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View Poll Results: Sword Art Online - Episode 1 Rating | |||
Perfect 10 | 101 | 43.35% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 62 | 26.61% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 43 | 18.45% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 17 | 7.30% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 4 | 1.72% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 3 | 1.29% | |
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 : Painful | 3 | 1.29% | |
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2012-07-08, 01:07 | Link #202 | |
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There are people who completed the whole diablo III in hardcore mode but those guys lost several (or a lot) characters and playing it over and over again before they can acomplish that. Don't work so well in SAO I guess
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2012-07-08, 01:20 | Link #203 |
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Ok first of all EMP do not kill people.. Its the affects that do and that is pacemakers stop functioning, anything electronic will stop and cause problems. EMP is more of a temporarily problem and turning off and restarting will restart it. So to use EMP they would have to do it with precise timing because it's shut down would be a very short time with the battery to reboot itself.
Now the premise is good but the explanations are really flawed a battery would not have enough power to cause a microwave reaction to fry the brain. Now it is possible but not with a battery as an explanation it would require a high voltage capacitor in the headgear. Also any government would send in troops and shut down the server itself that controls everything.. Their is no explanations explaining why none of this is done... From a technological aspect I do not feel the author did much research. Just too many flaws. 1. How would they have got a game system approved with a dive gear that would have such dangerous potential as a weapon? To be able to fry a brain with microwave it would have to have a high power capacitor like in a TV but that would never be approved in a game system. 2. Why the government just does not send in troops and shut down the server itself or use truth serum on the developer to know how to really shut down the server properly. Either way if something happened like this in RL than the government would be forced to act as their would be many relatives taken it upon themselves for vengeance against this psycho developer who killed there child or will cause there child to be killed. To make this story plausible the world would had to be a different place.. Corporations ruling with no government per say so they can get away with anything but that is not how the world is portrayed which is why I stated that the author did not research into his novel at all and make things plausible at all. A good author makes the story plausible in a magic world that can be done with magic, science world science, ect which in this case should of been a world run by corporations that had full autonomy to pull something like this off not what appears to be a modern day world with a single psycho developer holding everyone hostage when there is too many weaknesses in the system. |
2012-07-08, 01:21 | Link #204 | |
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In MMO's though, there are respawns and first come first serve when it comes to kills. This would be very hard to level up and get stronger taking a conservative approach however you cannot venture out too far to enemies that may be above you. Forming parties would almost be required in this situation in which characters who are tanks and healers would be immediately snatched up leaving the normal damage dealers SoL to sit in the town. This happening in a world such as ours would be very cruel. |
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2012-07-08, 01:27 | Link #205 | |
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... ... ... *20 minutes later* Lv60 Hunter UBRS LFG Its the reason why I only play Healers in MMOs, so easy to find a group.
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2012-07-08, 01:27 | Link #206 | |
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Also, assuming everything the game master said is correct then as soon as they deploy troops, he could just kill everyone before he gets taken down. |
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2012-07-08, 01:33 | Link #207 | |
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That's because while the chances of success collectively are great with the advantage of numbers, the unfortunate fact is that there will always a high chance of people dying in that attempt, especially against heavily-armed foes (i.e. enemies with guns, or game bosses several levels higher than your own). While we all like to think that we'd all be bravado and courageous when such a thing happens, our human nature is such that we'd think about how to get ourselves out alive first. Thus, people seek out their own individual solutions on how to survive first. It'd actually much easier for your proposal to occur had death not become a factor, since people can more easily "give up their lives" for the cause. With real, tangible death introduced though, people revert to their natural survival instincts. The only way to overcome said instincts is if either a person is unflappingly altruistic, heroic, or trained, which very few people in said MMO would be. The only way people of various disparate beliefs and ideologies can be convinced to band together into such an army is if there is a leader among them capable of bringing them together, and as is clear to the novel readers and those who saw the PV's, such groups do exist in SAO (like the Knights of Blood) this being an MMORPG and all that with guild systems. But all 10,000 assaulting the towers all the way to the top in a single charge of glory is something that is highly unlikely to happen without a single charismatic leader bordering on godlike.
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2012-07-08, 01:41 | Link #209 | |
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Sure, go ahead. Oh wait, your raid just met one of the bosses, Vaelastrasz Its your first time fighting him, you have no idea what to do TPK
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2012-07-08, 01:49 | Link #210 | ||
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And as already mentioned, truth serums that conveniently make a person tell the truth do not exist - there is no drug that you can make someone drink and they'll sudden turn honest. There are drugs and chemicals that can loosen a person's inhibition to lie (alcohol anyone?), but to get the truth out of someone would still require 'proper' interrogation tactics.
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2012-07-08, 01:51 | Link #211 | |
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I swear, if any producers of a game creates something which if the character in-game dies, the person who played that character dies also, that is considered mass murder through online means. Though, what happen if there is a maintenance halfway through the game? All of them die? The producers of the game have to consider that factor too.
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2012-07-08, 01:53 | Link #212 | |
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There is a drug and considered to be more torture than anything else as it still requires after using the drug some persuasion. It just tends to make them more receptive and is illegal. Like a game developer is going to stand a chance against any crack elite military force? But their has been no explanation saying why they could not just cut all power to the server itself. Infiltrate take out the backup power units than cut power to the building.. done no power left. So from a reader that reads novels their is no way I would read this authors because there is so many ways he could of made it plausible but did not even care to even try with such a weak premise as I have seen in the Anime and did some reading online to see if parts were left out but nope from what I read online it's the premise and no explanation at all why server can't be shut down. I don't even get how this was even made into a novel in Japan if our fantasy novels or scifi novels were like this nobody would read them there has to be some sort of explanation to make it plausible in it's environment. |
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2012-07-08, 02:07 | Link #213 | |
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It's one thing to fight a giant monster with an avatar on a 2d monitor, it's another when you're directly looking into the face of said monster and have to fight it up close and personal, all the meanwhile knowing that a slip up means you're dead. |
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2012-07-08, 02:14 | Link #214 | |
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Say you suddenly come upon a boss wizard type human. What do you do? What spells is he most likely to use? What spells may control your very ability to parry/dodge/move? What if suddenly he casts a spell that somehow negates your abilities? It's stuff like that I'd be worried to run into. |
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2012-07-08, 02:26 | Link #216 | |
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2012-07-08, 02:27 | Link #217 | |
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Heard of it before though, but this is too much... You can't leave the game. Leaving or force taking out NerveGear will kill. Your character dies in-game = you die in real life. This brings the Hardcore in MMORPG to test. And is telling us how online gaming is bad to us.(In a sense, brb while I play online games. *FRIED* )
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2012-07-08, 02:28 | Link #218 |
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I would think though, that the 2000 causalities are disproportionately concentrated among the rushers. And trolls, etc.
So, I'd suspect alot of the more conservative players are only beginning to make headway in the past two weeks, after the initial rush and possible Ganking waves outside the towns subside. Furthermore, given that the first level has not yet been cleared in the first month (strange, since beta testers made it at least beyond Level Eight) That implies that if you are going to rush. Be very careful. If survival is at stake, my suspicion is that most Non Beta testers would be much more conservative. Waiting for two weeks may be better than rushing out. |
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2012-07-08, 02:35 | Link #220 | |
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Join Date: Feb 2008
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Just because nobody wants to die and will try to do everything they can do avoid it, doesn't mean they will remain calm and actually do the correct thing, especially for those without proper training. This I have seen first hand. |
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