Agreed. At this point, we know the "story critical" floors of Aincrad completely (thanks to Progressive), and the floor bosses of other floors we don't have complete maps of. I don't get what the holdup is. Give us Aincrad already.

Welcome to .Hack, SAO style. We've been saying stuff like this since the first .Hack came out, and they always do this: base the games around an anime and give us just enough game to make us keep wishing they'd make the game from the anime. At this point, I'm fairly certain it wont happen unfortunately. I still wish they'd just come out with The World already. Unfortunately, the devs either just don't care enough, or (most likely) they don't even read stuff from outside japan... so unless enough Japanese Nationals complain about it, they wont make it. And even if they do, it'll likely be japan only for a while/permanently... and with the way most Japanese MMOs have gone, it'll either be a Final Fantasy 14/WoW clone, or pay2win trash, or both.

It also doesn't help that visual novels are supposedly very popular in japan, which is why all of the SAO games have that stuff shoehorned in (i.e. why chapter 1 in this ends in 1.5 hours of talking/cutscenes).

I miss .hack

I tried a .hack game once a long time ago. It might have been one of the very first ones. I just remember the levels\maps being effectively completely empty of detail. It was really weird. I never got drawn into any of the other MMO isekai shows (mostly the plots sounded annoying or the character design was mid).

SAO was everything I wanted it to be. Kirito remains one of my favorite male protagonists (after Spike), due in no small part to SAO never devolving into the typical borish harem nonsense and their vomit-inducing wishy washy protagonists. Kirito knew what he likes and has stuck with it faithfully the entire franchise.

i think integral factor has the most of aincrad last time i saw a update i think they are on floor 63 or somewhere close think i have only done 2 floors back when it was not on pc so my phone was not upto the task of playing it

Just a shame the rest of the game is trash.

theres alot of us that thinks so too, friend. dont think you are in the minority.

Cygames shouldve just bought the license and make SAO instead of Grandblue Fantasy.

Grandblue Fantasy:Relink is what SAO should have been right now.

bandai sucks.

Honestly, I would have been happy with with the Realization engine. I just want open world exploration when it comes to coop. Not this arena only nonsense like in Lost Song. When it comes to coop, I'm not willing to settle for the highly confined mission explicit format you see in Fatal Bullet/ReLink.

Originally posted by ArnirV:

I hope im not the only one that feels like SAO games is not entirely how we want them (at least some of us).

I Wish they would just make a proper SAO game, even though i love the storyline of the light novel and as much as my edgy teenager side loves someone like kirito i still feel like it would be amazing to make a proper MMORPG that is called SAO because thats what it is, like SAO in the beta, no main characters, no storyline (Besides your character's journey through 100 floors) and you have a player base that lives in Aincrad. the original SAO concept would be amazing to just be brought to life, this just feels like cash grabs for novel readers that want more from a different story timeline. Oh and no, SAO integral factor does not count since it still follows kirito and Asuna, i want our original journey in our Aincrad (Also that game is graphically horrible, feels like there no passion to the closest thing we have to a proper SAO)

uhhhh Sword art online integral factor IS that game

Originally posted by SirGouki:

Welcome to .Hack, SAO style. We've been saying stuff like this since the first .Hack came out, and they always do this: base the games around an anime and give us just enough game to make us keep wishing they'd make the game from the anime. At this point, I'm fairly certain it wont happen unfortunately. I still wish they'd just come out with The World already. Unfortunately, the devs either just don't care enough, or (most likely) they don't even read stuff from outside japan... so unless enough Japanese Nationals complain about it, they wont make it. And even if they do, it'll likely be japan only for a while/permanently... and with the way most Japanese MMOs have gone, it'll either be a Final Fantasy 14/WoW clone, or pay2win trash, or both.

It also doesn't help that visual novels are supposedly very popular in japan, which is why all of the SAO games have that stuff shoehorned in (i.e. why chapter 1 in this ends in 1.5 hours of talking/cutscenes).

you mean 10 hours

Originally posted by Sly Shrewman:

Originally posted by ArnirV:

I hope im not the only one that feels like SAO games is not entirely how we want them (at least some of us).

I Wish they would just make a proper SAO game, even though i love the storyline of the light novel and as much as my edgy teenager side loves someone like kirito i still feel like it would be amazing to make a proper MMORPG that is called SAO because thats what it is, like SAO in the beta, no main characters, no storyline (Besides your character's journey through 100 floors) and you have a player base that lives in Aincrad. the original SAO concept would be amazing to just be brought to life, this just feels like cash grabs for novel readers that want more from a different story timeline. Oh and no, SAO integral factor does not count since it still follows kirito and Asuna, i want our original journey in our Aincrad (Also that game is graphically horrible, feels like there no passion to the closest thing we have to a proper SAO)

uhhhh Sword art online integral factor IS that game

isnt that that mobile POS??

Originally posted by Lestrad:

I tried a .hack game once a long time ago. It might have been one of the very first ones. I just remember the levels\maps being effectively completely empty of detail. It was really weird. I never got drawn into any of the other MMO isekai shows (mostly the plots sounded annoying or the character design was mid).

SAO was everything I wanted it to be. Kirito remains one of my favorite male protagonists (after Spike), due in no small part to SAO never devolving into the typical borish harem nonsense and their vomit-inducing wishy washy protagonists. Kirito knew what he likes and has stuck with it faithfully the entire franchise.

are you watching the same sao that i am? season two has all of that wishy washy garbage. Asuna goes from BAMF to lil ol puddy tat or eh canary in the gilded cage and every thing.

Originally posted by SirGouki:

Welcome to .Hack, SAO style. We've been saying stuff like this since the first .Hack came out, and they always do this: base the games around an anime and give us just enough game to make us keep wishing they'd make the game from the anime. At this point, I'm fairly certain it wont happen unfortunately. I still wish they'd just come out with The World already. Unfortunately, the devs either just don't care enough, or (most likely) they don't even read stuff from outside japan... so unless enough Japanese Nationals complain about it, they wont make it. And even if they do, it'll likely be japan only for a while/permanently... and with the way most Japanese MMOs have gone, it'll either be a Final Fantasy 14/WoW clone, or pay2win trash, or both.

It also doesn't help that visual novels are supposedly very popular in japan, which is why all of the SAO games have that stuff shoehorned in (i.e. why chapter 1 in this ends in 1.5 hours of talking/cutscenes).

what is 'The World'?

Originally posted by ArnirV:

I hope im not the only one that feels like SAO games is not entirely how we want them (at least some of us).

I Wish they would just make a proper SAO game, even though i love the storyline of the light novel and as much as my edgy teenager side loves someone like kirito i still feel like it would be amazing to make a proper MMORPG that is called SAO because thats what it is, like SAO in the beta, no main characters, no storyline (Besides your character's journey through 100 floors) and you have a player base that lives in Aincrad. the original SAO concept would be amazing to just be brought to life, this just feels like cash grabs for novel readers that want more from a different story timeline. Oh and no, SAO integral factor does not count since it still follows kirito and Asuna, i want our original journey in our Aincrad (Also that game is graphically horrible, feels like there no passion to the closest thing we have to a proper SAO)

honestly, at this point the closest thing we would get to the real thing IS the real thing. you would need a billionaire who decides that he wants to throw ♥♥♥♥ you into a passion project style game and develop some kind of neural connection into the brain for a full immersive gaming experience and along with this neural connection also develop a game with a world and people and creatures and stories to go with it. eventually you get someone just like Kayaba (i think that was his name?) and probably he would also lord himself over the game as a god creating some sort of to the death challenge because hey hes a billionare and ♥♥♥♥ you right?
i guess you could run the game through the monitor screen too, so a pathway into the brain isnt WHOLLY necessary, but come on its totally inevitable either way so might as well go there too. but you really need some tech savvy billionare who decides to just throw ♥♥♥♥ you money into a pit to make a game of this scale. the greed mongery corpos will only ever give just a sao flavored slice of the anime pie. take this game her for instance. tear it apart and rebuild a game of this size (nearly 100gb) in a smaller graphical quality like hollow realization, or even fragment, and just build the enormity that is aincrad. you could still make it work with ps 2 or three graphics the hook would be scale of game. 100 floors that is practically a game of its own per floor. with massive interlinking bosses going from one floor to the next. you could easily pull something like that off, but eh players would likely complain about graphics. so you cant, because pretty takes up SPACE.
eh sorry about that

Originally posted by Cynicalkatt87:

Originally posted by Sly Shrewman:

uhhhh Sword art online integral factor IS that game

isnt that that mobile POS??

It is. No skill trees, abilities hidden behind gatcha (as opposed to leveling, weapon proficiency), clunkly controls, bad ui, and loads upon loads of immersion-breaking gag costumes. The individual floor maps are absurdly small (one or two tiny areas), the gear is bare minimum (though at least it affects your appearance), and there's not a lot to be had in the way of quests.

Integral factor is also, as far as I've heard (quite a while back), has no plans of doing all 100 floors.