Mr Believer

Personally, I'll make an avatar when my 360 is fixed. It's there, it's free, it's just a bit of fun. It'd be nice if the creation system was as detailed as something like Fallout 3 or Mass Effect, but I don't know how difficult that would be to implement. What worries me is how Microsoft are trying so hard to change the perception of the console. The cutesy nature of the avatars clearly isn't designed with the hardcore or core gaming audience in mind, who neither want or need this, by and large, and is clearly designed in such a way to appeal to the casual, expanded market that Nintendo has so successfully attracted to gaming. And I'm not paying for clothes, they should have unlockables with achievements, like how you could get different armour parts in Halo 3 for ranking up or completing the game on various difficulties. It's more interesting that way. I know I was impressed the first time I saw someone with a samurai sword in a Slayer match. You have to worry where they'll go from here...