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VeryVileVillian Since: Dec, 2017
#1351: Jun 20th 2020 at 6:26:56 AM

Nevertheless, YGGDRASIL still sounds as an increddibly broken game.

Adannor (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#1352: Jun 20th 2020 at 6:48:50 AM

Games with more strictly regulated mechanics are not as fun to write powertrips about, soo yeah.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#1353: Jun 20th 2020 at 6:49:18 AM

Remember this was a game that had deliberate Game-Breaker items in the form of World Class Items. And among them they had the Twenty which were so broken they were outright game changers. The developers couldn't even figure out how to program in the usual immunity provided by World Class Items against other World Class Items when it came to the effects of Five Elements Overcoming.

Five Elements Overcoming btw is the WCI that lets make a request to the devs to change the magic system of the game itself. Which is huge.

And it's strongly implied that either this or Ouroboros (which has a similar effect) is what introduced Tier Magic to the New World and weakened Wild Magic.

One Youtube vid theorized that the Six Gods used Ouroboros and Five Elements Overcoming together to enable Translator Microbes and YGGDRASIL abilities when they arrived in the New World. With their powers as level 100 Players made real in the New World, they singlehandedly saved humanity from the brink of extinction.

Edited by M84 on Jun 20th 2020 at 9:55:08 PM

Disgusted, but not surprised
Cross (Don’t ask)
#1354: Jun 20th 2020 at 8:40:42 AM

[up][up] Is there a series, doesn't have to be an isekai, that does that?

Adannor (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#1355: Jun 20th 2020 at 9:11:29 AM

You mean one that doesn't have mad gamebreakery going?

It is actually kind of a small subgenre I think. VRMMO slice of life without getting stuck in it or being megacheaty OP.

I've run into a handful but didn't stick with reading any, so I can't point them out from memory.

Edited by Adannor on Jun 20th 2020 at 7:13:44 PM

Cross (Don’t ask)
#1356: Jun 20th 2020 at 9:22:02 AM

Gamebreakery is fine as long the characters don't goes Shalltear on the mechanics. Doesn't even need to a "game" setting, just characters being aware of the mechanics they're dealing with.

Prime32 Since: Jan, 2001
#1357: Jun 21st 2020 at 2:09:41 PM

Infinite Dendrogram has one of the most ludicrously broken in-story MM Os around (there's stuff in there which would make Ainz sit down and cry)... but everyone is bullshit, and it ends up being a bunch of Puzzle Bosses fighting each other.

Edited by Prime32 on Jun 21st 2020 at 10:26:07 AM

shanejayell Since: Jun, 2011
#1358: May 6th 2021 at 4:59:54 PM

Anyone know what the Overlord announcement is?

doineedaname from Eastern US Since: Nov, 2010
#1359: May 6th 2021 at 6:11:43 PM

Apparently the announcement isn't until the 8th but there's leakers claiming that the announcement is that a season 4 and movie will be announced on the 8th.

KouTheMad The Grey Sith from Korriban Since: May, 2012 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
The Grey Sith
#1360: May 7th 2021 at 4:53:09 PM

Oh please yes.

Sanity is the Lie, there is only Madness.
slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#1361: May 8th 2021 at 5:10:18 AM

Alright official confirmation, season 4 and film project.

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
shanejayell Since: Jun, 2011
#1362: May 8th 2021 at 5:43:59 AM

Yaaay!

(Not joking, I was almost expecting some 'We're gonna have a limited edition cafe' announcement or something.)

Or a game tie-in.

doineedaname from Eastern US Since: Nov, 2010
#1363: May 8th 2021 at 8:52:33 AM

The terrible cgi from last season has massively decreased any enthusiasm for more seasons with hiw likely it is to get more bad jokes like the end of season 3.

shanejayell Since: Jun, 2011
#1364: May 8th 2021 at 9:33:48 AM

Uhm, they literally did two seasons back to back. So shit going wrong is not surprising.

I DO wish more efforts had been put in for fixing it on the Blu-ray. Especially after all the complaints on the TV version.

burnout02urza Since: May, 2021 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#1365: Jul 1st 2021 at 10:54:06 PM

Frankly, the most broken item so far is the hourglass that allows you to quick-cast Super-Tier Magic. An item like that isn't just a huge benefit, it's basically MANDATORY. It'd be impossible to use Super-Tier Magic without using an hourglass every time, because it's so slow.

That's huge. Imagine if there was a cash shop item in World of Warcraft that, I dunno, refreshed all your cooldowns.

"Your words are fire giants, assaulting the Asgard of my mind."
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#1366: Jul 1st 2021 at 11:01:31 PM

The in-universe Gamebreakers are the World Class Items.

Disgusted, but not surprised
SebastianGray (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#1367: Dec 17th 2021 at 11:25:04 AM

Bumping this for the season 4 announcement

The official website for the anime adaptations of Kugane Maruyama's Overlord light novel series revealed a new visual and promotional video for Overlord IV, the anime's fourth season, on Friday. The video reveals the anime's 2022 premiere date.

Visual

Looking forward to this.

JG98 Since: Feb, 2014
#1368: Dec 17th 2021 at 1:14:21 PM

[up] Not looking forward to the hundreds of Ainz apologists who will inevitably pop up.

Arha Since: Jan, 2010
#1369: Dec 17th 2021 at 3:52:00 PM

What would this anime season be covering anyway? Did the anime get to the happy funtime goats yet? Or maybe the totally pointless moleman genocide?

JG98 Since: Feb, 2014
#1370: Dec 17th 2021 at 3:54:57 PM

[up] The anime went as far as the goats and Gazef's death.

Arha Since: Jan, 2010
#1371: Dec 17th 2021 at 5:25:01 PM

Hmm. That might actually leave time for the holy kingdom arc which is definitely Ainz at his moral best. Yes, definitely. Surely no one could find any issue with what he and Nazarick do there.

JG98 Since: Feb, 2014
#1372: Dec 17th 2021 at 5:51:08 PM

Yes, definitely. Besides, the Holy Kingdom arc has Neia, and her interpretation of Ainz's character and actions cannot possibly be flawed or colored by her personal bias. Unlike that autistic idiot Remedios.

Right?

Edited by JG98 on Dec 17th 2021 at 5:51:49 AM

Arha Since: Jan, 2010
#1373: Dec 17th 2021 at 6:51:27 PM

Something to look forward to, huh. But the anime does tend to make Ainz look better than he is.

Y'know, I don't think I even finished the second season.

slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
Arha Since: Jan, 2010
#1375: Dec 17th 2021 at 9:53:44 PM

Her popularity never fails to confuse me. Also that game better have truly horrifying deaths in it.


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