Team Microsoft said that the potential is there and developers are showing interest in offering unlockable Avatar content using game achievements. Think of items like a Gears of War 2 tshirt for your Avatar to wear if you earn the Seriously achievement or the unlock of a special ninja mask for completing Ninja Gaiden II on the hardest difficulty. It'd be an extra incentive to go after an achievement IF the achievement itself isn't enough, but the rub here is that you have to actually care about your Avatar's clothing. Us, we're all about forgoing the whole wardrobe unlock thing, sporting a naked Avatar and getting double the game's Gamerscore.
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7-15-2008 @ 11:55AM
joey said...
CAN MY AVATAR SCORE A LANCER?
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7-15-2008 @ 11:58AM
victor360hd said...
GReat Idea So I Finish GTA4 100% So now i have niko clothes HAHAHA Nice
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7-15-2008 @ 11:59AM
MilesLocMan said...
i love the idea of unlocking clothing but you know they will charge for most clothing and accessories on the market place and a lack of cool looking free stuff will cause a lot of avatars to look way to similar and that is just not cool
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7-15-2008 @ 12:05PM
taco said...
I don't know, there are an awful lot of free gamerpics on the marketplace, hopefully the situation continues with avatars. And hopefully games will include free ones, like some games include gamerpics.
7-15-2008 @ 12:38PM
Dralthi said...
It doesn't take long or cost much to get an artist to make a bunch of gamerpics though.
These are 3D and require a 3D artist to make clothing and accessories for.
You can bet your bottom dollar that M$ is going to charge for better looking clothing and accessories.
7-15-2008 @ 12:44PM
Dralthi said...
Agreed.
7-15-2008 @ 12:00PM
taco said...
My avatar suggestions:
1) Less cartoony models (i.e., Splicers from BioShock)
2) Non-human models (dinosaurs, dragons, robots, etc)
3) Abstract models (Say, the blue power-ups from Rez, companion cubes, etc)
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7-15-2008 @ 12:42PM
Dralthi said...
I agree. They look too close to Nintendo's Miis. But they aren't as complex as Sony's Home avatars.
I'd like to see something a little more in-between rather then closer to the Miis.
7-15-2008 @ 12:10PM
David said...
For those that have gs wh0r3d their ways through the game Avatar, what will they get for their MS Avatar?
And a masterchief helmet, carrying a lancer, and sporting a plasmid hand may be cool.
But the masterchief helmet might clash with Altairs hood...
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7-15-2008 @ 12:10PM
Dirty Whirlwind said...
I still think gamer pictures can be applied as t-shirt prints for our avatars, if we want to.
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7-15-2008 @ 12:43PM
Dralthi said...
That's a great idea.
7-15-2008 @ 12:41PM
Dralthi said...
I think it sounds like a cool idea. I think it would be awesome if after finishing Gears of War 2 you unlock a COG soldier outfit for your avatar.
I wonder how complex the outfits and accessories can get?
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7-15-2008 @ 12:56PM
NukeAssault said...
I was just thinking that. But yeah it sounds pretty cool. =P
7-15-2008 @ 12:44PM
Etchasketchist said...
These are not "avatars". They're dolls. Don't kid yourself.
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7-15-2008 @ 12:57PM
uh-oh polio said...
hmmmm, i seem to have heard about something like this elsewhere before. But i cant think of it. 0o well, i guess ill go Home
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7-15-2008 @ 1:00PM
Ryan Hartman said...
So it's become a perverse hybrid rip-off of Sony's Home and Nintendo's Miis, huh? An abomination unto the lord, if you will.
I'm REALLY luke warm on the whole avatar thing. I'm totally cereal over here. Avatars are pointless fluff that morons get giddy over (see: Nintendo Wii crowd). I don't need to see this stupid crap bleeding across all 3 platforms.
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7-15-2008 @ 5:46PM
psychohog said...
Word.
7-15-2008 @ 1:10PM
Neeko said...
Hey nothing wrong with being able to add more options. if you dont like the avatar idea KEEP IT MOVING. Dont worry about yours.. but i bet most of the people who are bashing them now will see someone with a cool avatar and change there mind.
I want mine to look like Assassins Creed or maybe SONIC.
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7-15-2008 @ 1:12PM
Neeko said...
Does it really matter were it might have originated from?
Some people just like to complain for fun i see. Having the avatar is not gonna make u less of a "HARDCORE GAMER"
WHATEVER THAT REALLY IS!
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7-15-2008 @ 1:29PM
Eddie said...
Actually, we don't have to define "Hardcore" to determine that Avatars will clearly stand in the way of Hardcoreness. Just by the pure fact that these Avatars don't appear to be a side feature of the interface- they will pervade every aspect of the new features we ACTUALLY want like the party system, dash redesign, etc -we will spend less time being whatever a hardcore gamer is and more time making sure our stupid Avatars are up to snuff. I think that's what hits so centrally to this issue: we consider the 360 to be the hardcore console because it has been so committed to the gaming experience, which is what we care about more than surfing the web or hooking up to an iPod or whatever else (though it does these other things well). Now, it looks as though they are abandoning that position to draw in casual gamers, which draws casual games, which makes less space and room for the hardcore games that brought us all to this console that are hardly casual, hardly family friendly and whose Live experiences will include insults to your origin, race, sexuality, color preference, family, future family, choice of vehicle (or lack thereof), and anything else that can be mocked. And you know what? We LIK it that way. Leave it alone, improve it, but don't trade a good thing for a mediocre thing just because that's what everyone else is going after.
Rant over.