It's real...this is what dreams are made of

I literally had a dream about this last night.
So excited.

I hope they one day they redo the original games into something that isn't 90% menus in battle.

>PC
>no vita

Wow

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This was easily my favourite JRPG ever. I'm pretty excited.

TGS is looking good this year

They said that development is 80% done too. Release late this year!?

>>380453953
Yeah there's a 2017 release date, just no exact month/day. I hope the english version won't take very long.

Legit question, why are you guys suddenly okay with remasters?

It's because it's on PC now?

Chances of the original trilogy getting a remake before then? I've never played a game in the series and I want to get into it because the main character is cute.

>>380454083
With games this old and (mostly) forgotten, I think it's a great way to gauge interest for a sequel or reboot. Also compared to making a new game it's a lot less work.

>>380454083
this franchise hasn't gotten shit for years

>Japan only

kek

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>>380454197
I doubt the original 4 games will get an HD remake anytime soon but one can hope.
>>380454083
I'm fine with remasters. If it's a game I don't want to replay, I just don't buy it.

>>380454663
>I doubt the original 4 games will get an HD remake anytime soon but one can hope.
Are they worth playing? i kind of hate jrpgs but I watch anime.

Oooooooh shit niggu

>AC7
>DBfZ
>.hack//GU
Where were you when fucking bamco of all people saved vidyagaems?

>>380454778
Thats the worst taste Ive ever seen

>>380454778
If you hate jrpgs probably not, and the original 4 games can be a slog in terms of gameplay. Look up some gameplay videos and decide if you're fine with putting up for it for the excellent story.

>>380454394
Translation incoming in two months m8.
Coupled with the fact of pirating, we have an eta of about 2 months after release for comfy teims

>>380454917
source?

>>380454896


>>380454880
Anime is just more engaging. Jrpgs often are grindy and slow and have a cringy story on top of that. It's nor worth spending 40 hours on when the average anime lasts 8 hours

>>380454197
Doubt it. They need to remake the battle system from the ground up if they want to port IMOQ. But at that point, they might as well create a new game altogether.

>>380453381
Was thinking of playing this great trilogy again via emulation.
Now just gonna wait for this on PC.
Alkaid best girl.
Bordeaux a close second.

>>380455030
Anime engaging?
If you are 12 sure. Wuth JRPGs you dont have to suffer the awful animation and dialogues as much and the story gets to the fucking point instead of having 9 episodes/12 be filler

>>380454083
Fans of dead franchises are fine with anything. Mostly because a remaster of a dead franchise has the potential to lead into some actual new stuff.

>>380454328
>Not wanting new IPs instead of sequels/ remasters

Stop

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>>380455068

>>380454083
We've always been fine with remasters. If the game is old. Something that comes out and then gets a remaster 1-3 years later is obviously not okay.

>>380454834
if fromsoft does something this year I'll agree

>>380455030
Yeah, total shit taste.

>>380454394
Mate the games have been fully localized for a decade and they're making a PC port. If it doesn't come to the west bamco are the dumbest motherfuckers alive.

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>>380453381
I only wish they could add a broken-ass B-st form, even as a temporary mode or something. Then i would be complete.
>>380454083
I'm okay with it because it adds trophy support to games that were too old for them

>>380455118
Sounds like you have a wrong impression on anime.

>>380455209
Because I find JRPGs too slow?

>>380455193
Well, From doesn't depend on bamco exclusively.
I forget now, did bamco ever publish any Armored Core before?

>Still 25 ays away of the counter reaching 0

>>380455473
V

so if they make 6 it'll probably be bamco again

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>>380453381
>e3 disappoints as usual
>the best vidya news in years incidentally comes during the same week

>>380453381

WHY THIS AND NOT XENOSAGA? Who asked for this?

>>380455702
Its fucking weird
The conferences mostly sucked ass, yet the game news coming out are great

>Sony didnt put the Dissidia NT trailer on their conference, but thought that fucking fishing simulator with Noctis and fuckfriends was a good idea
Fucking hell

>>380455830
because SAO became popular
seriously thats why anyone is pretending hack was ever good

>>380455830
Is Xenosaga any good? I played through Xenogears on an emulator and it was everything wrong with jrpgs. It had pretentious imagery. Slow s c r o l l i n g text and all tropes imaginable from amnesia to old grannies expositioning way too much. Xenoblade was good. But saga wasn't.

Were Project X Zone/PXZ2 successful in the west? .hack is fairly significant in those games, so maybe if they were successful it resulted in renewed interest in the featured series. Maybe a good sign for a Xenosaga remake/sequel.

>>380454083
It depends on the game and if they add stuff to improve it.

In this case they are adding all the polish and then some of the last game to all of them and also speeding it up which will improve the overall experience more than a mere graphics update.

That said I would have rather they made the original quadrilogy because it has become pretty outdated as far as gameplay goes and would benefit a significant amount if they used a modified GU system for it

>>380456206
they did far better in the west than japan, at least for the first game.

overall though it just sold decently

>>380456165
1 is okay, 2 is bad, 3 is good

But since you didn't like Xenogears I would skip it since it also goes full ham on Christianity.

>>380454083
I personally only played the original 4 .hack games, never got to play GU for whatever reason, so this is a great way to get to play them without dealing with emulation or paying god knows how much for obscure PS2 games. (The original .hack games are worth a ton, still.)

>>380456697
I don't mind going ham. If it isn't pretentious.

>>380454083
.hack has been dead for years plus my PC too shit to emulate GU without frame drops so I've wanted a PSN release or remaster for awhile.

Besides, they're making this 1080p 60fps and adding a ton of QoL changes to make the game a lot less tedious. It's an okay remaster.

>>380454083
People have been wanting .hack collections because trying to get the PS2 copies will cost you an arm and a leg.

>>380453381
No. The dream would be a brand new game or a actual VR MMO.

>>380453469
>i had a dream about this last night.
The reveal was 2 days ago shitlord.

>>380453381
This is all three games in one, right?

>>380459539
Yes. It is going to be all three games with some new elements so it will feel somewhat new for older players.

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>ywn relax in HFHG after a long day's grunty racing

>>380461126
Don't forget the soundtrack anon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCMkh8MRMNQ

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>>380455157

>tfw Kite is a dashing young man in college being stalked by Natsume

If they ever remake R1, I hope they expand the IRL side of things. Social link-like events with quests in-game would be really nice too.

>>380455043
You know it occurs to me that they may be doing GU first so they can:
1. Gauge sales
2. Implement all of the new changes to IMOQ to make it way, way better.
GU was already a step beyond IMOQ so the turn-around method makes sense.

>>380459451
How does that change what I said?
I had a dream about playing the HD version, dumbass.

Can't you just emulate it

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>>380462873
>Remaking IMOQ on the G.U. HD engine
>Remaking IMOQ at all

.hack// single-handedly turned me weeb and consumed me for years. I don't know if I'm ready for my tween~teenage years to come back like this.

I have like 250+ hours on my Quarantine and Redemption clear saves

>>380453696
No VR on Vita, bro.

>>380462850
>IRL side of things

I kind of feel like that would be a bad idea. Not being able to see the "real" person behind the characters is part of the series.

>>380459346
It's rumored to have vr support

>>380454197
I would say it all depends on how well this remaster does. If it sells REALLY well, the possibility of a remake of the original games isn't zero.

>>380462850
The thing with Kite is that, out of all the characters, he's the least defined. He doesn't even have a canon name.

That said, we do know what his future is gonna be. It's been stated that he goes abroad the study anthropology.

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>>380454083
Game was never released in Europe. Besides I'm fine with remasters of PS2 games.

Original US release is fucking unplayable thanks to Burger dub.

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>>380455335
>trophy support

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>>380454083
You don't understand how fucking dead this franchise has been. Every single venture into something new has either been incredibly lackluster or offensively bad. Going back to the last clearly good game(s) gives a chance for it all to be revived again so we can see the story continue, and hopefully change whatever the fuck Link was about.

I've been wanting this shit for years since it's clear that they've just been stumbling around for almost a decade without any real direction.

>>380453469
fuck off tripfag

>>380462940
It certainly doesn't change the fact you are fucking faggot who can't tell the time.

Fuck off Onsokumaru.

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Posting scans.

RENGEKI

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>>380467464
Haseo new form teased.

>>380454083
.Hack has been dead game wise since Link and CC said that they are trying to add some new elements so they can classify this as a GU remake and not just a remaster.

I love GU and I love the idea of people getting to experience it for the first time and the fact that they bundled all three games into one massive remake is fantastic.

>>380455335
I can imagine that they will make every single character ending its own trophy so enjoy getting that plat.

>>380467464
>Alkaid
>No Shino

Oh come on

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>>380467595

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>>380455335
>adds trophy support
fuck off underage faggot

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More games that will never be on the Switch.

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>>380467735
Last one.

>>380467624
Shino's a fucking sluuuuuuuuuuuuut.

Seriously though, Atoli's already on there and they're just recolors. Better fit some room for someone that's not comatose for the entire series and has a unique design.

>Kite is studying abroad
>Piroshi still hasn't been fired somehow
>Natsume is an insane P.K.
>Wiseman is full chuuni, albeit a rich one
>Elk is a NEET who plays video games all day and is obsessed with some guy he met online
>Rachel and Usagimaru made it big in show business
>Balmung was an admin for CC Corp, but got fired
>Mistral has a cute daughter

>>380456165
1 is fantastic
2 is shit
3 is okay

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>>380467850
>that screenshot
I just realized I'm finally going to return to Mac Anu after all these years.

>>380456850
It's kinda pretentious and 2's gameplay is soo awful you're better off with a wiki recap of it and going 1->3

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>>380467149
Link wasn't ALL bad though

For the uninitiated, this is a male character, played by a male IRL

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>>380468034
It did have some cool stuff, and I do like the Xth forms for Kite and Endrance, but honestly the story was really bad. I'm not going to pretend like G.U or even IMOQ was some kind of pinnacle in storytelling, but Link really did just have too much going on.
At least it isn't the Link manga. I swear they had absolutely not idea what they were doing in that one.

>>380468270
Yeah, I bought the first two volumes of Link on a whim because I knew we were never getting the PSP game and I wanted to see if it was as bad as people were saying, or if it was just non-.hack// fans laughing at the absurdity of an MMO being taken seriously as a setting (this was before SAO).

I like to imagine everything I read was non-canon and this remaster negates it's existence in some way.

Best avatar theme, best avatar design
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYmPL_OqNeI

SHALL WE DO IT THEN?

>playing IMOQ
>getting lost
>need to check bbs
>need to check email
>go to every nook and cranny
>remember get lost as a kid
>I'm an adult and still got lost
>mfw I'm happy that a game doesn't hold my hand
>slow down
>actually read the BBS
>So much hinted lore and game play instructions
>figure out what I need to do by lurking BBS
>start enjoying the game
>Sure I could do the story but let me dick around first
>dungeon crawling data draining
>getting dat gear and money
>looking at random players trade inventory
>almost forgot to do the story

>>380468034
Is Link translated?

>>380469085
Official translation? No

Fan translation? Yes

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>>380469085
The PSP game has a translation patch at at LEAST covers the menus (idk if the full game ever got a patch because it's shit. Like, easily a 3/10 game, don't even bother.)

I don't know if they finished the whole run, but last I checked, at least some of the manga was localized

Just ignore it, no good comes from Link besides redesigned Xth forms for basically every party member from the series' past that you can find online

>>380469301
>>380469445
Which is it? Is the gameplay bad or are people mad at about the story?

>>380469654
It's all trash, story and gameplay.

>>380469654
Gameplay is tolerable, story is absolute garbage.

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>>380467793
Auch.

But do Nintendo fags even care man? All they want is their precious first party stuff.

>>380469821
Damn, the game play can't be that much worse than IMOQ can it?

Can someone PLEASE post the 4koma scans where Kite bullies the fuck out of everyone?

>>380454663
>Elk's fate is to lose his mind and become a NEET until he starves to death

>>380470026
It does. You play as the shitty main character who is easily the worst one in the series, and due to hardware limitations, you can only have one party member at a time.

Despite this, it's the fan service game where they give you literally every goddamn character as a party member, and gives them all Xth forms

It's a monkey paw game

>>380466771
>>380467785
Sorry i have more reasons to replay my games bois

>>380463905
I still remember the Delta hub music.

>>380470328
Fuck, only one? But how can I pick just one? Also I get your angst against the game but is it possible for you to separate that from what the game plays like for a moment as explain why it's bad? How does it play?

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>>380470131
I was going to tell you to just look it up but apparently online readers don't have all the chapters.
https://mega.nz/#!sCJlVTxa!aLQ51ioVtk6X5lZLm35sexaZZbPGpahzLHXS61tol1M

>>380470328
Tokio isn't that bad desu.

Honestly LINK's story isn't awful when you factor in it's based of the Manga versions of the games. The only thing that made it bad was the fact that Aura decided to go evil.

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What if Haseo is getting a new form because everyone else gets their Xth forms from Link now?

>>380471576
Possible. They may try to retcon Link, and bring in characters from the Manga to continue the games where it did in the comic. They also made Tokio the villain in that fighter game they made two years ago.

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>>380453381
Between this and Xenoblade, if I could only play one MMO-like series what should I go for?
There was an anon this past weekend who gushed about one of the .hack series since he just recently replayed, can't remember if it was the original or GU, but he made it sound like something worth trying.

>>380471576
I just hope we get Ovan playable in Vol.3 so I can marry him

>>380455990
>seriously thats why anyone is pretending hack was ever good

anon plz

>>380454083
Compared to something like Strange Journey, which should've just been a rerelease, this is a way to make a literally who game and franchise relevant again.

>>380472523
Fun fact. Ovan was originally going to be the main character, but the producers decided it was too edgy and had them rewrite the story.

>>380472464
Don't know about Xenosaga, but .hack is probably one of the most engaging experiences to get into if you take the time to go through the actual major media for it. Watching Sign and going into IMOQ after that gives alot of closure on events, and similarly you can relate to Haseo's struggles in G.U because of the shit that happens to him in Roots. Of course, that's not even counting all the characters that move around the different series, becoming more interesting each time.

The gameplay is not much to write home about. IMOQ can drag pretty heavily in that department, and while G.U is competent, it's not outstanding or anything. Despite that, I'd still say it's worth it because of the vast world and characters that the whole multimedia aspect of it provides.

>>380472464
The original is very expensive and uh... i guess you could say it hasn't aged well. Watch some YouTube gameplay and see if it's worth it. Final Fantasy XII is also getting a remaster next month, i would keep that in consideration as well.

>>380471576
I just want to be able to directly control my party members and switch on the fly like Star Ocean and Tales games.
Imagine maining a spellcaster like Sakubo in battle so they don't suck.

>>380455118
You have seen the wrong anime.

>>380472832
And the result is less edgy? Jesus fuck i can't imagine

>>380472845
>he didn't play Xenosaga

You might as well kill yourself my dude

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>>380472832
I can't decide on whether Ovan would be more or less edgy than Haseo was in the beginning. Haseo did brood alot until he got over it, but Ovan did sort of kill millions of people around the world.

>>380473038
According to a writer in a old as fuck interview on an obscure Jap blog.

The originally story had you as Ovan, trying resurrect your Sister and you goal was to essentially track down and hunt the other waves.

Basically the same motivations as GU, cept you would be the one that was doing it. Producers didn't like the idea of kids being the "villain" and had them make Ovan the antagonist and inserted Haseo as a more relatable character for teens. It's also part of the reason vol 3 became a clusterfuck of loose ends and plotholes.

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Reminder that GU takes place in 2017

>GU remake
Come on do an IMOQ remake, I need Aura in HD, she has almost no fanart!
But I guess it will be hard to keep having that dreamy, mystical, low-poly atmosphere

>>380454083

It depends, for something like .hack it could always mean they are testing the waters to see if there is still any interest for it.
One can always hope that if it does well they might consider reviving the franchise.

But you are not wrong. The games coming to PC are also part of it for both, those that didn't have a PS2 at the time and those that don't have a PS2 or a PS4 now.

>>380454663

I actually love the first ones better too and would love to see them on PC.

>>380454778

Yes, more so if you liked the original .hack//SIGN.
.Hack// has always been a multimedia proyect so the games actually give closure on the original anime (and the previous light novel).

So from the narrative point it is very fulfilling to play these games if you liked the anime.
From the gameplay pov, i won't lie to you, the games felt dated even back on the PS2 era but i really liked them anyways (except for the episodic format... i think it was the first game i ever played that was like that).

>>380473861
All I want is higher rez textures so that the breasts don't look all muddy.

>>380472961
What about a real steam gunner in the party?
Either Matsu (for real) or Ovan after the game or a Rebirth OVA sidequest

>>380473861
i too want to fug aura

>>380474130
Kuhn is already the best steam gunner thanks to his lost weapon though.

>>380472961
I think there was a hack (lel) which allowed you play as a different class

>>380474575
Oh fuck I forgot about him, you're right
Still I want Ovan

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I'd like for Kite to get that Xth form. It looks cool as fuck, and follows the Xth Form rule of giving new weapons.

I love some of LINK's tracks too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVfkIsdyrgU

Rest of the game can FUCK OFF, though

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>>380475287
>I'd like for Kite to get that Xth form. It looks cool as fuck, and follows the Xth Form rule of giving new weapons.
It's pretty badass, I admit.

.hack games could use a bunch more sceneries / dungeon types

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What if Haseo's "new form" isn't a new form?
What if Haseo is customizable after he gets Data Drained?

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>>380475512
Since we're dreaming, it would be amazing to get combos with the twin blades and changing on the fly, dual gunner style, to a bow by merging the blades together. Also data drain bow.

It pretty much writes itself!

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>>380475876
Honestly I just want Haseo and Kite to meet. It doesn't have to be something extended, just something.

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>>380475616
What's with Yata looking like a monk, and the Serpent of Knowledge having a giant Ouroboros?

Also most of the .hack lore gods and locations are celtic inspired, right? Cerunnos being the most obvious one.
And then tarot cards becuase why not.

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>>380476137
Yeah but after Haseo gets its shit together, else he would think MUH TRI EDGY and get btfo by real Kite

>>380476430
Yeah, I mostly just want it as a post-game thing. I think Haseo is probably one of the few characters who's edgy mode isn't his strongest, considering he actually gets his ass beat in that.

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>>380476137
>>380476430
Could be new post-game content so as to avoid major rewrites to the story. Kite comes back to the game and you can recruit him, but he's really low level because he just started playing.

>>380476430
>zefie
who impregnated aura

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help I can't stop to the extended IMOQ OST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r8OPAvHmQ8&list=PLD-w-ork8gvSf69qMOW9n00qXeWdDD1sp&index=1

>>380476764
Aura

>>380476954
how scandalous

>>380476954
Didn't know she was into selfcest
Can she even copypaste herself, considering most of her data is black boxed?

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>>380453381
Nice. Been wanting to play this game.

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Are the shadowless NPCs, and the shadowed one Kite?

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>>380476186
>Also most of the .hack lore gods and locations are celtic inspired, right?
Mostly Celtic, yeah, with a handful of things from other mythologies thrown in ocassionally too.

>>380473861
>she has almost no fanart!

You can say that about any other character from the series. The lack of art and specially the lack of doujinshi is weird, to say the least.

>>380478605
>lack of doujins
yeah what the fuck is going on

i thought the rule was that the less overtly lewd a series is, the more likely it is to actually have shit

I'd rather get the first series tbqh
with liminality eps included in high bitrate h.264 without shitty hd filtering

>>380465120
That rumor sounds like pointless bullshit.

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>mfw I got the original 4 games at release and they are super fucking expensive now

I dropped Vol3 because gameplay is so awful Physically impossible. Still interested to know ending of story tho.

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>>380478605
Blackrose is the only one with enough fanmade shit desu

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>>380479295
purest and most modest

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>>380479493
you spelt Gardenia wrong anon

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>watched the //SIGN anime obsessively as a teen
>felt like Tsukasa minus the cripple girl part
>now that I'm older and playing games online I feel more like Bear
>mfw finding out Sora is Haseo in GU

>>380480373
Is Taihaku a P2W whale?

>>380454953
With something as good as .hack, there's probably a fan community willing to do crunchwork to translate. Two months at best in my opinion, might take more. Time to start learning Japanese I guess.

>>380480373
Also I forgot how much of a piece of shit Sakaki was

>>380480785
If you're talking about the GU remake, normal GU is already translated so no need to learn moonrunes for now

So when they say Haseo with an unfamilar face do they mean real life Haseo or do they mean Sora?

>>380480373
>Be gaspard
>Choose to make an avatar with one of the biggest races in the game
>Choose to make them not only a smol dick manlet but also a fat smol dick manlet

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>>380480695
There's never any mention of anything like a cash shop, so probably not. Just a guy that really likes pushing the limits of what he can do without a party.

>>380479139
>mfw i have all 4 in my hand right now

>>380481210
legitimate fetish

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>>380480373
>Alkaid's original name is Yowkow

>>380481591
I have Infection and Mutation in English, and Quarantine in japanese

>tfw no Outbreak ;_;

>>380453381
Just other day I was thinking if CC2 will go back to .hack now that SE fucked their contract.

I hope they fix the balance of the game, provide some sort of hard mode and make the dungeons bit more interesting / more variety. That's all I really wish for this remaster.

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>>380480373
Damn, I still love Taihaku to this very day.

>>380482328
There is a list of changes they're doing for the remaster, you can find it somewhere if you look hard enough.

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Posting original covers.

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>>380483030
2/3, my favorite.

>>380482663
From the images posted on this thread, I at least noticed PC, 1080p and 60fps

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>>380483252
3/3 Last from G.U. I Think I have the ones from IMOQ.

>>380482328
>>380482663
>>380483648

http://www.rpgsite.net/news/5659-hack-g-u-returns-as-hack-g-u-last-recode-for-playstation-4-pc?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Here's a list of changes.

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I found them. 1/4

>>380483968
Hmm.. Overall nice QOL changes. But some of those seem to make the game even more easier than it already is.

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>>380484397
2/4

>>380484897
The weapon skill change was necessary, but I worry about the exp and items

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>>380484989
3/4, worst cover in the series imo.

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>>380485213
Well, I don't seem to have the one from Quarantine.

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>>380455990
Boy.

>>380485690
i forgot what magazine it was, but this was the ad that got me into the series. like they ran it side by side with ads for battle damaged gundam models and my small boy brain was just inundated with the edge

>>380453469
Kill yourself.

I failed engineering first year because I was too busy playing IMOQ. Then failed 2nd year because I found GU

fun times

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>>380455990
Fuck off retard. I got into dot hack when you were but a sperm in your daddy's nuts sack

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The new title screens kinda shit.
I hope its just the screen you use to select each game.

>>380488220
>Vol.1

It probably changes when you reach a new volume.

>>380491050
And now that I think about it, I wonder if they'll let you choose which volume to play, or if it's been ultimately consolidated into one progressive game.

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Any moon readers here? Found this in a jap thread talking about the remakes. Not sure how relevant it is, but it says something about the real world.

>>380491909
I'm sure its 3 different games and you choose which to play like the MGS or ZOE hd collections.
Originally you didn't need to play the previous game if you wanted to play a different one, you just have the option to port saves.
It would be weird to consolidate the games together cause each has their own end game content.

>>380492695
>It would be weird to consolidate the games together cause each has their own end game content.
Well they've already mentioned scaling down certain enemies, so it's possible that it's the end game content being retooled to just be normal side quests.

>>380467595
>new form

How sure are we of this? I thought those eye markings were new but those are from 1st form, no?

>>380493668
Nope, those tattoos are different from his first form. His first forms don't look like that on the top.

>>380493668
They're similar, but 1st form's vertical markings end just above the eyebrows, lacking the horizontal lines.

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>>380493668

>>380453381

The BEST fucking news from E3.

>>380454073
It shouldn't. Most of the text has already been translated and the voice work is completed too.

>>380495725
And it didn't even come from E3!
The sad, sad state of E3.

>>380496182
DBZ and Sakuna are alright.

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>when your Haseo Rengeki's too soon

Why was LINK ever a thing. Having used the extremely creepy and interesting artwork that they did to make that actually very fitting-to-//hack intro only to devolve into that shitfest was shockingly terrible.

Good, now I won't have to shell out god knows how much for all the individual copies.

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Welp, you heard them. Buy Last Recode if you want more .hack games and less SAO "games".

>>380498918
but .hack was a very shitty rpg anon, and the show was boring as hell.

I had the first 3 games on PS2 back then and never got the 4th because I finally had enough of that garbage game

>>380498918
aqua's SAO games are alright though

i'd like both series to keep being made

>>380455990
Fuck off retard.

I absolutely abhor Shit Nigger Online and anyone who thinks it's even on the same level as .hack is a fucking neanderthal. .hack actually has developed characters instead of bullshit tropes and harem garbage.

>>380498918
The SAO games aren't even bad.

>>380488204
Ahh, I really liked the second set of Endrance designs. But Elk has always been a fuckboi so his final design suits him.

>>380488204

The fur coat would actually have been a pretty cool shit to keep on, as opposed to the "It's not a skirt, mom!" kilt.
Don't care for neither of the other designs though.

>>380501183
Then what are you doing in a .hack thread if you dislike the games and anime?

GU's BBS felt like a furry Deviantart

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>Haseo was Sora

This sounds like a great twist on paper but how the fuck didn't he know? Amnesia after getting data drained or some shit?

>>380504726
The games weren't very clear about it, but the manga made it more of a repressed memory of sorts iirc. He was sort of put in a coma and all that with a traumatic experience, so it's not too surprising.

>>380504726
I figured he knew all along or at least remembered before the end of volume 3 because when he's reminiscing about his friends, he goes through all of them with pictures, saying their names and then it fades to black and he goes "and... yeah, those guys."

Can we just get a reboot of this series instead, GU is terrible

>>380504726
I thought that was what happened. The games don't literally say it, because it's not directly addressed in the game, but I thought there was some supplementary content that explained this while going through every character's backstory.

I kinda wish Skeith acted more like Sora.

>>380506187
Nah, G.U is great.

>>380506514
Does it really matter
He has a single voiced line in the entire series

Always been interested in the series but never got into it. Should the right order be to watch the //Sign anime and then play IMOQ or vice versa?

>>380506996
Sign > IMOQ > Roots > G.U > G.U Returner.

There's a ton more stuff but that's the basic outline if you're just going with the anime and the games.

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>>380506514
How do you think load times will compare with the original releases?

>>380507148
Oh right, forgot Liminality. There are 4 episodes of Liminality, each bundled with one of the games in IMOQ. So basically, after Infection you watch episode 1, after Mutation episode 2 ect.

>>380507148
This is the best route. Feel free to skip Roots if you want, it's pretty poorly animated and I remember one of the episodes that came bundled with volume 2 was literally 10 minutes of a slideshow of all the characters staring into space.

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Did Kuhn seriously cheat on this delicious pair of eyebrows after she went through all that trouble to help him?

>>380507476
He didn't deserve her nor her amazing OP song

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>>380507476
He was pretty immature back in the day. In G.U at least he's pretty much realized how stupid he was.

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>>380507476
>>380507980

>>380507708
and with that I really mean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0WPQICEclg

>>380507980
>the hero kite
what's up with the culture of this game that everyone is such a hardcore roleplayer

>>380506996
First of all, .hack is series based heavily on characters and their backgrounds. It's not action series. This means the manga/anime (and even the games) will mostly deal with psychological issues with the players behind their characters.

If you just want to play the games, playing IMOQ and G.U is fine (else are crap especially LINK, VERSUS might be fine?).

If you want to also watch the anime, both SIGN and Roots are prequels to their respective game series IMOQ and G.U. Returner is short compliment to ending of the G.U. Other anime is irrelevant as far these games go. But .hack//Quantum is quite fine as standalone show.

IMO, if you just are curious and want to get the most painless first experience, just try G.U first.

>>380508453
The .hackers became notorious for having solved the crisis back in IMOQ. Also, Kuhn was a direct victim of it, and was directly saved by Kite. Not only that, but he was also an incredibly hardcore player who was catching up to Balmung and Orca before he got coma'd.

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>>380508453
You level from 1 to max level across IMOQ and G.U. not only in a short amount of time but defeat every top player/boss with little effort. I think it's safe to say the games would be boring if you were controlling a guy who's permanently mediocre at videogames. How would Kite have saved the world if he couldn't dodge data drains and kill infinite HP data bugs like a pro?

I didn't know /v/ liked .hack so much. I still have all 7 of these games, the Sign, Dusk, and Liminality animes, the sign soundtracks and the game soundtracks, the Subaru and Blackrose figures, those silly pins that came with the OG boxset of sign, the extra final last episode of Sign, some of the old strategy guides, the Dusk manga (way better than the anime, no joke), and some other stuff I may have forgotten

The first generation of .hack was so damn good, the 2nd started out good but the quality became meh as it went on, and that's kind of when I fell off the bandwagon, Link looked like fanfiction tier shit so I pretty much lost interest there

>>380508772
>How would Kite have saved the world if he couldn't dodge data drains and kill infinite HP data bugs like a pro?
By filling his inventory with a bunch of ress and restorative shit so that his party members can keep him from ever staying dead for more than 2 seconds.

>>380508685
>>380508772
i'm not saying kite doesn't deserve the renown, i'm just surprised like 100% of the players are into the kayfabe of it all

>>380508772
Where did they say that Kite played R:2? I don't even remember that.

its been a long fucking time, but didn't Haeso's first game end with you forced to take Pink haired titty monster and Green Guy with no personality I can remember?

>>380509239
He either logs on occasionally to chat with old friends, or can't because of post-secondary education being pretty hardcore.
He's famous thanks to the "Dot Hackers" becoming pretty popular, and Balmung stuck around quite a long time.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnGeCb0X8Ls
These videos explain everything from the beginning, to beyond the end of the 4th disc (end of the world, beginning of R:2) and beyond.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra4gVTY7F9U
NOW THIS IS DOT HACKING

>>380509930
>Finding that tiny nook in the corner outside of the chaos gate in mac anu.
>Getting on and off your bike until your character is below the ground.
>Running into the sunset and towards the distant island.
>Realizing it's just a flat texture standing up on the horizon.

>>380454083
As someone who doesn't enjoy emulating games much a remaster is often the only way for me to play older games. I haven't hooked up my PS2 in a long time so having access to KH1.5+2.5 or this .Hack collection without having to dig it out of storage is nice.

Also, some games I just never played when they came out (Jet Set Radio) so having access to them without needing an old console is convenient.

>>380509930
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl3CxmydBQs
holy shit

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>>380463905
>expecting SAO
How?

>>380510284
It's like my life is a lie and everything is a simulation
oh wai-

So, what was the Key of the Twilight?
Have you found it yet, anon?

>>380512195
Friendship

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>>380510284
Shit, man, don't ruin my immersion.

I remember back in the day wasting hours in the Lost Grounds like Sif Berg, Indieglut Lugh, or Morrigu Barrow Wall searching for hidden places, or simply staring at the level believing that there was something else in there. For example in Arche Koeln, I thought that it was a way to go behind the waterfall.

Also, I loved the story about those areas, that you could read in the boards.

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>>380512521
don't you mean...

Will there be a PC re-release of the first .hack// game?

Is this all 3 games in one package?

and did they improve the card game?

>>380512650
Yeah I did that too
Wasting hours trying to find something hidden, or just chilling there looking at the enviroment

>>380453381
I read Neuromancer (Gibson and PKD in general) long before I saw Sign for the first time on CN, and let me tell you, people who compare this series to SAO are beyond fucking delusional

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bjyw1Swr9A

Going to put this on repeat for fucking days and grind the dick out of these fantastic games when they come out, I hope that they decide to make a "recoded" of the original tetralogy as well after this, these games are terrific and certainly deserving of remasters

>>380512919
Probably only if the G.U remaster is successful.

>>380513052
>Is this all 3 games in one package?
Yes

>>380513283
>people who compare this series to SAO are beyond fucking delusional
later SAO starts touching on that nature of consciousness, souls, top-down vs bottom-up AI shit but it never quite fully shakes off the vestiges of shounen battle fantasy and haremshit

>>380513283
>Gibson and PKD
absolutely based

Also I'l leave this here, by Mamoru Oshii
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalon_(2001_film)

Read the synopsis, lots of thing will sound familiar

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>>380453381
You think now that they have some more time, BlackRose will finally make it into GU? They had a design and everything, but I heard somewhere that they just ran out of time

>>380514012
The "haremshit" doesn't actually even bother me. But SAO is just shallow in all aspects, you can find better alternative for every aspect it tries to tackle on.

Just how crazy awesome Natsume is?

Are there any good pictures of Black Rose from Versus?

>>380514349
Probably she was supposed to be cameo in forest of pain.

>>380453469
Shut the fuck up, Onsokumaru

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Why is the IMOQ translation so jank at times? I want to go back and play them but it annoys me.

>>380514349
I forget G.U but isn't like 90% of the cast just returning characters with a different account, Blackrose included?

>>380514012
And GU decided to lean full-in to that stuff it by making the protagonist an unstable edgelord with a harem and a bevy of transformations, ranging from a super-special gunner mode to a unit-01-ish berserker mode to full kaiju-tier shit based off a boss of a previous game.

>>380514495
Sure, but sometimes you don't want depth. Deeper and more intricate doesn't necessarily mean better if you're just looking for some light escapism

>>380454083
I never got to play them

>>380464143
Wait, it's VR? Isn't the entire plot of this and several dozen other anime about the dangers of that?
That's like if the next Terminator game uses the first ever real AI designed by reverse engineering strange technology.

>>380514870
Just Sora, Sieg, Elk, and Wiseman go by Haseo, Kuhn, Ednrance, and Yata.
There are some others but you don't get their member addresses.

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Based

>>380514961
saofag plz go

>>380514870
Most of the cast is new, only some have links to older characters

Haseo is Sora, but the Sora in IMOQ wasn't the real Sora, it was essentially Skeith, taking Sora's form, which took place in a novel between Sign and Infection

Kuhn is Mai's boyfriend from Liminality, who played in-game a character called Sieg, who was only in a single scene in Infection, and was in a coma for the rest of the time

Endrance is Elk, straight up

Yata is Wiseman

Piros and Natsume are obviously Piros and Natsume

Too bad Moonstone doesn't play anymore, would have loved to have that guy around for maximum leveling speed

>.hack//G.U. in VR
Why wasn't this announced on e3 stage?

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This news made me okay with waiting for DMC5 one more year

>>380515365
no

>>380453579
I like menu's though

>>380515180
I agree with them desu. I like the original cast, but I never felt as attached to a character as I did with Haseo.

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>>380514961
He's talking about gen1 dot hack (Proect .hack//) which you can't deny, it isn't comparable to SAO at all. When normies roll their eyes at anime as a medium, its because they've seen garbage like SAO, and haven't seen flawed masterpieces like gen1 dot hack.

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Okay, I'm really happy now.

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My wallpaper for the last 5 years.

>>380501183
You came to the wrong thread motherfucker.

>>380453381
All four games in one? That's insane, weren't they like 50 hour games each?

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>>380515180
Any idea how old this is?

>>380516212
It's the G.U trilogy, not IMOQ.

So any expected release date? In English, even?

>>380516087
You sure as hell did you Naruto-making fucks, but I'm glad it finally happened.

>Wake up
>First thought is 'guess I'll check out news or something'
>This happened
Whew

>>380516456
Apparently the game is 80% done so it'll probably release by the end of the year, or early the next at worst. Western release is pretty much inevitable since they've listed PC as a platform.

>>380514961
>Sure, but sometimes you don't want depth. Deeper and more intricate doesn't necessarily mean better if you're just looking for some light escapism

I read lots of "slice of life", "brainless", "comedy" (basically what I would call "depthless") stuff. And I can say SAO is just _boring_. If there is anything good in SAO it was the first episode.

>>380453381
I remember seeing a friend of a friend playing the third one and it was one of the first times I got mad at video game mags for not covering a game that looked really cool and never bothered to give a look cause it got shat on in every magazine I ever read.

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If you changed default system wallpaper and not into this one then please get the fuck out.

Interview from the magazine

Secrets about .hack// in the past that can finally be talked about now

Famitsu: First of all, we’d like to start hearing from the details of this game getting produced.

Uchiyama: The year 2017 is the 15th anniversary of the release of .hack[//Infection], and 10 years have passed since G.U. was completed. Furthermore, G.U. also took place in 2017. In this year that we must commemorate, we’d like to reboot the .hack series which had been resting away from home console for a while.

Famitsu: Why did you choose to do an HD remaster instead of a new title for the series?

Matsuyama: A long time has passed, so first as an entry course, we’re going to let the current young generation know about the .hack series.

Uchiyama: By letting our customers (read: players) at that time [of the original PS2 releases] to remember once more with this game, and by also letting the current customers know about .hack, we want to plan for the next expansion. That’s why we’re thinking to heighten the presence of .hack series once more with this game.

Famitsu: Speaking about .hack series, the way of doing a media-mix expansion with an original title was a rare thing back then.

Uchiyama: At the time of the first .hack//[Infection], at first we didn’t think that far. We included various media, but it was all a hindsight-based opinion (laughs). We became aware of it in the midway.

Matsuyama: Because it was an original RPG made by a production company not known by anyone, it wouldn’t be considered by Bandai at that time unless we could show a color that’s different from other past projects. So to involve people who already have their own fans, we persuaded Mr. Kazunori Ito and Mr. Yoshiyuki Sadamoto.


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>>380515567
>Too bad Moonstone doesn't play anymore, would have loved to have that guy around for maximum leveling speed
He and Gardenia are busy working out, gardening, and fucking like rabbits.

>>380516314
the fact that they made like 7 games within that period of time still boggles the mind, I think a big part of why it got such a bad rap was because people were just annoyed that it kept popping up when they already weren't interested in it.

>Uchiyama: It took about half a year each [to persuade them one by one].

>Matsuyama: And then, the PlayStation 2 was released, DVD became able to be played in game consoles, so we’d like to make an episodic composition like an OVA with the pair of game and anime. And then things like TV anime, comicalization, and novels were being talked upon as the project was moving on. By doing that, while we were creating .hack//, the shape itself would change. In a good meaning, we started without fitting into a mold and we could do anything we want. I think that was a big point.

>Famitsu: How did the theme and concept of .hack// get decided?

>Uchiyama: We began polishing up the plan to decide the theme in around 2000. At that time, people were discussing the immersivity of online games and the burst of the IT bubble [in Japan], and there was an atmosphere where ‘both online games and the internet are dangerous.' However, kids around the age of middle schoolers would want to experience it even for a bit.
When proposing new things, I thought these would become good themes. It went well by chance, but I never thought it would become a theme that could still live even after 15 years.

>Matsuyama: Regarding the concept, we first decided it to be a “double composition of real world and game world taking place in a fictional online game."

>Uchiyama: When we had a meeting for the scenario, I remember Mr. Ito said, ‘What would happen to an in-game world after a reset button was pressed in an RPG?' We then decided on the game’s skeletal structure from there.

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Is it wrong that I want to masturbate to Haseo?

>>380517393
Calm down there, Endrance

>>380517150
Didn't help that IMOQ had enough content for like 2 games or something. So much of Mutation and Outbreak just felt like complete and utter nothing happen. For G.U it had Vol.3 which was pretty damn forced in terms of the actual main plot, even if the side missions and everything was still great.
The .hack franchise really was way too ambitious in many ways, and took alot of things for granted. Not everyone is willing to buy the exact same game 4 times.

>Matsuyama: The concept of all 4 volumes of .hack// was valued not only in Japan but also overseas.

>Uchiyama: I never thought it would sell so well in America. Bandai at that time excelled in selling game adaptations of popular anime and manga to the world, but spreading works created by ourselves to the world was not necessarily our specialty.

>Matsuyama: That’s why everyone cooperated to go around places and make appeals. For example in Europe, we went around 5 countries within 5 days.

>Uchiyama: Nowadays producers from our company would travel around 7-8 countries in Europe to do PR for their works. But I think .hack was the project that opened up the way of selling [games] overseas.


.hack//G.U. Last Recode is not just a simple HD remaster

>Famitsu: What’s the reason for you remastering G.U. this time, out of the many series titles?

>Matsuyama: .hack// had a protagonist that was caught up [in a plot], and I think it was to be played with a sense that “Kite = Yourself” (as in Kite is really the player’s own character). >That’s why the frontage was also wide.

>But in the next series G.U., we wanted to make it a title where fans would get deeply attached to the protagonist and other characters, so we made it with high heat like a shonen manga. It didn’t sell as much as .hack//, but the fans’ enthusiasm towards the characters and storyline is the highest in the series. That’s why if we are to do a reboot from among the series, G.U. ought to be the most suitable.

>Furthermore, there are also some parts in G.U. that we wanted to do but still haven’t yet. Since we also wanted to put those into shape, we decided on it.

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>>380517393
No, Haseo is the perfect husband.

>>380516079
>that pic
DELET

>Famitsu: When you were making G.U., what would be the parts you changed from .hack// that you were aware of?

>Matsuyama: Unlike .hack// where “the protagonist = yourself”, we made Haseo’s story to be enjoyable from a bird’s eye view. Even with the same RPG genre, the way of creating [each of them] is different.

>Uchiyama: It’s like the methodology of the production is different. At the time of .hack// we would fill in the interludes, but G.U. would have the nature of movie production. I think the heat of CyberConnect2’s movie presentation can be enjoyed better here [in G.U.].

>Famitsu: For the contents, will you be able to play all 3 G.U. volumes in HD here?

>Matsuyama: Normally it would be so. But neither CyberConnect2 or .hack are normal. It may look like a simple HD remaster, but we’ve re-created most of them. We’ve re-tuned it so that the tempo would be better, and we removed all parts that people think would be troublesome and common in old games. The balance and responsiveness will be totally different.

>Famitsu: So the base will be the systems of Vol.3 [Redemption] which was the most comfortable. Are you making it so that players can progress without having stress?


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>>380516069
I can't really think of many characters in games that grew and changed as much as Haseo did if you chronicle his entire journey from his time as Sora to the end of G.U

>>380517583
>Furthermore, there are also some parts in G.U. that we wanted to do but still haven’t yet. Since we also wanted to put those into shape, we decided on it.
Oh god we're actually getting the unfinished content made aren't we?

>Matsuyama: Yeah. That’s why the overall play time will also become 1-2 hours shorter in each volume.

>Famitsu: I see. So it’s not just a simple HD remaster, but the play feel will also completely change.

>Matsuyama: Actually, that’s not the only thing. The entire 3 volumes of G.U. lead to one conclusion. But on whether a true salvation would be indeed there or not, there are also parts that may not seem so.

>It ended with a feel like, “Someday, I will see a dream of such a day”, but this game will have the answer to the question of “When will that someday be?”. I think everyone will get to meet the “how do you do” Haseo that they didn’t know of before.

>Famitsu: Are there going to be any more new features?

>Uchiyama: You should look forward to that in the future. Mr. Matsuyama has ended up spoiling much of it though (laughs).

>Famitsu: By the way, to match with the commemoration of the 15th anniversary, are there any projects in motion other than this game?

>Matsuyama: They’re in motion at our company’s side (CyberConnect2). We are making a number of projects. After that, it’s up to this boss (referring to Uchiyama) on whether he would stamp the seal or not.

>Uchiyama: But I’m in the position to say ‘you shall not pass through here that easily!’, you know (laughs).

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>>380514961
There are scenes and ideas between the two that .hack// does objectively better.
For example:
Wishing to escape the obligations from your guild

Sign: Subaru is exhausted by the constant needs of her guild, and the budding mutiny of one of its top members, she wants to escape the responsibility, but she cannot escape her nature of being a great leader, she wants to protect Tsukasa from her guild, which is being taken over, and after an argument about their role in game and the meaning of justice, Subaru disbands the guild in an effort to escape her responsibility to it and to protect the one she loves, and pays for this later after a vitriolic player-killer harasses and attacks her, a direct result of the loss of her status

SAO: Asuna hides behind Kirito from the mean ol' bodyguard-person because she needs a knight-in-shining armor to protect her from her responsibilities lol

>Matsuyama: Anyway, this year, I’m thinking of various events to liven up the 15th anniversary, with this game at the core. For the next expansion of the project itself, please give us a bit more time. First of all, I shall have this boss stamp the seal (laughs).

>Famitsu: Finally, would the two of you please leave a message to Famitsu readers.

>Uchiyama: As it’s the 15th anniversary of .hack//, and also as 10 years have passed since G.U. was completed, I’m purely glad it has been played for this long. I think the heat of that time - when I kept running in a daze while having comical dialogues with Matsuyama- have arrived in the present day. First of all, please enjoy the 15th anniversary of this game, and I hope it will give power to the projects after that. >Please kindly enjoy it.

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>>380516632
>And I can say SAO is just _boring_. If there is anything good in SAO it was the first episode.
I like the games quite a bit

>>380518417
>There are scenes and ideas between the two that .hack// does objectively better.
Not really contesting that

Is it possible to emulate the first 4 and keep the saves going with a PS2 emulator? I've been dying to replay them for like 15 years.I was too poor to own them as a kid had to rent them.

>Matsuyama: This game is like a title with some sort of tenacity for us, so we’re not slacking for even a bit. We’re making it as a game for the newest PlayStation, with contents that will satisfy both people of “how do you do” and “it’s been a long time." The information [published] this time is not all of it. I think in the next information you will surely be surprised again, so please look forward to it.

>And this year is a special year for .hack, so we’d like to hype it up together with our customers, so I’d like to close this with the quote, 'Kept you waiting, huh?'

Last part.

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I never gave a fuck about SAO due to /a/ masturbating over it.

That is a big sign that the show is shit.

It being a harem did not help things but it aired in an area where Harem anime was everywhere and showed how shit /a/ was. They will masturbate a show, no matter how bad, if the girls are cute. Case in point

inb4 /a/ posts Alternative Facts to discredit this incident.

>>380518679
>I like the games quite a bit
Fair enough, now get out of this thread if you don't have anything constructive to add.

>>380518756
>Is it possible to emulate the first 4 and keep the saves going with a PS2 emulator?
Yes

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>Naming your character buttrice

>>380519081
Don't be so touchy, I feel like the mere mention of SAO and some observations about GU's shounen influence have set you off somehow. If it triggers you less I'll shut up about it I guess

I'm really intrigued by the German philosophy background that inspired things like Harold and Kajiura seemed to get into.

>>380518934
Thanks, man.

Hard to believe I'm this happy about a fucking remaster. TGS can't come soon enough.

>>380519048
>I never gave a fuck about SAO due to /a/ masturbating over it.
You what? The vast majority of /a/ hates SAO.

>>380507476
Kuhn is a piece of shit who tried to grope her in Liminality vol.1. he deserves losing best girl.

>>380517583
>Furthermore, there are also some parts in G.U. that we wanted to do but still haven’t yet. Since we also wanted to put those into shape, we decided on it.
BRACE FOR NEW CONTENT

>>380519272
I'm simply pointing out this is .hack thread. If only thing you want to say is ".hack sucks, lets talk about SAO" you should start new thread.

>>380519516
>The vast majority of /a/ hates SAO.

see, Alternative Facts.

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Man, if there's a steelbook release of this, I don't think I'll ever hit a pre-order button so hard.

Also, I love how everyone shits on Adept Rogues in-game, but it ends up being an OP class anyway

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I seriously hope she becomes permament party member in postgame

>>380453381

WHAT ABOUT THE ORIGINAL 4 GAMES JESUS CHRIST

>>380509151
Players in roleplay servers take shit seriously.

>>380519123
Is it as easy as loading up the old save when you launch the next game in the emulator?
Do they run well?