Xbox 360 Fanboy

I like the part of Major's cast where he said that devs have asked if they could make avatar clothing as rewards for reaching certain acheivements. For instance, he said a Fallout 3 dev asked if they could create a hazmat suite for your avatar. That would be really cool! Halo Armor, HL2 suit.... just geektastic.

Don't knock the avatars too much. My wife has spent endless hours creating different famous Mii's on the Wii. I would say it's progbably the "game" she has played the most. Anything that can sell more Xboxes and expand the community can only have a postive effect on the numer of games that get released for the console.

I suspect they didn't show a lot of half of what the Avatar can do.

I'm actually getting excited about the new UI.

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Avatars still look ugly hope that gets modified alot and they still are gonna include ads lol.

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It's the whole "less is more" design philosophy.

For instance, my wife has a hard time finding what she wants using the current blades UI. There is too much information focus on at one time for her and she gets confused and hands the controller over so that I can open an arcade game for her. (I guess they didn’t teach that when she was getting her PhD). For me, and most “core” gamers, the UI is easy as pie and we are used to it.

New UI is always a tough sell on experienced users.

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What idiot honestly thought that you'd be forced to install every game to your hard drive to play? Use what little common sense you were given, people! Sheesh. :)

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I personally love the new "copy the game to the harddrive" feature. My Xbox's drive rattles like a old chevy when it's spinning at full speed. Well technically, the drive spinning causes something else to rattle like the case fans or something, but either way it's really annoying. The only problem is that I don't have much harddrive space on my tiny little 20gig and I really don't want to pay the money for a new 60gig (assuming they'll be available for purchase seperately) just to be able to install games. I'm never gonna need the space for media as I stream everything my QNAP server. Guess I'll just have to do some regular housecleaning on my 20gig.

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Why are loads of people whinging about this update. Seems to me there's loads of extra functionality and the update is FREE!!

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It's lookin' pretty noice.
Roll on Fall update.

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if i get this update, does that mean al my themes i have are more or less 'not useful anymore'?

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@GregA


DisplayPort is meant to replace DVI not HDMI idiot !

DisplayPort will also replace Anolog/VGA in bacially it will allow digtial and anolog displays through one port

Thast why most are switching to DisplayPort!

Get your fact straight !

http://www.displayport.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort

No doubt will be called a VESA port named after the designer

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