Microsoft has launched a new feature on its Web site called Free Your Avatar, which allows gamers to import their Avatars and then create wallpapers and other pointless images for their own sick amusement. There must be a reason they'd want to do this, but I cannot quite work it out yet.
According to Microsoft, this service "will include a host of screensavers, wallpapers and festive cards to use as backgrounds, giving people the opportunity to get creative and have fun with the avatars." I believe this will be the first time we've actually HAD this opportunity to be creative and fun with the twee bastards. Not that I'd use either of those two words to really describe this glorified dress-me-up drag n' drop chicanery.
Well, whatever, nobody's making us use it. I just wish Microsoft would work on doing something that is actually worthwhile for these gormless little f*ckpuppets that silently haunt my 360's friends list.
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8:44 AM on 12.15.2008
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Also microsoft wanted to get a jump on there avatar porn site since the "free your willy" site was taken and the site is all a fake façade to hide the avatar porn.
I'm not too proud to admit that I am actually making one for my girlfriend right now.
I think I'm going to need about 6 straight hours of Gears to get my manhood back.
I think I would actually pay to see my avatar chainsawing a grub in half - that's the kind of premium theme they should be pushing.
They could have addressed the issue first off by allowing you to chose gender. It's not just the pose, but the general animation style that is pretty much feminine.
Fucking thanks for that, whoever at Microsoft set about this fisher price garbage in the first place.
Fine lovin'.
You're either lying or a sad fucking freak.
From what you all are saying, I may be one lucky son of a gunn.
Nothing sad about not liking this shit.
Wow, calm down - at the end of the day it's a game system and the games haven't changed. The interface changes just change how you get to the same features that have always been in there. In fact now the 360 has even more of a reason to be in the living room with the netflix application.
That aside you USA peeps need to remember you are the only ones who have NetFlix. At all. I watch very few films, and can pick them up on BluRay if one is to my taste.
I feel like I have been forced to wear a t-shirt with a pony and rainbows on it by my favourite pub. Except the pub was the xbox, of course. And the pony is pathetic.
(I'll calm down now, as you suggest.)
That aside you USA peeps need to remember you are the only ones who have NetFlix. At all. I watch very few films, and can pick them up on BluRay if one is to my taste.
I feel like I have been forced to wear a t-shirt with a pony and rainbows on it by my favourite pub. Except the pub was the xbox, of course. And the pony is pathetic.
(I'll calm down now, as you suggest.)
The disparity between what US and Japan recieve vs. the rest of the world is an industry-wide epidemic. Digital distribution should break down these geographical barriers, but it is ironically subject to the worst cases of region locking.
lol my thoughts exactly.
Well, Miis started the same way, so who knows, maybe in a couple of months we'll have a Check-My-Avatar-Out option...