Demo is out. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2244210/Echoes_of_Aincrad/
Not installing shartnuvo.
Consolebros too?
>>741158932the demo is shitI spent 30 minutes running through the same dungeon halls fighting the same kobald enemies that die in one heavy jump attack hit over and overthey couldn't even include the character creator
>12k players on steam 30 minutes after it droppedNot bad. Am I going to have to finish SAO for this?
>>741160818>kobaldkobold
>>741160818>they couldn't even include the character creatorThanks for saving me the download.
>demo forces you to play as a manbased
Fatal Bullet is the only good SAO game.
>>741160861No one should
>Warning: This title uses 3rd-party DRM (Denuvo Anti-Tamper).Nah.
>>741160861This shit is like the first 2 episodes or so
>>741167660So it's basically a different story then happening in parallel I take it. That would be pretty anticlimactic otherwise.
>>741158932demo was alright. not gonna pay full price for it but i might grab it on a discount in a year or two
>>741161432I'm assuming the character creation happens when the death game starts (because in the story everyone got reset to their IRL looks then). I'Ve played the demo for 3 hours now and we're still in the prologue / beta test setting.Other than the tutorial dungeon being way to long as that other anon said it seems well made.... you just "pay 70€ for the standard edition well made", so it stays on the wishlist for now
>>741171853Playing it with /v/ is worth the money. I put my backlog on hold when something new I want to play comes out for that reason
>>741160818>they couldn't even include the character creatorthanks for that heads-up
>>741172207It's 1005 singleplayer, so no need to rush
How's the story? Do you spend a lot of time in cutscenes?
Has anyone finished the demo? How long is it?
>>741161895>There's official art of a female protagonist>Can't pick herI get not having customization from the start, but you can't even pick a female avatar for the beta portion? What's this game's obsession with that? There's at least two other characters that are girls with male avatars.
>all enemies die in 1-2 hitsI could accept this if the game had perma death but it doesn't, it is brain dead.
>>741175486Kinda dumb they don't let you pick hard mode for the demo, it's clear normal is too easy.
My expectations were low but holy fuck. It plays like shit, looks like shit, and runs like shit too.>>741160818>they couldn't even include the character creatorIt makes no sense too, why force you to play as a set character if that set character is a boring silent protagonist with no personality?
At least this stupid shit gave me a good laugh.
SAO one of the most dragged series fr.
How does it compare to code vein as a "fight alongside your anime companion" game?
>>741176894if you liked code vein 2 specifically you will probably like this game too.
The game runs like shit on ps5
>>741177294I liked both code veins.
>>741172609>How's the story? Do you spend a lot of time in cutscenes?This is missing an extra minute or so of walking and talking that got cut off at the start.
>>741177496Where are the enemies?
>>741177616Enemies?
>>741175426>"dressing up my female char in an rpg is totally not the same as playing with Barbies dad! Stop saying that!"
>>741174676I played for 2.4 hours before finishing, but I skipped every cutscene so its probably going to be longer for you (also didn't do much side content)
I'm curious as to how badly this game will run on older computers.
>>741177496That's literally only in the tutorial, which is way too long yes but the game proper isn't like that at all
>>741176503This would be extremely gay if i didn't knew Iori is actually a girl, it's still gay but not as much.
>>741177884I don't care, having that kind of time wasting is unnaceptable.
>>741177867heh
>>741177884That's great but the tutorial is about 40 minutes of running through hallways, then you get to town and spend 20 minutes following Iori around for even more tutorials before the actual game finally fucking starts. You're retarded if you think the WALKING ONLY segments are never going to show up again too.
>>741158932>Body typeIn to the trash it goes
>>741158932>70$ for thisI'm not feeling it.Hopefully the full game is better, but I genuinely doubt it.
SAO is literally one of the worst pieces of media ever made and if you like it at all you're a fucking retard.
>>741177867If the previous SAO game I tried on my toaster is anything to go by, very fucking poorly
>Most of your damage in combat comes from weapon skills (on long cooldowns) and partner skills (that take a long time to build up) which also have long animations that effectively pause combat for 7 seconds every time you use them>Menus are slow as shit, lots of menus making you hold inputs for no reason, and everything has an extra pause after every menu transition before it accepts inputs again, so any menuing is annoying as fuck>Game looks and runs like shit in addition to buggy visuals>Enemy AI is absolutely braindead on top of being far too easy, can already tell hard will just make enemies into damage sponges>The "open world" is basically a series of large hallways funnelled through connection points with bonfires also serving as ubisoft towers>Pic relatedDamn, this really sucks.
>>741177867No way the pop in is that bad. Did they not do a preshader cache? Or maybe its not in the demo. Or are you playing on a potatoe pc?
>>741178597>>Game looks and runs like shit in addition to buggy visuals>1080p screenshotget a job and build a pc. games aren't being made for poor people like you anymore
>>741178790>Did they not do a preshader cache?No, there's mandatory shader compilation when you start the game.>Or are you playing on a potatoe pc?I have a 5070 Ti and Ultra 7 265. And naturally the game is on an SSD. That's why I was curious about older computers.
>>741179000Also worth noting that the graphics settings are basically nonexistent. You have resolution, picking between TAA and TSR for AA, and texture filtering. I think that was it.
>>741179000Wow. Hopefully a day one patch addresses this. I have a 9070xt and 9800x3d, I guess I'll find out when I get home from work.
>>741158932>The Big Game Bamco was hyping up was more SAO shitHa ha ha ha ha ha!!!
>>741178957>Leave the trillion dollar corporation alone!Good goy <3
>>741176402Story is the the starting character is the avatar and the create a character is what you really look like so it won't appear until the death game starts
>>741179303I guess that makes sense with the setting but it's a bad start for the demo.
>>741179531Prologue is the beta test of SAO and main game is supposed to be after the full release and death game. Also supposed to be the first couple floors and very beginning that kinds of get skipped in the story. Also will be no romance but will be considered if there is a sequel as it is the part where everyone is terrified and getting adjusted
>>741177496>1 hour of walking halls one shotting enemies every 3-4 minutesYour .webm is too generous
>only part of the group because she is dating the leader and gets everyone killed by pkers by rushing ahead>leader misses launch day but she makes it>gets completely mind broken and kills herself in front of everyone while telling them that none of it is real and she needs to get ready for work tomorrowThe ultimate woman moment
>>741181553Actual interesting writing
>>741181553Wait, I've never seen SAO. If everyone is stuck in the game, how would anyone know that dying in the game kills you in real life?
>>741182039because the GM/Mastermind tells everyone when he locks the players in the game iirc
Can you make your character an old guy?
>>741182039Because the lead dev of the game literally tells every single player exactly that
>>741178597in addition to everything you said, with regards to your picture, you die from a minor height, it's not even like a large cliff. The game is okay, but I'm still getting relink immediately.
>>741182039The guy running the game tells all the players that, and shows a few news stations covering the deaths before he tells everyone good luck have fun
>>741176402>>741160818>My expectations were low but holy fuck. It plays like shit, looks like shit, and runs like shit too.I think the game looks really goodI agree with the other points though, the slowmo every time you kill an enemy gets boring really fast, you have to watch the same animations everytime you want to cast a duo-spell. Some of the controls could've been better.
>beat tutorial bosses first healthbar>breaks his shield>beat second healthbar>loses an arm and starts flailing around>beat third healthbar>loses a leg and is wiggling on the floorThis is actually a cool gimmick for phase transitions. Instead of boss just gets angrier and now it fights different.
Why am I fighting clones of crash bandicoot while running down endless corridors?
>>741183110I thought it was cool too anon, shame about the combat not being very polished
>>741182878>I think the game looks really goodI think the environments look decent sometimes but it's the same devs as Synduality and like that game there's too much reliance on colour filters over real colours, like how the scene at the end of the tutorial dungeon is just nothing but pink all over the screen. In the field if the sun is in your vision at all it covers the whole screen in a while glare too. Really obnoxious and you can't tone it down with the lacklustre graphics settings either.The animations are really lacking too, the facial animation in particular, but also stuff like characters turning to face each other in cutscenes without the rest of their bodies moving at all, or during the kobold ambush where you first meet Iori they show a bunch of kobolds looking over the two of you and the kobolds are completely static for several seconds. Just really amateurish stuff.>>741183110That's just about the only thing I liked about it. Getting the game to register the heavy attacks to trigger the phase transitions was awkward though.
>>741183208You can ignore them and run
I know that it's all about swords but they should break lore to have more build variety with mages and whatnot and make Fatal Bullet 2
>>741178273I watched the first season a few years ago expecting the worst thing ever and I was kinda disappointed because there are anime released every few months that are significantly worse.
>>741182039On top of what others have already said, canonically a bunch of people just didn't believe him and game ended themselves, literally. People only start to actually believe him in totality a week or so in when they realize nobody is taking the headset off.
>>741183951People shit on SaO mostly to pretend to be cultured. The show is stupid but it has high production values and some fun ideas
I do wonder how the game is even going to end. They stated that it isn't going to cover all the floors, so it feels like the game is just going to get to a floor and say "We are done.", but I guess they may expand it through DLC.
>>741158932This game looks worse than every single chink gachaslop released for the past decade or so.
>>741184362>I do wonder how the game is even going to end.The only proper way to end it is have (you) and your party get wiped, but they don't have the balls required to do that.
>>741178273True, I didn't know this game was Sword Art Online related. Thanks for saving my time and bandwidth. Cringe. Anyone who willfully consumes isekai should be sterilized.
>>741184457>ryukishinigger
>>741183951It was terrible at the time, the fact that you consider it decent now is an indicator of the current state of anime.
>>741184397>every single chink gachaslop released for the past decade or so.And yet despite those having far higher budget than this average game they all have worse gameplay.
>>741184457>Sword Art Online>isekai
>>741158932So is this gonna be an original story with an original ending or will it also end with Kirishit bullshiting god mode to beat the final boss at 75% of the story mode?Because if that's the case, what's the point of using NPCs?
>>741184998The demo already has people talking about how Kirito and how awesome they heard he is.
n-nice
>>741184849>despite those having far higher budget than thisLol this slop is being made and publish by a multi billion dollar company. This is a AAA game and it runs like shit and looks like garbage compared to a phone game.
>>741175426should've given him a cool helmet if you're gonna disable character creation
>>741184863>isekai>different world>SWO features a protagonist that is stuck in another worldYes, not only is it an isekai but it is the worst offender.
fucking boars
i was kind of looking forward to this but the combat sucks. Japanese developers with the exception of a very few should just leave third person action combat to FromSoft and stick to what they know best with turn based games.
>>741183951>>741184243SAO isn't bad, it's just kinda too autistic to be digested by normalfags. The stuff that is presented on Aincrad is retarded to the regular adult, but it resonates deep with teenagers and autistic adults. I know that when I was 15, it fucking spoke to me the way no one did anywhere else. Nowadays I still care for thes tory deep and understand the messages, but I also understand why normalfags would think it's too retarded.
Chat which unreal engine is this
>>741185896The bad part of SAO besides some seriously silly plotlines and ways of handling them really is just Kirito being such a boring character everything orbits around. Some of the best content is when he's not the focus, Asuna's shitty storytelling in Progressive aside. And the games at least make him the player's self insert instead of the author's so he's less inherently obnoxious by way of being the player's actions defining things.
How are you supposed to target the weak point (?) of the boss glowing blue? I hit the kobold boss probably 100 times before it finally went to the next "stage" each time.Also, this feels darker than I thought SAO was supposed to be.>t. dropped SAO after a few episodes when it aired and forgot everything
Imagine one of these nigger sao games but it has somewhat of a kh1/kh2 combat.
>>741186047yeah the vast majority of hate for sao is (justified) hate for kirito or for the fans
>>741186216You don't target it, but when they go blue like that you just do a normal heavy attack.>Also, this feels darker than I thought SAO was supposed to be.The original arc for SAO is kind of dark since it's essentially a 1000 or so people stuck in a game that will kill them if they die, but that is glossed over because the books jump over all that and all the focus is on Kirito who isn't a normal player.
How is this not soulslike, exactly?
>>741186047>And the games at least make him the player's self insert insteadI still don't get why Bamco doesn't do a proper remake of Hollow Fragment. It might just be my "nostalgia" for the game but I remember it being kinda fun and filled to the brim with fanservice.
>>741185985the bad one
>>741158932How many times are they going to make this game?
>real women playing the game with sexy avatars and already PKing new playersI want to date them in real life.
>>741160818>no character creatorWhat a shame
>>741182381relink is amazing, but you'll never catch up if you start now
>>741186891I have 400hrs in the game so starting relink isn't an issue for me. I was just comparing this one to relink since they come out on the same day (and ER isn't going to be $70)
>>741186791Is there some reason they call her Nanaboshi in Japanese and Stella in English?
>>741185896Isekais like SAO are designed by committee to be easily digested. Nothing written by the japanese, especially not the most formulaic genre of all time isekai, is any good let alone complex.
>>741186791god I wish they would kill me
>>741158932>single player
>>741175426>>741177496>>741177867Way too obviously made from salvaged Blue Protocol assets.
>>741178184This is all I needed to know.
Did they ever explain why the SAO dev turned into a lunatic that torpedoed his own game by turning it into a death march? Or is it supposed to be one of those don't think about it sort of things, like how the writer doesn't know nearly enough about games
main character reminds me of this guy
>>741187579It wasn't explained because the story isn't written as a seinen (even though it should have been), it's a trauma-bond romance between Kirito and Asuna.The explanation given was >I wanted to make it, and I wanted to make it real. AKA, Kayaba is a lunatic.
>>741187286>being this retardedBlue Protocol is still in production.
>>741187734Does the story handwave Kayaba being a shitty person? I know that era seemed to have a thing with making bad guys didn't do wrongs. Also have there been any games where you steal Asuna before she meets Kirito and make her reliant on the player instead
>>741187926Kayaba is implied to have already died shortly after the game came out IIRC.Kayaba's literal digital ghost shows up from time to time and vagueposts to Kirito about wanting to create a digital world.
I enjoyed my time despite the performance being quite shit. I’m genuinely somewhat confused what they were on about when they were talking about open world. I get the open monster hunter-esque areas and the opened up towns, but it still feels like I’m playing fatal bullet instead of something completely new. Honestly, in some regards it feels like a downgrade from both monster hunter and fatal bullet, at least when it comes to the hubs and certain aspects of hunting. Weapon and armor upgrades are definitely better than Fatal Bullet though.Also, no spears. A lot of the enemies have spears (throwing ones), but you can’t use any yourself. Tsk.
>>741187887Stop acting hardcore when you're a fucking clueless Amerimutt. I am talking about the Japan only original Blue Protocol by Bandai Namco that got shut down.You, being a retarded Amerimutt right winger that consistently votes against his own interests, talk about the Chinese-developed Blue Protocol Star Resonance, which is a different game.Yeah, get this, they licenced the game out to China to make a completely different version.
The game is nice looking.
>>741187579His dream of making his dream game with death was all he ever wanted really. To make it "real". Our buddy Iori kind of talked about a less insane version of this when you both leave the first dungeon.
>>741188176The party mechanics ruin it for me.For me, the SAO fantasy is what Kirito is ~said~ to be. The solo player who is at the cutting edge of the game at almost all times and is brought along for progression content despite not being in a guild because he's just that good of a merc.I also just HATE silent protagonists, holy fuck. Write your own damn protagonist, don't make me larp IRL.
>>741188243NTA but you're retarded, the Chink BP is built out of all the same assets, they just replaced the cast with new characters and a new story. It doesn't look anything like this either.
Do we get to play with girl Iori in this demo?
>>741188442No you will enjoy your weirdly feminine old man.
theres something real unintentionally funny about having these kind of conversation cutscenes with a totally silent mc
>>741187056ok, listen, fakefan-kun, there are multiple things you got wrong in your attempt to look intelligent, so allow me to correct some so you don't look like an idiot when you try this in front of an actual crowd1) SAO isn't isekai. Isekai is a genre where the characters are transported to another world. SAO is still grounded in the real world despite having a fantasy setting.2) SAO wasn't designed by any committee, it was written by a young adult japanese autist who wanted to win a light novel contest. Simple as that.3) Attacking all Japanese media because of SAO doesn't make you look intelligent, it makes you look like a faggot. No girl will ever wow at this, instead they will automatically realize you're a try-hard.Make sure you read this and try not to get triggered by it. Learn from your mistakes so you do better next time. Mata ne.
>>741188362Yeah, the forced party dynamic was a let down, and it’s not exactly quite as deep as I hoped either.The silent protagonist would have been fine (for me) if they didn’t pick this weird in-between where the PC has just enough of a “personality” to make me cringe, but not enough to completely break out of being a glorified walking camera for the other characters. I also find it weird and confusing that they actually do have voicelines for the character, but only for specific combat actions and dying. I wished they just picked one side and stuck with it.
>uses mouse acceleration, mouse smoothing, making 240 fps feel like 30 with vsync>camera does not move at all if you move your mouse slowly>camera speed is tied to framerate>teaches you how to move your mouse as the very first thing>next up you learn how to use the camera re-center feature which is useless on KBM because we aren't retarded>camera follow can be toggled off which shouldn't ever be a thing in the first place, at least they got one thing right>autistic graphics options with a preset called "equillibrium", bundled together with "pririotize performance" or "prioritize graphics" which means fuck all >no DLSS, just blurry TSR>TSR resolution can't be adjusted, but judging by the blurriness they are using 50% scaling>fps limit is between 0 and 60 instead of offering a granular slider for perfect latency>hud looks like from those asset flip unity games>hud uses dpad styled layout even on PC via kbm>saayu is your generic annoying "claptrap" discord girlfriend companion because some autists in their survey ticked on the boxes mentioning they dont want to feel lonely while playing a singleplayer title>there's a lock-on feature which is useless because the game has heavy auto targeting to the point you can put on a blindfold and mash one button>only reason to kill enemies is so the game detects you in a "out of combat" state giving you infinite stamina for sprinting>level design is just 1 big empty tunnel>always on button hints>OST has sampled police sirens because why the fuck not>easy to get stuck in the terrain>after the initial tutorial segment is over, a companion joins you and tells you how to play the game >stone golem ((boss)) died in 3 hits>final boss in each phase died in 2 hits>forced walking segments when the game is so dull already>the two women had their tits fully covered, the one with the bigger tits had signs of her cleavage being censored >camera yaw is censored so you can't look down below skirt fully
>>741188842>trying to play japanese console game with a keyboardlol Lmao nice self own
>>741188972did so with all souls games, ER, sekiro, dragons dogma 2, all the other capkempf shit, nioh 2 and 3. had no problem. you deliberately have to try to fuck up the camera this badly when unreal engine offers perfect solutions out of the box.
>>741188842>saayu is your generic annoying "claptrap" discord girlfriend companion because some autists in their survey ticked on the boxes mentioning they dont want to feel lonely while playing a singleplayer titleIt's really fucking obvious she's going to kill herself by jumping off a cliff based on the trailers. She's the only party member that doesn't have a weapon listed.
>>741184362It ends at the second floor so I image we help clear it and something bad happens during it, but it turns alright in the end.
>>741189697If it's really parallel to Progressive, the climax of floor 2 is where a player named Nezha's guild basically uses him to run a crafting grift where they con people into giving them their weapons through clever mechanics.Then when he confesses doing it alone to the progression group, his guild confesses to it before the mob chooses to fucking execute him.Kirito's investigation into this is the driving plotline of floor 2.
All of the animations in this game are fucking ghoulish, they look like ass, especially the lingering odd upper body posing on the weapon cleaning animation.The blood and dismemberment are cool, but the combat doesn't have weight or impact, plus the cooldowns and partner skill cutscenes are ass.And another silent protag that doesn't actually give you agency. The fuck is the point? Like for fucking real?I am so fucking mad I wasted my evening on this, fucking hell. Lycoris was better than this. At least the demo saved me from having to do a 2 hour timer on release. Goddamn I'm fucking disappointed.
>>741189606>discord girlfriend I find it hilarious how apt that description is for her. Don’t even need to add anything else.
>You are out of bounds, returning to the quest areaOk this is getting on my nerves ngl.
>Asuna's super special snowflake friend that she never mentioned for a decade is here
>>741190259What the fuck even is the deal with all thatLike, people were expecting Argo and the Progressive story as is and then instead they blew their first shot on some random OC that was Asuna's best friend like some sorta fucking director self-insert
>>741190259Why are her tits so big?
>>741190190The waypoints suck ass
Ok I just played up until the first quest area and wolves were attacking me and shit.The good: Game looks great, I like the character models/two evil PKer girls were hot, story seems solid enough so far I'm intrigued to see what happens, nice musicThe bad: Combat feels clunky I might just be bad at it though, out of bounds shit everywhere, companion pathing and AI was really bad with Iori just fucking off over a cliff or running away while I was fighting multiple enemiesHave a month to decide so will come back after a few days and play again. Anyone playing adventures of elliot btw? Like that game better so far but could just play both given the timeframes
>>741187286You don't have to sell it to me
>>741187647The hair made me desire baldness
>>741183110I thought it was bugged at first, until he lost an arm. Shame that they couldn't properly animate the HP bar to dramatize the encounter and the lack of a killer soundtrack. This is why you have betas.
>>741191497I'm convinced this game had the budget of a weekly pizza party consisting of one medium cheese every friday.
>>741190802>adventures of elliotJust realized it's not the same composer as octopath so I'm sligthly disappointed, will give it a try since I loved those top down zelda
>>741187998So here's my interpretation which actually does have evidence to back it up and while it doesn't necessarily exonerate Heathbar, it does fully explain his actions and why he had to do what he did.Heathbar was a once in a generation mind, and the only person capable of advancing his field, essentially. But then he came upon a hardware bottleneck. He was the only person capable of meaningfully advancing his field, yet in order to create the technology that would allow the Alicization project to exist, he would have to fry his own brain with a special scanner so that his primary funder, the Japanese government, could eventually make strides towards creating meaningful AI. But if he died, there wouldn't be anyone else to take his place. So he had to make the person that would take his place, and he did that by literally putting everyone in the game he created through a fire and brimstone test. The ones that showed the most determination and were most in-tune with life and interactions in virtual reality, were given Extra Skills secretly, and he kept an eye on them. Essentially, he was choosing his successor. Of course, the stakes had to be real, or they wouldn't take it seriously, but as far as he was concerned, he was a dead man either way.He did have genuine aspirations for the future of virtual reality, so there's not a doubt he was striving for something like The Underworld to come into fruition.Clearly he did a pretty decent job of picking a successor, because that successor would go on to create Neuro Linkers and revolutionize AR technology in Accel World later on.
Did anyone else die to the cheese boar with the spinning attacks?
>>741191795No, the only thing that killed me was the lightning wolf.
>>741185556>>741178273>dumb boomers seething
>>741188243>retard who doesn't know what he's talking aboutLOL
>>741181553Why kill off the only other female companion option? So we get to choose from iori or 4 boys?
>>741191595>bamco tie-inemployees probably had to bring their own pizza
>>741188243>clueless retarded seething chink calling anyone a clueless retardLMFAO
>>741193164There's the Swedish glasses girl, maybe the other idol that isnt Iori with orange hair since a trailer had her with the group, and Kirito's harem
>>741182314I need to know. I want to run around the game as an old dude-teenage girl duo
>>741190259honestly, Progressive was the very first time in my life that I actually cared about Asuna and that's because she wasn't being an obnoxious bitch or a retarded love sick puppy. It was the first time that she showed a likable personality and only happened with Mito. So I approve.
>>741195189I only cared about Progressive when Tawawaman was the artist. His smug Asuna was god tier.
>>741158932It's pretty funny that SAO speedran Aincrad when it could have easily taken years to go up the 100 floors and then the author has spent all this time trying to recapture the magic of Aincrad.
>>741195189also it makes sense that Asuna had someone that taught her to be good in the game before finding Kirito. Otherwise it's so fucking retarded that Asuna went from being a literal no gamer lonely girl to the second best player of the game
>>741186047Kirito isn't that bad, it's his harem that drags him down. He was pretty solid in Alicization and then the moment he's out of the picture it goes to shit when Asuna arrives
>>741195328The entire world is horribly designed because it's a tower that gets smaller the higher you go. So after the first 2 biggest floors they basically started speedrunning the entire game since people figured shit out.
Will (You) get cucked like in other SAO games?
>>741195623Asuna ruins him, not the whole harem. Kirito has perfect chemistry with Sinon
The only good girls are Lisbeth and Argo
>>741197294
>>741188243Monkey
>>741191737Tldr?
>>741197682He's shilling Accel World.
>people complaining about performanceHad no issue with 5700X3D and 9070 XT at 1440p, stop trying to play modern games on your 1060 laptop.
>>741198294It's Nvidia. Console ports run like shit on it.
Steamcharts niggas............ I don't feel so good.................
>>741199640kek i thought the same thing at that line
>>741178790I can run the game at 100-ish fps on 4k with max settings (not that that means much when there are basically no settings to speak of), and I had exactly the same pop-in in that scene. It might just be that specific cutscene being badly made
>>741183951 If it had a smaller budget, it'd be on the same level if not worse than the average isekai slop coming out every season.Even with the budget, SAO season 2 is still one of the worst things i've ever fully sat through. Season 1 was bad, but you could still squeeze some enjoyment out of it if you turn your brain off (even the 2nd half of season 1). but season 2 is just so badly written that it feels like the author actually regressed as a writer somehow and gave himself a lobotomy so he forgets how MMOs work
>demo>21gbWhere the hell did everything go so wrong?
>>741175486my plan was to pirate the game and play with perma death but both were ruined
I just wanted a God Eater-like..why can't these retards make anime MH
>>741175486Why are there still, after decades of video games, these subhumans who think the beginning of the game is any indication of how difficult it's going to be?
>>741200486Code Vein? Dunno why you'd want more of that, I don't.
>>741187052Localizers being niggers
Weird desync when fightiing the girlsanyone else?
>>741200567Obviously played that, I want more because I like anime styled games with fast gameplay
>>741186047>>741195623>>741196993I think it's Asuna that's the boring character, not Kirito. Her being the main heroine who has already won by the first arc ruins the story being a harem cause it's not like Kirito is going to dump Asuna. Outside of harems that actually have harem ends the whole point of the dynamic is wondering who is going to win but we already know who won and it's the most boring character in the story. At least Kirito has his game autism that sometimes makes him a fun character but Asuna literally has nothing appealing about her.
What weapons are there?
I'm gonna go watch SAO season 3, and then play fatal bullet since the complete edition was finally put on sale again
>>741201351Sword, Rapier, Dagger, Mace, 2h sword, 2h axe. You can use a shield with the 1h weapons except the dagger for some reason. Also it's a SAO game so there will be some hidden way to get dual wielding later somehow because that's the SAO thing, unless they decide that your OC donut steel is not special enough to get Kirito's fancy pants ability.
>>741201457Probably the only SAO game I'd say was genuinely good. Which makes sense since it's based on the only good SAO arc.
>>741158932Why does the girl on the left look so girly?
>>741199640Does this mean that SAO was actually just a C-list MMO in universe?
>>741201585I mean, it's in fucking VR, even if it's special anime future VR, a lot of people just won't go for that shit due to how expensive it must be.
>>741201585in-theory yeah, it was first of its kind (vr-mmo) and was basically a huge-tech demo and a massive ego-farm for the developer even if the pretend thing was "I should make it a world others could enjoy living in.", but failed even in that aspect.
Is this another SAO game where you play some OC that eventually runs into Kirito who fucks his harem and you watch?
>>741201585Think of how many people you know in real life playing VRchat
>>741201661True, it only sold for a minimal audience of what, like 1k players? That's almost enough money to keep the rent of the servers up for each month but still considering the high-tech project it was? It would be considered an economic failure but also a spring-board for future games.
>>741201585The original novels had it as a much, much bigger number, something like a million players if I remember right, which also made the death toll extremely absurd and excessive by the end of it all. Like with a lot of shit, the light novels toned down some of the scale and excessive edginess (like the rapes against the two girls in Underworld actually succeeding and Eugeo being late to stop it originally), but in the process it just makes the scale as a game kinda comical.
Do we know what kind of numbers GGO got in universe?
>>741201706Not this time, unless they're hiding a lot from us. Which also hilariously means the adventure is going to be largely pointless because nothing our OC and his band of bozos accomplishes will mean anything since it all comes down to Kirito doing something somewhere else.
>>741201758Probably not that much since that was after they released the eincrad Gmod, innit
>>741177496>tales of franchise got shelved for this and blue protocol
>>741199640Oh no no no Nervegearsissies
>>741201706>>741201771If they want to make an OC I don't get why they don't just make it an alt setting where Kirito just straight up doesn't exist.
>>741201923Because Kirito is in that Awkward spot of mascot and self insert
>>741200534except there are previews of people playing mid game that still complain they one shot every enemy except the occasional elites, even on hard. the game has a huge difficulty problem
>>741201706I had hope you would barely encounter kirito until the trailer showed asuna and silica in your party. sao as a concept is so cool yet ruined by the existence of it's own protagonist
>>741201752It’s not that comical if you consider nerve gear is probably very expensive and is a niche thing for extreme hobbyists
>>741202182So just like actual VR headsets irl.
>>741202182Honestly I scale SAO logic by the early 00's "WOW VR IS GONNA BE SO COOL IN THE FUTURE BROS" hope. It's like how Accel World just has the AR stuff integrated into everything casually. It's implausible technology at impossible capabilities, so grading it by VR failing to take off in real life doesn't work the same.
If you fuck someone in game does the nerve gear make you cum irl? Imagine the smell for the people taking care of the players bodies
>>741202275AR at least is "somewhat" real but the physical dimension thing? Nope. VR on its own would not reach SAO's level until maybe 2085 if we are being fair, it would require high-tech AI and shit for the hallucinations and realism, 2065 to basically come close to the basic tech expected from the "early" VR shit from prior SAO in-universe.
>>741202364I bet it doesn't make you cum in real life for safety purposes, just dumps a bunch of faked dopamine chemicals into your brain on a signal.
I do not understand the popularity of SAO. I liked fatal bullet or whatever well enough despite the jank though
I think the demo being framed as SAOs beta is really neat considering the betas significance in the story. It makes playing the demo and waiting for full release part of the experience
>>741201585It's top of the line since it simulated reality fairly well. At least, I think that because the Cardinal System (basically (true) generative AI on steroids) does a lot of heavy lifting for NPC and some amount of quest generation. SAO was Argus' big NerveGear exclusive though.
>>741200534well level 1 in any mmo should be a bit challenging since you have 0 damage but in here you one shot the entire dungeon
>>741204356That’s not the case with like any mmolevel 1 you are usually 1-2 shotting things. Level 15 or so is where it gets hard because you leveled so fast you still have a bunch of starter gear but the mobs are now way more powerful
The game ran like poop. Honestly are 5 year old hardwares considered old? It’s definitely not right? Lack of optimisations are the problem right? People don’t upgrade their pc’s every year like consumer dogs they are right?
>>741158932I'm interested in doing what's basically Aincrad's Main Quest and lore. Running alright on a 3050 laptop, but it definitely needs in-depth settings as opposed to the quality settings being a huge "turn off hidden variables".>>741200534Hard and Very Hard should have been available options, my odds of dying were only raised by fighting muscle memory. It's a case of Normal = Easy.
>>7412046365 year old hardware is absolutely considered old because the 30 series was a shit generation for Nvidia and everything in the 60 series has aged like milk for AMD
>>741158932Game is pretty easy so far, only the ice boar boss felt somewhat challenging with his attack patterns and big aoes, though the next fire boar boss just died without even doing more than 3 attacks.Honestly I hope for hard and above the monsters get tankier and do more damage, and you also use up more stamina in battle because theres barely any stamina management you need to care about. I tried out rapier for a while and the 3 skills are pretty boring, going to try daggers instead.
>>741201706Depends, the developers claim that Kirito isn't going to be a main focus in the game but he is still going to play a part in the story. However the anime movie that's included with the game is supposed to take place after the events of the game, and has a much bigger focus on Kirito as an antagonist while our player character is nowhere to be seen despite it being a sequelMy guess is that Kirito is going to be the final boss of the game and he kills (you), setting up the events of the anime of him being a wanted PKer
Is there a point in trying to finish it with no deaths like original worked or game is not designed for it?
>>741205292The game literally has a permadeath mode
>>741205212>but he is still going to play a part in the story>already at floor 8 at the very start of the game>game is only up to floor 2If he shows up, the only purpose is to belittle you and remind you that he's the MC of this game not you
>>741205452>people want to be this badly cucked by Kirito the gigachad.you might as well want to suck Kirito's cock at that point and state you are gay. let's face it: Sword Art Online 100% is a kuso-ge if someone made it.
>>741205212>My guess is that Kirito is going to be the final boss of the game and he kills (you), setting up the events of the anime of him being a wanted PKerThis would be so unbelievably fucking retarded. Not playing this until it's confirmed that DOESN'T happen. What the fuck. So fucking stupid.
>>741205604It's not gay if it's a female avatar.
doing some dataminingPartner list if people cared
>>741205732you still want to fuck Kirito because he's the MC, gay.
>>741205756>Kirito
MATING PRESS
>>741205212that would be so fucking funny in a horrible way
>you're only going to explore the first 2 floors>Kirito has already cleared floor 8 on his ownJust how much do they need to fellate him?>>741205756oh ffs
>>741205212>>741205678Kirito has the role of antagonist but for the love of God he's not a final boss, or out to cuck you or something. I'd love to suck him off but I think about him less than you all do. It may be because I'm a fan of the franchise, but this story is more on your party with cameos from the main cast once in a blue moon.
>>741205756It makes sense if we are going to be part of the frontline.
Kirito a cute tho
>>741205212Why would the nigga PK you when he had ptsd for years after killing 3 players in self defense
>>741205756oHuh?Sayuia notdead?
>>741206053>least gay Kirito fan.lmao.
>>741205842Obviously just as a guest party member for a small section, him fucking your girlfriend too aggressively causes a cave in and you get separated from your party
>>741206341there's no PKing death penalty in the beta (during which the game takes place) yet.
>>741206341The anime is literally about him being a PKer, unless the plot twist is that it's a fake/someone set him up/killing you is a good thinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv1EZbG8pLI
didn't this show have guns
>>741206558At which point in the light novels did they do this retarded shit at? They didn't dwell too much on it, just him going against Laughing Coffin and a few who tried to stop him from winning.
I had a good bit of fun with the demo, desu.The biggest pain points are things I was expecting to be issues anyway:>Crafting weapons is entirely worthlessmaybe there will be some ultra hard dungeons that unlock crafting recipes for ultimate weapons, but I have a feeling they'll opt to just have bosses drop the god tier weapons instead.>exploration seems like it's meant to be important, but provides basically 0 valuethe safety zones reveal EVERYTHING. The chests should remain hidden, but given how little value comes from them anyway besides occasional armor recipes, it also doesn't really matter.>the fucking FORCED WALKINGholy shit I nearly quit during the prologue cause of this horseshit.I think like Fatal bullet this game will end up a cult hit in a few years when they push it out to humble bundle and shit and charge $20 for the complete version. I think it will do okay at launch but nowhere near what the initial hype was, because it's gonna have near no content with only 2 floors (and presumably only a handful of dungeons that will likely be very similar to one another)My biggest issue personally is that it seems like there's a weird deadzone on the camera, but I'm using a mouse, I have to swing really wide to get it to pick up mouse movements at all, and it's incredibly awkward, thankfully nothing needs real aim.
>>741206640That's Season 3 (in terms of "games played"), this is Season 0.
>>741205756>iori female>Iori male
>>741188293I think it's the best-looking SAO-esque game we've ever had. I just don't like the text box and font. I really think a lot of people are downplaying the visuals, especially for a game like this.
>>741206661It's an original story and maybe an alternate timeline like the previous games were, so we dunno yet. I'm going to guess it's Kirito playing up being a PKer to spook the shit out of people investigating him but whether it actually is supposed to be concurrent to any point of canon or even tied to canon at all is a big mystery.
If you didn't like SAO as a kid you're a fucking liar.
>>741206789>as a kid
>>741206789Wasn't a kid when it came out, anyway it was decent but nothing amazing having experienced 00s anime, 90s and 80s anime compared to SAO? Those three periods had bangers that can't be matched by today's standards.
>>741206406I'll reach the peak. One day. Like, how could you not want to fuck him?
>>741206743It's not even a spoiler they literally already revealed that she's a girl.
>>741205756Are we going to fix Stella?Based
>>741207061>MMORPG>half the players are hot chicksI’m playing the wrong genres apparently
>>741206789I'm still here because .hack//SIGN and Legend of the Twilight set me on this path. They were like one really long "stuck inside a game" episode.
>demo is out>no screenshots of gameplay in the thread
>>741207113people like to joke about girl meaning guy in real life but there are just a ton of girls who mostly play MMOs
>>741206998by not being gay.>>741207061obviously she's a woman duh, you can tell if you had eyes instead of id-pol rot lenses.
>>741207209There's not much to show off, you just mash combos on damage sponge enemies. The only meaningful combat encounters are bosses, they're cool cause you have to empty the HP bar multiple times, and break specific parts to remove moves from their repertoire. But even then there's still not much to say. It's the same sort of combat as the last handful, just slightly more engaged with souls style parry systems.Hold button to do skill.
>SAO is an MMORPG>All SAO games are singleplayerI sleep.
>>741204636The dev's previous game runs like shit too, they're just a shit developer.
>>741158932Looks like shitty japslop, you know.. the kind of rpg that is just completely trying to do everything jap and succeeding at nothing, trying to also copy star ocean tteot.
>>741207354this
>>741158932Anime simply looks gay
>>741207061>listing the VA like Japan does as if anyone knows who that ugly retard isLocalizers are so fucking delusional.
>announce game has a hardcore permadeath mode>don't allow people to try it in the demo?????????what was the idea there? What a weird choice to make. It must be completely awful if they're afraid of showing it off.
>>741188842>TSRWhy do they keep using this dogshit upscaler? They also use it in Synduality and it makes the game look like putrid dogshit
>>741207520it's a beta.
>>741207209Thanks for not contributing to the thread yourself I hope nobody PKs you on sight
>>741207168I remember finding a dot hack manga at my bookstore and jerking off to the scene of rose in the hotspringgood times
>>741206789Begone, fetus.
>>741207563The game is out in less than a month, physical discs are in store backrooms right now. It's gold and ready to launch. It's not a beta.
Why not make an mmo? Why keep selling this thread that doesnt make them money?
>>741207630...anon the story of the demo is that you are playing the beta of SAO, the death game doesn't start until the actual launch of SAO
A neat game concept for the series and maybe if they had tried to unfuck Integral Factor into being a SP game they could've stood something of a chance, but frankly it's one massive lackluster execution as an understatement. That's what happens when you get Bandai Namco and then farm out development to a low-budget dev whose only other notable games in recent years were the bland Dragon Quest Infinity Strash, that absolute fuck up Synduality and the Ao Oni remake.
>>741207729Never read SAO so I don't know about it's fag-ass story beyond what it forced me to sit and watch slow over the shoulder walking corridor segments with.Why is it an option at the start of the game but just disabled? You telling me that they made a completely separate unique vertical slice of the game for this demo?I just don't believe that.
>no katanaI just want to play as pic related, is that so hard?
>>741207354>>741207394>What is integral factor
>>741207796puhREESE undastandu, dee air see.$19.99no like actually it's in the data for weapon types. There's 3 more types.
>>741207792The demo is just the prologue of the full game, I do agree that it's kinda dumb that hard mode and death game mode are locked for the demo but it makes sense that permadeath shouldn't be active for the prologue.
>>741207792Nigga, just shut the fuck up if you know nothing.
>>741207830are there guns?
>>741207678last MMO flopped so hard that they sell it to chinese and make a mobage
>>741207828>Google>Game from 2017I sleep.
>>741207780What would having an Argo gf be like?
>>741207830At least make it unlockable and not a fucking dlc
>>741207863I played the game nigger, and I'm telling you it's stupid as shit to advertise it with a feature then not include it in the fucking demo.I don't care about the shitty story, I care about the GAAAAAAAAAME.gorilla brained nigger.
>>741207872no, why would there be gunskatana dualblades sceptre (called sceptre but seems like staves? There's a few wands in the mace category that scale with INT)
>>741207678People keep saying this but MMOs are currently in a terrible spot in the market. They cost a shit ton of time and money to make and are incredibly unlikely to actually become a big hit because most people would rather just stick to their existing games like XIV, WoW, OSRS etc. Bandai Namco already tried making an MMO recently and it flopped massively.The only market where MMOs make sense to still make is Korea, because koreans are only capable of playing fucking MMOs and old games like starcraft and lineage, they don't actually play anything else.
>>741208019what MMO did bamco try making recently? Are you talking about blue protocol? I don't think that ever even came out. They killed it in utero because the alpha test performed SO poorly and had such insane negative reception. It was amazon who bought it and paid for it to be finished (only for it to flop and get shut down again)
Beautiful game, but making it a hub world and MSQ railroaded game is a fatal mistake. Let me fucking explore Aincrad and find all this cool unique shit on my own or through interactions.
>>741206436The main game is not during the beta it’s the death game. The demo is the beta
>>741205756trailer shows asuna and silica in your party though. unless they are just temporary guests which would mean kirito is a full time party member
>>741188842>OST has sampled police sirens because why the fuck notkek>picShould've figured as much after reading about censorship, modern consoleslop bingo card is filled now.
>>741206674I thought they said the game is the first 3 floors?
>>741207796Ideally, Scimitar should have been in the game since Katana branches off of it. I'm happy that 2H Axe wasn't forgotten though. The Scimitar skills on HF were so damn cool.
does it get better after the first dungeon and walking through city slog? i got to the path blocked by stones didn't know how to craft bombs or even if you can and alt f4'd because i didn't want to teleport back to the city and walk around like a retard again
>>741208059The fact that the game is only 2 floors makes me feel like it has to open up at some point. I think we are just very locked down because it's a prologue/demo.
>>741208053You got the story all wrong, they released the game in japan proper in 2023 and then shut it down in 2025 because it was a flop. What got cancelled was the english release by amazon.The new version of the game that got released after the original got shut down has nothing to do with Amazon, it was made by a chinese company that was put in charge of making a mobile game based on the MMO but then they just said fuck it and gave them the rights to make the game proper.
>>741158932As someone who's only exposure to SAO was dropping the first season after episode 5 and never looking back is this game for me?I kind of enjoyed the show when it was Kirito tard rangling.
>>741208169the way you grip it matters. That's why Sekiro is the goated. How can you named the game SWORD ART online but don't dwells on the art of the sword?
>>741207970you are not very smart
>>741207936Constant teasing and sex with someone probably a head shorter than you who lovingly won't let you live it down if you shoot fast
>>741207970No it’s not. What fucking demo has every single game feature included? Demos are always limited it’s literally a demonstration to attract you to buying the game and getting access to everything
>>741208358I've never seen a demo for a game ever exclude the literal first thing they advertised about the game, and the thing leading in all promotional marketing. Ever. In my entire life.
>>741208007sorry my only knowledge about SAO is a bit of fatal bullet
>>741208253The game is more aimed at people who liked SAO Progressive instead of the original anime, aka it has a bigger focus on the general drama and how seriously people took the death game instead of just skimming over that shit. There's a reason why the game only covers the first 2 floors instead of just skipping the vast majority of aincrad like the original anime did.
>>741208089Not necessarily, Kirito was a solo player for a long time and asuna and silica surely had temporary parties with other people during that period. This game is set at the beginning of Aincrad so it’s when kirito is mainly soloing
>>741208389Hard mode wasn’t the showcase of the marketing. Hard difficulty is something the vast majority of games have it’s not some super special feature
>>741206789Not that I think about it. I must have read the web novel version in my hiki 20s
Asuna deserved it.
>>741208454Didn't the author make floor novels like up too level 8?
>>741207780why the fuck is Bunbun mostly tied to dogshit series, and then when he finally worked on a good series it fucking died
>>741208189To be fair it was partly Amazon's fault the game died in the first place, they forced Bamco to region-lock the Japanese version so it wouldn't interfere with the global release, then delayed the global release so they could make it lame and gay, so the game was just completely choked of any foreign money it could've been taking in during its entire life thanks to Amazon fucking the global release.
>>741208615the endlessly flowing semen?
>>741207830Is spear one of them?
>>741207796To this day, I am haunted that Wowcraft is the only franchise that can scratch the Death Knight itch.Death Knight is peak fantasy and it isn't in any other fucking games. It gnaws at me.
>Read lore text about some monument on the field>Slowly auto-scrolling because for some reason they decided manual scrolling would be too functional>Suddenly a boar spawns in in front of me which causes the lore text to disappear because the game has entered me into the combat state
You know it’s not too bad, there’s something soulful about it. It’s basically a budget Code Vein though, which was a budget Dark Souls of which Dark Souls was a budget game.
>>741209681>It’s basically a budget Code Vein thoughIt's nothing like Code Vein, what the fuck are you on about?
>>741209681I actually really like budget games, except for the fact companies are still selling these at fucking full price and taking ages to make them.
>>741209681code vein is a masterpiece compared to this shit
>>741171853Would be funny if they let you do a really in-depth character creation just to delete it for a generic model during the big reveal moment.
>game has people as streamers in the story nowThat’s actually interesting.
Why the fuck do writers keep making characters who good at MMO antisocial? Antisocial people don't fucking play MMO.Also why the fuck our 2 original buddies only appear in 1 scene on the prologue? Especially since one of them will neck herself later in the game.
>>741210137I don’t need friends to be strong. All I need…. Is power.
>>741209937Streaming would've not been allowed in SAO for safety reasons by the developer at least on the first few months until they had got all bugs fixed and the game if any and ready to go, anyway... It makes zero sense to have streaming in a First Person PVP MMORPG people are stuck in, cops would shut that shit down fast.
>>741210137So true. We don't post on imageboards either.
>>741210137A person who's bad at socializing MAY play in the Matrix thop
>>741210137What about trolls/griefers who are anti-social and misbehave for lulz and treat MMORPGs as a way to get a laugh out of someone lesser off than them? (Narcissism/Psychopathy/Sociopathy/Machiavellianism, are all Dark Psychology Patterns/Antisocial Behavior Traits.)
>>741210137>characters who good at MMO antisocialThat's literally me though. I've played a lot of MMOs over the years and I am simply the best at it. It's a shame THE light novel that encapsulates this perfectly only has stupid casual kiddy games like this.
>>741208759NO SPEARS(for you)
>>741210137They explained it: they're not themselves antisocial, they're just so tryhard and/or abrasive that no one wants to be near them. When they meet people who are as autistic as them (like the protagonist) they get along great.
>>741207113There is a large female playerbase in FFXIV
>>741210368>What about trolls/griefers who are anti-socialThey won't get far until they are actually good at socializing with the victim to backstab them at the worst possible moment. e.g. WoW hardcore griefers.
>>741210668that's only because its a casual anime game, even my older sister got into it, I could not, felt like autism simulator daycare than an MMO like good old times.
>>741210976they are usually best manipulators and have more social game than an average 4chan troll who can't handle voice chats with randos or women.
>>741211039This.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X4ZgD0LAms
>>741207113Do you know how many women play WoW, XIV and gacha (also MMOs) games?
>Combat is shittier than Code Vein 1 Even with my love for Argo I can't defend this shit
reinstalled fatal bullet after the demo and played it for 2 hours, that game is good jank this is bad jankfatal bullet got that 2000s fake mmo anime feel this game doesn't know what to go for
>>741210137>Why the fuck do writers keep making characters who good at MMO antisocial? Antisocial people don't fucking play MMO.Haha... yeah... MMOs call to all kinds of people for some reason. If you don't have time to spend on people IRL, you'd likely spend more in-game. Although my autism pales in the face of potential true loners in PSO2, Fractured Daydream and high level gameplay videos on YouTube. It'd be impossible in something like XIV, but full physical capability in a full dive VR environment could let you pull some Freaky shit if you're diligent.
Dafuq, I'm actually stuck in this game and it won't let me log out lol
>>741211348For me, the issue is that Lycoris had the most deep defensive combat in any game ever and this game is just>dodge>block>perfect block (you get anime bro to do poggers cutscene attack let's goooooo)
I like it, it just needs 6 months more polish.
Looks sort of fun, but is an unoptimized disaster, as expected. My PC easily meets the minimum requirements, but the demo runs like ass even in performance mode. There's no excuse for an empty hallway to stutter this fucking bad at 1080p holy shit. Thanks but no thanks
>>741211175could've posted Packgod as a meme.
I like it, although I wonder if it was some other game before it became SAO.
>>741211485With Lycoris having been an unfortunate mess, we're likely not getting anything as crazy ambitious as that for a while, if ever. Directional parrying, juggling, Just Sword Skills, a (weak) unique magic system. It was like a true sequel to Hollow Fragment.
Apparently this game started development in 2019.
i just can't bring myself to be invested in a game that's very blatantly going to cut off awkwardly because it only has 2 floors in itand hell even if it did conclude somehow it still wouldn't be satisfying because you'd either die or still have another 70 floors to go up (assuming heathcliff shenanigans still occur)
>>741211348>>741211485Dimps and Aquria have SOUL, they just can't ever deliver because they get forced to shit out low budget licensed games only.
>>741211927It just amuses me how Lycoris had fucking EVERY defensive system ever>guarding>perfect guarding>souls parrying>command counters>perfect dodgesbut the game was just not good enough to make use of all of those systems.
>>741212071Just watch the anime that comes with the game instead, it's probably a better use of time.
>>741212050grim
>>741212071It seems really weird to have a game seemingly this small in scope. I kind of wonder what their long term plan for it is. Add Floors as DLC? Do Sequels?The SAO games have typically had pretty big expansions as DLC so that doesn't feel impossible, but at the same time they don't have unlimited time or budget for this.I think they are going to get to the point where there is no option but to skip a large amount of floors.
>>741201585Being VR puts it in a way different play field. It's like Guitar Hero was. The purchase of the game needs obligatory peripheral acquisition. Except VR is already super expensive in real life. I can't imagine how expensive it would be a headset that has perfect simulation of real life all the way to sense of smell and taste. SAO was always a game for rich people
Does any of the fake MMO anime/manga/novel have limsa lominsa-ish place and discuss the shit in it e.g. ERPers, AFKers, and virtual prostitutes in MMOs.
>video game video game>no one talking about dps calcs and shit
As an side its pretty funny going full Agi with the dagger, attack speed gloves, dagger with the sprint boost. You run around the map at warp speed and do some pretty funny DPS with the basic attacks
>>741205212So it is an original story? No way to justify Kirito being PK in the canon story.
>>7412122747 years to make a substandard hack and slash with SAO elements. LMAO.
>>741212531yeah probably, there's also one where the plot is extremely retarded with the gacha isekai system and the joke of "adults only section" of the game world the underaged kid (forgot how old, 16 probably or 17 because it was that cringe) was playing couldn't show any nudity with bars on (manga only gag), there's literally a place for slave auctions, obviously.
>>741207354Isn't Fracture Daydream full multiplayer?
>>741188842Man, these characters completely clash with the otherwise rather "realistic" environmental design. It looks like fucking shit lmao.
>>741212673It is yeah, it's supposed to be the start of their own retelling of SAO
>>741212465$2000 isn't that expensive for getting VR Up and running, what are you on about? That's like quarter-half year savings on a regular job.
>>741212619Knife nut sounds fun
>>741208625Yeah. That faggot should hurry or he will never finish all 75 floors.
What’s weird is Bandai have the perfect lineup for a Souls-like SAO game with From, Tales of Arise and Code Vein devs, but went with the Synduality guys.
>more than 10000 playersnot lore accurate shut it down
>>741212943Oculus quest was like $400 and most people still not buying it. Ultimately most people are not going to buy peripheral that's cost half as expensive as their rig/console.
>>741212943Try selling a VR headset at 2000 in real life. See how it goes.
what a fucking shitty gamewouldn't even buy for $20
>>741212274>kill enemy with heavy attack>BWOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM>3 seconds of slow down
>>741212869I hope they get rid of Asuna in Aincrad then. Without her, we can truly get into the real harem genre.
>Kirito made it to the 8th floor>the player can only play to the 2nd floorWe lost and got cucked before the race even began
It’s better than FFXVI. It is not better than Code Vein 2.
>>741214027cv2 is not that good
>>741214027grim endorsement
we're a beater too?
>>741214576I think they fucked up the terminology a bit. The Players currently in the game are more or less Early Access/Release players, but for some reason it's referred to as a Beta. Kirito was part of the Beta testing which seems more like Alpha testing now.
>>741178273Literally no one but Japs likes this franchise. The only enjoyed fan material to come out of it is Kirito getting cucked every which way.
It's so slow.
>seventy dollarydoos for THISthank go for demos
I cant stop thinking about that bitch taking off her eyepatch to trick us and then putting it back on to reveal she was actually a pker when we have never even seen her before and even if we did it that wouldn't be a disguise.
>>741158932>denuvo Not again...
>>741215561You're not missing out on much.
>>741178273Watched two seasons and deeply regret.
>offline mmo single player gameskino, very comfy
>>741215496Put yourself in her position Wouldn't you unequip your red swastika armband before attempting a gank even if your opponent has never seen it before??
>>741212113Sex sex sex sex sex sex
>$70 for slopskip
>>741215083just like One Piece
>>741216464only retards pay 70$ for games, no matter the quality
>>741215703do not fuck your sword, anon.She hates you
>>741218919>she hates youSEX SEX SEX SEX SEX SEX SEXI actually haven't played Lycoris, is it worth it for her or should I just look at cutscenes
>>741219113She's a pretty good girl.She's just a hyper classic tsun.Genuinely, unironically dislikes Kirito (it IS Gameverse Kirito after all) most of the story and makes some retarded decisions.But then eventually...
>>741219279Ridiculous tits
>>741212071>that's very blatantly going to cut off awkwardly because it only has 2 floors in itI mean lets be honest, it took Progressive ages to actually work through two floors. You can fit a lot in there. But this is a budget game so don't expect much to begin with.
>get cucked out of a movie adaptation so hard that people have to wait for the next movie to actually show up proper despite being stapled onto the advertising of said movie>art COMPLETELY dries up in the interimgoddammit
How many of you shameless fags are spending 70 euros on it
>>741221660https://x.com/MS69736492/status/2066754408151679352even japs are shitting on it
>>741205756Can I keep Iori as a man? I think he looks cool.
>'ORIGINAL' story with 'UNIQUE' characters>stutter step combat>gacha based crafting system>pushed as multiplayer, actually single player with npcs>only the first two floors>MTX out the ass>expansion pass>$70 SEVENTY fucking dollarseither give us the full fucking aincrad or just give us another kirito simulator where we can scream starburst stream like everyone wants
Are we able to sneak up to Asuna's house when Kirito is banging her and peek through the window? Like how Eren did to Historia and the farmer at the end of AoT?This is important.
>silent protagonist>forced party mechanicsThis is the fucking worst.
>>741221951>gacha based crafting systemWhat?
>>741222189one of the interviews a few weeks ago went into it. items/weapons can have random affixs on them which you can reroll, drops work the same way too. from what we saw the affix pool is vast and most of it is shit
>>741221660I would say I'll wait for voices38 but he might not even bother with anime shovelware like this. Still not buying it.
>>741222340oh christ it's the PSO2 garbage all over again
>>741222413atleast the pso2 mod pool was decent and you could have some control over it with the color system, aincrads is complete shit such as +1% to sneaking in grass and +1% night vision(accuracy in caves)
>>741222413we don't badmouth pso2 in this household young man
>>741214407>>741214436CV2 is kino, far better than 1.
>>741212103>>741211927>>741212113I had considered Aquria to be the spiritual descendant of tri-Ace, they made games with unique and interesting systems. Unfortunately they were never polished, be it for lack of talent or funds, in particular Lycoris had the biggest potential of all but it ended up being a mess.Has anyone played Last Recollection? The demo didn't exactly sell me on it and the reviews are really bad.
>>741223805I was putting it off and ultimately never got around to buying it.No clue, but yeah. It failed to capture me.
>>741179531They want you to get to the end of the beta test prologue as fast as possible, it's meant to sell you on the combat, the world, and the general game feel, rather than hours on character creation to get it just right. Pretty sure the player character is canonically mute since he can only shake his head or nod.
>>741221660I support any customisable self insert SAO game that's not gachashit. I just wish Koharu from Integral Factor will be here too.
>>741183110I like the part breaking with heavy attacks, it works well on bosses, but heavy attack finishers for normal enemies actually cutting pieces off and doing a slow mo thing gives me some dopamine. And it's not showing actual blood and gore since it's polygons so they can go super violent with it without it effecting the rating thanks to the samurai jack rule
whoever designed the keyboard controls for this has never seen a computer in their life
>>741223805Last Recollection is a good conclusion to the overall story, but all the new aspects of Lycoris' systems were severely dumbed down. Which makes me wonder about the kinda issues that the Japanese had with Lycoris for the devs to have pulled back that hard. CRYMACHINA isn't perfect but it's halfway between the two.
>>741187052The localizers for the dialogue and the subtiltes aren't even the same, when talking about Cal Iori says Purple and subtitles say violet. Violet Fencer is also the quest where you meet Cal, and generally sounds better than Purple
>>741177496why does every anime game have the same overly realistic world with ultra generic looking anime characters? will the art direction that died around the late 00s in vidya ever come back?
>>741187052>>741200824>>741224512Localization is a delicate art.
>>741208007One of the things about Sword art is that it's in universe designed by a sword autist who thinks magic is stupid and wants to show how cool swords are. A sword autist would never implement duel blades, because they're stupid and since the combat is based on heightened version of reality, they'd just be terrible to use. Scepter should be spear
>>741224608>overly realistic worldWhat is overly realistic about that? It's cartoonized as much as possible to the point that the textures look like ps3 textures
>>741225185>It's cartoonizedno
>>741224608Not sure about others but for SAO it's taking the in-universe description of Full Dive worlds to their logical conclusion. I don't mind, I do wish Futami-san would go for more cartoonish visuals instead.
>>741185896The guy obviously doesn't play video games and it shows by how retarded the mechanics are. I can only assume you were bullied because this guy is as relatable the guy from eminence. Except he's actually kinda funny and charming. Kirito got no rizz and is lucky pussy just falls in his lap.
>>741225205ok blind man
>>741225845no
>>741190376I think they're just big, but the breastplate is bulky? Idk my vision is shit
>>741225802Feel like it's worth understanding that Aincrad was a backdrop prop for a beginning-ending short story from a rookie writer in 2001. Even then, Reki has played Ultima and Halo (GGO). Maybe his true understanding can be dubious, but the games still work. Kirito becomes more fleshed out as things go on, but there's only so much that an anime can do, on top of whatever bullshit that the director wants to portray.
>>741224701>Not calling her Amber
>>741226615Actually that'd be kinda hot.
>>741223738CV2 combat, movement, exploration, customization was better, story was better in CV1.Both definitely feel better than this game.
>>741182878>there's slowmowhy do they insist on putting that shit, everyone hates it
do players have a bomb strapped to their head?if you die in the game you die for real?
>>741221660I won't buy it at 70. It will go down in price in less than a year. 50 or below is fine.
Thank you Bandai Namco for releasing an absolute turd of a SAO game and paving for the success of the Dot Hack game
The slowmo is easy to avoid, stop spamming fucking dashing heavy.
>>741228382Their VR headset has a microwave emitter that fries their brain when they die in game. Yes that's as dumb as it sounds.
>>741205212that would be kino
>>741226602i feel like a lot of people don't properly grasp that SAO was originally written in 2001, the dude was making this shit up based on MMOs from the fucking dreamcast era - shit might as well have been magic to a non-programmer back thenlike no shit the game wouldn't be that great, he was pulling from goddamn ultima and PSO
>>741228819SAO was written like 2 months after //sign started airing, he pulled direct from it in nearly every facet for the first like year of updates for his webnovel.
>>741228432>just don't use the combat broAre you mentally incapacited?
>>741228140I actually liked the story in 2 more. The time travel plot was cool and it has a much better cast of characters to carry it. But yes CV1 and 2 are both leagues ahead of any SAO game.
>>741229049no, you spamming the moves deliberately dedicated to parts breaking leads to the parts breaking animation to play any time you break a part.Stop spamming it, it stops popping up as much.Crazy thought, I know, for your nigger pea-brain.
>>741229118>game punishes you for wanting to end battles quick>this is the player's faultlook dev-kun or marketer-kun you better fix this shit before release or the game will bombthis is my last advice to youyou have 3 weeks, tick tock
>>741229335?????????just stop spamming the fucking move that breaks partsit doesn't do any more damage, either. It's just two hits in succession, and ONLY for regular sword, which has a 3 hit move in regular attacks.
>>741209261try grim dawn, there's a dk class
Does it bother anyone else how ugly the game is? Why does every licensed anime game have to look like an unreal tech demo? It can't be THAT hard for these games to replicate their respective anime, gachaslop can do it just fine and provide expressive, good looking character models and anime accurate environmentsIt's not even just that it's ugly, these anime usually have such beautiful visuals and Bandai making them look the way they do is a disservice.
>>741229954i'd be okay with it being ugly if the animations were good or gameplay enjoyable
>>741229954My main issue is that (You) are the protagonist.They needed their own protagonist who was demonstrably different from Kirito.Like fucking Dante. An adrenaline junkie for whom the idea of the death game actually ELEVATES the game for him. And that's not clear immediately. You slowly come to understand your MC is kind of a lunatic. Like a Nasu protagonist.
>>741229954>every license anime gamealmost every game in general looks like unreal tech demos these days
>>741229954bandai is being cheap as always
>>741229954Attack on Titan 3 has the same issue too. They even downgraded and took away the anime features the last game had. I saw the trailer and they butchered and bastardized the art direction, a total slap in the face to WIT, Mappa and Isayama
>>741230420>the shitty Jump Force uncanny 3D models over cell shaded kinoWhy can't every anime tie in game look as good as the Ultimate Ninja Storm games?
>>741230420>MappaMappa was rancid dogshit, no matter what one thinks on keeping a style together
>>741230502CC2 and Arc System have both talked about their development processes and It requires a lot of money, time, skill and talent and besides these two teams and that Chinese studio making the naruto mobile game, any other studio would probably have to overhaul their staff and their development style and any anime game they make that isn't a gacha or dragon ball won't be worth the time and money they'd spend
>>741228393>Bandai sees lack of sales for SAO>They give an even lesser budget for Cyber Connect because they have no faith in that selling eitherI expect the devs to have themselves act cutscenes in real time to hit deadlines.
Ggfthhgggffggg
>>741230420what the fuck is up with all these devs trending towards 'realism' where ot doesn't belong, shit like sf6's mario if he real aesthetic
What's the point of having your protagonist retrospectively written into a story that exist solely to jack off an original self-insert protagonist aka Kirito.
>>741229954Hollow Fragment has my fav look, actually resembles a 2000s MMO
>>741228972The entire Aincard arc was written at once for a Dengeki contest and then uploaded online because he couldn't submit it since he went over the word count and he was admittedly too bad of a writer to cut it down. Only post-Aincard stuff was WN original. Also I still have no idea why people try to push this SAO/.hack comparison because if you've actually experienced either work then you'd know they have zero fucking similarity besides both being MMO settings. Even the "stuck in a MMO' shit isn't the same because it's everyone vs literally just Tsukasa and the comatose stuff doesn't happen until the end of Sign with Sora and the games, both of which would come after the Aincrad arc was already written. It just reeks of retards constantly saying "SAO ripped off .hack!" and repeating what they see from others about the most basic surface level similarities ever. It's like calling every JRPG a rip-off of each other because they take place in medieval fantasy settings. By this comparison, you might as well say .hack is a rip-off of the Matrix or Tron
>>741228972I don't think he took from dot hack. They don't really have much in common. Hack is a more serious take on the premise while SAO is pure shonnen
>Nya ha ha
SAO>2001.hack//sign>2002
>>741207780>Integral FactorI need to see if my account still exists and if I can even remember the story at this point
>>741229954The models have a decent 2D look, and I'm sure cutscenes with more action will have some nice expression work. It's close to the quality of pre-rendered cutscenes from IM to HR. The world looks nice, but I do wish they'd turn away from realism for a change.At the same time, you have to consider that the teams are small, and Bamco is stingy as fuck and will try to hold out on anything, including Dragon Ball. I wish the Tales of team or Shift could develop a game. Unless there's some stipulation in their licenses.
>>741231981>Why pilot a Zaku when the Gundam is stronger Kids theses days are so gay
>>741165032>uses google>uses facebook>uses instagram>has ad profile>keeps phone in pocket and facetimes fellow browns>MUH DOONOOVOOat least be consistent in your principles, subhumangb2 r/games for your updoots
>>741199640>no races>no magic>ultra rare skills that only one mofo gets in the entire server>last hit bonus loot instead of going to the one who did most damage>the bosses scaling don’t make sense, ones require entire raids of players while others can be solo’d >a bunch of other bullshit that I can’t remember but it’s definitely thereThis game would make Tortanic look like a high luxury cruise.
>ioris a girllame i want an older friend type aniki whos full of regret and i help him being a bro while we quests.
>>741231882Standardization. Corporations don't want to invest in workers, workers don't want to get stuck at a company, so no one is willing to put in effort to develop any style for one company, less of all one game. The industry would much rather buy in whatever lowest bid outsourcing house to make assets or buy them off a store, so everything collapses to the shared reference of reality. With current technology you don't even make your graphics, you scan them.And speaking as a wannabee gamedev, stylized 3D is just really fucking hard. You're better off with some paper mario/minecraft tier world that can just use 2D characters, but that doesn't scale to modern graphics.>>741233881Don't forget>full loot PVP MMO>Apple Vision Pro exclusive>needs to recoup R&D for creating the fucking matrixSAO would make Concord look like winning the lottery even before getting to the "kill all your customers" bit.
>>741224608Unreal Engine stock assets and lighting systems.
>>741177867Did anyone else get a audio desync in that cutscene?
>>741211478the real exit the game option is in the settings menu, the logout button is just for story reasons because it will get disabled once the death game starts
Maybe im hating too much but this legit plays worse imo than the alicization games.
>>741235874>real exit optionLame, it should be like Hollow Fragment. No pause, no exit button. You play until you close the game
>>741235857Yes. That cutscene is pretty fucked.
I like the idea of Asuna cheating on Kirito behind his back.
Kirito represents the absolute peak of a gamer. Him getting cucked simply doesn't make sense.
Kirito is a disciple of Billy Mitchell, the greatest gamer of all.Thus, he MUST cheat.
>>741209881
>>741236909I like the idea of Kirito cheating on Asuna with Sinon.
>>741237741It wouldn't be cheating. Asuna would approve the threesome.
>>741237741I couldn't watch SAO past S1. Aincrad was good, Alfheim was shit. Didn't care for the sci-fi shit of S2. I did watch the Progressive movies though. Shame there was only 2.
>>741237741at least shino's capable of calling him by his actual name every now and then
>>741237741Based
>>741238179My boyish wife on the left
>>741209261Try dragonfable
>>741237887It "improves" over time, but that just makes it bland and forgettable outside of some insane plotpoints. Like one of the seasons is evil foreign governments sending mercs to take over Japan's AI research facility, but the merch leader goes rogue because he, not in some game but irl, EATS SOULS and he wants to get the first digital soul that happens to be Kritio's latest harem member.
I don't like that it shows you where treasure chests are on the mini map.
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