Reddit reviews AlterWorld: Play to Live. A LitRPG Series (Book 1)

D. Rus' Play to Live series has pretty epic battles centered around capturing and protecting player guild castles starting from book 3 on.

If you can ignore the occasional typos, the World at War series contains nice large scale virtual reality battles, but with guns instead of magic. The MC's company/guild does try to earn the top spot from an underdog position though.

The Spineward Sectors series isn't really virtual reality or fantasy, but sci-fi, and the battles are with starships, but from what I recall I would call them large scale where the MC has to try and hold his spot as Admiral.

My bad, I was thinking of "Necromancer Awakening"

Have you looked into the "Play to Live" series? Its quite a bit darker than LMS but its one of my favorites. http://www.amazon.com/AlterWorld-Play-Live-Book-1-ebook/dp/B00LYJOII6/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1421864024&sr=8-3&keywords=play+to+live&pebp=1421864028692&peasin=B00LYJOII6

Most people who start it end up finishing the entire translated series in several days.

https://www.amazon.com/AlterWorld-Play-Live-LitRPG-Book-ebook/dp/B00LYJOII6

The closest I can think of that has the same feel as the land is the "Play to Live" series by D Rus. Crunchy, covers almost every subgenre of LitRPG, including lots of base building, and a not so beloved MC.

https://www.amazon.com/AlterWorld-Play-Live-LitRPG-Book-ebook/dp/B00LYJOII6

Alter World is probably one of the highest quality ones out there since it has an actual physical print in Russia also available on Amazon digitally in English with a high quality translation. You can read a synopsis here. The translation speeds not to bad about 1 to 2 full books a year as well.

I guess here we found the real difference - i think Subaru has a much, much better position of power compared to Naofumi. I always viewed those niche powers related to time travel as superior. It tilts me to oblivion to see how he wastes nearly all of its potential, and he doesn't even try to adjust his abilities to his use properly, like you said - on the contrary, he tries to use it less. I remembered that part thanks to you and it was another tilter for me. Istead of "sit and think for a fucking second" he just denies himself from his position of privelege/power. And he isn't even locked to a warzone like in Edge of Tomorrow, where it is much harder to bend his next respawn. By the way, am i remembering this correctly, after trying not to rely on his power too much, he just restarts his conversation with ram/rem in the end to get a desirable answer? Not relying on his powers too much you say?
Come to think about it, i don't remember how many times did Subaru die? I get it, in Edge of Tomorrow he is a military adlut person so it is much easier for him. But, you have to get used to it at some point in some form, instead it just.. never happend in a coherent manner. I remembered a few plot points that never made much sense to me - like that curse from a DOG. Nani the f? Or suddenly a whale becomes a raidboss. So its not only the duel that made me upset - everything never delivered. Pretty much every plot point after first arc never delivered for me. There was a huge cliffhanger when everybody was dead and there was a... wolf? I dont remember what was happening there but i didn't like the outcome of that either. Investigation quest about the dog was very upsetting because he didn't do a good job investigating, and if i recall correctly he found that curse dog by luck or something similarly silly. And same goes for nearly everything - i just couldn't bring myself to believe.
A sidenote: O, shiet. I just found out that those books i am currently reading were translated to english - you can take a look at them. https://www.amazon.com/AlterWorld-Play-Live-LitRPG-Book-ebook/dp/B00LYJOII6
Edit: Oh, a guy in comments is saying that after book 3 it drops. I am already noticing it. Still, first/second books are good-to-great, i am in the middle of third one and it is still good.

The type of book you're looking for is an up and coming genre called litRPG. There are quite a few over at /r/noveltranslations as many of the best ones so far are from Japan, Korea, and other non English Languages. I highly recommend the Play to Live series by Russian Author D. Rus, which you can buy from Amazon. It's a seven book series with the 6th translated book hitting (virtual) shelves in about 2 weeks.

Yeah I tore through them pretty fast. The first couple are solid gold, but #5 and #6 kinda gets away from the good stuff a bit. http://www.amazon.com/AlterWorld-Play-Live-Book-1-ebook/dp/B00LYJOII6/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1452878704&sr=8-5&keywords=d+rus

I'd suggest reading the Afterworld. It's... extremely representative of the genre, free at the moment and, uh, an extremely guilty pleasure to read.

Anyone who read into the series of D.Rus. (Alterworld - Play To Live) on Free Folk?

https://www.amazon.com/AlterWorld-LitRPG-Play-Live-Book-ebook/dp/B00LYJOII6

Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/AlterWorld-Play-Live-Book-1-ebook/dp/B00LYJOII6

Goodreads:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22812333-alterworld

If you like VRMMO read AlterWorld.. its pretty good.. I definitely recommend it if you like LMS and Ark

> Play to Win.

is this it here?
http://www.amazon.com/AlterWorld-Play-Live-Book-1-ebook/dp/B00LYJOII6

sounds awesome! thanks!

Now move onto AlterWorld: Play to Live!

PS: a recent discovery http://www.amazon.com/AlterWorld-Play-Live-Book-1-ebook/dp/B00LYJOII6/

Awesome light scifi book

Alterworld is like Zhang Long, except better in every way, shape, and form. It's slow to start, but the cultures and worldbuilding within the virtual world are amazing to read!