Are you ready for the most over enthusiastic trailer you've ever seen? No, I mean are you really ready? You're about to be blown over by enthusiasm for a game no one should be that enthusiastic about so you're going to need to be sitting down and have MadWorld turned on to remind you that the Wii can do cool stuff. OK, if you're ready, hit the jump and experience the trailer for Walk It Out.
It's a game about walking that even Dad can play, and if it comes with that "personal trainer" lady it will even make him punch the TV and probably turn to alcohol abuse. The amount of chipperness exuding from her is disturbing, and one wonders why a personal trainer would be so excited about a game that mimics walking when, and you can correct me if I'm wrong here, going outside and walking is even easier to do than turning your Wii on and setting everything up. From my experience personal trainers usually work to remove barriers between people and exercise.
I understand Wii Fit, and most of the other fitness games, as they offer something in your home that you may have to travel to a gym for and pay some money to do, but walking? Yes, the game let's you "walk" to beats and if you do it well it opens new areas and it has a plethora of mini-games, but if you give me 50 bucks and pop on your iPod I'll open your front door and show you a nifty little game I call Strolling Around the Block.
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Maybe people it's for people who look so hideous that they won't leave the house? Or too out of shape to engage in any physical activities without air conditioning and a restroom at hand?? For ages 70 and up???
Seriously, fresh air is good for you, get the fuck outside a little! There's trees to look at, dogshit to step in, other assholes similar to yourself to bitch about and all kinds of crazy shit out there, it's awesome! Fucking home console walking game my ass...fuck off with that, Good lord.
A walking game... let me just get this straight, in this game gameplay is actually walking!?!??!... how low has Konami fallen. Seriously Konami, seriously...
I have an idea....I should intentionally create a game for the Wii that is the most ridiculous game in history. Apparently that is the direction the wii is headed in and people keep buying the stupid thing. How about titles like "The Sound Of Farts" or "Pull My Finger." Riveting game play involving hundreds of fart sounds while the games character navigates through embarrassing places to let one rip....surely a smash hit on the wii-diculous.
Who the hell is going to play this crap? You can just play any ordinary console game, stand the fuck up, and start walking in place. The people in that video looked as if they just saw they had working legs for the first time in their damn life.
Coming soon from the makers of Walk It Out - Let's Think!
Tired of thinking by yourself, without neutrally-coloured visual aids?
Let Doctor Obviouslyarealexpert's new "legerdemain" system improve your thinking ability in a very real and satisfying way that totally justifies the exorbitant pricetag!
Also introducing the "MIND HELMET", which may be mistaken for a beanie with a Wiimote strap, if not for the extra £25 involved.
That not too much excitement for you? Do you feel the need for an even MORE Wii-centric lifestyle? Try "WE WII", the ONLY way of bringing the video game console experience to your living room!
Honestly, how the hell does someone come up with this idea and finds people willing to bank its release? It's actually amazing staring at how many awfully-looking forms human interest may shape into.
You've formed two complete sentences that don't have the words "fuck" or "shit" in them. When someone insults you for swearing too much swearing more makes even an intelligent come back irrelevant.
This game will make money. Moms who want to get their videogame loving children to lose some weight and interact with the family will buy it, with hopes that it will trick them into moving.
It wont.
Still, that part where you create a town while you're stomping your feet might be sort of awesome.
I'm so sorry I've displeased you, oh God of Intellect, as I'm so very concerned with your opinion. Yes, when not engaged in thoughtful discourse concerning a topic that merits such behavior, I tend to swear a lot, holy fuck. If you're going to act like a douche, at least add some profile info so I can attempt to deduce what grade of asshole I'm talking to...or I could just ignore you...hmm, yep, I think I'll ignore you.
Maybe my mind is just too dirty, but if you take all the lines that woman says and apply them instead to, say, a video about sex, it would still work. How super-creepy is that?
I don't know whether Nintendo do this in the States, but here in Australia we have lame celebrities like Olivia Newton John advertising Wii Fit and Brain Training. As a result I've had hourdes of old fuddy-duddies coming into my work asking for "that thing Olivia Newton John" is playing. It honestly makes me want to die.
I can see them employing the same strategy to drive sales for this piece of crapola. And when that happens I will commit suicide.
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4:30 PM on 07.11.2009
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Also, why do the companies even send you videos like this, when they know all that could come from it is getting made fun of?
Maybe people it's for people who look so hideous that they won't leave the house?
Or too out of shape to engage in any physical activities without air conditioning and a restroom at hand??
For ages 70 and up???
Seriously, fresh air is good for you, get the fuck outside a little! There's trees to look at, dogshit to step in, other assholes similar to yourself to bitch about and all kinds of crazy shit out there, it's awesome! Fucking home console walking game my ass...fuck off with that, Good lord.
I agree with everything you said and I still want to troll you for expressing it like an eighth grader trying to be cool.
@JonB & Dexter: and that makes 3 of us.
What utter garbage.
Tired of thinking by yourself, without neutrally-coloured visual aids?
Let Doctor Obviouslyarealexpert's new "legerdemain" system improve your thinking ability in a very real and satisfying way that totally justifies the exorbitant pricetag!
Also introducing the "MIND HELMET", which may be mistaken for a beanie with a Wiimote strap, if not for the extra £25 involved.
That not too much excitement for you? Do you feel the need for an even MORE Wii-centric lifestyle? Try "WE WII", the ONLY way of bringing the video game console experience to your living room!
/satire end.
Honestly, how the hell does someone come up with this idea and finds people willing to bank its release? It's actually amazing staring at how many awfully-looking forms human interest may shape into.
You've formed two complete sentences that don't have the words "fuck" or "shit" in them. When someone insults you for swearing too much swearing more makes even an intelligent come back irrelevant.
It wont.
Still, that part where you create a town while you're stomping your feet might be sort of awesome.
I guess the outside world must be scary.
I'm so sorry I've displeased you, oh God of Intellect, as I'm so very concerned with your opinion. Yes, when not engaged in thoughtful discourse concerning a topic that merits such behavior, I tend to swear a lot, holy fuck. If you're going to act like a douche, at least add some profile info so I can attempt to deduce what grade of asshole I'm talking to...or I could just ignore you...hmm, yep, I think I'll ignore you.
Me. I totally did. Had to read it about 3 times before I got it right lol.
I can see them employing the same strategy to drive sales for this piece of crapola. And when that happens I will commit suicide.
Me. I totally did. Had to read it about 3 times before I got it right lol."
I had to go back after reading this post and only then noticed it didn't say that XD