Aren't you a little short to be an Avatar?

Today Microsoft released the new dashboard update to the public; bringing the new avatar marketplace along with it. When I first heard about this new feature about a month ago, I thought 'at least we can tell the retards apart from the normos'. Today, though, I found out I was a retard. A retard with a lightsaber though!! Everyone might of scoffed when it was announced but if you have a few Microsoft Points left and you are browsing the marketplace, the concept of begin Sam Fisher, Carmine or a Jedi is strangely compelling and I couldn't resist buying a lightsaber for 400ms. You can also unlock clothes in games, at the moment it is only Splosion Man but the list will grow and I can't wait till multiple Ezio's show up. Though it's not something you should buy Microsoft Points for, if you have a few after buying an Arcade game or an Add-On, it's worth a look in. Especially if you have the desire of carrying a giant cotton bud around.

Thanks Jamie but I can take it from here. With my xbox 360 dodging the bullet three times and then finally dying a dignified death, I have had to make use of substitutes. The Wii has been this substitute twice. First time it was great just because of the novelty, but hook it up to a 32inch HDTV and it becomes different beast: an ugly one. We all know that SD sources look awful in HD but why does the Wii take it to another level. My old xbox looks better! Second time round I bought resident evil 4 to play and I nearly collapsed at it's foulness on the Wii. The same happened with Zelda and Quantum of Solace. Did Nintendo think "Mmm we could charge them a bit more for a dvd drive and a better graphics chip. No what we'll do is use a CD drive and get a worse graphics card than the gamecube so we can get more console sales but no one will buy games. Wanna get some sushi now?" I would of happily bought Wii sports separately if it meant I could play fucking DVD's and I didn't have to throw up every time I went on my Wii! Rant to be continued...

Wii rant- shift change

Thanks Jamie but I can take it from here. With my xbox 360 dodging the bullet three times and then finally dying a dignified death, I have had to make use of substitutes. The Wii has been this substitute twice. First time it was great just because of the novelty, but hook it up to a 32inch HDTV and it becomes different beast: an ugly one. We all know that SD sources look awful in HD but why does the Wii take it to another level. My old xbox looks better! Second time round I bought resident evil 4 to play and I nearly collapsed at it's foulness on the Wii. The same happened with Zelda and Quantum of Solace. Did Nintendo think "Mmm we could charge them a bit more for a dvd drive and a better graphics chip. No what we'll do is use a CD drive and get a worse graphics card than the gamecube so we can get more console sales but no one will buy games. Wanna get some sushi now?" I would of happily bought Wii sports separately if it meant I could play fucking DVD's and I didn't have to throw up every time I went on my Wii! Rant to be continued...

Wii - Controller Layout

This the second and last rant about the wii and is about how dreadfull the layout of the wii controller is. For example, i recently played the "Ashes" on the wii, which invovles holding a or b whilst swinging to hit the ball. However, everytime someone held the a button and swung, they also pressed the + button, pausing the game. This stopping and starting really slowed the game down and made it nearly impossible to hit anything. This "accidental pressing" continued through the night and is hard to stop, as the natural hand position of holding the remote and pressing a trails the finger over the + button.

Wii - Connectivity

This is the first part of the two part blog of why the wii is miles behind every other console in even the simple things. Last night i had the task of connecting four wii controllers to my wii, seems simple enough eh? The first two were easy, as they connect automatically because they were mine, however, to connect the second pair a had to press the connect buttons. Right, if this was an xbox or a PS3 this would have took a matter of seconds and yet the wii took about 20 minutes. Why?! This long process involved getting three controllers connected and then, for some reason, the wii disconnecting all controllers making me start over. My question is, why can't people just learn to use a proper controller?

Battle of the Franchises

Once again, this 'fall' (as our american counterparts call autumn), two of the largest franchises of gaming go to battle once again. Modern Warfare 2 and Halo 3:ODST. Rather odd that COD4 & Halo 3 fought the same battle two years ago with MW achieving a tight victory through it's revolutionary multiplayer, not that halo's was anything less than stellar. I predict it will be the same result again and probably even more so as MW2 is an actual new game and ODST is a bit more of an expansion. Not to mention MW2 is released over the 2 major consoles and PC/Mac and already has a large fan base over all of these and plenty of people still playing online On COD4 and WaW. S'pose if COD loses they can always unleash 50 cent onto Bungie...

50 cent is going to war?

The rapper has given up a life of the streets in 50 cent bulletproof to fight a proper war in modern warfare 2. He will be one of the many voices in multiplayer and in spec ops modes and can be heard saying quotes like "Reloading", "Watch your fire", "I’m down, get me up!" and "Tango Down!" (whoa don't get carried away with those quotes fifty). Still nothing compared to jack bauer.....