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EP. REVIEW: Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online

I mean this is a game where you can 'acquire' the rappelling skill which, for some reason, has a fixed descending speed.
Yet if you know how to do it IRL, you can just do it as fast as you can.
While yet again allowing players with high agility to move faster than normal human speed.
So therefore, could player with high agility apply that to their acquired rappelling skill to actually descend faster than normal human speed, thus contradicting the previously stated fixed descending speed?

So, was skeptical walking into this but I ended up enjoying this way more than the original SAO series, which I actually dropped after the Gun Gale arc in that series. The main difference is that this series actually feels more like they are playing a game, as opposed to Kirito who just plot armors his way through every encounter. "I'm playing a game focused on guns? I'll just use a sword and dodge/block all the bullets while looking cool and win because I'm the main character".

RE the avatars; having them be randomized is DUMB, I agree completely, BUT in a competitive game like GGO there would probably be definite balancing with size.

LLENN probably can't carry nearly as much stuff on her - it looks like you need a moment to call up items that aren't actively equipped, which means you can't do it in the middle of a fight - she likely has recoil issues with larger guns, if she can equip them at all, and she likely has less health. (The P90 fires a relatively small bullet, and it's bulpup design makes it easier to handle with less recoil)

Her speed is a surprise to everyone, including herself, so I think it's actually her unique skill rather than just her size and agility score. If you'll recall Main SAO, they say that players will sometimes acquire a special skill that isn't precisely present in the game itself, but attached to the character.

RE the avatars; having them be randomized is DUMB, I agree completely, BUT in a competitive game like GGO there would probably be definite balancing with size.

LLENN probably can't carry nearly as much stuff on her - it looks like you need a moment to call up items that aren't actively equipped, which means you can't do it in the middle of a fight - she likely has recoil issues with larger guns, if she can equip them at all, and she likely has less health. (The P90 fires a relatively small bullet, and it's bulpup design makes it easier to handle with less recoil)

Her speed is a surprise to everyone, including herself, so I think it's actually her unique skill rather than just her size and agility score. If you'll recall Main SAO, they say that players will sometimes acquire a special skill that isn't precisely present in the game itself, but attached to the character.

Also why did they feel the need to shove Sword Art Online at the start of the title? Are they that desperate to make sure everyone knows it's still part of the same universe? I mean correct me if I'm wrong but at this point it has nothing to do with what happened in Aincrad anymore right? Surely Gun Gale Online would've sufficed.

Just like SAO this feel like something that was written by someone who know of video game but who never played them. Any FPS competitive game would have standardise avatar shape, otherwise everybody would be playing as the most advantageous size (probably some weird combination of small frame/head mixed with large arm/hand for better handling of the gun). Same for costume color, everybody would have the same camo.

Thanks for spoiling Pitohui’s identity you spoiler[degenerate prick you.]

Edit: Seriously though, I didn’t realize who she was until I spoiled myself after episode 2.

meiam wrote:

Just like SAO this feel like something that was written by someone who know of video game but who never played them. Any FPS competitive game would have standardise avatar shape, otherwise everybody would be playing as the most advantageous size (probably some weird combination of small frame/head mixed with large arm/hand for better handling of the gun). Same for costume color, everybody would have the same camo.

Here's the fallacy about the avatar size thing. GGO is not an FPS competition game. It's an MMORPG with a futuristic post-apocalyptic setting, which makes the main weapons be guns instead of swords. It's balance concerns are closer to World of Warcraft's than to a competitive FPS game. BoB and Squad Jam are tournament's held within the game, not the main game themselves. Characters aren't going to be equal, in build or capabilities, as the whole point is for people to pit themselves, and the character they've built against other people who have been building their character, and honing their skills.

So size is just one of many factors contributing to how good a character is, and there is no one single advantageous size or shape, nor one single camo that's best.