Poll: Would you ever play a "real" Sword Art Online?

[infohippie]

Where's the option for "Fuck yes, strap me in right now bitches and don't forget to hook up the IV and catheter"?

 

[Scarim Coral]

Yes I would.

In saying so would the people real face will be their "avatar" or does the game feature muliple of races to played as therefor changing your features?

 

[CrystalShadow]

OK, 'matrix level' full immersion VR? Yes. Without hesitation.

But if it pulls the SAO stunts of 'trapped in game', 'if you die in the game, you die in real life', or even just 'haha, your avatar looks like the 'real you'', then no.

On that last point...
I don't like my real body much, and I sure as hell don't want to be that in a game... So... You know.

Also if we're talking SAO specific lore, give me Alfheim online, because... Catgirls. XD

 

[CrystalShadow]

It's best to stop watching it at the end of the first "season" to avoid the absolute worst of it.

Nah, you should totally keep watching it <_<, there are a lot of good parts, and a lot of hilariously bad parts. Like "The Tears of Unfathomable Sadness, Yummy you guyyys!!" part right near the end of Season 2, as well as my favorite Thor story retold in Anime form in the Excalibur Filler Arc.

EDIT: They kinda passed up a super great opportunity in the GGO Arc

Based on the intros, I thought they were gonna make his Avatar Female. Instead, it was a Male Avatar that merely looked Female. Really missed an opportunity to explore the concept of being placed into the body of the opposite Gender given the extent of immersion one enters with the NetGear technology.

Yeah, that was kinda disappointing. Would have been a more interesting thing to examine than what they actually did.
(And since GGO apparently somehow has randomly assigned avatars, it seems like it'd have wider implications for the game in general as well. - especially given that it establishes that the majority of the playerbase is male.)

And Mother's Rosario is the best story arc in the whole series. XD
Possibly because Kirito basically isn't in it at all... ;p

 

[demoman_chaos]

So what is the difference between .Hack and SAO? A bit familiar with .Hack and only vaguely aware of SAO but from what I know it sounds like the same thing.

I would probably end up ditching this reality for the virtual one honestly.

 

[sanquin]

I'd totally play it. Heck, I'd very likely prefer it over my real life. I mean, I get to be a badass sword/magic wielding adventurer in a fantastical and beautiful world without any of those 'pesky' drawbacks like being hurt or dying? Sign me up!

 

[veloper]

I often enjoy the abstract representation of things, such as turn-based systems in games, so a game doesn't need to be more real for me, but virtual reality could be entertaining for sure.

I don't really like MMOs though and I simply won't make the time for them to play as intended. I prefer a beginning and an end to a game, reached within a few game sessions, say a couple weeks max.
I want to be able to dip in, figure out how it works, then get to the end credits before I get bored and move on to something else.
So, I'd only bother if playing short, discrete game modules within the VR-world were an option.

 

[DeliveryGodNoah_v1legacy]

I'm so bored with what life has to offer, I'd probably still do it even if I could actually die.

 

[ecoho]

That is, unless the anime had explanations for how they prevented these things (I wouldn't know, I haven't seen it)

I think it was implied in certain sections that the protagonist was working on technology in order to bring the idealized worlds of Virtual Reality into real reality (the motivation of which is that he wished to bring the virtual daughter that he and his gf had out of VR)

Which would be a possible way to circumvent such a thing as you described. That is, moving the Virtual Reality that everyone finds Better Than Life into Real Life via extensive integrations of Reality with Augmented Reality.

well to be fair the guy who wrote the visual novel for SAO is also the same guy who made Accel World which was done later in his life and is in fact a hell of a lot better but exists in the same world.

 

[verdant monkai]

Sorry, I prefer single player RPGs.

Agreed I'd prefer not to share my fantasy world with a bunch of arseholes with gamer tag's like, XxShadowTheHedgehogKaiser666xX floating above their heads. With 50 players clipping through each other in front of a quest giver.

But if thats the price I have to pay to actually be in a fantasy world then so be it.

 

[Autumnflame]

100% yes

even if i was trapped in there untill the game was beaten i would still say yes. the experiance of it would be worth it

 

[Veldel]

No because SAO seems to shallow I would love to have a .Hack type online world tho

 

[Leg End]

Well, I'm three episodes in and my opinion is a bit meh on it, but probably. Moreso if gunsmithing is a thing because absolutely fuck melee combat in that world. I know guns are a thing in season 2 or something.

No because SAO seems to shallow I would love to have a .Hack type online world tho

Basically this. That and I haven't even seen it but Log Horizon sounds better than SAO for some reason.

 

[Tony2077]

So what is the difference between .Hack and SAO? A bit familiar with .Hack and only vaguely aware of SAO but from what I know it sounds like the same thing.

I would probably end up ditching this reality for the virtual one honestly.

Interestingly enough, SAO actually came out before .Hack <.<, not the Anime, but the YA Novel it was based on.

Also I think that .Hack, at least //Sign, it's based around a single MMO, the MMO has been going on for quite a while, and it's only a single person that apparently can't log out of the game.
Also I think that when they Die they don't actually Die for real

Sword Art Online is merely the name of the first MMO in the series, it starts off at the very beginning of the new MMO's life, and as a sort of fucked up death-trap cross social experiment, everybody gets forced to stay online.

EDIT: I think .Hack//Sign has the better music of the two <_< I can hear the intro music in my head as we speak.

all .hack stuff is based around a game called The World but unlike SAO they don't change games just the version of it.

 

[Maxtro]

Where's the option for

"I'd probably never leave"

 

[Ushiromiya Battler]

Well, I'm three episodes in and my opinion is a bit meh on it, but probably. Moreso if gunsmithing is a thing because absolutely fuck melee combat in that world. I know guns are a thing in season 2 or something.

No because SAO seems to shallow I would love to have a .Hack type online world tho

Basically this. That and I haven't even seen it but Log Horizon sounds better than SAO for some reason.

Just a warning, Log Horizon does all it can to show you an authentic mmo experience. Which in my case made the whole series boring as hell.
It's a reason why it's called ''the boring smart one''.
It does handle the mmo element amazingly better than SAO though.

OT:
I'd probably wait a while before I decided to try it. Seen or read way to much with a premise where people get stuck.

 

[FalloutJack]

Naturally, for the same reason I would play The World.