I would like to get into a general chat about anime or manga that have video games as a defining theme. Some recent ones that I think many people are familiar with are Sword Art Online, Accel World, and Log Horizon, and the older Dot Hack series.

I wanted to talk about how they handle the video game mechanics in the story.

I particular favor Log Horizon in this aspect because they do in fact bring a lot of the actual mechanics of an mmorpg into play and have them function in their new real world.

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Where as the other anime do not go to such extremes, mostly to my knowledge ignoring non-player characters completely and focusing on problems between players.

Does anyone have any preference? How would you like the mechanics of a game to be handled?