E308: Avatar clothing could be unlocked using game achievements

I don't know, there are an awful lot of free gamerpics on the marketplace, hopefully the situation continues with avatars. And hopefully games will include free ones, like some games include gamerpics.

It doesn't take long or cost much to get an artist to make a bunch of gamerpics though.

These are 3D and require a 3D artist to make clothing and accessories for.

You can bet your bottom dollar that M$ is going to charge for better looking clothing and accessories.

Agreed.

I agree. They look too close to Nintendo's Miis. But they aren't as complex as Sony's Home avatars.

I'd like to see something a little more in-between rather then closer to the Miis.

That's a great idea.

I was just thinking that. But yeah it sounds pretty cool. =P

Word.

Actually, we don't have to define "Hardcore" to determine that Avatars will clearly stand in the way of Hardcoreness. Just by the pure fact that these Avatars don't appear to be a side feature of the interface- they will pervade every aspect of the new features we ACTUALLY want like the party system, dash redesign, etc -we will spend less time being whatever a hardcore gamer is and more time making sure our stupid Avatars are up to snuff. I think that's what hits so centrally to this issue: we consider the 360 to be the hardcore console because it has been so committed to the gaming experience, which is what we care about more than surfing the web or hooking up to an iPod or whatever else (though it does these other things well). Now, it looks as though they are abandoning that position to draw in casual gamers, which draws casual games, which makes less space and room for the hardcore games that brought us all to this console that are hardly casual, hardly family friendly and whose Live experiences will include insults to your origin, race, sexuality, color preference, family, future family, choice of vehicle (or lack thereof), and anything else that can be mocked. And you know what? We LIK it that way. Leave it alone, improve it, but don't trade a good thing for a mediocre thing just because that's what everyone else is going after.

Rant over.

I agree 100 percent with Eddie. I don't want to play with a bunch of tards that get offended if I say fuck during a game of uno.

xXxSnipaGanstaKilla420xXx yea... with a gamertag like that a Jar Jar shirt is whats going to make him "UNCOOL" enough for you to take him off your friends list?

yikes that was supposes to say *Will I...*