Comment on Sword Art Online being a primarily single player series

bl4ckp1xx13@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Not literally, but it’s kind of a joke that the anime paints an MMORPG world and, in the best cases, you can only play with a few friends. It would be nice if we actually had a non-lethal Aincrad MMORPG instead of the sorry excuses of a cash-grab they are making every time

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  • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Except the actual MMO depicted in SAO fucking sucks. Like, once you remove the whole “Oh my God it’s like I’m really there” hyper-advanced simsense VR aspect, it’s a really shitty game. The only possible builds are DPS and Tank, there’s no magic, no ranged, nothing to make stealth viable. You can go into crafting but that’s about it for any other skills. The whole “unique skill” mechanic is basically just pure “Fuck you” RNG and would be impossible to balance. Loot gets handed out based on last hits so fuck cooperation. It’s a mess. If you made an MMO with modern tech that perfectly recreated the mechanics of SAO, no one would play it.

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    • CovertOperative@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      As an SAO fan, yeah I fully agree. Reki does not seem to care or have a clue about video game design. But despite having an interesting worldbuilding premise, the series is 100% character driven. Which probably also explains why the tie-in games are single player.

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    • SethranKada@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Lol so true

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    • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Even in the anime the random skills are just horribly balanced, doesn’t he end up being forced to join that guild after a duel where he’s objectively the better fighter but the guild leader just has a random ‘actually I can stop time’ skill?

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  • bl4ckp1xx13@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah to be fair.

    There was a VR MMORPG a few years back that was really hyped up, Zenith The Lost City I think it was called?

    Unfortunately the game died off pretty quick despite quite a succesful launch.

    I’d love to see a 2D MMORPG of Aincrad, one with proper scale.

    I’ll play the new game, but I’ll wait until my favourite fit girl gets it first ;)

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    • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’d love to see a 2D MMORPG of Aincrad, one with proper scale.

      Ragnarok. I still miss that game in the state it was in the early 2000. Those years were the golden era of the MMORPGs

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      • loke@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        There was one called A Tale in the Desert that might qualify as well. No one remembers that one? (probably not since no one is talking about it)

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