Why SSX Snowboarding Games Died 

I totally enjoyed your video. It kind of made me wish that SSX3 hadn’t been the last of the SSX games that I made. I think there could be lots of life and fun new experiences left in the franchise - never say never 🤷‍♂️

"SSX Trylogy REMASTER" that is what we need or an HD collection.

I’d say this though - if EA decided to randomly remaster SSX Tricky in 2019 for an audience that wasn’t around back in the early 2000s, it might actually do well. But I can’t count on EA to do anything right anymore.

I personally loved SSX on tour. I think it might even have been my favorite to be honest. I don’t understand why everyone hates on it so much

See, what bugs me most is that EA grabs a franchise, finds some way to kill it, puts up their hands like "IDUNNO WHY IT DIED," fires a whole bunch of people, then locks up the rights to the franchise and throws away the keys, preventing anyone else from trying to do better with it. They don't just murder games; they throw the corpses into their own private morgue and deny them a proper funeral. Other teams could probably pick up a franchise like SSX and do something new and great with it, but nope. EA doesn't like to share.

I know that it wasn't for everyone, but I think that SSX 2012 was a very underrated game. The trick system was every bit as satisfying as the first three games and it had a tonne of replay value. It was only really held back by the wingsuits almost breaking the race mode and EA's strange choices with regards to multiplayer (no split screen, all online events were against ghosts until a content update later on). SSX Tricky was my favourite entry in the series though. I loved the world tour aspect with lots of crazy and visually interesting locales from the insanity of the Tokyo City Megaplex to the white-knuckle wildness of Alaska. Again, this game had a tonne of replay value and a great soundtrack to boot.

Without watching the video, it was EA's fault.

*I actually really liked 2012's SSX tbh*

I actually loved SSX: On Tour. SSX 3 is probably still my favorite but On Tour is a close second for me. I think it had some of the most interesting areas and being able to do the 20 minute decent down the mountain was awesome.

SSX3 is the greatest sports game ever. Change my mind

I will die a happy man if they release a remaster of SSX3, the game felt so good to play and everything was tight, plus the atmosphere was perfect from the riders and players comments to DJ Atomika it's a feeling no other game has quite replicated.

I remember watching a sort of director video on this, and one quote from one of the creative minds was that these characters were in essence, “superheroes with snowboards.” They had so much personality and so much power in their play. Hearing Eddy scream “I CAN SEE MY HOUSE FROM HERE” or Zoe yelling out “OHHHHH YEAHHHH” as you made mondo leaps and impossible tricks was beautiful. And it seems that’s what the late games missed. Personality and care.

I used to love this game

I'm here to see Bob ross doing the worm on a snowboard. Only the real ones remember

On Tour was my first SSX and I totally loved it. On Tour is what is SSX for me. I also found so much new music through that game that I still listen to today.

We need an SSX Tricky Remastered!!

Bro ssx 3 on ps2 was my childhood. I loved that game as a kid. I felt the same way too since I live in Florida too

Ssx 2012 was actually my favorite. It felt more precise probably due to it being a more modern game.

"Oh boy! A secret tunnel" **Gets run over by a train**

SSX 2012 is actually my favorite, still play it to this day. I played SSX tricky and SSX on tour. I feel like the people who complain about 2012 are people who can never get over the original content, which SSX 2012 did do. It got back to the roots, had a great soundtrack, and put more of a story with more substance in it. They should come back.

Bruh, I still play SSX Tricky on my Gamecube sometimes. One of my favorite games of all time, I think Tricky is the best SSX game. Fight me. If they remade SSX Tricky HD on the Switch or something, I would SO buy it. SSX Tricky on the go? HELL YEAH!

They need to make a ssx tricky remastered version, add a map or two and leave it at that, that soundtrack was perfect and I still play that game, I feel like an updated version would have everyone buying it

I only played SSX On Tour and I loved it. I don't remember the out of place characters either, but maybe that was just a Nintendo thing (I had XBOX).

Lol, I clicked on this because I remember having such a great time with SSX On Tour back in the day. And now I find out that that's the one fans don't like xD

I highly doubt that we will ever get any more SSX games and even if we do, I doubt that they will be good. EA is to entrenched in their pay to win, loot boxes, and currently well performing franchises to risk any amount of money on an old franchise. Especially as they already failed to reboot it. Unless snowboarding games as a whole make a huge comeback, it is doubtful that we will ever see another SSX game.

I think in your comments on 2012 SSX, you missed what originally turned people off of the game; its initial reveal. When this game was first revealed, it was revealed as a needlessly gritty, grimdark take on the series, titled "SSX Deadly Descents" and was more about "surviving" the courses than shredding them. At least, that's why I avoided it for a while. It was more executive meddling, that didn't entirely get shaken off even when they changed it.

SSX 3 is one of my favorite games of all-time. Even though the series declined after I still thought SSX 2012 was really good and had potential to keep going places. I hate EA for the drastic 180 they've done over the course of console generations. Some people might not know this if you're a younger gamer, but as someone who was gaming since the NES, there was a time for GENERATIONS where seeing EA on a box meant there was a pretty damn good chance you'd be interested in this game and have fun with it. Hearing their little soundbytes like "E.A. Sports. It's in the game!" or "E.A. Challenge Everything." whispered at you at the start of a title was actually cool, and you didn't think "OH NO THIS IS FROM A CORPORATE VOLCANO OF BULLSHIT." like you do now. Like, remember when EA gave us Brutal Legend? Bulletstorm? There was a time when EA was publishing or developing stuff big and small that was refreshing. It was beyond sports games like SSX too. Def Jam, Spore, Dragon Age, Mirror's Edge, etc. Now though? I feel like EA killed the hopes of the future of several franchises. Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Battlefront, it all just seems like a matter of time before these games are churned out for money and turn into autopilot-developed titles without ambition.

Played SSX 3 a ton growing up and loved the arcade feel of it with the shortcuts and very 2000's aesthetic. When I got SSX 2012 it felt like it had an identity crisis between the super crazy SSX style and the more serious games like Snow. It was a good game IMO but it didn't capture the craziness of SSX 3 that i had as a kid.

That Minecraft music bit was so anticlimactic. Why not show gameplay with the in-game bonker ass 2000s music afterwards? To show how cool and exciting it is in comparison?

Ssx was a game I grew up I sooo loved it the best soundtrack ever

SSX Tricky will forever be my most favorite game of all time. So many memories over so many years. What a masterpiece.

SSX Tricky will always be my favorite, the courses were so intricate and entertaining as well as the character personalities and music. i would die for a rerelease

So basically it got killed to death

Kast I love your videos! You are one of the few content creators that I happily wait for new uploads

I’ve finished SSX(2012). That game was a beast I’ve tackled. Glad I’m finished that game.

This video means a lot to me because I played SSX with my cousin in 2012 then completely forgot about it until 2018. I found a copy of SSX 2012 and I'm still playing it today. So thank you.

An absolute favorite of mine. 3 has a special place in my heart on account of the 3 Peak system and Viggo Rolig. But I also really, really liked SSX 2012. Its online mode was everything I wanted and did for me what the previous titles could not, that is, hammering out a run for a few hours just to beat someone else's score in a custom tournament. Ssx3 was my game as a child because it appealed to my sense of exploration and immersion. SSX 2012 was my game as a man because it made one of my favorite things actively competitive and rewarded me for playing it.

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Man, While this video is a year old, I really remember loving one of the games. I can't remember which, but darn, it makes me sad I can't find the game anymore. After 2 minutes of research, the game is literally titled 'SSX' and is for the Xbox 360, a system we gave away a few years ago. Now I'm really sad, man.

I feel like a lot of people gave the the 2012 SSX initial hate and avoided playing it without giving the game a chance. I got it on the day of release, in excitement of the revival, and it was a lot of fun to play. I played SSX 3 religiously as a kid, and you can tell that they focused on keeping most of the elements of SSX 3, and a good handful from Tricky and the original, knowing those were the best eras of the series and what fans wanted. If I had to say what the 'missing touch' was, it was that the genre itself just suited the 2000's more, and gaming in the PS3/Xbox 360 era had just become too different. The emphasis now is online, trophies/achievements etc. Gaming just isn't what it used to be anymore, the culture of the PS2 era doesn't exist anymore and I feel like that's what people miss, those days which SSX 3/Tricky etc was once a part of.

can you talk about burnout?

SSX 2012 was a let down. Seriously, MICROTRANSATIONS! Gear stats, and those deadly terrain races that require good gear to survive the race? Wtf was that shit all about? Then they slap on a “Tricky” meter for nostalgia. So tired of these modern games loot systems. “Oh, you gotta get the purples and gold loot items”. That stuff had no business being in SSX.

Wow, the nostalgia is real.

Another good idea for one of these "why __ died" videos could be the NFL/NBA street games! Keep up the good work!

I still play SSX 3 all the time. The old games had something special that's hard to quantify, but you did a good job explaining them!

I loved SSX on Tour !

SSX 3 is so awesome. Even to this day i still listen to the music that was in the game. And listen Dj Atomika in the background was really something special. I used to roam around the mountain just to hear the cool music.

I started with SSX on Tour, it blew my mind 🤯

I wish EA Big would come back. Or at least SSX3 remastered and a new NFL Street.

Why NBA Street Died

I loved SSX On Tour. And not only because i played it as a kid. I mean that, OBJECTIVELY. I played it a few times while growing up and it had the same effect on me 5 or 10 years later.

Wait.... I loved On Tour....

I think what made SSX so good was the tracks design, this sci-fi kind of tracks, with bigass jumps, with few different paths including secret ones and shortcuts, and just being able to go fast through these tracks, learning the curve, gaining the speed and just getting to the bottom as fast and as ridiculously as possible.. i remember playing SSX demo on PS2 with the time limit... good times

The last game was made after EA realized they could make money off DLCs. Before SSX Deadly Descents, on all of the other SSX games, there were so many cheat codes and levels

Oh god! I had completely forgotten about these games. I used to play these games sooo much on GameCube . This was a nice nostalgia trip, thanks, very cool

I thought the thumbnail said “Why sex died”

so happy to play ssx3 on Xbox Backwards Compatibility !

What about sly cooper?

I came looking for the “it’s tricky” song and found this :( damn I miss the SSX game

For me I loved SSX 3 so much, I played hours among hours playing SSX 3. It was because of the unknown "Out of Bounds " hidden Trails to help the person win the Races sooner than later. I would love for a remake of SSX Series trilogy on PS4 in HD

Great video dude! How about a "Why Need for Speed games Died"

SSX 3 was the best, so damn good! Played it for hours and hours on end back in the day

On tour is actually the one I played most. I especially loved being able to create your own character :D

"would EA do something cool ever?" *EA Closes another studio*

Wow , well i just loved ssx on tour so i guess i´d better... RUN to the HIIIIILLS!

speaking of eabig, you should do a video on NBA street.

Nice video. I'm sad to find out people didn't like On Tour. Coming from playing Tricky, I loved the contrast between the two titles. Getting high scores and beating everyone to the bottom of different mountains as your favorite super boarder is awesome. But to me, something that would be just as awesome; being able to stay and shred at one of the best fictional mountains ever created, doing insane complex tricks, discovering every nook and cranny for the perfect photo op, while never having to worry about money, injury, or a boring soundtrack. On Tour just gave your character the ability to become that super boarder or skier that you maybe couldn't be in real life. The carving was great, graphics were great, and you could shove random people over and throw snowballs. Just remembering jumping off a super high jump, doing a crazy move, and having time distort, the music fade away, and the camera zoom in on your character; just holding that move made me feel like I'd never reach the ground... Just infinite swag... Such a good game and I hope something like it gets made in the future.

One of my favorite IPs of all time. My brother and I would litterally finish the game and start a new one from scratch.

my first SSX experience was SSX on tour and i fall in love for the franchise even if from what you say, that SSX on tour was not a good SSX. but for me i loved the song playlist and i loved all the freedom that the devs take with the drawings and the arts in general like a litle piece of paper with writtings on it and all. and the gameplay was very cool with the great event of the "on tour" this great competition where finally at the end theyr is only one grat winner.

SSX3 is the best. The one mountain concept was godlike.

I grew up on SSX On Tour and basialy the soundtrack made my childhood. For me it one of the best games ever and I really want to thank you for this great video!

SSX On Tour is my favourite tbh. This game series had the biggest influence on me when I was a kid. When SSX was released, my dad bought a ps2 for him with ssx included for him to play on. I was 2 years old when it came out, and I still remember this vividly. I always asked him to play that game again so I could watch him play it, one day he asked if I wanted to play it, and I said yes! I got addicted right away. in 2005 when SSx On Tour released, the game had a huge impact on me. I was 7 years old then, the artwork and the music had such a big influence on me that I still listen to Indie rock, metal, & punk to this day! I even got a spotify playlist with just music from that game on it. The artwork in the game inspired me so much that I wanted to make stuff like that as well. I'm a freelance graphic designer now with 5 years of experience, I'm 20 years old now and I still play ssx3 & On Tour to this day. I even played ssx3 A LOT this week.

I loved playing on tour and the monster meter was great. The 2012 one was great as well I liked competing against other people online and the soundtrack was good.

Know what you feel man Florida is a hard place to live in sometimes.

Well because getting old and crap memory this video has become my yearly reminder, great video, see you next year

ssx was my childhood. also why is this in my recommended? subbed tho, great video!

"I'm a pretty big fan of this series." "I completely forgot it existed." Which is it?

I started the series with On Tour and absolutely loved it, still boot it up every winter. Someday I'll try the first three games since they're always portrayed as far superior.

On tour i still play on my oldies day(sunday). Because of these games I discovered music I never would have. The huge jumps that faded the songs was bliss for me. I bought any of the game when ever they came out, so not seeing them anymore surprised me. I loved all the other games but On Tour's super high jumps were just beautiful to me, and all the characters I played were in it so it was a good game to me. Loved the video and was happy to see a video of one of my many wonders since i never did the research.

Grew up playing Tricky all the time with my little brother. We bought the 2012 game, and while it is nice, it doesn’t have that nostalgic feel that the other does.

SSX Trilogy: HD remix would be amazing. Ad online to it as well.

*_We have Steep now!_* jk, it's a really diferent game, but still, it's amazing

This made me want to sit down, pick up my old extremely broken ps2 controller and have fun. I have 2 games, the original and the ssx on tour (which i tried one day when i was younger and absolutly hated) i feel like this video helped explain a few things about the downfall and i got to learn more about my all time favorite game.

SSX - Deadly Descents was SOOOOOO much fun. I was very surprised when we saw nothing a few E3's back... but then Ubisoft goes and makes Steep... oh man that game is good.

*Wait* , are people still complaining about Unturned?

I was wondering why they didn’t just keep it “wacky”, expand the roster(old and new characters), and revisit or revise the history of race n’ trick courses? I mean idk if that’s what actually happened...but then why not just 3 zones consisting of 1 or 2 mountains per zones? Each segment holding its own dangers (top-bottom) And to be honest I think i think we killed it letting the Co. continue w/ SSXDD. I’m actually a fan of the survival challenges it’s presents...but that just it for me (except for Alaska THATS A PIE lvl). Then again I’m just a consumer, what do I know, I Ain’t no game Dev

How I see sales is, as long as you make profit, it doesn't matter how many copies you sale.

Something very important to note @RoboKast is that Steven Rechtschaffner had a tremendous influence on these games and creating EABIG, and the last SSX he helped create was SSX3. Steven had much more influence on the game than he did authority though. Stevens vision was to create arcade games aimed more towards fun than a simulation. I think as it was getting big, many more people were being added to help create further games and the idea/influence became diluted. I personally would love to see another SSX that was aimed toward the same arcade style of fun. Hopefully someday EA won't be so stubborn.

SSX3 was my childhood game... EA isnt without reason one of the most hated companies.

SSX (2012) was one of my favorite 360 games

Thank you for this video!! I don’t comment very often, but I wanted to thank you for saying everything on my mind. I loved this series 1-3, and I like deadly descent (ssx2012). One thing that I always wondered and am still waiting for is, to have ssx3 available on the PlayStation store, so it could be played on the newer console. I still have a ps2 hooked up just to play ssx3. I wish they would just tighten up the graphics and rerelease the same game.

The fact that you made it onto the RU-vid gaming official channel, snaps to you

“You’re not really picking me, right.....? HAAA JUST KIDDING!!” Eddie

But I love on tour it’s one of my favorite games of all time

This is my 1st season learning to snowboard, and I've already been up to the slopes 8 times since Christmas (apparently that's alot for a beginner). This guy on the gondola asked what got me into it & why I came so often, and when I said SSX Tricky, it was like he lost his mind xD! Still my all-time favorite game!

This was an amazing game, I played tricky once on ps2 and then I got Ssx 3 for the original Xbox and then Ssx on tour, didn’t play blur but I ended up playing Ssx 2012 and it brought back so many memories, this series was phenomenal, really would love to see it come back

Can the next video be with this title: *WHERE IS BOOTLEG RP*

I Just Very Very Hope SSX Will Go Famous Again. I Want New SSX Games!!!

I love SSX Tricky and still play it on my PS2. It is cool how it has the bonus DVD content with behind the scenes footage. They show the voice actors doing their work and that was fascinating.

Absolutely breaks my hear that this series died. I still break out the GameCube and binge the hell out of the career mode on SSX3 every year.