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View Poll Results: Critique of Episode 08 | |||
10 out of 10: Near Perfect... | 56 | 38.62% | |
9 out of 10: Excellent... | 52 | 35.86% | |
8 out of 10: Very Good... | 24 | 16.55% | |
7 out of 10: Good... | 9 | 6.21% | |
6 out of 10: Average... | 1 | 0.69% | |
5 out of 10: Below Average... | 1 | 0.69% | |
4 out of 10: Poor... | 0 | 0% | |
3 out of 10: Bad... | 0 | 0% | |
2 out of 10: Very Bad... | 0 | 0% | |
1 out of 10: Torturous... | 2 | 1.38% | |
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2012-08-25, 23:11 | Link #142 | |||||
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The thing about the sidestories is that most of them expand on things mentioned in the novel as backstory -- like, "I joined a guild once. I got them all killed. I'll never join one again." The anime would still have to address the material at some point, so it's better to adapt the sidestories that show the events in detail than to have Kirito give a thirty second VO explanation or a flashback that breaks the story momentum. Quote:
But suppose the rules prevented outsiders from interfering with a duel -- that creates another exploit. Just challenge a friend to a duel with no time limit, and as long as you don't hit each other, you're safe from PKing. |
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2012-08-25, 23:18 | Link #145 | |
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Not to mention if you get too far away from each other the duel will cancel. |
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2012-08-25, 23:19 | Link #146 | |
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Also, who's to say Asuna wasn't proxied into the duel by default since she was partied up with Kirito? |
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2012-08-25, 23:29 | Link #147 |
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"She placed her sword exactly where his dagger was. The sword pushed the dagger out of the guy's hand."
How is this in defiance of dueling rules? These are, in fact, normal collision rules. What WOULDN'T make sense, would be if the dagger just phased through her sword or something. |
2012-08-25, 23:36 | Link #149 |
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It's a computer game, not a philosophy class. It can recognize certain actions and respond to them. Intention is outside its field. Asuna made an "attacking" type action towards a player that she's not allowed to attack because they're in town. You'd expect the system to make a purple "immortal object" barrier and prevent them from touching. Now, it's theoretically possible that Kuradeel would just happen to lose his grip from being surprised or whatever, but if actual physical disarming is possible then you'd expect everyone to be doing it constantly, to steal each other's weapons or whatever. We've already seen in episode 5 that an abandoned weapon can be picked up and added to your inventory. Allowing this kind of "physical theft" in an MMO is just absurd.
Clearly touching by hand is allowed, but weapons should be a different story. |
2012-08-25, 23:38 | Link #150 |
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Poor, poor bunny. And the great question of playing these games arises; do you keep it as a treasure, use it yourself, or sell it so you can get other things? Sometimes an item can be so rare that you'd rather make massive profit of it. But hey, they are top-tier and can afford said luxuries.
I really liked the first half of the episode, as well as the last few minutes It really drew a contrast between Kirito the lone wolf and finding out that partying makes things so much more fruitful, even if it comes with risks. It also had cute interactions that really captured the essence of just casually enjoying things in the world. The second half I wasn't so happy with, starting with that silly chest grab and generic asshole no.1 trying to steal Asuna away who I'd expect to stand up slightly better for herself, with Kirito doing his typical white knight thing. I mean, come on-- she just looked kinda bad, and I didn't feel it had to be that way.At least Kirito kicked his ass. Good cliffhanger.
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2012-08-25, 23:40 | Link #151 | |
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2012-08-25, 23:42 | Link #154 | |
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2012-08-25, 23:45 | Link #159 |
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I'd like to point out that there are in fact numerous MMOs out there where you can kill anyone and then proceed to strip them naked of all equipped items (and in some instances even take the entire inventory contents). So while the duel interference was irregular, it's not really all that absurd. SAO has full collision detection from what we've seen (unlike most MMOs on the market today), especially when Kirito groped Asuna, and and Asuna made good use of that collision detection to interfere. The duel system lets them damage each other but it seems to have no effect on collisions.
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