[Official] New Xbox Experience (or Fall 2008 Update)

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I definitely noticed a difference stifler just when GOW2 booted up besides not hearing a loud roar. :p

lol. Yeah the noise doesn't generally bother me. I'm trying it with GTA4 since that game does a load for every mission you do, so I feel like the cost-benefit (with a 20GB HDD) will be better than with a game like GoW2 that only loads once for the whole campaign and once or twice more for MP.

/edit - I love how, despite the fact that it's installing a 6.8GB game, the Xbox Guide still loads up everything as if nothing's going on at all. Awesome.

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lol. Yeah the noise doesn't generally bother me. I'm trying it with GTA4 since that game does a load for every mission you do, so I feel like the cost-benefit (with a 20GB HDD) will be better than with a game like GoW2 that only loads once for the whole campaign and once or twice more for MP.

-Spenser

Noise was one thing, but it definitely smoothed things out in certain parts of GOW2 when at times before the HD install, things were jumpy (framerate a little iffy).

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I quite like the angle I got for my gamerpic.

I almost went with something like that but I had to zoom out to get the bowler hat in there.

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I think the wii avatar system is a whole more robust.

In what way? The only thing the 360 avatars seem to be missing is the ability to resize different features of the face. They remedy that, however, by giving differently-sized features to begin with. The 360 avatars far outmatch the Miis, in my opinion at least.

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Kind of glad they did that. Why would you want to spend time with that anyways? That feature will be played with and overlooked for the rest of the time.

Only a day and some odd hours away from the launch.

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I have to say congratulations to everyone that has made it in first of all. Second of all, I am deeply impressed with the performance of the NXE after using it for a couple of days. Great work Microsoft! This and Windows 7 both show me that Microsoft is finally going to make the apple and sony fanboys eat their words! LOL. :) Btw, here is my avatar:

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BajiRav

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Damn. I updated over an hour ago and was playing with it. It is definitely faster than the old dash.

Couple of things,

- Is it possible to boot into My Xbox instead of Spotlight?

- Did anyone notice that the video playback controls have really bad aliasing to them?

- Parties not working yet?

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Loving the speed (Y)

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In what way? The only thing the 360 avatars seem to be missing is the ability to resize different features of the face. They remedy that, however, by giving differently-sized features to begin with. The 360 avatars far outmatch the Miis, in my opinion at least.

well, I think the resizing and relocating goes a whole way. I really do think the avatar choices are really limiting. For a person with very short hair and no facial hair, it's very hard for me to find something close that doesn't look generic on this system. On wii, I was very satisfied with the choices I was given.

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Man I had to break into public storage (they close after 9 pm) and steal my own 360 from my own storage space. Anyway got it installed and viola installing COD:W@W right now.

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BTW I had 2 360, I put one in storage since I am moving to new city.

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well, I think the resizing and relocating goes a whole way. I really do think the avatar choices are really limiting. For a person with very short hair and no facial hair, it's very hard for me to find something close that doesn't look generic on this system. On wii, I was very satisfied with the choices I was given.

Yeah, I can agree that the choices are limiting. I think it will grow greatly once it's officially out though. At least I'm hoping, as I have short hair as well (check my profile pic) and I had to settle for somewhat longer hair.

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