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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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2012-07-18, 07:23 | Link #422 | |
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By the way, for those who want to be updated on when these come out, you can follow their Twitter feed, which is also on their site. I feel like I'm advertising for them, but whatever, everyone who cares is a fan anyway . |
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2012-07-18, 09:03 | Link #423 |
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The rule says that "Posting and discussing content found on official sites or blogs" is permitted "provided that [it is] posted under clearly marked spoiler tags". So in this case, you should add spoiler tags. That said, given that this is an Episode 2 thread, it'd probably be better to discuss this in the two speculation threads instead of in here (because it's basically off-topic here).
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2012-07-18, 12:44 | Link #426 | |
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2012-07-18, 13:26 | Link #427 | ||||
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So having a single character roaming in a dungeon is simply suicide. Quote:
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A point you made before that is not valid either: you expect them to go through the floor 24/7. That's not possible: even if they aren't in their own body, their brains cannot have an active and permanent activity all the time, so there has to be a point where they simply cannot play and has to recover one way or another (lack of game stimuli and whanot). It is irrealistic to expect players to be remain "awake" all the time. Quote:
1) the number of "good loot" is awfully restrained. This also explain why Diabel took the risk of trying a Last Attack for the Kobold Lord special item: if you have to defeat a Floor Boss for that kind of item, that means the number of players with a decent/great gear is narrowed to the elite. 2) The above points lead to another problem: should elite players die later on, there is -no way- to get the items back, considering how Diabel disappeared. Therefore, there is no way to substitute the loss of manpower -and- equipment 3) That also means that grinding and all is not as rewarding as usual MMORPG with instances/frequent respawn timers. You are stuck with a fixed amount of legendary/elite items, which means you cannot have a large amount of players with decent gear. That leaves to craftmanship which leads to resources issues and potential danger in traveling in hostile areas and/or dungeons for the material alone. Simply speaking, such point prevents dungeons farming, leading to a sheer umbalance in term of equipment, which is a vital problem in regard to a "hardcore" mode MMORPG.
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2012-07-18, 14:29 | Link #428 | |||
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Not really disagreements, but precisions.
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Spoiler for Aria in the Starless Night, on dungeon crawling:
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Spoiler for Aria in the Starless Night, raid group numbers:
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2012-07-19, 02:35 | Link #432 |
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The number shouldn't be 33, an odd number.
Assuming Kirito&Asuna got left out because the other groups were full, 31 in groups +2 extra. 31 can't be divided clearly into groups. From what I remember we don't know the party limit yet, but it shouldn't be 31, a prime number
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2012-07-19, 06:32 | Link #434 | |
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My guess would be that they devide into 5 group of 6 (30) + left over party (KiriAsu) + Lone Leader who attempt to LA Boss (Diabel). When diabel take command in early boss fight, There are only group A B C D E F which Kirito's being group F. That indicated there are indeed only 6 parties in the whole raid. picture ? here. This screenshot should account to all raid survivor. 32 in total + 1 KIA, unless, of cause, there were more casualty during boss rampage after Diabel's death. Other one that come close is At the meeting, 29 in total, KiriAsu were offscreen (They shouldn't but they were, oh well ) We can assume that some were behind those pillars. Other scenes show only 20ish of them at most I believe. Remember that I'm talking about anime here, and how bravely anime SAO raiders are, not a pussy novel player who dreamt for 2 raid groups
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2012-07-19, 13:48 | Link #437 |
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I simply don't see how it's hard to believe that it takes people longer than usual to do whatever you think they ought to be doing, experienced or not, in a game where you can die easily, with limited equipment and unstable state of mind. (P.S. Kirito never said anything about soloing his way to the top floor, even if you are to take his bluff seriously. He only said he reached further than anyone into whatever top floor the Beta-testers made to. That could simply be a scenario where he's reach deeper into the dungeons than the rest. Doesn't mean he soloed his way there. His point still stands: He'd seen monsters that others haven't. Nothing more.)
It's not uncommon to take the top guilds several weeks or even months to clear new contents in today's MMO, and that's with repeated attempts of trial and error while death is cheap. And I'm speaking from first hands experience. Now you only have one life. I'd say taking only a month is pretty damn impressive with such a small group of players trying. If you still don't find it tolerable in the slightest, then can we at least agree that this is simply a personal preference thing? YMMV after all. I would hate to think they bind... it's only gonna make resource even scarcer, and trading would be nigh impossible. As if HC mode isn't nasty enough already |
2012-07-19, 14:43 | Link #438 |
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Well, to be fair, most people (at least ones that have the luxury of talking about anime on the internet) simply have never experienced anything in their life that would really give them any frame of reference on what it's like to live and fight with their life on the line day in and day out.
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2012-07-19, 22:20 | Link #439 |
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Join Date: May 2010
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Finally saw ep 2 ... I am enjoying this series quite a bit so far - they're really doing a very good job imo.
Am almost tempted to pick up the novels that have already been tl'd into eng over at bakabt....
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2012-07-19, 22:43 | Link #440 | |
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Spoiler for Soul Bind system. Information from "Aria in the Starless Night:
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