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View Poll Results: Sword Art Online - Episode 11 Rating | |||
10 out of 10: Near Perfect... | 45 | 34.62% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent... | 37 | 28.46% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good... | 27 | 20.77% | |
7 out of 10 : Good... | 7 | 5.38% | |
6 out of 10 : Average... | 8 | 6.15% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average... | 1 | 0.77% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor... | 1 | 0.77% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad... | 0 | 0% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad... | 0 | 0% | |
1 out of 10: Torturous... | 4 | 3.08% | |
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2012-09-24, 15:25 | Link #301 | |
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2012-09-24, 16:10 | Link #302 |
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There are several, but the one that are most similar would be Yureka or ID eNTITY as it was translated as, it's from 2000. It's about a VRMMO and AI's play a pretty big role in it as well.
[edit] It's somewhat unlikely that english novels would be an inspiration source, unless they have been translated to Japanese. Neither feature VR games as well, but rather VR internet. If we go that far off then the Matrix would be a far more likely source and that was even a manga originally. |
2012-09-24, 16:27 | Link #303 | |
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We begin with Simulacrum 3 by Dainel Galouye from 1964 (later adapted into the film The Thirteenth Floor which was unfairly maligned as a Matrix ripoff). By the 1980s there were enough examples of the genre for both Red Dwarf and Garfield to parody it.
If you'd like examples that woudl've been popular in Japan c.2002, I'd point to The Matrix and Scrapped Princess, both of which have obvious similarities to the situation in SAO, though without the game aspect. There's also Cronenberg's eXistenZ which is from the same period, though very different in approach. Quote:
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2012-11-25, 16:06 | Link #306 | |
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The same sort of age restrictions that Facebook and most other online services have; the children are probably either playing on their parents' account (or they created their own accounts and lied about their age), but obviously their parents had no idea that this could happen...
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2012-11-25, 16:22 | Link #308 |
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No I understand that, I would expect people to remain on first level because of fright but 2000 seems a bit too much after 2 years considering that there were only 10 000 altogether.
And I doubt that that many parents would be willing to buy a game for a kid on the first day especially when it has age restriction. Maybe I'm over thinking it...
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2012-11-25, 16:34 | Link #309 |
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That's just one-in-five, just how many do you expect will be gung-ho about risking their life to beat the game? I imagine the "let-someone-else/better" attitude probably set in as well.
Now, that being said, the scope of the characters does seem a bit much for the 10,000 stated to be playing...with all the armies and super-guilds happening, as well as all the smaller in-betweeners.
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2012-11-25, 17:42 | Link #312 | |
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Basically the only thing that might get them to change their mind at this point might be just going stir crazy from boredom and if some high-level players came back to help them power-level (and keep them safe -- though see also Sachi...). Eh, I think parents buy M-rated games for their children all the time right now. But besides, I'm not sure that this game necessary would have so-strict age restrictions, and they may have been buying the game mostly for themselves but just let their kid try it out first (since it's brand new). Maybe it's an "okay, but you can only walk around in the home town for a bit just to try it out; only 15 minutes!" thing. I can easily see it happening.
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2012-11-25, 17:53 | Link #313 |
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The use of both an ethics code and advertising of bloodless carnage (yes there's violent but there's no blood and gore, possibly even "cartoony") would ease some parents' views on Sword Art Online, I imagine.
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