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Video Production Team  Posts: 59 Joined: 9 Feb 2009     | |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1382 Joined: 25 Mar 2009     | Makes me miss my 360 :' ( |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2699 Joined: 25 May 2009     | Is this just a USA thing or is it happening in the UK as well? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4630 Joined: 8 Dec 2007    | Liking the look of it, monday can't come soon enough! Wow, never thought I'd say that... |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 712 Joined: 5 Feb 2009     | looks interesting, i have to admit the unlock system for getting avatar items is a really good idea, it gives me even more of a reason to get those really hard achievements. edit: |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3134 Joined: 11 Jan 2009     | Meh, looks alright. Bets on how many kids will put on the spartan armor when it becomes available? Also, did you guys see the prices? Seems a little much. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 80 Joined: 19 Jun 2009   | Thank god, I hated the last one they did. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2386 Joined: 10 Nov 2008    | So, it's not giving me a choice between NXE menu or blade system? Because I really preferred the blade system. |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 712 Joined: 5 Feb 2009 |
my guess, all of them. yeah 320 MS points for a toy warthog, i mean the gamerpictures cost only 80 points and by the looks of it all you do with the toy is watch your avatar play with it. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1904 Joined: 29 Dec 2007     | So, wait, I have to pay for some decorations for the my avatar? Hmm... I could do that, or I could save my money and buy games. This is a tough call. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 477 Joined: 14 Jul 2009     | Looking great, really. Shame us Europeans don't get netflix, it's horrible. Hmmm, new avatar stuff, cool, I guess, I just hope I can unlock some reward stuff, I probably will in Halo: Reach, and I hope games like AC2 is supported, an Ezio cape could be cool. xD Not sure if I'd probably buy anything, MAYBE ONE THING, but I'd probably feel guilty after. Hmmm, nice background music. xD |
Senior Editor  Posts: 2810 Joined: 9 Jan 2007    |
Stuff ranges in price from 80 points up to the 320 you saw for the Warthog. (Well, the stuff that's in there now, anyway.) Whether or not it's worth the price is, obviously, very much in the eye of the beholder. I'd happily pay a buck for a piece of clothing I really liked, but that's me. Also, I believe this is US only. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 3134 Joined: 11 Jan 2009 |
Hopefully Canada too. I want this stuff. And maybe make a Warthog racing game to go with the toy? |
Muckraker  Posts: 249 Joined: 21 Mar 2009   | Having never owned a 360 that's a pretty impressive interface. |
Paperboy  Posts: 13 Joined: 6 Jul 2009   | Come on microsoft put in facebook and twitter! |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 595 Joined: 19 Nov 2008  | Cool, but i knew paying for avatar stuff would come eventually. on a side note can you alter the color of your clothes for free yet? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4000 Joined: 1 Nov 2007   | All looks a bit rubbish to be honest. It would be nice if they'd made this update when everything was done. Awards was the one thing I was really looking forward to. Props do look pretty cool though. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1208 Joined: 21 May 2008    | I'm afraid of how the majority of the people are going to use this rating system. The idea itself is really good, but the online crowd doesn't seem to be able to rate things fairly. That being said, I can't wait to mess around with it. I want a rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle. |
Senior Editor Posts: 2810 Joined: 9 Jan 2007 |
Nope. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 51 Joined: 17 Mar 2009  | Yeah, I'm not big on the buying stuff for the avatar. And the rating system is like the rating system for Flixter- People are only going to rate stuff that's either incredibly good or incredibly bad. Actually, it may be more for crappy ones since it seems a bit hard to get to. Then again, this assumes most of the Xbox users can even figure out what a rating IS. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 197 Joined: 15 Apr 2009   | Addition: The arcade game 'splosion game will be the first to award stuff for your avatar
Everything except the netflix stuff... but i heard microsoft made a contract in the uk with a company called 'sky" that is similar to netflix |
Copy Clerk Posts: 51 Joined: 17 Mar 2009 | I hope that comes along soon. :/ |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 817 Joined: 3 Mar 2009 | I can almost promise you that that the many chans are going to muck with the ratings on XBL just like they did with google searches, pushing all the most terrible applications to the top of the list. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2397 Joined: 6 Apr 2009 | Good but I need to point out one flaw in your reveiw. The system that allows you to see how many Gamerscore you could have gotten out of the total is already there. Now maybe it hasn't been out in America before but we have had it in Ireland since the last update. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2457 Joined: 21 Aug 2008    |
damn. I sick of the only shirt they give you that I would actually wear being purple.
it's sort of there in the US. It's ascetically different, and it appears it's in a different place than before. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3906 Joined: 4 May 2008    | I really hope this is gonna be in the UK; I assume it will be, but you can't be sure. And finally, a better way to show off how much of an Achievement Whore I am! I'm tellin's ya, them bleep-bloops just ain't cuttin' it any mores! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4072 Joined: 15 Aug 2008 | Achievements may actually be worth something if they decide to tie them to the "awards" section. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2006 Joined: 27 Sep 2008    | Im glad to get the achievement progress stats BACK. (They took it out with the first big update that added avatars) I had fun knowing what my 1000th achievment was. (Ironically, it was beating Halo 3 on Legendary) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1626 Joined: 13 Jan 2009   | Rating system is a interesting idea. But it reality, is will succeed of fail. No middle ground. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 917 Joined: 8 Dec 2008  | What!? Microsoft didn't deliver on all of its promises! Well isn't that new and different. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 648 Joined: 29 Jun 2009  | Wow, actually buying stuff for your Avatar with real money? I find that concept quite pointless. It would be like paying the Escapist to have your Avatar on display. absolutely pointless and shows that Micro$oft are just bigger money grabbers than we knew. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1858 Joined: 20 Mar 2008  | So....is Canada getting this or not? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2686 Joined: 19 Feb 2009    |
and this is why I wish to kill Microsoft alltogether I mean in europe as in real Europe cuz england is getting the SKY feature We're missing out ON EVERYTHING it's like keeping a starving dog next to a case of meat which he never can open but always will smell |
Wordsmith Extraordinaire  Posts: 12046 Joined: 12 Jul 2009    | Hmm... buying clothes... only if the Hitman Suit is there. |
On the Record  Posts: 5177 Joined: 16 May 2008 | didn't we already have a dashboard update this year? Or was that late last year? it wasn't long ago, I know that. |
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Preview: Xbox Dashboard Update
The Escapist previews the Xbox Dashboard update set to go live this Monday.
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