EDIT: i should’ve mentioned that the actual game is wii fit!!
i didn’t think much of it when it came out, but i never woulda thought it could be this effective. its too bad this kind of game didn’t get bigger?
Is the balance board the same as the normal wii fit? Cause I remember playing it a ton shortly after it came out. My aunt and uncle had one, and so did my grandpa; I remember loving the skateboard mini game, and Wii Sports Resort I think had a few games that used it too.
I also remember it helping me lose weight too.
yeah just good old wii fit! i can already see an improvement in my balance that is for sure.
I never tried that one, but I also had a recent late-to-the-party “gaming as exercise” discovery: Beat Saber! I never gelled with rhythm games before I got a VR headset, but I’m really digging it, and it totally gets me sweating after a while.
I remember playing wii tennis so much that my arms hurt for the next week.
If you want to work out your legs you might want to check out Pistol Whip.
I’ve been doing both!
For half a year, my daily workout routine was ~half an hour of Beatsaber on Expert+, and then one run through the campaign of Pistol Whip (first one). I should get back into that…
I’m really bad about even consistently playing VR games for fun, let alone for exercise. But once I finally make space, boot up the gaming pc and reconnect the VR kit, it’s almost always worth the effort and I kick myself a bit for not playing more often. I do have fairly annoying stick drift on my (Index) controllers though, so that strongly dissuades/prevents me from playing games that are designed around using them.
It’s been a couple years since I’ve really played any Beat Saber, but I think my favorite custom map just for fun was “Happy” by C2C (YouTube vid [not mine])
I’ve heard amazing things about Rumble if competitive PvP earth bending in vr appeals to you
I’d like to recommend Synth Rider. Really similar vibes, but instead of slashing the blocks youre just catching them with your mitten. It’s not as fast and hectic, but it does make you reach for them and feel like you’re properly dancing.
I wouldn’t say its better than beat saber, or even quite as good, but it feels more fun for a while when beat saber gets too familiar. Like a palate cleanser.
I don’t know if it’s still good, but when I had my headset I loved Synth Riders. At times I felt like I was really dancing. Some of the “experiences” were great too, there was a Muse one that was really well done!
I remember playing wii tennis so much that my arms hurt for the next week.
Got my wife one recently. She like the yoga bits, in guess. But, it’s in the closet.
Wii is still set up…what games are you digging?
A friend of mine wrote some software and ended up using one of those as a foot mouse.
I saw a stack of like 20 of them at a thrift shop for really cheap a few years ago. I saw that there would be a big potential with those for someone who knows what they are doing. Unfortunately, I’m not one of those people, lol.
I really wanted a social component to the Wii Fit game. Like jogging on the same track as the one in the game but like, you see your friends or even just strangers’ avatars jogging nearby that you can high five.
Like Zwift.
Hm, never heard of it, but after looking at it— yeah kinda, I was thinking of something more MMO-y though. Still looks cool!
I have two mobile games that use your steps as progress in an RPG environment:
WalkScape Inspired by RuneScape. Walk to explore and level up skills like foraging, mining and smithing. This is currently in closed beta but you can go to the Patreon and donate $5 for an invite during the next invite cycle.
Prado Traveler Pick a class and party up with a group to explore the land, defeat monsters and get loot. This one is in open beta so I was able to download it straight from the App Store.
There is a pose from Wii Fit yoga that still haunts me with how much it hurt to do the first few times. The one where you go arns out with one foot planted on the thigh of your other leg and then you have to maintain your balance for like 60 seconds or something. It stretched muscles I didn’t even know existed.
yeah i almost busted my ass doing that one the first time. a week later its not so tough!
I worked on a game that supports it. It was total shit compared to paying with a controller. Nintendo dev tools were fucking archaic at the time which made it stuck to work with. What are you playing?
heck that is awesome…ly shitty of nintendo
Just wii fit right now, what else uses that board? (fleem asks before they took the time to look it up themselves.)
I honestly don’t know lol. I just know I hated our game on it.
I’m not sure what I’m more surprised by; the fact that there really is a Wikipedia list for everything, or that there are over 100 titles that support that thing!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_that_support_Wii_Balance_Board
oh heck yeah! thanks!!
