{"id":101,"date":"2012-02-24T03:21:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T03:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=101"},"modified":"2012-05-15T03:55:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T03:55:34","slug":"ssx-demo-just-like-old-times-this-gets-deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/101","title":{"rendered":"SSX Demo! Just Like Old Times! (This Gets Deep…)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SSX!<\/p><\/div>\n

So, way back in 2000, I got a PS2 and one of the first titles I nabbed was SSX<\/b>. It was a good time for the ‘extreme sports’ genre as they called it then. The game remains one of the most solid and original titles to come from the era. I don’t care if there were other snowboarding games…SSX<\/b> made it sexy, fun and man those huge jumps rocked. There were two areas where I could get ???<\/i><\/b> listed. Sadly, my landlord’s kid borrowed the game (and GT4<\/b>?) and I never got it back. <\/p>\n

Fast forward to 2012. OK, I’m 36 now, but to think it’s been 12 years is almost sickening. There’s something massively disturbing about that fact. How far I had come from where I had grown up, yet how long ago that was. Clich\u00e9 time…I felt like I knew so much then. I digress.<\/p>\n

OK, whatever, it was a long goddamn time ago. I’d played SSX Tricky<\/b> and put a lot of hours into SSX3<\/b> on the original Xbox. However, even That<\/b> was a while ago. (edit: 9 yrs) I never liked On Tour<\/b> as much. So…when a new relaunched brand was announced, I was interested. I grabbed the demo. I started writing this stupid blog.<\/p>\n

\"SSX!\"<\/a>

New SSX!<\/p><\/div>\n

Wow…This is pretty cool. The tutorial song is…wow, I don’t know. Reminds me of some different time. I start playing the actual game. It’s…it’s…exactly the same, really. What IS THIS?<\/b><\/p>\n

I actually felt a tinge of nostalgia for times past while playing SSX<\/b>. It was strange. It was 2000 all over again. Living in the bodega in Bay Shore. The debauchery (heh). Those white couches and that glass table. Coming home from lunch w\/ Mat and…what was his name? He was shaped like a pear. He was a nice guy. It was strange. It was exactly what I wanted from an SSX<\/b> game and that game was 12 years ago. Sure, it’s HD, everything looks and sounds better than that old piece of shit TV I had…but it was like old times and I loved every second of it. I even loved that tutorial song, for some reason. <\/p>\n

OK, I return to being a husband, a father, a teacher. However, there’s something so beautiful about that time. It wasn’t all perfect, I’m not that delusional. It was just pretty beautiful (and the Yankees had just won their third World Series in a row…that may have something to do with it.) <\/p>\n

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I have absolutely no clue why I enjoy this song so much…<\/p>\n


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