This.

http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/z1...vatar-body.png

ballin

http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/IS...vatar-body.png
THAT LOOKS NOTHING LIKE ME.

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I appear trendier here than I actually may be.

http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/le...vatar-body.png

may not be entirely factually accurate (they have no "receding hairline w/ short hair" version)

Quoting from more than a month ago, but this is EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED TO ME. My 2nd box is currently in limbo pleading to Microsoft gods for a prompt resurrection. :(

From what I've been hearing, these new Avatars don't have as much customization as the Mii counterparts. Yea, that sucks. It's probably entirely too soon to ask, but has anyone heard anything about when new stuff will be getting added?

My main question is - How are the animations? Can you actually choose actions, similar to Fable/Saints Row 2, or do they just have random animations for when your person is idling? I'd love to be able to flick people off or pull a thriller move on friends in a party mode.

It's just random movements. The only things you can set are face, hair, and clothes.

I noticed on the Friends channel that you can click the right stick which makes them wave, move it left to right (as if shaking their head) to make an unhappy face, and move it up and down to make them smile.

I believe MS will be adding things over the next few months, at weekly intervals.

Or something.

you can also use the rb/lb in the avatar menu to change facial expressions

Giant nerd has arrived.

http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/Me...vatar-body.png

Also:

http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/Me...vatarpic-l.png

Anyone else notice that slight transparency filter at the top of everyone's avatar-based gamerpics? I think they meant for it to apply on the background only, but instead it ended up doing it over the top half of everything. I went with the white background only because it made it less noticable.

http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/Wh...vatarpic-l.png

Fuck yeah she'll bite your dick off. SHARK TEETH.

I managed to make my avatar smack his face on the inside of my tv by wiggling the right stick up and down. It was pretty funny.

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Cash rules everything around me, cream get the money, etc.

Enjoy it before I switch myself for some random anime character.

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I wasn't aware Tails was a member of the Mod Squad.

What? All I've ever gotten him to do is smile as I make him nod yes.

I don't have a 360 yet but I sometime play on my friend's console so I have a silver account. I let her create my avatar and here it is:
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pretty good since it really look like me :)

Anybody else have their box flip out on them after loading up one of the little Spotlight or Inside Event (I think that's what its called) videos? I was browsing around to kill some time and there was one on Gears that locked my shit up after playing. Extremely amusing.

I've not encountered that issue yet. The only time it's frozen on me has been when backing out having viewed someone on the new friends list, though it was only a temporary freeze eventually coming back to life.

Speaking of the new friends list, there's a thing with it I've noticed that irks me a little, purely because it makes no sense to me. When you navigate to the friends list, certainly for the first time, the new dashboard goes away and starts loading people's avatars. This isn't instantaneous and can take a few seconds, and for some reason it starts with the very end of your friends list, meaning when you have quite a few people on your list it can take some time until it eventually loads the people at the front, the online people and parties, i.e. the ones you're most interested in seeing right from the off. This strikes me as incredibly backwards. Probably shouldn't annoy me, but it does a little.

That's odd. I've always had it load from the start. It does sometimes take a while to load up people's avatars though. I end up staring at name bubbles for a few minutes.

No, you're talking about the same thing as me. Next time you load your 360 and go to your friends list, look at the right most people, their Avatars will load in first, I bet you.

Ended up getting a Hori EX2 arcade stick for the 360 so that I can play fighting games and not have to suffer the 360's horrid d-pad. It's taking a little getting used to, but straight off the bat it's proving to be a better choice than the 360 pad. It's nice actually holding a direction and the character moving in it, not randomly jumping or crouching because the pad thinks I'm pressing a diagonal or some shit.

Unfortunately I'm still not that great at SSF2THDR, but slowly (very slowly) improving.

Is that the same Controller Stick that they had available for Skills Ace Combat 6 fans? Or is it that one that looks like an actual coin-slottan Arcade game?

The stick from AC6 was called the "ACE EDGE", which was really just a recolour of the FLIGHTSTICK 2, so no. It's not the same stick there.

Playing Street Fighter with a flight stick would be kinda...uhh...weird, don't you think?

That's what I thought, so I wanted to make sure :)