Reasonable said:
Now I've had my 360 a while I'll say you do get used to most things that seem off initially. Today my only real peeves are: 1 - batteries in the controller. Unecessary waste of money compared to re-charging via the console as with the PS3. Also the battery case on the underside is a pain. I do prefer the triggers but the bumpers are too small and I find it's too designed for shooters vs other genres. But overall it's a good controller, just with a few weak points - much the same as Dualshock, which is also a good controller with a few weak points. Also, to be fair, I dislike the Wii controller's use of batteries as well. Once I got used to Dualshock with in-built battery that re-charges that for me was the bar to beat, which the 360 and Wii controller don't reach. 2 - Paying for Live. Really thought that's after years on PC/Steam. I do think the service is better than PSN, and it is pretty cheap. But after years on PC before any consoles it remains a peeve. 3 - non-standard hard drive. Again, this is more due to years with PC and the fact the PS3 just uses a standard hard drive, but I do dislike knowing MS have taken the route of making me pay more for the same thing to get something proprietary.
I never quite grew to like the dash but, like your friend and perhaps most 360 users I never use it, I skip immediately to the smaller, neat little navigation console instead. Other than those peeves I now use my 360 as easily as my PS3 or Wii and am very happy with it. Now if the next Xbox can ditch the batteries and use a standard hard drive I'll be very happy with it. I'll allow 'em Live as it is cheap and it is good. |
That all sounds... (wait for it) reasonable. I'm sure many of my peeves will erode as time passes, much as your did. And I'd forgotten about the whole proprietary HDD thing, primarily as my 360 came with a 250Gb example. It does suck, doesn't it. Hopefully it will never be much of an issue for me.
