Join Joystiq's Avatar Look-a-Like Contest

by Justin McElroy on Nov 19th 2008 8:30AM

It's NXE launch day, and those of us who've been in for a while have been eagerly anticipating seeing everyone's avatars. If you bear a striking resemblance to your newly-minted doppelganger, not only do we want to see it, we want to share it with the world! So, here's what you do.

1. Visit this link, but switch out "XXXXX" with your gamertag.
2. Send a pic of your avatar (not just the link) and a pic of yourself (or both in the same image) to joystiqblog aat gmail dawt com with the subject line "NXE Avatar Contest."
3. Keep checking this gallery to see if you made the cut.
4. Digg the post to further your stardom.

We'll be putting the best look-a-likes up throughout the day. What's the prize, you ask? How about fame, how does that grab you? No? Well then, how about immortality? Yeah, we thought so.

[Update: We've got more images, it's just taking the gallery below a bit to update. So go here and just start clicking through to see everything.

Update 2: Hey gang. The servers seem to be slow, so please don't send us the link to your avatar but rather the actual file. And if you can put them both into one image it'd be a big help.]

Joystiq's Avatar Look-a-Like Contest

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Reader Comments (91)

i'm agrivated so far with avatars, no black baseball cap, only plain t-shirts available are white and a light almost baby blue, and have to wait till spring to download new clothes GAY, i'm going back to gamer pics.

Wha- what? You didnt get the Master Chief Suit like the rest of us? Or the fall line up from Nike Sporting goods? Hrm, i'd call MS support if i were you.

*wink wink @ the rest of us*
;)

Ahh the internet. Home to millions of insecure little 12 year olds.

i'm far from 12, almost 30 actually, i just expected more of the basics to be available, and if not there would always be downloads. i somehow missed the news that there would be no downloaded attire till spring, just irritated me is all, bad day as is so far had to take day out of work cuz lil one is sick, and i was like hey atleast i can make my avatar and that didnt go as well as planned

Eh, consider yourselves lucky, my xbox died the day before the NXE came out.

I don't understand what the big aversion is towards Avatars. Like, really, do they prevent you from playing games? Or enjoying your Xbox in any other myriad of ways?

You should've just let everyone think you're 12. Still calling things "gay" when you're almost 30 is way more embarrassing.

I just wish you could change the color of the clothes you have. I found a pair of look-a-like chuck t's but they were green and white! my color's usually classic or black and red.

Oh wow....you're almost 30. Neato! Now your hissy fit sounds so much more mature. Seriously, you are crying over t-shirt colors in a game console. You must have more important issues to deal with.

But can you pop your collar?

Yeah, this collar's popped. Because I'm the fuckin' man, and everyone should know it.

Meh

Talk to me when your avatar bangs Trixie360's "imaginary" avatar. She sent me a message this morning...
Mans gotta do what a mans gotta do.
* cockily rubs shiny apple on chest*
;)

Now ever since I can remember I been poppin' my collar.

Poppin' poppin' my collar, poppin' poppin' my collar.

thanks dark now i gotta sing it for the rest of the day :(

Now ever since I can remember I been workin' deez... nuts?

nnnnNNNNOOOOOOOooooooo

I'm downloading the update right now

I'm masturbating, but do I see fit to inform the internet of the most inane elements of my life?

Oh, wait.

This is a twitter gone bad.

This is a lot more awesome than a Twitter could ever be.

In fact, it's twice as awesome.

"no black baseball cap"

I haven't downloaded this yet, so may be a little off base, but you really look like you're reaching to bitch about something. That's got to be about the lamest complaint I've ever heard about anything.

That was meant for Blizz. I wasn't like talking to myself, well not today anyway.

why becouse they cant offer some of the most basic shit, cuz i dont want a camp baseball cap or a red one, they should of had all basic colors for baseball caps and t-shirts, if you think thats complaining to much than your just a fuckin retard

*camo

I hope I'm not the only fucking retard.

Hey!
*Looks in the mirror*
Just realized that...

Im a fucking retard!
*pumps fist*

I think more to the point, why the heck couldn't we change the colors of some of the items. For example: Why can't we take the Xbox Jersey item and make it's colors a little closer to our favorite team?

"T" thats what i thought at first too but then i thought bout how alot of the downloaded clothes creators would want to make a certain way and i'm sure it isnt worth the trouble programming it so you could have clothes you could change the color of with others you couldnt, but they really should of had download store for avatar clothes avaible day one thats really my biggest problem.

I can change the color of my skin, eyes, lips etc.

Why no clothes color changes?

I've gotten a Mii to look exactly like me, not so much for Xbox's avatars. Plus I hate Xbox's avatars. They are perfectly proportioned to maximize the look of stupid.

Is there really a way to go back to just gamer pics, or hide the avatars? I didn't see an option NOT to use an avatar after installing the new dashboard.

When creating an avatar, you don't need to do the step of creating a gamer picture for the avatar. Simply skip over this and your gamer picture will still be there.

I'm not upset by avatars, really, but I would have liked color customization on the clothes, or at the very least the ability to have a shirt with your gamerpic on it.

I must be the last guy in the world clinging to the Torchwood pic.

Yes, I am aware there are still gamer pics. And I am aware I don't have to have a gamer pic of my avatar if I don't want to.

What I want is to not have an avatar. Now I'm going to be forced to spend money on something, anything, that will obfuscate the irritating look of it since I can't opt out of it.

Don't get me wrong, I actually like the idea of having an avatar, I just think what they ended up looking like is...well. Rare worked on it, didn't they?

If you're "forced" to spend money to ignore it, you're ignoring it wrong.

the only thing i hate about the avatars are the way theyre standing, it just....doesnt look right, women stand that way, not men

BINGO!!!!!

Fucking Teh Ghey!

Would you rather have your avatar grabbing it's ankles?

That's actually the only thing that has been bothering me about the avatars.

ive been thinking the same thing too. but would you rather have your avatar scratching its balls every five seconds, and looking both ways before letting one relaxing fart out?

@ Rhamsey
Thats exactly what i would rather have him do. It would be my gamer pick for sure.

Damn those Avatars look pretty cool actually! Good job Stiq!

Agreed... Im either lazy or ugly because I cant really get my avatar to look like me.

Good job though.

meh, mine looks like me, and i think its pretty cool. i had to put +1 fat point though, cause im not fat, but im not just skin and bones.
wait, maybe ill sue microsoft because they made me feel "insecure" now where have i heard that before...
stupid girl suing Nintendo

Is that gay full monty-esque male dancer pose the default or did you pick that special?

Who knew Ludwig was so shrimpy!

I just installed the NXE, working on my avatar now.

I do have mine looking like me, I don't mind the Avatars at all, and I'm a 34 year old gamer. They are far less "kiddie" than the Miis. How would one get the picture from your Xbox to your PC? Just curious...

http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/schwal/avatar-body.png

but replace schwal with your gamertag.

I haven't been keeping up with this whole thing at all, but every time I see images for it, I can't help but feel unnerved at the fact that all the discussed avatars hold the exact same pose - the stance one takes whilst attempting to coax that errant piece of boxer fabric to drop out of one's ass crack.

sent mine in. it looks sort of like me. my mii looks more like me though.

plus if mine gets posted, everyone can see me looking dapper in my Illusion of Gaia t-shirt.

DONE!

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