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I think that games should become more physically challenging. I'm not talking a minor sweat on your fingers here, I mean a major drenching with things stuck on your wrists and connected to your brain. Completing a game should feel like an accomplishment rather than something that you can do all the time. It would also give you a good exercise instead of just sitting on front of a screen twiddling your fingers.
Take for instance my local gym. I've only been there once and that was years ago, but, they had a rowing machine with a monitor in front of it and the idea was to escape from a shark (I never did it and got eaten). The point is not to laugh at my feebleness, but that the game was fun and I'd do it again.
The down side to this idea though, is the cost of all these extra peripherals. Maybe one day someone will setup a game/gym hybrid where it is fun to become butch. It could cater for any sport, just imagine Daley Thompson's Olympic Challenge, but just for you (you'd feel so special).
Anyway make your own mind up, I've done enough thinking today. Now back to twiddling something more than just my fingers.....
Take for instance my local gym. I've only been there once and that was years ago, but, they had a rowing machine with a monitor in front of it and the idea was to escape from a shark (I never did it and got eaten). The point is not to laugh at my feebleness, but that the game was fun and I'd do it again.
The down side to this idea though, is the cost of all these extra peripherals. Maybe one day someone will setup a game/gym hybrid where it is fun to become butch. It could cater for any sport, just imagine Daley Thompson's Olympic Challenge, but just for you (you'd feel so special).
Anyway make your own mind up, I've done enough thinking today. Now back to twiddling something more than just my fingers.....
I think that games should become more physically challenging. I'm not talking a minor sweat on your fingers here, I mean a major drenching with things stuck on your wrists and connected to your brain. Completing a game should feel like an accomplishment rather than something that you can do all the time. It would also give you a good exercise instead of just sitting on front of a screen twiddling your fingers.
Take for instance my local gym. I've only been there once and that was years ago, but, they had a rowing machine with a monitor in front of it and the idea was to escape from a shark (I never did it and got eaten). The point is not to laugh at my feebleness, but that the game was fun and I'd do it again.
The down side to this idea though, is the cost of all these extra peripherals. Maybe one day someone will setup a game/gym hybrid where it is fun to become butch. It could cater for any sport, just imagine Daley Thompson's Olympic Challenge, but just for you (you'd feel so special).
Anyway make your own mind up, I've done enough thinking today. Now back to twiddling something more than just my fingers.....
Take for instance my local gym. I've only been there once and that was years ago, but, they had a rowing machine with a monitor in front of it and the idea was to escape from a shark (I never did it and got eaten). The point is not to laugh at my feebleness, but that the game was fun and I'd do it again.
The down side to this idea though, is the cost of all these extra peripherals. Maybe one day someone will setup a game/gym hybrid where it is fun to become butch. It could cater for any sport, just imagine Daley Thompson's Olympic Challenge, but just for you (you'd feel so special).
Anyway make your own mind up, I've done enough thinking today. Now back to twiddling something more than just my fingers.....
They could make games more physical but then less people would play them, as they take enough effort already. Alternatively, they could make consoles more rugged, then we could throw them against the wall when we lose a game. That's enough exercise for anyone!
Disclaimer: Exercise is good for you kids, it lowers your chances of getting a heart attack and allows you to wear embarrasing shorts and get really sweaty and smelly...oops, perhaps it isn't so good after all!
Disclaimer: Exercise is good for you kids, it lowers your chances of getting a heart attack and allows you to wear embarrasing shorts and get really sweaty and smelly...oops, perhaps it isn't so good after all!
Do you mean having running races on your console but instead of controllers you use tredmils/excercise bikes/rowing machines! sounds cool, this was thought of about 10 years ago but they thought of useing boxing gloves and shin pads, that kind of thing, but I don't see how they could make fire balls come from their hands and thunder bolts from their ariss! bad quote from 'braveheart'.
Yeah, but then fat, lazy, self-centred, bald-headed poofs wouldn't play games, and the companies would loose money.
No offence to any fat, lazy, self-centred, bald-headed or poofie poofs. {:)
No offence to any fat, lazy, self-centred, bald-headed or poofie poofs. {:)
These kind of games already exist in the arcade. That horse racing game is such a laugh - knackers you out though ! Also played a game where you have to row as fast as you can too. Although those games can be fun, i don't know too many people that could fit these same sort of devices into their rooms. It'd be a very limited number of people buying them.
Maybe not but i remember watching a episode of Futurama once, which had a cool virtual world in which they could play in, plus it was fully interactive, so it allowed them to do whatever they wanted.
But then will we see this kind of thing happening, otherwise i can't see games getting any more physical than it is now.
Still games are very physical, like button bashers and spending a few hours on a game.
Only then the only virtual reality kind of game will be a virtual football game and maybe a flight combat game and they are no near reality. I wouldn't like to fight Mike Tyson and find my ears been bitten off.
But no they cannot get more physical, like everyone says it will stop people buying games altogether!
But then will we see this kind of thing happening, otherwise i can't see games getting any more physical than it is now.
Still games are very physical, like button bashers and spending a few hours on a game.
Only then the only virtual reality kind of game will be a virtual football game and maybe a flight combat game and they are no near reality. I wouldn't like to fight Mike Tyson and find my ears been bitten off.
But no they cannot get more physical, like everyone says it will stop people buying games altogether!