Do you like the additions to the new dashboard? What do/don't you like? Why? I personally think that the New one is great; the Marketplace is much easier to find specific things, you can see who your friends are in a party with, Avatars are kind of better than I thought and browsing is generally easier. Although I like it, I do have some problems with it; Old themes are pretty bad on it unless you find one where the top half is amazing, Friends channel sometimes makes Xboxes freeze and the Avatars are pretty much the same as Wii's except both are better than each others in different ways. I think the new Dash is better than the previous overall, the party feature is great, it makes it easier to organize games and I think it could be used while play testing a map so you can get everyone in a party easier, etc. I don't care much for the Avatars, could live with or without them, but if I can customize an Avatar too look like Indiana Jones, I will think that it was a great addition. I also like how you can now remove games that you have 0 gamerscore in from your played games since I had a few that I didn't own and only tried at friends houses, renting, etc. that I got Invites to play. My final little tid bit is that when you get an Invite to a game, it now says what game they are inviting you to play. So what do you, members of the Forgehub community think?
The only thing I really like better about the new dashboard is the Avatars. I mean all the other stuff is great too but I only like it all a bit more because it's something new for a change. You are right about the browsing though. It is easier in some situations. You really love Indianna Jones don't you David?
The avatars are almost too much like Wii's but less cartoon in clothing perspective, but more cartoon with their actions so that's the thing that makes me say "Meh" to the Avatars. The THREE Indiana Jones movies are my favorite movie series and Indiana Jones is my hero, so in way I do.
"I hate the new dashboard because it improves the functionality of the xbox and gives us more features! I hate Microsoft!!!" [/sarcasm]
I rather the new one. For one, it's much more attractive. The layout feels better than the old. Easier. Better. I also like the sounds =D
I don't really care for the Dashboard much. I like the new Avatars, Netflix, and the capability to find things easier on the Xbox Marketplace. The new style is refreshing, new, and funner to use on my opinion.
I love it. First off there is Netflix where I can watch a movie when ever I want. Then there is Party chat which is a life saver in Search and Destroy. Last but not least the xbox not being loud.
The new updates such as netflix and party chats are fun, but everything else feels so bubbly. I can tell they made it this way to attract families, no doubt. It's some things that bother me such as you can't change the color of your dashboard, you just get that nasty shade of blue and it goes horrible with the green. (yuck) Other than that, I wish you could have a choice to change it back, but keep the private chat and whatnot, but just change the way the main screen dashboard is.
I remember when me and friends got our xbox 360s we went online together. Someone said "hey look, there's a private chat button" and we spent like an hour trying to figure out how to have three people in the same chat at once. The "channels" were what led us to believe that more than one could be in the chat at a time. However, sometimes when I was playing gears 1, i'd have a friend on my team, but want to chat with another friend to get him into the party. For some reason, gears glitched sometimes and let me talk to both the people on my team, and the guy in chat.
There are a few bugs at the moment in the marketplace but overall I like the whole concept and feel of the new dashboard. I miss some aspects of the first one but for the most part I enjoy this dashboard much more. I am not sure that there are too many people that dislike it. However, I think Microsoft should of made it optional.
The new dashboard is sleeker, but it makes your old themes look like crap if the top part looks bad. Also, it gave me a lot of problems I didn't have before. Example: I have to send in my xbox because I got an error message (E74). Before NXE? I was cruisin' just fine. Also, I don't know if this is just my xbox, but the only sections of the "main menu" that show up are the welcome thing, my friends list, and the part that lets you play games. The marketplace and Netflix are unavailable. It also made it so that some of my disks won't be read.
My friend had the same problem, after the update his 360 slowly stopped reading more and more discs soon. It may be something wrong with the 360 however, and it's just a coincidence. =/ The dashboard did glitch on me once, I could just view friends and my game page. I still want to change those stupid colors!
First post in this forum, yay! Anyway, I like the new additions to the dashboard and the guide, such as the new marketplace and the avatars and stuff, but it's not any more user-friendly than the old blade-orientated dashboard and guide. I think that an update should be made to allow you to switch to "classic view" and put the old blade-system back as your dashboard and guide. obviously, the classic view dash and guide would have alterations to allow you to keep the new avatar system etc. and the blade layout. I like the new features of the NXE, but I prefer the blade layout personally.
i also like the new one. i thought it was meant to come out next year and was suprised when i had to download it. its very slik and im glad that it brings a greater feel along. despite that i miss being able to use my old themes ( ). also the avatars r excellent, who can deny wanting to make a pale white fat bloke with ladies hair and jaws for teeth! fun.