NXE Is Embrassing!

Did you know that you can delete zero game scores from your games list, using the New Xbox Experience? Thank God because that's the kind of feature I have been looking for. Zero game scores are faux pas. If your French is rusty, faux pas is like when you drop a beer on someones foot at a party. Embarrassing.

So you can eliminate embarrassing scores but you are stuck with an embrassing avatar. If you have looked at my gamercard on Xbox Live, you will notice something missing. I am still silhouetted. I refuse to be drawn into this charade, this doll dressing. I used to get beaten up at school for this, so the psychological scars are starting to re-emerge. Ask my therapist. Actually don't ask, because it is embarrassing.

This is what NXE is all together. Awkward and embarrassing. You fiddle around and feel like the school bully has found your Hannah Montana / Harry Potter coloring book when you select an avatar. You wonder why Microsoft bother and cringe at every selection. Click the right stick and it burps. Funny joke, if I was eight.

But you know what would make it really awesome? If we can use our avatars in casual games like Scene It, how about making them available in other games like Gears of War? To chainsaw each others avatar would completely vindicate my faith in the New Xbox Experience. It would be a whole "new experience" full stop.