Microsoft...

[scottdp]

So because I'm home sick, and doing any actual work is really not going well, I decided to install the "New Xbox Experience" on my 360. (OK, it's mandatory, so would have to be done eventually. Minor detail

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[sidbyrd]

Do you refer to mandatory avatar creation before proceeding, or something else? (And lets hope you know what "avatar" even means, otherwise that's probably confusing.)

[scottdp]

Yes, I know what that means. Duh

[scottdp]

Not nearly as flexible in terms of creative facial expression handling, that is. You can make Miis look eerily akin to the person they're representing, and also make random other things (like cartoon characters, as you've amply demonstrated). Not so here. Instead, there are more options for things like clothes and jewelry. Seems to me to demonstrate yet again that Microsoft just doesn't get it.

[sidbyrd]

Well of course you know what an avatar is.

I didn't read the ToS, but I did gripe under my breath something about billions of hours wasted as I skipped past it. I was a bit annoyed that they didn't just have an "Accept" button without having to uselessly click the "Read" button first, when the only choices were "Read" and "Cancel". If those are your only choices, why not just skip the pointless dialog and take me straight to the reading screen? The answer, of course, is that they want to maintain the legal fiction that I'm actually reading, understanding, and agreeing to some sort of reasonable negotiated contract, so they had to find something to throw in my path before just letting me click "Accept". It's still bad UI.

I also didn't customize my Xii (or whatever). I selected the one the cursor happened to be over by default. Maybe later if the customization tools are actually any fun, like the Wii's.