Paperdove - Partly about beer. All about me.

So, I updated my XBox 360 the other day to install the new interface. First thing after the reboot, I had to create my "avatar," a stupid-looking model with a limited range of variability that looks suspiciously like a Mii. Even the music played while creating the "avatar" (MS-Mii) was very much like the light-pop-jazz-muzak that is predominant on the Wii.

C'mon, Microsoft, can't you do anything original?

The MS-Mii is used in the new menu system. There's no bloody reason for it whatsoever. He jumps around like he has a happy-crab in his shorts. That's about it. I spent five seconds of my life using the default MS-Mii just for this? That's five seconds of my life I'll never get back!

Then there's the new menu system itself. It fuckin' sucks wormy dog poop through a straw. It's a bit more like a vertical, messy version of the XMB from the PS3. The only advantage it has over the old blade-style menu is that it doesn't have all the fucking ads on every single fucking screen. Other than that, it uses the ubiquitous floor reflections that everyone is using since Apple first used them on their website. Everything is big and ugly, which just makes the whole screen even more of a jumble than the old blade system.

Then, in another "homage" to Nintendo, everything is divided up into channels. Just like the Wii. Oh, happy joy! Now I have even more shit on my screen to suck completely!

All-in-all, it was a completely worthless update. Sure, the XBox 360 seems to have more eye-candy now. But the interface is no more usable than the old blade system, doesn't have the clean simplicity of the XMB, and doesn't make use of the MS-Mii like the Wii did with their Miis.

Really, it seems they are simply trying to steal the thunder of Playstation Home. And to that I say, "Why bother?" Home fucking sucks too.