Overgeared

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As Shin Youngwoo had an unfortunate life and is now stuck carrying bricks on construction sites. He even had to do labor in the most popular VR game, Satisfy!

However, luck would soon enter his hopeless life. His character, ‘Grid’, would discover the Northern End Cave for a quest, and in that place, he would find ‘Pagma’s Rare Book’ and will become a legend…

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xordis
xordis rated it
July 27, 2018
Status: c175
I hate it when author bestowed an OP ability to a bland MC. I don't hate it but it's like seeing a delicious looking dish but it taste like paper in your mouth. The MC is just on "easy mode". He doesn't have to think or be creative. Author love his MC too much... Too bad, it has so much potential.
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Renaxan
Renaxan rated it
July 7, 2018
Status: c649
Let me clarify, MC arent likeable at first.. Everybody know that. Even he is growing, he's still has greed as his main attitude lol.

The story itself are interesting in character, world building + much more have potential so its enjoyable to read, if you can bear his attitude. Most plot likely support the MC with cliche as good as possible altho sometimes unreasonable. Here's some of them :

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1. Get former greatswordman of empire that actually have ability to become legendary farmer and later help his land fertilize

2. Lead a team, just to raid the boss alone with power of items. A lot time happened.

3. Agree to Leg. Mage to borrow his body and he got second class legend magician without much effort, altho before he's scammed by him

4. Goes to east continent just happen to match a time for blacksmith tournament to create legend item, so it pretty much can only completed by him.

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Much more there.. But if you dont mind them you can really enjoyed this novel. As its has same theme of LMS, its below but so far im not getting bored reading this. <<less
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ic3blitz
ic3blitz rated it
June 10, 2018
Status: c624
Man I binged this translation for two days. At first, the idea was very appealing however, the premise of the story was just constantly repeated over and over, to the point where I just got tired of the novel. It reminds me of the book Legendary Moonlight Sculptor, except, it's just not up to that standard. The translations were fine, however, the author just took an idea and drove it to the ground. For those that don't know what I'm talking about, I mean that Grid's blacksmithing skills were just... more>> CONSTANTLY buffed upon over and over. This character did not experience any major source of failure whatsoever. Usually in any story, the hero experiences the loss of a mentor, as it helps with character development. In this story? Nope. Instead, the expected "mentor", instead gains half his lifespan back somehow. That's not even the worst part. The story lacks any romantic plot. The girls are simply two dimensional.
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Yura could've been this super bad-ass antagonist to counter the main character. Instead, she drops it all and suddenly helps Grid with everything suddenly? Like come on, what a paradigm shift. Like why even set up her as a character, if all you're going to do is constantly just mention how she's a black-haired beauty and mention how her breasts aren't up to size as compared to Jishuka. Don't even get me started on the other characters, who all seem to fall heads over heels over Grid who suddenly has it all

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. Additionally, albeit the fact that this story is obviously fiction, there is no sense of realism whatsoever. Apparently there are 2 billion accounts and everyone is willing to throw away millions of dollars for in-game items, which Grid seems to easily make.

Now I'm not saying that the novel is completely bad. There is good sides to the story. For instance, Grid develops a lot as a person. However, the moral of the story isn't that good of one. It seems to suggest that the more money and fame you have, the better you are as a person. He becomes a lot more charitable and understanding towards his peers as the story goes on, however nothing really explains why he became so, suggesting that it's due to his power and fame causing him to mature to being a better person, which doesn't make much sense. Another good aspect is that there is comedic relief in the novel, which does help from the monotonous tone of the novel.

In the end, I feel that definitely, the beginning of the story is a little mediocre, however the story does get better. That being said, a lot needs to change for my rating to go up. I'm not even asking for much, I'm just comparing to what I consider are the better novels (Warlock of the Magus World and Book eating mage) and do believe that there is a lot this novel could improve upon (character development (the side characters just come and go, they honestly disappear for chapters and then suddenly come back, like come on, Yura disappears and comes back almost up to par), realism, and just better explanations, as come on, you can't just give a character infinite durability items (that being said, has the author even explained what happens when an item hits 0 durability or the PKing system at all?).

Translation : 5/5

Story : 3/5

Plot : 2/5 (there lacks a major plot)

Characters : 3/5 <<less
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Expatamoeba
Expatamoeba rated it
May 31, 2018
Status: c604
I wonder why everyone hated the MC though? The MC is a whiny, self centered, can be an idiot and pretty much human tr*sh in the beginning. But yet he's not a bad guy. He's not perfect like any other xianxia MC that are godlike but kill everybody who talk bad about him. He's just a human being with no social skills and pretty weird way of looking at things due to his traumatic childhood. Overall I liked the MC. In fact I like him more when he was a... more>> tr*sh because he's too funny. Lol. I like how he literally become billionaire but still thought eating ramyun with 2 eggs is a luxury. The misunderstanding are also quite funny. And the side characters has distinctive personality and likeable.

The romance can be a bit forced. Like how two of the most beautiful woman in the world fall in love with the MC after he save them once. But it's not as forced as some xianxia imo.

The writing is good. There's multiple pov and not one dimensional. So it's hard to get a boring chapter.

Fight scene is good. The plot and the story progression is also good.

Overall it's a good novel. Give it a try. You'll love it if you're looking into an MC with personality instead of perfect godlike MC. <<less
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iceonskates
iceonskates rated it
May 30, 2018
Status: c319
This novel is absolutely amazing! Out of all the VR genre novels that I have read, I can say that this is at the top. The MC can be too much of an as*hole early on but he grows, unlike weed. But what I like the most is the plot.
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Hemu
Hemu rated it
May 17, 2018
Status: c577
Be advised, if you aren't the kind of person who has patience, don't read this because it's not for you.

If you're to read this and complain about how the protagonist is such a childish whiner, this isn't your type of thing. But is there a rule that protagonist has to be a goodie two shoes? The only I know is that protagonist should be interesting and stands out from the other characters, and yes, the protagonist in this title is the biggest jerk among other characters.

Now to the main topic.

Is... more>> the story good? Yes.

Is the protagonist has any developments? Yes, in fact it's this title's selling point, which is watching the growth of the protagonist both mentally, physically, materialistically, and so on.

What about the other characters? They don't really have many developments going on, but they are in fact exist, and it's as fun as reading how the protagonist making progress in his life (both virtual and reality)

Romance? There is or are. But don't expect the kind of harem the most Jp novel has. Every romance in this series has its legitimate reason why they fell in love or to not realized that it's love, unlike some 13+ stories when the girls will fall in love with the protagonist from the constant s*xual harassment.

This story satisfies all of your needs IF you're patience enough.

Moreover, Wuxiaworld updated Overgeared pretty often and many chapters already available, 577 chapters availabe, and each chapter was quite long. <<less
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crazykat
crazykat rated it
May 1, 2018
Status: c196
As many have said, the MC from this story does slowly get a personality change. But you will notice that the changes might not have been that good at all. To be frank with everyone, I actually liked the <90 chapters more then the >90 chapters. Before the personality changes he actually had something which was actually "interesting" to read about but afterwards around ch 110+ he just becomes bland. Its the same thing over and over again but with the MC being a little more likable/"nice". It felt like... more>> he lost his true character and became more 2d.

I dont know about everyone else, but to me this novel felt like a downgraded version of moonlight sculpture. The MC from this novel has everything that weed has but divided in half with alot less interesting plot lines. I would also like to point out that MC doesnt have any real goals. At the current point in story, everything that MC does is due to series of coincidences that seems to occur around the MC. Everything right now in the story feels like a slice of life novel, with a bland story line. Some people might disagree with my review but this is just what I think about the novel at the place I am in currently. I do recommend people to give it a try, its a decent pass time novel. <<less
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kingcrit
kingcrit rated it
April 29, 2018
Status: c547
Well what to say, when I first started reading it Grid made me sooooooo mad by the way he acted that I stopped reading for a while. Then I saw the comments saying that Grid eventually started maturing through the story and it got alot better. I agree, even though he still acts in a annoying way every now and then its gotten to be quite exciting to read, also quite funny.
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General Tanya
General Tanya rated it
March 6, 2018
Status: c120
I am not sure if it's good or bad. A mix of both I guess. I don't really mind of the MC personality. Is kinda funny but it's the story that irritate me. I don't like the administrators that can just look up every single details of a player and also had the power to interfere or delete a player account (so far they hasn't but they should not have create the game with this setting). So many privacy violations. I know I should not compare this novel to LMS... more>> because each is different but I find this one awfully lacking. The whole game setting is ridiculous. Any players can just fight anywhere with no safety zone, players can just enter another shop and interrupt the other person that is busy smithing. Basically a player here has zero power to do anything and is most of the time force to do stuff. The creator must really suck creating such a game that has no basic rules where most players can just insult npc or when players get framed for no reason. The only thing that is awful about the story is how fast his fame spread. He basically has zero skills in being low key and any random noob can found out about him. Even in real life they found out his identity. Joining a guild just doesn't cut it for me. I like his shameless, greed and need for attention but he at least need to exercise a little caution when he does stuff. Basically a person with low int that doesn't think before he do something which make the story kinda irritating sometime. Story get dull and boring real fast. Author also tried too hard making the npc emotional instead focusing on the real characters. <<less
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HumanBeing
HumanBeing rated it
March 6, 2018
Status: c93
For some reason, even though his personality is ugly, it's still pretty fun to read. It actually didn't bug me as much as it usually does with other similar MCs, such as the MC in Extraordinary Genius.

Maybe it's due to hints of growth throughout (seen through thoughts and action) and the crazy bad luck MC has balancing the usual OPness every time... Or how he is so s*upid and does put hard work "purely" into it as later mentioned by the game developer watching him. The NPCs are also... more>> more advanced and complex, adding amazing potential/content because a quest would change or even disappear from an action by a player or NPC. <<less
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yuzak_23
yuzak_23 rated it
March 3, 2018
Status: c408
Interesting novel with mixed variety of fantasy and comedy I really like the MC because he is a ret*rded MC who started to learn and to be mature because of a game this MC works really hard to achieve what he desire
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bayzid47
bayzid47 rated it
March 1, 2018
Status: c401
One of of few vrmmorpg genre novel I liked! Starts pretty common (weak/poor MC encounters lady lucks favor and gains a legendary class! Crosses etc etc hardship and lvl ups!) But everything changes after 90+chapters (Trust out RainbowTurtle~sama) :3

But gotta say most unique thing about this novel is MC's character transformations though out the whole novel!! Author did pretty good job there with character developments!!

And another good thing is that MC is never truly 'unnatural' OP unlike some other genre novels in same genre CUZ of overall character develpments !

Have... more>> some cool romance scenes...........*ommited*

OVERALL a good read <<less
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Polokrik
Polokrik rated it
February 25, 2018
Status: c100
A really good novel !!

I n the beginning I was really skeptical because the MC is s*upid (there is no other word) but it is a story about how even someone s*upid can with a bit of luck and by trying really hard change things and be a better person.

In the end I really enjoy this read because the humor is on point the lore is great and the characters are well defined and pretty unique.

Read it even if the beginning is frustrating it's worth it
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freedom1x
freedom1x rated it
February 16, 2018
Status: c364
I love it. Wacky, I would like to compare it to it's predecessor of the same genre. This one has it's own charm. In a way it is somehow similar to Ark and LMS, unlike the uncanny resemblance of the two latter, has it's own style.

So far so good, On my own opinion, the only flaw is that MC easily get's what he wanted after the overpower makeover.

Not much struggle afterwards. But giving this one high evaluation is because after reading some novels. This one is part of my top... more>> list of "I can't wait for the next chapter" list. <<less
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AROCH
AROCH
February 13, 2018
Status: --
A good story with a really good character growth which made the novel fun to read as there would be improvments to the MC in every chapter from 130 - 350~.

It's really bad in the first 100 chapters and there are instances in the some chapters where the author is really hypocritical.

example from chapter 356 and 357 :... more>>
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in these two chapter the author writes about how the right wings extremist japanese are nationalists. The Japanese right wings want to exploit the Power of the pope for their own purposes. (The pope is a japanese player who by the way is in debt to the MC) so he decides to build a temple in the MCs territory which would help develop the MCs city as a way to repay the him but the author compares the pope to the MC multiple times and writes that the pope is really strong but compared to the MC he is weak when it isn't even relevant to the story if the MC is strong or not.

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I would give this a 2.5 stars because of the beginning (I know people would say that there is character growth in the tags but the MC in the beginning was really annoying. The occasional annoynig nationalism, be it Japan, Korea, China or the USA is another reason for this novel to get a bad feedback. <<less
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thevongolax
thevongolax rated it
February 9, 2018
Status: c344
Damn, right now I wont believe any negative reviews especially for the novel which is translated by rainbowturtle because for me, Overgeared is one of the best Korean novels I have read so far. I laughed many times reading it. And I'm glad that I followed translator suggestion to endure and read up to at least 100 chapters because you finally can know and see the development of the MC, especially his personality (worst to praiseworthy :D) and understand why he has terrible personality (first 100 chapters are like the... more>> foundation for MC development). After 100 chapters until now, wow, so much much fun to read. Well, that's it. You better try reading this novel, you wont be disappointed. Trust me, it works! Lol <<less
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Sphiinnx
Sphiinnx rated it
November 29, 2017
Status: c139
This is my first time writing a review but I felt like this once deserved one. The first 90 or so chapters might but tough to stomach for some people but it starts to get better after that. He is still a money grubber and is s*upid at times but you can see that he is improving and isn't even close to as bad as he was. If it keeps going on this path at some point he will develop into a very good character and I am looking forward... more>> to the journey towards that. <<less
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Mighty Action X
Mighty Action X. rated it
November 23, 2017
Status: --
This got misjudged by many 1star trigger happy just because the start was bumpy and the MC was acting so childish. They didn't realize that this is a novel with more than 700 chapters and even in the first 100 there could be a great character development in which it did. Currently, he's maturing, the story focuses more now on crafting and hunting and he's starting to have friends and companions.
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BAAM
BAAM rated it
November 5, 2017
Status: c180
It might just be me but any korean movie, drama, or book just gets boring after a while, they all have decent starts but the writing isn't well phased and it ends up being bland. Thats what happened when I was reading it, the story started out good, then the MC changed his personality all of a sudden. Now the story is boring af because the MC isn't an interesting person yet the author tries to make him seem unique. To make a good story there should be a reason... more>> behind the protagonists drive and after he got through the first few arcs its just mindless powering up. There is no thrill in him competing in competitions because there is no major buildup behind it. Instead of spending a dozen chapters showing the MC grind, why not do some great plot development? <<less
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gary0044187
gary0044187 rated it
November 1, 2017
Status: c54
Not going to lie, premise of the story is great. Issue is the author somehow made a worse version of Weed. At least Weed had quite a few redeemable qualities. Even his penny pinching came across as quite laudable frugality most of the time. This character takes that and divorces it from any kind of positive character traits, which is funny because unlike Weed who must care for his ill grandmother and college age sister, the MC here is a NEET living at home. The only positive character trait is... more>> that the MC stood up for the elderly, sure, not immediately, but once the badguys pushed too far. If not for the translator's promise that his terrible personality will improve I probably would have quit by now. When the MC's obvious, numerous, and overwhelming, bordering on severe psychological dysfunction, character traits aren't visible, this story has some very interesting concepts that I would love to see pursued. Unfortunately, since most of the story is told from the MC's point of view, I don't know whether it will be able to continue under the wait of this difficult character. Is it supposed to provide humor or make the character relatable? <<less
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