NXE: Your Thoughts

[Nodz86]

Now that the NXE is upon us thought I'd do a little poll and question.

 

Basically how you finding it?? could it be better??

[Nipper]

It could be much better, with the simple use of an "off" button. :)

 

Then we get to choose.

[Eudemon]

For myself it works well, it could do with having a shortcut to My Xbox or having the option to set the first point it hits on startup as Spotlight or My Xbox.

[HavockJoker]

I don't care as long as I get to play PGR4.

[t.]

It's fun but has been a bit buggy when I've been in parties and trying to navigate around the Dashboard at the same time.

[Mb]

To much errors atm, we need a patch lol.

[HavockJoker]

To much errors atm, we need a patch lol.

Lol. Its only just released.

[Camel]

It looks better than the old one, and after more than two years that had got really boring. Can't say i've found a bug yet and it seems to make my xbox run faster than before. So yea, i think it's great

[Who]

Absolutely love the parties feature,and installing to HDD is a GODSEND with TDU, so much less Pop-up makes it look almost like a PC version!

[Pherelas]

Only been on xbox for 5 mins today but likes what I saw.

[YeOldeTDUMan]

I'm loving it ... looks nice and fresh and modern in this ipod world we live in

 

Might have to go and buy the 120G drive at the weekend ... especially as I've just found out how much my mortgage is dropping thanks to the recent 1.5% cut ... you've got to love tracker mortgages!

 

As to things I'd change ... well apart from the obvious of more clothing options for your avatar ... and I haven't played with the party stuff yet so I can't comment on that ... it would be cool if people avatars stood infront of their backgrounds rather than the one you'd selected ... but that would required lots of data to be sent rather than the simple coding of what you've selected for an avatar ... oh have you noticed they smile and laugh if you hit the bumper buttons when you're modding them !

 

Oh and I like the fact you can 'clean' your played games of all those trial arcade games you downloaded and played but never bought

 

Overall a BIG thumbs up from me ... 360, welcome to the modern world!

[Eudemon]

I would like to be able to change the colours of the backgrounds and the gradients. I would make it more Black and Gray to keep it looking more media like than the kind of child like pastel it is just now.

 

Though I bet we'll probably have to pay for that kind of stuff also.

[Aquila DK]

I love it. It doesn't freezee nearly as much as the old dashboard..

[Pherelas]

Have spent a little more time with it. The center guide button thing is loads better now, there are things like achivments that i've always wanted to get in game. Its great.

 

EDIT: OK nows its just crashed on me grrr.

[Nodz86]

Why's ShadowGT voted even tho he doesn't have an xbox???

[Who]

...because he's a fanboy cretin...

[Camel]

Because he's a tool and a PS3 fanboy and every opportunity he gets to jump on the 360, he will take. Even if he hasn't a clue about anything at all.

[Nipper]

Because he's a tool and a PS3 fanboy and every opportunity he gets to jump on the 360, he will take. Even if he hasn't a clue about anything at all.

 

I nominate that for post of the century! :D

 

Unless he secretly has an Xbox 360... Makes you think eh. A fanboy is annoying, a fanboy who secretly has "his most hated console" has gotta be far worse?!

[Who]

I reckon he's here whinging about the 360 due to the fact he has nothing better to do due to the fact there's no new good games to play on his beloved playstation :p

[TimBud]

I just discovered that we can now delete games from the 360's history.

No longer do I have to have data that I once played the demo of Pacman CE/ Novatron etc... clogging up valuable kbs of my hdd space.

How long have some people been asking for this? :)

[t.]

Yea everyone was after this for ages. It has been part of the NXE since the beginning, in fact it was one of the first NXE features I made use of :)

[DriftNismo]

Are you able to still use the old dashboard instead of NXE? Because I'm getting an X360 next week and I used NXE and my friend's house and don't like it...

[TimBud]

I'm not sure if NXE is a forced update or not?!

It might be a requirement to play online now also... but if you stay offline you'll be able to keep the old dash, for sure. :)

[t.]

If you are planning on playing on LIVE then the download is mandatory I'm afraid. If however you are playing purely offline then you can keep the blades. However I would imagine all new consoles now ship with NXE but whether the stores have got through the back log of older machines yet I don't know.

[Nodz86]

Not all new consoles ship with it, my mates got one xmas and it never but I reckon they will be soon once old stock is sold.

 

If you play on XBL it is mandatory to play online.