Comments on: Sword Art Online Mid-raid Ready Check

By: Suguha’s Ardor Online: A Family Chronicle « pareidolia, animated.

Suguha’s Ardor Online: A Family Chronicle « pareidolia, animated. — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 17:17:45 +0000

[...] Sword Art Online‘s first half is everything you know and hate about anime, having apparently took all of a month to write, and this soundbite is all you need to know–Asuna is the main female protagonist. Break it down, jp: jpmeyer August 30th, 2012 at 10:37 pm [...]

By: omo

omo — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:18:07 +0000

something to think about
https://twitter.com/RyougaSaotome/status/246090408914984961

By: eternal

eternal — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 22:38:37 +0000

I’m biased because I barely watch fantasy anime in the first place (I’m picky with shows that take themselves seriously), but I ended up dropping SAO because of the same issues you’re talking about. It doesn’t make use of its setting and it goes right back to the standard save-the-world fantasy fare.

Kirito and Asuna both bugged me too but I hadn’t thought of them as chuuni until you mentioned it. That’s the perfect word for this. What with the latest episode, it’s funny to hear people praise Kirito for being better than “gutless” protags who remain indecisive for the whole season. Kirito gets the girl, I guess, but it’s a fake, self-insert alphaness that I don’t buy into at all (in contrast with Oreki who I think earned his not-quite romance in Hyouka). But JP summed that up neatly.

By: omo

omo — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 13:07:47 +0000

Sorry, you're doing it wrong. I understand why some people would choose to do it, and I understand some people might think there are no wrong way to play a game as long as a game lets them, but that ultimately undermines the nature of MMORPGs. I think it might be better to say that all MMORPG designs encourage playing with people, some also choose to reward solo play (as you say, mostly F2P ones).

By: Praestlin

Praestlin — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:28:45 +0000

What’s wrong with playing solo? I often treat MMOs as singleplayer games with arguably endless content, particularly the F2P ones.

Are they better than dedicated SP games? Not always, but just like a round of Diablo or some other dungeon crawler, there’s a comforting familiarity to the MMO routine.

I don’t solo exclusively, but the argument that you’re not doing it right if you play solo is wrong, esp. when so many MMO designs that aren’t EVE or Guild Wars 2 actively encourage solo play.