Wii Fit

[METALMAN]

My sister got Wii Fit for her birthday. I wasn't really into it at first but I had a shot and it's actually surprisingly good fun. I think it could quite possibly help make you fit/build muscles/lose weight/whatever as the exercises are all like proper if you know what I mean.

It says I'm underweight though. I'm not. >_>

Edited April 29, 2008 by metalman

[PkmnTrainerJ]

I've lost 3lbs today and .30 BMI and my Wii Fit Age went down to 31, which will soon only be 10 years above my real age. Got to get it to 21 before I'm 21.

[Essa]

I've lost 3lbs today and .30 BMI and my Wii Fit Age went down to 31, which will soon only be 10 years above my real age. Got to get it to 21 before I'm 21.

You should let that fatty in your sig have a go at it.

[Scott McFly]

Her breasts would register a Wii Fit Age.

[apsham]

Aren't you only supposed to lose like.. a pound a week?

[Captain Kirk]

Either he took one massive shit or perhaps the Wii board doesn't work properly? :s

You can lose more than a pound a week but 3 pounds a day is not very good for you and I'm not sure it's possible without leprosy.

[PkmnTrainerJ]

The game says that losing 2lbs a day is healthy. Or was it per week? Either way, the results will be a bit skewed until I get used to the excercises, much like with Wii Sports.

[edcq]

Does anyone know what the weight limit is? I reserved my copy and I can't wait till it comes out.

[PkmnTrainerJ]

The weight limit is 23st/146kg on the European one. Perhaps they'll increase it for the US one though.

[METALMAN]

2lbs per week is healthy.

Also, you might have appeared to lose so much weight because you were wearing lighter clothes one time.

[Iain76er]

The weight limit for Europe and America is the same. Nintendo thinking ahead for when Europe does become as fat as America.

[stokeriño]

Alternatively, they realised that creating multiple manufacturing lines for different weight limits would be a silly waste of money.

[PkmnTrainerJ]

It asks you the weight of your clothes, so I'd weighed myself on the scales earlier with and without to know how much to take off.

[probablyoliver]

Yeah, if you wanna make that point then don't choose GTA to make it

Okay, that's probably true. Still, I get sick of this attitude that "casual gaming" is somehow "ruining gaming," first of all as if it's some kind of new trend (Tetris? Dr. Mario? Hell, every arcade game ever before about 1987?) and second of all as if there's some kind of enormous elite code of honor involved in being a REAL gamer, the kind of person who spends 100+ hours scouring every last corner of Ivalice for item drops and 800,000,000+ HP monsters. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but don't get so high and mighty about it. It's only video games.

I'll have you know Yiazmat has less than that, actually. Hmph.

[CQI13]

Yeah, if you wanna make that point then don't choose GTA to make it

Okay, that's probably true. Still, I get sick of this attitude that "casual gaming" is somehow "ruining gaming," first of all as if it's some kind of new trend (Tetris? Dr. Mario? Hell, every arcade game ever before about 1987?) and second of all as if there's some kind of enormous elite code of honor involved in being a REAL gamer, the kind of person who spends 100+ hours scouring every last corner of Ivalice for item drops and 800,000,000+ HP monsters. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but don't get so high and mighty about it. It's only video games.

I'll have you know Yiazmat has less than that, actually. Hmph.

Is a REAL gamer anything like a TRUE Yankee? At some point if I ever get a Wii, this would probably be one of the first purchases. I thought I read somewhere that other games (like Wii Sport) don't give you enough of a work out as people presumed originally, so is this a way of legitimizing the work out aspect?

[apsham]

It asks you the weight of your clothes, so I'd weighed myself on the scales earlier with and without to know how much to take off.

Wii Fit got you to take off your clothes and weight yourself eh? Hmmmm, interesting.

[PkmnTrainerJ]

Now my Wii Fit age is the same as my actual age. ^_^

[Cactus Drags]

Oh, you can trade it in then, job done.

[Iain76er]

So how fun is the game? I'm thinking of getting it but I like to think I am fit and not a fatty. How fun are the actual games in it? How big a role does the whole lose weight thing have?

[The Mask of Norro]

Oh, you can trade it in then, job done.

You're quite skeptical of this whole thing, aren't you Dragsy? >_>

Though I suppose working at a game store would do that... and even as a consumer, by the way, I echo your sentiments on putting the boxes back on the shelves where you found them. Bloody hell, I look for a game that should be right in front of me and I wind up finding it a section over with games that are on an entirely different console, just because some lazy little shit didn't bother paying attention to where he took the game from in the first place. It's quite annoying for me, so I could only assume that with as often as it likely happens, it's even moreso annoying for the employees.

Oh, and on-topic with Wii Fit: I actually wouldn't mind snagging this game myself to see how it does. I have to hand it to Nintendo, they've done quite a good job with their console, it's refreshing and unique, and it's done a world of good for quite a lot of people, so hey.

Edited May 1, 2008 by The Mask of Norro