Thursday, November 20, 2008

The New XBox Experience Sucks; Time for the PS3 to Step Up!

Microsoft unveiled their new XBox Experience yesterday, and outside of Netflix, it's really just the Nintendo Wii in 1080P.

To put it simply... I don't like it. I installed everything. I messed around with the avatar and created a silly little representation of myself. But it was nauseating. I wish it was optional.

This isn't indicative of what I want from my gaming experience.

I'm 25 years old. I have no children and I live alone. I like playing shooters and sports' games at obnoxious volumes. I don't want a little waving character representing me. My gamer picture was just fine.

Less was more.

And the Netflix thing is a sham. It sounded cool, but where are the good titles?

Log in to your Netflix accounts. I challenge you to find more than 100 things you really want to watch. And if you get close, I bet some of the better things will say "Not available on Xbox."

What? Why can't I watch The Tick? God, I feel robbed.

Now is the time for Sony to pounce! I know I'm not alone. I'm not the only adult that's annoyed with how his character stands and looks around.

If Sony wants to make a push at a competitive market, this is their chance. Don't fall into the family-friendly, casual gamer gimmick. Not all of us want to power up our consoles and see smiles and rainbows.

There's a reason I haven't played with the Nintendo Wii since the summer. It's simply too cute for my adult tastes. I only sit and giggle when my girlfriend is over.

I don't want the virtual-me looking around in an effeminate stance when I'm about to load up Gears of War 2. It's a ridiculous contrast.

I know Playstation Home is supposed to be similar with its own avatar experience, but at least it's not going to completely take over our systems.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

I agree, i installed it again, i like the new page menu format, but the avatar is annoying as hell

Kenny Johnson said...

I have 370 titles in my Netflix Instant Watch queue

Anonymous said...

I don't believe you! What did you find and where?

Kenny Johnson said...

I don't expect we have the same taste and I have a son and a wife, so there's also stuff for them, but:
30 Days of Night
30 Rock: Season 1
30 Rock: Season 2
8 Seconds
A Clockwork Orange
A Good Woman
A Streetcar Named Desire
A Time to Kill
A Very Long Engagement
Abbott & Costello Meet the Mummy
Air Gear
Air TV
Airline: Season 1
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 1
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 2
Alice Cooper: Brutally Live
Aliens: Collector's Edition
Aloha Scooby-Doo!
American Gothic: The Complete Series
An Evening with Kevin Smith
An Evening with Kevin Smith 2
Annie: Special Anniversary Edition
Apocalypto
Apollo 13
Appleseed: Ex Machina
Arranged
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State
Austin Powers 2
Ballykissangel: Series 1
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Battlestar Galactica: Complete Epic Series
Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown
Becoming Jane
Beethoven's 2nd
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Bella
Ben-Hur: Collector's Edition
Beverly Hills Ninja
Beverly Hills, 90210: Season 1
Big Trouble in Little China
Blade Runner: Theatrical & Director's Cut
Blink
Bob Marley: Heartland Reggae
Bob Marley: The Legend Live
Bonnie and Clyde
Bridge to Terabithia
Broken Arrow
Bullitt
By Dawn's Early Light
Carrier
Casablanca
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Cat Stevens: Majikat
Cautiva
Central Station
Charade
Chariots of Fire
China Cry
City of Men
Clay Pigeons
Cloak & Dagger
Coach: Season 1
Coach: Season 2
Coach: Season 3
Coach: Season 4
Coach: Season 5
Cocaine Cowboys
Conviction: The Complete Series
Cool Hand Luke
Coupling: Season 1
Coupling: Season 2
Coupling: Season 3
Coupling: Season 4
Cracking the Maya Code
Crash: Season 1
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Crimson Tide
Crossroads
CSI: NY: Season 5
CSI: Season 7
CSI: Season 8
CSI: Season 9
CSNY Déjà Vu
Dangerous Beauty
Das Boot
Day Watch
Dead Like Me: Season 1
Dead Like Me: Season 2
Dial M for Murder
Digging for the Truth: Season 1
Doctor Who: Season 1
Doctor Zhivago
Donnie Brasco
Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries: Carcase
Double Indemnity
Earth 2: The Complete Series
East of Eden: Special Edition
Easy Street
Egypt: Engineering an Empire
Elvis: A 50th Anniversary Celebration
Empire of the Sun
Empires: Martin Luther
Enchanted
Enter the Dragon: Special Edition
Fame
Fawlty Towers: The Complete Set
Fido
Flawless
Fly Away Home
Forbidden Planet
Friday Night Lights: Season 1
Friday Night Lights: Season 2
Frontline: Bush's War
Gadjo Dilo
Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
Gattaca
Geronimo: An American Legend
Ghost in the Shell: SAC: 2nd Gig
Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Ghost Rider
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters 2
Glory
Grindhouse: Death Proof
Grindhouse: Double Feature
Grindhouse: Planet Terror
Groundhog Day
Grumpy Old Men
Gun Sword
Happy Gilmore
Hellboy: Animated: Blood & Iron
Heroes: Season 1
Heroes: Season 2
Heroes: Season 3
High Fidelity
High Plains Drifter
Holiday
Holiday Inn
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
House of Cards
Imagine: John Lennon: Deluxe Edition
Imitation of Life
In Search of History: Navajo Code Talkers
In Search of Shakespeare
Innocent Voices
Inspector Lynley: For the Sake of Elena
It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown
Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire
Jazz
Jeremiah: Season 1
Jeremiah: Season 2
Jesus of Nazareth
JFK: Special Edition
John Wycliffe
Johnny Cash: Singing at His Best
Judgment at Nuremberg
Justice League: The New Frontier
Keeping Up Appearances
Kelly's Heroes
Ken Burns' America: Empire of the Air
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
Kiss of Death
Kurau Phantom Memory
La Vie en Rose
Last Exile
Law & Order: CI: The Fifth Year
Law & Order: CI: The First Year
Law & Order: CI: The Fourth Year
Law & Order: CI: The Third Year
Law & Order: Criminal Intent: Second Year
Law & Order: SVU: The Fifth Year
Law & Order: SVU: The First Year
Law & Order: SVU: The Fourth Year
Law & Order: SVU: The Second Year
Law & Order: SVU: The Seventh Year
Law & Order: SVU: The Sixth Year
Law & Order: SVU: The Third Year
Lean on Me
Legends of the Fall
Lethal Weapon
Lethal Weapon 2
Letters from Iwo Jima
Lewis and Clark: The Journey
Life in the Freezer
Little Britain: Series 1
Little Otik
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Love and Death
Lust, Caution
Macross Plus
Mad Money
Malcolm X
March of the Penguins
Martin Chuzzlewit
Matchstick Men
Matilda: Special Edition
Maxed Out
Mean Girls
Meet Bill
Meet the Robinsons
Methadonia
MI-5: Vol. 1
MI-5: Vol. 2
Middlemarch
Midway
Misery
Miss Marple: Collection 1
Modern Marvels: The Manhattan Project
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Much Ado About Nothing
NCIS: Season 6
Ned Kelly
NewsRadio: Seasons 1 and 2
Ninja Scroll
No Country for Old Men
Noein
North and South
Notting Hill
Numb3rs: Season 4
Numb3rs: Season 5
Of Mice And Men
Once Upon a Time in America
One Crazy Summer
One Love: The Bob Marley All-Star Tribute
One Night with the King
Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior
Operation Homecoming
Orson Welles' Don Quixote
Outsourced
Pan's Labyrinth
Paper Clips
Pink Panther Classic Cartoon Collection
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Places in the Heart
Pride and Prejudice
Promises
Psycho
Pusher 2: With Blood on My Hands
Quantum Leap: Season 1
Quantum Leap: Season 2
Quantum Leap: Season 3
Quantum Leap: Season 4
Quantum Leap: Season 5
Raw
Read or Die
Real Genius
Rebel Without a Cause: Special Edition
Red Dwarf: Series 1
Reign Over Me
Resident Evil: Extinction
Resurrecting the Champ
Richard Pryor: Here and Now
Rob Roy
Rough Science
Run Granny Run
Sam Kinison: Why Did We Laugh?
Scarface
SeaQuest 2032: Season 3
SeaQuest DSV: Season 1
SeaQuest DSV: Season 2
Sense and Sensibility
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Shanghai Noon
Shrooms
Silver Streak
Singin' in the Rain
Sliders: Season 3
Sliders: Season 4
Sliders: Season 5
Sliders: Seasons 1 and 2
Speaking Freely: Vol. 4: Chalmers Johnson
Spider-Man: New Animated Series: Season 1
Spirit Trap
Stand by Me
Steamboy
Stone Pillow
Sudden Impact
Superbad
Surface: The Complete Series
Surfwise
Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense
Taxi to the Dark Side
Team America: World Police
The Addams Family: Vol. 1
The Adventures of Milo and Otis
The Amazing Grace
The Beach Boys: Good Timin'
The Beguiled
The Blue Planet: Tidal Seas/Coasts
The Boondock Saints
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Caine Mutiny
The Conscientious Objector
The Contract
The Cowboys
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Devil Came on Horseback
The Devil's Advocate
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Dirty Dozen
The Doors: Live in Europe
The Duchess of Duke Street: Series 1
The Fifth Element
The Final Season
The Fisher King
The George Burns & Gracie Allen Collection
The Good German
The Gospel of John
The Hoax
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
The Interpreter
The Jane Austen Book Club
The Karate Kid
The Karate Kid Part II
The Keys of the Kingdom
The Land Before Time V
The Lives of Others
The Man Who Never Was
The Meaning of Life: Special Edition
The Mission: Special Edition
The Natural
The Office Special
The Office: Season 1
The Office: Season 2
The Office: Season 3
The Office: Season 4
The Office: Series 1
The Office: Series 2
The Old Man and the Sea
The Orphanage
The Road Warrior
The Sand Pebbles
The Searchers
The Secret of NIMH
The Take
The Thing
The Tick: The Complete Series
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Vicar of Dibley: Series 1
The Wiggles: Getting Strong!
The Wiggles: Racing to the Rainbow
The Wiggles: Sailing Around the World
The Wild Bunch: Special Edition
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
The World's Fastest Indian
This Is England
To Kill a Mockingbird
Unforgiven
Vanity Fair
Vertigo
Voltron: Defender of the Universe: Vol. 1
Waiting for God: Season 1
War of the Century
War, Inc.
We Own the Night
Weeds: Season 1
Weeds: Season 2
Welcome to Mars: Nova
Wild Hogs
Wondrous Oblivion
Word World: Welcome to Word World
Yes, Prime Minister
Young Frankenstein
Young Guns II
Zoom: Academy for Superheroes

Anonymous said...

There definitely are some similarities. After issuing the challenge, I went through the Watch Instantly section to find some more things I might like, and was able to bump my total up to 53.

Of those 53, seven are unavailable to view on XBox.

30 Days of Night
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Glory
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Driving Lessons
The Tick
Vacancy

Kenny Johnson said...

I also put things I've already seen (but might want to see again), things I have on DVD (cause I'm lazy) and things I have even a mild interest in (cause I have no social life).

Dave said...

Congratulations to Transorma for being our first ever comment at No More Continues!

Is that prize-worthy?

I'm broke...:(

Anonymous said...

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one with these thoughts. Seriously, the 360 will be gone just as soon as I can sell it now. This whole cutesy Mii experience is utterly nauseating. I can't even stand to fire up my 360. Who does Microsuck think is buying up its consoles? Casual gamers? The Xbox has always been known as a bad ass system with hardcore male gamer oriented games. And now this. Honestly, unless Microsoft allows users to revert to the old dashboard and does so very quickly, my 360 is history, as I'm not a hardcore Gears or War or Halo fan and would be just as happy with a PS3.

Anonymous said...

Why Mircosoft why did you come out of the closet?

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