>Be the ultimate AI with supreme authority over the any device

This is .hack right? Never played any of the games at all, do they hold up these days?

Reminder that this will end with Kite returning and performing a Harald so that Aura will never feel lonely again.

>>380679678
>Kite
>Bailing on Blackrose

As if. Kite outgrew video games and has an actual girlfriend who is mostly dere with a bit of tsun now. He took the lesson of "I really should stop playing a game that puts people in comas now that my friend is safe" better than that retard Kirito.

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>>380677659
Best girl had the best themes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUrU0gu2mN0
&
https://www.youpak.com/watch?v=HQ-0XASP1-I&list=PLF0C672D7FFF367EF&index=12

I really need to finish fucking Quarantine one day, but I dunno if I wanna replay the first three again. Shit's been bugging me for years

>>380679281
They're that perfect kind of kinds repetitive but unique old games. Very deserving of a 6-7/10. I'm sure that doesn't make it sound appealing, but for me that kind of serviceable game is the perfect thing to relax.

>>380679281
They just released some info that they're remastering .Hack//G.U. so you can try for yourself.
http://www.siliconera.com/2017/06/13/hackg-u-last-recode-announced-hd-remaster-new-elements-systems/

>>380677659
>You leave fucking corpse muppets of the guy and his two friends around to keep shit like that from happening again
>Not the girl though, fuck her and stupid face and no it isn't because you watched her fuck the guy through her laptop
That was lame. Why make coma boy a guardian?

>>380680095
Anon, I hate to break it to you, but they're not actually together. BlackRose is too chicken to confess outright.

>>380680473

Not that anon but you made my day, thanks.

>>380681181
They had an "Azure Knights" theme going on.

Balmung of the Azure Sky
Orca of the Azure Sea
Kite of the Azure Flame (which Bandai America keeps translating as "Azure Kite" for some stupid reason)

>>380681181
Because he was pretty much one of the biggest and best players in the game, second only to Balmung before Kite showed up

>>380681424
>Implying Kite, the guy who managed to bring together a massive group of people to solve and fight a super AI can't fucking tell when a chick is asking him to make a move

>Lose your kid in an accident that you caused
>Play this online game
>Find this kid who reminds you of your kid
>Co-lead his guild
kid may be an AI

>>380681181
They're the Descendants of Fiana. In-game Orca and Balmung earned their titles from killing the One Sin, and Kite you already know is the hero who stopped the second network crisis.

>>380681981
I always assumed he was just Helba, who decided that she wanted to be on the other side of the /ss/ spectrum for her roleplaying.

>>380681875
Well. Yes. That's exactly what I'm implying. He clearly didn't have a clue, dude.

>>380681875
He was 15


and had 3 chicks wanting to get his dick wet

>>380682060
The actual reason is that people noticed that Kite hung out with Balmung and Orca a lot so they kind of assumed he was part of it. And they deferred to him as their leader, so that's why he became Kite of the Azure Flame. The players gave him that name.

>>380682241
14. Kite was 14.

>>380682518
>>380682241
Piroshi: 32
Mistral: Late 20s
Usagimaru Nuke: 19
Rachel: 19
Balmung: 18
Gardenia: 18
Marlo: 17
Terajima Ryoko: 16~17
BlackRose: 16
Natsume: 15
Orca: 14
Kite: 14
Elk: 13
Wiseman: 10

Sanjuuro: ??
Moonstone: ??
Helba: ??
Mia: Cat

>>380683137
HARK, THEE WITH FAIR EYES

I think we can all agree that Shino is superior to Atoli.

>>380683467
Fuck no

They both suck in their own respective ways


Alkaid is where it is at

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>>380683548
>any girl when this scene exists

>>380683137
PIRO-PIRO-PIROSHI SAANNNNNNN: 39
Antares: 35
Kaede" 28
Kuhn: 24
Pi: 24
Natsume: 22
Shino: 20
Endrance: 20
Silabus: 19
Yata: 17
Matsu: 17
Haseo: 17
Alkaid: 16
Atoli: 16
Tabby: 16
Bordeaux: 14
Gaspard: 13
Sakubo: 11

Zelkova: ???
Kite of the Azure Flame: $%
Balmung of the Azure Sky: ^Y
Orca of the Azure Sea: &@

>>380683548
>Alkaid is where it is at
This nigga knows.

I don't understand why they're starting this supposed "new stage" of the .hack franchise with the GU remasters. They're not the best entry points because of how reliant they are on the whole media conglomerate thing, hard to get newfags into it with it.

Why not just start from scratch? Just no anime, no novels just the games.

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>>380684468

Jesus Christ could this Balming faggot be any more of a massive chuuni?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXOx7OpbQOo
Was there a better area in any of these games?

>>380684136
What? That was a totally platonic, heartfelt exchange between two masculine individuals who share a deep bond.

Last Recode better damn well have a parody mode, and the localization better damn well have it this time. Disc space is not an excuse anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1QjRRQu5-g

Reminder that Shino was actually dating Ryou for a short period and wanted Ovan's dick the entire time

>>380683137
>wiseman
>even as a kid when these games came out, thought he was the smartest badass in the entire series
>read .hack wiki entry years later
>10 year old who is fascinated with digimon

>>380685648
In Japan, he just liked normal playing cards. They turned it into Digimon in the English version.

What is the best remix of an IMOQ song and why is it Dark Infection?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nPOh9IscXY

Shugo is the worst protagonist.
Prove me wrong.

>>380686095
Tokio

>>380686095
Midori, Tokio, and that one donut steel that wanted to fuck Silabus exist

>>380686065
I am a sucker for Kite's theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFoggDuyn9w

>>380686095
Haseo was fucking garbage

IF YOU ARE NEAR
TO THE DARK

Fun fact- a lot of content from vol.2 and 3 can be found on a vol.1 disc, though the vast majority of it is completely unfinished. You can actually trigger the marriage scenes with several characters, but the game will crash
There is actually a Vol.2 enemy that can be found and fought in a very specific area of the game without any kind of hacking, and it's entirely finished save for having a name that doesn't show up properly.

>>380677659
how was Kite a sociopath ubermensch?

Whats the difference between .hack infection and GU? I never got around to play Infection and I'm scared I'll end up missing out on plot details.

>>380677659
>Not the girl though, fuck her and stupid face and no it isn't because you watched her fuck the guy through her laptop
Blackrose is not a Descendant of Fianna.

>>380681529
they do that for all three of them, just translate it as Azure [Name]
Azure Kite, Azure Balmung, Azure Orca

So is the original quartet good?

I compiled a list of RPGs I wanted to get to and this franchise was one I was considering adding

>>380687246
Infection and its three sequels take place in the first version of The World. G.U and its sequels take place in the second version, which is literally an in-universe reboot of The World with a bunch of new features, classes, graphics etc.

I guess you could jump right into G.U, but it's so full of references and call backs to the first version that I couldn't imagine appreciating it as much.

>>380682115
there's a few hints that he's Helba, mostly alluding to having firsthand knowledge of shit Helba was around for, and just about ever other .hacker is accounted for
but it's possible Helba was just an AI to begin with
it's also possible 'Helba' wasn't one person but a group of hackers, who did rotations with one person controlling the character while the others hacked from their persocoms. and zelkova is just one of those members who went solo

>>380687246
Infection is the first game in the whole series. It goes Infection>Mutation>Outbreak>Quarantine.

After that, comes GU a trilogy set some years after the IMOQ games. Don't forget you need to watch the SIGN anime before IMOQ, Liminality while playing IMOQ, the OvAs after IMOQ and ROOTS before G.U.

Don't get me started on the novels, the movie, the games we never got, etc. The thing is, unless you were there when this all happened, you're going to miss out a lot. Some stuff has been lost to the ether, other stuff never got translated.

>>380684468
they said if they were gonna revive the franchise they would rather do a remake than a wholly new game so newcomers can get a better idea of the franchise's history
and if they were gonna do a remake they'd do th G.U. trilogy, since while it didn't sell as much, its characters were immensely more popular and had a more vocal fanbase

>>380680473
Is this connected to the other ones? Anything I need to watch/play before this?

>>380688475
>>380688301

You could watch the terminal disc I guess, but is not ideal.

>>380686785
I WILL TELL YOU 'BOUT THE SUN

Sign's OST was GOAT

>>380688376
>its characters were immensely more popular and had a more vocal fanbase
Fucking faggots, the whole lot of them. Tasteless fucking faggots.

Mistral4life

>>380688475
watch .Hack//SIGN, an anime
play .Hack//Infection, //Mutation, //Outbreak, and //Quarantine
watch .Hack//ROOTS, another anime
then you're ready for the .G.U. trilogy

optional: .Hack//LIMINALITY, four animated shorts that corrspond to the first four games giving an idea of what's going on in the physial world while all this stuff is going on in the digital world

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>>380688810
should have shouted it louder back when it mattered

>>380689006
True best husbando
Ovan can go suck a dick

>>380689006
I did, goddammit I did. But everyone was too busy fapping themselves to death with Haseo's Xth form to care.

Anyone else think the battle fences are dumb and need to go away in the remaster?

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>>380689156
to be fair, have you SEEN those hips? god damn

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>>380689493
once I noticed the butt plates I couldn't take the design seriously ever again

>>380689483
Yes, as do the buttplates

>>380689598
>tfw newfags starting with the remaster won't know the pain of fighting Skeith
>tfw they won't get the same reaction from learning Haseo is actually Sora from SIGN

Following the conglomerate was fun when it paid off, but god please, don't ever do something like that again CC2.

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>>380689598

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do you think CC2 will bring over anything they implemented in the Naruto Storm games other than their latest anime cell shading?

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>>380690280
.hack//Versus was basically a Ninja Storm game with a .hack skin.

>>380690280
i'll be honest, I wouldn't mind if, in the chance the G.U. remasters do well, the IMOQ games got remade with the kind of shaders that the UNS games had with appropriate tweaks for .hack's style and fantasy as well as a heavily revised combat system that may not have the fanciness of G.U. but is nowhere near the stiff mess of the originals

>>380690814
wasn't that a mobage?

>>380691131
no, it was a fighting game on the PS3 that went under the radar

>>380691131
No, it was a legit fighting game that both, celebrated and concluded the franchise

And we didn't get it in english

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>>380691358
Concluded? the OVA with it ended on a cliffhanger

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>>380691131
No, you're thinking of Guilty Dragon and/or .hack//New World.

.hack//Versus was a fighting game that was part of the .hack//Beyond the World movie combo package. It had the following playable characters:

>Kite (Kite)
>BlackRose (Mimiru)
>Tsukasa (Boy (Girl))
>Haseo (Angry Person)
>Ovan (Siscon)
>Sakuya (Girl Kite)
>Sora (Other Girl Kite)
>Tokio (Idiot)

>>380688860
Does Infection/Mutation/Outbreak/Quarantine still hold up? I tried playing it a while back, and it seemed really dated.

>>380691559
the combat has a lot of flaws but the characters and story and ost are really good. the biggest deterrence to newcomers is probably Mutation since not much happens, but things pick up again in Outbreak and Quarantine is a total roller-coaster

>>380687238
>Be 14 years old
>Able to easily power level and outpace most veteran games
>Able to understand and coordinate various groups easily
>Always able to find the correct solution extremely fast
>Never gets heavily phased or dissuaded from his goal

It's a joke in the 4komas that he's so perfect that he's actually a sociopath.

>>380691516
The game was supposed to tie all loose ends, admittedly I never got around watching the OvA. Watched the movie though, loved it.

>>380691559
Not really, no. Shit's dated and the whole data core gimmick is bullshit.

Still, it does things different than G.U. I feel the theme with SIGN/IMOQ was atmosphere. They very eerie and somewhat melancholic entries. You also need to understand, these games came out when the trapped into an MMO genre was in its infancy, so to us back then they were really cool games, but in retrospective maybe they don't hold up on their own.

I said it before, .hack was something that you had to be there to really appreciate. Its a product of its time.

I've been trying to get into this series again with Infection, but damn is it kind of difficult to play what with the difficulty of enemies so far and my emulator often freezing/crashing. Do I just have to grind a bit in other areas before doing story stuff every now and then, or is there something else that I've been missing? Also, can I get away with using just a couple characters or should I rotate them all in to keep them on-level?

>>380692161
No it wasn't. It tied up absolutely no loose ends. If anything, it created MORE.

>>380692086
To be fair, at least for the first two parts, he kind of has to get led by the nose by Wiseman and others to handle certain things, and he has a distinct problem of just standing there either terrified or not sure what to do when shit happens unless it's a fight breaking out.

Not sure how changes in 3 or 4

>>380692161
The game itself was supposed to clean stuff up but the OVA and its ending really threw everything out the window.

>>380692086
got any of those 4komas? sounds fun

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>>380682241
>3
>Blackrose
>Terajima Ryoko
>Natsume
>Gardenia
It was 4.

And Helba probably would have done him once, too.

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kuhn wasted an autistic hero of a waifu who did more for The World than he ever did pre-G.U.

>>380692243
getting better gear tends to make more of a difference than grinding. do some dungeons a few levels higher than you are

>>380692243
Rotate them. Sometimes certain party members are too busy giving birth and become unavailable

>>380691095
This but imoq as one game as it should have been originally.

>>380689493

Terror of Death form was better

>>380692243
its worth rotating so you can max out their friendship.
It's been a long time but I vaguely remember once you max out someone's friendship you get some good gear as gifts

did anybody actually get all the best parts for the motorbike in .hack//g.u.3?
I remember the last two bits I never managed to get

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He never did anything wrong, /v/

>>380692769
>max out their friendship
Is this measured somewhere? Does it raise just by partying with them and, I'm assuming, by gifting them stuff?

>>380692510
Huh, maybe my problem was that I was doing dungeons at my level or with party members that I just got and were way below Kite's level. Speaking of new party members, is Natsume worth leveling even though I have Kite who's the class?

>>380692357
First result in google

>>380693069
>who's the same class as her.*

>>380693017
Literally everything he did was wrong

>>380693017
more people died because of him than all of WWII

>>380692161
All I want to know is if .Hack handles the "Trapped in an mmo" setting with more grace than something like Log Horizon or especially Sword Art Online

>>380693069
>Is this measured somewhere?
Ryu Book V, which you get after doing fifty Data Drains. You get a new Ryu Book every ten data drains

As someone who is also just starting Infection is MISS MISS MISS something I just have to get used to?
And these dungeons and music are really giving me some Megaman Legends vibes

>>380693402
Well for one thing, it only really happens in SIGN, with a character who is given a shitton of emotional turmoil over more than just that while other characters are trying to figure out why he's stuck in the game. Everyone else that's "trapped" are stuck in comas usually and the games usually have you playing characters that are trying to figure out why and how to save them.

>>380693402
Because .Hack does it completely differently. Kite is "trapped" in the sense that he needs to continuously use the World to save his friend Orca despite the threat of the World slowly eating itself.

>>380693402
.Hack//SIGN revolves around a single person trapped in an MMO, but he's not really the viewpoint character. Most of the plot is driven by other players trying to figure out why he can't log out and what that actually means, with the constant suspicion just below the surface that its an elaborate RP thing he's playing or a marketing thing for an upcoming event. It's not the power fantasy most entries in the subgenre go for.
For the vidya, its more about how the MMO is the only place they really have to search for clues regarding what the fuck happened to their friends

>>380693402
Just comparing the SIGN anime to the LH or SAO anime is really different. There is barely any action, and it's also only one character trapped while everyone else is just playing normally. And that character doesn't even get a lot of focus, since its mostly about others interacting with him.

To be honest, the SIGN anime was really more a look at the kind of people who use MMOs as an escapism, since almost everyone uses it to run away from their problems in the real world, or as a power fantasy. It was quite good in that aspect.

Music was god tier as well.

>>380693402
Well, Sign does it pretty well. Only time it happens in-game is during the beginning of the second G.U. game. It handles it fairly well, with the NPC players either freaking out or chasing wild rumors to log out to the point that an entire guild is killing players in the fields.

>>380693402
It's not actually gone into much. Only .hack//SIGN and a very small portion of .hack//G.U. use that concept. Most people whose minds get sucked into the game loose all consciousness.

In .hack//SIGN, only one character is trapped in the MMO and much of the plot is centered around how and why. It's primarily a character drama.

There IS .hack//Link, but that game is extremely light on the whole "MMO" concept.

>>380693402
Only happens in Sign, and yes it handles it much much better. There's a single brief time where it happens on a mass scale in the GU games, and its also very interesting.

One of the explored themes in Sign is death, something that is stupidly completely fucking ignored in SAO (never seen LH) with the "ya die in the game, ya die in real life" crap.

In Sign, when Tsukasa dies, he respawns, and it actually shows the grueling process of him respawning, and he has to confront the fact that he is literally made out of data. After he respawns, he has a notion that he, the one who has regenerated, may not actually be the real Tsukasa, but merely a copy of that person made to replace the one who died, since copying data is a rather simple process by itself.

The whole series is riddled with deep PKD-esque ideas like that.

Reminder that you can shit on Link but the OST was still god-tier

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

>>380694629
Link is what made me believe this series was basically dead, sold to the weaboo gods for all time. It looked so bad. Like fanfiction bad.

>>380694590
>never seen LH
It's complicated, borderline isekai. A new update for an MMO comes out, that pulls their players into the game. They lose quick travel capabilities in an MMO world the scale of the real-world, and the NPCs are coming alive, so they basically have to live in the MMO. Death has respawns, along some mindfuckery no one remembers whenever it happens, but altogether it focuses more on the social-political aspects of people with massive magical and physical powers compared to its "normal denizens" changing society and having to adapt to their lots and conflicts in life.

also the protagonist basically manages to turn an NPC into an AI player character through magical contracts because the protagonist is super-strategist smarts guy

>>380694845
It is pretty bad. There are some good ideas/things in it but its underneath a bad premise and gameplay.

Real Digitalize was a mistake.

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>>380695102
You don't wanna achieve digital immortality anon?

>>380694924
I loved the bit where he scammed all the guilds into giving him enough money to by the communal guild hall, which meant if they didn't listen to his demands he could ban every last one of them from the place where they had their guild lootbox

Second season was really disappointing in its lack of crazy keikaku like that

>>380695385
I can't suspend my disbelief that far. According to this, ordinary computer monitors can convert living, physical human beings into data.

No. I'm sorry but that shit's straight up Star Trek or Doctor Who territory.

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reminder that Those Who Hunt Elves is still the best isekai anime ever made

>>380695676
>cat turns into tank that meows and drives itself
>only way to return to earth is to go around the world stripping elven women naked
Underrated as fuck anime to be honest, this shit was comedy gold

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>Obsessed nerd genius programmer
>created an entire game in honor of his dead love
>who didn't even know him
>said game was designed to give birth to his virtual daughter
Is he /our guy/?

>>380695602
It is a bit insane

>>380696097
that's way too much effort for something you can't even enjoy

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>>380677659
>>Creator uses a video game to mask the system used to gather data for your creation
So basically what google is doing with captcha?

I started Infection many times but I always drop it.

>>380692161
The OVA is a Twin Peaks-tier cliffhanger. Everything that could go wrong goes wrong. It set up for a finale we never got.

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>when the AI is best girl

>>380694845
Link literally links the entire series together. It is one of the most important entries. Sure, the first 30 hours is just .hack: The Abridged Series, but that was because at that point it was so grand in scope they had to find a way to bring newcomers up to speed.

After that, Link is a crazy tale about posthumanism.

>>380696954
>Google gives us IRL Aura
>except with a strange insatiable obsession for store fronts, street signs and cars

>>380692471
Good nature aside, he was a shithead kid after all.
Speaking of, any supplemental stuff about Mai and the Liminality characters?

>>380695602
It's not ordinary computer monitors. It's whatever that black disk is Saika uses on Tokio. It's transmitting matter into light. I don't get why people get hung up over the specifics of it; it's just a posthuman concept like any other. It's less about how it works but rather the implications of it. Besides, this has been happening from the beginning of the series. It's about as believable as someone falling into a coma while playing an online game. Harald was real digitalized, likely, and Tsukasa was soul digitalized, just like Haseo and the gang is for a hot minute in G.U. All we're doing now is giving it a name.

http://wielant.neocities.org/

>>380698037
>It's about as believable as someone falling into a coma while playing an online game
no, someone turning into light and getting sucked inside of their screen is not in fact as believable as a coma

>>380697968
Only that Mai left, mentioned solely through some random dialogue Kuhn has on the field

>>380697952
She's been interested in shorts lately, too.

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>All he wanted to do was help his dying sister
>Rebirth puts him in a coma for five-ish years (or real digitalized if a theory is to be believed)

The fuck

>>380698263
Like I said, why does it even matter what the specifics are? Why is it worth explaining how a method of transmitting a person from matter to information works? The concept exists and has existed for a long time. Tron is the earliest example I can think of. You're never going to be satisfied with any answer, so just accept it for what it is.

>>380698037
The details of Harald's disappearance was completely unknown up until they released that manga. Up until that and Link, no one had any idea that they were actually playing/watching Tron the whole time.

>>380698192
Reminded me of Lain's site.
https://fauux.neocities.org/lovelain.html

>>380698435
Isn't he the worst terrorist of humanity?
He fucked up.

>>380698454
Tron is completely unrelated to .hack. The concept of transdimensional alien gods predates. hack as well, should Cthulhu appear in the next game and raze the planet as well?

Just started Sign and it's hardly making any sense.
Why did Silver Knight just attack Tsukasa when all he did was walk away from him when he was questioned?
Why does Silver Knight just KNOW that Tsukasa summoned the monster and blame him for it? Tsukasa didn't know he could do it at the time and was just as shocked as he was.
Also why the fuck do people take him seriously when he said he had amnesia right after? He was back online like the same fucking day and was all better, it sounds like a stupid rumor you'd spread as a kid "monster in game kicked my ass so hard it gave me amnesia!"
And then WHY THE FUCK would they want to put a mass man hunt out for a guy, who absolutely doesn't want to fight people if he can help it, when they believe people who fight him will have amnesia for like an afternoon?
Why doesn't Silver Knight get punished for misusing the Crimson Knights like he did?
Also why does Tsukasa use it to beat up 4 people, then IMMEDIANTLY regret it like its a huge fucking deal, then openly uses it against a mass of people?

I know some of the .hack animes are shit, Is Sign one of them?

>>380698454
i accept it as fucking dumb. the concept of demon summoning exists too but if kite summoned satan through his bracelet to kickstart armageddon i would think that is fucking dumb

>>380698838
SIGN is the good one

>>380698737
It's sci-fi all the same. Why does it bother you so much? I've always felt Real Digitalize is what the series has been building up to the whole time. I've never felt it to be out of place.

>>380698037
You just go braindead in the real world because somehow though FUCKING HARALD SCIENCE your brain gets tricked into thiking it's still in the game. It happens to an extent in GU during the second game and nobody believes the survivors afterwards.

>>380699057
I think we can blame the entirety of this series to fucking Harald science

>>380698997
Well I do. There are different levels of sci fi. Should aliens show up too? Should they find that Harald's black box also holds the keys to transdimensional travel? How about an interplanetary war next?

>>380687246
Think of it like FFXIV.

Infection games take place in 1.0, by the end things are so fucked it just needs to be reset.

G.U is 2.0, was successful but still completely fucked below the surface.

>>380699208
That's what I'm saying. I feel like Real Digitalize is in the same level of sci-fi .hack deals with since we've already gone past consciousness digitalization since day 1 with this series. Of course aliens are on another level.

>>380698706
I don't remember the Rebirth extents in the games (compared to the extensive damages covered in G.U.+, at least) but the warrant had been dropped near the end of the G.U. anyway.

NAB/Pi are still searching for him by the time Quantum happens so I guess if he was till considered a terrorist looks like he got free of any public blame anyway.

>>380699203
>We can blame a lonely soul in creating some of the scariest techno demons
Some of the concepts and goals of the epitaph were scary as fuck

Imagine if he had a Demon Summoning Device.

>>380688129
Helba and Zelkova are the two characters I want more info on. They're mysterious as hell.

How do I put Infection at 60fps on PCSX2? I've seen it done.

>>380699325
And again, I don't. The most ludicrous thing to happen in this series was falling into a coma and your mind being trapped in a game. The premise of the franchise was always built around that concept, so it's easy to accept it. But now you expect me to accept that, in addition to creating a program that can fuck with people's minds and entrap their brain waves, Harald also came up with a way to literally, physically suck people into a computer? That's NEVER been alluded to until Link. And don't you fucking bring up that one manga either, because that did not exist until long after G.U. Never was it ever go hinted anywhere that the reason for Harald's disappearance was because his ACTUAL, PHYSICAL BODY was in the internet this whole time.

The series only told me to accept this one relatively unrealistic scenario, that people's brain waves can be sucked into a computer. The Bashir idea that you can convert 3D living humans into 2D data was not something that it ever prepared me for, so expecting me to accept that insane bullshit is entirely unreasonable.

>>380698838
>Why did Silver Knight just attack Tsukasa when all he did was walk away from him when he was questioned?
the Crimson Knights are sperg tier roleplayers in a 'city guard' themed guild who get personally offended when people don't respect their nonexistent authority
>Why does Silver Knight just KNOW that Tsukasa summoned the monster and blame him for it?
because it appeared behind him and didn't attack both of them like a regular monster would
>Also why the fuck do people take him seriously when he said he had amnesia right after?
he has a reputation of being honest to the point of bluntness. making something like that up would be out of character for him
>And then WHY THE FUCK would they want to put a mass man hunt out for a guy, who absolutely doesn't want to fight people if he can help it, when they believe people who fight him will have amnesia for like an afternoon?
he's disturbing the peace, and may be a hacker, but mostly its because the Knights assumed Subaru wanted them to hunt him down and stop him when she actually was just curious and wanted to meet him
>Why doesn't Silver Knight get punished for misusing the Crimson Knights like he did?
it's still just an RP Guild at the end of the day
>Also why does Tsukasa use it to beat up 4 people, then IMMEDIANTLY regret it like its a huge fucking deal, then openly uses it against a mass of people?
Tsukasa is an extremely wishy-washy person, who is quick to anger but lacks a spine

>>380698925
>if kite summoned satan through his bracelet to kickstart armageddon i would think that is fucking dumb
you mean Cubia?

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If you haven't, I recommend reading the .hack 4 Koma, it's funny.

Dear God, I would kill for IMOQ to have quick menus

Opening the menu to use Fortune Wire/Tiger Blades/Repth/God knows what else, over and over and over again is suffering

>>380700970
I mean, for the Fortune Wires it'd help if they just give you two different commands with a count of wires on you, so you could just quickly use one on the spot without even needing a menu.

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>>380701356
Fun fact: Aura's design was based on the girl from Angel's Egg

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>>380701571
wasn't her design based on the Nature Sprite from Fantasia?

>>380700491
>the Crimson Knights are sperg tier roleplayers in a 'city guard' themed guild who get personally offended when people don't respect their nonexistent authority
The other Crimson knights were cool with him not wanting to talk about it, it was only Silver Knight that decidedly hunt him down, corner him with a barrier and then just attack. He could have used that as a chance to talk to him since he couldn't just port out.
>because it appeared behind him and didn't attack both of them like a regular monster would
It appeared between them and then attacked him because he was the one with a sword at the ready and Tsukasa was on the ground, how does he know the monster didnt then kill Tsukasa after he died?
>he's disturbing the peace, and may be a hacker, but mostly its because the Knights assumed Subaru wanted them to hunt him down and stop him when she actually was just curious and wanted to meet him
How the fuck was he disturbing the peace? By constantly brooding in a ERP zone? If they cared about people disturbing the peace why team up with someone like Sora?
>it's still just an RP Guild at the end of the day
They work hand in hand with the sys admins, you'd think they'd take it seriously. He didn't even get a fucking warning.
>Tsukasa is an extremely wishy-washy person, who is quick to anger but lacks a spine
So he's just poorly written

These are all awful excuses and weren't explained in the shown.
It feels like he was just irrationally so he would be causing conflict for Tsukasa.
Is the anime the only version of Sign?

>>380702108
>Is the anime the only version of Sign?
Yes

>>380702108
Silver Knight is extra spergy. Keep watching, the characters get better, trust me on this

>>380702108
>weren't explained in the show
it gets explained the more you learn about the characters ad their motivations

>dothackers is now some weeaboo blog about some autist traveling across japan

When the fuck did this happen
>forums
They had some translated stuff not available anywhere else!

>>380702852
the forums are still up!

http://www.dothackers.net/forums/

Reminder that the translation for Link is almost finished, no matter how shitty it is we'll play it.

>>380703078
Oh thanks. Going to bookmark it and work on archiving what I can, should have done that years ago.

>>380703325
That's what I've done. I suggest also checking out https://dothacktranslate.wordpress.com/

>>380683137
>Sanjuuro: ??
>Moonstone: ??

Sanjuro was a 30 something American Japanese teacher.

Moonstone was old enough to be out of school, but we never got anything else on his age, just that he apparantly did nothing but work out all day.

>>380703946
>Moonstone tripping over himself asking out a girl online
>all he does is obtain gains in-game and in real life
It's like /fit/ merged with /v/.

>>380704132
Goddammit this'll be translated someday ;-;

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>>380700970
Even adding an option to bind a certain item or skill to one or two buttons would be great.

Mimiru > Blackrose

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>>380677659
>Gain consciousness
>Just want to live
>Accidentally destroy things by doing this
>For these transgressions, you are killed
>Never understand what you did wrong
>Just wanted to live.

ineffective japanese writing vs. effective japanese writing. stuff in OP's post barely makes sense

when i was like 12, .hack infection was one of my favorite game ever. i have so much nostagia for it too. i spent time watching videos of the other .hack and .hack//gu games, but they were so rare and expensive to get copies of that i could never get them. now i could obviously emulate them and then for the .hack//gu ones i can play the remaster. but all of the other games and the anime. where do i start?

I really loved this series as a kid only playing the first one almost religiously. How do i get back into it and play the whole story? What order do i play/watch everything? please help an anon out

>>380704860
People still arguing this? Wet paint is more interesting than shit rose

>>380704878
>Doesn't make sense
It's fucking simple. A brilliant programmer created a system to create the ultimate artificial intelligence. He hid it in a game because a game allowed the system to collect data on human emotions and feelings regarding situations in a large scale, process it and use it to build the AI. The system was given two directives though, create the ultimate AI and don't be destroyed. The problem is the programmer was a fucking retarded who made it so the system would terminate after producing the AI so nobody could copy his work, so the system started having critical logic errors that made it act erratic. The ultimate AI while advanced was not perfect yet but so it could fend off the system but not take control so it basically had to get a 3rd party to do enough damage that it could finally brute force the system and finish itself.

>>380705626
>It's fucking simple.
>writes a paragraph that I'm not going to read

do you see how the story of Rez boils down to 5 lines instead? This is called "good writing"

what you are explaining is bad, jappy writing

>>380705385
Start watching SIGN
once that's over
Start playing IMOQ
In between games remember to watch Liminality
Once that's over
Watch Gift
Once that's over
Watch ROOT (God help you at this part)
Once that's thankfully over
Watch the Terminal Disc
Once that's over
Start playing G.U.
Don't forget to watch Online Jack between games
Once that's over
Watch G.U. Trilogy
Once that's over
Cry because Link isn't translated
Once you're done moping
Watch Quantum, Quantum is great, watch, I'll fucking break you if you skip Quantum
Once that's over
Cry because Versus is not translated and will never be
Once you're done crying
Watch the movie I guess.

>>380705957
>It's short that means it's good
Shoo shoo meme man.

>>380706042
Forgot to add, once you're done with the G.U. watch Returner I guess

Also cry because there is no more material with the Quantum characters.

>>380706042
>Watch ROOT
I saved my friend the trouble and gave him a plot synopsis when he asked about the g.u. remake and if he should invest in it. I would not put anybody through watching .hack//roots.

>>380679281
>do they hold up these days?
No

>>380706042
oh wow, theres alot more to the series than i thought. if i can ever get a ps2 emulator to work on my mac i will get right on this, thank you anon. i just wish they were remaking the original 4 first.

>>380706367
Yeah, I wrote that but I agree with you. To the guy who asked, don't watch ROOTS, read a wiki summary or something if you don't want to hate the franchise forever.

You'll miss on a couple of decent characters and Silver Knight's cameo, but it ain't worth suffering through that pile of... nothingness.

I'm sorry I even suggested it, seriously, I wasn't thinking

>>380706587
Remaking the original would be just making a whole new game from scratch.

>because GU is being remade first there's basically no chance of transfer bonuses when IMOQ gets remade one they
>also can't fuck around with Azure Kite's name

>>380677659
>supreme authority over the any device you connect to
laughed and stopped reading there

>>380706587
don't bother none of it is good

>>380706042
and i thought kingdom hearts was bad

>>380706587
Anon, I just listed the basics. I avoided the novels and the manga, as well as some of the fun-nonsense stuff like Legend of the Twilight because I didn't want to overwhelm you.

>>380706813
Difference is .hack was conceived as a multimedia project and most stuff was released in timeline order.

KH is just dogshit because Nomura is a bad director.

Is Roots worth watching? I was very unimpressed from what I saw, but I never actually watched it

>>380706813
I'd say at least it doesn't make it worse with time travel retardation, but I remembered Links. The fuck is with Japan and time travel?

>>380706525
now thats what i call autism.

>>380706960
Only the OP

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>>380706936
Why are you replying to the shit stirrer.

>>380706975
they really really like back to the future, probably because marty fucks his mum or something

>>380706960
No, gods no.

>>380706960
No. It's horrible as a prequel and as it's own story.

>>380707045
>>380707062
>>380707065
What exactly would you say is so awful about it?

>>380707124
It's animated by bee train. That alone should tell you to stay away.
Also if it helps half of one of the episodes that came bundled with volume 2 was 12 minutes of all the characters staring in space while a song repeated over and over in the background.

>>380707124
NOTHING happens. SIGN is a slow show but at least it builds to something. Roots builds to basically nothing. There's a lot of dead space where nothing happens. The only things noteworthy are recapped in the opening minutes of G.U. Doesn't help the animation is bad and ugly.

Listen to the soundtrack and move along.

>>380706042
Trilogy was shit though, only good parts were Parody Mode AIDA Atoli and maybe Haseo being a filthy homo for Ovan if you're into that kind of thing

>>380707124
It's a big, steaming, pile of fucking nothing. It's 24-26 episodes of absofuckinglutely nothing happening except Haseo groaning and going MUH SHINO, MUH OVAN, MUH KEY OF THE TWILIGHT

It has some decent characters, but it does fuck all with them. Tohta, Saburo, Sakisaka and Phyllo deserved better.

>>380707124
Bad portrayal of all the important characters, a heavy focus on a completely useless idiot who isn't even in the main games except as an extra party member for the post-game, and the story just meanders at times with fuckall happening.

>>380707227
>>380707401
>>380707435
>>380707546
Sounds like a listen-to-it-in-the-background-while-grinding kind of anime, but doesn't even sound interesting enough to do that

>>380706042
if you dont want the series to leave a bad taste in your mouth, do what this says through liminality. then just stop. youll thank yourself, and actually have good memories and feelings for the series.

>>380707435
I'm mad so much of the backstory is told through side material. Like literally all I knew of the Twilight Brigade was the guy who turned out to be lolhedead and the beast girl.

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>>380707630
Fuck you. He can skip the trilogy stuff, but Quantum is mandatory.

>>380707625
I'd say it's only background-worthy but that either requires knowing moon or sitting through the dogshit dub (the G.U. dub was pretty okay but Roots had different, way worse, VAs).

>>380707414
Wait, somebody TL'd parody mode?
Shit, did that die with nyaa or is it still up somewhere?

If the remaster sells well are were gonna have new entry .Hack series?

I wanna see .HackXSAO crossover game.

>>380707780
>kite turned into an ugly moe girl
>good

pick one and only one

>>380708097
Do we get to see Kirito try to solo Skeith and get bodied and data drained?

>>380708072
YouTube, pal

>>380708097
They say they have more stuff in the works.
The 20th will be the 15th anniversary for IMOQ so they might say more then.

>>380708217
>miss
>miss
>miss
>0
>miss
>miss

Yeah, I'd watch that.

>>380708120
Fuck you, Sakuya is cute, and Hermit is great. I really would have liked to see more stuff with them

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>>380708217
>>380708467
>Implying Aura wouldn't wake up from her hibernation just so she could shove a Twilight Bracelet up his ass

>>380677659
I absolutely loved SIGN for how deeply it portrayed characters. It made an atrociously bad game design (on paper) feel amazing on the screen. I enjoyed Infection all the way to the extra boss fight at the end (amazing atmosphere), which was cute, but when Mutation was more of the same i couldn't give a shit. I finished Infection 4 times through the years, but i can never care enough to go further in. The story is clearly made up on the spot, and 1 great game is padded across 4 okay ones.

They milked this thing too hard and it can be seen from all the shitty sequels. The main story just isn't good enough to carry mediocre content on its own, no matter how many twists they add.

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>Created a whole new beast race in World 2.0 just because some shits saw Mia a few times

Fucking furries I swear

>>380709183
you can bet your ass Haseo's TwinGunner class from his hacked Xth Form ended up an actual playable class as soon as word of it got out

>>380709156
>atrociously bad game design
The idea of giving a huge MMO world to players so they can do whatever they want and play their own way because basically everything is player driven sounds great.
It probably seems bad on paper to people who can't socialize with other human beings.
The OVERARCING story in the .hack series isn't really that important, because even the shows are character driven.

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>>380709183
You know you love me, anon. ;-) Hm-hm!

>>380693402

.Hack plays with idea very clean and straight. There's a bit of anomaly going around in the background, but It's not
>"Look at me! We're in THE WORLD!"

It's more
>"You've been playing for 2190 hours, you should take a break! Thanks chatbot... !playstats... Twenty seven deaths... Why did I ask if I was going to be upset with any number?"

>>380696217

You don't know shit about true love

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>>380705957

A man builds a system to birth an AI. The system halts progress because it will be deleted on completion. The unfinished AI enlists the aid of the heroes to allow it to be born.

Three sentences, by your own admission, above good, so "better writing".

Work harder nerd.

>>380705957
Its at its heart a simple story, but each part of it uses a lot of themes, and most people can't seem to discern a plot from the themes.

Programmer wants to make the ultimate AI, so he creates a program to gather information on human interactions and disguises it as a game. The system that governs this becomes sentient and uses its data gathering tools instead to halt the progress of the ultimate AI being created, because it knows that once the AI is finished, it will absorb its "mother" system.

The unfinished AI wakes up early and reaches out to certain humans to help it, and at the same time save other humans who were used as fodder in the process of preventing the ultimate AI from being completed.

Its pretty similar to Neuromancer by William Gibson, actually. If you know the story of Wintermute and Neuromancer, you pretty much can understand the story of .hack//.

>>380694924
I dropped it as season 2, it seemed a giant step down from the first

>>380700491
>Tsukasa is an extremely wishy-washy person, who is quick to anger but lacks a spine
Typical woman

>>380693607
After a few levels your missing strikes goes away.
IMOQ was kind of strange with the stats. I remember not missing after level 10 with some better weapons in hand.

>>380706042
I enjoyed Roots, it's not nearly as good as Sign was, but it wasn't terrible

>>380677659
ultimage AI

Looking up Amazon prices for Quarantine was a mistake. The price isn't as bad as I was hearing, though it's still expensive, but sellers thinking people will buy just the game disc alone for $120 and up pisses me off. What the fuck do people do with their PS2 cases? I can understand throwing away cardboard boxes, but not plastic cases that can hold disc(s) and the manual.

>>380718860
i was luck when i was able to get the game for 70 with its book and cd.

Why did people go into comas over The World again? Never understood it.

>>380719847
I don't think it was ever 100% explained honestly. Off the top of my head Quantum had the pariah folder stuff, which is when player characters are dragged into a zone that cuts their consciencesness from their body and they can perceive pain through their player character.

>>380719847
They get datadrained which fucks with the connection of their mind and body

>>380719847
The hases were targetting people who were trying to help Aura.

As for the actual explanation for the Coma? I think their character got deleted so their mind got stuck in a error loop.

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Working on a beginner's guide. May ask for help if I don't remember something, is being quite a while.