[QUOTE="ObjectiveTruth"][QUOTE="8BITter"]I would like to see a dynamic 360 lobby menu. I don't think this is possible for the current generation consoles, but I think this should be a consideration for future consoles. Imagine that you fire up your 360 (or as I mentioned, future console) and you instantly booted to a game lobby that was populated by other people in your nearby geographic location.
The game lobby would be a persistent 3D world, much like an MMORPG, where you create an avatar, can chat with other people, and do other fun social activities. The actual 3D world would be very simple, with several "doorways" that would lead to other menu areas (ie. Media, Marketplace, Console Settings, etc.). It would increase your interactivity with the console, and also provide a fun way to socialize and choose gaming groups before starting up your gameplay.
This idea is pretty rough, and I know it may sound confusing, but I think it would be a great boon to the way we interact with our consoles. Any thoughts?
8BITter
I always thought that would be a sweet idea but yeah it'd have to be in the future, no way MS is going to invest money into reinventing something that works fine now. Maybe next generation.
One thing i'd like to see is a clan blade on the dashboard. I think it is a relatively small investment from MS (since its basically a glorified friend's list with perhaps group voice chat), but it would take gaming to the next level. People would feel more intouch with their xbox live contacts.
I definitely like the idea of a "Clan" blade, although it might be more appropriate for Clan features to be built into specific games by game developer teams vs. the console developer based solely on the fact that many games do not, and do not plan to, support clan features. Clans are really mostly appropriate for FPS games, so we should really be putting pressure on dev teams like Bungie to support features like adding tags in front of your gamertag to indicate a clan for a specific game.
I disagree with that. I think MS SHOULD be the one to create the clan blade not specific games because that way developers won't have to put so much effort into doing it themselves.
Think about it: When you need to type something for a game, the 360 dashboard keyboard comes up. i'm sure this is a blessing for developers since all they ahve to do is call a function that pulls up the dashboard instead of wasting developing time on developing an ingame keyboard with specific skins and stuff.
If a clan blade were made then the develpers would just have to call a function that maybe says to search your clan list for names. This would leave more developing time for making higher quality video games :D
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