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


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mathachew and zach, thanks for the info - so i suppose the black bars are normal. that's weird, on 1280X720 it fills the screen, then native resolutions to the TV gets black bars. ok, it'll do. either way the graphics look better somehow, and the interface itself, i.e the NXE, is much sharper looking than the previous dashboard.

I know for a fact that there will be game-specific accessories for your Avatar, but I'm not sure if those will be 'unlockable' or sold. I would tend to say both as Gamerpics were as well (I remember PDZ had unlockable Gamerpics). I think all you had to do to unlock them was play the game, but still, it could easily be expanded to incorporate achievement getting.

I'm not hugeeee on achievements or buying items so what I'd personally prefer is just a redemption code you get when you buy the game. Let all owners of the title make use of the unique items whether they get the achievements or not. Maybe let people who don't buy the game or do so second hand buy the same content for a few hundred points.

I'm guessing they will use redemption codes at least for some games special editions at least in the same fashion they do for weapon unlocks already.

What's "Twins" about them?

Some share beard or hair and that's it

QFT.

There's always gonna be so many people who have the same hair cuts, hell people in RL want to have the same hair do as a celebrity. It doesn't make half the population look like twins though :p

I think they're about as different as you'll be able to make them. Really you'd see alot more variety with something like an Oblivion character builder where you can shape and resize 50 different thing's but thats probably an unnecessary over complication for these avatars.

I would like some additional hair styles but.

The idea for achievement avatar stuff is great, but knowing MS greed and all, I kinda highly doubt it!

They DON'T want to give stuff away for Free!

Soon, MS will Sell a lot of extra packs, to make $$$, you know it.

I will probably not buy them much, maybe a few, at most.

I will Refuse to give in to Microtransactions, I HATE it!!!

The idea for achievement avatar stuff is great, but knowing MS greed and all, I kinda highly doubt it!

They DON'T want to give stuff away for Free!

Soon, MS will Sell a lot of extra packs, to make $$$, you know it.

I will probably not buy them much, maybe a few, at most.

I will Refuse to give in to Microtransactions, I HATE it!!!

Or maybe they do want to give stuff away for free.

-Spenser

Microsoft has already stated that the upcoming packs will be FREE.

Microsoft has already mentioned that their ultimate vision is to have games unlock special items as rewards that you can show off.

That sounds good to me...

Well, the fine print clearly say the only first few waves... then later in future it's going to cost you!

In other words, anything actually good WILL cost you!

I will See to that they give Free avatar clothings from game Achievements, that would be Nice if it's believable at all! I HOPE so!!!

Well, the fine print clearly say the only first few waves... then later in future it's going to cost you!

In other words, anything actually good WILL cost you!

I will See to that they give Free avatar clothings from game Achievements, that would be Nice if it's believable at all! I HOPE so!!!

Your second statement is in no way implied by the first.

-Spenser

No it will not work, the ways of getting WiFi to the Xbox 360 is with the adaptor or the laptop trick.
Does anyone know if you can install Xbox games with the NXE update?

Was gonna borrow Shenmue 2 off a friend, as I've never played it.

I just inserted an Xbox game and no such option appeared, so it doesn't look like it.

Perhaps I missed it or it has been discussed, but I'd like the option of changing colors of clothes etc...that would add quite a bit of variations to the avatars. Liking the hard drive installation option so far - upgraded to a 60GB drive to accommodate future games...Red Alert 3 seems like it took 30 minutes to install, while Fallout 3 was less than 10, although I wasn't timing it.

nice update but my console somehow takes an extra 3-5 seconds to boot up

Boot up to where? My console takes longer to start up, but thats because it doesn't load the dashboard until you've connected to Live.... where as before you got to the and you could try and do stuff but the Dash would reload when it signed you in.

I have a launch console (I know, I know - I always keep my fingers crossed!) and run my 360 to my HDTV via VGA for the DVD upconversion. Question I have is does anyone else have a long delay - about 5-7 seconds - after turn on for a picture to come up? Is this simply due to the handshake between the VGA and the TV?

Yeah mine takes a couple of seconds to sign in to live so you can't do anything for a little while when you fuirst start up but thats no biggy.

What I don't like is that avatars on friends take a while to load for me sometimes (probably my slow net connection) and also to do with the friends feature. If a friend is in a party then you have to wait for their speech bubble to come up before you know which of your friends is in the party - since I can't recognise my friends list by their avatar characters alone!

What is a party anyway, I must admit I havn't used them and don't completely understand :s

Do you just team up on the dash then when you go to multiplayer games you are all in the lobby together, whereas before in halo 3 for example you would have to invite to each individual game, i.e. in Halo 3. if so i don't get it, why is that so great?!

sod all this pretty avatar guff, let my kid use Messenger with the ?25 messenger keyboard I bought her last frigging chrimbo that has been gathering sodding dust for the past 11 months.

please.

I'm still finding it incredibly slow (on a 20Mb connection), especially when it is loading information on downloads etc (IE latest games/movies etc) it can take around 30 seconds or so for the information to appear :( I also hate the fact that it lists everything by popularity as default, I would prefer the default to be latest first but I see nowhere that I can change this :(

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