Comments on: Could you run as far as your WoW character?

By: Jenn Frank

Jenn Frank — Sun, 31 May 2009 23:11:35 +0000

While I get where you’re coming from—and yes, I’ve been told walking is healthier for you than running or jogging—I do like the shift toward ‘real movement’ that Catarine is talking about. Besides the health benefits, controlling games with your body is potentially more immersive: think VR, think drumming games, think arcade motorcycle games where you have to sway your entire body to steer.

By: danawhitaker

danawhitaker — Sun, 31 May 2009 20:24:59 +0000

I’m already fit – I weigh about 120 pounds and am 5’10”. Not all people who play video games and/or who are geeks are ridiculously overweight, or even overweight at all in many cases. It’s a neat experiment, but not something I’d personally want to do. Running isn’t very good for your knees, more than one doctor has told me that, and there are other ways to exercise and stay fit, including dietary changes.

There are plenty of overweight people in the world, I’m sick and tired of the gamer group being picked on for it more than others. It’s an often untrue stereotype. Most of the people I know who have weight problems are above the age of 40-50 and have never even played games, and aren’t geeks.

By: Jenn Frank

Jenn Frank — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:12:41 +0000

Why, there is a device you could buy, incidentally. It's called the GameRunner, and it's made for use with many first-person PC games.

By: tab

tab — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:27:28 +0000

if blizzard made something like this i would buy it.

By: catarine

catarine — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:05:28 +0000

I think that this is where videogames should go. The Wii has already kind of introduced it; if the players have to run as much as the characters, then gamers and geeks might be the fit, buff, cool guys and girls in the future.
Geeks rule the world.

By: Jenn Frank

Jenn Frank — Fri, 15 May 2009 05:59:59 +0000

Oh, weird. Thanks for the heads-up—I’ve updated the video link, which someone must’ve dutifully nicked before the original YouTube stuff was pulled.

By: theLorax

theLorax — Thu, 14 May 2009 03:40:22 +0000

FYI, the youtube vid and corresponding page have been removed

And can you IMAGINE trying this in FFXI? You’d be in marathon shape in NO time.
actually it would be a LOT of time, because your spend MOST of your time traveling, especially if you’re on foot.
if WoW and FFXI had some sort of mutant child, it would be a force to be reckoned with. i’d play the hell out of it anyway.

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By: librarian

librarian — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:40:10 +0000

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By: pauljeremiah

pauljeremiah — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:21:45 +0000

oh sorry to hear you’ve left FFXI, i’m just after buying it for the PC