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Sword Art Online being a primarily single player series (lemmy.world)
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Is the greatest inside joke in the industry…

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[–] 58 points 4 months ago

Then you have Solo Leveling, a franchise entirely about one guy grinding dungeons alone, making a multiplayer co-op game.

The jokes really do write themselves.

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    [–] 28 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I've got another one for you:

    Image

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    • [–] 17 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    To be fair no one who knows SAO wants SAO to actually happen, shits horrifying.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    Not literally, but it's kind of a joke that the anime paints an MMORPG world and, in the best cases, you can only play with a few friends. It would be nice if we actually had a non-lethal Aincrad MMORPG instead of the sorry excuses of a cash-grab they are making every time

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  • [–] 27 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Except the actual MMO depicted in SAO fucking sucks. Like, once you remove the whole "Oh my God it's like I'm really there" hyper-advanced simsense VR aspect, it's a really shitty game. The only possible builds are DPS and Tank, there's no magic, no ranged, nothing to make stealth viable. You can go into crafting but that's about it for any other skills. The whole "unique skill" mechanic is basically just pure "Fuck you" RNG and would be impossible to balance. Loot gets handed out based on last hits so fuck cooperation. It's a mess. If you made an MMO with modern tech that perfectly recreated the mechanics of SAO, no one would play it.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago

    As an SAO fan, yeah I fully agree. Reki does not seem to care or have a clue about video game design. But despite having an interesting worldbuilding premise, the series is 100% character driven. Which probably also explains why the tie-in games are single player.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Even in the anime the random skills are just horribly balanced, doesn't he end up being forced to join that guild after a duel where he's objectively the better fighter but the guild leader just has a random 'actually I can stop time' skill?

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah to be fair.

    There was a VR MMORPG a few years back that was really hyped up, Zenith The Lost City I think it was called?

    Unfortunately the game died off pretty quick despite quite a succesful launch.

    I'd love to see a 2D MMORPG of Aincrad, one with proper scale.

    I'll play the new game, but I'll wait until my favourite fit girl gets it first ;)

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I’d love to see a 2D MMORPG of Aincrad, one with proper scale.

    Ragnarok. I still miss that game in the state it was in the early 2000. Those years were the golden era of the MMORPGs

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    • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Me who want MMORPG experience in single player game:

    At least i got them with Dragons Dogma.

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    • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Care to elaborate at all?

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  • [–] 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    SAO is a light novel/anime series centered primarily around the eponymous MMORPG and its sequels. Despite this, most (all?) licenced games are single player.

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    • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    .hack\\sign game, but you can log out any time you want.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    As an MMO player at the time that game came out, I thought it was the strangest "MMO" ever. Were Japanese only MMOs like that? I was into UO, EQ, DAOC, and stuff and was kinda expecting a single player game that felt like one of those.

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    • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    I mean, if it's actually an MMO the kind of person that likes SAO won't be able to have fun being the only overpowered god tier main character in the entire universe.

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