I haven't seen much love for the quick launch feature, which is basically like a bookmark page in the guide you can use to warp to any section of the NXE (or fire up a game/video directly). Pretty helpful if you're deep in some of the menus and want to switch to your arcade games/Netflix/whatever. Also, I like that you can assign a Netflix rating directly on the console, and that both the 360 applet and the pc version will remember how much of something you have watched already.
Having a PA metatag for people to look to for party invites would be nice; I imagine not everyone will always know which game they want to play right when they boot up.
So I really don't get what Parties are for - is it just a chat channel with multiple people in it? Can you do anything else but talk?
Also - on my friends list I saw the group of us chatting together. But then I said "Look, you can make him dizzy by spinning his head." and no one knew what I was talking about, because my guy wasn't doing that on thier screens. Then, we did the wave, and about 3 minutes later someone said "Hey! We're doing the wave!" So I think that the avatars are totally independant on each machine...
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Parties are good for organized teams too. I use them whenever I get a team of friends to play gears.
Also, when you're in party chat you can't hear people outside of the party. This is useful when playing games like GTA so you don't have to listen to people screaming the n-word or whatever.
like the new look/feel of the dashboard. I could care less about Avatars but meh, whatever. Only complaint is having to put shit in my "instant" queue for Netflix... what, it can't just look at my queue and pick out the ones that are available online? I wouldn't mind so much except I can't add shit to my instant queue from my normal queue... so I gotta click the movie, THEN add and meh.
I have to nitpick something ! :[
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I love screwing around with the avatar gamer pic thing.
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"Here's this free little guy. Neat huh? He's free. You don't want him to be LAME though, right? Because you COULD totally buy him clothes. And all this stuff. It doesn't DO anything...but..I mean...you want him to be cool, right?
Yeah, so enjoy this free guy."
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"Here's this free little guy. Neat huh? He's free. You don't want him to be LAME though, right? Because you COULD totally buy him clothes. And all this stuff. It doesn't DO anything...but..I mean...you want him to be cool, right?
Hate the new interface. Wish they wouldn't have bothered with it. It just seems like a way of forcing you to scroll through more advertisements for shit to get what you want done. Fuck avatars.
Edit: The fact they basically force you to make an "avatar" to use the goddamn system at all is sort of infuriating. I wish to play vidja games, not dressup.
Make a guy that kind of looks like you, or whatever the fuck you want, and then you never have to deal with the avatar system ever again. You can still use the old friends list, and they added maybe an extra button press to any action you would've done in the old dashboard.
It's smoother, prettier and easier to use. The bitchers just hate change.
Most of this post is directed towards XBL, not PA. Just needed to get it out of my system.
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Anyone notice how some things (mattresses and the copy machines in Highrise) are totally impenetrable? A steel wall, yeah that makes sense, but bullets should obliterate copy machines.
I don't know about you, but I always buy a bullet proof printer. Its a lot more expensive, but I think the advantages are apparent.
You have to really, really, really love Sonic to willingly pay for the Unleashed theme.
You know, for being a "Sonic Theme" there's not a whole lot of Sonic. It has the whole adobe house thing going, and I think it's very serene and beautiful.
As for what to call these things, when I explained it to my girlfriend I called them Mii's. It made things a lot smoother.
"Come over here and make your...little person thing...for the XBox!"
"...why? I don't play that."
"I know but I think there's stuff you'd like if you sat and gave it a shot."
"I like the wii."
"I know that, but...you can make a Mii on this too."
"...really?"
10 minutes later she was still fucking around with it's clothes.
After I showed her that her avatar shows up in Uno, she asked what Microsoft points were, bought them, bought Uno, and sat there for an hour. She was floored that you could actually speak with people in real time as you played Uno.
Well done, Microsoft. Making my girlfriend think something is cool, after I have USED THE DAMN HEADSET IN FRONT OF HER HUNDREDS OF TIMES.
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PikaPuff, you need to add the info about the option for the QWERTY keyboard to the OP.
yeah that's the red text thing I was talking about. let me just spend several hours looking for the post because you didn't spend 10 seconds telling me what you want me to put into the OP
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Having a PA metatag for people to look to for party invites would be nice; I imagine not everyone will always know which game they want to play right when they boot up.
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Also - on my friends list I saw the group of us chatting together. But then I said "Look, you can make him dizzy by spinning his head." and no one knew what I was talking about, because my guy wasn't doing that on thier screens. Then, we did the wave, and about 3 minutes later someone said "Hey! We're doing the wave!" So I think that the avatars are totally independant on each machine...
I would stay and chat, but I have to go watch Blade Runner.
Yeah, Blade Runner.
On my 360.
Fucking awesome.
I have to nitpick something ! :[
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Xiis?
Hur hur hur
Hah, you totally thought I was going to stop midsentence, didn't y-
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I shall kill you both.
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I'd buy it.
"Here's this free little guy. Neat huh? He's free. You don't want him to be LAME though, right? Because you COULD totally buy him clothes. And all this stuff. It doesn't DO anything...but..I mean...you want him to be cool, right?
Yeah, so enjoy this free guy."
Horrible human beings.
That isn't a suggestion for a different name.
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I'M A TWITTER SHITTER
Edit: The fact they basically force you to make an "avatar" to use the goddamn system at all is sort of infuriating. I wish to play vidja games, not dressup.
Make a guy that kind of looks like you, or whatever the fuck you want, and then you never have to deal with the avatar system ever again. You can still use the old friends list, and they added maybe an extra button press to any action you would've done in the old dashboard.
It's smoother, prettier and easier to use. The bitchers just hate change.
This whole conversation made me laugh out loud.
Also, I like the avatars. I was really pumped about making one. However, I will note that they are less manipulable than the Mii's.
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You have to really, really, really love Sonic to willingly pay for the Unleashed theme.
You know, for being a "Sonic Theme" there's not a whole lot of Sonic. It has the whole adobe house thing going, and I think it's very serene and beautiful.
Switch: 6200-8149-0919 / Wii U: maximumzero / 3DS: 0860-3352-3335 / eBay Shop
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"Come over here and make your...little person thing...for the XBox!"
"...why? I don't play that."
"I know but I think there's stuff you'd like if you sat and gave it a shot."
"I like the wii."
"I know that, but...you can make a Mii on this too."
"...really?"
10 minutes later she was still fucking around with it's clothes.
After I showed her that her avatar shows up in Uno, she asked what Microsoft points were, bought them, bought Uno, and sat there for an hour. She was floored that you could actually speak with people in real time as you played Uno.
Well done, Microsoft. Making my girlfriend think something is cool, after I have USED THE DAMN HEADSET IN FRONT OF HER HUNDREDS OF TIMES.
Switch: 6200-8149-0919 / Wii U: maximumzero / 3DS: 0860-3352-3335 / eBay Shop
I'M A TWITTER SHITTER
Switch: 6200-8149-0919 / Wii U: maximumzero / 3DS: 0860-3352-3335 / eBay Shop
Switch: 6200-8149-0919 / Wii U: maximumzero / 3DS: 0860-3352-3335 / eBay Shop
I'M A TWITTER SHITTER
yeah that's the red text thing I was talking about. let me just spend several hours looking for the post because you didn't spend 10 seconds telling me what you want me to put into the OP