Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

6

3 (20%)

8

4 (26.7%)

10

5 (33.3%)

12

3 (20%)

Something else (post in thread)

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 15

[IamanElfCollaborator]

But then we don't get to pull out SUPAH SEKKRIT TEKNIKS in the middle of a battle, especially when they could have been used beforehand to save lifes.

You're a Kayaba fan, not a Kiriririririto fan.

[SOLDIER First]

Lol he's coming at me with a knife in the middle of a fight. It's more likely then thinking he's coming to heal me.

Okay, but. Your guildmate. Why would you think your guildmate would be coming to kill you? It's illogical.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Yep. The guy, who has no reason to kill you, has been your ally for five floors, and is a GREEN player would certainly risk himself getting gibbed by the rest of the guild to kill one guy.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

But then we don't get to pull out SUPAH SEKKRIT TEKNIKS in the middle of a battle, especially when they could have been used beforehand to save lifes.

You're a Kayaba fan, not a Kiriririririto fan.

System Over-Assist, or whatever it was called.

[Patrick Hunt]

Sure, did you not watch SAO it happened a few times.

[SOLDIER First]

Sure, did you not watch SAO it happened a few times.

Has Bradley seen SAO? No. Is Bradley legitimately stupid enough to think it would actually happen except in Laughing Coffin or some shit? I hope not.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

Sure, did you not watch SAO it happened a few times.

Still, Bob would be pretty easy to pick out.

Going after one guy, against a ton of non-human enemies- unless we're going up against Laughing Coffin or something- and said guy happens to be at the front, where the nearest character, likely either Aurelius, Tzouboi or Shiina, can two shot kill him in revenge, or kill him before he kills Bradley period.

Yeah, totally worth.

[Twinwolf]

Dear god that's a lot of OOC.

Ok, I'm going to write up the turn as soon as I can.

As for the discussion about the American server: I actually have a basis for this. I've read the light novels. Early on, it is mentioned that for whatever reason, the game's official language is English. Why would that be if it wasn't released anywhere but Japan?

[SOLDIER First]

To give an excuse as to why the readers can understand everything without there being English translations everywhere?
But really. If only 10,000 people were able to get SAO there is no way you're telling me that Kayaba paid enough to ship them overseas.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

To give an excuse as to why the readers can understand everything without there being English translations everywhere?
But really. If only 10,000 people were able to get SAO there is no way you're telling me that Kayaba paid enough to ship them overseas.

The guy gets literal millions of Yen a year and has the contacts and connections to pull it off. He probably did.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

Edit:What Elf said.

[SOLDIER First]

But then we only hear about people in Japan being unresponsive and being moved to the hospital and all that, even from probable national news networks.

[Twinwolf]

It makes sense that Japan would get the most coverage, being the place where the game was most hyped and developed.

[Flying Dice]

Dear god that's a lot of OOC.

Ok, I'm going to write up the turn as soon as I can.

As for the discussion about the American server: I actually have a basis for this. I've read the light novels. Early on, it is mentioned that for whatever reason, the game's official language is English. Why would that be if it wasn't released anywhere but Japan?

English is the best option if he was trying to attract an international playerbase to the national-level launch of his deathgame. Even if he only had Japanese players, it wouldn't be difficult to find 10k who could speak English fairly well. This gives him the benefit of getting a bunch of foreign nationals as players (increased diversity and cultural friction, increased media attention) without having to do the massive amount of work he'd need if he wanted to support players around the world as opposed to just in Japan.

Simply put, it makes more sense that there were gamers hyped enough about the first total-immersion VR game that they were willing to move to Japan (at least for a couple months) to play it than that there were foreign servers whose players lives mattered so little that they weren't included in the 10k number, weren't covered by the media at all, and didn't even warrant Kayaba's personal touch.

Remember, Japanese media have no particular reason to be Amero-centric, folks. Be careful that you aren't projecting your own cultural assumptions.

[SOLDIER First]

In addition, a quick PSA: There are not that many American people in Japan regardless.