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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: AdmiralViscen on December 03, 2008, 08:53:02 PM

Title: Ski and Snowboarding clothing now available for your 360 avatar!! - and tuxedos
Post by: AdmiralViscen on December 03, 2008, 08:53:02 PM: omfg :hyper

Suit Up Your Avatars
Written Wednesday, December 17, 2008 by Dan Webb

Microsoft have today released the latest set of avatar gear and it's dressing up time. Incase you want to dress up for the festive period, you can now get your hands of a series of tuxedos and accompanying hats ... Screw the festive period, I want to look like Bond EVERY day!

The new items are as usual marked with a gold star so finding them shouldn't be too hard. In the words of Barney Stinson ... Suit up!

For the gentlemen we have:
Blue Tuxedo
Black Tuxedo
Shirt with Cummerbund
Black Trilby
Bowler Hat

For the ladies we have:
Elegant Ball Gown
Little Black Dress
Formal Trouser Suit
Elegant Watch
Red 60's Shades
Strappy High Heels
Platform Shoes
Title: Re: Ski and Snowboarding clothing now available for your 360 avatar!!
Post by: Bocsius on December 03, 2008, 08:58:09 PM: How much?
Title: Re: Ski and Snowboarding clothing now available for your 360 avatar!!
Post by: drew on December 03, 2008, 09:02:23 PM: sorry you may want to explain where that gifs from

evilbore only watches anime
Title: Re: Ski and Snowboarding clothing now available for your 360 avatar!!
Post by: demi on December 03, 2008, 09:05:00 PM: tight, yo. but i am sophisticated. i do not do this... "ski"
Title: Re: Ski and Snowboarding clothing now available for your 360 avatar!!
Post by: drew on December 03, 2008, 09:26:28 PM: i used to do the... "snowboard"
Title: Re: Ski and Snowboarding clothing now available for your 360 avatar!!
Post by: cool breeze on December 03, 2008, 09:39:21 PM: I used to be awesome at skiing until I had to do the whole stopping thing. I remember having to crash on purpose so I would avoid hitting this little girl and her mom.
Title: Re: Ski and Snowboarding clothing now available for your 360 avatar!!
Post by: demi on December 03, 2008, 09:41:34 PM: theres like one new piece of clothing for each section. WOAHOMG

i'm goin to bed
Title: Re: Ski and Snowboarding clothing now available for your 360 avatar!! - and tuxedos
Post by: AdmiralViscen on December 17, 2008, 01:38:44 PM: omfg free tuxedos

Between the Doritos game and this, XBL has stomped Home today
Title: Re: Ski and Snowboarding clothing now available for your 360 avatar!! - and tuxe
Post by: dammitmattt on December 17, 2008, 01:57:51 PM: Keep the free clothes coming, Microsoft.

My other hope is that developers will give clothing as rewards for completing certain tasks in games, the way that they currently give out gamer pictures. I would LOVE to have a zombie outfit or something for killing 53k+ zombies in Dead Rising, for instance.
Title: Re: Ski and Snowboarding clothing now available for your 360 avatar!! - and tuxedos
Post by: demi on December 17, 2008, 02:04:06 PM: These clothes have been available since NXE preview version apparently... they are just trickling down the shit. Gay

But I donned the pimp hat (not the gay bowler one)
Title: Re: Ski and Snowboarding clothing now available for your 360 avatar!! - and tuxedos
Post by: Brehvolution on December 17, 2008, 02:09:33 PM: I really hope they keep releasing this stuff so I'll have a nice variety to choose from come 03/09.
Title: Re: Ski and Snowboarding clothing now available for your 360 avatar!! - and tuxedos
Post by: Robo on December 17, 2008, 02:35:08 PM: YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS FREE CLOTHES

:piss (http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r231/patrickula/homeswitchmaf.gif) :piss2
Title: Re: Ski and Snowboarding clothing now available for your 360 avatar!! - and tuxedos
Post by: FatalT on December 17, 2008, 02:47:12 PM: (http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/fatalt/avatar-body.png)

Schweet.
Title: Re: Ski and Snowboarding clothing now available for your 360 avatar!! - and tuxedos
Post by: chronovore on December 20, 2008, 08:54:41 PM: It's unlikely that outfits wouldbe made as prizes, as the dev would either have to deal with a whole different submission and approvals check on that, and distributing it would have to happen across EVERY internet-attached xbox in the world. That's easy for a teeny user-icon, but less enjoyable to consider for a textured, rigged polygonal object.

I suspect they'll do something like have a preset T-shirt which can have a decal of the player-icon of choice. All they'd have to add is an additional dialog on top of the current shirt-selection UI.

Instead I think what's going to be pushed is using the avatars more in upcoming games, like they've already done with UNO (which has pretty sweet implementation), Kingdom for Kelflings (how did they manage that ass framerate?), and Bomberman Live (lame avatar implementation).

I feel like I'm the only guy who likes the avatars. I thought I was going to hate them, they seemed way too much like Wii's Mii characters, but they turned out to have a LOT more detail and expression.