The Wonderful World of Avatar Props
Some kind of Dashboard update was rolled out yesterday. I don’t know, I wasn’t paying too much attention. I have noticed, however, we can now purchase clothes and props for our Avatars. Personally, I’ve never payed much attention to my Avatar (as cute as she is with her red locks and leopard print trousers), but there has been one feature I’ve always yearned for, feeling my Avatar has been somewhat incomplete without it. I’m so glad Microsoft have now taken it into account and appropriately addressed it. ‘It’ being giant cotton buds, of course. What did you think I was talking about?!
Screw the camera prop, screw the guitar prop. Nothing says more about me than an oversized Q-tip. Fact. Unfortunately I’m a bit tight for cash these days, with any pennies going towards my soon-to-launch business. Therefore I couldn’t quite stretch to the 160 Microsoft points asked of me. Damn! I guess my Avatar will just have to settle for dirty ears, though her sailor hat does a good job of covering them up.
Seriously though, I wish Microsoft would address other issues that a lot of gamers feel strongly about. Take the matter regarding downloadable content Achievements, or the suggestion I made about the introduction of an age filter on Xbox Live, or even Microsoft ironing out the predominantly useless XBL feedback system. To me, these issues scream urgency more so than cotton buds. But maybe that’s just me.
I know a lot of people are stoked at the ever expanding wardrobe our Avatars are able to dip in and out of, and there are some fun additions; I would love to kit CandyStoreRock out in one of the Splinter Cell outfits. The Scot in me, however, is screaming “No, not 400 Microsoft Points. We’re half way to buying Monkey Island!”. And then I remember, video games is why I bought my Xbox 360, not fashion, and certainly not cotton swabs.
Hmm. Uhh. Yeah. Skyrim. It’s massive. The quests are never-ending. My character has a mohawk. My class is Breton. Don’t
Alshie