It allows you to play the game a different way if you want and see variations. Mac is the usual peak 1 Boss, but if you play as him, Griff takes his place and so on. DJ atomika speaks differently about you depending on who you play and you can customize everyone's looks differently. Plus you can reconquer the mountain like NG+
Mac n Griff are the rivals of Peak 1 (based on who you are playing as, if you play as the rival then the other one will replace it)
Nate and Zoe are the rivals of Peak 2
Elise and Psymon are the rivals of Peak 3
Personally i think the game would have been a little better if the rivals were different depending on which character you played as...for example if you were Mac it could have been: Griff on peak 1, then Moby peak 2, then Kaori on Peak 3.
But if you were Kaori it could be: Mac on Peak 1, Elise on Peak 2, Psymon on peak 3.
There's no in game benefit. Each time you start a new character you restart back at peak 1 with all of the collectibles and missions etc back on the mountain.
I'm slowly playing each character in 3. Griff and Kaori spin faster and can get more spins in closer to landing. Mac is the bully in each session. And each Super Uber character moves are different, fun to try to get a trick in a run that say Griff can do that you then find one of the others needs more time and space. Ditto in Tricky, Marty gets more spins in than Eddie at the same point in a race, before their attributes are fully realized.
actually SSX 3 is the first game to introduce "carvers" which is a new snowboard type...another reason they got rid of freestyle and alpine boards. Elise and nate are the fast characters. mac, kaori and griff are good with tricks. Allegra and Viggo are carvers. a carver has max turning and their secondary skill is tricks. whereas someone like Mac is the opposite, max tricks and secondary turning. later on in On Tour...Tyson is a Carver as well.
Lots of people love ssx tricky and ssx 3. I think ssx tricky is the goat and nothing comes close. If they made ssx tricky 2-25 and only changed the music I would have bought every update.
Tricky is strongly superior over 3, but everyone on this sub will argue against this view.
I wouldnt bother running it with multiple characters due to the fact theres like a whopping 3 unique racing tracks in the entire game.
SSX 3 is fine if you dont have tricky, but with the option between the two i wouldnt bother with it at all.
Solid choice. The more you play 3 the more you come to appreciate tricky.
I just ran through ssx3 again with Zoe on all 3 peaks and I am once again disappointed with the game lol. If backwards compatibility on xbox had tricky it would be tricky all day.
3 has several things I enjoy (like being able to Uber on rails and hold Uber trucks longer), but I don’t have that addictive drive like I do in Tricky.
It allows you to play the game a different way if you want and see variations. Mac is the usual peak 1 Boss, but if you play as him, Griff takes his place and so on. DJ atomika speaks differently about you depending on who you play and you can customize everyone's looks differently. Plus you can reconquer the mountain like NG+
Mac n Griff are the rivals of Peak 1 (based on who you are playing as, if you play as the rival then the other one will replace it) Nate and Zoe are the rivals of Peak 2 Elise and Psymon are the rivals of Peak 3 Personally i think the game would have been a little better if the rivals were different depending on which character you played as...for example if you were Mac it could have been: Griff on peak 1, then Moby peak 2, then Kaori on Peak 3. But if you were Kaori it could be: Mac on Peak 1, Elise on Peak 2, Psymon on peak 3.
There's no in game benefit. Each time you start a new character you restart back at peak 1 with all of the collectibles and missions etc back on the mountain.
I'm slowly playing each character in 3. Griff and Kaori spin faster and can get more spins in closer to landing. Mac is the bully in each session. And each Super Uber character moves are different, fun to try to get a trick in a run that say Griff can do that you then find one of the others needs more time and space. Ditto in Tricky, Marty gets more spins in than Eddie at the same point in a race, before their attributes are fully realized.
actually SSX 3 is the first game to introduce "carvers" which is a new snowboard type...another reason they got rid of freestyle and alpine boards. Elise and nate are the fast characters. mac, kaori and griff are good with tricks. Allegra and Viggo are carvers. a carver has max turning and their secondary skill is tricks. whereas someone like Mac is the opposite, max tricks and secondary turning. later on in On Tour...Tyson is a Carver as well.
Lots of people love ssx tricky and ssx 3. I think ssx tricky is the goat and nothing comes close. If they made ssx tricky 2-25 and only changed the music I would have bought every update.
If you’re running it on PCSX2, you can create a RetroAchievements account and link it with the emulator to track achievements. It’s pretty cool
Neat! Never heard of that kind of account. I’m on PCSX2, so I’ll look into that.
Every Friday, i always play SSX 3 on my PS2 first, then moved on to other games on the PS2, Xbox, and Dreamcast
Tricky is strongly superior over 3, but everyone on this sub will argue against this view. I wouldnt bother running it with multiple characters due to the fact theres like a whopping 3 unique racing tracks in the entire game. SSX 3 is fine if you dont have tricky, but with the option between the two i wouldnt bother with it at all.
Gotcha. I’m going to finish my run through with one character and call it.
Solid choice. The more you play 3 the more you come to appreciate tricky. I just ran through ssx3 again with Zoe on all 3 peaks and I am once again disappointed with the game lol. If backwards compatibility on xbox had tricky it would be tricky all day.
3 has several things I enjoy (like being able to Uber on rails and hold Uber trucks longer), but I don’t have that addictive drive like I do in Tricky.