Sword Art Online Episode 3 Discussion

I still beleive they should have taken the whole 24 episodes for Vol 1 & 2, they had far enough material to do so and it would have made it much much better.

Maffy said:


Only the first epi? I'd think the 2nd one was main story as well since he met the other main girl! Though I don't know but it did feel like it! This one does seem too side story-ish.

I don't rly know much abt the story itself and I can only judge from what I'm seeing and what I'm seeing is rly not that good right now. But I do like the idea of this anime and I sincerely hope it'll turn better and praying that his emoness lvl will lessen by a lot cause half the time I wanna punch my screen xD

Ryser said:
As MMO gamer, it is weird to see those people waste so much time on social stuffs.

Ryser said:
As MMO gamer, it is weird to see those people waste so much time on social stuffs.
Actually, most people in hardcore I usually know are on either the quest, get exp, or farm items 90% of their online time. They never like to waste time and try their best to clear the game.

I mean.. come on~, this is life and death game, everybody would have much more motivate to clear it than any other MMO we known. So that motivation should already turn every casual players in this game into hardcore players, since they want to live!. Yet, they don't really plan to spend much time level up, but spend money to purchase house and furniture instead. And the most weird one is Kirito. He could get no any level gain stick with those people who are all just half of his level, but he loaf around with them. I 'd be surprised if Kirito become the first person to clear this game. seeing him waste a lot of time on casual stuffs, and also not doing the most efficient (not hunt with party/ group)

Basically, in Anime aspect or in real life aspect. he is doing it alright.
But in game world, it is just impossible for some solo players to catch up with people who do it with hardcore group, and spend all the time do everything in efficient way. The gap would be larger and larger, it has been months already that he has been solo, and playing in casual way, helping people. If he is lv 40 now. then Efficient group would be some what lv 90-100 already. Yet, in the anime, he look like strongest somehow. So other people around him must be really bad players then. I mean as in really really noob. (especially this group that allow some solo player to double level them)

Maddo_scientisto said:


Tell me how your gamer friend evade attacks with their own body and destroy monster with their skills and not some equipment and hurr durr clicking on the target.

kaimax said:


Honestly, you're talking about this with too much game logic.

People can't get motivated because IT IS a game of death, some people are afraid of death, and some people can't understand the concept of it because of the game logic in their minds. There's a page in the manga adaptation that shows this well.

Also Kirito is able to get ahead, because he's literally ahead of anyone. Then the fact there's the simple logic that if you hunt in groups EXP will be share by doing this alone he can get all the exp and rare items for all himself.

You must also keep in mind that all the attacks and dodges are done by their own skills moved by ones own body, IF they can't move fast enough no matter how strong their equipment they won't even hit or dodge an attack.

Kirito basically is an exceptional example that doesn't apply to our MMO logic, after getting the beta version, he spends almost all his time playing the game, and he's the only one to reach the a higher floor than anyone in the beta test. He's just more skilled than most of any players in SAO.

So, in a nutshell SAO is not a regular MMO because of the Full Dive technology.

Ryser said:

Basically, I m not cheer for elitist bad guys, but I just think that they won't lose to Kirito in a race to clear this game unless Kirito gain cheat tool as Haseo in //hack such as Avatar and Dat adrain. Logically, It is impossible.

Ragix said:
Enjoyable but rushed as hell and felt kind of out of place.

darkerealm said:
Man I feel bad for Sachi. Especially when that audio mail came. I certainly wasn't expecting her to die so soon within a single episode.

Elite60 said:
I just hate character deaths that you just met in the same episode. Not enough punch there.

kitten320 said:
You must be kidding me... We are only at episode 3 and whole year has already passed?!

F@CK YOU!

First few months is when the whole intensity of situations should be happening! Panic, fights for survival! But now it is a whole year! A time when people accept their new life!

WTF?! Author you suck and clearly have no imagination!

Splitter said:
Holy Mother in Heaven, I do believe I may be watching a contender for worst anime I've ever seen in my life.

I... I don't even know where to begin here. I thought the first two episodes were bad, but they were masterfully written compared to this. Twilight.... TWILIGHT is masterfully written compared to this. At least Twilight, for as godawful as its characters are and as godawful as its narrative is, ACTUALLY HAS CHARACTERS AND NARRATIVE. This? This is a fucking clip show.

The episode starts on Floor 11, then after the OP it picks up on Floor 20? And by the end we're in the 30s? Well, what the fuck happened between then? Is it just not important at all? If so, why even show it to begin with? Why put Kirito in a guild for 10 fucking minutes before you kill everyone in the guild? Why have Kirito get close to a girl we only became aware of as a character 10 minutes before she dies? Why does any of this even matter one iota to anyone watching?

Oh, because it shows the weight of death in the game? No it doesn't! Not even remotely! I don't give half a fuck that anyone died in this episode because the writers won't let me give even that shred of investment to any of the characters! I can't relate to Kirito's anguish over the loss of Sachi and empathize because I was only allowed 10 fucking minutes to make anything of a relationship that spanned almost a year in what can pitifully be called a storyline. It's fine if you want to go George R.R. Martin on your cast. Be my guest, but I'm not going to care at all if I'm not even allowed to get to know any of these people before they get knocked off. Sachi isn't cute or moe or any of that shit. She was cannon fodder from the start.

MFW this entire episode:

Splitter said:
Holy Mother in Heaven, I do believe I may be watching a contender for worst anime I've ever seen in my life.

flaxer said:

If you don't know, the author wrote most of the material for ep 1 - 14 when he was still in high school or something I think...just about 10 years ago or something.

Why would u expect anything great from that? HS students aren't all geniuses...

plus he hardly did much on polishing up the narrative mess that was in his 1st 2 volume. Something he is doing now / after the anime instead of before it...