Only Sense is more of a support character rather than front liner. Play to Live (Alterworld) also started realistically until encountering a bug/glitch in the system which the administrators fixed a moment later. The King's Avatar is OP from the start since the game is skill based and he has been playing the game for 10 years. The only issue about him is that his abilities on the real world is transferred to the game world.
LMS MC started as a level one and he progressed realistically. I didn't read SAO and I didn't read Overlord after the first volume.Īrk from Ark could be one but you will know why the 'goddess-sama' pays special attention to him later on. So, pretty much anything in the sci-fi/fantasy genre(s) can be shoe-horned in.Ĭlick to expand.Cheat like character? Can you provide examples like that? Maybe you're referring to jap MC characters? The only LitRPG I've read were from Russia, Korea, and some local ones. Rus' book that we would use as an example for that genre. See, while having almost nothing to do with the genre LitRPG, it still manages to hit nearly every point that existed within D.
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The Matrix movie trilogy is LitRPG because the majority of the movie takes place within a VRMMO setting and the main character gains power in a near RPG like fashion, with characters such as the Merovingian clearly showing digital immortality. Then again, by technicality, we could claim just about anything for the genre with appropriate *'s. So, I guess the only thing the genre has to claim as its own would be the Floating Blue Text Boxes (when used for RPG purposes, regardless of RPG setting). The authors who wrote those books (before we were born) didn't claim a separate genre, and many of those authors individual book sales outpace the entirety of the new LitRPG genre. There's VRMMO novels like Tad Williams' Otherland books, and Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. Then you have the flip side of that with pen & paper rpg novels, like the popular Dragon Lance sagas. Like the WOW & Diablo 2 published fan novels. There were books written 10 to 30 years ago that could claim LitRPG status, most of them terrible. Which I'm pretty sure was D.Rus of AlterWorld. What comprises LitRPG as a genre is largely dependent on the author of the first book to claim it of that genre. Also the only things a story set within a game and one where the setting has RPG elements have that are different is the ease of access to the 'real' world and the idea that death isn't permanent and both of those can or have been flip-flopped for some effect.
On that front stories where characters are reincarnated into a fantasy world with RPG mechanics are in some ways more true to the term RPG because they generally have memories and end up playing the role of a son or daughter. However, even in that case they rarely immerse themselves in the role so I don't really count it.
Usually they are just playing the game at best you can make the argument they are playing the role of an adventurer in the game. How many stories do you read where the character is actually role playing inside the game. If you take RPG literally not many stories really manage to be true to it, even among stories set within a game. I would say it's fine not to be restricted solely to stories that take place inside of a game.
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