The New New New Xbox Experience Halo4 Dash

[sj33]

Is the guide button still crap and slow when pressed mid-game?

[Neil]

Cheers Chris sounds good. Still got the annoying voice over guy I presume?, I found the first one enjoyable at family gatherings good to show off what a film geek I am lol.

[laruso]

Cheers Chris sounds good. Still got the annoying voice over guy I presume?, I found the first one enjoyable at family gatherings good to show off what a film geek I am lol.

annoying voice over guy has now gone. theres 2 other blokes voicing over but they rarely comment -so its a bit eerie when they do.
it feels a bit more low-key than the first one, probably intentional given theres your avatars sat on a sofa.
my wife says she prefers the games in this one and the whole thing is less cluttered - its obviously been designed to a wider audience- but dont worry, still plenty of scope to show off film geekery!

the avatars are really well implemented tho.

new dash seems ok, but its still not as concise and logical as xmb.

has anyone turned the xbox on without being online? is it very empty or are the ads saved from previous visits?

i cant help but wonder if Apple eventually get round to making a home console just how slick and simple the interface would be. perhaps microsoft would have to then schedule another update to copy that too!

[Richard.John]

XMB is near perfect I would say. The old 360 GUI always seemed too 'American' somehow ,not logical. IMO of course.

[MattyD]

Is the guide button still crap and slow when pressed mid-game?

I used it last night during Gears 2, and it's definitely more responsive. No pauses before it appears and it flicks between menus very fast.

[Miguel007]

Sorry for being an idiot but how do you change the Themes, I have Gemma Atkinson up but it looks terrible with the new dash, does anyone know where it is found, I've searched all over.

[Family Fry]

My Xbox, 2nd along.
The one with your gamertag on it, Click A on it and it should give you options like change theme, change avatar etc

[Papercut]

To everyone who doesn't like the new dash, surely the new guide is the classic view you are after, except that now it works much faster and has no advertising at all .

I have seen mini ads in there for premium DLC already, on the Games blade.

[wod]

new dashboard in classic view, do you change to this ?

[Red Hogg]

You can do what now?

[El Leone]

There was a misunderstanding. There is no classic view. What they meant is that you should just use the guide instead.

[MattyD]

The new Guide is layed out exactly like the old dashboard is what he means...

[toythatkills]

I just tried to play Bomberman to check out the avatar support. It installs an update, and then tells me I have to redownload the game to get the new avatar version.

A - redownload
B - return to Arcade

so I redownload it, launch the game, and it tells me I have to redownload the game to get the new avatar version.

A - redownload
B - return to Arcade

So I try deleting Bomberman entirely, redownloading it, launching the game, and it tells me I have to redownload the game to get the new avatar version.

A - redownload
B - return to Arcade

Nice.

[wod]

yes i misunderstood, i know what you mean now yes the mini guide thing that comes up in middle of screen when that x is pressed on the pad

[MJ]

I used it last night during Gears 2, and it's definitely more responsive. No pauses before it appears and it flicks between menus very fast.

Except it still pauses sometimes on the Friends List, which it was doing in the preview. Overall it feels quicker than it did during the preview.