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andrix10 said: i liked it, hated the 2nd part of sao tho as a cs go player, the gun game online reminds me of cs, especially when it writes ggo i somehow think it says csgo lol, also cs go has the real money uaction house and some other similarities How about a lightsaber that deflect bullets? |
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| The good old cold and edgy kirito-kun comes back, wearing his edgy suits and all. Oh that guy, the first who met Kirito..wait what? A random lady doing a random loud cough for no reason whatsoever. So GGO is like an MMO version of Counter Strike, eh? Kayaba is the man, trying to remind Kirito to stop the virtual murders, after he himself killed thousands of people for no reason whatsoever. Sweet Ass Online is back!  |
jfturku said: Hmm.. I gotta say this episode wasn't a bad starting episode but I hope the season isn't full of romance because kirito+ asuna is boring allthough asuna looks good. It was more interesting than no game no life though so I'll give props for that. Asuna is not going to play GGO. And if you can see in SAO II"s page, Asuna is a "supporting character" so you can assume there would be little to no romance between them. |
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Candor said: That ED theme. Is Kirito really using a saber in a game that's called "Gun" Gale Online? Well... The title is "Sword Art Online" still... And bringing a sword to a gun fight and win is what gamers love to accomplish... Seeing that this story mostly work as a self-insert fantasy, it only made sense that Kirito manage that and fanboy all over the planet will puke rainbows from the awesomeness they witness. Then they'll share the anime with their friend and create characters in MMOFPS name Kirito and strictly bring knife to a gunfight, maybe even made a guild dedicated to such. Sad... I know. |
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Candor said: The good old cold and edgy kirito-kun comes back, wearing his edgy suits and all. Oh that guy, the first who met Kirito..wait what? A random lady doing a random loud cough for no reason whatsoever. So GGO is like an MMO version of Counter Strike, eh? Kayaba is the man, trying to remind Kirito to stop the virtual murders, after he himself killed thousands of people for no reason whatsoever. He was there in Extra edition as well.He was the one that told him where Asuna is. She coughed because the guys at the next table were talking about corpses. When did KAyaba himself do that? |
AirStyles said: And bringing a sword to a gun fight and win is what gamers love to accomplish... Seeing that this story mostly work as a self-insert fantasy, it only made sense that Kirito manage that and fanboy all over the planet will puke rainbows from the awesomeness they witness. Then they'll share the anime with their friend and create characters in MMOFPS name Kirito and strictly bring knife to a gunfight, maybe even made a guild dedicated to such. Sad... I know. Or bringing a sword to a gun's fight is a more interesting course of action, than make Kirito learn guns. And the fact that sword vs gun is always regarded as something interesting in all sorts of fictions. Still using buzzwords like self-insert. Sad... I know. |
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| WOW! Great first episode cannot to see if the entire gang will go into Gun Gale Online. Great episode!!! |
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| .hack online xD |
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| Hmm, for the first episode, ... I would say, It seems promising. We'll see in the future. :) |
therandomestguy said: ReasonDesu said: In all honesty I don't think a light-sabre is going to perform any better against sniper fire~ I was saying that's why he shouldn't be using a light saber. Just saying that, i once had 30 kills with only machete and i was leading the k/d ratio in good ol' battlefield Vietnam. It's a game and if Kirito is good with swords, why not? Episode was okey, i just hope there wont be any jelousy drama or asuna kidnapping in this season. |
A_Lonely_Jedi said: Forgetful00 said: he seriously gunna use swords against guns... Lightsaber not swords. :P  |
Candor said: Sweet Ass Online is back! Dat ass. Though it was sweet and all, it felt kinda weird seeing Kirito and Asuna going out on a date together. Can't wait to see him actually logging in and playing GGO. For Kirito, a normal sword won't do... it has to be a freaking lightsaber. |
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| Not a bad first episode actually. GGO's world looks overall better and more original than Aincrad, the little Kirito Asuna moments were kinda sweet (I don't even understand why, given how much I hated how they handled the romance in the first season) and the whole Death Gun plot thingy could prove itself to be interesting, if done right. Still not buying the idea that people still play VR games only one year after the SAO mass murder, tho. PS: can't wait for Kirita to light-sabre her ennemies into submission. |
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Sapewloth said: Not a bad first episode actually. GGO's world looks overall better and more original than Aincrad, the little Kirito Asuna moments were kinda sweet (I don't even understand why, given how much I hated how they handled the romance in the first season) and the whole Death Gun plot thingy could prove itself to be interesting, if done right. Still not buying the idea that people still play VR games only one year after the SAO mass murder, tho. PS: can't wait for Kirita to laser saber her ennemies into submission. I assume you are not a gamer? Id kill for VR technology like that. Its like a wet dream. Id choose VR over 72 of the hottest virgins in the world. But yeah the series is not to to a bad start. Altough it does have some flaws in the technological background of the plot that as a VR fanatic I particularly didnt exactly like to see. I wrote a pretty lengthy post so if youre interested click here |
| @baki Lol yes, I am. I'd love a VR too. But to the point of risking my life for that shit? Nope sir. |
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Sapewloth said: @baki Lol yes, I am. I'd love a VR too. But to the point of risking my life for that shit? Nope sir. Unlike SAO tough its not certain death. Its just one guy with a gun that kills people and people didnt know beforehand he even existed. So there only was a chance something like that MIGHT happen again. There is a chance I die walking down the street, trippin and splittin my head open, so Id take the risk and play VR games as long as it was only a small chance of something like death happening and not a high probability. |
baki502 said: Sapewloth said: @baki Lol yes, I am. I'd love a VR too. But to the point of risking my life for that shit? Nope sir. Unlike SAO tough its not certain death. Its just one guy with a gun that kills people and people didnt know beforehand he even existed. So there only was a chance something like that MIGHT happen again. There is a chance I die walking down the street, trippin and splittin my head open, so Id take the risk and play VR games as long as it was only a small chance of something like death happening and not a high probability. Unlike SAO though, GGO and all other games as well as the gear are 100% safe. |
| To all people complaining about sword in a "GUN" game...Did you ever play Counter Strike?if you played that game in a pro/semi-pro level there is no better weapon than knife in close encounter...So why not bring a Lightsaber? |
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Playing said: Not many people think first episode is decent. I find it useless and boring, oh and the so called "date" with Asuna was the most boring thing I ever watched in my life. Clearly you haven't watch a lot of things if you call that the most boring thing you ever watched. |
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LonelyWizard said: To all people complaining about sword in a "GUN" game...Did you ever play Counter Strike?if you played that game in a pro/semi-pro level there is no better weapon than knife in close encounter...So why not bring a Lightsaber? Because how often are you in such a close encounter that a knife is useful? Lets be real here 90% of the time a knife is useless. So yes it is utter bullshit that he can compete with a sword. But since when has SAO been believable? Its a bunch of mindless fun and people should take it as that. |
baki502 said: LonelyWizard said: To all people complaining about sword in a "GUN" game...Did you ever play Counter Strike?if you played that game in a pro/semi-pro level there is no better weapon than knife in close encounter...So why not bring a Lightsaber? Because how often are you in such a close encounter that a knife is useful? Lets be real here 90% of the time a knife is useless. So yes it is utter bullshit that he can compete with a sword. But since when has SAO been believable? Its a bunch of mindless fun and people should take it as that. No it isnt. Every high level player of GGO would be able to do the same stuff Kirito does if they were using the same weapon. They only reason they dont isnt because they arent sword maniacs. |
| Interesting episode, didn't expect to like it so much. Nothing to complain quality-wise and an interesting setting. Looking forward to the next episode. |
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baki502 said: unless you are the best sword user in the damn world that argument may be true,and even though i dont know how things will turn out to be,i assume he will have a sniper support...so in that situation i would go full close combat(he will have max agility or some shit like that,dont forget it) :ILonelyWizard said: To all people complaining about sword in a "GUN" game...Did you ever play Counter Strike?if you played that game in a pro/semi-pro level there is no better weapon than knife in close encounter...So why not bring a Lightsaber? Because how often are you in such a close encounter that a knife is useful? Lets be real here 90% of the time a knife is useless. So yes it is utter bullshit that he can compete with a sword. But since when has SAO been believable? Its a bunch of mindless fun and people should take it as that. -Riptide- said: Playing said: Not many people think first episode is decent. I find it useless and boring, oh and the so called "date" with Asuna was the most boring thing I ever watched in my life. Clearly you haven't watch a lot of things if you call that the most boring thing you ever watched. |
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baki502 said: So I just rewatched the SAO II episode in all peace and I am not quite sure about it. Quite honestly the episode itself was solid, but too little actually happened to really tell. The VR talk Kirito had with Asuna was for me quite interesting and actually kinda retold my view on VR word by word. However it already is hinting that its going to be rather Deus ex on the techonological level yet again. Tl,dr; at the end of the post. tl,dr: SAO has magic. |
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ssjokg said: baki502 said: Because how often are you in such a close encounter that a knife is useful? Lets be real here 90% of the time a knife is useless. So yes it is utter bullshit that he can compete with a sword. But since when has SAO been believable? Its a bunch of mindless fun and people should take it as that. No it isnt. Every high level player of GGO would be able to do the same stuff Kirito does if they were using the same weapon. They only reason they dont isnt because they arent sword maniacs. No. A sword is simply inferior to a gun. Fact. Sure a skilled swordsman would win against a guy whos hardly ever held a gun before, but if both are of equal skill the gunman will win 100% of the time. There are like 2 people or something in the world hat can slice a bullet in 2. Well good luck slicing all the bullets of a bloody machine gun. Guns > swords its an indisputable fact. Why do you think no one fights wars with swords if they could be just as effective? But anyway while its bullshit its entertaining bullshit. I mean lets be honest its just as much bullshit in Star wars but we still like it. Its not realistic and not believable but as long as its fun its good. But lets not pretend it totally makes sense. |
baki502 said: yea i was not trying to say Sword>Gun since people have 2 hands you can use both and a sword is not completely useless and also as you said its a fun bullshitssjokg said: No it isnt. Every high level player of GGO would be able to do the same stuff Kirito does if they were using the same weapon. They only reason they dont isnt because they arent sword maniacs. No. A sword is simply inferior to a gun. Fact. Sure a skilled swordsman would win against a guy whos hardly ever held a gun before, but if both are of equal skill the gunman will win 100% of the time. There are like 2 people or something in the world hat can slice a bullet in 2. Well good luck slicing all the bullets of a bloody machine gun. Guns > swords its an indisputable fact. Why do you think no one fights wars with swords if they could be just as effective? But anyway while its bullshit its entertaining bullshit. I mean lets be honest its just as much bullshit in Star wars but we still like it. Its not realistic and not believable but as long as its fun its good. But lets not pretend it totally makes sense. |
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Unlucky-kat said: baki502 said: So I just rewatched the SAO II episode in all peace and I am not quite sure about it. Quite honestly the episode itself was solid, but too little actually happened to really tell. The VR talk Kirito had with Asuna was for me quite interesting and actually kinda retold my view on VR word by word. However it already is hinting that its going to be rather Deus ex on the techonological level yet again. Tl,dr; at the end of the post. tl,dr: SAO has magic. Hmm interesting. Well that atleast gives it a chance to bring a more believable explanation, cause no matter how if it where possible trough the Amusphere again they could have in no way made it believable. Im looking forward to seeing the actual reason. |
baki502 said: ssjokg said: No it isnt. Every high level player of GGO would be able to do the same stuff Kirito does if they were using the same weapon. They only reason they dont isnt because they arent sword maniacs. No. A sword is simply inferior to a gun. Fact. Sure a skilled swordsman would win against a guy whos hardly ever held a gun before, but if both are of equal skill the gunman will win 100% of the time. There are like 2 people or something in the world hat can slice a bullet in 2. Well good luck slicing all the bullets of a bloody machine gun. Guns > swords its an indisputable fact. Why do you think no one fights wars with swords if they could be just as effective? But anyway while its bullshit its entertaining bullshit. I mean lets be honest its just as much bullshit in Star wars but we still like it. Its not realistic and not believable but as long as its fun its good. But lets not pretend it totally makes sense. That is a fact for irl.I dont know why you brought that up in a vrmmo game discussion. We are talking about a "future" VRMMO FPS with mechanics that allow the players Just because "that doesnt make sense"(although it is well explained) it doesnt mean it is bullshit. Many things in FMA,Berserk,EVA etc simply dont make sense if we forget their premise. Why is it so hard to remember that SAO is about VR VIDEOGAMES? |
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ssjokg said: Just because "that doesnt make sense"(although it is well explained) it doesnt mean it is bullshit. Many things in FMA,Berserk,EVA etc simply dont make sense if we forget their premise. Why is it so hard to remember that SAO is about VR VIDEOGAMES? Because that would make for a shitty game. A sword is obviously better in close combat, if it where also just as good as a gun at mid to long range the balance of the game would be simply awful. And that means GGO would be a really shitty game. You see I am also considering it as a VIDEOGAME. And vdeogames need balance or otherwise people stop playing it. |
baki502 said: ssjokg said: Just because "that doesnt make sense"(although it is well explained) it doesnt mean it is bullshit. Many things in FMA,Berserk,EVA etc simply dont make sense if we forget their premise. Why is it so hard to remember that SAO is about VR VIDEOGAMES? Because that would make for a shitty game. A sword is obviously better in close combat, if it where also just as good as a gun at mid to long range the balance of the game would be simply awful. And that means GGO would be a really shitty game. You see I am also considering it as a VIDEOGAME. And vdeogames need balance or otherwise people stop playing it. It has nothing to do with the sword but the player. If the player CAN avoid bullets, whether he is using a handgun or a sword it means nothing. The sword doesnt affect the balance at all. |
| Quite a good episode , well adapted from the novel , a bit slow paced , but will pick up after the initial foundation is laid. |
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ssjokg said: baki502 said: Because that would make for a shitty game. A sword is obviously better in close combat, if it where also just as good as a gun at mid to long range the balance of the game would be simply awful. And that means GGO would be a really shitty game. You see I am also considering it as a VIDEOGAME. And vdeogames need balance or otherwise people stop playing it. It has nothing to do with the sword but the player. If the player CAN avoid bullets, whether he is using a handgun or a sword it means nothing. The sword doesnt affect the balance at all. Hmm youve got a point, its not really the sword that is the problem but the stats,skills and attributes that you can have. Oh well Ill give it the benefit of the doubt for now, but it seems in general rather silly to make an fps with high stats dependendance and leveling AND make it professional. Proffessional players usually like the fps that put you on equal footin, look at CS no level no stats, everyone has acces to all the guns from the beginning. But yeah for now Ill give it the benefit of the doubt. |
| Hmm... It is a quite good first episode, but there is something i don't understand. Is it Kiritos and Asunas first meeting after a long time, since their graduation? I'm a little bit confused. If someone who could explain it to me, that would be nice. |
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David2skills said: Hmm... It is a quite good first episode, but there is something i don't understand. Is it Kiritos and Asunas first meeting after a long time, since their graduation? I'm a little bit confused. If someone who could explain it to me, that would be nice. Bad romance scene. baki502 said: ssjokg said: It has nothing to do with the sword but the player. If the player CAN avoid bullets, whether he is using a handgun or a sword it means nothing. The sword doesnt affect the balance at all. Hmm youve got a point, its not really the sword that is the problem but the stats,skills and attributes that you can have. Oh well Ill give it the benefit of the doubt for now, but it seems in general rather silly to make an fps with high stats dependendance and leveling AND make it professional. Proffessional players usually like the fps that put you on equal footin, look at CS no level no stats, everyone has acces to all the guns from the beginning. But yeah for now Ill give it the benefit of the doubt. As you saw in the beginning of the ep, there was a huge issue with the stats of GGO. I dont know if it is silly since I was never interested on making(or spending) money from mmo. They arent really on equal footing.Even without levels and stats playtime exp plays a lot. Thats why I prefer games that have level ups or at least restrict access to weapons based on rank like Crossfire. |
David2skills said: Hmm... It is a quite good first episode, but there is something i don't understand. Is it Kiritos and Asunas first meeting after a long time, since their graduation? I'm a little bit confused. If someone who could explain it to me, that would be nice. This will be explained in the second arc of this season but basically Kirito and Asuna lives kinda far away and Asuna's familiy isn't very fond of Kirito so they barely meet in real life. But they usually hang out in ALO. There is more to it but it will(hopefully assuming A-1 will still follow the LNs) be explained later on when Asuna becomes the main character of the second arc. |
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Unlucky-kat said: It still doesnt make sense that they act as if they havent seen its other since forever.David2skills said: Hmm... It is a quite good first episode, but there is something i don't understand. Is it Kiritos and Asunas first meeting after a long time, since their graduation? I'm a little bit confused. If someone who could explain it to me, that would be nice. This will be explained in the second arc of this season but basically Kirito and Asuna lives kinda far away and Asuna's familiy isn't very fond of Kirito so they barely meet in real life. But they usually hang out in ALO. There is more to it but it will(hopefully assuming A-1 will still follow the LNs) be explained later on when Asuna becomes the main character of the second arc. |
Unlucky-kat said: David2skills said: Hmm... It is a quite good first episode, but there is something i don't understand. Is it Kiritos and Asunas first meeting after a long time, since their graduation? I'm a little bit confused. If someone who could explain it to me, that would be nice. This will be explained in the second arc of this season but basically Kirito and Asuna lives kinda far away and Asuna's familiy isn't very fond of Kirito so they barely meet in real life. But they usually hang out in ALO. There is more to it but it will(hopefully assuming A-1 will still follow the LNs) be explained later on when Asuna becomes the main character of the second arc. I see, tyvm ^^ Well i'm not a LN reader though, but it was something, that was on my mind for a quite a bit time. Well i guess i could take my rating a little bit up? I'm normally rate animes on the get go and changing them throughout the series :P I have some high hopes for this season, and hopefully the pacing will not destroy the anime. |
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galimx said: So Kirito will have a male or female avatar? Or a male avatar that looks like female? trap? Im confused. Any LN readers? Answer in bold. |
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| Basically a setup episode for the future events of SAOII? Not bad.. Cute romance moments, If only they did not seemed forced, I guess that's why LN readers say A-1 fucked up a lot. Already one year huh? Also no more Asuna for the 1 cour? Hmm, it sucks because she's my fav character in this series. CG bullet, yuck. But I guess we'll get to see a lot of that from now on. Dat Shinon sniping was cool though. Also, Shinon's VA is a big plus. Imo, ED animation sequence could have been better but those light saber deflected bullets was fucking BA. Let's see how this goes.. |
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| I liked the atmosphere of the first episode, it seems that will be better than previous seasons, just do not know if Kirito shemale get used to, it seems to me just fanservice, only the purported explanations of it want to 'hide' and bla bla bla. I hope it's as much romance as the other arches, but with 24 episodes, I think it has a lot further forward. I liked the ost's, the animation was Mid Pro A-1, but nothing that displeased. |
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| Great episode. Its nice to see that they paid more attention at adapting stuff from the novel and its not as rushed. The tone and everything is just right and the animation is damn beautiful. 10/10 so far. Theodoricos said: It's a freaking lightsaber. Better in close combat, OP or not, I'm giving it a pass. I just want to see some cool and stylish action. Also its not unusual for mmo games to have cross-promotional items from other mediums(ex: you can get fairy tail character outfits in mabinogi heroes and phantasy star online 2 had promo events with both shit-tier mahouka and less-shit-tier Attack on Titan), so even if the item might be an outlet, its not surprising to be there. Adding stuff like that is common practice. |
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