Hot garbage... p2w is the new(ish) way of handling things like this so they can make games 'free' to play (f2p = lose). Horrible idea WotC. I'd rather pay the old-school monthly fee so everyone is on the same playing field.
Sub based games get forced out of the market by WoW. Wildstar tried that and was forced to go F2P after less than a year.
It's also kind of hilarious seeing people talk about the evils of p2w in a MTG forum.
P2W with something physical to show for it is way different to me than P2W for digital content, which I refuse to do (even on mtgo). I can add to my EDH decks incrementally and still compete... I can't add to an mmo account incrementally and keep up with rich people and their spoiled children lol.
In most of F2P MMOs you hit the point where diminishing returns make further spending pointless well before the cost of a single standard deck though. They're less about spending money and more about finding niches in the in game economy to take advantage of. Also, I love digital items. They don't take up as much space as the eight foot tall stack of boxes filled with commons and uncommons I have from drafting over the years.
Hot garbage... p2w is the new(ish) way of handling things like this so they can make games 'free' to play (f2p = lose). Horrible idea WotC. I'd rather pay the old-school monthly fee so everyone is on the same playing field.
Sub based games get forced out of the market by WoW. Wildstar tried that and was forced to go F2P after less than a year.
It's also kind of hilarious seeing people talk about the evils of p2w in a MTG forum.
I love me some Saki. 'Oh hey guys, don't mind me... Just gonna enter god mode over here... And jump from last place to first place. Don't worry about it...'
I really hate how they've sort of just rotated through characters letting them win while everyone else just sits there like a wet noodle. I'm glad that they finally gave Saki her turn but everything about this season feels so scripted that it breaks the immersion that you usually get out of anime. (That whole sentence felt really weird for talking about a yuri mahjong anime o-o)
The progession felt a lot more normal in previous seasons.
I dunno, I hardly read manga, mainly because I love dead tree format for reading. Also, don't have a E-reader so reading manga on the computer is pretty arrrrgh especially when you have a 15' laptop...
I googled it and flipped through a few pages and couldn't stay interested. I prefer dead tree when I can get it too but if it's just reading a few chapters here and there PC monitors are fine.
Anyhoo ...
Jumped off the couch and screamed "YES! THERE IS A GOD!" when I saw the second season announcement for Log Horizon.
Tomino is back with a vengeance (and new Gundam)... exciting stuff, no matter how good/bad the show turns out to be.
SatoJun doing a grimy, dark-looking mecha show with Kawamori on design and Okada Mari on writing is also going to be one to look out for. GUess Phi Brain was just a warm up for him.
If it's anything like the manga I could care less :|
Well, I'm counting SAO, then ALO and now it's going to be the GGO arc. That's what I'm counting as seasons. After that, there should be some OVAs about a really strong player in ALO, how Kirito find Excalibur in ALO, then how he gets his hands on the sword (not like the end of the ALO arc). The final arc is going to be a three season anime if they decide to move wiselly.
EDIT: For those asking why there are two girls featured on the top of SAO, the blue haired one is called Sinon and the one on the right is not a girl, it's Kirito. http://anichart.net/summer
I think it's better to just go with what the studio actually gives us. If they want to call it SAO II that's what it is.
I sold my duals for a PS4; bad move. It's a $400 BD player / crunchyroll player atm :|
Unless there are games you know you want right off the bat, it's pretty much always a good idea to hold off on a new generation of console until the inevitable price drop hits.
Also: PC > console.
I've already got a gaming PC :|
I just figured there would be some more games. Should've probably just saved up to upgrade my GPU.
Um, isn't it SAO 3? Also... I knew it! Summer SAO Season 3!
If you want to count extra as a whole season instead of 100 minutes of mostly recap.
Did anyone watch Outbreak Company? If so, is it any good? Same for Maho Sensou (Magical Warfare). Some people told me that Maho Sensou wasn't that great, so I just want to get a second opinion.
Mahou sensou is yawn inducing.
Outbreak company isn't the best thing since sliced bread, but it was fun seeing a fantasy setting try to deal with anime culture. The dwarves/elves fighting over their favorite visual novels and such was a riot. Also was fun picking out all the series they parodied to avoid copyright issues (e.g. they've got cardboard character posters of Yotsuba and Saber except the colors are all off, yotsuba only has 3 pigtails etc.). Still ran into some boring bits (e.g. basically every time Myucel and Shinichi are alone) but it's at the very least worth streaming.
I'm more leaning for summer, since SAO has a more summer feel to it. Also, it will likelly have more viewers during the summer, making the ratings rise. Going to add a link to the anime charts, including the most recent one: http://neregate.com/blog/anime-charts/
All the talk about SAO II just reminded me that Log Horizon is nearly over and how much I'd rather get a second season of that :|
First season aired in the summer if that's an indicator of anything.
Also after reading some manga Hitsugihime no Chaika and No Game, No Life look pretty good. Especially given bones for the first and madhouse for the latter.
Also Yama no Susume was a lot of fun the first time around. Heck some of these shorts like Yama no Susume and Aiura were more fun than a lot of shows that got 20 minute episodes.
That and the chart is wrong on the Girls und Panzer OVA, that's not til July (I'm literally counting the days til it's out q.q )
I think this kind of proves how wrong it is to ever say a season of anime looks bad. Every time I get in that train of thought I always turn out to be wrong :|
I just want Mushishi and Jojos for spring. Everything else will probably be filler (comparatively)
Spring looks pretty bad :|
Pretty much just Mushishi and then the rest of it.
I mean I'm looking forward to Managaka-san to Assistant-san to, but it'll probably end up being a bunch of shorts.
Can't even remember the last time a winter season was this much better than spring.
... and somehow I have managed to miss Viz's announcement about (re)claiming right for Deadman Wonderland manga, and found about it today, after seeing the 1st volume of the manga...
Oh well, now's my chance to get that missing vol 2 and those that Tokyopop never published...
New LoGH will probably never be as good as the original. I'm watching Nobunagun, it's like one of those B-movies, except in anime form, so pretty enjoyable
Feels like a really violent Saturday morning cartoon imo. Love the palette they use in the fight scenes. Everything about the premise and characters is just hilariously stupid but it's fun to watch regardless.
Nobunaga the fool is terrible though.
Next in line of my "Watching the classics" marathon is Genshiken, and it feels like the show I should've watched around seven years ago. It doesn't seem like anything special, but it just feels so right. Also, Guilty Gear in the opening. I only wanted to watch the first season, but now I kinda have to watch the rest.
It's weird watching the progression the series makes given all the time between each season. The manga went through similar changes but it's just really pronounced when animated. First season has the same rough feeling as the manga in the first few volumes, but the second feels more like they polished it like you'd see in most anime, and the third season is just a straight up adaptation of the manga as it is now. VA changes were really appropriate for the change in tone in the third season even. Second season takes a bit of liberty with the plot iirc but even then it's one of the few series where I never really had any objection to anything they've done with the adaptation. Just too easy to sit back marathon it tho :|
A few of you are watching Space Dandy, right? Opinions?
Each episode has been better than the last. I was iffy after ep. 1, but the second half of ep. 4 was the most I've been entertained by anime in a few months.
I just caught up on it and I re-watched the opening narration ten times just to hear the guy say "Space Dandy is a Dandy in space."
In most of F2P MMOs you hit the point where diminishing returns make further spending pointless well before the cost of a single standard deck though. They're less about spending money and more about finding niches in the in game economy to take advantage of. Also, I love digital items. They don't take up as much space as the eight foot tall stack of boxes filled with commons and uncommons I have from drafting over the years.
Sub based games get forced out of the market by WoW. Wildstar tried that and was forced to go F2P after less than a year.
It's also kind of hilarious seeing people talk about the evils of p2w in a MTG forum.
I really hate how they've sort of just rotated through characters letting them win while everyone else just sits there like a wet noodle. I'm glad that they finally gave Saki her turn but everything about this season feels so scripted that it breaks the immersion that you usually get out of anime. (That whole sentence felt really weird for talking about a yuri mahjong anime o-o)
The progession felt a lot more normal in previous seasons.
I googled it and flipped through a few pages and couldn't stay interested. I prefer dead tree when I can get it too but if it's just reading a few chapters here and there PC monitors are fine.
Anyhoo ...
Jumped off the couch and screamed "YES! THERE IS A GOD!" when I saw the second season announcement for Log Horizon.
If it's anything like the manga I could care less :|
I think it's better to just go with what the studio actually gives us. If they want to call it SAO II that's what it is.
I've already got a gaming PC :|
I just figured there would be some more games. Should've probably just saved up to upgrade my GPU.
If you want to count extra as a whole season instead of 100 minutes of mostly recap.
DRRR! 2 finally happening. Some surprising sequels this year, never expected Mushishi to get a sequel either.
SAO II confirmed for July too.
I sold my duals for a PS4; bad move. It's a $400 BD player / crunchyroll player atm :|
Mahou sensou is yawn inducing.
Outbreak company isn't the best thing since sliced bread, but it was fun seeing a fantasy setting try to deal with anime culture. The dwarves/elves fighting over their favorite visual novels and such was a riot. Also was fun picking out all the series they parodied to avoid copyright issues (e.g. they've got cardboard character posters of Yotsuba and Saber except the colors are all off, yotsuba only has 3 pigtails etc.). Still ran into some boring bits (e.g. basically every time Myucel and Shinichi are alone) but it's at the very least worth streaming.
Meh. That date has been known for months. That's just laziness.
Yup. Every season it's like that. Crap like IS2 sells 10k a BD and all the shows I like can't pass the manabi line :|
Maybe they'll justify a second season on light novel sales.
All the talk about SAO II just reminded me that Log Horizon is nearly over and how much I'd rather get a second season of that :|
First season aired in the summer if that's an indicator of anything.
Also after reading some manga Hitsugihime no Chaika and No Game, No Life look pretty good. Especially given bones for the first and madhouse for the latter.
Also Yama no Susume was a lot of fun the first time around. Heck some of these shorts like Yama no Susume and Aiura were more fun than a lot of shows that got 20 minute episodes.
That and the chart is wrong on the Girls und Panzer OVA, that's not til July (I'm literally counting the days til it's out q.q )
I think this kind of proves how wrong it is to ever say a season of anime looks bad. Every time I get in that train of thought I always turn out to be wrong :|
Spring looks pretty bad :|
Pretty much just Mushishi and then the rest of it.
I mean I'm looking forward to Managaka-san to Assistant-san to, but it'll probably end up being a bunch of shorts.
Can't even remember the last time a winter season was this much better than spring.
Now someone needs to rescue Future Diary :|
Feels like a really violent Saturday morning cartoon imo. Love the palette they use in the fight scenes. Everything about the premise and characters is just hilariously stupid but it's fun to watch regardless.
Nobunaga the fool is terrible though.
It's weird watching the progression the series makes given all the time between each season. The manga went through similar changes but it's just really pronounced when animated. First season has the same rough feeling as the manga in the first few volumes, but the second feels more like they polished it like you'd see in most anime, and the third season is just a straight up adaptation of the manga as it is now. VA changes were really appropriate for the change in tone in the third season even. Second season takes a bit of liberty with the plot iirc but even then it's one of the few series where I never really had any objection to anything they've done with the adaptation. Just too easy to sit back marathon it tho :|
I just caught up on it and I re-watched the opening narration ten times just to hear the guy say "Space Dandy is a Dandy in space."