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

[FPLOON]

I prefer The World... I hear its lore is more rich and fulfilling for those that want to seek it...

Other than that, since I wear glasses, I think I would be more suited for Elder Tales...

 

[Kae]

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.

Kinda true but not really, it's also well written and has good characters unlike SAO, though yeah it's very slow paced and can be kind of boring, specially since it's more interested in the growth of the community and the psychology of the society that got trapped in the game than actual adventures, to the point that there's more of a focus on Politics and Economics than anything else and despite that I still have a hard time thinking of it as smart, but that's probably due to the silly memetic kind of humour it has which to be honest does reflect the nature of the kind of people that play MMOs.

I would propose instead Grimgar for a more grounded, it's not dumb but it's not complicated either and it focuses on a single party, that's it, it's just a party trying to survive in what is basically an MMO[footnote]It's actually closer to Log Horizon's the game's become a real world thing than SAO's you're trapped inside an MMO.[/footnote], it's entertaining and more grounded than SAO but not as slow as Log Horizon though it's still kind off slow, it resembles more the moments of early SAO when they are trying to do the whole this situation is kind off really tragic thing than anything else but it's done much, much better, even if the characters aren't particularly interesting or original they are done pretty well, worth a watch if you like the premise but thought SAO fell short due to being very poorly written and Log Horizon is too boring[footnote]And .Hack too Phylosophical and Overlord too mediocre., JEEZ how many of these shows are there and why have I watched all of them?![/footnote].


OT: I don't know, VR sounds good and I think I would play a VR MMO with very fleshed out mechanics, but the thing is that SAO is a poorly written piece of crap and the game they showed there didn't really make much sense, it was clearly written by someone who didn't know much about MMOs and if anything it sounded more like a Hack & Slash VR ARPG more in the vein of Diablo and Path of Exile than an actual MMO, except nothing is instanced and it would probably be an excessively annoying game since you'd keep running into people when you are trying to quest.

Anyway The World with some SAO features would be a better option since that is much more fleshed out but it does have some weird old-school sensibilities of the time when .Hack was created and the trends that MMOs were trying at that time like PK systems, Guild systems and a style that is closer to the Openness and player impact of Star Wars Galaxies than World of Warcraft, but it does sound much more engaging.

 

[Strazdas]

There are better virtual worlds than SAO, for example the Caprica VR worlds. Id prefer those. but what i would like even more is to be able to transfer myself completely into a digital form so i wouldnt have to go back and take care of the physical body.

You just reminded me of a different way that Virtual Reality could happen <.<

Surrogates was actually a bloody good movie and i kinda wish for this to become a reality.

But there's a disconnect with today's games. Take Dragon Age for example. You aren't casting a fireball, you're pressing X to execute a specific animation and effect. You aren't chatting with friends, you're picking one of 4 limited speech options. You aren't exploring the mountains, you're looking at them through a screen.

Complete immersion would be much harder to pull yourself away from.

And yet there were cases where people literally died from exhaustion playing a videogame and not stopping.

I think it would be similar to how drug use works now. some people can use it sometimes and still have a life, others drop everything and only live for another dose.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

But there's a disconnect with today's games. Take Dragon Age for example. You aren't casting a fireball, you're pressing X to execute a specific animation and effect. You aren't chatting with friends, you're picking one of 4 limited speech options. You aren't exploring the mountains, you're looking at them through a screen.

Complete immersion would be much harder to pull yourself away from.

To be honest, some of us do just get that immersed. Shitting you not, the first time I played Dragon Age Origin's, I woke up the next morning seeing Dialogue options everywhere for everything I was doing until I realised something about that just wasn't right. Great immersive games are great immersive games. Honestly I get more immersed in a game version of a sport than I do a real life version most of the time. What matters is the quality of the experience, not how its presented.

Done this too, not with DA:O (as much as I'd like to, love that game) but with Deus ex: HR, I played that game for like a week straight and after I beat the game I was sticking to cover/walls as I moved around (I would stop myself and realize how silly it was, but it didn't stop my body/mind from trying every 5 minutes while walking around) and I was constantly checking sniper nest/high spots anytime going in/out of somewhere and looking for vent/hidden ways around rooms.

It took the weekend to shake it off, but it was a bit fun while it lasted.

OT: no perma-death? absolutely, I'd play it in a heartbeat and it'd probably consume most of my weekends depending on who I'm playing with.

I'd prefer tighter single player games, but with friends that would make an awesome multiplayer experience

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

No ... frankly anything that could recreate a communicable fantasy as if in your head, linked to the brains of thousands others, sounds as addictive and powerful as any narcotic on the market. I'd be worried about the new ways hackers could fuck with you. Someone said .Hack and .Hack is a far better virtual reality world. But the principle still stands, I can't imagine any device that does what was put forward in SAO doing as to be benign to the brain. I can't imagine any device as to be so consumer orientated, in order to play a market viable MMO, not cause some form of damage to the psyche and brain given the infinite variance of thought and being that each individual brain constitutes. Sounds like a high price to pay to play a game.

(Edit)Even if somebody told me it was safe, I'd be one of those exceedingly wary buyers who'd wait 4-5 years before ever touching the thing. At least long enough for any Gulf War Syndrome-esque problems to make their way towards common knowledge. Seems way too Shadowrun for me, and usually play a street shaman in my gaming group ... fuck DNI. At the very least, the feedback from above is helpful. They'll be a whole lot of guinea pigs.

 

[william1657]

Almost certainly. It seems like a kickass game.
I mean, I'd prefer a single player version, but if the only choices were VRMMO or a non-VR single player game, I'd go with the VRMMO.

It would also be cool if they added some sort of time-compression (IE make 60 minutes IRL feel like 120 minutes in-game) so that people with jobs could spend more time playing it.