Aim Down Sights : A VRMMO FPS Novel

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Participant in the RoyalRoad Writathon challenge.

Marcus expected himself to die, only for him to wake up two-and-a-half centuries later.

Everyone Marcus knew is dead. His family is nothing more than a shared name, hospital bills sinking him deep in the red. He is shit out of luck. With his engineering qualifications long expired, having a job in the workforce is just as likely as winning the lottery. Save for learning a new trade, Marcus is effectively unemployable.

When an opportunity presented itself, allowing him not to start from scratch, Marcus grabbed it with both hands.

With the lifting of the information ban on anything considered modern combat, followed the release of the Virtual Reality game Burned Asylum. A game where where players wield 21st century firearms, it's tailor made for Marcus. With his prior knowledge and experience with everything guns, he plans to be the best. With it comes recognition and praise.

In a time where top VR players rub shoulder with sports and Olympic athletes, it was the best chance he could get.

Updates three times a week; Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Artist source:Burd of Prey

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2021
Author: TripleSeven

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Rating: 4.5/ 5.0
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Community Reviews(10)

ArksonLeonisRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Great story, love the world building and the gun play is top notch. Can’t get enough of it. Only real complaint is that I caught up and need more chapters to read! So author if your reading this I need more! Satiate my hunger please! Also to new readers, keep with the story and help me get the author to churn out more! That’s all, overall great story and need more.
EWilanORoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Very well written. I will comment further when there is more to review.
The plot is engaging, the main character believable and the style reads well.
As of now I have yet to find a point of criticism.
I await with baited breath how your story will progress. So far, I have very much enjoyed your story.
MelanstoneRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Game lit Litrpg through a videogame filter is kinda neat. Its Escape From Tarkov the Lit Rpg. And it's a Ton of Fun. Adventure, PVE PVP player interactions are all interesting so far, we're one quest in and cant wait to see more of what to come.
The combat and gun modifications are really cool as is the accurate experience of finding your way in a punishing Hardcore game like this
RazRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Very interesting story, but English being the authors second language is noticeable. Spelling seems pretty on point, but sometimes word choice and sentence structure are a bit off, like not using contractions when it would flow better or using on when in would make more sense. It's generally ignorable once you get used to it, but it does require you to get used to it.
Silentwolf123Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Wasnt too sure when i saw this but took the jump and realised this is now my new addiction, i know the author wasnt expecting such a bunch of good reviews but hopefully they realise how good this book could be/is. Brilliant idea and masterfully done, cant wait to see more and see it done reguarly for my new addiction....
Young Guy Wasting His LifeRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
As a guy with a lot of free time. Naturally, I read a lot of novels. Whether it be an original to fan fiction to light novels and web novels translated from china. After reading many famous VRMMO, I can confidently say that this is one of the top there is. The only shortcomings of this novel is that it's short. The Game part of this novel is the best I've seen. There are aspects from Gun Gale Online of SAO in this novel like energy weapons for pve and dynamic weapons for pvp and the aim assistance ring. There is a novel called Fatal Shot that is similar to this but it focused on levelling part and tiered weapons of the game and other supernatural aspects of it that it lost it's charms. I hope the VR won't follow that route. Just pure realistic guns and and some sci fi guns. Not making the guns have level and some fantasy. Just a technique and skill based game. Let's keep it Sci Fi.
Damien SornetteRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
One of my favorite to read. It is the perfect story to switch from all the other type of usual litrpg you can find on this website. Action is smooth, weapons are well described so even someone like me that is not a specialist of those understand.
So far the world building is very interesting ( I still want to know more about the "real" world).
If you like modern war setup in a very environment with a credible character and an interesting world building. You should really try it !
ArkzenirRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
So, let me first say that if you have come this far into reading the reviews but still have reservations about reading the story, you should go ahead and give it a try.
To get the praises out of the way first, i adore the plot and the worldbuilding of this story. It is nothing too unique on its own but it fits the story perfectly and it certainly increased my enjoyment of it immensly.
The actions scenes are portrayed very well and the characters are not too bad either. I would appreciate a bit more depth when it came to characterisation, but i will chalk up the slight shallowness of the characters to the author taking it slowly, and i cannot criticise that.
To come to the elephant in the room, this story does not have the best grammar. I can easily look past that personally since it is not absurdly bad and there are only a handful of errors per chapter, but i urge the author to get some more editing time for their chapters or at least run them through Grammarly first to catch the more obvious errors.
There were also some instances of the MC acting somewhat weird, essentially becoming the caricature of a late middle aged boomer with some "hehe women amirite?" comments but i will also chalk that up to the fact that he's from early 21st century and that's just what Marcus grew up around. It would be nice to see him play off of some more prominent female leads however.
megamehRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
A promising start to a novel! The setting and mechanical systems are fairly unique for this website - there are not many gun based stories on this website, at least not many that take 21st century weapons seriously. These are the novels strengths so far, and lets it stand out from the pack of VRMMORPG stories.
Otherwise, however, it is hitting the beats of those narratives beat for beat thus far. The grind, the starting from the bottom, the proving yourself...if he gets betrayed or makes a lifelong rival or the one female character thus far turns into a love interest every cliche'd beat possible will be hit. But I know there is comfort in formula, and that formula is often welcome in these sorts of stories. If you want a VRMMORPG story that delivers more of the same in a unique package, you could do far worse than this story.
Character development has been lagging behind so far, which is understandable given the pacing up to this point. To get over the top, this story will need stronger character writing and people for the protagonist to learn about, but I am hopeful that and more lore on the setting, which again, is very interesting, will come with more chapters. Deftinitely a story to keep an eye on and well worth following!
EmpireofTrustRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
What it says on the tin, moves at a good pace with enough detail to paint an interesting picture.
Most of the stories I read and enjoy on RR tend to be more magic based, this is one of the few more realistic that has been compelling and continued past a few chapters.
I hope it continues