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Okay, that one wasn't too bad. No angsting, just some details on the way GGO works, Kirito being awesome at what he's always been good at and proving to suck at shooting. Plus Sinon having a good time. While the whole "I've got a male avatar but I'm gonna fake being a girl because reasons" thing is something I could live without, on whole this was an episode I enjoyed. So good job, show.
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The most surprising thing about this episode was the cowboy robot speaking in perfect english.
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Jul 27, 2014 03:08
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ViggyNash posted:Also he is a girl because Realism, 90% of female MMO characters are played by someone with a penis.
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Jul 27, 2014 03:57
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IIRC, the light novel explains that the trap avatar is a rare bonus avatar and that your chance of it getting picked goes up the higher the total VR playtime on your account. Kirito has had more than 2 years of playtime because of SAO alone, which is physically impossible for anyone who hasn't been trapped in that because GGO takes place less than two years after the end of the SAO arc.Dexo posted:Mostly players are bad. They waited for the prediction line. All Kirito did is trace the path the Bullet would have to take based off of where the Gun was pointing, rather than waiting for the Prediction Line and then dodging. Not even where the gun was pointing, but where that AI cowboy was looking; GGO is still built with the same core system as SAO and mobs always look exactly at where they're aiming at.
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Jul 27, 2014 04:06
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bubblegumbo0 posted:Realism, 90% of female MMO characters are played by someone with a penis. But at least we know why they are a girl (because they are weirdos), but in this case there is literally no explanation.
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Jul 27, 2014 04:59
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So, if you can't choose your avatar why are the rare ones valuable? Are the avatars removable from an account, or do people buy the accounts they are attached to?
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Jul 27, 2014 05:34
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Oh hey, SAO II finally hit what should have been episode 2. EDIT: Haha, what? They didn't even have Kirito monologue about why he's pretending to be a girl? Okay then. BlitzBlast fucked around with this message at 05:51 on Jul 27, 2014 |
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Jul 27, 2014 05:45
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Serious Frolicking posted:So, if you can't choose your avatar why are the rare ones valuable? Are the avatars removable from an account, or do people buy the accounts they are attached to? The guy was offering to buy his account, so obviously they aren't transferable.
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Jul 27, 2014 06:23
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That wasn't a guy, that was a girl who was stuck with the "Smelly Hobo V2.3" avatar because RNG. SAO is really at it's best when it cranks the Marry Sue dial to 11. When it tries to explore the psychological effects of shooting a criminal to death on a 7 year old, not so much.
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Jul 27, 2014 08:32
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You still get an avatar of your gender. You can't make a character that's not the same as your real life gender, as I think has been mentioned a few times in this thread.
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Jul 27, 2014 10:23
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Well, of course. We wouldn't want any of Kirito's romantic interests to turn out to be a man. That would be ~~awkward~~.
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Jul 27, 2014 10:33
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The novel explanation is that studies found it "psychologically uncomfortable" to be lacking the sensation of having your own genitals so later games banned it (SAO didn't but Kayaba dispelled all crossplaying immediately). This isn't a very good explanation, but it is narratively simpler so whatever.
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EDIT^^^^^^^: Aha, alright then. Demicol posted:You still get an avatar of your gender. You can't make a character that's not the same as your real life gender, as I think has been mentioned a few times in this thread. When did this retcon happen? Back in episode 1 of SAO everyone was forced into their real appearance and gender when Kayaba made his grand reveal. Before that they seemed to able to pick themselves. 
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Jul 27, 2014 10:47
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Dexo posted:Mostly players are bad. They waited for the prediction line. All Kirito did is trace the path the Bullet would have to take based off of where the Gun was pointing, rather than waiting for the Prediction Line and then dodging. But it makes no sense at all that nobody else can do this. All the people who converted from fast sword fighting games should be able to do this. The competitive players should practice this.
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Jul 27, 2014 10:52
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BlitzBlast posted:Oh hey, SAO II finally hit what should have been episode 2. Uh, he kinda did. It was kept to a minimum but I'm pretty sure it was obvious that Sinon was hostile towards guys in-game by the way she spoke when Kirito called out to her. Not even Kirito's that dense as to be unable to read the mood.
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Jul 27, 2014 10:56
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tonberrytoby posted:Yes, it makes some sense that Kirito can do this. Especially in Japan where there are always rumors of martial artist doing this in real live. Kirito was far and away the best SAO player(besides Heathcliff anyway) Even is you can predict something, if your reaction speed isn't there you won't dodge it Dive Time = Better sync and reaction time due to being adjusted to the systems. Kirito has more Dive time than just about anyone in the world(he logged heavy hours in SAOs beta) Also this is a gun game those who play it regularly are used to being at range rather than advancing on an enemy. Until Kirito found the sword Sinon was going to have him play a boring mid range AR/pistols build Kirito was given dual blades because his reaction time and skill were better than anyone else's. This is just a continuation of that notion. In short don't question, just accept Kirito's greatness into your heart.
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Jul 27, 2014 14:11
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I laughed at how the NPC reacted to Kirito's explanation.
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Jul 27, 2014 14:16
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Yah, Kirito being the fastest is basically because he has the longest dive time. The first core doesn't explain it well, but Heathcliff built a number of traps into the game for the beta players. Kirito gets the dual wield skill, likely because he was longest played combat focused user left at that point.
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Jul 27, 2014 15:18
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According to the progressive manga, most of the beta testers went off and got themselves killed due to overconfidence and an inability to cope with changes from the beta version. So yeah, it is entirely possible that among the already small group of obsessive beta players like Kirito, the rest either died or switched to non-combat roles.
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Jul 27, 2014 15:27
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Coughing Hobo posted:The most surprising thing about this episode was the cowboy robot speaking in perfect english. I like to imagine that someone on staff told the voice casting people "Hey, I've got this gaijin neighbor, let's have him do the cowboy!"
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Jul 27, 2014 19:23
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Give that guy a raise then, that was the best part of the episode.
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Jul 27, 2014 19:28
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I want Robot Cowboy to be the new main character.
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Jul 27, 2014 19:30
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Sindai posted:I want Robot Cowboy to be the new main character. They should rip him out of the machine and bring him along. He can be like TK from Angel Beats, always overacting and shouting nonsensical english phrases.
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Jul 27, 2014 19:59
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Sindai posted:I want Robot Cowboy to be the new main character. gently caress that, get him and whoever recorded the dialogue their own anime. 
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Jul 27, 2014 20:17
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Bremen posted:They should rip him out of the machine and bring him along. He can be like TK from Angel Beats, always overacting and shouting nonsensical english phrases. Maybe if we all wish hard enough it'll happen.
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Jul 27, 2014 20:28
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Seeing's Kirito's face when Shinon's explanations of Gun types and such starts to get ahead of him is pretty great. It's always funny when Kirito's the one getting dorked around (The part where he screams "THE gently caress?!" at his character model is great too).
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Jul 27, 2014 22:04
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I refuse to believe that any online game where lightsabers exist wouldn't attract roleplayers, no matter how much they might suck. They'd keep doing their gay little e-honor duels until the day they died, regardless of how useless it would be for playing the rest of the game.
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Jul 27, 2014 22:42
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Kirito's inner conflict on whether or not he should pretend to be a girl was the best part of the episode.Serious Frolicking posted:I refuse to believe that any online game where lightsabers exist wouldn't attract roleplayers, no matter how much they might suck. They'd keep doing their gay little e-honor duels until the day they died, regardless of how useless it would be for playing the rest of the game. Excuse me, the second episode clearly established that Sinon is a tryhard, of course she wouldn't know about the RP servers. It's a characterization beat, guys 
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Serious Frolicking posted:I refuse to believe that any online game where lightsabers exist wouldn't attract roleplayers, no matter how much they might suck. They'd keep doing their gay little e-honor duels until the day they died, regardless of how useless it would be for playing the rest of the game. Isn't that what happened with one of the Star Wars FPSes? Like, they'd "Bow" before going at each other with lightsabers (Unless you wern't stupid and just kicked their teeth in whilst they'd do that nonsense)?
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ConanThe3rd posted:Isn't that what happened with one of the Star Wars FPSes? Like, they'd "Bow" before going at each other with lightsabers (Unless you wern't stupid and just kicked their teeth in whilst they'd do that nonsense)? Ahahaha Yeah, The Star Wards Jedi Knight: Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy games multiplayer had people take poo poo waaay too seriously. I remember joining a random server and starting to slice and kill everyone until they started bitching at me in chat, and I eventually got votekicked or something. But to be fair that was in a Star Wars game.
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I love that they're not even trying to hide that "Yeah it's totally a light saber". It's got the sound effects and everything.
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paragon1 posted:I love that they're not even trying to hide that "Yeah it's totally a light saber". It's got the sound effects and everything. The novel had a more direct "they changed the name slightly so they wouldn't get sued by a famous American filmmaker" joke in the narration.
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I also loved that he had to make his light sabers hilt black. Too bad he couldn't choose a custom blade colour and made that black as well.
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Myurton posted:I also loved that he had to make his light sabers hilt black. Too bad he couldn't choose a custom blade colour and made that black as well. Purple works better for his
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Feed Me A Cat posted:I like to imagine that someone on staff told the voice casting people "Hey, I've got this gaijin neighbor, let's have him do the cowboy!" That isn't far off the truth considering it was voiced by Jeff Manning. 
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tonberrytoby posted:But it makes no sense at all that nobody else can do this. All the people who converted from fast sword fighting games should be able to do this. The competitive players should practice this. Wasn't the minigun guy basically doing it in the second episode?
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1.5 episodes in and welp, just realized that I will watch anything. How far off are we from full-dive technology? Who's gonna be the first human test subject to allow a computer to manipulate his input senses?
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Jul 29, 2014 01:55
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AnacondaHL posted:Wasn't the minigun guy basically doing it in the second episode? No, he saw the red indicator line and dodged that. That's why Shinon wanted to take him out first; a sniper rifle doesn't produce a red line if it's fired from stealth.
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Thunk posted:No, he saw the red indicator line and dodged that. That's why Shinon wanted to take him out first; a sniper rifle doesn't produce a red line if it's fired from stealth. He means the second time when she blew off his glasses. He dodged that at the literal last second. She only managed to beat him since apparently he couldn't aim the minigun vertically or some poo poo.
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YouTuber posted:He means the second time when she blew off his glasses. He dodged that at the literal last second. She only managed to beat him since apparently he couldn't aim the minigun vertically or some poo poo. The logistics of aiming something as heavy and huge as a mini-gun vertically are kinda insane.
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