/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10260852]

Looking back on it, SSX had a really strange aesthetic, one that's hard to describe as just "lol snow." There were certainly elements of that 00s optimism with the rounded edges and high contrast, but a lot of the character's designs felt in-line with 90s cyberpunk and Eastern theming.
There's a rasta dude along with a Japanese schoolgirl, a lot of the concept art looked straight out of a manga and the in-game models looked eerily similar to something from a Namco title. The music was all over the place but stayed consistently heavy, since there was a lot of reverb and echo.
Not even other snowboarding games had this kind of commitment, where angelic choirs sing after you get knocked out by a schizophrenic dude with Wayne Static's hair. Or how almost every screenshot has equal amounts of neon blue and harsh white tones.

[Anonymous No.10260857]

Seriously, this is key art for a Western game. You can't make this shit up. Nowadays it'd be considered "too anime" for normie's palates. Pretty sure this artist also did pin-ups for Jak and Daxter, which similarly had a very Eastern aesthetic to it.

[Anonymous No.10260865]

>>10260852
looked like generic 2000s teen fashion to me. inspired by rave, techno, jncos, nu-metal, stuff like that.

[Anonymous No.10260868]

it's just pop-punk

[Anonymous No.10260871]

>>10260857
>Nowadays it'd be considered "too anime" for normie's palates
What? Anime is more popular and mainstream than ever. That art would be reviled because it's disgusting deviantart tier slop

[Anonymous No.10260872]

>>10260857
No that's Adam Warren doing art for a magazine. And anyone with sense will tell you Adam Warren fucking sucks.

[Anonymous No.10260874]

>>10260852
Zoomers trying to build up a deep dive narrative around every piece of media they consume is exhausting.

[Anonymous No.10260875]

>>10260874
Because apathy is so cool, amirite?

[Anonymous No.10260880]

>>10260875
>omg guise there is deep meaning in this trust me

[Anonymous No.10260887]

>>10260852
they just look like ravers you silly lil zoom

[Anonymous No.10260893]

>>10260875
>A fun arcade snowboarding game is AKSHULLY a deep social commentary on early 2000s society because rounded edges, and also, uh, cyberpunk because I wasn't even born until 2005 so I don't know what pop fashion was at the time.
I'm sorry you have wrists thinner than a straw and a recessed chin.

[Anonymous No.10260895]

>>10260893
I was born in 1998 and this was the first game my parents bought for me. Sorry, I thought this was the board where we talk about old games we enjoy, but I'm doing something wrong obviously.

[Anonymous No.10260902]

>>10260895
>but I'm doing something wrong obviously.
Yes, you're a retarded zoomer who was 14 years old the PS4 came out. You will never contribute anything worthwhile to this board about times you weren't alive for or socially conscious enough to understand, and the media released during them.

[Anonymous No.10260905]

>>10260902
Okay, I'm sorry for shitting up the catalog. My opinion doesn't matter and I should kill myself.

[Anonymous No.10260907]

>>10260905
glad you understand. shotguns have a 99.9% success rate btw

[Anonymous No.10260913]

[Anonymous No.10260923]

It's a shame that EA didn't want to pay the licensing for the music in Tricky and only made SSX3 available on Xbox backwards compatibility.

[Anonymous No.10260928]

>>10260895
don't get me wrong dude, but it was literally just trendy 90s/2000s clothing that mixed whatever was popular at the time. just google "90s rave fashion". it's cool that YOU saw something deep in it, but to everyone else it was just current year fashion.
there are, of course, somewhat eclectic roots to it all—like the fact this aesthetic drew on 70s bright solid colors, especially neon orange, and the whole sci-fi craze of that decade with its silver suits and rounded edges; or how this whole y2k fashion largely owes to Wipeout and Design Republic, who in turn, again, based it on 1960s-70s graphics design. or how the whole 90s "geometric style" of cartoons with thick outlines like Dexter again is a nod to aforementioned stuff. or how rave culture was actually heavily rooted in drugs, e.g. why these fags often had pacifiers with them to chew on when the drugs kick in, or how the tunes often sounded like sirens because the drug induced feeling of danger.
but in the end it's all about as deep as 80s mullets and zubaz.

[Anonymous No.10260932]

>>10260895
>>10260928
here's some more "deep 90s fashion" from you like deep music auteur deadmaus
there's are deep websites for it too, tumblr and pinterest

[Anonymous No.10260947]

>>10260880
I miss Wayne so much, bros.

[Anonymous No.10260954]

>>10260947
>nu-metal clowns of my youth are dying
so this is what getting old feels like

[Anonymous No.10260983]

>>10260954

[Anonymous No.10260989]

>>10260954
It's a fucking miserable feeling. All these band frontmen just dying/killing themselves.

[Anonymous No.10260993]

>>10260947
he partied himself to the grave. dare I say based?

[Anonymous No.10261008]

>>10260993
I mean it was a Wayne thing to do, but at least drop another six or seven albums first Wayne, fuck.

[Anonymous No.10261118]

>>10260989
you think you have it bad? ask Gen Xers. Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley, Scott Weiland and Chris Cornell have all killed themselves, that's pretty much every big grunge act frontman.

[Anonymous No.10261130]

>>10260983
>Tony Hawk looks like an old dad now
>Bam Margera is a fat fuck
I must ay this is more depressing than it should be
then again, Margera never grew up and really let himself go, and Tony Hawk is 55yo. so…

[Anonymous No.10261134]

another zoomie trying to describe "aesthetic" values. yeah, it was a good game, but not for any of the faggot reasons you said

[Anonymous No.10261147]

>>10261130
Tony looks great for someone who spent most of his life in the sun injuring his body.

[Anonymous No.10261157]

>>10261147
all that cardio paid off
Bam Margera stopped skating… and now look at him. I think he's been only growing in width all this time

[Anonymous No.10261161]

>>10261118
I counted Scott and Chris in with Wayne and others. Grew up listening to a pretty varied mix in the 90's and 00's.
>>10261130
>>Tony Hawk looks like an old dad now
Tony is still a cool dude and has had a good life while being a good Dad to his kids. Bam's a fucking drunk, I think?

[Anonymous No.10261194]

>>10261157
yeah but it's really funny to play him in THPS now, like funnier than it's ever been. he made his choices, who gives a fuck? Would you rather he be some obnoxious blowhard like steve-o podcasting all the time? Who would've thought fucking steve-o, with the most horrendous voice possibly on the planet, would do a podcast and that he would be the sober one. here we fucking are

[Anonymous No.10261771]

>>10261194
this guy gets it. all the jackass guys shit on bam so hard for still partying but bam's lifestyle really isn't abnormal at all, especially with all the money he has, and he's really just doing the same thing he's done his whole life. but I guess the jackass crew thinks they are all better than him now because they sobered up and treat him like trash. if bam wasn't such a huge celebrity back in the day, literally nobody would give a shit.

[Anonymous No.10261782]

wasted and wounded...

[Anonymous No.10261804]

>>10260852
I enjoy your take on this OP; though it’s clearly from young eyes, it’s interesting how an Arcady rave culture/ 00’s aesthetic game can appear deeper than it ever was with the passage of time.

[Anonymous No.10262064]

>>10260868
Incorrect

[Anonymous No.10262070]

>>10260932
No, that's rave bullcrap

Counts but it wasn't that relevant

[Anonymous No.10262081]

>>10260928
Prob closer to this than that other gay shit you posted. 90s wasn't gay and you're just trying to steal everyone's culture and turn it gay when it never was

[Anonymous No.10262082]

>>10261130
>really let himself go
he's literally spiraling out of control with addictions and mental illness and probably won't live to see 50. It's easy to forget that he was basically a child star, this fate is not uncommon

[Anonymous No.10262126]

>>10260852
It's great learning about how the guy behind EA Big as a Studio wasn't much of a game designer. Look up Steven Rechtschaffner some time.

[Anonymous No.10263156]

>>10260857
Is it the same artist? I used to love when gaming media was actually BASED and made with their main target audience, men, in mind.

[Anonymous No.10263278]

>>10263156
Yeah he used to do tons of promo art for magazines, especially PSM. The image you replied to is also basically just promo/fan art. None of it is "official" but his art is very easy to recognize because it all looks the same(the eyes are one of the main giveaways).

[Anonymous No.10263289]

chinoiserie fashion was briefly popular in the late 90s/early 2000s, though i'm not sure if it ever spread to sportswear

[Anonymous No.10264004]

>>10260895
>>10260905
You have a deep understanding of how 4chan works, anon.

[Anonymous No.10264008]

>>10260852
You mean Y2K?

[Anonymous No.10264047]

[Anonymous No.10264130]

>>10260852
It's just various styles from the time, and you can see the shifts from SSX, to Tricky, to 3, to On Tour as the decade progressed.
We saw it everywhere else so it never seemed out of place, it was just stylish. But I can understand how someone born after 2010 might feel that way.

[Anonymous No.10265749]

>>10260913
Elise was so hot

[Anonymous No.10265853]

>>10260852
Snowboard was the coolest sport during early 00s

[Anonymous No.10265945]

>>10263289
Always liked seeing girls in mary janes and socks