Sword Art Online

....I think your making a joke right...

That's comforting. I really would like to become a bigger part of several of the communities I frequent but sometimes the people can be really offputting. There are some good people there though like Ninjawaffle, Das Tales and several others but then there are the really disgusting elitist snobs.

I don't mind if people don't like the series so long as they aren't being toxic about it. That's why I really like Nick Creamer's SAO II write ups for his blog and Anime News Network, there isn't a toxic hatred for the series but a willlingness to engage with the series and actual fondness for it, even if he doesn't think it is great and wouldn't recomend it since while he thinks it is an improvement you still have to get throught the first season. And I even like some of his MST 3 K style writes up for the first season.

edited 28th Dec '15 9:40:45 AM by RussellStar5641

I kinda just got bored with the whole thing after the Death Gun arc. Dont know why but its what I was not exactly what I expected. I'll also never understand why Sinon would leave such a perfectly good game as GGO.

I know that there is a GGO spinoff novel series.

x6 Are you saying Mobile Fighter G Gundam sucked? Dem fightin' words.

I was making a joke. I meet many of people who think and write things like my post.

They write things even worse. You need know the Zeta/Destiny thread .

And he was controling his true power.

The spanish Gundam fandom is the gate of hell.

SAO is flawed as a light novel and the anime just make the flaws bigger. The anime actually is a good adaptation, and is bad because...the source material wasn't a really good series actually.

I just want who they adapt Progressive as a OVA's series. (A-1 Picture can made a better show if they just forced Kawahara to re-write SAO, or create a totally diferent series with the same characters).

edited 28th Dec '15 12:03:35 PM by KazuyaProta

I know you were joking. That's why I said "Dem fightin' words".

If I were Reki Kawahara, I'd not only rewrite it I'd probably include more shout outs to more video game series like Final Fantasy, Fire Emblem and Shin Megami Tensei.

Yes, is obvious.

@slimcoder I also forgot that Sinon still plays GGO as she participates in 4th Bo B and it is a part of Volume 9 if I remember correctly. And she faces off agianst the newest villian Gabriel or Subtilizer, the one who steals souls, as he is known in GGO.

edited 28th Dec '15 4:11:58 PM by RussellStar5641

Oh well thats good then. I kinda got irritated by how GGO just took a major backseat after the Death Gun arc & if Sinon gives up a perfectly good & enjoyable game that she had fun with just cause she joined Kirito's group.

Yeah, in volume 9 she was also talking to Asuna about Asuna joining GGO. Apparently, if I remember correctly Sinon even has Kirito's Photon Sword and even tried to use it like he did and even as a good luck charm.

I'm still miffed that Asuna didn't join GGO with Kazuto. That would have made the series so much better.

Speaking of which, the account transfer thing (as a result of multiple games using The Seed) is pretty cool. I wonder how viable that would be in real life?

In theory, there's no reason I can think of as to why you couldn't have some kind of global account.

In practice, not only would it never happen but it'd be a horrible idea.

Another reason to pray Kayaba-sama!

To elaborate on : there's a few key issues with any global identity provider, namely:

• What's considered "global information" vs "local information"? You can make a case for keeping some kind of unique identifier, but for stuff like game-specific information (skill levels or items for instance) you'd need to either a) have a system so generic as to be annoyingly hard to work with or b) maintain a separate dataset of users entirely to track your game's user data, which totally eliminates any advantage from centralization
• What organization can possibly be trusted enough to act as a monolithic source of truth for every user account for multiple systems? The closest real-world equivalent would be all the countries in the world agreeing to maintain all of their citizen information in one single database, which is practically impossible for a multitude of reasons

The series handwaves this question away by saying user data is stored locally on the Nerv Gear...which is completely stupid and would never be done in a real multiplayer game because of reasons like, say, cheating. Cheating which would take the form of literally exactly how Kirito gets his godmode shortcut powers at the start of the ALO arc.

Ugh, anytime SAO explains how its game functions it actually infuriates me because literally no actual software developer would design games this way.

edited 28th Dec '15 6:28:50 PM by moberemk

So I just got to the part where he has returned to the real world. Am I going to miss anything plot important if I skip over scenes his adoptive sister is in or is she just there for a very uncomfortable love triangle subplot?

It may actually be better if you skip those, just for not having to sit through the awkwardness. You won't really miss much at all, in the anime at least.

Ya know, Kazuto's harem might be more tolerable if Asuna was around more often.

Not really, considering he's supposed to be anti-social.

I suppose but Kazuto supposedly being antisocial went straight out the window right at the beginning of the story. The guy's not even asocial (what everyone means when they say "antisocial").

Don't trust them, they ship Kirito/Asuna they're against polygamy!

edited 29th Dec '15 12:01:21 PM by Soble

Then why keep his supposed anti-social behavior? This is why I prefer SAO Abriged

Don't trust them, I love High School Dx D and Cat Planet Cuties and often support the harem option.

Because Kawahara Reki isn't that great of a writer. I also prefer SAO Abridged since it makes Kazuto legitimately antisocial.

I can carry on as planned then, excellent.

My only reference for abridged series is Yu-Gi-Oh, does SAO abridged have similar humour to that one?