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[tripletopper]

Imagine playing Mario Kart, except to go, instead of holding down the 2 button, you pedal on a Balance Board (like the Bike course on Wii Fit U) or run on the Active Life Mat?   The Game Cube Port adapter needs to work for more than just SSBWU.

 

Some games the balance board works fine, but other games you need to run real fast, and a Balance Board can't handle it for pure calorie burning, because you'll either break the balance board or your ankles when running real fast.  but the Active Life Mat was meant for speed.

 

The Active Life Mat may or may not be handy in Mario Kart where a Balance Board will do, but imagine it in Splatoon, where running in humanoid form requires you to run.   The faster you run, the faster the squid runs.  You can't do that well naturally on a Balance Board.

 

This adds extra strategy,  if you don't have the speed and endurance of a pro athlete or soldier, you've got to pace yourself, and use speed bursts strategically, unlike most other shooters where you go all out all the time with no consequences.

 

This will put the sport back in E-Sports, and let a division where people who are athletic beyond their thumbs excel.   Also, all my local friends were way too athletic, and no one would pick me.   Online anonymity would let the less athletic get some exercise without feeling inadequate, especially in a team game like Splatoon.

 

Nintendo started the revolution of getting gamers off the couch.   Finish the job by making some lower body, combined with WiiMote upper body exercises in a Sports situation.   Not just a gym instructor measuring how well you do, but to play games with real live remote human opponents.  Games where running speed is an aspect, but not the sole determining factor.

 

Of course, we won't take away traditional modes, and to encourage exercising, the exergame division is a separate division for rankings and matchup purposes.

 

I talked to a company who lied my idea but said the Nintendo Third Party system is too bad (in their opinion) for independent developers.

[NintendoReport]

People complain enough at motion and gyro controls... imagine this...
There are places for fitness in video games and honestly wii fit, zumba, even just dance do a good enough job imo.
If you are going to all these lengths for fitness u might as well hit the gym, pop in a cario dvd, or get outside and enjoy the outdoors.

[Raiden]

I thought this was a bot topic coming in.

[Scumbag]

I thought this was a bot topic coming in.

A bot thread would go something like this: "Less and more painful for good health help buy steroid exercises"

[tripletopper]

People complain enough at motion and gyro controls... imagine this...
There are places for fitness in video games and honestly wii fit, zumba, even just dance do a good enough job imo.
If you are going to all these lengths for fitness u might as well hit the gym, pop in a cario dvd, or get outside and enjoy the outdoors.

the point is the social aspect of gaming would make it more attractive, while simultaneously, anynimity gets rid of the jock vs. nerd mentality.  You're just one opponent, out of millions.  You probably won't be insulted, and even if they privately are, you won't know it because the mic is muted both ways.  And they won't single you out for a dodgeball to the face.  They'll probably sick their best on your best, not you.

 

You're not competing against a soldier's standard, but against real humans.  And the most boring part of gym class was doing exercises, and the best part was playing games.  Games where your actions affected my actions and vice versa,  Games where if you can't outrun or overpower an opponent, there's plenty of room for team strategy.

 

I'd like to see Super Mario World Footballers, with Soccer Football, (a perfectly cromulent term because Germany called it Socher Fussball when the World League of American Football was around, just so people don't ask, "Welches Fussball?") American Football, Australian Football, and Rugby.

[3Dude]

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[NintendoReport]

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the point is the social aspect of gaming would make it more attractive, while simultaneously, anynimity gets rid of the jock vs. nerd mentality.  You're just one opponent, out of millions.  You probably won't be insulted, and even if they privately are, you won't know it because the mic is muted both ways.  And they won't single you out for a dodgeball to the face.  They'll probably sick their best on your best, not you.
 
You're not competing against a soldier's standard, but against real humans.  And the most boring part of gym class was doing exercises, and the best part was playing games.  Games where your actions affected my actions and vice versa,  Games where if you can't outrun or overpower an opponent, there's plenty of room for team strategy.
 
I'd like to see Super Mario World Footballers, with Soccer Football, (a perfectly cromulent term because Germany called it Socher Fussball when the World League of American Football was around, just so people don't ask, "Welches Fussball?") American Football, Australian Football, and Rugby.

Social aspect I get however I think the games would need to be more of a casual nature.

[YoshiGamer9]

Lol I thought fitness games died after 2010...

[NintendoReport]

Lol I thought fitness games died after 2010...

 

Zumba, Wii Fit U.. :-) nope. (and others)

[YoshiGamer9]

Zumba, Wii Fit U.. :-) nope. (and others)

 

Zumba? Just go do real Zumba...

 

And Wii fit U? Go to the gym or do yoga lessons XD

[tripletopper]

The problem is that fitness games are primarily computerized fitness trainers, not really games per se.   There are a couple harmless things you can OPTIONALLY add exercise to otherwise good and popular games (I'm not requiring couch potatoes to get off the couch, just make it an option for those who want to squeeze in exercising while playing a more traditional game).

 

It seems that Active Life is the most Game-like exergame of all the major releases, but even that game is all solitary for things that matter (i.e all games that burn heavy calories).  And even those games cannot be played on Wii U, because Nintendo didn't make the Game Cube Port adapters work with newer Wiis and Wii Us

 

No one is addressing my point.  Would an exer-augment to an existing game like Mario Pedal Karts, Run and Gun Splatoon, or the hypothetical Mario World Footballers get you to (sometimes) get off the couch and burn a few calories?   I'm speaking as someone trying to add some exercise in my life but , a) doesn't have any local friends that's not a 40 minute drive on the freeway away, not exactly the most athletic type, and c) finding the tedium of standard exercise games boring. (It feels like Gym Class.)   Would this be the (pardon the stereotype) nerdy way to become a jock?   Don't forget to address some of the previous points I made.

[Raiden]

No thanks. Sitting down is fine for me. Exercise is separate from gaming. The concept is 25 years old to play actual games not just fitness games while getting a workout and it always comes and goes and never really catches on. Nintendo was the closest but even then meh. Just two things that never really go well together even tho is sounds good on paper.

 

You could always just walk on a treadmill while playing a game on a handheld if ya want.