Okay. Goddamn it here we go. Starting over, again, and I swear if I don't keep on myself to actually write things this time I am giving up. So I'm Ryan/Squid/UncleKrakken, I'm a big giant dork and I will write here about big giant dork things. I hope I can entertain, and if I'm lucky have some fun discussions in the comments if people actually read my assorted rantings.
Anyway. Got myself one of them there Xbox Ones now. Gotta say, overall I am very much enjoying my XO already. And I am eager to try out some stuff I see coming up for the Hugs & Kisses. But I have one problem so far:
Whoever designed and approved the awful digital storefront should be fucking fired. This is shit.
I don't mean the Windows 8-ish tiles thing. The most recent 360 dash got me used to that. Besides, they work nice with Kinect's voice and gesture controls, and fuck me if the voice commands aren't convenient as hell for menu browsing and controlling Netflix and shit.
But when I get a new system after it's been out for a while, I like to browse through the game list, see what's been released that I don't know about. And you can't browse by title on the One.
After you go to "Store" and select "Games," your options are "New Releases" (sorted by release date obviously), "Top Games Right Now" & "Recommended For You" (sorted by who the hell knows), "New Game Demos," "Top Selling," and "Top Rated." And because apparently this is helpful, Top Games Right Now, Top Selling, and Top Rated show pretty much all the same games, in a barely different order. Alternately, I can search for a game manually if I'm looking for a specific title.
Maybe you noticed the 360 option missing from that list: the ability to choose from 0-9 or A thru Z and be shown an alphabetical list of every available game that starts with a number or the chosen letter. What the fuck? How the fuck is browsing games by title not a goddamn option? Not only can you not browse by title on the console itself, but with the latest changes to the Xbox Web site, you can't even do it there and add games to your console download queue. Yes. They removed the unnecessary extra steps inconvenient way to do it, even. Fucking. Stupid.
You know how I found some of my favorite 360 games, like Bastion or ilomilo or Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime? By randomly looking through the B, I, and G game lists! I would have never found them otherwise! Currently, I am sitting in front of my system with vague memories of seeing some demos of interesting looking downloadable titles for the One with names I can't remember but would remember if I saw them, but I can't see them because damn it, Microsoft. Meanwhile, I had my PS4 turned on for 20 minutes and picked up like 7 fucking games.
MICROSOFT. THIS IS THE CONSOLE WHERE YOU WANTED EVERYONE TO BUY DIGITAL. WHAT. THE. FUCK.
WHAT THE FUCK?
