EA: Ski

well this threads taking off

i have many doubts. but if it happens, i'll see to it that someone sucks your penis.

i wish...

XBOX is a piece of shit. I don't even play video games and I know it sucks dick in comparison to the PS3.

available on all consoles, would be the best thing to do

you know how i know your gay?

THIS THREAD IS NOW A XBOX VS PS3 DEBATE





































Oh Wait...

Well if this happens I will be sure to buy a copy.

Alright so I remember a thread exactly like this last year and I kinda remember the general idea we had for everything. First off the story line has to be really damn good for this to come even close to working. We don't want any of this Shaun White bullshit. Let's look at it this way. No matter what the fuck you're looking for whether it be floating coins or even people having sex on the ski mountain it's not fun and just all around a terrible terrible idea. Look at Shaun White Snowboarding for example. They used that as the main idea behind the story and it turned out to be the worst game ever.
For the difficulty of the game it would be best if you could do all of the tricks right from the start just like in skate.... That is if you know how to do them which you wont at first since it will be a new game for you, once again just like in skate. So PLEASE don't pitch to them that you want to like level up and gain XP and then spend that XP on points so you can do crazier shit. Also there should be different modes of realisticness, because not everyone who buys this game is going to want it to be completely realistic and if it was the market for the game would go down considerably. So if there was a realistic mode where the most you could spin was like a double cork 1440 or a triple flip if you threw them perfectly off of 120 foot jumps. Then there would be a like semi - realistic mode where you could spin like tripple 1880s if you threw them perfect off a huge 120 foot jump, and then a just fun mode where you could spin like quadruple flips and huge spins, basically shit like in SSX on TOUR. And all of those would be related to spinning on to rails like the most you could spin unless it was a HUGE kicker is a 630 for realistic and a 540 switch up at max on a huge A - frame or something.
And then for the story have it be you're just a no name amateur skier who is trying to make it big time competing in competitions and trying to have fun. But have like different like ways you want to go pro. You could either try to become a big name in the halfpipe world like Tanner Hall, or you could be a slopestyle skier like Tom Wallisch, or you could be a backcountry skier like Sean Pettit or someone else (Couldn't think of anyone I don't really pay attention to backcountry). So in the beginning of the game you would chose what kind of skier you want to be and then after reaching a certain amount of hype (I'll explain this later) you go to a competition and the game takes over for you and you are just viewing it like you are a spectator and your guy does this insane run and everyone goes crazy. And then the respective guy for your path would come up to you and be like "I want to help you make it big BLAHBLAHBLAH" and then you would enter in the top 150 skiiers for your insane run and you would spend the whole entire time trying to make it to that number one spot, like in SSX on TOUR.
For the hype the main idea would be that when you enter in competitions they are certain levels of difficulty therefor earning you different amounts of hype, like a mountain rail jam compared to like the X-Games. And then after gaining a certain amount of hype you would move up on the list BLAHBLAHBLAH you get the picture. And each tournament you win you also get money which allows you to get better skis and shit therefor allowing better gameplay.
Another part of this game whether some people like it or not that would seem really big to most newschoolers is the fact that your clothes don't all make you look like a hesh skier (aka all tight and shit) and even though it's not neccessarry I think that even though no ones really saying it because they dont want to get hate, there should be a meter so that you can adjust your clothing size and baggyness or tightness. And along with that portion of the game it would be easy to get some big name companys into this like Scott or Line or Solomon, but it would also be cool to get some of the lesser known companies like Amplid, Causwell, First Drop and Ninthward.
That's my two cents........ (I'm bored and stuck in my house don't hate)

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there should be snowboarding and free skiing in the same game.

why cant you be on slopestyle, big, pipe, quarter pip, and pow (jossi wells, dane tudor) so you dont HAVE to choose what you want to and stick with it until the end...

yo, ik you said like after you beat the game you can build shit. but like say something about building your own backcountry jumps...exactly where you want them because in like SW snowborder you got limited  alot...and make sure you say something like make it realistic...i remember SSX on tour (best game to date imo) and you could jump half the fucking hill...like wtf? haha but good idea. if its formal and you can have good points they might take you seriously...good luck +K

This thread is retarded, and so are most of the people posting in it. Go read the rational posts about how this game won't work because there is no market and stop hyping it because it won't happen.

Good luck. I think the most challenging part, other than get ea to buy it, is designing a/some mountain(s)that have as much variety as the cities in Skate. But seriously good luck i hope it works out.

just make it like amped 2 but with a skier. amped 2 spinning and flipping was perfect.

haha exactly i would actually buy an xbox if this ever happened

Agreed! I still play that game once in a while.

Straight up.

make it kind of like stoked but less bad

i board and i disagree.

Three storylines would be kinda cool, like pipe-park comp (hatviet, Sammy carlson, dumont), anti comp buttery ass rail steeze (Hornbeck, Maxamas, Kiesel, TC crew), and backcountry legend (petit, Pollard). Have pros from each category to do pro-challenges. Have actual comps like X-games, Orage masters, JOSS. Full sonsors for everything, skis, boots, bindings, goggles, outerwear/hoodies, helmtets, I also like full customization of character. The film editor would have to be so legit, that you could safe enough foutage to build a 3 minute plus edit, and that you could actually do that on your console, and use music that you have on your hard-drive. I also think it would be sick to have a mountain like whistler-blackhomb, built exactly to the trail map. And have legit backcounty with gates, and changing snow conditions. You should also have the ability to take your skis of and hike anywhere on the mountain.

If you really think only 1,000 people would buy this then something is wrong with you. I have never ridden a skateboard seriously in my life, and I bought all 3 Skates. I never played real Football and I have bought at least 5 Maddens. That list goes on with many games. This game really has potential.

skiing is no where as mainstream as skateboarding or football you dumbfuck.
what don't you understand about that?

do we really need a video game in order to prove our sport to the world? NO there simply isnt a large enough market to make profit off this game. propr for putting this together but i dont see this happening.

You're making this way too political. I just want something to do in the summer.

I would like to argue this really quick. Skateboarding isn't cheap. If you skate aggressively you can easily go through 2 boards a month. 50 dollars a piece basically. Right there even if you keep all the hardware your at over a 1000. Then onto shoes, they cost around 60-70 bucks and if your skating aggressively on a daily basis your bound to rip them up in a month or two. And if you care about what you look like your gonna be buying over priced flannels and jeans with a company name on them.

then you got
hardware
fines
movies/mags

This is a generalization yes but skating isnt cheap

but with all that it is around 2000 a year for the serious riders

Doesnt matter if its mainstream. Matters if its good

people are going to stick with the more popular skate franchise than switch to a game that uses a less mainstream sport with the same control scheme.

i was gonna post this, but there it is

In relation to skiing it is quite cheap bro.

ea could care less what ideas you might have for a storyline or controls, or any detail like that. You can tell them all about that, and the only question they would have would be "...will this make us a lot of money?" And unfortunately, right now, that answer is most likely no. Your best course of action would be to do some sort of survey that would either prove or disprove that there is a market for it.

looking back, we do get games, but rarely. We've actually had one on a few different console generations even. And we will not get a dedicated skiing game. Save for mad trix, there has never been one. Shit, even the guys that made tommy moe's included snowboarding.

GTFO!!!

agreed, this is the only way they would be able to profit off the game, not to mention i think it would be awesome cause i love snowboarding as well

yep there those are planned!

yeah, like saints tow, i will make it so you can probly blaze or drink.

yep.

i will take all that into consideration, great ideas.

idk why you would want to hike something if you have session markers. oh wait, actually nvm it makes sense, ill add that. yeah your ideas are legit!

Hey, sorry if its buried somewhere in the thread, but when is the formal pitch?

i like pie

...no? that's fucking stupid.

This. As much as i would like a game just to be skiing, this makes it much more marketable and will increase the chances of a realistic game actually being made. Plus i think it would be cool to be able to talk about it with your boarder friends

will never work, there simply is not enough of a market for this game...why would EA spend millions of dollars to create a game that will have an extremely limited base. It would tank in stores, just like Mad Trix did.

although most of this site would oppose this idea, it would be much more likely that skiing be included on a snowboard game, rather than convince EA to make a whole game just for skiing.

 Instead of EA: Ski it could just be called EA: Jib and have it be skiing and snowboarding but 10x more skiing centered.

Thoughts?

at least equally divided, if skiing was just kind of a side note it wouldn't be as fun