It was absolutely the most fun time for sports game for me. The options were plentiful whether you wanted to do more sim or more arcade and every extreme sport you could imagine had a relatively good game(I might be pretty biased about Dave Mirra 2 though as it was the first game I got with my ps2 ;) ). Anyways, just wanted to say that over the last two weeks I finally downloaded and tried PSCX2, the ps2 emulator for pc, and the first thing I went for was NBA Street! For those of us just bathing in video game nostalgia on youtube I'd say its absolutely worth trying out PSCX2 to revisit some of the greatness😎 Plus, it absolutely fucking rocks that you can push the resolution past 4k and add 16x antisotropic filtering - makes theses old gems look incredible
If you grew up in the early 2000s PS2 generation you know it was pure gold. An incredible time to be a kid. You had to be there to experience it. I was there. I lived it.
My best friend and I played this game for endless hours. However, I wasn’t exactly a kid, I was like 17-18 when this Tricky came out. We used to get stoned and play until wee hours of the morning
@@Trendleader863 haha right on, about the same age that I started as well. The good old days. Lol. Back before the realities and responsibilities of adult life start to set in, and you don’t get the same amount of free time to just hang out and game.
They kinda did in 2012, but the nostalgia junkies whined it wasn’t an SSX3 clone. Also, being made in 2012, it was swallowed up by the sea of edgy COD clones.
In defense of SSX 3 a lot was added to the mechanics of the game that wasn’t present in the first two. They added FS and BS ground presses, rail grinding tricks, an improved rail detection system, aerial stalls, invert and off-axis flips as well as monster tricks with a plethora of returning and new Uber tricks. Not to mention character customization and more attributes to unlock as well as new game modes and events like Slope-style, Big Air, Back Country and Super-Pipe. Plus, new snow rendering technology and audio engineering technology as well as a open world on a 3 peak mountain. The reason the characters were toned down a little was because of the fact that you can customize them so much. You’re supposed to add you’re own spin and wacky personality to the characters as you progress up the mountain and unlock cooler and crazier gear and options. I think that 3 is just as iconic if not more so. There’s more events, more character to the game, more actual characters, more events, more customization and more technical and mechanical skill as well as both electronic and hip hop ost as well as a fully liscense song list with all the audio effects you get when you’re in the air, when you fall and recover and everything in between. SSX 2000 and Tricky put the series on the map, but SSX3 really pushed the genre forward showed what was capable on the hardware at the time and how much fun you could have with such a massive sandbox with infinite replay value. That’s what makes the series so priceless and immortal.
I love you defending MY FAVORITE entry in the series. With that said... All the non snowboarding fans, and just videogame players LOVED tricky. I STILL HATE that game. I love the voice actors picked. Hate the characters and the overall game. I'll take deadly decents over it. I loved On tour as well. Skiing and Paul wall on the soundtrack. 3 was the most polished in my opinion. I loved the lift and free ride.
SSX 3 was definitely the sweet spot for me. I didn't even recall the rival taunts from Tricky and I had no idea that characters were voiced by well known actors. SSX 3 had the sweet spot in my opinion. I still enjoy a good amount of the music from that game and it actually got me into artists I wouldn't have otherwise. Might go home and play it tonight!
@@MuffinMachine love ssx 3 soundtrack. At the time I was in a band that toured and shared shows with many of the rock acts. EA in that era was grabbing lowkey up and coming artist. I loved SSX 3 soundtrack
SSX Tricky is the best game in the franchise. I recently started playing it again for the first time in years. The gameplay is still nearly perfect. The flow is amazing. Landing an impossible trick or sequence of tricks is still the best feeling. The soundtrack is great and hearing TRICKY when you land those über tricks never gets old. Rahzel as the MC, fantastic. "Call your mama in the room and show her how great you are." It's a nearly perfect game.
@@atrocious7766 Tricky is HORRIBlE if you've actually enjoyed the Original Cool Boarders 1-2. I played them in Order, and I didn't like tricky on release date. I wanted more of SSX O.G... tricky is one of my least favorite snowboarding games off all time. Hate it.
@@kevincollins8620i rank it second actually… on tours Monster system and the weird motion blur and graphic , style & music downgrade is quite bad tbh… it was the first i played at a friends and my dad accidentally bought the „false“ game …ssx3 , im so glad it turned out like this… i just got on tour 3 years ago and i actually havent even finished it
I bought this game kinda "on accident", since the Gamecube just didn't have many games at that time. I couldn't care less about snowboarding but somehow it became one of my absolute favorites of the entire generation! A remake is indeed a no-brainer.
SSX 3 might be toned down in terms of wackiness, but the trick system is even less respectful of physics. Once you’re at max stats, you’ll be doing 1080s and multi-backflips on flat ground
Right? This dude sounds like he didn't play SSX3 for more than five minutes before making this video. The graphics aren't as colorful but the gameplay is anything BUT toned down.
I agree that SSX Tricky is the most iconic. It was a big part of my childhood. However, I really enjoyed SSX 3 and SSX 2012 as well. I liked the snow tracks of SSX 2012 much more than SSX 3 and loved that you could import your own music into the game. It would be cool to see SSX come back, but extreme sports games are mostly dead now.
Yeah, sadly nobody played SSX ‘12 but it has the best controls in the franchise and really added some great innovations and a level of replayability and depth that stands tall today with constant challenges and asynchronous multiplayer. It was honestly ahead of its time. Unfortunately, it’s stuck in ugly, 720p 30fps hell that’s hard to look at these days.
Brooo I guarantee y’all we’re too young if you you think ssx was a bland prototype. The first is the best and most memorable. I remember playing them all when they first came out. The first was the most innovative and exciting
@@JReybabay _"Brooo I guarantee y’all we’re too young if you you think plain mashed potatoes is a bland side dish. The mash is the best and most flavorful.. I remember eating them all when they first came out. The potatoes was the most innovative and exciting."_
I ended up spending more time on SSX 3 - one of my favourite games of all time. I loved the exploration aspects of it, and the slightly more chilled vibe was nice. But I think I'll dig up Tricky and give it another spin one of these days, I do have fond memories of it. I wanna hear Rahzel's commentary and SFX again! I've been enjoying Riders Republic recently too. It's not the same as SSX but it is pretty cool, and it helps that I like mountain biking too.
I hope Steve is still doing well with the spiritual successor he’s making . DO GO GIVE HIM SUPPORT IF WE WANT A CHANCE AT SEEING SSX IN THE FUTURE! Grew up playing Tricky and SSX 3 and they definitely shaped a huge part of my childhood ❤
This game will always have a special place in my heart. I was 5 years old at the time and just learning how to play video games. My dad was playing it and he taught me how to play and before long, we were racing each other and I was beating him, even discovering shortcuts he didn’t know about! It’s been 12 years since my dad passed away and I still play the game (my fiancé was able to track down the game and a PS2) to be closer to him. RIP dad.
Yeah - Tricky with updated graphics. That's all I'd need. I'd pay full price. Release it on the Switch and I'd pay full Nintendo price! But I'd probably prefer it on PC.
@@al201103 TRICKY MADNESS now in Early Release on Steam. Eventually on console, too, once the full game release hits. Not a TON to do in it yet (2 Characters, 2 levels), But: It's Fun, hits the tone: AND has so much more on the way in the future. :)
Glad this came up on my recommended. This was one of the first games I sank hundreds of hours into and got me into the SSX community (forums) where other fans would discuss the game or share our best times/scores. Though I think that SSX Tricky was the best in the series, SSX and SSX 3 were outstanding as well. Very iconic game that desperately deserves a proper reboot. Thanks for giving this game the spotlight it deserves!
I loved ssx3. Having the whole mountain connected was brilliant. However, even though I never got to play it much, I would not have minded if it had more of the personality of Tricky
Thank you so much for this video! I used to sit down with a wild cherry pepsi, with the song "bombshell" by Powerman 5000 playing in my headphones while I played this game in the early 2000s. The feeling of landing a trick at the exact same time the beat dropped was one of the most satisfying, exhilarating gaming experiences I've ever had. I loved everything about this game from the characters to the gameplay. EXTREMELY FOND memories for this gem of a game. THE BEST SSX game EVER and it's NOT even close.
As someone who grew up playing these games, SSX3 is far and away my favoirte. The open world feel was unbeatable! Plus I played as Griff, who everyone hated, so it felt like I still had all the rivalry of tricky haha I feel like On Tour really wanted to be guitar hero, which is obviously a really strange direction for a snowboarding game, but replay it and tell me I'm wrong haha
I find it so hard to watch this video without yelling at the screen. It's a video that is clearly written with a heavy bias and/or nostalgia towards Tricky, losing objectivity in the process and presenting coloured opinions as facts. The decisions the developers made while developing both SSX 3 and SSX On Tour aren't to be ''blamed'' on anything, they were refreshing and much welcome changes that resulted in 2 games that are simply outshining Tricky in most if not all aspects. Much more advanced level design, polished gameplay, far less stiff controls, incredible overall game design in i.e. making SSX 3 take place on 1 mountain and gamemodes like The Tour in On Tour. Yeah they got rid of an aspect of the game's personality by axing the trash talk and a chunk of the well known and beloved characters, but more than filled the gap with brilliant aesthetics, character customisation and much more engaging mechanics and gameplay. The series didn't go ''off the rails'', it evolved and got better rather than stagnating like many other (extreme) sports games. Tricky is an iconic game, but downplaying SSX 3 and On Tour like they aren't better games nor have achieved a similar status is crazy to me. Everyone, including me, will always have a bias towards one of them, but that doesn't mean 3 legends cannot co-exist. I would have really liked a less biased video in that regard, because most of what's said in this video is just untrue.
While I like Tricky, I preferred SSX3 as I loved the interconnected world and its balance between over-the-top arcadeiness and groundedness that adds awe to what you're doing. Also I'd love to hear the development history of Freakstyle, another EA Big game that's basically SSX but motocross and the riders are characatures of real motocross riders while retaining the SSX silliness.
This dude clearly didnt play Ssx 3. It certainly had the trash talking components as well as just being a very machanically satisfying game. It might not stand up to the personality of tricky, but i remember thinking ssx 3 was such a huge upgrade
I love Tricky, one of my favorite games of all time, but at 5:35 I really feel like you were unfair to SSX 3. 3 absolutely did not tone down the arcade physics, in fact it ramped them up like crazy. The graphical presentation is more realistic and grounded as far as colors and textures, but the gameplay is anything but toned down. Gravity, carving, momentum, boost, air rotation, all these aspects were significantly simplified, streamlined and "arcade-ified" going from Tricky to 3. You could pull misty's with tweaked grabs on flat. Big air events could have you getting 10 seconds of pure airtime and getting 10x backflips. You could no longer pull cork 900s like in Tricky (much like real-life athletes do), but you could do "stalls" and "off-axis" rotations that look cool in the game but have very little basis in reality. Do you remember the Superpipe events? Think of how different the half-pipe physics were on Elysium Alps as compared to Perpendiculous. And of course the way you magnetized to rails streamlined that aspect of the game in a big way. This simplification was both for better and worse, but personally I like the unique feel and gameplay of each game equally as much. The characters don't trash talk in the starting gate, but they still have lively rival interactions during actual races and in cutscenes after races, as well as through text messages over the M-Com. If anything the characters were given more depth and personality as compared to Tricky.
One of my favorite games! It was so much dumb fun on the GameCube, I'm so irritated they never continued the series I felt it had more to offer and it was not the extreme mountain conquering aspect
Oh man I spent so many hours on SSX games back in the day. Tony Hawk and Skate games too. Crazy there was a time where those sport games had such awesome games.
Tricky is and will always be the best snowboarding game. Bonkers, arcadey, fun, and with so much heart. Love the unique menus, the sultry voice guiding you through options, and just the dedication to a really cool front end experience before the game properly begins. We need it on modern consoles!
On Tour is my favorite in the series, and I had every game. Always bugs me when people dump on it "On Tour is where things really started to go off the rails," nah man that game was legit. I loved the presentation and the soundtrack, still have songs from it on my rotation to this day.
The competitiveness in ssx 2012 with its online rewards, geo tags, map and sound design was such a good push for ssx in the modern times. People said it was too unrealistic which was the entire point.
SSX3 just edges Tricky for me, but they are both amazing games and a huge part of my teenage years. I still miss it, and go back to it now and again. The type of games where you can just sit back and play.
Funnily enough the quick succession of released of SSX, Trick and 3 made me not even know that Trick was a game until a few years after SSX 3 released and I had spent so much time in 3. I love this series with all my heart but(skipping on tour and Blur) going to SSX 2012 was a miss for me. Mostly the Oxygen and warmth based game play.
Tricky had a section where you had to hit these big Balloon’s. One was shaped like a baby. When one of us was playing, the others would be “coaching” (basically yelling a lot. A LOT!!!) Once as My pal Craig Egan was going for the big baby ballon, I was yelling “Hit that baby, Egan. Hit that baby!” so loudly that our neighbours came to the house concerned that we were crazy people who were in fact, hitting a baby. A quick explanation and the neighbour had a controller in hand and was flying down the mountain. Great days, great game. Hit that baby! 🎉 🎊🎈🪩
Great video. In 2001 I worked at a recording studio and we had a PS2 and a "big screen" TV. When we weren't working, we were playing SSX Tricky. Such great memories.
i remember watching my older cousins play tricky, my nostalgic ssx is on tour. the notebook doodle art style brings back so many memories. Also riders republic is pretty sick IMO
The trash talking and rival system along with the awesome tracks and cool tricks you could perform was what made this game my 15 year old self back then favourite.
Everyone who watches this video, ea says if enough players return to ssx(2012) they will fix the servers. Got it from a source who’s a beta tester who asked on my behalf
Picture this? Lol I literally lived it. It was awesome. SSX tricky was one of the last "90s vibe" games. Everything about it was that late 90s/earl 00s vibe; the clothes, the music, the attitude. It was a glorious time
Good video but it's definitely underselling how excellent SSX 3 was. Among fans, there is strong debate on whether Tricky or 3 is better. To me, it's the best in the series. Also I'm pretty sure you're incorrect about the trick system; it's largely unchanged from Tricky
I was addicted to SSX tricky in the winter 2001 and it's so fun and the tricks were amazing. A lot of people sent videos of there high scores to PS magazines UK and featured them on there free gaming DVD that was package with the magazine in 2002.
For anyone hoping for future SSX games. A lot of the original Devs on the first few SSX games are returning to make a brand new arcade style snowboarding game. It’s called “Project Gravity.” There’s not much info rn, but it’s been happening for a couple years now and it’s like a spiritual successor to the SSX games.
@@RicardoPerez-rz8pu unfortunately I don’t think that will ever be possible. There was an accident or some fire of some kind at the Devs Studios and all of the Trickys source code was lost. Trickys source code was basically the completed version of SSX (2000) so both of those games are lost. That’s why we only got SSX 3 for Xbox Backwards Compatibility. If that accident didn’t happen, then we would’ve gotten Tricky backwards compatible too. The best hope rn is to hope for an SSX 3 remaster.
@@jayyyymorris but the owner of the franchise should remember how it was made like before from the start probably he's going to start from scratch to get it like it was before.
SSX 1 was great. Tricky was good but reused so much. SSX 3 is by far the best IMO. Way bigger game, Way more tracks, Customizable outfits, Dynamic rock and rap soundtrack with a DJ that would talk about things that happened, Finding snowflakes to upgrade your character. 3 large mountains you could free ride, Being able to ride down the whole mountain for a 30 minute track. Not sure how anyone could consider Tricky the better game.
Give me the characters and arcade style of tricky, the grounded aspects of ssx3 with the tight controls and physics of ssx on tour (the psp version specifically) with the stakes of SSX (2012 but don't over complicate the control scheme) and it'll slap.
I was probably 5 or 6 when I played this and nostalgia is hitting me hard, I remember a roller blading game that was kinda designed the same way around music, ahead of their time imo
Well I'm glad someone thinks Tricky was the best entry. I see so many people say SSX 3 was better and I just don't get it. SSX3 felt like everything good had been removed or toned down in favor of new ideas that didn't work. As a collector I still have and play SSX 1-3 having beaten 3 twice at least. And you know what? Still don't get it.
Whatever people say about SSX on tour, it was one of my favourite games for years after it came out, and I still listen to the soundtrack to this day. But I'm also quite fond of more rock oriented music
"Accidental" icon? Ther ewas nothing accidental about Tricky... the devs had an absolutely specific plan and absolutely nailed said specific plan. Everything about the game was near flawless... the graphics, the gameplay, the sound (oh my God the sound...). EA absolutely needs to remaster this (and NBA Street vol2 while they're at it). Otherwise a great video! And truly, the series (along with EA) went corporate/ "water things down for mass market," which is a sad truth of history.
Ssx tricky.. ICONIC. Never forget the childhood memories with that.. the EA BIG series was dope now that I think about it.. NBA street vol 2 was by far the best
Honestly I am torn between ssx tricky and Ssx3. Both are fantastic games for diffrent reasons. I like the style and tone of tricky because of its wackiness but 3 does the gameplay better with the controls and variety. Best games in the series easily.
I have never found a snowboarding game to equal the sheer joy of playing Tricky. It just got everything right, it was amazing. The relative lack of gravity, allowing insane chains of tricks, was definitely one of the keys to its unique charms, but pretty much every aspect of the game just seemed perfect at the time. And the soundtrack was incredible! One very open track had a song by....Chicane? No, Hybrid!! It was stunning. Played Tricky with my mate at the time for hours and hours on end.
Have you tried Shredders? It's not quite SSX Tricky, but meets a really solid middle ground between realistic and arcade and is honestly a ton of fun. Would definitely recommend
I loved the 2012 SSX. It was underrated but very well polished and had plenty of unlockables. 1 cool feature was that you could add your own music into the game which would still interact with the gameplay
Man, love this game and wish for someone to do a game inspired on SSX. Closest is like Steep or Riders Republic but it dont hit the mark at all personally This era of Stupid fun games was perk
Oh man, i loved the rival system in this game. It was so much fun knocking down rivals, and trying not to hit your friends and getting there trust up even more.
EA BIG was a time to be alive. They had Tony Hawk players snowboarding and basketball players dabbling in soccer. Nfl and nba street are legendary
NBA Street Vol. 2 was a masterpiece. The soundtrack, the courts, the players. Everything was a whole vibe
Tony Hawk’s Underground, NBA Street Vol. 2, and SSX Tricky are my top 3 sports video games ever. All classics unrivaled to this day.
And now all we have left are the sterile, broken nightmare worlds of Madden, fifa, and nba2k
I agree it's hard to explain to GEN Z kids how awesome that era of gaming was you simply just had to be there to truly get it.
It was absolutely the most fun time for sports game for me. The options were plentiful whether you wanted to do more sim or more arcade and every extreme sport you could imagine had a relatively good game(I might be pretty biased about Dave Mirra 2 though as it was the first game I got with my ps2 ;) ). Anyways, just wanted to say that over the last two weeks I finally downloaded and tried PSCX2, the ps2 emulator for pc, and the first thing I went for was NBA Street! For those of us just bathing in video game nostalgia on youtube I'd say its absolutely worth trying out PSCX2 to revisit some of the greatness😎 Plus, it absolutely fucking rocks that you can push the resolution past 4k and add 16x antisotropic filtering - makes theses old gems look incredible
If you grew up in the early 2000s PS2 generation you know it was pure gold. An incredible time to be a kid. You had to be there to experience it. I was there. I lived it.
My best friend and I played this game for endless hours. However, I wasn’t exactly a kid, I was like 17-18 when this Tricky came out. We used to get stoned and play until wee hours of the morning
@@Day-ZDuke I was 11. Didn't start getting stoned until a couple years later at 13
@@Trendleader863 haha right on, about the same age that I started as well.
The good old days. Lol. Back before the realities and responsibilities of adult life start to set in, and you don’t get the same amount of free time to just hang out and game.
It was also the age of renting video games. Got to play so many.
I was there.
EA BIG was the shit.
PS2 really dropped like 60 good exclusives and then dipped lol.
Ssx tricky is my childhood. I wish they rebooted the franchise for the modern age.
I never experienced it as a kid but I did enjoy SSX 3 on the 360
Same here❤️
@@MalikATL I wish you could experience the beginning although SSX 360 is still good to me
They kinda did in 2012, but the nostalgia junkies whined it wasn’t an SSX3 clone. Also, being made in 2012, it was swallowed up by the sea of edgy COD clones.
@@inktea256 nah. The game literally had zero multi-player at launch and no split screen. Game was awful
In defense of SSX 3 a lot was added to the mechanics of the game that wasn’t present in the first two. They added FS and BS ground presses, rail grinding tricks, an improved rail detection system, aerial stalls, invert and off-axis flips as well as monster tricks with a plethora of returning and new Uber tricks.
Not to mention character customization and more attributes to unlock as well as new game modes and events like Slope-style, Big Air, Back Country and Super-Pipe. Plus, new snow rendering technology and audio engineering technology as well as a open world on a 3 peak mountain.
The reason the characters were toned down a little was because of the fact that you can customize them so much. You’re supposed to add you’re own spin and wacky personality to the characters as you progress up the mountain and unlock cooler and crazier gear and options.
I think that 3 is just as iconic if not more so. There’s more events, more character to the game, more actual characters, more events, more customization and more technical and mechanical skill as well as both electronic and hip hop ost as well as a fully liscense song list with all the audio effects you get when you’re in the air, when you fall and recover and everything in between.
SSX 2000 and Tricky put the series on the map, but SSX3 really pushed the genre forward showed what was capable on the hardware at the time and how much fun you could have with such a massive sandbox with infinite replay value. That’s what makes the series so priceless and immortal.
I love you defending MY FAVORITE entry in the series. With that said... All the non snowboarding fans, and just videogame players LOVED tricky.
I STILL HATE that game. I love the voice actors picked. Hate the characters and the overall game. I'll take deadly decents over it. I loved On tour as well. Skiing and Paul wall on the soundtrack. 3 was the most polished in my opinion. I loved the lift and free ride.
3 is my favourite too. I think I preferred the cooler style and of course, DJ Atomika. Being able to just carve and hunt snowflakes was awesome.
SSX 3 was definitely the sweet spot for me. I didn't even recall the rival taunts from Tricky and I had no idea that characters were voiced by well known actors.
SSX 3 had the sweet spot in my opinion. I still enjoy a good amount of the music from that game and it actually got me into artists I wouldn't have otherwise. Might go home and play it tonight!
Well said. I’ve spent a lot of time on 3 (I have it on both Wii and PS2) and it’s always a go-to game when I just need to chill.
@@MuffinMachine love ssx 3 soundtrack. At the time I was in a band that toured and shared shows with many of the rock acts. EA in that era was grabbing lowkey up and coming artist. I loved SSX 3 soundtrack
SSX Tricky is the best game in the franchise. I recently started playing it again for the first time in years. The gameplay is still nearly perfect. The flow is amazing. Landing an impossible trick or sequence of tricks is still the best feeling. The soundtrack is great and hearing TRICKY when you land those über tricks never gets old. Rahzel as the MC, fantastic. "Call your mama in the room and show her how great you are." It's a nearly perfect game.
Tricky was in your face , vibrant and very iconic 2000s while ssx 3 was the chill, light hearted and relax vibes of the 2000s
Honestly having owned all of them SSX 3 is still my favorite.
Same. I'm a HUGE snowboard enthusiast. 3 is my fave. On tour 2nd
I made the mistake of playing SSX Tricky after SSX3, and Tricky just doesn't hold a candle to 3 for me.
@@atrocious7766 Tricky is HORRIBlE if you've actually enjoyed the Original Cool Boarders 1-2. I played them in Order, and I didn't like tricky on release date. I wanted more of SSX O.G... tricky is one of my least favorite snowboarding games off all time. Hate it.
Only legit „opinion“ , tricky doesnt even come close
@@kevincollins8620i rank it second actually… on tours Monster system and the weird motion blur and graphic , style & music downgrade is quite bad tbh… it was the first i played at a friends and my dad accidentally bought the „false“ game …ssx3 , im so glad it turned out like this… i just got on tour 3 years ago and i actually havent even finished it
I bought this game kinda "on accident", since the Gamecube just didn't have many games at that time. I couldn't care less about snowboarding but somehow it became one of my absolute favorites of the entire generation! A remake is indeed a no-brainer.
SSX 3 might be toned down in terms of wackiness, but the trick system is even less respectful of physics. Once you’re at max stats, you’ll be doing 1080s and multi-backflips on flat ground
SSX 3 was the best IMO.
It was so fun to progress a character and using the transport system made it great an installment
@@ElijahZuBailey Agreed, I also liked as a kid just going around the mountain riding around the open world.
Right? This dude sounds like he didn't play SSX3 for more than five minutes before making this video. The graphics aren't as colorful but the gameplay is anything BUT toned down.
@@theharvardyard2356 Yeah, SSX3 was the pinnacle for me. I loved them all but I didn't like the health bar in the last one for the PS3 and 360.
I agree that SSX Tricky is the most iconic. It was a big part of my childhood. However, I really enjoyed SSX 3 and SSX 2012 as well. I liked the snow tracks of SSX 2012 much more than SSX 3 and loved that you could import your own music into the game. It would be cool to see SSX come back, but extreme sports games are mostly dead now.
Yeah, sadly nobody played SSX ‘12 but it has the best controls in the franchise and really added some great innovations and a level of replayability and depth that stands tall today with constant challenges and asynchronous multiplayer. It was honestly ahead of its time. Unfortunately, it’s stuck in ugly, 720p 30fps hell that’s hard to look at these days.
Brooo I guarantee y’all we’re too young if you you think ssx was a bland prototype. The first is the best and most memorable. I remember playing them all when they first came out. The first was the most innovative and exciting
@@JReybabay _"Brooo I guarantee y’all we’re too young if you you think plain mashed potatoes is a bland side dish. The mash is the best and most flavorful.. I remember eating them all when they first came out. The potatoes was the most innovative and exciting."_
@@Parker-- And the rail grinding is way more boring in that game, as well as the over-buffed boost.
SSX 3 was a lot of fun too, but SSX Tricky is a core memory to me. No other game in the franchise rivaled it in terms of style and personality.
I ended up spending more time on SSX 3 - one of my favourite games of all time. I loved the exploration aspects of it, and the slightly more chilled vibe was nice. But I think I'll dig up Tricky and give it another spin one of these days, I do have fond memories of it. I wanna hear Rahzel's commentary and SFX again!
I've been enjoying Riders Republic recently too. It's not the same as SSX but it is pretty cool, and it helps that I like mountain biking too.
I hope Steve is still doing well with the spiritual successor he’s making . DO GO GIVE HIM SUPPORT IF WE WANT A CHANCE AT SEEING SSX IN THE FUTURE!
Grew up playing Tricky and SSX 3 and they definitely shaped a huge part of my childhood ❤
SSX 3 is the memorable one for me, the best out of the whole series imo
no chance
Having the game take place on a single mountain made it more repetitive, and it lost a lot of Tricky's attitude.
This game will always have a special place in my heart. I was 5 years old at the time and just learning how to play video games. My dad was playing it and he taught me how to play and before long, we were racing each other and I was beating him, even discovering shortcuts he didn’t know about! It’s been 12 years since my dad passed away and I still play the game (my fiancé was able to track down the game and a PS2) to be closer to him. RIP dad.
I was literally ADDICTED to this game!!!
Eddie was my Dude!! 😎👌🏾
SSX Tricky Remake???? TAKE MY MONEY!!!! 💰
Yeah - Tricky with updated graphics. That's all I'd need. I'd pay full price. Release it on the Switch and I'd pay full Nintendo price! But I'd probably prefer it on PC.
@@al201103 if we’re both being honest, if it gets ported too Switch, it ain’t getting much of a graphical update lol
@@jayr5mitty351 Hahaha! You might be right!!
@@al201103 TRICKY MADNESS now in Early Release on Steam. Eventually on console, too, once the full game release hits.
Not a TON to do in it yet (2 Characters, 2 levels), But: It's Fun, hits the tone: AND has so much more on the way in the future. :)
Glad this came up on my recommended. This was one of the first games I sank hundreds of hours into and got me into the SSX community (forums) where other fans would discuss the game or share our best times/scores. Though I think that SSX Tricky was the best in the series, SSX and SSX 3 were outstanding as well. Very iconic game that desperately deserves a proper reboot. Thanks for giving this game the spotlight it deserves!
SSX Tricky is legendary mostly because it’s the definition of how to create the best snowboarding game ever - SSX 3.
I loved ssx3. Having the whole mountain connected was brilliant. However, even though I never got to play it much, I would not have minded if it had more of the personality of Tricky
Nice! Loved that game series on the GameCube (SSX Tricky and SSX 3). Can’t wait to see the presentation.
SSX Tricky was the first game I ever played. Truly a gem, thanks for reminding me of it.
Thank you so much for this video! I used to sit down with a wild cherry pepsi, with the song "bombshell" by Powerman 5000 playing in my headphones while I played this game in the early 2000s. The feeling of landing a trick at the exact same time the beat dropped was one of the most satisfying, exhilarating gaming experiences I've ever had. I loved everything about this game from the characters to the gameplay. EXTREMELY FOND memories for this gem of a game. THE BEST SSX game EVER and it's NOT even close.
“Years ago I had this idea…” legendary, iconic. But not as iconic as “…you’re going through an ice tunnel…” 😂 that always breaks me
Man, I remember doing that tunnel now that you mention it, sick moves you could do there
As someone who grew up playing these games, SSX3 is far and away my favoirte. The open world feel was unbeatable! Plus I played as Griff, who everyone hated, so it felt like I still had all the rivalry of tricky haha
I feel like On Tour really wanted to be guitar hero, which is obviously a really strange direction for a snowboarding game, but replay it and tell me I'm wrong haha
I find it so hard to watch this video without yelling at the screen. It's a video that is clearly written with a heavy bias and/or nostalgia towards Tricky, losing objectivity in the process and presenting coloured opinions as facts. The decisions the developers made while developing both SSX 3 and SSX On Tour aren't to be ''blamed'' on anything, they were refreshing and much welcome changes that resulted in 2 games that are simply outshining Tricky in most if not all aspects. Much more advanced level design, polished gameplay, far less stiff controls, incredible overall game design in i.e. making SSX 3 take place on 1 mountain and gamemodes like The Tour in On Tour. Yeah they got rid of an aspect of the game's personality by axing the trash talk and a chunk of the well known and beloved characters, but more than filled the gap with brilliant aesthetics, character customisation and much more engaging mechanics and gameplay. The series didn't go ''off the rails'', it evolved and got better rather than stagnating like many other (extreme) sports games. Tricky is an iconic game, but downplaying SSX 3 and On Tour like they aren't better games nor have achieved a similar status is crazy to me. Everyone, including me, will always have a bias towards one of them, but that doesn't mean 3 legends cannot co-exist. I would have really liked a less biased video in that regard, because most of what's said in this video is just untrue.
While I like Tricky, I preferred SSX3 as I loved the interconnected world and its balance between over-the-top arcadeiness and groundedness that adds awe to what you're doing.
Also I'd love to hear the development history of Freakstyle, another EA Big game that's basically SSX but motocross and the riders are characatures of real motocross riders while retaining the SSX silliness.
SSX3 was just a better game in my opinion. It played so much better IMO.
This dude clearly didnt play Ssx 3. It certainly had the trash talking components as well as just being a very machanically satisfying game. It might not stand up to the personality of tricky, but i remember thinking ssx 3 was such a huge upgrade
I love Tricky, one of my favorite games of all time, but at 5:35 I really feel like you were unfair to SSX 3. 3 absolutely did not tone down the arcade physics, in fact it ramped them up like crazy. The graphical presentation is more realistic and grounded as far as colors and textures, but the gameplay is anything but toned down. Gravity, carving, momentum, boost, air rotation, all these aspects were significantly simplified, streamlined and "arcade-ified" going from Tricky to 3. You could pull misty's with tweaked grabs on flat. Big air events could have you getting 10 seconds of pure airtime and getting 10x backflips. You could no longer pull cork 900s like in Tricky (much like real-life athletes do), but you could do "stalls" and "off-axis" rotations that look cool in the game but have very little basis in reality. Do you remember the Superpipe events? Think of how different the half-pipe physics were on Elysium Alps as compared to Perpendiculous. And of course the way you magnetized to rails streamlined that aspect of the game in a big way. This simplification was both for better and worse, but personally I like the unique feel and gameplay of each game equally as much. The characters don't trash talk in the starting gate, but they still have lively rival interactions during actual races and in cutscenes after races, as well as through text messages over the M-Com. If anything the characters were given more depth and personality as compared to Tricky.
One of my favorite games! It was so much dumb fun on the GameCube, I'm so irritated they never continued the series I felt it had more to offer and it was not the extreme mountain conquering aspect
Oh man I spent so many hours on SSX games back in the day. Tony Hawk and Skate games too. Crazy there was a time where those sport games had such awesome games.
I think between Tricky and 3 whichever you played first probably becomes your favourite, its 3 for me! Felt incredible going down the whole mountain
Tricky is and will always be the best snowboarding game. Bonkers, arcadey, fun, and with so much heart. Love the unique menus, the sultry voice guiding you through options, and just the dedication to a really cool front end experience before the game properly begins. We need it on modern consoles!
Tricky and "on tour" were my two favorites. I actually think on tour is a bit underrated
On tour was great, Had it for Xbox and PSP. two different games.
I only had On Tour and I loved it. So surprised to hear it wasn't a favourite.
On Tour for me. Loved the aesthetic and that intro is still legit.
On Tour is my favorite in the series, and I had every game. Always bugs me when people dump on it "On Tour is where things really started to go off the rails," nah man that game was legit. I loved the presentation and the soundtrack, still have songs from it on my rotation to this day.
@@theharvardyard2356I agree the map design of on tour was insane, the gameplay was solid as ever, and it had skiing
I grew up on SSX 3 but those EA Big games were the peak of EA. Every single one of those EA Bog games were a hit
It became an icon because of the friends we made along the way.
the music, the colors, it just gives off 2000s. still love this game
I wish so hard EA would remaster BIG classics, or at least make the original versions available in current systems. A man can dream.. 😢
The competitiveness in ssx 2012 with its online rewards, geo tags, map and sound design was such a good push for ssx in the modern times. People said it was too unrealistic which was the entire point.
SSX3 just edges Tricky for me, but they are both amazing games and a huge part of my teenage years. I still miss it, and go back to it now and again. The type of games where you can just sit back and play.
Funnily enough the quick succession of released of SSX, Trick and 3 made me not even know that Trick was a game until a few years after SSX 3 released and I had spent so much time in 3. I love this series with all my heart but(skipping on tour and Blur) going to SSX 2012 was a miss for me. Mostly the Oxygen and warmth based game play.
Yeah ssx 2012 felt way too fast paced to enjoy the environment and ambience the way you could in 3
SSX Tricky is definitely an icon, it'll remain legendary and a childhood memory for many of us. However, I liked the SSX from 2012 very much as well
I loved SSX 3 hands down the best,
This game is still one of the most memorable games ive ever played. Wish they made a new one.
This is one of my favorites and I did not know about project gravity! So stoked for that now
Grew up playing Tricky, nearly shed a tear the first time I actually went snowboarding in my 20s listening to RunDMC on a speaker.
The first SSX was my first ps2 game. I was hooked from the start. SSX TRICKY was so over the top that it became one of my top 5 favorite ps2 games.
I MISS THIS GAME SO MUCH!
Tricky was the best and the only sport game I ever played.
I loved the commentary on SSX Tricky as well
"Sweet big air bonus!"
Tricky had a section where you had to hit these big Balloon’s. One was shaped like a baby. When one of us was playing, the others would be “coaching” (basically yelling a lot. A LOT!!!) Once as My pal Craig Egan was going for the big baby ballon, I was yelling “Hit that baby, Egan. Hit that baby!” so loudly that our neighbours came to the house concerned that we were crazy people who were in fact, hitting a baby. A quick explanation and the neighbour had a controller in hand and was flying down the mountain.
Great days, great game. Hit that baby! 🎉 🎊🎈🪩
Thanks Coach.
Great video. In 2001 I worked at a recording studio and we had a PS2 and a "big screen" TV. When we weren't working, we were playing SSX Tricky. Such great memories.
My favorite ps2 game. I was a beast with Mac
SSX world tour was a great game
i remember watching my older cousins play tricky, my nostalgic ssx is on tour. the notebook doodle art style brings back so many memories. Also riders republic is pretty sick IMO
Such a fun game. Had such a blast playing it.
SSX3 on PS2 was my jammmm
The trash talking and rival system along with the awesome tracks and cool tricks you could perform was what made this game my 15 year old self back then favourite.
I can see my house from here!
Everyone who watches this video, ea says if enough players return to ssx(2012) they will fix the servers. Got it from a source who’s a beta tester who asked on my behalf
Picture this? Lol I literally lived it. It was awesome. SSX tricky was one of the last "90s vibe" games. Everything about it was that late 90s/earl 00s vibe; the clothes, the music, the attitude. It was a glorious time
Good video but it's definitely underselling how excellent SSX 3 was. Among fans, there is strong debate on whether Tricky or 3 is better. To me, it's the best in the series.
Also I'm pretty sure you're incorrect about the trick system; it's largely unchanged from Tricky
Out of all the games getting remade I don't know how this isn't at the top of the list.
I was addicted to SSX tricky in the winter 2001 and it's so fun and the tricks were amazing. A lot of people sent videos of there high scores to PS magazines UK and featured them on there free gaming DVD that was package with the magazine in 2002.
For anyone hoping for future SSX games. A lot of the original Devs on the first few SSX games are returning to make a brand new arcade style snowboarding game. It’s called “Project Gravity.” There’s not much info rn, but it’s been happening for a couple years now and it’s like a spiritual successor to the SSX games.
I'm hoping that we'll get Tricky remastered or remake at least like call it SSX Tricky Anniversary or something
@@RicardoPerez-rz8pu unfortunately I don’t think that will ever be possible. There was an accident or some fire of some kind at the Devs Studios and all of the Trickys source code was lost. Trickys source code was basically the completed version of SSX (2000) so both of those games are lost. That’s why we only got SSX 3 for Xbox Backwards Compatibility. If that accident didn’t happen, then we would’ve gotten Tricky backwards compatible too. The best hope rn is to hope for an SSX 3 remaster.
@@jayyyymorris but the owner of the franchise should remember how it was made like before from the start probably he's going to start from scratch to get it like it was before.
@@RicardoPerez-rz8pu I really do hope that’s the case. Take everything perfect about ssx3 and make it even better
@@jayyyymorris don't forget tricky
Just pulling out my Tricky game to play again! I'd be very pleased to hear of a new, updated game of SSX!
I remember being soo addicted to this game and styling my players and wanting to snowboard so bad! I love my childhood!
ffs, give me an updated version of THIS already! Tricky was the best of them all. just damn fun.
SSX Tricky was great. They tried to keep the series going but EA somehow managed to take all the fun out of the game.
SSX 1 was great. Tricky was good but reused so much. SSX 3 is by far the best IMO. Way bigger game, Way more tracks, Customizable outfits, Dynamic rock and rap soundtrack with a DJ that would talk about things that happened, Finding snowflakes to upgrade your character. 3 large mountains you could free ride, Being able to ride down the whole mountain for a 30 minute track. Not sure how anyone could consider Tricky the better game.
“Gravity is a suggestion, rather than a fundamental law of physics” 🔥
Give me the characters and arcade style of tricky, the grounded aspects of ssx3 with the tight controls and physics of ssx on tour (the psp version specifically) with the stakes of SSX (2012 but don't over complicate the control scheme) and it'll slap.
I never knew until I watched this video that I want a SSX Tricky remake. The music, style, adrenaline rush fun hell of a time.
I was probably 5 or 6 when I played this and nostalgia is hitting me hard, I remember a roller blading game that was kinda designed the same way around music, ahead of their time imo
JP was my main man😁
His sync guy once put a spoonhilt up his Nose on set😂
Ssx Tricky, Ssx3, Ssx on Tour were just epic!
Bro... SSX just had everything we needed, flashy skills and speeeeed everything else was a bonus... game was such a druggggg omd.
Well I'm glad someone thinks Tricky was the best entry. I see so many people say SSX 3 was better and I just don't get it. SSX3 felt like everything good had been removed or toned down in favor of new ideas that didn't work. As a collector I still have and play SSX 1-3 having beaten 3 twice at least. And you know what? Still don't get it.
1,000% agree, I’ve been waiting for a remake 😢
Whatever people say about SSX on tour, it was one of my favourite games for years after it came out, and I still listen to the soundtrack to this day. But I'm also quite fond of more rock oriented music
A reboot and expansion would be so sick. They can add online and more maps
Since this was connected with the sims you dont know what youre asking for...
All I need is a new SSX and Skate game and I'm set for life
First game I had on the PS2. So many memories. I wish I could go back in 2001 just for a day...
Tricky was pure fun.
Good times.
Was like 7 when this game came out and from ages 7 to like 11 this was BY FAR my favorite game lmao it was unreal
Arguably my most favorite game of all time! "You're not really picking me are ya, nah psyche just kidding!" - Eddie W.
I remember playing this game as a10 year old back in 2001..... man they don't make games with this personality anymore what a classic!!!
I remember having a crush on Kaori 😂
"Accidental" icon? Ther ewas nothing accidental about Tricky... the devs had an absolutely specific plan and absolutely nailed said specific plan. Everything about the game was near flawless... the graphics, the gameplay, the sound (oh my God the sound...). EA absolutely needs to remaster this (and NBA Street vol2 while they're at it).
Otherwise a great video! And truly, the series (along with EA) went corporate/ "water things down for mass market," which is a sad truth of history.
Ssx tricky.. ICONIC. Never forget the childhood memories with that.. the EA BIG series was dope now that I think about it.. NBA street vol 2 was by far the best
I bought this game about 4 weeks ago on ebay because I missed playing it from 20 years ago. It's just fun gaming.
Honestly I am torn between ssx tricky and Ssx3. Both are fantastic games for diffrent reasons. I like the style and tone of tricky because of its wackiness but 3 does the gameplay better with the controls and variety. Best games in the series easily.
Man I haven’t played a snowboarding game in over 10+ years, but gravity has my attention
One other thing: The VA for Psymon also had his own haunted house business for years and would reprise his role as Psymon when asked.
I have never found a snowboarding game to equal the sheer joy of playing Tricky. It just got everything right, it was amazing. The relative lack of gravity, allowing insane chains of tricks, was definitely one of the keys to its unique charms, but pretty much every aspect of the game just seemed perfect at the time. And the soundtrack was incredible! One very open track had a song by....Chicane? No, Hybrid!! It was stunning. Played Tricky with my mate at the time for hours and hours on end.
Have you tried Shredders? It's not quite SSX Tricky, but meets a really solid middle ground between realistic and arcade and is honestly a ton of fun. Would definitely recommend
I loved the 2012 SSX. It was underrated but very well polished and had plenty of unlockables. 1 cool feature was that you could add your own music into the game which would still interact with the gameplay
Loved the ssx games back in the day. I usually hate reboots, but this would be the exception.
Loved this game. My mom has it on the original Xbox. That’s how you know it’s a classic.
Man, love this game and wish for someone to do a game inspired on SSX.
Closest is like Steep or Riders Republic but it dont hit the mark at all personally
This era of Stupid fun games was perk
Steep has fun snowboarding but forces you to do boring parachute missions.
Working on it ❄️
I played this on the gamecube for so damn long. loved this game
This was my fave ps2 game. I talk about it all the time. I miss it.
Oh man, i loved the rival system in this game. It was so much fun knocking down rivals, and trying not to hit your friends and getting there trust up even more.