Wii fit step plus

[jack]

Something that is for no particular reason incredibly annoying is some of the features of wii fit step plus. The idea is, you step on and off the balance board to the rhythm. However, there are two different rhythms, the music, and the "chrip" made whenever you step. You are absolutely required to keep time with the FIRST rhythm. Guess whether they made the SECOND rhythm louder than the first?

Also, experiments with rats have shown that counterintuitively but truly, an inconsistent reward for an action can be MORE addictive than a reliable reward. Presumably it trips some sort of "I need to pay attention to this" instinct, whereas reliable things you can relax about as they're already in hand. Thus is EVERY step on the balance board registers, the game is relaxing and fun. If 90% register, and the game randomly stops for 4 seconds at unpredictable intervals, it's aggravating!

I should stipulate that I am aware that some things can be annoying, whilst also being natural, justified and/or inevitable. Things I am actually entitled to have fixed, I act on in a more direct way. Things that I am NOT entitled to have fixed, but aggravate me anyway, I rant about on the internet.

Comments

[lnr]

Actually the main thing *I* find aggravating about the step routines on the wii fit is that they didn't introduce more of them!

[jack]

That would also be very nice -- I've any number of ideas that may or may not already exist, but it would be very nice to have :)

I mean, where are the spaceships you control by waltzing? That's absolutely MADE for the wii fit, yet it's not in the base package :)

[kaolinfire.livejournal.com]

My main wish is that there were less of a barrier to developing for the platform. :)

But while we're wishing, I want some sort of "share scores with friends" feature.

[jack]

Yeah, I wondered what was available for people for deveopment, and googled, and was very disappointed :( :)