Log Horizon
| Although i'm not a fan of sao but i've seen people comparing both of this anime |
| Thanks @sudoheathen i might check it out. |
| Nope, SAO is actually fun to watch. Log Horizon was boring as fuck. |
| Depends on your viewpoint. Log Horizon has better writing, SAO is more fun to watch. Take your pick |
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| I would express the difference as "Log Horison is a strategy, not unlike Maoyuu or Gate, while SAO is an adventure like Full Metal Alchemist and many others." |
| @Dendorone and glasses. Log horizon without glasses would be much worse... jokes aside, I agree with you more or less. I think Log horizon, SAO, .hack and a few other animes/mangas/games share one concept: virtual reality where you can feel, taste, hear, smell and touch everything. The thing is that they put different pressure on things. SAO cares about people in real life & devices. Log horizon is more about living in the virtual world. Lubricus said: Why are they fighting why do people behave like dicks when everything is just fine even if they don't do anything? I can't stop thinking that if I where in the log horizon game I would have tried to escape. Or make a good living cooking awesome food and start the coolest in on the server with great parties and wake up hang over in the cathedral with someones underwear I don't recognize. What would happen in a world where you don't need to pay your bill and work for your food? I think most of this has been answered in Log Horizon Spoilers (don't remember season nor episode! - might be massive spoilers, so.. yeah) Food: No fights: |
| Log Horizon is nice until the swap of MCs, and then proceeds to be one of the most boring things existing, you should try it tho, most of the 1st season is good. |
 Oshii is probably the only director that loves dogs. He thinks he's a dog himself. That's right, its slime! It will dissolve your clothing slowly before my eyes! |
Lubricus said: The characters in log Horizon is not distressed and don't think about why the are stuck in an MMO and make no attempt to escape! They accept the situation that they are in. They can't log out and there's nothing they can really do about it unlike in SAO where they were given a clear objective on how to get out. In Log Horizon, they were just randomly transported into another world with no hints on escape. They have to figure it out themselves and I doubt it would be as easy as you want it to be. There's also the conflicts that began to arise since the phenomenon occurred so they had to set their original goal aside in order to provide a fair environment for rookie players. Plus the fact that most of the players have troubled lives and are uninterested in the real world, hence why they immerse themselves in MMORPGs. As the series progresses, you can see that most of the people are actually starting to become happy which hints that they don't really want to go back or at least not now. Why are they fighting why do people behave like dicks when everything is just fine even if they don't do anything? I can't stop thinking that if I where in the log horizon game I would have tried to escape. Or make a good living cooking awesome food and start the coolest in on the server with great parties and wake up hang over in the cathedral with someones underwear I don't recognize. Because dickheads do exist in MMOs? Have you even played one? Some people just PK for no reason, scamming is prevalent, and what asshole wouldn't try to abuse the powers he was bestowed upon knowing that there really isn't much of a consequence since you just resurrect in the cathedral? It isn't just the players who cause trouble though. Some NPCs are also the root of the problem. These aren't just ordinary NPCs who are wired to do a specific thing. They have their own free will and can cause as much havoc as any other player. If that's how you want it then that's just another slice-of-life show with them killing monsters from time to time and hanging around in town. Too static and uninteresting. What would happen in a world where you don't need to pay your bill and work for your food? Guilds do pay their bills as explained in the anime. That's why there's a gold system which was tackled upon during second season. Also, cooking isn't as easy you think. You have to be a specific sub-class in order for the food to have substance and you actually need ingredients to do so. That's also the reason why there's politics in the anime. Since players aren't governed by any entity, they had to make some rules to suppress abuse and injustice among players. |
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| no, no is a little different!!! |
| What did you like about SAO? I liked the really cheesy romance in it because I am a romance nut. Sword art online is typically described as really "edgy" I enjoyed it when I first got into anime, but find it now to be not that great. Log Horizon is more "strategy" and is really enjoyable. If you liked SAO you probably will find log horizon to be at least decent, so give it a shot. |
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| As much as SAO gets flak , it is still a better show than most of its clones. Log Horizon takes away the very few good things that SAO did; Mainly it completely lacks any sense of urgency or threat which makes attempts at presenting threats just meaningless thus making the show a very long exercise in filler because it is literally set-up for nothing to happen. I'd confidently state that it's the worst SAO clone of them all despite having some actual MMO/PvP concepts down pat, it just fails at the premise and the characters offer no aid. |
| Despite not only being of the same genre but as well as having almost a very similar story, both have a surpisingly huge gap, specially in their atmosphere. Comparing the two, I'll go with Log Horizon being better. Log Horizon is a lighter version of the darker(story) SAO. In terms of character quality, I may go with SAO but with story, definitely Log Horizon. Log Horizon does have its boring moment(not really that often) but I was able to stick around with it. On the other hand, I lost it with SAO somewhere halfway til the end. Overtime, SAO just got repetitive, just with a new setting, new mysterious/powerful opponent etc. So there. Oh, and Log Horizon is simply more fun. |
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| Back then I decided to drop Log Horizon early. I watched a few episodes and didn't like that the chars just accepted being in that world (didn't try to escape) and that it felt too much like really playing an MMORPG (too much talking about strategies and stuff). Also the jokes were boring sometimes. (If I remember correctly girl hitting the armored guy and calling him pervert or something like that. The type of stuff only 14 years old would laugh about maybe.) After doing some research and watching the threads I decided to not pick it up again. I guess the show is mainly for people that play MMORPG themselves and want to see what's going to happen if you are trapped in an MMORPG and have more freedom to do stuff there. + some fights/strategies. While SAO can be entertaining to anyone. It isn't that important that they are trapped in an MMORPG. Would also have worked with a different setting. The survival plot is interesting - better than the boring stuff happening in SAO. On the other hand in the 2nd half of SAO they introduced different things/chars which made SAO worse. (Similar to the 2nd season where the 1st half was better.) |
| SAO many main plots"sao, alo, ggo, mama rosario" while Log Horizon is focus on one plot "figuring to get out while living like in the real world with fantasy at the same time". :P I like LH than SAO, every time I rewatch SAO I feel like there's cooties, honey bees, butterfly and ants looking for sugar everywhere. |
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