Hi mate, love the channel and really love "the history and the games" series. I was a huge fan of SSX in early 2000's. Back then i used to skate a little and funny thing is that coincidentally everytime new SSX game was out (1,2 and 3) i was moving furniture and other stuff around in my room, always had my best friend to help me out and we always ended with a loong evening or night playing SSX and drinking beers. I also remember we loved the music so much we recorded it from the game to cassette tapes. Great times!
Remember when EA let developers make games that they were interested in making? Remember when playing the game, just *playing the damn game* would get you new content and unlocks and fun stuff as a reward for playing which, in turn, made you want to play more to try the new stuff out? Good times.
I was on the SSX 3 side of the debate, but I understand why Tricky is a fantastic game as well. The way I discovered SSX 3 was a fun story. I was a manager at EB Games during the PS2/Xbox era. Sometimes after closing the store, I would pop a game into the demo station to try it out. I finished my closing activities at 10:30pm, popped in SSX 3 at 10:45pm, and finally decided I should give it a rest and go home to sleep at 6:00am. Needless to say I bought the game to play at home very soon after. ;)
DocMcCray Same here. Most of my Ps2 playtime was on SSX3 and Tricky. And that’s saying a lot cuz I was addicted to the NFS and the Classic Burnout games.
I really wanted to see Mac/Kaori and Moby/Zoe have their special moments together in the end when the series declined because the one with Mac/Kaori, they had feelings for each other but were friends/rivals throughout as hints. Moby/Zoe, they were already interested with each other in their bios but it would have been cool if they had cutscenes for all four.
SSX3 is still, hands down, my favorite game ever. It was the first game i mastered, the first game i completed, the first game that captivated me, and the first game i felt confident i could beat ANYONE in lol
My first DVD was X-Men =) Bought it around the same time I got my PS2 with my first PS2 game Zone of the Enders. I doubt I'll ever get that "This is the peak of game tech" feeling as I did exploring the tanker in the Metal Gear Solid 2 demo. Shooting bags of flour and seeing the flour spill out! Shooting glasses and seeing locational damage! Punching fruit and watching it break into bits! The AI! The animations! The water effects! EVERYTHING!
Diseasel Freekstyle is amazing, but it was one of the EA Sports BIG games that I played the least. I was really into the SSX franchise, the NBA Street franchise and the FIFA Street franchise. Incredible games.
This breakdown is awesome and very well made. I share a lot of your sentiments. On the note of On Tour, although I love that game to bits, I will never understand the pacing. I don't feel like this gets brought up that much, but it absolutely should be. It is braindead easy, easier than any other SSX game ever was, for the first hour or so. Give it until the average player gets above 6 hours in and it gets far, *far* harder than any other SSX game. I know a lot of people who have attempted let's plays, longplays and the like and they often get "stuck" in the lategame. Even speedrunners aren't immune to it! It's not rare to spend 10 hours doing what would take 1 hour if done well, the way I understand it. Even as a seasoned SSX vet by the time On Tour came out, it very much caught me off guard and required me to strain myself a lot harder than I was expecting to. With time, I have grown to like this difficulty and I wish the other SSX games had a difficulty setting, but On Tour should not be anywhere near this hard by default. It is such a strange decision. Any opinions on that?
I owned the first three SSX games and that is why i cant play any other snowboarding game for longer than half an hour since. After SSX 3 every snowboarding game is just boring as hell.
I wish you'd speak about the difficulty of the SSX On Tour game as it's not discussed as much as it should. On Tour becomes almost impossibly difficult towards the end of the game and even the main GameFAQ mentions that challenges can often take several hours and even the most advanced SSX players will have severe struggles with these challenges. I'm guessing most people have never gotten far enough to notice that. I have a full longplay up on my channel which is 11h30 minutes but I actually had roughly 45 hours of footage total.
Just hearted this for people to see. Honestly I spent longer on the tricky release. I dont think I got this far with on tour. I suggest all to go to LongplayArchive to go check it out
Daniel Ibbertson yeah the higher up you get on the games leaderboard in the on tour mode where you make your created rider. The difficulty starts to rise in Semi-Pro rank.
How is this comment not on the top? that's one spot on criticism, the difficulty on SSX On Tour gets so stupidly higher and higher that puts SSX Tricky and SSX 3 as an easier one considering the amount of grinding and practice needed to complete those shreds! However, one of the easier legendary shreds is the one called "The Legendary" in which you just have to get to city as fast as possible, that one judging by the name should have been the most difficult one and it wasn't.
Imagine if that X-Games advert had started with a "boring" run with no tricks in grainy black and white, then pounding/shaking "it's...", moments later again "it's...", then the screen shatters "it's tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme that's right on time. it's tricky..." to reveal massive air and tricks galore in full color, ending with the logo and a fading echo of "it's tricky...tricky......tricky..........".
Loved SSX Tricky on the GameCube. Also had NBA Street Vol. 2 & V3 and Def Jam Vendetta for the GameCube (NBA Street V3 also had a GameCube-exclusive Nintendo All Stars team of Mario, Luigi and Peach) and Sled Storm and Shox for the PS2. Also had SSX Blur on the Wii.
Ssx on tour is honestly highly underrated. It was my favorite ssx game. Ssx on ps3 was rather frustrating. Falling in a whole or off the mountain happens way too many times. With the use of rewind function, which kinder helped. Ssx tricky becomes a bit annoying having to upgrade each character, by doing the same course every time and no free roam option. Ssx 3 was dope too. My 2nd favorite.
Hey Daniel, at 16:00 you showed the Xbox One S, which can't actually play games in 4K, it only does 4K for movies. Just a heads up. Great video btw, keep making these videos :)
Yeah, that did annoy me. Should have shown the X. Little mistakes like this gives me the impression that a lot of these gaming TH-cam's don't really know a lot about the Xbox One.
SSX Tricky will forever be my all-time favorite snowboarding game. Ditching school and hanging out in my friend's garage to play SSX Tricky on GameCube, ah man good times..
Saw this pop up so I went and popped in my copy of SSX3 that I apparently haven't touched since 2014. Going to do a full run of it this week, and now since watching this I want to put in SSX PS3. Thanks!
I was just recently looking up videos on this series trying to figure out what the heck happened to it. Thanks, Dan! I loved SSX 3 with its massive mountain. 30 minutes to go down the whole mountain blew my mind back then.
*Tricky! I think I had a all three of the first trilogy. I remember doing the one big jump over and over again with my dad and brother seeing who could get the highest score!*
I remember playing SSX and SSX Tricky in 2008 trying to get everything in the game, and when I did I challenged myself to beat my scores, and times. This was my lifeblood for almost 3 full years (I was around six, and I loved these games so much, and still do) when I stopped playing I moved onto several new games called metal gear solid 3, and omashua 3, jimmy neutron game, spiderman 1 2 and 3, avatar the game, true crime New York City, avengers ultimate, gta san andreas, all the cods at the time, and others I can't really remember right now. In short I loved the ps2, and I still very much do, sadly I no longer own one but I still have crash bandicoot for ps1
I wish they remaster it. Tricky was a joy to behold. I loved the more open world version. Still have a copy and seeing this makes me want to play again on my PS3. EA sports Big was great. Def Jam was it's jewel
way back in the day, we actually owned SSX Tricky before we even knew about the first one lol. So one day, dad comes back from the rental store with SSX me being like 6 or 7 at the time, I thought it was a sequel to tricky. its easy to say I wasn't the brightest kid, but I'm still glad I got to grow up with this franchise!
I am one of those few people who could never grow tired of SSX and I'll never forget hunting a copy of On Tour for my ps2 as a kid with the money i saved which turned out to be difficult but after couple of weeks i managed to find it and i loved it to bits after loving 3 and tricky. Then when SSX 2010 got announced i lost it, i pre ordered it instantly and was in love with it too, i use to remember people leaving the point ball things in lowest holes/drops on the tracks which you could only collect by falling down and rewinding which was my favourite thing about the community. And the asynchronous multiplayer was the best thing because for me as i only enjoyed the downhill action whilst doing tricks as opposed to racing. To me all the games are perfect besides the gba/mobile games which i haven't played.
I found SSX3 at a rummage sale for $3 years ago when the PS2 was still the current system. I didn't know much about the game, but at that price I wouldn't be angry if it was bad. I loved the game and played it way too much. So worth it.
Awesome video. Of all the game franchises that give me nostalgia chills to this day, SSX and Burnout are at the top of the list. It's almost a shame that they faded away, but then again, I wouldn't want to see a new entry in the hands of modern EA...
My first SSX game was SSX On Tour on the PlayStation 2, and I cannot tell you how many hours I put into it. I honestly prefer the rock aesthetic of it compared to the hip-hop style of the other games. To me, it was much more fitting. Plus, in that one, you had the option to play as the heavy metal unicorn you see in the opening while Iron Maiden's "Run To The Hills" plays. 🤘
While I can't say that the aesthetic was better or worse than Tricky's, I do think it's underrated. Also, I'm surprised you decided to get the PS2 version instead of GCN.
sSX3 was my game!!! I use to come home from school, drop my bag and play for hours! I swear I miss it. I still have the game and the PlayStation…I think I will fire it up. But I wish we were able to get one now…Miss EA Sports
Not my favourite series but I always knew it existed. Didn't realise it had so many games. Crazy while watching this I was getting adverts during the adverts you showed.
SSX Blur was a lot better than you made it out to be. I played the hell out of all the main console versions, and it's my third favourite after you know which two. I understand people not playing enough to learn the controls though, they're pretty different, but whoever it was failing to make every landing in the video obviously doesn't have a clue! Anyway, the time is right for someone to make an hd remake of Tricky. Out of all EA's studios, Criterion are probably the best qualified, what with the Burnout and the Trickstyle and them not having made a racing game since Paradise...
I thought Blur was pretty great as well. The controls take a bit to get used to but once you do they work pretty well. I also think Blur has the most appealing art style of the entire series.
Tricky was one of my favorite games of all time, SSX3 was probably the only other one I played. It’s backward compatible on Xbox one, I wish Tricky was too though! I was a Mac and Simon main. “I got the skills to pay the bills!” 😁😁 Good times.
I'm probably in a pretty slim minority on this, but On Tour is my favourite in the series. I like the change in visual style, it's got one of the best licensed soundtracks in the history of gaming, as you said it does better with speed, unlike SSX 3 the courses are all multi-purpose, and there's probably a significant nostalgia factor since I owned it when I was younger whereas I only ever rented 3 and Tricky.
The biggest problem I had with that game was the trick selection. The tricks just didn’t look as unique as they looked on Tricky and 3. Also, I think being in slow motion while doing the tricks kinda makes the game feel slower. Another thing that I didn’t like is the new controls. Why would you change the classic controls and make the game feel easier? I would understand the change for Blur since it’s a different console, but for On Tour they could’ve just kept the classic controls for the Uber tricks. I found myself getting bored of On Tour because of those reasons.
I still play Tricky on my Gamecube & now SSX 3 on Xbox One X. Tricky is still my personal favorite, tho. Something about that one just feels more right.
That SSX that came out in 2012? It originally had the subtitle Deadly Descents. That's a great subtitle that I wish they'd kept if for no other reason than to avoid having two games called just SSX.
You forgot to mention the Mario Character Cameos across certain EA Big Games and especially SSX On Tour has Mario,Luigi and Peach in the Gamecube Version.
1:02 *NBA street is my favorite sports game. I loved making custom characters and Killin it in defense! No goal tending rule? Hell yeah I'm going to exploit the f*%k out of it!*
@@Meachumz I built customs that put him to shame though. You could build your create a character to be the best and get more than one skill maxed out and the other characters only had one skill maxed out, like they were good at dunking or 3 pointers or whatever.
Oh man.. I remember my friend down the street getting his PS2 for the first time and bringing it over with SSX and The Bouncer. We almost burnt his system out. Glory days.
I think either SSX Tricky or SSX 3 is the best game in the series but my hat goes to SSX 3. I've played a lot of the EA Sports BIG games back in the day and goddamn they are heavily missed because of the fun factor in their titles.
SSX 2012 is by far my favorite of the bunch. That game got me through my last year of high school. I really hate the SSX 3 fanboys who say the game was bad and that 3 is the pinnacle of all snowboarding games. When it comes right down to it, SSX 3 is way too easy compared to every other game (aside from Blur, whose existence I prefer to ignore). The tracks are massive and the tricks are even bigger, plus that early-2000's charm of 3 manages to shine through by way of some of the music and the overall tone. I hear that the creator of 1080 is making another snowboarding game, one even more of a 1-to-1 simulation than 1080 was. I'd say that snowboarding games need to come back in a big way, but if we were inundated with another torrent of extreme sports games they would die out again just as fast. But we do need to see Blackrock Studios get revived again, for sure. 'Pure" and "Split/Second" are unappreciated gems that only failed because shooters took over. And because the company was bought by Disney, so everyone thought the games must be shovelware.
I've never owned a Playstation, but I played the SHIT out of SSX Tricky and SSX 3 on Gamecube! Plus a little bit of On Tour on the Original Xbox and 2012 on the 360.
I wanted to like 2012 SSX, but using the classic controls were bugged to hell and I felt like I had less control of tricks with the new controls. I was so upset, freaking, being able to control the game is the whole point of a video game
I am losing my mind with excitement. I thought the only Complete History you would do that I would get this excited over was JSR. Glad to see I was wrong. Amazing series. Thank you for covering this! I'd love to see Skate and Burnout done too! Couldn't get into SSX On Tour. 30fps feels gross and sluggish after Tricky and 3. I wish there were a way to make it run at 60, but there's nothing I can find. I want to play it but ugh I can't deal with the frame rate. 30 is fine for some games but NOT an action sports game.
EA Big was a rare example of EA doing something fun and right. Then seems like meddling from the uppers at EA forced oversaturation and buried the Big franchises. Wish the devs and brains behind the Big series could strike out on their own. I play them all quite frequently. So fun.
Loved SSX3 and still pulled out with the PS2 from time to time. At least til 2 weeks ago when found out ex threw all the PS2 and Wii stuff out (yes, out. not sold, trashed!)
Even though this was eight or so months ago at the time of this post; I actually never played SSX. I heard of it but snowboarding was never really my thing. Only EA 'big' title I played the hell out of was SHOX.
The quality of SSX games directly relates to the quality of music. It dictates the tone & pace of the series. SSX was fantastic with a superb electronic/big beat soundtrack. Tricky was definitely the pinnacle of the series and had a near perfect soundtrack. From the opening title screen music that paced & adjusted how far you went in, Tricky took a hold of you and would not let you or your speakers go. SSX3 did introduce some nice features, continuous play for one, but they started to mess with soundtrack perfection by adding generic rock. It clashed with the original electronic music pace set by the first two games and it showed. It was the start of the fall. It would be as if the Dust Brothers soundtrack for Fight Club was also mixed with grunge music; it clashes with the overall tone and doesn't work. When I saw SSX On Tour and its strictly rock soundtrack abandoning all electronic big beat roots, I was out, and so were most SSX fans. The 2012 SSX had a few mediocre electronic tracks sprinkled in as appeasement, but it's not the same. I feel John Morgan (sound department & who created outstanding original tracks), Mix Master Mike, and the original creators of SSX & SSX Tricky picked a great mix of electronic big beat music and based the gameplay & pace around it to create a fantastic game, and when they messed with the DNA it was never the same. BTW, I discovered the group 'Skeewiff' (Shake What Your Mama Gave Ya) from SSX and Skeewiff is still making fantastic music today!! Definitely check out their albums! www.soundcloud.com/skeewiff
Tricky was the best the series ever got. I was infinitely disappointed when the PS3 game released. I had been waiting on it for years. And the fact that Tricky crapped all over it blew my mind.
I loved the original trilogy. I literally played ssx3 for like 5 years straight everyday after its release. On tour was alright, blur was terrible for me. Ssx 2012 was a snowboarding game, but didnt feel like ssx. I feel if they bring it back they gotta bring all the characters back, have the replayability of 3 of unlocking things, and make a new openworld mountain overall. Now segmented tracks or globetrotting expeditions, just a new utter freshly created mountain for players to explore. They got the perfect foundation with 3 and it didnt need any new things to switch it up or gimmicks. I recently got ssx3 on the xbox 1 s for me and the kids and they are in love with it. It could still be a viable franchise, afterall steep fid decent for awhile so their still a market for it, and a ssx done right will only bring back old fans and new fans. If they focus they could do it, but alas I think it's done :/
I didn’t play the Ngage version of this, but I think that phone gets waaay too bad a wrap. A lot of PS1 games ran really well on it like Tony Hawk and Tomb Raider, and the Colin MaCrae Rally version on this was solid too. So I’m not surprised that the Ngage version was half descent. I had the QD version and it didn’t have the faults the original one did ;)
Hey now, the real reason EA wasn't on Dreamcast was Trip Hawkins wanted sports exclusivity but Sega had bought Visual Concepts and were already working on NFL 2K.
Why did the extreme sports genre die? The only games to come out in the past 5 years were Steep and Snow, both around the same time and people stopped talking about them just as fast. Skate 3 was amazing, no sequel. BMX games - nothing since Dave Mirra in like 2002. Then there's stuff like Excitebike, all we get now is licensed shovelware motocross.
I haven't used PCSX2 but I want to now that I have a decent PC. Can I run games up to resolutions of 1080p ? Does it has extra support for graphics options like anti-ailising/Anistropic filtering ? How well do most games run without problems ?
SSX Tricky and SSX3 were some of my favorites... but as far as I'm concerned SSX "Deadly Descents" as it was originally to be called, is hands down the greatest game in the series. It was SO much fun, the online was actually good. No, seriously... IT WAS GOOD, and I 'hate' multiplayer. The offline was still the show-stopper though, it was just so fast and fun. My favorite thing though was that it took a page from the original XBOX's playbook and let you use custom soundtracks, albeit DLNA'd from your Windows Media Center PC lol. It would allow you to have the songs remixed inside the game though, ebbing and flowing with your grinds and giant drops... I pumped a good portion of the Jet Set Radio soundtrack into the game, and ooph... match made in fuckin' heaven man...
My God, SSX3 man. What a game.
Puré shit jajaja
Tricky > 3. Both are masterpieces though
Hi mate, love the channel and really love "the history and the games" series. I was a huge fan of SSX in early 2000's. Back then i used to skate a little and funny thing is that coincidentally everytime new SSX game was out (1,2 and 3) i was moving furniture and other stuff around in my room, always had my best friend to help me out and we always ended with a loong evening or night playing SSX and drinking beers. I also remember we loved the music so much we recorded it from the game to cassette tapes. Great times!
Instablaster.
Cheers for sharing the memories with me bud. I'm the same. I can remember so many drunken nights working my way through the older games
It's tricky. It's tricky. It's always been and always will be tricky. The best game
Nah, SSX 3
Remember when EA let developers make games that they were interested in making?
Remember when playing the game, just *playing the damn game* would get you new content and unlocks and fun stuff as a reward for playing which, in turn, made you want to play more to try the new stuff out?
Good times.
Miss them days
I was on the SSX 3 side of the debate, but I understand why Tricky is a fantastic game as well.
The way I discovered SSX 3 was a fun story. I was a manager at EB Games during the PS2/Xbox era. Sometimes after closing the store, I would pop a game into the demo station to try it out. I finished my closing activities at 10:30pm, popped in SSX 3 at 10:45pm, and finally decided I should give it a rest and go home to sleep at 6:00am. Needless to say I bought the game to play at home very soon after. ;)
DocMcCray Same here. Most of my Ps2 playtime was on SSX3 and Tricky. And that’s saying a lot cuz I was addicted to the NFS and the Classic Burnout games.
SSX Tricky and SSX3 are both incredible and super addictive. I prefer 3 by a very slight margin, but they are both amazing games.
Wow, now I wish I woulda worked at a game store lol
I really wanted to see Mac/Kaori and Moby/Zoe have their special moments together in the end when the series declined because the one with Mac/Kaori, they had feelings for each other but were friends/rivals throughout as hints. Moby/Zoe, they were already interested with each other in their bios but it would have been cool if they had cutscenes for all four.
SSX3 is still, hands down, my favorite game ever. It was the first game i mastered, the first game i completed, the first game that captivated me, and the first game i felt confident i could beat ANYONE in lol
Unbelievable how polished a launch title SSX was.
SSX!? HOLY FRICKING YEAH! one of my all time favourite franchises finally covered!
I hate that i'm out of popcorn.
"watching the matrix on your PS2"
Guilty as charged. Multiple counts.
So am i lol.
However i did play ssx tricky to death on my system aswell
I didn't have any SSX games. I did have freekstyle though. SSX on bikes.
My first DVD was X-Men =)
Bought it around the same time I got my PS2 with my first PS2 game Zone of the Enders.
I doubt I'll ever get that "This is the peak of game tech" feeling as I did exploring the tanker in the Metal Gear Solid 2 demo. Shooting bags of flour and seeing the flour spill out! Shooting glasses and seeing locational damage! Punching fruit and watching it break into bits! The AI! The animations! The water effects! EVERYTHING!
Mr vertical limit with the telecommand included
Diseasel Freekstyle is amazing, but it was one of the EA Sports BIG games that I played the least. I was really into the SSX franchise, the NBA Street franchise and the FIFA Street franchise. Incredible games.
Great video man! Just been playing this recently on the Gizmondo!
Sneaky Elliot
This breakdown is awesome and very well made. I share a lot of your sentiments. On the note of On Tour, although I love that game to bits, I will never understand the pacing. I don't feel like this gets brought up that much, but it absolutely should be. It is braindead easy, easier than any other SSX game ever was, for the first hour or so. Give it until the average player gets above 6 hours in and it gets far, *far* harder than any other SSX game. I know a lot of people who have attempted let's plays, longplays and the like and they often get "stuck" in the lategame. Even speedrunners aren't immune to it! It's not rare to spend 10 hours doing what would take 1 hour if done well, the way I understand it. Even as a seasoned SSX vet by the time On Tour came out, it very much caught me off guard and required me to strain myself a lot harder than I was expecting to. With time, I have grown to like this difficulty and I wish the other SSX games had a difficulty setting, but On Tour should not be anywhere near this hard by default. It is such a strange decision. Any opinions on that?
I owned the first three SSX games and that is why i cant play any other snowboarding game for longer than half an hour since. After SSX 3 every snowboarding game is just boring as hell.
On Tour and the HD reboot weren't boring (certainly better than the original SSX)
Awww, you didn't mention how the Mario characters cameo in SSX on Tour for the Gamecube.
Yeah, I was expecting him to bring that up, as well.
Brcause of this vid, I just bought ssx3 for the xbox! Thanks for the tip
Great choice. Even if that game is old, it definitely still holds up.
I'm soo blessed that ssx on the ps2 was one of the first game that I played. This game STARTED my gaming adventure.
My first experience was SSX: On Tour and you couldn’t stop me playing. So many hours spent on that game.
I wish you'd speak about the difficulty of the SSX On Tour game as it's not discussed as much as it should. On Tour becomes almost impossibly difficult towards the end of the game and even the main GameFAQ mentions that challenges can often take several hours and even the most advanced SSX players will have severe struggles with these challenges. I'm guessing most people have never gotten far enough to notice that. I have a full longplay up on my channel which is 11h30 minutes but I actually had roughly 45 hours of footage total.
Just hearted this for people to see. Honestly I spent longer on the tricky release. I dont think I got this far with on tour. I suggest all to go to LongplayArchive to go check it out
Daniel Ibbertson yeah the higher up you get on the games leaderboard in the on tour mode where you make your created rider. The difficulty starts to rise in Semi-Pro rank.
How is this comment not on the top? that's one spot on criticism, the difficulty on SSX On Tour gets so stupidly higher and higher that puts SSX Tricky and SSX 3 as an easier one considering the amount of grinding and practice needed to complete those shreds!
However, one of the easier legendary shreds is the one called "The Legendary" in which you just have to get to city as fast as possible, that one judging by the name should have been the most difficult one and it wasn't.
Imagine if that X-Games advert had started with a "boring" run with no tricks in grainy black and white, then pounding/shaking "it's...", moments later again "it's...", then the screen shatters "it's tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme that's right on time. it's tricky..." to reveal massive air and tricks galore in full color, ending with the logo and a fading echo of "it's tricky...tricky......tricky..........".
Loved SSX Tricky on the GameCube. Also had NBA Street Vol. 2 & V3 and Def Jam Vendetta for the GameCube (NBA Street V3 also had a GameCube-exclusive Nintendo All Stars team of Mario, Luigi and Peach) and Sled Storm and Shox for the PS2.
Also had SSX Blur on the Wii.
Anthony Hobson NBA Street V2 and V3 are amazing.
I'm glad you liked 2012! The game's reception is mixed among fans due to some of the changes but I loved it, and I'm glad you do too!
Ssx on tour is honestly highly underrated. It was my favorite ssx game. Ssx on ps3 was rather frustrating. Falling in a whole or off the mountain happens way too many times. With the use of rewind function, which kinder helped. Ssx tricky becomes a bit annoying having to upgrade each character, by doing the same course every time and no free roam option. Ssx 3 was dope too. My 2nd favorite.
Hey Daniel, at 16:00 you showed the Xbox One S, which can't actually play games in 4K, it only does 4K for movies. Just a heads up. Great video btw, keep making these videos :)
Yeah, that did annoy me. Should have shown the X. Little mistakes like this gives me the impression that a lot of these gaming TH-cam's don't really know a lot about the Xbox One.
SSX Tricky will forever be my all-time favorite snowboarding game. Ditching school and hanging out in my friend's garage to play SSX Tricky on GameCube, ah man good times..
Saw this pop up so I went and popped in my copy of SSX3 that I apparently haven't touched since 2014. Going to do a full run of it this week, and now since watching this I want to put in SSX PS3. Thanks!
I was just recently looking up videos on this series trying to figure out what the heck happened to it. Thanks, Dan! I loved SSX 3 with its massive mountain. 30 minutes to go down the whole mountain blew my mind back then.
I got my PS2 on launch day with SSX and Timesplitters.
*Tricky! I think I had a all three of the first trilogy. I remember doing the one big jump over and over again with my dad and brother seeing who could get the highest score!*
YO!!!! as a kid i had SSX 3 and Tricky for the game cube! nostalgia hit harder seeing them back to back.
I remember playing SSX and SSX Tricky in 2008 trying to get everything in the game, and when I did I challenged myself to beat my scores, and times. This was my lifeblood for almost 3 full years (I was around six, and I loved these games so much, and still do) when I stopped playing I moved onto several new games called metal gear solid 3, and omashua 3, jimmy neutron game, spiderman 1 2 and 3, avatar the game, true crime New York City, avengers ultimate, gta san andreas, all the cods at the time, and others I can't really remember right now. In short I loved the ps2, and I still very much do, sadly I no longer own one but I still have crash bandicoot for ps1
I wish they remaster it. Tricky was a joy to behold. I loved the more open world version. Still have a copy and seeing this makes me want to play again on my PS3. EA sports Big was great. Def Jam was it's jewel
way back in the day, we actually owned SSX Tricky before we even knew about the first one lol. So one day, dad comes back from the rental store with SSX me being like 6 or 7 at the time, I thought it was a sequel to tricky. its easy to say I wasn't the brightest kid, but I'm still glad I got to grow up with this franchise!
SSX Tricky is the game I played the most on the GameCube back in the days, what an awesome game! Love this series.
I am one of those few people who could never grow tired of SSX and I'll never forget hunting a copy of On Tour for my ps2 as a kid with the money i saved which turned out to be difficult but after couple of weeks i managed to find it and i loved it to bits after loving 3 and tricky.
Then when SSX 2010 got announced i lost it, i pre ordered it instantly and was in love with it too, i use to remember people leaving the point ball things in lowest holes/drops on the tracks which you could only collect by falling down and rewinding which was my favourite thing about the community.
And the asynchronous multiplayer was the best thing because for me as i only enjoyed the downhill action whilst doing tricks as opposed to racing.
To me all the games are perfect besides the gba/mobile games which i haven't played.
I found SSX3 at a rummage sale for $3 years ago when the PS2 was still the current system. I didn't know much about the game, but at that price I wouldn't be angry if it was bad. I loved the game and played it way too much. So worth it.
Ssx 3 was my favorite game growing up! I finally got it back a while ago om backwards compatibility 😊
Awesome video. Of all the game franchises that give me nostalgia chills to this day, SSX and Burnout are at the top of the list. It's almost a shame that they faded away, but then again, I wouldn't want to see a new entry in the hands of modern EA...
Daniel, can you please do the complete history of Ratchet & Clank?
My first SSX game was SSX On Tour on the PlayStation 2, and I cannot tell you how many hours I put into it. I honestly prefer the rock aesthetic of it compared to the hip-hop style of the other games. To me, it was much more fitting. Plus, in that one, you had the option to play as the heavy metal unicorn you see in the opening while Iron Maiden's "Run To The Hills" plays. 🤘
While I can't say that the aesthetic was better or worse than Tricky's, I do think it's underrated.
Also, I'm surprised you decided to get the PS2 version instead of GCN.
SSX Tricky was the Forza Horizon of snowboarding games. And it was amazing.
sSX3 was my game!!! I use to come home from school, drop my bag and play for hours! I swear I miss it. I still have the game and the PlayStation…I think I will fire it up. But I wish we were able to get one now…Miss EA Sports
Not my favourite series but I always knew it existed. Didn't realise it had so many games. Crazy while watching this I was getting adverts during the adverts you showed.
I missed the SSX series and overall EA making "street" sports games.
I played the ever-loving snot out of SSX:Tricky on my XBox. I wore out TWO Duke controllers trying to unlock everything. :)
I didn't even realise they made any more SSX games after SSX3. Looks like I didn't miss out on much.
SSX Blur was a lot better than you made it out to be. I played the hell out of all the main console versions, and it's my third favourite after you know which two. I understand people not playing enough to learn the controls though, they're pretty different, but whoever it was failing to make every landing in the video obviously doesn't have a clue! Anyway, the time is right for someone to make an hd remake of Tricky. Out of all EA's studios, Criterion are probably the best qualified, what with the Burnout and the Trickstyle and them not having made a racing game since Paradise...
I thought Blur was pretty great as well. The controls take a bit to get used to but once you do they work pretty well. I also think Blur has the most appealing art style of the entire series.
Tricky was one of my favorite games of all time, SSX3 was probably the only other one I played. It’s backward compatible on Xbox one, I wish Tricky was too though!
I was a Mac and Simon main.
“I got the skills to pay the bills!” 😁😁
Good times.
I'm probably in a pretty slim minority on this, but On Tour is my favourite in the series. I like the change in visual style, it's got one of the best licensed soundtracks in the history of gaming, as you said it does better with speed, unlike SSX 3 the courses are all multi-purpose, and there's probably a significant nostalgia factor since I owned it when I was younger whereas I only ever rented 3 and Tricky.
The biggest problem I had with that game was the trick selection. The tricks just didn’t look as unique as they looked on Tricky and 3. Also, I think being in slow motion while doing the tricks kinda makes the game feel slower. Another thing that I didn’t like is the new controls. Why would you change the classic controls and make the game feel easier? I would understand the change for Blur since it’s a different console, but for On Tour they could’ve just kept the classic controls for the Uber tricks. I found myself getting bored of On Tour because of those reasons.
I still play Tricky on my Gamecube & now SSX 3 on Xbox One X.
Tricky is still my personal favorite, tho. Something about that one just feels more right.
One of my fav games ever. Also, not until I played this game, I didn't know its tricky was a real song.
Awesome, I played over 200 hours of SSX3 on Gamecube.
That SSX that came out in 2012? It originally had the subtitle Deadly Descents. That's a great subtitle that I wish they'd kept if for no other reason than to avoid having two games called just SSX.
SSX Tricky was one of the first games I got on the GameCube. I was hyped! SSX 3 was awesome too!
You forgot to mention the Mario Character Cameos across certain EA Big Games and especially SSX On Tour has Mario,Luigi and Peach in the Gamecube Version.
I was surprised he didn't mention that either...
My SSX Dream Team: Zoe Payne (Always been my MVP), Elise Riggs, Kaori Nishidake, and Moby Jones! 💪🏾
Kaori was always my go to
Kaori and Elise were kind of boring to me. Mac and Psymon are my favorites for sure.
Mr. Marzett mine: Mac, Kaori and Allegra and SSX Blur Skye
1:02 *NBA street is my favorite sports game. I loved making custom characters and Killin it in defense! No goal tending rule? Hell yeah I'm going to exploit the f*%k out of it!*
PhatDookie 420 i used to camp the hoop with Yao Ming.
@@Meachumz I built customs that put him to shame though. You could build your create a character to be the best and get more than one skill maxed out and the other characters only had one skill maxed out, like they were good at dunking or 3 pointers or whatever.
PhatDookie 420 good times man. Wish they’d make another.
Takashi in thee og NBA Street
Oh man.. I remember my friend down the street getting his PS2 for the first time and bringing it over with SSX and The Bouncer. We almost burnt his system out. Glory days.
I think either SSX Tricky or SSX 3 is the best game in the series but my hat goes to SSX 3. I've played a lot of the EA Sports BIG games back in the day and goddamn they are heavily missed because of the fun factor in their titles.
EA Sports BIG: The Collection
Wow, that sounds good. I need it now.
SSX 2012 is by far my favorite of the bunch. That game got me through my last year of high school. I really hate the SSX 3 fanboys who say the game was bad and that 3 is the pinnacle of all snowboarding games. When it comes right down to it, SSX 3 is way too easy compared to every other game (aside from Blur, whose existence I prefer to ignore). The tracks are massive and the tricks are even bigger, plus that early-2000's charm of 3 manages to shine through by way of some of the music and the overall tone. I hear that the creator of 1080 is making another snowboarding game, one even more of a 1-to-1 simulation than 1080 was. I'd say that snowboarding games need to come back in a big way, but if we were inundated with another torrent of extreme sports games they would die out again just as fast. But we do need to see Blackrock Studios get revived again, for sure. 'Pure" and "Split/Second" are unappreciated gems that only failed because shooters took over. And because the company was bought by Disney, so everyone thought the games must be shovelware.
After that Criterion reference, I had to check when they made Trickstyle. It was released a year before the first SSX.
You're so right about EA Sports Big. I was definitely into their games as a non sports fan. Those fantastical aspects was a perfect draw in.
I've never owned a Playstation, but I played the SHIT out of SSX Tricky and SSX 3 on Gamecube! Plus a little bit of On Tour on the Original Xbox and 2012 on the 360.
Incredible games
I wanted to like 2012 SSX, but using the classic controls were bugged to hell and I felt like I had less control of tricks with the new controls. I was so upset, freaking, being able to control the game is the whole point of a video game
Loving having a bit of hybrid being played, cracking tune dude
God...Freekstyle was SOOOOOOO awesome!
Hm, they’ve come a long way since Skiing on the 2600. :-) Nicely done DJ Slopes!
I am losing my mind with excitement. I thought the only Complete History you would do that I would get this excited over was JSR. Glad to see I was wrong. Amazing series. Thank you for covering this! I'd love to see Skate and Burnout done too!
Couldn't get into SSX On Tour. 30fps feels gross and sluggish after Tricky and 3. I wish there were a way to make it run at 60, but there's nothing I can find. I want to play it but ugh I can't deal with the frame rate. 30 is fine for some games but NOT an action sports game.
I loved them all, but SSX On Tour always had a leg up for me just for the custom boarder/skier feature.
EA Big was a rare example of EA doing something fun and right. Then seems like meddling from the uppers at EA forced oversaturation and buried the Big franchises. Wish the devs and brains behind the Big series could strike out on their own. I play them all quite frequently. So fun.
Any excuse to buy 'The Matrix' on DVD is a good excuse 🤩😜😎
Great video ssx3 will always be my fav and ssx 2012 was a great final game that i still havent beat wtf!!!
SSX tricky was my favorite 😂🤣 😂😂 😂
And here comes Mac Fraiser...
Mac was the best and was the character I always chose.
I love how you showed Scott the Woz' favourite Madden game. Madden 08.
Though... if Madden 08 is that good... why is there no Madden 08 2?
Best franchise of all time, SSX3 is one of the greats.
I miss SSX... Especially Tricky. Never got to play 3 though...
The music in the SSX game series was some of the best aside from the Tony Hawk and Skate series.
Slightly off topic, but DAMN did you caught me off guard with that OG FIFA music.
Always great to see the SSX games get the attention they deserve.
SSX is my favorite game franchise of all time. My favorite is ssx on tour though, the one that's most peoples least favorite.
I've been wanting a video like this for years
Loved SSX3 and still pulled out with the PS2 from time to time. At least til 2 weeks ago when found out ex threw all the PS2 and Wii stuff out (yes, out. not sold, trashed!)
Even though this was eight or so months ago at the time of this post; I actually never played SSX. I heard of it but snowboarding was never really my thing. Only EA 'big' title I played the hell out of was SHOX.
Bro this game was my childhood I had every single one
Not shown during those SSX 2012 adverts: endless death pits and rewinds
The quality of SSX games directly relates to the quality of music. It dictates the tone & pace of the series. SSX was fantastic with a superb electronic/big beat soundtrack. Tricky was definitely the pinnacle of the series and had a near perfect soundtrack. From the opening title screen music that paced & adjusted how far you went in, Tricky took a hold of you and would not let you or your speakers go. SSX3 did introduce some nice features, continuous play for one, but they started to mess with soundtrack perfection by adding generic rock. It clashed with the original electronic music pace set by the first two games and it showed. It was the start of the fall. It would be as if the Dust Brothers soundtrack for Fight Club was also mixed with grunge music; it clashes with the overall tone and doesn't work. When I saw SSX On Tour and its strictly rock soundtrack abandoning all electronic big beat roots, I was out, and so were most SSX fans. The 2012 SSX had a few mediocre electronic tracks sprinkled in as appeasement, but it's not the same. I feel John Morgan (sound department & who created outstanding original tracks), Mix Master Mike, and the original creators of SSX & SSX Tricky picked a great mix of electronic big beat music and based the gameplay & pace around it to create a fantastic game, and when they messed with the DNA it was never the same. BTW, I discovered the group 'Skeewiff' (Shake What Your Mama Gave Ya) from SSX and Skeewiff is still making fantastic music today!! Definitely check out their albums! www.soundcloud.com/skeewiff
Tricky was the best the series ever got. I was infinitely disappointed when the PS3 game released. I had been waiting on it for years. And the fact that Tricky crapped all over it blew my mind.
8:37 or Finding the hidden Spiderman blooper scene in X-MEN
We need a new SSX or some other arcade Snowboard game on all the new systems. "Snowboarding: The new Phase" and "Steep" weren't the same
Agreed. Maybe Nintendo could bring back the 1080° series.
I loved the original trilogy. I literally played ssx3 for like 5 years straight everyday after its release. On tour was alright, blur was terrible for me. Ssx 2012 was a snowboarding game, but didnt feel like ssx. I feel if they bring it back they gotta bring all the characters back, have the replayability of 3 of unlocking things, and make a new openworld mountain overall. Now segmented tracks or globetrotting expeditions, just a new utter freshly created mountain for players to explore. They got the perfect foundation with 3 and it didnt need any new things to switch it up or gimmicks. I recently got ssx3 on the xbox 1 s for me and the kids and they are in love with it. It could still be a viable franchise, afterall steep fid decent for awhile so their still a market for it, and a ssx done right will only bring back old fans and new fans. If they focus they could do it, but alas I think it's done :/
I didn’t play the Ngage version of this, but I think that phone gets waaay too bad a wrap. A lot of PS1 games ran really well on it like Tony Hawk and Tomb Raider, and the Colin MaCrae Rally version on this was solid too. So I’m not surprised that the Ngage version was half descent. I had the QD version and it didn’t have the faults the original one did ;)
I miss EA Big. Remember Def Jam Vendetta? I loved that game, wrestling and hip hop as never been done so good.
SSX tricky was my shit back on the OG Xbox jesus that game was awesome
Hey now, the real reason EA wasn't on Dreamcast was Trip Hawkins wanted sports exclusivity but Sega had bought Visual Concepts and were already working on NFL 2K.
SSX. That was my shit! I’m hoping SSX on tour and tricky gets backwards compatablity! That would help on getting the entire trilogy there.
Why did the extreme sports genre die? The only games to come out in the past 5 years were Steep and Snow, both around the same time and people stopped talking about them just as fast. Skate 3 was amazing, no sequel. BMX games - nothing since Dave Mirra in like 2002. Then there's stuff like Excitebike, all we get now is licensed shovelware motocross.
Thank god for PCSX2
I haven't used PCSX2 but I want to now that I have a decent PC. Can I run games up to resolutions of 1080p ? Does it has extra support for graphics options like anti-ailising/Anistropic filtering ? How well do most games run without problems ?
I absolutely love SSX!!! I have played all six games and I own all of them (minus Blur)
SSX Tricky and SSX3 were some of my favorites... but as far as I'm concerned SSX "Deadly Descents" as it was originally to be called, is hands down the greatest game in the series. It was SO much fun, the online was actually good. No, seriously... IT WAS GOOD, and I 'hate' multiplayer. The offline was still the show-stopper though, it was just so fast and fun. My favorite thing though was that it took a page from the original XBOX's playbook and let you use custom soundtracks, albeit DLNA'd from your Windows Media Center PC lol.
It would allow you to have the songs remixed inside the game though, ebbing and flowing with your grinds and giant drops... I pumped a good portion of the Jet Set Radio soundtrack into the game, and ooph... match made in fuckin' heaven man...