The Eurogamer TV Show: Rare on Avatars

Published 11 September, 2008 Duration 6:39

They've been called a shameless copy of Miis, and they're coming this autumn. Here, in an exclusive interview, Rare reveals the pre-Mii origins of its Avatars, and how its new model army is driving the New Xbox Experience.

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  • Lexx87 #1 3 years ago

    Love the penis monster :p

  • Xerx3s #2 3 years ago

    Apparently, the avatar concept is not a concept as old as the internet, many times copied and applied in a while host of things but an invention of nintendo.

  • Quint2020 #3 3 years ago

    EGTV needs subtitles for those of us (most of us) who are at work.

  • hoster #4 3 years ago

    head phones? :p

  • Weezer #5 3 years ago

    I hate this guy's 'voiceover' voice.

  • schnide #6 3 years ago

    Xerx3s - you've missed the point. Microsoft isn't stealing the avatar idea from Nintendo anymore than me writing this is stealing from whoever invented the modern alphabet. Microsoft has stolen the visual identity of Mii's - they're almost identical, but taller, versions of Nintendo's avatar designs.

  • schnide #7 3 years ago

    Quint2020 - 100% agreed with you mate.

  • Buztafen #8 3 years ago

    Awesome acceleration on that car near the beginning!

    /want

  • ukcodemonkey #9 3 years ago

    @Buztafen The site speed limit is 20, so if they ran at real time, it would have taken ages! Having said that, the driving clip is excellent!

  • Razz #10 3 years ago

    "Love the penis"

    Good for you. ;)

  • Xerx3s #11 3 years ago

    "Microsoft has stolen the visual identity of Mii's - they're almost identical, but taller, versions of Nintendo's avatar designs."

    Eh? If anything, they look more like the home characters than anything else. As far as I can see, the only thing that they have in common is that they are persistent online 3d representations of the digital ego. I don't any of the visual traits (i.e. the body shapes that make mii's mii's, like hands (or the lack thereoff)) returning.

    Still, I think it's shit. New dashboard = yay. This = meh.

  • Menace #12 3 years ago

    Get someone else to do the speak please. This is cringeworthy

  • metalangel #13 3 years ago

    What's the point? The 360 is for games, not softie social networking.

    Besides, no 'create your own character' thing ever (short of a pencil and paper) has included enough varieties of hairstyles or clothing, and very few give you full RGB sliders to completely customise the colour of individual parts.

    And besides, think if the majority of gamers make themselves as their avatars, the 'New Xbox Experience' is going to be dominated by an army of guys with short dark hair.

  • alpha-0ne #14 3 years ago

    schnide, so what about nintendo ripping off the potato man that let you put a head, lips, eyes etc on a body?

    Lets face it sony and ms have both copied nintendo but nintendo has copied MS by having a single identity for each user on the console, sony copied ms for trophies

    The truth is the representation of people in games is nothing new..and various other toy mediums have had character that are used across action games the only difference is these are virtual

  • holydrone #15 3 years ago

    No wonder Rare's character designs are so consistently hideous... look at the state of the staff! Miaow! I went there.

    But seriously, this company wants to stop leaving design concepts in the hands of the Bournemouth Graduates who know Maya "inside out" and get somebody with traditional design principles to make the creative visual decisions.
    Edited by 1 at 12/09/08 @ 11:11

  • guernican #16 3 years ago

    Any chance of a voiceover that sounds a bit more disaffected?

  • Jammy999 #17 3 years ago

    i reckon the avatars look way better than the Miis