Why SAO is a Terrible Game, Too 

It's a cancerous piñata

Oh my god 😂

The Nobody14200 hooray for the cancer piñata

The Nobody14200 THIS COMMENT

Great, now I can't get that mental image out of my head.

SAOA take has it glitching out like no tomorrow, though (fucking Bethesda...).

It has death animation glitch thing where it allow people to pretend they get killed in the save zone. It’s kind of lazy writing and plot convenience for a group of people trying to use the glitch to make a murderer confessing their guilt by telling them the ghost of the dead will come hunt everyone down

Zero glitches? We have no idea how many glitches the software/hardware had because their was no feedback loop from the developer indicating what was a bug and what was a feature. Without that feedback loop we don't know if crystals not working in certain areas or manipulating sleeping players hands to use their menu were bugs and we also don't know how many players were hard deleted because the software/hardware crashed. I would assume the game was full of bugs but people either didn't recognize them or found useful bugs and exploited them(which is the likely outcome)

@@frebu5379 I mean... true, we don't know what _might_ have been a glitch because they didn't explicitly say. But that's the whole problem. We can't assume any of those things were glitches, _because they didn't explicitly say._ We don't know if _any_ players were hard deleted (and therefore killed) because of hardware/software crashes, and we have no reason to assume that they were. If indeed they were, I think that would have been far too juicy to leave unsaid. The fact is that SAO is fiction, so they could have easily written some glitches into it. You can assume it's full of bugs if you want, but that's just your head canon working to improve the writing, because you probably actually play games. One of Geoff's points was that SAO's creator has apparently never (or rarely) played any games, and didn't do any research. If he had, I don't think he would have been able to resist exploring the concept of bugs within the narrative. Explicitly, not implicitly. That said, obviously the whole fact that players got trapped within the game is a glitch that the developers didn't plan for. But again, if SAO's creator had more knowledge and experience of games, he would have done a lot more to explore those possibilities. So I mean, yes, your head canon version is better. But that's just your head canon, and the show doesn't do a whole lot to support it. Don't give it more credit than it deserves.

Isn't a glitch the cause of the death in the real world?

Usually Anime protags are black haired and edgy in some form or another because the main audience is Japanese/Asian compared to Western/American. Otherwise if the character had a say in the outfit, he could go with anything else. Hell I would do a white version of the same outfit just to be different!

If I had to guess, the uniforms are likely some kind of layered armor (like in Monster Hunter) where it’s purely aesthetic and has no effect on the actual armor underneath. Either that, or the uniforms are just reskinned versions of some super common armor

like in sao alfheim abridged how the ENTIRE spriggin clan was literal kirito clones.

In modern games if you dress like an NPC you stand out because everyone makes their shit as big and obnoxious as possible with microtransaction cosmetic items that look like unicorn poop

​@@flallana18It could be even better: they ARE the common armor, not even reskin they just found monsters that drop so much of them, they went with it

Probably one of those modern 'Game's basically ready, this is totally not a demo guys' betas, let's be honest.

If I remember correctly the beta testers also never beat the first floor.

@@ironmaskend they did, kirito went to the 8th floor and the rest were probably atleast around 5th

That sort of shit is not something that you address during beta testing stage. Beta testing is generally for tweaking numbers and applying polish. At the very latest, I’d expect things like UI design to be worked on during the alpha testing phase. The rest of those issues are deeply baked into the core of the game and ought to be addressed early on. If problems with dungeon design and the combat system AS A WHOLE made it into beta testing, they don’t have time to make new dungeon assets or overhaul the combat from the ground up. That would be grounds to either cancel the game or reboot development.

well look at Battlefield 2042 that is a real game that has that problem

Now that you mention it, I could imagine people doing nothing but using the fastest weapon / attack method available to get the last hit throughout the entire raid. I saw that in one particular MMORPG, and in that game the "last hit bonus" was a novelty skill where you could transform to a miniature version of the boss. Now imagine that same thing, but in a life-or-death game, with only one chance of obtaining this drop. Instead of a few players who like showing off in town trying it, there would be hundreds of thousands of leeches trying to get that last hit. This system literally rewards and encourages selfishness and trolling imo. 1/10 worst MMORPG, would not touch again with a 10-feet pole

You know Kayaba never meant to continue the game right...? The bosses were just there for challenge, as it stood I don't think he ever wanted SAO to be a good game anyways. (Who the hell decides that making a quadruple layer drop down box is a good idea!?)

LoudWaffle yah, but they would have respawned in the beta, and I think that that was only for the death game

Did you watch the video? It doesn't matter what Kayaba wanted, he was just one man out of literal hundreds if not thousands of people working on this game, amongst thousands and thousands of investors. Everything about the game aside from the fact that you can't log out and get killed when you die was intended to be in the game and supposedly people in-universe thought they were good design choices.

I am pretty sure he just turned off the ability for bosses to respawn. We don't exactly know what were the features that Kayaba left intact.

well maybe they didnt mention imitating Star Wars just because of copyright Disney gets extremely pissed when people use their stuff but I do think the writers could of just made up a different name and gotten away with it.

Because Disney loves to abuse copyright strikes

@@PeruvianPotato alright then, they can just say everyone goes for for the plasma blade because you know who tf doesn't want a plasma blade in their inventory.

"Or the RPers who would try to deflect bullets but that's just a rumor" This would mean that either people tried and failed meaning Kirito is such a epic gamer that he was the first to pull it off.

@@WhyYouMadBoi you think that would be easily tested by players right? Hey dude but the blade out a little Ok *shoots* Oh cool it deflected Yeah but when am I ever gonna do that in actual combat, its a fucking bullet its way faster than a laser why do you think star wars used laser weapons?

I think you mean you're quoting the original series /lh 😂

you have a good point, but remember, his skills in game allow him to move quickly while using heavier swords

But that will put him in disadvantage. A heavy sword can be weaker than a short sword. What matters in game is dmg not how heavy it is

@@luqmanazli4450 personally i could see that concept working if he was looking for how well he can use the bade. but judging a blade based on the weight is just fucking stupid since ur trying to slice ur opponent, not give him a fucking concussion.

I don’t remember the details of the scene but isn’t it that he was looking for balance?

He hands the Elucidator to Lisbeth and she nearly falls over because of how heavy it is. I’m assuming weight is tied to how high the strength stat required to use the weapon is, so technically, a heavy weapon of any type is superior to a lighter weapon of the same type

and so does the joke of Asuna not figuring out the menu

and also the joke of alfheim online being in the bargain bin

@@justasentientmclarenp1879 also reusing assets :v

So basically SWE did some research and snuck it in, and it went over most people's heads.

yo i got 666th like noice

Yeah and hmm... also it's... Kiritod

@@Feten56709 just get together your power of friendship and sensei teaching flashbacks and you’re unbeatable

@@MarioSantos-zx4bj oof And with that why do people make a party in the first place?

Except PKing is taboo and you will become an orange player, for which there are so many disadvantages, that the game would become legit unplayable. Seriously, you can't even enter towns, and will have to camp in forests.

@@Feten56709 Cause it's easier with a party, and added safety.

tbh how do you max out something so simple. like make it more interactive besides point at food to chop if you're gonna give it a dedicated skill

@@glasshorse6893 , like a Cooking Mama minigame within the main game?

@@Hermititis not gonna lie that sounds fun as hell

@@glasshorse6893, as long as it's not "seizure-inducing", like the smithing/crafting minigame in SAO Abridged.

That's how you learn things, Ultima Online did that ages ago and it worked. Skyrim does that and people love it.

My favourite thing will forever be the quote on quote "race war"

The diffrent races exist but the war reason is different and yeah you can play with your friends if you dint care about the rp stuff

@@thelegolistme3250 loved the foreshadowing in episode 5

"Yeah, their break-up is the founding cornerstone of all our lore."

They also torched the incest which was nice

It did die from the incident

Terumi Infact that's what happened and why it was replaced with the Amusphere...

I think even if there was a 1 in billion chance of a nerve gear ever killing a person that lawyers would have probably hidden it away in the user agreement in small text before they let a company produce and sell it

Zezlemet Eula for software are hit and miss. Sometimes they are enforced and other times they are given no power. However on the case of thousands of people dying because of regular use of their product, im pretty sure that courts would have torn up the Eula and then proceeded to tear nervegear's lawyers a new one if they tried that as a defence.

Terumi I just wanna say that it was already covered in the vid.

JGamer king I think Digibro talked about it a few times

discord.gg/ZdzFWcx

Your Mom in both his sao diatribe and his review of sao 2

We can't really say much about the game because they barely talk about it in the anime everything they show us is still shit tho

When life gives you a beaten horse, you make lemonade. Pretty sure that's how it goes.

People still using Amushpere or whatever tf its name was after the SAO incident like it was perfectly normal made no goddamn sense. The only way this inconsistency could be resolved is by stating that NerveGear was just one of many full-dive VR gear available in the market that existed for some time and SAO itself was a niche game for a niche device. But I'm pretty sure this would contradict one or two existing plotpoints in the horribly written mess called SAO.

I'm sorta doing a re-write of the GGO arc, and I made this the motivation for Death Gun. The conspiracy is two people that lost family to SAO, plus the third, the former laughing Coffin member, blames the game itself for his action. Together they're trying to remind everyone how dangerous fulldive is.

@@FreedomFighterAsuka Yes and no. Don't forget that full dive is an incredible experience. A lot of people would risk it, tell their friends and nobody would care about SAO anymore. It's always like that. The benefits outweigh the risks. The developers of the amusphere claimed that it's not possible to kill people and before it was released it was probably thoroughly examined. SAO was made by a crazy dude and it wasn't some kind of glitch. Like terrorists won't stop people from using airplanes, one maniac won't bring down VRMMORPGS.

@@brownwolf5766 one maniac that kills people would halt vrmmorpgs.

This wuld atleast kill the full dive industry

Oh yeah!! For sure! Plus the company that makes or has the servers being looted by angry families and law enforcement shutting them down for inhumane tech like that! Seriously! No major country would allow that stuff because the lawyers would easily see the faults with it 100 miles away!

It really doesn't even make sense that it kills you. If it was a brain shock thing where ripping it off can kill you, that would never ever pass a safety test. The only possible way where it COULD kill you despite how fast you rip it off would be the damn thing exploding like a bomb. And even then like there would be some way to disarm it. It's just dumb anime logic excuses.

iirc the login button WORKED at the start, and was only disabled after a while probably around the same time Kayaba announced it to the world, there are a few hundred some people that DID ignore the warning, and became the "this is actually happening" thing.(213 to be exact). A not insignificant ammount of people who played SAO are also unlikely to be children, many likely lived alone or rarely leave their rooms to begin with given teh demographic so it would have taken longer for anyone to notice something is wrong And he did adress the company. The company folded, completly, its assets where sold, and the SAO server was put under new supervision to keep it running, because its essentialy a black box from the outside, the goverment had acess to limited logs so they knew the players made progress, they knew levels and Avatar Names of every player, iirc they even knew who killed whom etc(but they didnt release them to the public because they didnt want players, after they wake up, sueing each other because thats a mess noone in the goverment wanted to have to deal with. so Argus was the sole responsible party for any death in the game as far as legal responsibilite was concerned, now you cant have thousands of people who are now misadjsuted to real society, and potentialy murderd someone run around normally. so at least for the underage crowd the "returnee school" was formed, officaly to help, more honestly to confine them, with forced counceling seassons regularly etc) its also involving 10k people, this would probably be blasted as an emergency alert to anyone who has a fucking phone as if it was a Earthquake. This was also written in 2002, a lot more people watched the news back then regularly.

Honestly maybe but I’m not so sure. Think about it if your loved one was in a full dive game for too long would you react that way? Like after a day of so definitely panic but In no way would your first instinct tell you to remove them from a world connected to their brain by force. If you didn’t know how it worked I doubt you would be so quick to even touch it fearing you could hurt them but if you did you would know how insanely damaging that would be to the human brain to be pulled from one world into another in a matter of a second

@@Supersleepyhexie Yes, I would. My first thought wouldnt be “Oh shit my brother has been taken captive by a delusional CEO psychopath!” It would be “Oh shit, what’s wrong? Why aren’t you answering me? I’ve got to get you to the hospital!!” It’s a video game. It doesn’t connect to any major body part, it’s a helmet. It’s not plugged into the brain stem, it’s sitting on the head. And no, I wouldn’t assume removing the helmet would kill them because again, it’s a video game. You’re thinking of this with the knowledge we the viewers have, but which the friends and families would not have had hours after it happened.

TheTrueChuster lmao

Where did I originally hear this...

Digibro.

as a victim of sexual harassment i laughed at this

TheTrueChuster why

The author acknowledged it as a plot hole.

I see, well that's something

ARandomGuy yeah, putting a microwave in a entretaining device is not a good idea

Well...killing inside the game wouldn be a problem. Just PvP. The problem is the "dying for real" thing. THAT was something nobody besides Kayaba knew. Second one is...true.

I mean, why didn't anyone notice the Galaxy Note 7 could explode while charging?

Why is moving the filtering options and making the icons smaller so useful?

@@victorvirgili4447 ah yes of course, the only two important things SkyUI does nevermind those other trivial things like: Configurable layout, a larger list so more items are visible, Configurable stat columns in the overview so the stats of all items are readily available, sorting options, a search bar, categories for the quick select menu, quick select item sets yeah, can't see why people would want those

@@MEEEPMEEEPMEEEPMEEEP I've used SkyUI so consistently for such a long time that I had to google what vanilla Skyrim's original user interface looked liked and damn it's a mess. Absolutely no way I'd play a game like that if I didn't have to

​@@kzizzles8329yeah, imagine if u want to find your smithing+ Alchemy set or Alteration+Restoration set in Vanilla with other armor or gauntlets; it is a pain really

Well, SAO was developped by Bethesda. And ALO by Ubisoft. I wonder if GGO is Activision's 🤔

If Elon Musk owned a game publisher

"Kayaba, we are not gonna make our money back, and our net worth is falling to hell, What do we do" "Don't worry I have a plan what will distract people from this failur" "Really" "Really" "You are all now trapped in the game and if you die here you die in real life"

This is the plot of SAO Abridged.

Lol pog fortnite try hard 14 year old pulls of bullet cut KEKW

you forget, it takes your brains signals of movement, so in short, its all a combination of his real reflexes, and the skills he acquired from Alfheim online and sword art online. watch the show, its all explained in there

@@burnttoast7497 So it`s makes no sense, since it`s different games with different mechanics. I doubt lightsabers feels like actual sword. I doubt he learned how to reflect bullets in SAO or ALO, games with no guns. And if it`s uses real reflexes, how he became best player? Dude quit his sword practice, and in SAO he not even using katana, both of his swords are more western-like. In reality Kirito would suck in any of games in the show.

@@SevereMENT To add on to the plasma sword not feeling the same, wouldn't it not weigh nearly as much as the swords he used to?

@@kodymcbride6901 And would be balanced completely differently.

Not only does that not make any sense, that completely defeats the purpose of players that wanna use bigger guns. On the wiki it explains what all but the sen and luck stats do, which is incredibly poor writing. Why should someone dump all of their points into a single stat, when there is no explanation of what that stat does?

@@magnedeusfenrir9582 I think it was a joke about how only someone with enough sensibility (i.e Commen sense) could use the two most broken weapons in gun gale.

@@magnedeusfenrir9582 it was a joke bro

@@magnedeusfenrir9582 the Sen (int) and luck stats do have uses actually. Levelling up int allows you to unlock more battle skills and increases crit rate. While luck increases crit and also drop rate.

@hasnu alam damn your that butthurt over an anime ? Lol go back to watching one piece and all those other fantastic anime shows while me and the rest will be here enjoying ourselves and watching sao .

And in to Titanfall 2 there are weapons that one shot kill, but are notoriously hard to use (I mean the kraiber is a slow reload sniper with projectile bullets, and the only upside is that it kills in one shot). And they are popular because they are useless if you don't know how to use them.

Can't blame him if he want to use those sword I mean melee in most FPS 1 shot people and don't require aiming

@@Cracker_Smacker ‘don’t require aiming’ Man if you saw how weird Energy Assault’s knife hit box is you would NOT be saying that

​@@Cracker_Smacker counterpoint: you gotta be up close. _deathly_ close. unless you're using hacks, are absolutely fucking sneaky, or playing against 6 year olds with brain damage that could barely even move a finger, that's realistically not gonna happen _in VR_ also don't require aiming my ass, backstabs are literally the spy schtick in tf2.

@@YataTheFifteenth counter point TF2 hit reg doesn't work and most FPS use the auto lock system to assist melee or have the entire screen as a hit box for knife swipe

And with how bad even Axie Infinity is doing, we can now say for a fact that this business model doesn't work.

If Aniplex actually tries to make a paytoearn NFT game I’d probably cry

SAO Dev : the game is nerve gear is killing people and not letting people log out SAO CEO : it’s fine our game is shot well just log in and act like it’s some master plan and go from there

@@justasentientmclarenp1879 That's what happened in SAO Abridged lol, where the game was actually shit. In OG, game was pretty good actually.

Cyberpunk2077

@@beastunleashed657 how is SAO gangster?

@@robertwesley7332 uh, what?

This comment made my day

I wish i was sensible enough to realize that

Alot of Games have something Like that, its called a noob Trap

Sensibility might be a thing that allows more information to propagate into your neural interface. Basically, reality resolution (but in more ways than visual). It's a killer feature to have. Judging real VR by the standards of modern MMOs is a strange idea. It's like comparing modern AAA games to pacman arcade machines. Controls are vastly expanded, visuals are on a different level, completely new features in terms of media and gameplay, playing cycle is radically different, etc

XD

And every main character getting favourable looks is just every single anime, even TV shows and movies in general.

I think the in lore explanation for the main characters looking like themselves was that the previous sao players that are trapped in alfheim online like asuna (almost 1000 people if i remember it right) had a "malfunction" in their accounts that made it so they were exported to the alfheim server when sao crashed, kirito and the other ex sao players also found a way to export their accounts, so their avatars are kind of still the same, but adjusted to the new game

A lot of these things have to be inferred (which is dumb). 1. Sleep is necessary both irl and in game. Though the UI doesn't show it, player characters can obviously get tired, so some form of stamina/exhaustion does exist (maybe this is where the info in sent straight to the brain instead of displayed on screen?). At any rate, sleep in game would be necessary to prevent irl brain damage from overuse, as the brain is fully active while in the game. 2. Food does not satiate real hunger, but probably functions in game similarly to how I described stamina to function. People actually did have problems irl; there was a scene near the end of the first arc where Asuna mentions that there was an incident a few weeks after the game's launch in which people went "offline" because of problems irl and their physical bodies being moved to hospitals, something that creates a whole new set of problems lol. 3. The show isn't clear about this. In the first episode people say that monsters and quests are limited, but a few episodes later there is talk of a faction that has monopolized certain low level monster spawn zones. The same goes for quests, though the contradiction happens much sooner when Kirito tells Asuna about the quest to get a pot of cream. 4. You don't need prior knowledge, seeing as most crafting skills are simplified down to hitting the material with a specific tool. I imagine crafting ability are like combat ability, somewhat based on irl ability but mostly augmented for the better by the relevant skills. 5. I legitimately can't think of a reason for this. Maybe the writer wanted to add classes but decided against it midseries? I can, however, imagine that jobs are mostly so players who are too afraid to kill things can feel productive since they can't leave the game. tldr: UI is incomplete, some things are answered in the show, internal_consistency.exe not found

5- They were likely using the system from FFXI(equipment based classes) as the basis prior to that games release(both SAO and FFXI came out in 2002 so some information about the system would have existed).

alo is sims if i understand correctly=D

It's like he says. People would try it and delete it after a month tops. It looks cool, but playing something like this would be horrible

Speak for yourself. I don't care about gimmicks, I care about gameplay. (which SAO fails at delivering) But I'm someone that seeks quality in videogames, unlike the dumb average consumer that only cares about how shinny it looks and is the first to jump off the wagon the moment someone advertises something shinnier.

GamerChannelOne Yeah, playing a game that is a complete reality change and the first true virtual reality would be absolutely terrible. Who would want to walk around in a photorealistic fantasy world that looks and feel real? *sarcasm*

TheGreatMunky Like I said, it would be interesting at first, but after a while, it would get boring and repetitive. Look at Pokemon Go, or the Wii, it's pretty much the same shit. It's interesting at first, because it's a cool new thing, but after a while, it gets boring, due to lack of actual diversity. Heck I'd probably play it as well, but a cool gimmick can only last so far, before it gets boring as well

No, seriously. It's the worst anime I've seen as of late, It's bad. If you like Sword Art Online, you really need to reconsider whatever the hell it is you find entertaining in anime. It is garbage. But not the Abridged version... It is amazing...

what this person says is true

Greatest argument for SAO I've ever seen.

Krillix Kai True.

You like IBO that is what is wrong with you. I bet you like Gundam SEED Destiny too.

it would make sense for the numbers to be small as well

AND we wouldn’t have to worry about that “beater” BS that never goes anywhere

And of course with totally different tech that wouldn’t be a PR lawsuit nightmare for the dev company to be shut down for making stuff like that. Seriously!

But wouldn't that conflict with Kayaba's super compelling reason for turning SAO into a death game in the first place? What was that reason again? I forgot...

(spoilers for the abridged series, which you should watch because it's better than the original) That's why Kayaba does the death game thing. He wanted to distract from how terrible his game is.

I still feel that the critics or hell the sheer thousands of people wanting justice for the deaths of their family members because of his game would easily say other wise!

@@ZephLodwick honestly that would make everyone involved feel even worse. Would you rather die to being stabbed or trigger the surprise “HAHA-you-dead-now-in-the-worst-way-possible” response accidentally, while getting stabbed.

Final Fantasy 2 Friendship is Masochistic XD

*immortal* ✨✨

oddly enough that's kinda how stats work in Danmachi but that wasn't made to be a game and it works in the world of Orario. Games should be made with balance in mind though so no player has an advantage over the others. That's why pay to win games suck

@@javianbrown8627 Imagine how funny a spin off of SAO that has some rich guy buy it and buy everything in the game would be. Just like a single episode where he just buys it all, no matter if it's a visual or stat thing

Abbadon in Dota 2 when his ultimate activates. For about 5 seconds.

He did little research, period.

Yeah this guy is stupid.. He is comparing an Anime series set in Future, which uses Game as a New World, and Compare it with Todays MMORPGs..😒 *That's why some sick gamers shouldnt put their Heads into Anime..*

@@ska4666 so letting weak enemies wail on you for hours on end to improve your survivability is suddenly fun because the game is a "New World"? Getting repeatedly killed by a high level player is suddenly fun because the game is a "New World"? Constantly worrying about your health bar which you can't see most of the time and can only be recovered with potions which can only be accessed by going through multiple drop down menus is suddenly fun because the game is a "New World"?

@@toxicplayer653 Give the man a break. He started writing SAO in 2002, World of Warcraft wasn't even out yet. There were little games to compare it to. The only true MMORPG at that time was Everquest.

Alex PTJP No, you’re wrong. There was a fuck ton of MMO’s and similar games around at the time. You just can’t do basic research

So you mean ESO (Elder Scrolls Online)

@@TheNephilimofEmpireCity , didn't WOW do the same (Horde vs Alliance, but diff races & classes in each)?

Sorta like any online game since Final Fantasy XI?

I think they had lores in the game, just that like with any other MMO, nobody fucking cares about the lore.

Pokemon would like to disagree (mainly because the only real problem with the new Pokemon game is the performance issues, but still)

Yeah it would be generic and boring. Even without the crazy hold your body hostage tech.

Pokemon

Wouldn't matter how bad the game is, the single fact that it is indistinguishable to real life would make it sell like hotcakes considering the staggering amount of people irl who dislike/hate reality.

Honestly don’t agree, the fact that it could literally replace your real life with how similar it looks and feels would be enough for most people

roblox = shit

roblox = shit Minecraft = shit

sigh.... opinions m8's.... its not roblox = shit, minecraft = shit. what you should say is "i dont find roblox and minecraft good games"

Shit = Shit

Still Sao would make a better game then roblox

The Nuka-Cola Man the game of thrones crew should do it lol

It's true...........what's probably even sadder is i'm willing to bet money it will be better than the actual anime, even with minimal effort put in.

Hang on, don't go crazy just yet. They COULD fix it. We've seen with SAO Abridged that it can be done. I don't know if they're going to be able to fix it, but it's a possibility that we MIGHT not get something 100% shit.

It's going to be written by the people behind Terminator: Genisys. Don't expect much.

Jeremiah Banaag i expect more than the anime at least.

Except that could only lead to people playing it safe and campy for fear that their gun might stop working in the middle of a tense situation. This would lead to rather boring games, since noone would dare to take risks.

That would make sense if GGO was trying to be an ultra realistic shooter which they weren’t trying to be with the aim system, light sabers, and laser beam weapons. I’m not a gun expert but I know gun jams happen rarely so specing into luck would be a waste if it only affected jamming

Or it would increase critical hit chance and dodge chance, what would make it an incredibly OP stat

Any FPS where your gun jamming is even a possibility would be dead in two weeks or less. Very few people would ever be willing to deal with that bs.

@@mattpace1026 Thats just plain wrong, see for example Escape from Tarkov or for a more arcady game Synthetik. But I do agree that it shouldnt realy scale of luck, as that removes any kind of skill or planning from the jamming mechanic.

This is beautiful.

So I’m sorry, can we just like, send you money to rewrite the series, because this is orders and magnitudes better then what they pulled.

Dude. You just fixed sao. I'm not kidding. You literally just gave one of saos biggest problems a solution. The best I could figure out would be that kayaba is just a guy that's wacko.

I- I don't have words to describe how beautiful and great this is

@@le_meme_man8983 exactly. He knew how to combine a comedy and a real reason in a way. Amazing

Scrub Same, I stopped a while ago, and it no longer interests me...

i heard One Punch Man is good to start again, but hey whatcha doin

I dunno. Get out.

Maro Baro cdn.meme.am/cache/instances/folder823/500x/59918823.jpg

There are much better forms of media out there.

The best example of this is Kazuma, from Konosuba. From legendary swords, to the panties of women around him, he basically steals whatever he wants because his luck is completely maxed out. ... The dude is so lucky, that he can only lose in a game of Rock Paper Scissors, against the goddess of luck herself. The only other instances where he loses his luck, occur whenever Aqua is around.

Also they were barely doing damage besides that even before the heal every few seconds they were getting maybe 5-10% down before he snapped back to full so his defense had to be almost as crazy

"Why SAO is humanity's greatest failure'

『B E T I M』 "Why Sao won't be played by pewdiepie"

SAO is the biggest disappointment since my son. And whilst my son eventually hung himself in a gas station bathroom, the unfortunate reality is that SAO will be with us forever.

Sir Cookays Well that was dark

Digi did that already

remember, they flank it and switch out too.

Not sure if there was bows in the first season or not but like I remember there being bows in the one where the blue haired girl had a gun and then she wanted a bow because it was like a gun. No sweetie, no.

Some of them were playing Bejewelled for some reason That also raises the question on how they were able to play another independant game, not a minigame, inside SAO

@@jotheunissen9274 In-game browser, maybe?

@@caav56 Kayaba certainly still had access to *his* browser, so maybe.

SAO.. has a quick select.. you can store items in pouches on your Character. the only time that wasnt done was when the KoB shit happend and in that situation the Leader put the items into the inventory proper instead of the Pouch. Like, SAO has problems design wise, but the game litteraly has physical pouches that are used for exactly that

​@@weberman173 I dunno man, maybe some search feature could be help?

What the heck is LARP

@@prozorozo imagine dnd but theatre

@@prozorozo "Live Action Role Play". Think SCA or a Renaissance Fair.

Fun thing is that SAO was actually written by a Teenager. Reki was only 13-14 when he first wrote SAO in its original form.

@@americankid7782 ...That explains so much...

Hobobatman1000 The sex thing was a secret system that noone was supposed to know about but Asuna knew about it for...some reason. Basically the idea was that the sex routines were supposed to be well hidden enough that players wouldn't find them, and then those routines would be sold off to third party developers later so they can make...other Vr "experiences." Basically...FUCKING DUMB.

Hobobatman1000 The sex thing was a secret system that noone was supposed to know about but Asuna knew about it for...some reason. Basically the idea was that the sex routines were supposed to be well hidden enough that players wouldn't find them, and then those routines would be sold off to third party developers later so they can make...other Vr "experiences." Basically...FUCKING DUMB.

Since Kirito just pulls the "master hacker" trait out of his ass I would imagine he would've found it first if it was hidden in the game's code. Realistically, if the developer already made a functional sexual experience they could've just made a separate game for that and dominated the market instead of giving an already finished product away to third party developers.

Make a separate game? How about having it as part of the game? Like giving access to exclusive buffs? I can see it working in current games (let alone VR games with sensoring features). It would be quite funny to check if everyone in game had sex before starting the raid. Or having sex based class roles, acting like pre-raid supporters.

the hell it would be

I could be wrong but i think Yui wasn't banned by the programmer but by the AI that handles the game? But your point stand stills, is pretty dumb.

Talessaga2 thank you finally someone agrees

Yui was programmed to emulate and understand emotion so that she could assist players who suffered emotional trauma. A normal video game wouldn't need that. At all. Literally the only reasons you'd need a psychotherapy AI would be if a) the game is not only incredibly traumatizing, but also cuts you off from real life psychotherapy. Both things that video games should never ever do. b) the game is targeted towards people with mental illnesses and designed to help them cope. I think we all agree that SAO doesn't fit that category. So now we have the only possible situation where Yui would be useful... and she's disabled.

Why did I thought of Titanic?

A role playing game specifically designed to help people with mental illnesses actually sounds like a good idea. Can someone get on that? I know role playing in general can help, but something tailored to that audience would be a really good idea I think.

Also every main character getting favorable looks is just every anime, movies and TV show in general anyway.

Dark Souls 2 had a lot of empty bonfire rooms that connect with nothing but I get your point.

DM: there’s a door on the left hand side of the corridor, when checked it reveals it’s unlocked. Dnd players: I INSIGHT CHECK THE DOOR. DM: ….. the door, is a door. Players: *convince one party member to open the door and potentially die instead of just checking for traps* Door opener: OOo a treasure chest! Let’s open it!

If i went to a game like this wi would probably destroy all chests cuz i cant know if it is or it is not a mimic

@@abyssGazerTV To be fair DS2 was the red-headed step child of the series.

lol yeah. you should check rooms before running in, cause the devs are *expecting* you to not think and run for the goods only for the goods to be a mimic or something

No, Progressive 1 has an arc centered around someone who attempted to make a build for the Blade Throwing skill, but it wasn’t practical for longterm combat. There is only one weapon reliable for it, but that weapon, a returning Chakram, also requires the Martial Arts skill. Far from practical for hardcore players considering the intervals at which you gain skill slots (3rd at Level 6, 4th at 12, 5th at 20, and then you keep getting one every 10 from then), but very helpful for the character in question.

considering that it's not used anywhere else in combat, lets give the writer a tiny benefit of the doubt and say 'it's a hunting skill' that kirito obviously grinded offscreen.

Tiny rabbit-killing daggers does not long-range weaponry make.

Rock OP pls nerf

man every comment on any SAO video is just pure bliss to read. i love this

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@@loturzelrestaurant ???????

Because he decided to be a lonely loner and he’s cooler than all those LOSERS who go in parties and he’s the only one who doesn’t have friends to play with and no one else realized that playing alone was significantly more beneficial because they’re all crybabies who are scared of death and Kirito is cool and edgy and doesn’t need anybody the only thing he needs is his sigma male grindset I guess BETAS like you wouldn’t understand

It might be an ESO situation where you can makr gear look like whatever gear you want, his gear might be level 80 but he liked the look of the floor 1 gear so he choose to make it look like that, this of course implies that the writter took the time to think this through which we know would never happen

@@digittoll7591 That's called a transmog system and I agree. It's honestly crazy most games don't have this by default.

That's because SAO the anime mixes progressive's first novel where the coat is a boss drop with the rest of the aincrad novel where Kirito says he got the coat from a player shop on another floor. The Elucidator and Dark Repulsor are also both high level equipment

I actually think it's that the system has cosmetic gear slots. Many games use that kind of system, and there's very clearly at least a robust dye system based on what we see of holy guild Kirito. I don't think it's too unreasonable that he slotted his starter coat into a cosmetic slot once he got an upgrade, given that he clearly has a preferred character outfit and that coat suited it.

Bryan Plus it didn't kill people.

Sonic 06 is also a platinum seller. What's your point?

The argument that SAO would be a failure because it only sold 10,000 copies ignores the fact that it was a limited release. They only printed 10,000 copies, and they even gave out 1,000 of those copies to players from the beta. They're releasing the first "actual" VR game to a limited test audience. The hype generated from people watching such a small audience play the biggest game release in history would be the most hyped release since No Man's Sky. Think I'm full of shit? Look at E3. A couple thousand people, made up of famous gamers and gaming press, get early access to the biggest releases of the upcoming year. E3 can make or break a game. It can cause people to buy a shit game based on the hype of trailers and carefully curated footage seen at these events. Boy, I wonder if the next point was any better. Oh, he's mad that your party members life meter is located in the top left hand corner of the screen. I wonder how many thousands of games do that exact same thing? I wonder if the most successful MMO of all time does that **exact same thing**

ET on the atati sold more.

Bryan ... I wonder which one loads faster XD

All hail the virtual boy

Wait how much did the vr console in the show actually sell?

@@bearandthebull2372 idk

When your mainstream game console sells less that a Soulja Boy, you might as well give up the console market altogether.

@@bearandthebull2372 there are 10,000 players at launch, the game takes place at launch so at the time of the show it sold 10 thousand copies if you know anything about games you know these are terrible launch numbers

The floor 25, 50, 75 and 100 bosses are abnormally strong.

@@GeorgeDCowley yeah, but bosses will still get stronger right?

That is a storytelling issue not a game design issue

The first floor is realisticly one of the harderst, you have very limited ammount of resources and loot, mob locations are limited as well, and game knowledge to go around is concnetrated but not yet tested. You also need to convince people to actually go out and grind in sufficent numbers to form a raid. After floor 1, you almost double the ammount of resources, grind spots, Equipment drops and stuff to go around. as well as the moral boost of having defeated the first boss

It’s not a broken game, it’s meant to be explored, and as such death isn’t that big of a knock back. It’s not easy to exploite either, that’s why information is so valuable

i would argue that yggdrasil wasn't meant to be exploited, it was just that ainz's guild was a bunch of whales who probably spent hundreds to thousands of dollars buying shit so they could level up. at the end, ainz is the only one still playing, and thus he gets all the money and power that the 40-some other members of his guild left behind. the game itself is balanced fine, it's just real world money.

Yuan Yuan well levelling up wasn’t supposed to be difficult either. Ains just spent a bunch of time farming, and they got lucky beating Nazarick first try, which made them OP

@@provoidcloak true but they did undoubtedly buy stuff. and there were almost certainly one or two whales, if not more, in the guild. (side note if you don't know: a whale in gacha games and mmorpgs is someone who spends hundreds to thousands of $$/otherwise in irl money to buy stuff and quickly level up in game. theyre typically super op.)

Yuan Yuan I’m pretty sure they were all people who didn’t finish high school, it’s not like they’d have spent that much more than anyone else

Holy shit

I love Warframe

Wait Warframe is procedurally generated?

@@clokie6671 Yeah

@@SamanthaLaurier wow I'm dumb i never realized

That $8000 SAO Nerve Gear Collector's Edition Bundle though. 😂

So only Japanese people that bought SAO would die IRL if they die in-game? That seems very unfair.

Kirito notes that Asuna might be in a completely different part of Japan specifically which implies it was a limited release in Japan only. Kayaba also probably didn't care enough to release his death game worldwide since that wasn't necessary

You sir have officially gained my respect

Its actually understandable that the beginning area is packed. If the players are higher then the respawns rate and monster count then resource would be finite

Sonny J this only applies to launch night and free weekend rush. If they really wanted to be realistic some people would have died or even escaped the death game because the servers couldn’t handle so many people on a single instance grinding mobs faster than they can be spawned.

@@ltchugacast131 ya and kirito made that point that he had to get out of tge spawn area asap since this was exactly launch night and everyone was concentrated in 1 city. Everything post launch is spread out but entry levels wouldve been extended by 5 times since there was a group for 1 monster.

Runescape had a resource system that simulated a food chain that ended up with some ig resource issues when players killed not just the predators but the herbivores as well as gold farmers. If the respawn rate was below replacement rate I could buy it. Iirc they say nothing respawns but either that was a beta thing to stop power gamers with betas getting ahead, and the "real" release would likely have had a rs type system.

That was the case when Runescape was popular and SAO was first written, it's an old school MMO thing

i like the idea of using the games failure as a motive for the villain to trap everyone inside. it would be much more interesting and potentially more relatable. definitely more interesting than "hey why'd you trap 10,000 people in this game?" "pfft, i dunno"

@@crazycreaturestudios please fucking stop mate. Kayaba literally said "I was longing to create that castle, which surpassed the laws and boundaries of reality." How fucking blind are you to not see that?

Why the hell would SAO fail? The first full dive VRMMO, and you say you wouldn't play it? Mate, if anything Covid-19 has taught me, then it's the fact that something like full dive would be a life saver during this situation.

@@crazycreaturestudios He CLEARLY fucking remembered. If you didn't notice that, you're a fucking moron. It's not the anime's fault, it's yours!

@@beastunleashed657 But in the anime, Kayaba literally says, and I am directly quoting the anime, "For a long time, I've forgotten. I wonder why." KAYABA LITERALLY DOES NOT REMEMBER WHY HE MURDERED OVER 4000 PEOPLE!

You must have some real bland taste if you think these incredibly generic designs are good.

@@mattpace1026 Welp, if the scope is limited to LN, then I do think that Abec's character design are really good in the LN world (exception to Kirito's face, it's bland as f*ck. I mean look at the other characters tho) But if the scope is for the Anime, Manga, and LN as a whole. Indeed there are many above it of course. But still, even in that scope I still think SAO's character designs are good enough.

@@ahlalkubur Okay, I apologize for my rudeness. You're far more self-aware than I thought you were. Though, it might be wise to be a bit more clear about which characters you're talking about in the future, because it would prevent a lot of confusion.

​@@ahlalkubur Well, abec also do Yuuki Yuuna illustrations

SAO Abridged.

SAO Abridged is the real anime in my opinion

Yeah got to love the true version of SAO

You just described Minecraft not exactly but glitchy ender pearls you can kidnap NPCs etc

@Eric Lee what do you mean um no

The bandits are coming!

GARY!

@@twinodoom How you doing buddy? It's been a while, hasn't it, Gary?

@@SamanthaLaurier WE MUST SAVE MY FAMILY

@@krugerofcause9048 We must save m- *Incoherent rage screams* Wow, this is actually kind of uncomfortable.

it may be proportionally, so that you always need "X" ammount of XP to level up, an enemy at your level gives you Y XP, an enemy 1 level below you gives you Z XP, where Z may be something as simple as "level up cost/4" would not be the first time such a system existed in a game that and the anime likely didnt bother with specific numbers

So The Division dark zone PvP system but very bad.

I know this was 6 months ago, but it was never designed to be a "Normal" game in the first place

@@Zulantie Well, I doubt the other developers knew that the game they were making killed people.

This could easily be solved if SAO had PVP only zones. In the webtoon Hardcore Leveling Warrior (although the game in it definitely isn't perfect either) players only gain "Red" status if they repeatedly kill players outside of PVP zones. and at that point your character is treated as an outlaw/murderer. There's no punishment for killing in PVP zones since everyone in there knew what they were getting into. And everyone who just wants to do raids with their friends mostly gets ignored. Although at the end of the day all this is easy suggestions that SAO didn't do...

How is that different from reputation system on WoW? Shoutout to my fellow Bloodsail Admirals.

Dairokuten Maou Guts would like a word with you

numaTruehome 100 Youre fucking gay

This really makes me laugh

Dude, Kirito himself HATES the nickname. He wanted to move past it. So much so that he can't even dual wield in the beginning of Alicization. He only gets motivated to do so after Eugeo dies.

@@nexxt359 why can't two people have the same nickname tho?

That's just sad but how about that card game valve made

Mello I know this is kinda a joke but if it really did, without a doubt it would be one of the if not the largest game in the world

@@dragknbkrn2891 I definitely wouldn't mind being stuck in a game and actually GRINDING for my levels, instead of being OP from the start like every Isekai protagonist.

Rip lawbreakers

Nah, it would fail FASTER THAN BATTLEBORN! That game flopped faster than you can say flop, lawbreakers at least lived on for a little bit before people finally left

Just remember konosuba.

The Matrix

@@oswaldfriedman7116 that too.

Log Horizon gives a good glance about mmo but not the death part

+Something Witty Entertainment I love your parodies! The last episode is one of the funniest things I've seen in ages. Would hate for any of my fans to miss it.

+Mother's Basement: You kind of forgot the tiny fact (clearly said in the anime) that the 10,000 Original SAO players were the ones that could play the game at launch as Nerve-Gear supplies were limited. That's why Agil's wife could not play with him as they could onle secure one VR Headset. Kinda similar to the Minis NES Classic shortage and it hasn't made that a _"commercial failure"_.

When is SAOA e.11 coming out?

+Something Witty Entertainment Oh, hey. Nice to see you, here. You people are the funniest guys I've ever seen. Love your videos. Keep up the good work, guys.

Something Witty Entertainment are you going to make ep 12 for abridged sao

Quality content.Btw, I haven't seen sao anime adaptation, only read LN, is it true that it is so terrible?

Oh, it's terrible alright. Only good thing about it is the animation and the OST, a little bit. Everything else is as you've heard, or worse than that.

I like it's ops' songs...

So they removed all good moments? Or sao is just better in a text form? Or even the text of LN itself have this hate train?

For me, SAO in general is bad. I don't know if it makes more sense in written form or whatever, since I've not read the LN, but considering for me SAO in its core and themes and events (not just visual stuff) is not good, then maybe it's not good in LN form either.

That Anime Guy is it theLegend27?

Cyka Sandia No it's this Over powered main character called Kirito. Seriously Fuck him

That Anime Guy Kirito was taken it's thekirito27

are you sure it isn't TheLegend27?

That Anime Guy fucking beta testers keeping their levels.

Kowahowa logic : don’t play MMO’s and do no research at all and create a novel based on a MMO

@@justasentientmclarenp1879 Reki Kawahara based SAO off of old MMOs like Ultima Online, Everquest and Ragnarok online. Those games are actually quite similar to SAO. Maybe you should've done some research.

Dude the interface is more like a Dark Souls than anything. Dark Souls is an RPG action adventure with the closest battle system to SAO. You need good reaction time for Dark Souls. Speed and reaction time give you an edge in this game. Since the battles in SAO aren't like real MMOs and more like Dark Souls dodging is important so speed and reaction time are important.

@@beastunleashed657 aight kid, first: I played each of those three mmos and they're only similar to SAO in the mmo tag. Nothing else what so ever. Hell, EQ2 is closer to SAO but still a farcry from how horrible SAO would be. Second, dark souls isn't about reflexes. Learn combat animations, learn enemy animations, learn map item placement, and learn boss attacks. Like the video said games are vastly more than just reflexes.

Pokemon is turn based though so it works for that but SAO is real time. Then again with al the luck factors I don't think pokemon is balanced either and the numbers don't always make sense in that game

as a player who just plays games for fun i will tell you this. GRINDING GAMES ARE THE WORST MF. and if they have bad mechanics its just adding salt to the injury ffs. like what you want me to level up my skills by overusing them are you for real. you want me to be a tank by literally being on death door in a place where i can die wtf. what kind of sadist made this game. and i swear to god i didnt knew how bad the skill and mechanics of the game was coz i was too annoyed by it to put any more time researching about it. i was like its over so anyways lets watch some new trash.

As a mage player, only fighting in close range is not always a viable in any Rpg games

Also even as close range DPS every fucking boss we saw was like 10 times your size and if you weren’t clearly defense based it instantly ragdolled you so even people who enjoy that kind of role would hate it because the entire game would be them getting thrown across the room and having to sprint back, like ok maybe it would’ve worked being all about sword play of the bosses were gonna be like human ish size and it could be all about like epic duels to get to the top but without absolutely ridiculous dodges and acrobatics out the ass you’re not doing reasonable damage because the boss has insane reach so in the end without range damage every boss fight is going to suck and everyone involved will be miserable or dead the entire fight

U just have them only so maney be4 a cool down depending on the quest

I’m not sure how SOA works, cuz I haven’t watched the show or read any of the content, but wouldn’t a pretty easy way to get around the whole ‘run out of monsters so you can’t progress’ thing be to hunker down in one of the lower levels and set up a sort of new life? Like start a shop and a home and just wait out the storm until the people who are determined to get out of there win the game? I don’t know if that’s how the game works, but that’s what I’d try to do.

Lord Fadora kinda conquered floors do have lower spawns except in certain areas and the the dungeons (so ppl who can wether the storm)

Okay, I see. So people could team up, conquer a floor, and then establish a sort of small society in order to help those who can’t fight as well?

And the ppl who aren't brave/ confident enough and grind on weak things

BigFire And ended up tax evading and now the franchise suffers from it...

BigFire And on tax evasion.

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log horizon is actually based of a MMO he played

The thing is the only reason for those areas to exist was to kill off Kirito's first party. They didn't think of making it better because that was the only function those dungeons served. Kirito's first love interest had to die to make room for Asuna. That's it. And that's an indicator of how bad this show is overall.

@@alexandresobreiramartins9461 still it's fun to fix other people's junk, like the skill system, honestly I'd do something like in elder scrolls where when you level up you can assign a single perk to a skill that you meet the requirements for like say your smithing is at 50 and you level up then you have met the requirements to take the apprentice Smith perk which allows you to craft rarer items.

@@watcherofmemelords7967 Don't blame the Anime, blame the manga and LightNovels. Just sayin

That zone was probably made by the devs when it was not supposed to be a death game. It was a trap room like those in Dark Souls, where it just exists took make your life a nightmare. Now only Kayaba knew about the death game factor, so he couldn't do anything about it. The mechanic you came up with is pretty cool, but I don't really think it would've served its purpose.

@@alexandresobreiramartins9461 speak for yourself that stuff horrified me. Also making room for Asuna? He met Asuna before Sachi. And I don't really think they were in love, the entire guild was very protective of Sachi to begin with.

Sony would go bankrupt from all the heart attacks.

I'd play the shit out of that.

i think people will go mad with too much insight

Comes with diapers due to the involuntary pants wetting

VR _bloodborne?_ the carrion crows are horrific enough without them leaping at my face thanks.

same for me

Jinx. Was.Here. Same

Me Aswell

It's not Irony, RU-vid detects the tags of the videos you watch (probably lots of Anime) and gives you ads based on them.

Jinx. Was.Here. Same

Anime logic: they can swallow a whole plate of food without chewing

Asuna cries so easy in the game more than anyone else, it’s annoying and not normal

Anime logic: they can have over a million flashbacks with extraordinary details and a big amount of time before even punching the enemy during battle

Anime logic there's always a huge power creep

@Just Monika well that includes almost every movie... i mean even aliens talk english in hollywood.

Wait, you manage to stay alive?!

Me spamming revives during my first fight against Necrozma

Señor Tomas best MMO

if you die in club penguin you die in real life

m8 1v1 me cardjuitsu I'm black belt

Wow. You know you've screwed up when your game is worse than club freakin penguin.

Señor Tomas OK... that's too far.

imagine being a gatherer or any crafter class in FFXIV, that would be nuts

I could never get into ffxiv, I hear the late game is amazing but the combat early on always burns me out.

Davoodles It's worth it when you get past the early game. Or at least I think it is.

for me ffxiv was amazing,but I quit because I wanted to play pvp, and damn those queue times 1 hour and a half waiting to get in a match

Andy Alex Fishing wouldn't be bad. Besides, if you were trapped in FFXIV, you'd be able to switch classes freely(unless some psycho was smart enough to program that out). I'd just stay as an AST, though.