[quote=Noir]
I've been meaning to watch .hack. SAO wasn't the deepest thing ever but at least it was pretty and the fights were done well. I can't imagine sitting through an anime that's even cheesier than SAO without having the same production value.
[/quote]

SAO is like poor man's .hack, but it was still largely tolerable. 
Log Horizon is like poor man's SAO. 

LH was literally made for retarded Japanese toddlers, it reads like a manual to a video game. You know those little booklets you get inside video game cases that show you all the controls/basics? That's Log Horizon.