Sword Art Online

[DarthEnderX]

No, you are exaggerating now. It was really obvious it wasn't reality.

Yeah, because the video game killing you would have been a ridiculous conclusion to jump to.

If, you know, that hadn't been what the entire first arc had been about.

For pages people were complaining about how stupid it would be if he was some uber hacker. And now that it is explained in a feasible way, it is boring?

Two different groups of people?

I don't think I ever though the hacking explanation was stupid. And I do think the current explanation is so mundane. To the point where the police shouldn't have required some kind of online specialist to solve it.

I guess the problem is that the first two arcs were based on the idea that people could be trapped in the VR and bad things could happen to them there, things that would affect their RL as well. This one is kind of a reverse. Kirito's theory would mean there would be nothing peculiar about this game at all. It would be just a perfectly ordinary murderer going around in RL, killing people in their houses, in their sleep for all practical purposes. Selection of the victim would merely rely on the game, which means it wouldn't need to be a VR game at all. It could be sports, chess, academic excellence, beauty, romantic jealousy, whatever has appeared as motives in the millions of crime literature, TV series and movie pieces. And reality.

This.

[MasterOfMoogles]

Yeah, because the video game killing you would have been a ridiculous conclusion to jump to.

If, you know, that hadn't been what the entire first arc had been about. Derp.

No, the ridiculous conclusion is that someone is cosplaying as Death Gun in the real world, not that there actually is someone in the real world.

Two different groups of people?

I don't think I ever though the hacking explanation was stupid. And I do think the current explanation is so mundane. To the point where the police shouldn't have required some kind of online specialist to solve it.

Over time, sure, I would believe the police would figure it out. The problem is currently nobody was even really looking into it.
I thought this was a very interesting way to take the story and a good way to switch it up from the previous arcs.
Is there a different method you think would have been more interesting or would have liked better?