Has Microsoft's insipid MS Points system left you with some spare fake cash that is utterly useless on its own? Good! Some new Avatar gear is hitting Xbox Live Marketplace today, allowing gamers with too much money and not enough sense the opportunity to wear Alan Wake or Perfect Dark themed clothing.
It's almost as if you are paying Microsoft for the privilege of advertising its games. Amazing!
I'm astounded Microsoft continues with this stuff. That must mean Avatar stuff actually sells really well, and that's just terrible. Who are the insane troglodytes who buy that stuff!?
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8:40 AM on 03.18.2010
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What are you doing with your life? WAKE UP!
much better.
I think you're confusing it with James Camero's Avatar. The logical answer to why MS keeps making Avatar clothing is because it cost a penny to make.
http://www.miwiki.net/images/thumb/Stan_SMISE.jpg/250px-Stan_SMISE.jpg
How can you not think this is awesome?
Unfortunately, most everything on the avatar marketplace is awful. These shirts aren't even creative, they are literally shirts with ads on them.
That's pretty much t-shirts in general, though. Although, I would buy an NES t-shirt for my avatar in a second, if only for the surrealism of it all.
yes, i'm still bitter about them canning the PC version.
So you can but an Alan wake t-shirt for your avatar but still no game??????? Fu%#*+g rubish!!!!
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Surely Xboxers are used to shit like this by now right?
MS = All show, no go. All style no substance, all hype no bite. Form over function. etc. etc.
Dont see what the fuss is about and why folk are getting riled up about it. Its a bit of fun....you know, the kind of stuff games are about....fun, good times? No? Oh well, was worth a shot.
Sexy tell me you're not implying Sony has never pulled promo stuff like this before on PSN, Home, or anywhere else.
There are worse things to waste your money on.
Listen MS, make a Force Unleashed sequel, add unlockable Darth Vader or Sith outfits for your avatar (when you get 50% of cheevos for instance), see 360 platform sales spike upon release. Then notice a sharp decline in sales past the first week and a large stack of 2nd hand copies, but let's just forget about that part for now, shall we?
Never mind all the free Resident Evil 5 statuettes that litter my coffee table and floor of my 'on the harbour' apartment.
My Avatar is like a mini version of me EXCEPT IT CAN HAVE TITS IF I WANT IT TO.
So you stopped playing an entire console because of doll clothing?
Pardon me, but you are a fucking idiotm
What most of the idiots commenting need to remember here is that when you grow up, mommy doesn't give you an allowance anymore so you have to get this magickal thing called a *gasp* job. And when you have said job, you sometimes have *wait for it* Disposable Income! Shocking, I know! If for one fucking second you are fooling yourself that videogames are a necessity, then you are already a lost cause(read: idiot).
I bought the Big Daddy helmet for my 360 avatar, a Street Fighter 4 outfit for my Home avatar and guess what; the sky didn't fall!!1 GTFO.
I still love you though, Jim.
Your comment is hilarious, considering all the hype and marketing Sony does for Gran Turismo 5.
"MS = All show, no go. All style no substance, all hype no bite. Form over function. etc. etc."
MS isn't really known for it's style, hype or form. That's more what Apple is about, they make tons of different applications too, so saying that goes for all of MS doesn't make sense. Saying Powershell or MS Project is any of those isn't right
So calm the fuck down yall :V. If you don't like doll clothes, don't buy em. I buy select stuff because I like the look of it. Like the Ishimura crew shirt, it even has the life bar gauge thing on the back.