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Oh look, another sacastic article from Jim Sterling. We get it Jim you have opinions that people should not blame video games for violence and that you also have the skill to write a sarcastic article about different gaming ideas that haven't worked so well. I'm just wondering if you have any talents.
"Oh look, another sacastic article from Jim Sterling. We get it Jim you have opinions that people should not blame video games for violence and that you also have the skill to write a sarcastic article about different gaming ideas that haven't worked so well. I'm just wondering if you have any talents."
Do you?
Do you?
"Oh look, another sacastic article from Jim Sterling. We get it Jim you have opinions that people should not blame video games for violence and that you also have the skill to write a sarcastic article about different gaming ideas that haven't worked so well. I'm just wondering if you have any talents."
I'm better than you.
Not too sure that it required talent though.
I'm better than you.
Not too sure that it required talent though.
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So people reading the article can digg it if they enjoyed reading it, hopefully attracting more readers. I wish Destructoid had one of those Digg buttons on all its articles.
So people reading the article can digg it if they enjoyed reading it, hopefully attracting more readers. I wish Destructoid had one of those Digg buttons on all its articles.
I actually take that back. I really do think Jim is a talented writer. However, every time I see an article it's just sarcastic. I want to know what he would really do to improve avatars if he had to. I started reading this article thinking it was going to be interesting but instead its another joke article that are popping a lot recently on Destructoid. I first started using Destructoid as my gaming website of choice because it was updated frequently and the writers were a little more laid back about video games. That doesn't seem to be the case recently. It seems like the jokes are constant with the writers here. I usually find more interesting articles in the blog section on this website from users in the monthly writing. Yet, I come to the main page and it's joke central. I guess I really don't care over all because I'm only just another poster on the internet, but if it's a community that's built for the hardcore gamer (or whatever the old slogan used to be) you would expect a little perspective. Oh I almost forgot. Hardy har har.
maxbraff:
Thank you for the proper criticism, now I feel I can have a discussion with you.
First of all, the obvious answer is that you don't have to read it. We try and provide a range of content on Dtoid and we update every twenty minutes on a weekday and every hour on a weekend so there should always be something different from you.
I think you overestimate how many joke articles there. I personally do a lot, and of course people should come to expect that because that's one of my principal roles on Destructoid, to try and entertain. Even then, I try and do different stuff. The last two articles I wrote prior to this one were quite sincere and serious. I did one on Trophies and one on the role of gaming bloggers. Check out our Dtoid Originals tab on the frontpage. It has a list of our original features, where there is a healthy range.
I'm sure you'll find plenty of variety.
Thank you for the proper criticism, now I feel I can have a discussion with you.
First of all, the obvious answer is that you don't have to read it. We try and provide a range of content on Dtoid and we update every twenty minutes on a weekday and every hour on a weekend so there should always be something different from you.
I think you overestimate how many joke articles there. I personally do a lot, and of course people should come to expect that because that's one of my principal roles on Destructoid, to try and entertain. Even then, I try and do different stuff. The last two articles I wrote prior to this one were quite sincere and serious. I did one on Trophies and one on the role of gaming bloggers. Check out our Dtoid Originals tab on the frontpage. It has a list of our original features, where there is a healthy range.
I'm sure you'll find plenty of variety.
They should come up with their own ideas for one.
Not the avatars, Microshaft.
Cartoon avatars - Nintendo did it.
Realistic HD avatars, with a Home, which is quickly filling up with interesting stuff - sorry fellas, Sony beat you to it.
Home could do with linking your avatar to your gaming a bit more, and i totally agree on the whole, getting stuff for avatars by beating games thing.
I actually went back into home for a little while at the weekend, played some Chess, checked out the new houses that i'm not spending £4 on and watched some Star Trek trailers. Meh. It's vaguely interesting though, the EA space is sweet, I'm liking the Poker. They say far more spaces comeing over the next 3-5 weeks too - WINNER.
Apart from that, suck my balls Jim, you're teh Ghey. ;) Seriously, this was vaguely entertaining. Makes a nice change.
Not the avatars, Microshaft.
Cartoon avatars - Nintendo did it.
Realistic HD avatars, with a Home, which is quickly filling up with interesting stuff - sorry fellas, Sony beat you to it.
Home could do with linking your avatar to your gaming a bit more, and i totally agree on the whole, getting stuff for avatars by beating games thing.
I actually went back into home for a little while at the weekend, played some Chess, checked out the new houses that i'm not spending £4 on and watched some Star Trek trailers. Meh. It's vaguely interesting though, the EA space is sweet, I'm liking the Poker. They say far more spaces comeing over the next 3-5 weeks too - WINNER.
Apart from that, suck my balls Jim, you're teh Ghey. ;) Seriously, this was vaguely entertaining. Makes a nice change.
sexualchocolate- nothing you say really matters because you are going to declare sony the winner no matter what the contest.
The ability to change the color of each article of clothing would be a nice enough addition. It's kind of sad that you have to hope for something that should have been fucking obvious.
How about every console comes with Second Life? That way there would no reason for avatars, Miis, or Homies.
What it really comes down to is this:
Sony has made a point to their avatars. They appear in Home and that is there virtual world. The gamer doesn't have to participate in this "world," but if they do then they have options for their avatar that should keep them entertained for a while. Whether it's building your home or visiting others, there are options and things to do none the less. Nintendo has done the same. Having an avatar isn't required but perks come with this. The avatars show up in games and you can make unlimited amounts of them. Once again, if you make your avatar, it has its perks. Then there is Microsoft which has its avatars. It seems like the extreme here. As you have to make an avatar, and their are perks like they will appear in games and they can become your gamer picture, there is no place to show off your avatar or send them to friends to visit other avatars "places." Xbox avatars are the weakest because they live in their own worlds. Just your Xbox. That is the hinderance I guess with all online game. It's just your console. Perhaps one day we can pop a disc in our consoles and have a friend join us, reguardless if he has the game or not, but that dream is years away (all though they can do it on the DS locally). But I digress. What Xbox needs to do with their avatars is to make those teaser pictures (which are no doubtly coming as updates to the dashboard) reality. Where I can visit my gamerspace and make an avatar for my gamerspace if I want. Other people can visit my gamerspace if they want and I can deck-out my space as much as I want. Expansion is what Xbox needs and I am sure they know already and are already working on that idea. Soon people will have the idea in the past. It's like giving Nintendo credit for including a joystick on their controllers. People say:
"Nintendo did it first."
Well yes they did, but that's not entirely true. Gaming concepts have been done first some where one place or the other, but people will learn to have to not brag about a console. Literally who cares. Go outside and mow your lawn (weird ending I know, but what else should those f*cking idiots do? We all know they live with their mom).
Sony has made a point to their avatars. They appear in Home and that is there virtual world. The gamer doesn't have to participate in this "world," but if they do then they have options for their avatar that should keep them entertained for a while. Whether it's building your home or visiting others, there are options and things to do none the less. Nintendo has done the same. Having an avatar isn't required but perks come with this. The avatars show up in games and you can make unlimited amounts of them. Once again, if you make your avatar, it has its perks. Then there is Microsoft which has its avatars. It seems like the extreme here. As you have to make an avatar, and their are perks like they will appear in games and they can become your gamer picture, there is no place to show off your avatar or send them to friends to visit other avatars "places." Xbox avatars are the weakest because they live in their own worlds. Just your Xbox. That is the hinderance I guess with all online game. It's just your console. Perhaps one day we can pop a disc in our consoles and have a friend join us, reguardless if he has the game or not, but that dream is years away (all though they can do it on the DS locally). But I digress. What Xbox needs to do with their avatars is to make those teaser pictures (which are no doubtly coming as updates to the dashboard) reality. Where I can visit my gamerspace and make an avatar for my gamerspace if I want. Other people can visit my gamerspace if they want and I can deck-out my space as much as I want. Expansion is what Xbox needs and I am sure they know already and are already working on that idea. Soon people will have the idea in the past. It's like giving Nintendo credit for including a joystick on their controllers. People say:
"Nintendo did it first."
Well yes they did, but that's not entirely true. Gaming concepts have been done first some where one place or the other, but people will learn to have to not brag about a console. Literally who cares. Go outside and mow your lawn (weird ending I know, but what else should those f*cking idiots do? We all know they live with their mom).
I think that a wider variety of hairstyles, face, and clothes would be a major improvement, but Avatars having sex with each other? :P
I thought you'd be able to incorporate them into arcade games and such, like with the Wii, bu they don't do shit but wave their upper torso around. Useless. I think they should make an interactive mini-spore like world that looks like the opening cinematic from the NXA or was that the NXE thingy when you get the upgrade from the blades, a weird morphing world that each area would be an emphasis on different senses, well, at least with the likes of sounds, visual, textural, and have the avatar evolve through the process. Sorry, I've said too much already.
Mr Jim Sterling is a retarded fanboy, capable of making his bias totally aware in all his writing.
I'm an Xbox guy, prefer it to ALL console gaming - But Jim here is just wrong on so many levels.
Just something to note - WII HAD AVATARS FIRST, THEY WERE CALLED MII'S
Microsoft COPIED Mii's.
Ok Jim? Microsoft didn't start off the new craze. Those little "waggle box" owners did. Retard.
I'm an Xbox guy, prefer it to ALL console gaming - But Jim here is just wrong on so many levels.
Just something to note - WII HAD AVATARS FIRST, THEY WERE CALLED MII'S
Microsoft COPIED Mii's.
Ok Jim? Microsoft didn't start off the new craze. Those little "waggle box" owners did. Retard.
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