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Originally Posted by felix
If we're gonna go naming and shaming, I'll just add "stuck in VR MMO" nonsense to the list of things we could use less of.
I've yet to see one where the plot, aside from the first opening chapters doesn't just fall apart.
That said, worlds where they have "game-like" rules for comic reliaf or other purposes are generally interesting and nice.
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Originally Posted by felix
Overlord, Log Horizon, as well as No Game No Life, DanMachi, as well as various manga (eg. Not Lives) fall in the category of "worlds with game-like rules" for me. Because it's a case of aside from characters believing they are "maybe" in a VRMMO the world doesn't appear to be a VRMMO other then the rules it follows or presents to the characters (which are always inconsistent to mmo rules too).
This is kind of more clear in things like Upgrade Specialist in Another World, where the "protgonist" (if we can call him that) travels though the VRMMO to another dimension where he gets disintegrated and his soul along with the VRMMO tome of upgrading gets merged with another person of that world (allowing him to be subject to MMO upgrade rules). The world is not a VRMMO, the protagnist who dies is a VRMMO character and the real person at the same time, the rules of the world apply still to the new protagonist, but now there's also VRMMO rules that apply.
Series like Overlord, No Game No Life, Log Horizon and so forth are from my perspective part of that theme of Upgrade Specialist: "realworld merged with mmo" more so then "inside a VRMMO." But it's all very subjective, that just how I see it.
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I'd actually like to see more stuck inside VRMMOs where its not some alternate world, but an actual MMO. So far really only .hack//sign and SAO do it properly. The other anime/LN where the protagonists get stuck in a world with MMO rules lack the kind of topics that .hack/sign and SAO touch upon that I'd like to see expanded.
VRMMOs are a really interesting topic. The recent augmented reality craze that's starting with Pokemon Go shows that there's a huge potential for story telling and interesting topics. EVE Online also shows us how there could be really interesting twists and drama just from game mechanics and guild drama alone, but most stories that try their hands at this genre fail to do anything really interesting with it.