Well having now watched SAO I can safely say it's average at best, but mostly shit without people asking if I have watched it. Have not watched AOT yet, but it's probably better.
Am I the onle one who has started skipping through the most recent episodes of SAO because they are painful to watch and not worth the 17 or so minutes, 1.2x speed makes them?
I prefer SAO's novel more than the anime (Though they got parts of the first half of season 1 and the Mother's Rosario arc just right while the rest was trash) and AoT bored me near the end. So they're both even in my book.
Just finished Attack on Titan last night. They dragged us through most of the second half of the show wondering what the titan was trying to do; the least they could do is provide some answers.
At least SAO can provide a conclusive ending to each arc. Especially this latest mother rosario is really something.
Sword Art Online became crap after the Sword Art Online part ended. The fact that they were in a video game and if they died in the game they died in real life is what drew a lot of people into it. Once that aspect of the anime vanished a lot of people including me became very uninterested in it. With that said....
I personally think like most people, SAO first arc>SnK SAO second arc<SnK Where my opinion differ is that I personally really liked GGO, better than attack on titan, though there's one thing that Attack on Titan trample sword art in my opinion, it's the music, the electrostatics mixed with classical music, causing a lot of arrhythmic to give a modern tribal feel, is totally insane and incredibly fitting.
AoT is a good anime, but to me, it isn't just the same as SAO, which I fell in love with from the beginning. The series after the first arc was, I have to admit, a bit of a let-down, but I still love it.
Both were good animation and music-wise but you see... I watched AoT because people called it overrated but not entirely bad. I watched SAO because I wanted to know why everyone called it shit.
If I had to choose, I'd choose Attack on Titan. They're both pretty bad and/or incredibly over-hyped if you look into them thoroughly, but I'd say Sword Art Online is worse. I can tolerate Attack on Titan.