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View Poll Results: Critique of Episode 02 | |||
10 out of 10: Near Perfect... | 36 | 19.78% | |
9 out of 10: Excellent... | 49 | 26.92% | |
8 out of 10: Very Good... | 43 | 23.63% | |
7 out of 10: Good... | 32 | 17.58% | |
6 out of 10: Average... | 16 | 8.79% | |
5 out of 10: Below Average... | 1 | 0.55% | |
4 out of 10: Poor... | 2 | 1.10% | |
3 out of 10: Bad... | 1 | 0.55% | |
2 out of 10: Very Bad... | 0 | 0% | |
1 out of 10: Torturous... | 2 | 1.10% | |
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2012-07-17, 13:37 | Link #381 | |
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1 - The party is already agitated and pissed off. Their hindsight tells them that moment that "Beta-Testers are evil". 2 - Kirito is already exposed as a Beta-Tester aka branded as the bad guy. Would you believe anything that he says to defend himself? It's much easier to convince people of what they want to believe in, which in this case is that Kirito "is a Beta-Tester and thus is bad guy." 3 - Finally, revealing that their leader hid his identity as a Beta-Tester will further agitate the party and invoke distrust among the players, further dividing the community. Such is the last thing we need in a death game. Hope that helps. Last edited by Lantern; 2012-07-17 at 13:49. |
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2012-07-17, 13:41 | Link #382 | |
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2012-07-17, 13:49 | Link #383 | |
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2012-07-17, 13:54 | Link #385 | |
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Players can still feel it with their in-game stomach, even if it doesn't affect their IRL bodies. The server basically keeps sending signal to your brain that tells you "YOU'RE HUNGRY" until you eat something. You won't die even if you don't eat, but imagine the pain of your in-game growling stomach. Gotta feel bad for them players. |
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2012-07-17, 13:57 | Link #386 | |
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One thing to take into account wrt Klein: Kirito probably overestimated how many players would be eager enough to risk their lives to level up. He's probably right that the fields around starting city are completely overgrazed, and maybe the first few villages after that, but there's plenty of room for the top players. Though if Kibaou's to be believed, there was an advantage to beating the rush. |
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2012-07-17, 14:16 | Link #387 | |
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- everyone know he's a beta tester - later people will be in his grinding / questing spots, getting his mobs, lower his leveling efficiency, thus lower his survivability ? |
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2012-07-17, 14:39 | Link #388 |
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The anime looks to be spiraling downwards to hell. I can't believe that they didn't even explain Kirito's actions of acting as a Beater properly. No monologues or anything. What the heck, if I didn't read the light novel before I wouldn't know what the hell was going on. My god this episode 2 is so, SO bad.
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2012-07-17, 15:17 | Link #393 |
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Considering Kirito was explaining the animosity towards Beta Testers during the episode it was kind of obvious why he decided to take on the role of the villain. He even classified himself as a "Beater" to separate himself from the Beta Testers to avoid them being persecuted in a witch hunt. Pretty damn obvious, IMO.
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2012-07-17, 15:27 | Link #394 | |
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2012-07-17, 15:52 | Link #396 |
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people should realize, the way they are handling the story its how "survival game" plots are usually done, with the world setting, player motives and actions beign explained as the story progresses, to keep a "thriller" atmosphere, examples of this are BR, TWEWY or gantz.
Spoiler for Comparison with madoka magica:
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2012-07-17, 15:59 | Link #397 | |
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My guess would be class build. Kirito seems to be some sort of rogue type and Asuna seems to be more the standard fighter/swordsman type.
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2012-07-17, 16:05 | Link #398 | |
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You cant have it both ways. Either a) the majority of the population is hiding or b) the majority is playing it safe. If they are hiding its hard to imagine the respawn rate being the limiting factor. If they are playing it safe, they would form up into large groups where its much harder to get killed and stick to low level monsters.. the equivalent of sharing. And given monsters respawn resources aren't scarce. People playing it safe would simply wait until the first group figures out the boss then wait for the next group.. or the next and grind levels till they feel ready. Then just stick to killing stuff that cant OHKO you. Not to mention this would form longer term parties like guilds/factions or whatever their version is in this game. And groups can easily empty out large areas to do exploring. Not to mention during the scene where Kirito offers to share the location of the quest to get cream for the bread with Asuna, its practically implied that even while you dont NEED to eat, theres a strong compulsion to (and the majority of the food tastes bad) with Asuna devouring the bread after she gets a taste when at the beginning of the conversation she asks him if he really thinks the bread is delicious. Like Klein's reaction to being hit by the boar. We see pain and hunger are simulated which would force most people to go out and fight if only to get enough money to buy food. Have you ever gone without food for extended periods of time? Remember at this point its a MONTH in. Anyone that doesn't intend on sitting in the opening town would definitely be forced to fight to get money to buy food to prevent or at least reduce the hunger pains to the point where you can still fight. One does not simply ignore hunger pains for a month. maybe some monks do. but these are game crazy kids who bought out the 10k copies of this game in a matter of seconds of it being released. One can safely assume none of them have spent a day without food much less a week or a month. d) So far neither episode have given ANY indication there are traps of any sort. And given that he's had a MONTH to spend on the first level. Like you said in a) Kirito has most likely reached the saturation point. There should be absolutely nothing short of the actual dungeon boss itself that would stop him from being able to explore. Yet he's not outside of town exploring in ep2. Hes sitting in town waiting on a discussion of boss tactics (that he doesn't know will turn into an announcement that the boss room has found). Not to mention, play episode 1 again to the spot where Kirito talks to Klein about going to the second village. You will see 6 villages marked in red dots. The map covers probably 80% of the first floor. and you can CLEARLY see there's a round green shaded object on the top right hand side. Obviously THE only dungeon on the map. And he access the map via his menu. I'm pretty sure more than one other person has figured out how to use the map. Not to mention start of ep2 you see the outline structure of the dungeon/boss section and then again after they walk through the forest... to the giant pillar of stone/whatever that the camera pans up on. e) PVP needn't be fatal. Just dangerous enough to force someone away from their goal. They just need to hurt them to a point where it would be dangerous to either continue fighting themselves or the monster they are after. Oh and watching it again.. i found Diabel's death scene to be kinda stupid. Kirito obviously has a potion in his hand.. but doesnt use it. Then again with Kibao blaming the betas (didn't we go over this at the start of the episode? Betas wrote the guide book. Whats more Diabel says it the latest edition meaning someone managed to revise it, also implying people can share information via the guidebook updating it like a wiki. Last edited by xenapan; 2012-07-17 at 16:23. |
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2012-07-17, 16:08 | Link #399 |
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I thought it was just a part of the system, where your HP bar is shown bigger than the people in your party? Have to go back and check Kirito's screen when they first formed a party...
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