Okay, I don't hate it. I just dislike it intensely. I was actually looking forward to it as something to replace the Blades, which I had never been a fan of. And then it came out...
Avatars: How Microsoft ever manged to make these things less customizable than Miis is one of the world's greatest mysteries. I can't adjust size, position, or rotation of any feature on the face. The opportunities for fun are completely removed with anything creative and funny, cause gaming is serious business. The ability to shape the size of the face is also gone. The fact that they added sunglasses and beards does NOT make up for this, and certainly not the clothes, which make my Mii... er... Avatar look like a prick. He even stands like a prick.
The Marketplace: Ah, here we have the one improvement over the blades. The store is thankfully no longer the worst digital store of the three consoles by leagues. It's now just the worst by a short amount. I'm glad they finally added the basic sorting options they should have had from the beginning, but why on earth do I still have to deal with the stupid horizontal scrolling of giant pictures when trying to browse games?
The NXE: Advertisements. Everywhere! And poorly organized. This is just pissing me off. Everything I flip through is just a pasted thing of ads. They have whole categories of nothing but ads! I find this extremely intrusive, and barely functional.
Please Microsoft fix NXE.
