SSX On Tour

I know SSX has a pretty strong following here (me included) so with this new preview from IGN, I thought it's time we get an official TNL thread going. It's a short preview (and I'm sure other sites will be putting up their impressions soon) but it's a good one.

http://xbox.ign.com/articles/626/626461p1.html

It's in development for every current system and looks to expand on what made SSX 3 kick ass.

I played a lot of SSX3 online. It'll be nice to play this one on XBox Live, since PS2 online was a painful experience.

3 is one of my favorite games so I'm really excited about this.

I just want more racing tracks...as that's what I love to do in the game the most, and a lot less half-pipe crap. I swear that's so boring I could fall asleep.

Yeah, there's really no challenge in the half pipe the way they have it now. It's pretty pointless.

Graphically, those images suck. But I love the game and if it gives us custom sound tracks I will be one very happy person.

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Originally Posted by Korly

I played a lot of SSX3 online. It'll be nice to play this one on XBox Live, since PS2 online was a painful experience.

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If EA is still using the same infrastructure they have for their current online games, you'll be in for another painful experience :cry:

EA's online setup is rather convoluted, but in some cases, like Burnout 3, it isn't that bad, although I sure had fun when EA's sign-in stuff wouldn't work when I first tried to go online with it. It isn't ideal, but at least their games don't lag on Live, which is something I'm thankful for. The SSX series has been a fun one thus far, and I can't see them fucking it up with On Tour.

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Originally Posted by Korly

I played a lot of SSX3 online. It'll be nice to play this one on XBox Live, since PS2 online was a painful experience.

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If they're really bringing On Tour Live, then expect me to pull an Opaque and master this with 700 hours played.

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Originally Posted by Jeremy

EA's online setup is rather convoluted, but in some cases, like Burnout 3, it isn't that bad, although I sure had fun when EA's sign-in stuff wouldn't work when I first tried to go online with it. It isn't ideal, but at least their games don't lag on Live, which is something I'm thankful for.

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I've played many EA games on Live, and they really are terrible. Their service is just horribly inconsistant. Fifa ran like absolute shit, Fight Night 2 would have a decent connection 2/3's of the time, Madden also runs decently 2/3's of the games played. But it's not just the latency issues you need to worry about, its EA's service itself. Their Live service suffers terribly from like you said, not even being able to connect to EA's servers (which wasn't just isolated to Burnout 3), to plentiful drop games, and connections. I hate it, and hope that Microsoft doesn't allow this to happen again with the move to 360.

Isn't it also true that PS2 users have to pay to use EA's servers?

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Originally Posted by Jeremy

EA's online setup is rather convoluted, but in some cases, like Burnout 3, it isn't that bad.

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WTF are you talking aobut? We all quit Burnout 3 because the games lagged, servers crashed every five seconds, and half the time you tried to join a game it signed you out.