The Gamer

Here's your serving of one average high schooler who one day finds himself in possession of a supernatural ability and later on gets involved in the mysterious action fantasy side of his world.

Yes, pretty generic, and the writing in general is amateur.

What makes it fun is the nature of the power that our lead has— it lets him interact with the world as if it were a video game.

We have a trope page for it.

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Chapter 23: A training episode, and a good showcase of just how overpowered the Gamer ability is.

edited 10th Feb '14 12:32:13 AM by fillerdude

I'm bumping this, because this needs to be bumped.

This.

This needs an adaptation. It's hilarious, full of fun. It's the good kind of generic.

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.....Oh wow, I did NOT expect this webtoon (Korean webcomic is often referred as webtoon) to have a page and a thread here. Not only that, it seems to be pretty popular in English community. Heh, nice.

It's interesting. It's generic. 40+ chapters in, and there is no sense of conflict or tension. The characters are mostly flat as well.

And yet it's endlessly entertaining that I just can't drop it.

By the way, in the original Webtoon site where this is published, every chapter there is a METRIC TONS of comments in the forms of sexual innuendos. Like, almost all 5000+ of them.

Sort of like....

"So he has a girl in his room, and recently acquired binding skill. I've seen enough hentai to know where this is going."

I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.

I originally found this when someone told me that it's what Sword Art Online would look like with all the grinding on-screen. I expected it to be terrible. But it's surprisingly awesome and hilarious.

To be fair, it is kind of terrible, storywise. Very entertaining, though!

I haven't really thought about it before, but do webtoon artists have editors? This is a work that needs one.

I will push for an adaptation of the genderflipped AU. I don't care how little sense that makes!

On a side note: activity in this thread! Hurrah.

edited 6th Jul '14 8:14:42 AM by fillerdude

The start was pretty good, nice and entertaining. Shame about the main character and his idiot ball though, he was on the right track with how overpowered his power is but even when he's got people trying to enslave him he just squanders it.

No, and yes, this could use one.

Yeah, that probably won't be addressed further until this gets over the main character playing around with his power phrase.

I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.

I just hope he puts a few points into WIS next time, then he can start making good decisions. It doesn't even have to be much, another ten and he'll be cleverer than his friend.

edited 6th Jul '14 9:12:34 AM by Ironypus

I dunno, I thought Jee-Han is pretty smart for a protag. Sure, he's not hard-core gamer level to explore every nook and cranny of his ability, but he definitely knows the in and outs once he gets going.

I really like the art style, too. The redhead and the buddy's sister are really easy on the eyes.

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There are only a couple things I think he should have done differently, and most are minor. One of the big ones is his crafting skill; he was all gung-ho about what he could do with it, and then when he actually got it (when he made the misshapen clay blob in art class) just ignored it. Depending on how it works, it could allow him to create super-advanced medicines and potions in moments.

Putting some points in Wis would also help. At least bring it up to 10 man, c'mon.

Something like potion-making may definitely require some direction, otherwise he'd be combining stuff aimlessly. These are elixirs that cost thousands upon thousands of won a gulp after all. I'd like to see this explored too, and it'll probably be by him asking further through his buddy whose name escapes me.

edited 6th Jul '14 11:33:56 AM by Nadir

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Well, yes he'll need direction, but he doesn't even know the basics of how the skill works yet. What he should do is carve a little wooden doll or something else simple. That will give him the "Craft (doll)" skill. Then he activates it and sees what happens. If he's lucky, it will just craft the object out of provided materials, and it will take far less time than if he did it manually.

I think that's mostly because of how slow the thing is in general.

I like this comic only when they actually get into game-like situations though. Which is fairly often, but whenever it tries to do things like character development or plot I'm like mehhhh.

And that Life Drain skill, man. Looks useful as hell, he's never used it.

I also find it strange how the main character didn't keep the bat he most recently acquired, if only because it didn't really seem to have a weight problem and because he had blunt weapon mastery. I mean, him running out of MP is a common enough issue.

edited 6th Jul '14 11:41:39 AM by KirigayaKazuto

MMORPGs are serious business.

There is definitely potential. Given his chemistry teacher is that sunglasses dude... as long as he knows what chemicals blow up, he can craft a mine/bomb item and then spam them when he's in a tight spot - leaving the pursuer having to get through a ton of explosives to get to him.

That thing would probably be battered out of use by now, which could use a discovery of a Repair skill somewhere, but I think he's ditched it in favour of the clan's actual weapons, like spears. It is perplexing why he doesn't keep using blunt weapons though, given his buff.

edited 6th Jul '14 11:45:16 AM by Nadir

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It's a magical bat used by an ogre (to be more specific it's actually supposed to be a super awesome bat that pretty much grants the ogre most of its superpowers, but that's not really relevant here) though, I'm pretty sure it has no issues when it comes to durability(at least compared to the other manmade, unenchanted weapons), and if we're keeping with the game theme dropped weapons can be waaaaay better than some spare mundane weapons you got for free early on.

edited 6th Jul '14 11:51:57 AM by KirigayaKazuto

MMORPGs are serious business.

He did sell it because it might be too much for his STR level, though. It fit Nuna, who seemed much more physical and was swinging it like nothing when Jee-Han said it felt like 10kg.

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That was the hammer which he visibly had an issue with. The boss drop was able to be carried relatively easily.

MMORPGs are serious business.

He needed the money more than he needed a drop that he might not have been able to use (I don't think he ever checked). That's one of the problems here—there's no real challenge. The primary villain turned out to be an Anti-Villain who is fine with letting the protagonist go about his business. The monsters are all mindless, and no threat if he's careful. Even those bounty hunter guys got dealt with quickly. The story needs a major shake-up. He's powerful enough at this point that he can face a real villain without getting instantly curbstomped; it's a good time to introduce an actual threat.

I'm banking on someone with a similar ability as him being the villain, like a shadow counterpart. He may be a fellow gamer who uses his ability for selfish means, yet differs from the MC in that he actually knows what he wants out of life, heinous as it is.

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I'm thinking a similar ability instead of a straight up copy of The Gamer. Maybe the Fanfic Writer?

...hell, it already sounds evil!

Hmm...I wonder if the MC can hack the reality.

If he can, one of the villains definitely will.

I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.

It's fun to compare Gamer and Dice. The difference is staggering, lol.

lol

Ah, I remember how two fandoms, when the Gamer was first released, had a massive shitfights on who copied who. Fun times were had.

I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.

Dice?

MMORPGs are serious business.

Another webtoon (I assume) about people discovering magic powers that let them raise their stats like a video game. It's a much darker story though, mostly about how these powers turn people into arrogant jerks.