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Could Olympic slopestyle give us a video game

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Balmdogg
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Now that freeskiing will be exposed to a huge market via the winter olympiad it could help to push for a proper budget and development of a video game that we could all be stoked on. I see this a one of the positives of our sport making it onto the huge mainstream stage. While for the purist the X Games is the pinnacle of the competition scene it doesn't come close to the exposure that the olympics has and will connect our sport with people who will never go skiing but after seeing it may want eto try it as a virtual experience.
In my opinion I just dont think that a freeskiing game currently would sell enough copies. even if everyone on NS bought a game that would not be enough revenue to entice a game studio to put the time into developing it but with the exposure of a sport, its athletes and brands on an olympic level we could see an awesome skiing game pop out in 2014. Its a long time to wait but it could be what we have been waiting for.
Jul 5 2011 8:03AM
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.RYAN66
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my friends dad works for ea and i heard jib-life is real close to being finished.
Jul 5 2011 9:56AM
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LittleFoot
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double troll. nice!
Jul 5 2011 10:01AM
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THUGwife
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well they will probably make another winter olympics game. if they put it in it will probably not be good
Jul 5 2011 10:19AM
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broto
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IMO if they did make a game it would be another SSX-like game where completely unrealistic tricks and "grabs" will be thrown with quadruple flips, because that's what the 95 percent of the target audience who doesn't understand a true NS'ers interpretation of a cool trick would like in a game. a video game with slow, smooth, stylie tricks, realistic jumps, rails, parks, and mountains, and real-life characters such as B&E, the TC crew, wallisch, hornbeck, dadali, delorme, the stept crew, etc is far from happening, even though that is the game i would buy.
Jul 5 2011 1:47PM
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TheClap.
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this
Jul 5 2011 1:53PM
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Algebra
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how did you get the clap? from whom? its a solid question
Jul 5 2011 1:56PM
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Travapple.
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Slopestyle just got into the olympics, and your worried about whether or not there will be a video game because of it?
Jul 5 2011 3:35PM
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No_Dub
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yeah ill clear it up for you.


he is indeed
Jul 5 2011 4:50PM
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T.MARTIN
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I WANT TO DO A QUAD CORK!!!!!! lol jk
Jul 5 2011 4:56PM
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Willard
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Didnt even think about that but it would make sense. To bad it would be another 3 years and im not joking i think jib life may be out in 3 years but who knows.
Jul 5 2011 4:57PM
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Alp1ne
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after 3 games ea didnt renew the conrtact with skate so if skateboarding can't make the profits i doubt skiing could lol.
Jul 5 2011 5:02PM
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PJS.
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3 games? thats pretty good. i wouldnt mind just one
Jul 5 2011 5:07PM
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tall_pants
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The winter Olympic games suck. If they put slopestlye in there I will be mad
Jul 5 2011 5:24PM
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majora
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they will make it...you have my word...........


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Jul 5 2011 6:33PM
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TheClap.
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sad thing is this is prob true
Jul 5 2011 6:33PM
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Balmdogg
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I wouldn't say i was worried about it, just looking for some positives of our sport being projected onto such a large stage.
Jul 5 2011 6:39PM
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TOAST.
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You just don't know how to play SSX: On Tour. There are many ways to make the game more realistic. Easiest is to use crappier skis, but the best way is to hit the opposite direction you want to spin right after you start spinning/flipping slows down the rotation. That plus elizabeths makes the game so much more fun. And some of the tricks you can do in that game are starting to become more realistic.
Jul 5 2011 7:17PM
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fruitstick
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Or you never know hey it could make a game like skate in a way and be relistic and fun for a wide audience
Jul 5 2011 7:35PM
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joshua
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SSX gets more realistic every year though.
Jul 5 2011 7:38PM
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Willard
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Jul 5 2011 7:48PM
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wesley.
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this. only downside is the way they count rotations for rodeos. It bothers me that a rodeo 9 is considered a rodeo 5 by the game
Jul 5 2011 8:18PM
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TOAST.
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Its better than the made up names they have for certain rotations. WOOO i just did a cowbell.
Jul 5 2011 9:40PM
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.DIX.
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Lunchbox 1440
Jul 5 2011 9:45PM
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wesley.
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tricky has the best made up names though. and you know you're pro when you just get the classic ???
Jul 5 2011 10:02PM
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deleted5
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hahahaha that would be the worst video game ever.
Jul 5 2011 10:39PM
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.JPolster
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I just sent a huge email to EA about getting a skate ish game. now reply yet
Jul 5 2011 11:13PM
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_DUSTY_
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I did the same a month ago, still no reply...
Jul 6 2011 12:35AM
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fujarome
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people don't realize how boring a true NS-desired skiing game actually would be.


To put it simply...no one wants to do a stylie 540. No one outside of NS at least. People want to throw an absurd number of spins, and see how many grabs they can fit in before they hit the ground. That's it. No game that does otherwise will sell particularly well.



I wouldn't be surprised if an official olympics 2014 game came out that included some skiing, but it would most likely be awful, as those games tend to be.
Jul 6 2011 1:07AM
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Jeffmnicholas
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even though this has been said 1000000000000000 times, if they made a skiing/snowboarding (sadly i highly doubt a skiing game could sell well on its own) game like skate, it could be really good because skate is as realistic as you want it to be. you can do crazy shit that appeals to people that dont skate, but u can also do realistic things in it. If there was a skiing/snowboarding game like this, everyone would be happy, not just ppl on NS, and it could possibly sell well
Jul 6 2011 1:12AM
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snowbombz
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i was laughing thinking of what the announcers are going to be saying!

bob: "and here he comes....wow, he is performing a beautiful reverse aerial sideways somersault with what appears to be a triple twist!"
bill: "well bob, it appears that he is going to slide a rail sideways, this is going to be interes..... oh, wow, he actually just performed what snowboarders call a switch up?"
bob: "yes bill, that is what they call it, i think this is a solid run, we will be back after this short commercial break."
Jul 6 2011 2:52AM
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Boggs
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Then how has the skate series gotten so big? It is exactly that (except for the doubles and triples, which pretty much only us skiiers and boarders do anyway).
Jul 6 2011 3:18AM
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SNOWPARKCHlLE
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the father of the uncle of my friend was a friend od the friend of your dad and he told about this to!!
Jul 6 2011 3:31AM
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deleted5
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that game is not realistic i love doing nollie 360 hard flip to backside blunt to 360 inward heal out in real life because you know they've been done for yeah totally realistic.
Jul 6 2011 4:19AM
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Malcolm
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It's definitely possible to have a game where you can spin like crazy and still do slow stylie shit. Whenever i play amped 2 I always type in the "superspin" cheat. That way you can still do a super slow 3 followed by a triple cork 2160 on the next jump.
Jul 6 2011 10:47AM
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snomaster
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Hello idiots,
Jul 6 2011 11:30AM
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snomaster
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This game already exists. MYTP2 Freeskiing. I play it on my iPhone lots. You get points for being stylish and it's hard to get on rails. It's not perfect but it's pretty damn good. Searchbar it on google or NS.
Jul 6 2011 11:32AM
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deleted5
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like 4 story bomb dromps
Jul 6 2011 11:35AM
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CrotchKiller
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i used to lol at the tricks you could do in SSX now i lol because its pretty damn realistic
Jul 6 2011 12:15PM
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Jul 6 2011 12:55PM
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.cam.
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http://playmytp.randerline.com/
Jul 6 2011 1:13PM
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erikK
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/MEGA CLAIM
Not sure if anyone will take this seriously, but this winter at my local hill (grouse mountain) there were some guys doing audio work of some pro snowboarder hitting rails and jumps. They were for sure professional, half the park got closed off for them and they were doing sled laps the whole time. They said it was for a video game, EA? Who knows.
/MEGA CLAIM
Jul 6 2011 8:45PM
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TheClap.
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oooo wow EA doing a snowboarding game? nooo way
Jul 6 2011 8:51PM
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whoa-dere
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jib life 2: the olympics
Jul 6 2011 10:04PM
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flip
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It's for the next SSX, from the team that created the Skate franchise:


Jul 6 2011 11:29PM
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erikK
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Oh, ignore my post. that game looks gay as fuck
Jul 7 2011 1:02AM
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Jib-Life
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Skate 1 proves everything you just said wrong 100 times over.
Jul 7 2011 1:17AM
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los.pinguinos
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i can conform this, it was actually quite annoying
Jul 7 2011 1:20AM
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Bukkakeskitrip
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so hows the game coming along?
Jul 7 2011 1:23AM
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_DUSTY_
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Its now a fashion design app according to them.
Jul 7 2011 1:25AM
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DOMESTICVIOLENCE
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fuck you kids and your stupid video games. Find something better to do
Jul 7 2011 1:29AM
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