the camera. Awesome.
I thought I was good at the original SSX games until I visted MerqCity. Seriously, those folks are amazing at the games.
EDIT: Watching the GB QL and there are "Pure" rewards for the DDs; given when you don't use rewinds. Nice!
I thought I was good at the original SSX games until I visted MerqCity. Seriously, those folks are amazing at the games.
EDIT: Watching the GB QL and there are "Pure" rewards for the DDs; given when you don't use rewinds. Nice!
Net_Wrecker
Member
SSX was never a wall kicking challenging experience though. Everyone was always special when playing this. The challenges now are player vs. player scores, routes, times, etc., not necessarily landing the tricks, or cheesing scores by going backwards on the track (which actually doesn't work now)
Neuromancer
Member
For every gamer like you I imagine there is a gamer like me who just wants to kick back and do runs with friends absent of competition.
Hopefully the game will accommodate both play styles. With RiderNET I'm concerned I'm going to have competition shoved in my face at every turn.
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
There is a lot of me in that statement, too. I would like to be able to just turn off all music and just freestyle a mountain with just the swoosh and crunch of snow in my speakers.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
The dude saying "Feb 28" so many times is ALMOST a dealbreaker.
ezekielpacman
Member
Good point, I guess that guy was ostensibly an SSX "pro".
Edit: Wait looks like the same dude/s, doh.
SolidSnakex
Member
He said that you can turn off any friends that you want. So if you don't want to be bothered with notifications then you can just turn off everyone that's on your friends list.
Connor Dougan, the guy demoing for IGN (and probably GB), is a lead producer on the game. Yes, he's very, very good because he's constatly playing the game.
Net_Wrecker
Member
I was initially kinda down on the course art design, but that nighttime track in the Giantbomb video is beautiful. All the streams of light from the other racers, the lighting from the helicopter, the color palette of the track itself, etc. etc. Great looking game graphically.
EDIT: Track was 5 minutes long too. Far cry from the long SSX3 runs. but longest I've seen so far.
EDIT: Track was 5 minutes long too. Far cry from the long SSX3 runs. but longest I've seen so far.
I don't really remember anything about balance in SSX. If I remember correctly you just needed to make sure your uber was finished or that your board was below you. Occasionally the angle of your board and your terrain might cause a problem, but it didn't seem all that common.
Yeah but that track looks way more interesting than that for example. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMiq5Wi2dxs&feature=related
JetBlackPanda
Member
I.WANT.THIS.GAME.
StrikerObi
Member
GiantBomb stream was way better than the IGN one. The IGN one felt like those guys couldn't give two shits about what game was being demoed. The GB stream you could tell that the two guys were obviously fans of the franchise and were asking good questions and getting Connor to show them some crazy tracks. The Alps track was absurd. Though I think in total they showed less stuff in the GB stream, it was higher quality overall.
Anyway, SO stoked for this game.
Anyway, SO stoked for this game.
Neuromancer
Member
Oh that's cool. Thanks.
FlashFlooder
Member
Game looks sooooo good, and the GB stream addressed my previous question re: controls. You can pick the new 'stick' controls, or use the old-style button ones. Is there anything they didn't think of?
Fantastical
Death Prophet
I noticed that a song can change mid race. I think the way SSX 3 and SSX Tricky worked the song would just repeat.
I'm down with that. Especially since you can group songs by game mode.
Neuromancer
Member
When I saw a video of the custom soundtrack menu it looked to me like you could only pop in like 5 of your songs. I hope that's not the limit, because otherwise you'd be listening to the same songs again in not a whole lot of time.
StrikerObi
Member
THIS game! I notice the soundtrack is pretty good already, still glad customs are possible. And like everyone else, the Alps track made me hot and heavy. Love it, day one.
Net_Wrecker
Member
wat. That would be awful.
I hope that isn't true.
The feature would be pointless if that was true (plus I would be wasting my time making an "Unofficial Neogaf SSX soundtrack" with this thread).
Neuromancer
Member
I just watched the video ( SSX - 'The Music of SSX' Producer Video ) again, I may have been mistaken. Here's what it shows in the menus:
Anyway maybe Soultron or someone can clear this up.
Anyway maybe Soultron or someone can clear this up.
Fantastical
Death Prophet
I just watched the video ( SSX - 'The Music of SSX' Producer Video ) again, I may have been mistaken. Here's what it shows in the menus:
Anyway maybe Soultron or someone can clear this up.
It says "playlist" meaning a bunch of songs.
Neuromancer
Member
Yeah that's what I figured now that I'm looking at it again.
StrikerObi
Member
But what's to say that only 5 of those songs can be custom, and that the rest of the playlist has to come from pre-existing song son the soundtrack.
Neuromancer
Member
Yeah hard to say.
Well until I hear different I'll assume there's no limit, or a very high limit.
Fantastical
Death Prophet
What's to say it would be that way?
StrikerObi
Member
The crazy 5 song rumor. I'm hoping it isn't true as well. It seems absurd but who knows...
I really don't know what any specific limitations are, if they even exist. (I can't talk too much about it, but there wasn't any bad news to report when I went.) The audio engineers I spoke with are super talented though, so if there are any limitations to Harmony, it's most likely the "fault" of hardware bottlenecking rather than incompetence.
Net_Wrecker
Member
Nahh, that's a playlist which means it should use all of the songs you put in the playlist on the Dashboard or XMB. Doing it any other way would be really...wrong, especially on the 360 which lets you access all your music all the time anyway. Highly doubt there's any 5 song limit.
Cuban Legend
Member
I was thinking the same thing watching the steram and the videos...
So the UBER, and SUPER UBER from SSX3 is now just TRICKY...?
Yeah that's what it seems like, but I think you can turn it off if it bothers you. I find the constant Tricky pauses annoying.
StrikerObi
Member
There are still three tiers of tricks. Regular, Tricky (blue text) and SUPER Tricky (orange text). Once you hit SUPER Tricky you get unlimited boost. So it's the same as SSX 3 just with different names.
Soultron: I am looking forward to your |OT|. BTW are you getting the game on PS3 or Xbox? We should be PSN pals if that if your platform.
Reluctant-Hero
Member
The GB quick look road show sold me on a day one purchase. Now the only question is... which console?
Kinda wish there was a PS Vita version with all of the synchronous multiplayer going on. If it could share severs (TRANSFAR) with PS3...
The Xtortionist
Member
I'm kinda "meh" on avalanche DDs but everything else is totally GotY material.
Same, but triple six zero 4 lyfe.
StrikerObi
Member
Yeah, the avalanche looked interesting but the camera is so zoomed out and the whole idea of not being able to see in front of you is just weird. I'll play it but I'm glad the other 8 DDs are traditional in viewpoint. I think the Whiteout one with the Pulse Goggles sounds really cool.