.hack thread

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>>380540962

why not the original 4 games first?

>>380541080
Because present day present time.

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>>380541049

>>380541080
>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.

>>380541080
GU is needs a lot less work to bring up to current standards, path of least resistance. Make no mistake, this is a trial game, they want to test the waters to see how successful the game will be before they go all-in on the series again, like they used to back in the day.

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>>380541531

>>380453381
Old thread

>Maximum items you can possess has been increased to 90
Thank You

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>>380542565
>Maximum Chim Spheres and Virus Cores you can possess has increased to 999

Please be localized. I fucking loved these games. Never played the originals though.

Don't care for a remake/remaster/reimager. They fucked up after GU. Go back and ret-con everything after and make a fucking proper sequal.

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>Some tough enemies have been made a bit easier

What about these games was even remotely hard?

>>380542745
I wish they'd get of Chim Spheres altogether. I don't understand the point of them.

>>380543354
Some were just damage sponges.

>>380543520
this

Some battles took too long even when your overleveled

>>380543354
Could be rescaling certain things to fit better into their new place among the game as a whole.
Like post-game content for the first two games being rebalanced to normal side content or something.

>>380543354
I bet they are talking about the enemies that resist physical/magical damage.

I remember spending 20 something minutes on a fight I wasn't prepared for because it was physical immune.

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ALKAID BEST GIRL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZarzEU8VB0

>When you 180 on a character because you realize that her initial personality is an attempt to cope with depression
>When you start relating

Hope this HD collection has a parody mode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1QjRRQu5-g

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>>380544904

>when she has an annoying voice and you want her to die

>>380543354
The boss monsters that appeared on the fields were not fun, not ever
But if they nerf the story bosses so they aren't challenging at low levels anymore I'm going to be pissed.

>>380545224
Beating their asses with the "press X then square, then repeat" dual guns was fucking fun though

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//fragment seems to work with the alternate server found last thread.

Instructions for setup here (downloads in description):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADC1ROZ1mNs

Server shit here (you only need the pnach to play; area server is to set up your own shit):
http://fragment.dothackers.org/

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Regarding the stuff they wanted to do with GU that they haven't been able to yet, I can't help but think they're talking about the story content that made it into the novels that was left out of the game. There was a whole storyline in there about Tomonari being corrupted by Ovan, and a unique area that went with it that didn't make it into the game (but funnily enough you could still go there with the keywords). While I don't expect them to add in the off the wall shit like Ovan's complete meltdown or his speech about Sleeping Beauty's rapist, but big things like that would definitely be on the table.

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>>380546089
Fuck, I'm already stuck. I don't know which to choose. Character creation is the hardest part of any game for me.

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>>380540962
>.hack//GU
Shit, there goes trying to sell my used copies for hundreds of bucks. Atleast the series is making a comeback, also has it been confirmed for getting an english release? Kind of sceptical since the last bunch of .hack related stuff never got localized since GU.

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>>380546224
What if they let us leave the PC walk around a stretch of Tokyo as Ryou for a bit as the story goes on
It could even just be a single street where you run around and talk to people
The games did not go into how he slowly became an unstable neet that needed a hug from Pi before he could speak to her like a normal person at all and it would be cool if they did

Hey /v/

Do you think love can bloom, even in The World?

>>380547063
PC port being there pretty much guarantees a localization

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>>380546528
Bland Kite is a go.

>>380547063
>has it been confirmed for getting an english release?
Not yet, but the fact that it's been announced for PC strongly suggests one.

I never played GU, how was it? If this remake is good I might pick it up. Jap ports usually need a lot of fan fixes though so I'm wary.

>>380540962
>.hack making a comeback
never thought id see the day

>>380547189
NO ATOLI FOR AURA'S SAKE IT'S A GAME, IT'S JUST ZEROS AND ONES
IT'S JUST A GAAAAME

Am I the only one not happy about the gameplay changes in Vol2 and 3 being in included in Vol1? I liked that the 3 games had slightly different gameplay since it avoided the problem IMOQ had where the gameplay was exactly the same for all four games. There was even a convenient lore reason for the gameplay changes since Vol2 and 3 were version updates to The World.

>>380541621
going to do my part and order the game on amazon even if I can't read moon runes.

>>380540962
>.hack

Holy shit, talk about a blast from the past.

It's too bad they're not doing a remaster, or at least a virtual re-release, of IMOQ. Those games are pretty rare today.

>>380547790
The only thing I care about is each game keeping their own specific version of the Rengeki line desu

Anyone know where one can get the ost for .hack versus if not the whole ost then specifically a better verson of this song. Been looking for the soundtrack for ages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJgHLfc5c0s&list=PLLG7d4XwhJ31sGvDFhIFz8MXR0APhnJsL&index=3

>>380540962
Dammit, this is the kinda thing that actually makes me jealous of sonybros, you guys get all the good weeb HD remakes

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>>380547286
Fug. Keywords are all in moonrunes despite everything else being translated. Couldn't find anything lower than lv17 through random shit. Got killed by goblin mage.

>>380548210
First result in google for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDgk3y-KsfI
best song

>>380548326
and PC.

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>>380540962
Oh fuck yes. I've been meaning to replay G.U. for a while now.

Back when I first played it I didn't really pay much attention to the forums and side quest stuff. I was going to replay for those, but this is perfect.

Fuck, I'm genuinely happy about this. Why wasn't this announced during the livestreams?

RINGEKI

>>380540962
I remember this was popular back then. It was all about how MMORPG's would look in the future. Sword Art Online was a worse version of this example. There is nothing but hope from this moment forward.

>>380548976
>.hack has a better chance of staying alive now than at any other point since its death because several series that ripped off its concept have since popularized it using waifu shit and hentai

All they need is a new anime and a new LN and it would never have to go away ever again

>>380548598
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-Ka-x7PW6w
Best field and battle theme

>>380548976
>There is nothing but hope from this moment forward

You are being way too fucking optimistic, I welcome this game just so it would make it easier for me to play the .hack games that I missed when I was a child.

>>380549425
definitely not the former
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFGHOYJeClg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qp106UWnNw
Reminder that this game wasn't actually branded as .hack until after it was discontinued, despite it being a .hack mobage in every sense. CC2 does some really fucking weird shit.

>>380548791
.hack// has always been as dead as possible outside of Japan, so it was a no show at E3. We only know about it because it coincidentally happened to be in the latest Famitsu.

Since it's PS4 and PC only, I'm surprised they didn't show it off at Sony's conference.

Especially since if we don't buy this, the series dies and gets replaced by SAO

>>380549717
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZznTMHQhu4Y
One change I want them to make with Last Recode is to bring back battle variants of field music. It was a shame having to listen to one battle theme across three games.

>>380548353
>he can't read moonrunes
Ha, faggot.
Neither can I, but I'll still give it a go when I get home. Could be a fun way to waste some time every now and then.

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Bamco won E3

>>380550465
Without even being at E3.

Man I can't wait for all the new .hack porn, especially involving Alkaid with a giant futa dick.

>>380550351
>.hack// has always been as dead as possible outside of Japan
I dunno, man. Sounds like it was pretty popular at first.
>>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.
After that is down to their own incompetence; shipping less and less copies with each volume of the games and pulling out of Europe entirely when it came to GU was such a bad move, I can't help but wonder if they were intentionally trying to kill the series overseas.

>>380550373
This song give me immediate flashbacks to seeing the flying giant zone in for the first time. Shit was fucking terrifying and I nearly got my face bashed in by a mob I wasn't paying attention to.

That was one really cool thing about IMOQ's fields that made them a lot better than GU's. If only the dungeons weren't the worst shit ever. Imagine being 13 and still having faith in humanity, and finding out that said roaming dungeon was actually just the usual innards dungeon shitshow with a superboss at the end.

>>380540962
I just hope they do the same for the first series or even better, make a new game.

>>380551218
They're already doing a new game but how long it takes to make and if it really comes out at all in the end depends on Namco. We're getting lots of info for this anniversary year.

>>380551218
>make a new game.
>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).

>>380547631
You'll never be more than a random schmuck like buttrice with that attitude, mister

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>>380551386
I'd like to say I'm grateful that this is all happening but honestly, its about damn time.
They've been wasting away making those dog shit Naruto games.

Crimson Versus is the best card game of all time
Prove me wrong

>>380551647
I mean, it plays itself man.

>>380551647
ENEMY was better

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>>380551647
>there was an actual version of Crimson Versus that existed and was printed
>the west never got it, only Enemy
wasted tbqh

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>>380545187
Take that back you jerk.

>there are people who think SIGN was good

>>380551386
>>380551313
I'm gonna fucking cum.

>>380550808
If only you'd posted this an hour or two earlier, I'd have drawn some of that myself. But now it's nearly 5am so that shit is gonna have to wait until tomorrow.

>>380552135
>there are people who think SIGN was bad
SHINE
BRIGHT MORNING LIGHT

>>380552135
I liked Sign for Sora, the last minute crippled girl yuri and the music
Most of the bits with Aura were boring, and the best use of Tsukasa and his/her dumbbell was as the primary antagonist of Albireo's last quest and a serious drive behind why he quit and went off to fuck Yates

>They're not gonna do fucking anything with the original games

God fucking dammit. Thanks Hiroshi. You fucker.

>>380552325
I'm already drawing something myself. I mainly meant it as a joke about how a lot of Alkaid art is commissioned by one guy with a giant futa fetish.

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Never liked her voice but damn.

I read something that said FRAGMENT can only have three people on an area server. Is this true?

>>380552135
>there are people who think SIGN is bad because it's not a battle shonen

I wpuld.love to see the original 4 get a reboot, I loved them as a kid, but God damn are they puss ass boring, would love to see what people could do with them now, a coop mode would have been really cool and stuff. Feelsbad.

>>380552779
Her voice was dumb. Her Japanese voice is actually normal. The VA doesn't try to, you know, vocally buff herself up. She just sounds like a normal Asian girl.

For some reason, though, the English VA decided to go full butch dyke with the voice.

>>380552835
In FRAGMENT you form a party in a lobby and then enter town. Why they did this I will never know.

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>>380552502
Didn't realize that was a thing, but after looking it up... yeah. Think I'll try and even it out a little with something more vanilla.

>>380553318
Yeah. I don't remember using her much though. Hell I think I was constantly shifting characters. Pi was pretty hot though. Teenage me loved that pink hair big titties combo. Not much has changed. And at least she didn't sound Man like.

>>380552779
>Best girl
>Gets killed off for the rest of the Tri-Edge Saga
>Don't get to see her again until the tail end of Redemption

Such fucking bullshit, it should have been Atoli.

>>380553584
Twin Blades were shit in that game. It's actually hilarious how unbalanced the game is taken at face value. I mean, you really just have to look at how each class works, especially Adept Rogues, to see just how fucked the game is, balance-wise.

>>380553310
>wpuld.
>puss ass
>feelsbad

>>380552502
I saw those pictures. Couldn't even made her tits and dick a little normal sized, either. I can't fap to those.

>>380553780
Atoli was a terrible healer. She would always blow her load spamming high end healing to heal little scrapes and then have no SP.

>>380553780
>>380554102
Please stop bullying Atoli, she already gets bullied enough

>>380554102
You can change the A.I. It's best to keep everyone on "do whatever the fuck you want" instead of "heal" or "use skills"

>>380554102
That's why you have to set their things a certain way. The AI in that game were all retarded. The thing with Atoli is that, by default, she's set to blast away healing spells constantly. You have to change her AI settings as soon as possible to make her work.

>>380554102
That's what every healer in the game would do if you didn't change their settings

>>380554232
>It's best to keep everyone on "do whatever the fuck you want"
But then she starts thinking she's a melee god and pokes enemies with shields and gets killed.

I'm surprised The World isn't filled with Kite-alikes or Haseo-look alikes considering how popular they are in the game

>>380554230
Get off /v/ and keep being a Shino replacement for Haseo, Atoli.

>>380554478
To be fair Haseo's Xth form is illegal anyway

>>380540962
>>380541049
>>380541531
WHAT
I just started my playthrough of the first 4 to do these 3 because I never got to play them, now this? Should I even bother? Do you think they'll just give you the bonus from clearing the other games?

>>380554461
>But then she starts thinking she's a melee god and pokes enemies with shields and gets killed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0W3kDMF9g8

>>380554478
Because it's impossible to look exactly like Kite and Haseo. It's not possible to have the same colors as Kite, and you can't have the wave symbols on his pants because those were specially grafted on by the Book of Twilight. Haseo's Xth form isn't even supposed to exist in the game, so it's impossible to have that model.

>>380554478
Red twin blades are illegal

>>380554478
In-canon, Adept Rouges (Haseo's class) are the least played class and Twin Blades in R1 are considered low tier

>>380554478
It was literally impossible to make .hacker PCs after IMOQ, Aura gave copies to Shugo and Rena herself. Kite's outfit is impossible anyway since it was influenced by the bracelet.
Haseo had his fanboys but you similarly can't pull off his look.

>>380554759
>Twin Blades are shit
>Orca lets his buddy play as shit
He deserved to be Skeith'd

I hope we get a good playable mmo version of The World one day.
I hope they allow PKing too.

>>380554854
Anybody can play as shit when they have Orca of the Azure Sea as their friend

>>380554461
Teach her attack magic

>>380554629
Keep playing IMOQ to get prepared for the G.U. remaster. They're pretty independent from each other as far as plot goes, but there are a lot of nods to it (and the rest of the series as a whole, it's a very intertwined series with a lot of lore). For instance, the main character of G.U. is the same guy who played Sora in the original series, Yata was Wiseman from IMOQ, Kuhn was Mai's boyfriend in a coma from Liminality, Nuke Usagimaru and Rachel become a famous comedy act IRL, etc., etc.

>>380554665
>that laugh at the end
This does things to my dick. This should not be doing things to my dick.

>>380554629
>>380554993
Watch SIGN tool

>>380554478
That's kind of what starts the plot of Legend of the Twilight.

I can only assume Haseo's base models at some point also become locked, and nobody can pick his Xth form for the obvious reason

What happens to Kite and Black Rose after .hack, do they just stop playing vidya together??

>yfw they make a full next-gen .hack game with (optional) online features and full VR support
Holy fuck. They couldn't pick a better time to revive the series.

>>380554861
>There would be CrimsonWhite Knights chasing edgy fags for killing ladies

>>380554993
>>380555082
I've already played the first 4 on PS2, but didn't know about GU. I was going through the first 4 for the completion rewards because i'm autistic but now I don't know.

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>>380554854
Just started playing IMOQ yesterday.

The games aged better than I expected, favorite thing about it so far are the field~battle theme transitions holy moly

dungeons fucking suck though.

What exactly did Moon Tree do again?
They weren't PKKs so they weren't really doing anything besides ranting against the evils of PKing

>>380554993
That reminds me, I fucking hated how Takumi was given pretty much fuck all as a character because they felt the need to use him to advertise the Digimon card game. He was however the first in a series of .hack 10 year olds that are way more competent than they have any reason to be.

>>380553780
Yeah. I didn't use Atoli either.
>>380553818
I never noticed this stuff but if you say so.

>>380554854
Nope. In R:1, Twin Blades were pretty good. Fastest class, decent power, great jacks-of-all-trades and useful in just about any situation. Plus, they had more physical elemental skills than any other class. In-universe, Twin Blades were considered to be one of two classes ideal for solo play, the other being Heavy Axes. As for how they ACTUALLY play in the .hack games themselves, they are broken. The game is unbalanced as fuck ans Twin Blades are just too good at everything.

In R:2, Twin Blades were re-balanced to be fast but have low damage, health and magic on anything that isn't a magic-based character is worthless. But in actual game that we play, Twin Blades were worthless. Because see, here's the thing: attack animations are the same for everyone of the same class. So all Twin Blades have the same attack animations, all Blade Brandiers have the same attack animation, there is no difference in terms of speed. So if you create an Adept Rogue with Twin Blade as one of his classes, you basically have a Twin Blade that can INHERENTLY do more damage, tank more damage and, if you give a shit about that, is better at magic than a Twin Blade. Obviously, it doesn't reflect how the game actually is in-universe, but basically, Haseo is just better than Alkaid in every single fucking way, balance-wise. Alkaid is worthless, balance-wise.

>>380541647
Goddamn that screenshot of the main city looks gorgeous. I already thought that G.U. looked great for what it was, this remaster will be awesome if they do it right.

>>380555305
>play in VR mode
>if you die you go into a coma
Wow great idea.

>>380555343
Oh, then don't bother. The completion rewards are just a few bonus emails you can read online anywhere, and Kite's name changes to whatever you named him in the original trilogy.

>>380543740
And the way the damage formula worked, if you were even slightly underleveled for a fight almost every single attack would deal only a single point of damage. It sounds like they're reworking it so things are more balanced in that regard.

>>380555570
But will we still be able to clip under Mac Anu with the bike in Vol.1
That is literally the most important part of the entire experience and if they port over the Vol.3 bike controls to the other two it won't be possible anymore

>>380555348
>favorite thing about it so far are the field~battle theme transitions holy moly
Layered music should be much more common in videogames, the only other two games I can think of that also did this were MML2 and Nier.

>>380555273
They started to play together in bed.

>>380555273
They eventually stop playing, since they have to move on with their lives and can't dedicate all their time to an MMO. Kite travels overseas to study anthropology in a foreign university.

>>380552325
>>380552502
post art

>>380555782
If Kite was going to hook up with anyone it would've been Natsume. Akira had her chance but didn't take it.

>>380555876
Nah. Even seven years later, Natsume's still stalking Kite without him noticing.

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>>380555273
Kite quit playing to go to College overseas. BlackRose quit because she forced her brother to quit and would feel like a hypocrite if she continued to play.

Fun fact: BlackRose was originally going to be a party member in Redemption.

>>380555876
Kite is only for the great Orca of the Azure Seas

>>380555782
Isn't Kite supposed to be a nerd? She's too fit for him

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>>380555273
Kite kicks his balls into Blackrose's net every night while Terajima Ryoko watches.

Why PC when they can already play these games already, like I get PS4 because they can't play PS2 unless they get remasters like this but why not port it to the switch they can handle this or xbox thought they were supposed to be getting weeb games

>>380555876
In GU, I'm pretty sure you get an email that pretty much confirms he and Blackrose are a thing

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>>380544584
Posting REAL best girl

>>380556071
He's a nerd, but he also loves playing soccer. So basically, he's a superhuman. He also completely mastered the game in an extremely short span of time, surpassing veterans like Balmung.

>>380555623
>and Kite's name changes to whatever you named him in the original trilogy
Holy shit, that's great.
Fuck it i'm gonna do it anyway, this probably won't be coming west, and if it does the english VA won't be there.

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>>380556163
It just says they haven't been in contact for a while, sadly, while she clumsily admits her feelings for him.

>>380555362
They were moralfags who liked to play pretend moderator.

>>380556163
It confirms that BlackRose has a thing for him, but nothing about that letter implied that they were together.

>>380556245
He's a dirty hacker

>>380556150
Because Jap devs are putting a lot of focus on PC releases in America for some reason right now.
Also they might be trying to grow a PC fanbase for some PC .hack game they might want to make.

>>380556270
>this probably won't be coming west
But it is. It would be PS4 only if it wasn't.

>>380556150
Because the switch is a potato compared to a ps4, nevermind the xboner x, that shit is more or less a 2nd gen tegra (top of the line chipset...from 2014) with propietary everything, it's gonna be a wii u 2.0 i can already see nintendo shitting out a 3DS successor and focusing entirely on it.

And come on do you really want this trilogy to be censored beyond saving just so the BING BING WAHOO YAHOO *1UP* crowd can enjoy it?

>>380556270
>this probably won't be coming west
Well the PC release sure as fuck isn't for the 3 people in Japan that play games on PC.

>>380541049
Wonder if they've got the original video files still for the CG scenes. If they do, oh boy. It's going to look gorgeous.

>>380556034
>Fun fact: BlackRose was originally going to be a party member in Redemption.

I can believe it, to be honest, especially considering the case of mistaken email in Rebirth.

>>380556472
>Also they might be trying to grow a PC fanbase for some PC .hack game they might want to make
Imagine an actual .hack MMO. Now get Fragment out of your head and imagine an actually good .hack MMO.

>>380556245
>when someone new to game surpasses you in just a few weeks when you've been playing for years

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>>380556289
You can't keep doing this, Blackrose.

>>380556593
>mistaken email

I thought it was just a copy of an email that she sent to Kite?

>>380556537
This e3 made me realize that the nintendo audience doesn't deserve the chance to enjoy anything anymore

>>380556624
The only way I can think of a .hack MMO working is if it kept the action rpg gameplay, had no open world, kept the player hubs, and made it so that the gates made randomly generated rogue like dungeons that were pretty big and kept the miniboss at the end.
Also PK'ers could invade the dungeon. Basically make fucking chalice dungeons from Bloodborne into an MMO.

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>>380556624
Hey man, I'm going on vacation.
Can you watch my grunty for me. Thanks.
P.S. please do not feed him anything that will turn him into an autistic Milky Grunty

>>380556923
holy shit
now I know why I was totally fine with chalice dungeons
they were subconsciously calling back to my feelings for .hack

>>380556654
Well he kind of has to be good. Remember, the Twilight Bracelet doesn't actually grant Kite any bonuses besides Data Drain, Gate Hacking, and protection from data alteration. It doesn't give him maxed out stats.

And yet, he managed to defeat the eight Phases. Remember how powerful Avatars are in .hack//G.U.? Remember how they could wipe out a party of high-level players in an instant without Data Drain? Kite defeated all of them.

I hope they don't remove the 2h sword exploit where you can cancel the attack animation with defense for max DPS

>>380541647
Where are the shadows?

>>380557276
Haseo plays on a toaster and has the settings all turned down.
>DEEPEST LORE

>>380555731
I remember the loading point in the middle of the map if you use the camera in the right way you could make any of the nearby NPCs fall into the void.

>>380557106
Data Drain is a hell of a drug

>>380550465
this

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>>380557106
>Remember, the Twilight Bracelet doesn't actually grant Kite any bonuses besides Data Drain, Gate Hacking, and protection from data alteration. It doesn't give him maxed out stats.
>protection from data alteration
>mfw the admins kept trying to delete Kite's avatar with email spam "you won free level ups!!!" and the bracelet shut that shit down and made the items do nothing

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>>380556073
>this kills the Ryokofag

Actually, were there any Ryokofags in the first place? Every IMOQ girl has vocal fans except her.

I'm happy to see people talking about these games again
These are some of my all time favorite games

I hope this does well enough to warrant some more stuff to be done with this series

Also, somebody rip the assets and make a world r:2

>>380557630
>admins have to resort to Nigerian scam tier "You are win. Please claim you prize very urgently" emails
It always cracked me up

>>380557630
Oh, so that's what the Book of Law thing is supposed to do? I just got to that part in Infection and was disappointed I couldn't get a free level up.

>>380557803
that ship sailed a long fucking time ago
we did eventually get working fragment out of it which is nice at least

I can't wait for all the fucking SFM porn

>Infection first came out in NA in 2003

Damn, I forgot how old these games were.

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>>380557779
She had an adorable animation when Repthing, she hovered up on her little wings.

But no, fuck her, jewfu is best girl.

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>>380557630
>got the book of iron and book of law when I first played years ago
>got angry that I couldn't get the free level ups
>got angry I couldn't get silver clothes from the Iron book
>never saw through the subtext
>always thought The Bracelet was fucking me out of good shit
I was fucking dumb

>>380540962
Should have remade the original 4 first.

>>380558604
Remakes cost more than remasters.

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>>380558521
Why is this Japan's go to design for Jewish girls?

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>>380558604
Nah, G.U. is better than the originals, and already look pretty nice as it is, since they were late PS2 games that used heavy cell shading

The IMOQ engine is so old that it looks super unsettling at high resolutions, and the gameplay doesn't hold up at all. They'd need to be completely remade, or at least done on the G.U. remaster engine, and that's gonna take a lot more time and money than just fixing G.U., making it 1080p@60, and putting in a new form for Haseo

>>380558604
>>380541531

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>if you go to Θ Embarrassing Forbidden Virgin the girls clothes come off
>I fell for it
>realized the name afterwards

>>380559151
Is there a way to get my game to look that good when emulating it, or did they just improve the models for later installments? I've only emulated Infection so far.

>>380559419
Set the renderer to DirectX instead of software, then crank up the internal resolution and anti-aliasing

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>>380559151
I'd honestly be fine with a remake of IMOQ instead of a new game after GU remastered.

literally saved e3, and it wasn't even announced at e3

>>380554861
I want to join the edgelord club that kills PKers

>>380559559
I tried that, but the game doesn't look anything like the screenshot. I guess they really do just get better looking after the first. That, or the cutscene models are different from the gameplay ones.

>>380560271
I want to join the edgelord club that kills Pk killers

>>380560271
>dark souls is the only series that's really done something like PKKs with a similar sort of setting
>it's been busted every single time
What did CCorp do right

>>380560526
The rules are as follows
1: No hacking
2: No rules
3: Rule 2 applies to rule 1

>>380560526
They had an upside down AI do all their programming for them

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>>380558528
And that is why the bracelet didn't let you use them.

The .hack games are legitimately my favorite games and the entire franchise my favorite franchise.

Skeith kicked my ass several times over, too. I was totally not prepared for him at first.

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Friendly reminder that Natsume is best girl

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Post yfw The World VRMMO is announced using assets from .Hack//Beyond The World.

>>380556923
I think it could work similarly to a MH format, where you can gather with all the other players at the main towns/hubs but the fields and dungeons are instanced to your group. Or maybe just dungeons would be instanced and fields could be a free for all. Plus pvp arenas and a bunch of cool side activities to do in the hubs.

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>>380540962

This...kind of rekindles my hope in videogames.

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>the age of BBS has been over for years
>people have been born who don't know what a BBS is
>even floppy discs are more remembered
Kill me

>>380563673
>we still can't access The Wired like in SEL
No, kill me

>>380540962
I hope this game can up the class variety

Not including Haseo, who counts as a Twin Blade, Edge Punisher and Flick Reaper, the game gives you:

Twin Blades: 3
Harvest Cleric: 2
Shadow Warlocks: 3 (2)
Dance Macabres: 1
Steam Gunners: 2
Tribal Grapplers: 2
Flick Reapers: 1
Lord Partizans: 1
Edge Punishers: 0 (the only one you get is a temp character in the prologue. Matsu is also an adept Rogue with an edge punisher but only uses Steam Gunner)
Blade Brandiers: 7 wtf

They could balance this by having other characters join you that didn't originally.

Edge Punishers: Gabi Grein and Sakaki (lol)
Flick Reapers: Hetero
Harvest clerics: Sophora (actually an adept rogue)
Lord Partizans: Nala
Dance Macabres: Hiiragi
Shadow Warlocks: Aina
Steam Gunners: Ovan, Taihaku
Tribal Grapplers: Sirius
Twin Blades; Negimaru

>>380561740
I don't know. It would be fun, but I'm not big on tempting fate.

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Was he right /v/?

>>380565162
Dude it's been so fucking long I don't even remember what he did and why

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>>380565250
His method of fucking over the AIDA basically required him to reset the global network and led to half the global economical assets to disappear as a result, causing a worldwide catostrophe. All because his sister was in a coma from the AIDA and it was the only way he knew how to bring her back.

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>>380565782
>>380565250

>>380565250
>Accidentally comatosed his sick little sister
>Creates a guild to hunt down rumors for a unique item that can grant wishes in the hopes to fix her
>Comatoses protagonist's crush and goes into hiding
>Comes back and tricks protagonist whose become obsessed into taking a data drain for him, almost falling into a coma and resetting him to level 1
>Goes on to trick the protagonist into data draining, possibly comatosing more people, so the protagonist can defeat him
>Also used a 12 year old kid with a God Complex who went about comatosing more people and blackmailed an entire company
>When he's defeated, causes the third network crisis, indirectly killing tens of thousands
>Also unwittingly unleashed Cubia, which was gonna cause ALL nuclear power plants on the planet to go critical mass and explode

But hey at least all the coma victims are back now.

>>380540962
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?? Oh my fuck, Bamco you magnificent bastards, release this shit already. I have been waiting too long for .hack//anything.

I already have all the games but hadn't started G.U. yet. Should I just replay IMOQ and prep for the rerelease?

But is it going to be translated?
When is it even out?

>>380566314
We don't know when it's coming out, but development is apparently 80% finished. The game is getting a PC release, so it's very unlikely that it won't get translated.

I'm always down for more Piros.

>>380566278
You don't have to play IMOQ to prep for GU

>>380566278
If you want to, but G.U does work well as a standalone. Basically comes down to whether you're willing to slog through IMOQ or not.

>>380566278
Go for it, this thing's probably not out for a few months anyway.

>>380553336
>>380552835
That sounds just like old PSO

>>380566551
>>380566471
>>380566671

Thanks for the input. I think I'll have to sleep on it. IMOQ is pretty slow, even if it is kind of enjoyable.

>>380545187
>people can't play .hack// G.U becouse atoli has an annoying voice
>people can't play star ocean 4 becouse lymle has an annoying voice
>both of them in english dubs

why do you guy do this to yourselves?

Remake better have dual voices
not that it would even matter on PC thanks to modding

>>380567090

Because playing shit with japanesse voices is only enjoyable if you like the language, anon. Some people simply don't.

>>380557934
I kind of doubt they'll be good since these games look and feel too much like the Ninja Storm games and those games were lacking in any kind of good SFM porn, even the nude mods weren't that great.

>>380557934
It wouldn't make sense. It'd amount to watching people erp in a video game.

>>380540962
Fun fact: Mona Marshal has stated in an interview that Kite was one of her favorite voice roles because "he can be weak and he can be strong"

>>380541647
I just noticed that in the original game, it looks like they used 3D portraits for the UI, but in the remaster, they seem to be their 2D artwork. Placeholders or stylistic tweaks?

>>380568507
I miss that VA, what's she been up to these day?

>>380568959
In the original they used 2D artwork.

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>>380569118
South Park at least, another fun fact is that Kite's VA is Kyle's mom. She also played Angelus in Drakengard 1. She's absolutely top-tier, and is one of the reasons he's so damn cute.

>>380569159
Guess it's just hard for me to see in that image then, since Haseo's looks different despite not being in a form yet on either.

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>>380569319
For some reason they are using different portaits, but its all 2D.

>>380569250
Kite should be a new party member, OG Kite was such a damn cutie, watching him turn into a 1337 gamer was great, BlackRose and Kite's relationship was GOAT. They really needed each other, and the games never had to cram in a bunch of shitty melodrama for them to express it. Loved these games. GU was great gameplay wise but the melodrama was fucking retarded at times ("You just saw Shino and not me waaaaaaaaaaah!) seriously

>>380556221
Oh yeah, Endrance exists. He's a character from the original quadrilogy too.

Fuck I completely forgot about him. They really underutilized him.

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>when you are so against changing your character model a bit more so people stop mistaking you for the other hoe that has the same outfit you would sooner go into an insane bitchfit and try to murder everyone and yourself

The mangas developing on the fact that this is due to her being an extremely sociopathic, suicidal girl that LITERALLY got taken away from a suicide hotline forum by her guild leader to be manipulated into doing what he wants makes a cool sense out of all her extremely sperging personality and her fucking annoying tryhardness.
Without that in mind she's just a fucking horrid character, though.

>>380570175
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja06DJrFe5E

>>380569250
How much of a crush do you think Aura has on Kite in order to produce all of those copies of him?

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>>380540962
So why was Haseo so good as an adept rogue compared to everyone else again? Did no one else figure out the upsides to it, or what?

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>>380554478
They probably are. At least in Haseo's case. Silibus and Gaspard thought he was just a look-alike roleplaying as the real Haseo.

>>380570612
His dormant skills from being Sora bled through, and I think something about Avatar users makes you supernaturally good at the World, whether that's some kind of deeper connection to the game or just RNG-based elements always happening to roll in his favor.

>>380540962
oh hey guys, Backwards compatibility sucks.. please buy our remakes

>>380570612
Because Sora was one of the most powerful and best player killers in The World R:1, and that's when he was in 4th grade.

>>380570612

Supposedly because he has 1337 PvP skeelz, as The World is actually meant to be a coordination and timing based game as opposed to what we actually play.
But also likely to be just, cheating, I guess.

>>380570852
It fucking does suck, it being on PC is better than backwards compatibility, now I know I'll forever have it available on PC and playable, instead of having to get a new console every few years and rebuy the damn game. Look how pointless the SotC HD release was on PS3. I can't even play it anymore. Might as well have not bought it at all.

>>380543354
GU, nothing honestly. Post game dungeon in the 4th game of the original set was brutal though.

>>380570612
Settingwise, they've got the slowest growth compared to the rest, so a level 20 edge punisher would have more skills unlocked compared to a level 20 adept rogue who chose edge punisher as they're first class. But even that's weak, since there should have been the autists who would have made optimized builds based around Adept Rogues since they can wear the best armor class but use the fastest weapons or best magic.

Honestly I was always saddened by the fact that Matsu was never able to switch weapons on the fly like Haseo. Hell, imagine if some of the tournament fights or chaotic PKs could swap weapons on the fly like haseo could.

>>380570612
he was a 'that guy' tier min-maxer. an adept rogue has four points to spend on what class's weapons and skills they can use
Blade Brandier - 1 Point
Edge Punisher - 1 Point
Twin Blade - 1 Point
Flick Reaper - 2 Points
Lord Partizan - 2 Points
Tribal Grappler - 2 Points
Macabre Dancer - 3 Points
Harvest Cleric - 3 Points
Shadow Warlock - 3 Points
Steam Gunner - 3 Points

virtually everyone went for either a 2+2 combination or a 3+1 combination. Haseo instead went or a 1+1+2 combination that focused on being able to have an advantage on nearly anyone in PvP

Will they remake the first 4 games? it seems weird to remake the second trilogy.

Doesn't look that different form PS2 desu

But it's my favourite videogame saga of all time so Imma hit that motherfucking buy button as soon as it's up

>>380571925
Less effort involved. If this does well an IMOQ remake is guaranteed, plus new .hack shit.

>videogame saga about MMOs
>only MMO they ever tried to make was a shitty buggy mess that just shut down ASAP

Are they afraid they will never live up to The World they envision and so just don't wanna try? , because it's almost insulting

>>380572668
You try making a VR MMO all those years ago and see how well it does.

>>380571816
I seriously never got how each class got their respective amount of points

>>380570612
I remember a lot of the in-game forums talking about how Adept Rogues were trash compared to the other classes since they didn't specialize in anything. In other words, for any role you want an Adept Rogue to fill, the specialized version could fill it better, which is generally how a lot of MMOs tend to play out; player classes get pigeonholed into hyper-specialized roles to maximize efficiency that doesn't lend itself to jack-of-all-trades playstyles.

Haseo was somehow just really good at using his class's versatility to exploit his enemies' weaknesses, I think. He was famous as a PKK specifically, not anything else. He was just really good at taking down other players who used brute force to trample over weaker players.

>>380570164
I think he got a lot of focus, as far as party members go. He's definitely one of the coolest characters in the series IMO and his ties to the original series makes his presence feel more significant though, so they probably could have done more with him.

>>380566551
>whether you're willing to slog through IMOQ or not
There's also a series of novels (that got official english releases) that tell the story of IMOQ from Blackrose's POV that kind of work as a summary of the original games, though you'd probably want to read them alongside a summary of the games' stories to get the full picture.

>>380571925
The reason given is that while the original games sold better, G.U had a higher focus on characters and got the player more invested in them and some stuff. I'm paraphrasing, but I don't remember which of the articles had the original quote so take that as you will.

>>380572930
One of the forum posts literally called adept rogues, "the jack of all trades and master of nothing"

So what was Aura doing throughout the whole G.U incident anyway?
Seems like the only thing she did was give you the Azure trio and fucked off somewhere or another

>>380571164
I never found that dungeon terribly hard. You had to data drain a lot but I never once had to retry the dungeon because I went over the limit and game over'd.
the enormous post-game dungeon in G.U.3 gave me more stress

Does anyone have good reference pictures of Alkaid? I need them.

>>380570562
he's virtually her biggest prophet. that he stopped playing The World was probably a big factor in her deciding to abandon it to go explore the rest of the web

>>380573329

Being Aura.
>HELP THE WORLD!!
>Aura you are like a hack machine you could literally do this yourself
>noooo
>But-
>noooo
>At least give EVERYONE in the team some twilight shit so-
>noooo
>Aura!
>Y'all gettin' zombie kite

>>380573329
In Twilight Bracelet, she basically decided to fuck off and leave a kid to take care of it all, a kid who hadn't yet matured and wasn't actually doing shit. Basically R:2 is the world that got abandoned, and is the primary reason why they tried to bring Cubia back to preform her old duty except under their control.

>>380569743
>You just saw Shino and not me waaaaaaaaaaah
Haseo is a Grade A introvert IRL who also lost a lot of his memories after getting mindfucked by Skeith. The friends he made in //Root were likely the first people he ever cared about in his life. it makes sense he's way too invested in what they think of him

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>>380573526
>Aura downloads herself into a prosthetic body and fucks Kite's brains out
>BlackRose only at that moment gets jealous

If you were Kite, which would it be and why?

>>380573956
Clang clang doesn't exactly sound pleasant, but not everyone can say they're dating an AI god

>>380560819
Skeith was such a great boss fight in every way. I set his boss theme as my login-menu music as soon as I unlocked it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRl7frxqZ_M

I also like in retrospect that if you data drain the post-game event bosses they end up too hacked to drop the raid reward gear they're supposed to

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What was your favorite epitaph?

>>380574312
I'm talking about GITS level prosthetic bodies here

>>380573587
Wasn't part of it because of the servers being destroyed and faggots trying to capture her?

>>380573363
I vastly prefer the gameplay in GU, but can't remember a single challenging fight, except maybe Ovan. That's definitely not the case for the original 4. In some cases getting jumped by two portals worth of trash mobs could be enough to wreck you in some dungeons.

>>380540962
>Souls series killer.

Another game series that is better than some modern game series.

>>380572849
something to do with the dev's personal ranking of each classes's unique abilities and equipment.
the 1 point classes are the ones that have nothing special going for them but their stats

>>380574526
I don't remember too clearly since it was years ago since I last played G.U, but that was probably the case. After her presence had been made clear in IMOQ, they did adress that in Twilight Bracelet, so it probably carried over to G.U.

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>>380573956

I don't care, but

>IMOQ Tsukasa

Oh my god has there been a bigger representation of the average humongous tryhard MMO faggots.
They somehow managed to make him-her 200% more dislikeable than when s/he was moping in the fucking anime.

>who cares about levels...
>congratulations, i guess..
>ugh, this is so boring...

ALL
THOSE
DOTS

>>380574769
I remember this time when I was playing on my 60 inch projection TV (those were the days) and had that shit cranked up and my door locked, gam'in on some Quarantine, and my sister knocks on my door
Sis: *knock knock knock*
Anon: *talks to Tsukasa* "What do YOU want?"
Sis: "I wanna talk."
Anon: *talks to Tsukasa again* "There's nothing to talk about."
Sis: *opens the door and proceeds to bug me*

Those were the days

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>>380571925
>>380573287
Whoops, seems like I did actually have it.

>>380574769
Tsukasa was my thirteen year-old self's waifu. I know your pain.

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>>380574402
None, all of them spooked me
Like return the slab level of spook

>>380574402
>anyone but Skeith
>ever

Are you retarded

>>380570175
>All of that
But they do make that clear. Hell, the entire fucking Guild war thing in Vol 2 was to hammer that point down that her guild leader was manipulating the FUCK out of her because she was already seconds away from just killing herself for having no self worth towards herself.

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>>380574402
It will always be Skeith.
>that tremendous fucking chill from the first encounter in IMOQ that seemed hopeless as shit
>getting to hear him come back once more in a glorious fashion in G.U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgrzu8bFpfE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGcCjcU0z8Q

>>380574612
i always thought it was 1 point classes were the basics, 2 points were the "advanced" versions of those, and the 3 point classes were casters

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>>380574402
This shit is what got me started on HP Lovecraft. All of those are eldritch abominations. It also made me realize that missingno back in the day was also an eldritch abomination in its own right.

>>380574637
oh, I've got it backwards. Aura went to sleep apparently, and then CC corp tried to recreate her to have their own Aura but they fucked up so badly they blew up their servers.

Someone post that really good What I played What I expected What I got image

>>380574402
>Anyone but Skeith
There's a reason why he's the player's avatar in G.U. and he's the hardest fucking boss by proxy of when you're forced to fight a data bug that fucking strong + you having access to the lowest amount of skill options.
also just the best fucking Data Drain animation beyond Drain Heart.

>>380574402
Innis, the most lovecraftian of all of them IMO, if you look closely it appears that there's an outline of Skeith on it, and cut outs of eyes in the same shape of Corbenik

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>>380575427

So what would have happened if Kite had beaten all eight phases before Cubia anyway?

>>380575174
>You can only max to level 30
>Revival items are limited
>You can't fully recover from a Data Drain at that point with a single item and having to flip the menu for 3-4 different items or just brute force every singe debuff in the game
>Even your tank can get dropped in 2 attacks from them
>HP is listed as '*%#^' with a bar that MIGHT drop a pixel after hammering on it for a few minutes.

I really wish the other Phases where harder as Skeith just builds you up and really sells you that these things are legit threats, and then the only other thing that might force your hand is perhaps cuba's first fight if you don't have spells at the ready.

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>>380541327
hahaha

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>>380540962
CC2 PLS

>>380540962
Oh, nice. I never got to complete the trilogy since my PS2 broke and my memory cards had their data corrupted.

>>380575656
Chances are same thing as in G.U.
Without the Phases holding back Aura and the bracelet, Cubia would end up amassing so much data it could end up crashing and ripping apart the infrastructure as we know it. It was already hitting critical mass by the end of Vol 4, hence why you have to put an end towards it before you fight the final phase.

>>380541049
>.hack//AL buster

>>380575786

To be strictly fair it makes sense that Skeith was the trauma inducing ordeal while the rest were more normal-style pushes.
Skeith was an unknown threat with unexperienced people having to deal with it, with limited resources.
By the time the next phases come to kick, you already know you can beat them, and you are in contact with Helba and Wiseman and all the other people telling you, "Yeah, shit like this happens here."

>>380575939
Artificial Lintelligence

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>>380574393
I almost literally shit my pants when I walked through that door. It was so perfectly set up.
>Go through dungeon.
>See flames in front of the last room.
>Must be another boss! I'm ready for this!
>Enter
>This shit happens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvzDvCanIPo
>Promptly shit pants and then continue pants shitting during the entire fight

Fuckers really made you feel like you had just gotten in over your head. So perfectly set up. I have never felt that way in a game since.

if we do get the orginal IMOQ remaster, hopefully they'll allow an option to use dot hack fragment active menu combat and button skill shortcuts.
they were pretty sweet changes

>>380554993
>the main character of G.U. is the same guy who played Sora in the original series
Wait, wait, what? Haseo was Sora? Huh?

>>380540962
>won't be able to clear the first 4 so I can change Azure Kite's name by bringing over my save file
Awwwwww...

>>380576090

... Did you really just find this out NOW, anon?
Yes. Haseo is Sora. Has always been.
Skeith puts Sora in a comma, Sora loses his memories of being a 1337 nerd shithead, becomes mostly a shut-in autist, goes back to The World, rinse and repeat.

>>380576090
Yes, that's the reason he's connected to Skeith, and why he's so fucking good at the game. He wasn't able to remember the events before his coma until later, but because he was the first victim of the Phases, his avatar became Skeith. It also reflects the gradual growth from emotionally unstable to pretty cool guy.

>>380540962
>In Vol. 3, changed it to make it possible to do the marriage events with all characters that can become your ally, without having to redo them.
Polygamy?

>>380576090
yes.

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>>380576286

>>380574769
That wasn't the real Tsukasa

>>380576220
>>380576225
Which part was this revealed in? Never played Vol. 3 myself since my PS2 got ruined. If it was in the first 2 volumes, then I just forgot about it, I suppose.

>>380576324

We are aware of that, anon.
It's still meant to be the character and how s/he is portrayed inside The World.

>>380576341
Vol.3 I believe. There is no big reveal scene in the game itself, rather it's just shown as a gradual revelation.

>>380576320
>ywn fuck a mental illness

>>380576369
It was probably just a vagrant A.I. created around when Tsukasa died and his personality was basically reset.

>>380576320
Why is Haseo's harem filled with so many crazy people?

>>380576090
not only that. CC2 specifically based the whole Phase Avatar system off analyzing what the relevant in-game data was like when Skeith had Sora absorbed in him.

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>>380576090
Yeah, he has a bit of a wonky history.

Sora was in 4th grade during Sign, was one of the best players in The World R:1. He gets coma'd by Skeith at the end of Sign. Then he gets "merged" with Skeith during a novel that takes place after Sign but before Infection. This is referred too as Shadow Sora, but its actually Skeith just "using" Sora like a computer to communicate and navigate The World in order to find Aura. Once he's found Aura, he transforms into Skeith and attacks her. That's what happens right at the start of Infection.

When Kite DD's Skeith, Sora is still trapped in Skeith's wand, and is later freed by Kite in a sidequest.

The Sora that is a party member at the end of quarantine isn't the real Sora, it's Shadow Sora (Skeith). That's why he talks in corrupted text, the same way Shadow Sora did in the novel.

The real Sora suffers from repressed memories and amnesia, but his motor skills from his time as an expert-level player killer in R:1 remain. When he returns to The World in its 2nd incarnation, Skeith (who exists in the Black Box, the Sora player data was destroyed along with all the other player characters from R:1) is naturally attracted towards him, and attaches itself to him, which is why Haseo has Skeith as his Epitaph. Its also the reason why Skeith is able to talk to Haseo directly later in the story, but once again does so using Haseo's appearance and personality, the same way Shadow Sora did.

>>380576341
It's brought up in Vol2's ending, and it's answered in full in Vol3 when it goes into detail on Avatar users and WHY they are avatar users in the first place. Everyone who's an avatar user was ether data drained, or had another connection towards their respective Avatar. The only exception is Pi as she was given hers by Yata/Wizeman THIS IS ALSO WHY EVERYTHING FUCKS UP

>>380546528
there is a fucking axe guy, always bet on axe guy and if there isn't an axe guy there will be an unarmed or a fist weapon guy, also if you can design the character, he gets a beard and you make him, yes him no girls allowed, as old and bald as possible.

Shit, I still remember how fucking broken Sakubo was. Specially after she got her final weapon, she would just blast everything away.

> she

Did anyone actually got a game over from data draining back at the first four games?
i always wondered how it looked

>>380576669
Pi got Tarvos from her (dead?) brother though, who stole it from the RA project in the hopes to stop it

>>380547063
there is zero chance any company would go out of their way to do a pc port and then not have an english release.
pc market in japan is nothing, so it'd be a waste.

>>380576826
I think Bamco fell in love with Steam after Dark Souls and how easy it is to make money on it. The port will definitely be on Steam, not sure about GoG.

>>380576736
It was dumb easy to get when doing Terajima Ryoko's side quest to unlock her stupid ass.
>Every floor is a 4x4 grid of rooms
>Every room is fucking data bugs
>Every. Room.
>This goes on for 10 fucking floors of hell on earth.
This was the one and only time I also learned that you could prove bulmung right and kill a data bug WITHOUT data drain...if you spent like 20 minutes hammering on one.

>>380576736
yes

it's just a normal game over after you data drain

>>380576736
It is anticlimactic. The words "Data Drain out of control! System error!" appear and then the standard game over effects happen.

Why were the admins so salty about Kite and data draining again?

Is it worth emulating these ps2 games or are they hard to go back to?

https://youtu.be/O8UZxscK9NU?t=74

>tfw Endrance's jap VA is actually much worse than the dubbed VA

Seriously though. Liam o'Brien makes him sound redeemably cool, this was just full blown crossdressing trap values.

>>380576814
I was pretty sure it was Yata who gave it towards her, but I do think it was her Brother who fucked up project RA. Still, her avatar's notable for not having a link towards it's user from The World V1 like everyone else ends up having. Still forever pissed that Mia had to die, twice, for this bullshit.

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>>380576968
Data Drain was an renegade element that caused massive amounts of cascading destruction wherever and whenever it was used, just look at what a single instance of Albireo using it on Lycoris did. A single DD in the wrong place is like losing a game of jenga.

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>You have to play the video games to get the true ending

I enjoyed sign, but I always lose interest after infection for some reason.

>>380576968
he was fucking everything up in the server

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>>380576881
>>380576926
>>380576941
Not what i hoped for but thanks for the heads up

>>380547217
As long as you can do jap audio and eng subs/menu's

>>380576968
Because it is literally a cheating device. It can turn pretty much any enemy into a wimpy level 1 enemy. It can also allow Kite to hack the Chaos Gates and gain access to protected areas.

>.hack//GU

Wait a minute, why GU?

GU is a continuation of the original .hack story, which entailed Kite and his descent into the madness that is The World, right?

Now I never played GU, but based on the fact that Kite is literally on the cover of OP's picture, I'm guessing that players who have no idea who he is will be somewhat at loss?

Isn't remaking GU and not the original a fundamentally bad idea?

>>380577058

It's okay because she now gets to be a pretty, pretty rapier for her huge faggot bff to stab things with, just in case the whole point of CHEATING IS BAD STOP THAT hasn't sunk in yet.

>>380576968
Couldn't control it. One guys wife was already fucking making a hacked hub world for her own self amusement, there were rouge AI they couldn't do shit about, and they never really 'owned' the game per-say. So the fact that suddenly a PLAYER was now having all of this BS control over things that was overshadowing their own control over the game, they flipped the fuck out.

>>380576972
The first 4 have aged poorly. Battles are slow as you have to keep flipping menus to use weapon and item skills, all while shit's still going on around you. It's also just clunky as hell as once you start an attack animation, you're kinda just -stuck- in it till it finishes. The lack of jumping also leave the entire thing very flat. The entire game is fucking single textured flat ground for 90% of the experience. G.U.'s a lot better in every other design though.

>>380577303

Read the thread, anon. This has literally been answered 20 other times.

>>380577303
GU stands on its own, just like the rest of .hack, it has its own story that stands on its own. You can see the larger story if you see what comes before, but you don't need to do that to understand what's in front of you. Furthermore, GU has its own self-contained plot that doesn't include the same cast in the same roles as the previous games.

Plus, there's something about seeing the origin of something AFTER you are already invested that people like. Chances are if this remake is successful, when they eventually remake IMOQ, newer fans will actually be a lot more excited to see the origins of Kite and co. before the game that introduced them to the series.

I don't see a reason why CC2 can't remix the originals to include some foreshadowing or ideas from GU in them as well, since remaking IMOQ is basically going to require them to make entirely new games.

>>380576968
It was proof that there was something majorly fucked up with the game/system that CC Corp released. Kite's existence and proof of DD and their effect on people could be used to sue CC Corp into the ground.

>>380576320
Man. Alkaid was my waifu back when these games were first released, but my traplust has raised Saku up so much. Especially with that getup.

>>380576550
G.U was basically about a bunch of crazy people trying to stop being crazy people. That's just what AIDA does.

>>380577058
The terminal disc told the story of her brother and confirmed he sent it to her. He stole it in the first place to stop them from doing their stupid experiment.

>>380577416

Yeah I did (after I posted, obviously). The creator gives meme-reasons like "oh because it's easier to connect with this character xD" while other anons make more sense saying that it's a weird little test to see how cold the water is.

And while both of those reasons are (somewhat) valid, I still don't understand why the original .hack 1 game would have been a better pick.

Kite was much more naturally introduced to The World, as his player was literally a noob and it made sense that he got turtorialized to death.

Isn't this new kid suppose to be some long-time-veteran? I don't know. It might work.

>>380577532

But isn't Kite a rather large part of the ongoing story in GU? I mean the guy's on the fucking cover.

And if you have 0 idea who this is, or why you should care, why would a new player be interested in the game at all?

Maybe you're right though, and maybe the mystery will intrigue enough to keep going, but knowing today's audience I'm not so sure.

>>380577169
Part 2 & 3 can be slogs. Part 2 alone is like a filler segment as that's when a ton of the secondary cast comes into play and gets unlocked in some fashion. Part 3 only starts to ramp up as more things about Mia come to light and Elk starts to go psycho. Part 4 though is just a wild ride from start to finish, and feels good every step of the way. You just gotta drag on the 60+ required dougions between 1&4 though.

>>380577018
>this was just full blown crossdressing trap values
That's the entire point, and worked better because of it. Elk was a flaming furry faggot that then later became a fuccboi NEET.

>>380576550

'Cuz AIDA, Avatars and already unstable IRL people.

You can trace all of that back to Morgana being a very antisocial and cuntish program on her own value, I guess, and anything stemming from her just making you quite melodramatic.

>>380577705
that kite's just a fake anyway