>STACCATO>STACCATO>STACCATO
>>733338793>OLA REPTH>OLA REPTH>OLA REPTH
>Rig Geam >Rig Geam >Rig Geam
>VAK ROM>VAK ROM>VAK ROM
idk anything about this series post cool music
>Oh No Melon
Problem, Haseofags?>>733339110www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRl7frxqZ_M
>>733339110https://youtu.be/SnpiVqKDbt0?si=8rG_sWiwuWN_kCCy
Only played CyberConnect’s furfag gamesHow do I into .hack?
>>733339110https://youtu.be/zvZ8KI2mi4g?si=YzSAot89ouFAhEyi
>>733339110https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUf3ZY9aNfI
I want to fuck Black Rose
>>733339310Play IMOQ and self insert as Elk.
Alkaid best girl, best wife.
>>733339110This is my favorite trackhttps://youtu.be/oYcrt8bvAmg?si=OeD3YpYQlnGyZL1o
>>733339110https://youtu.be/hhSQfkY5bcI?si=X-8oOEImQ9ZsAG0u
>>733339110https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPg1pwgmm4k
Mimiru > Shit Rose
>>733339146meh>>733339175cool>>733339391cool>>733339457great>>733339823very nice>>733339978very nice>>733340339very coolwhat's .hack?
>>733339110https://youtu.be/-B588Yp8uF0?si=axON-BfYp_HB09rE
>>733340525It's a game about a cursed mmo that puts people in comas. The whole game takes place on the main character's computer.
>>733339110The anime probably has the best anime OST of all time
>>733340557>Yuki Kajiurawow
:)
>>733339110I wonder if Z.E.R.O will have the one thing people remember the zero forhttps://youtu.be/Qq0h0FNbnSw?si=jnljvhpncJwuJLXk
Kite was pretty cool.>Vol.3>Run into Cubia. Lios is secretly watching and also sees Cubia for the first time.>Despite the life-threatening situation, Kite noticed Lios' presence and took note of it. >Later, Lios gets sick of Helba constantly calling him a pig-head.>Kite: "Okay, then prove you're not a pig-head." >At this point, he's gotten sick of Lios and Helba's bickering and decided to force Lios' cooperation.>Lios bluffs and tells Kite to defeat a Virus Bug without using Data Drain, and only then would he consider cooperating. Kite calls the bluff, thought BlackRose isn't convinced.>Kite defeats the Virus Bug without Data Drain, forcing Lios to admit defeat. He reveals to BlackRose that he knew Lios was bluffing the whole time. He also reveals that he knew Lios was spying on them during the previous fight with Cubia.>Lios, thoroughly defeated, is forced to accept Kite's terms.Kite is a pretty blatant power fantasy in different way from Haseo. But personally, I do think this was sort of necessary. They needed to showcase just why Kite was qualified to be the leader, and not just coasting on the power of the bracelet. Him decisively choosing to destroy the bracelet while fighting Cubia for the final time was also part of it. It showed that Kite was someone capable of weighing his options and make necessary sacrifices to keep his party alive, and it also clearly showcased that his worth wasn't tied to a magic bracelet, that he didn't need Data Drain to be a hero.
>>733339110ok.https://youtu.be/UecO4efnHrA
>>733338793How the fuck has this not been rereleased anywhere yet?
>>733340557>>733340740She replayed some songs with FictionJunction some years ago.https://youtu.be/WgMvOW0tFgM?si=j2yB1tIM32kNVMIG
>>733340740Yeah, unfortunately she left .hack to work on Gundam.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpOdFxTC8ZQ
>>733340965Thats what happens when you're a well adjusted normalfag who played the game out of necessity to save his buddy as opposed to a depressed chick with daddy issues and an edgelord that lost his childhood memories and online girlfriend
>>733340743I don't want to see Elk be broken again...
>>733341060https://youtu.be/xRG1nyzUNs8?si=7YpmXYQwwy8aaxVY
>>733340965destroying the bracelet was definitely a cool moment, but going into the Corbenik fight with no plan other than the power of friendship and hoping Aura would do something is retarded.
>>733341274Turns out it was the power of "Elk stops being a bitch and takes one for the team"And THEN the power of Friendship
>>733341197Elk is an asshole. I gave him an aromatic grass once and he didn't even care.
>>733341274It was necessary. They couldn't defeat Cubia directly and they had no other options. If they fell into comas, then all hope was lost either way. From a narrative standpoint, the entire reason, the ONLY reason that Cubia actually exists is for there to be an enemy that can't be defeated with Data Drain. Its only purpose is to force Kite to destroy the bracelet.
>>733341060https://youtu.be/kwBT-sPVAxk?si=xkzBfPloyoLhYqv5
https://youtu.be/cMGHr_4DyCo?si=kK6z6Cu1CZDAp7Oi
Gorre is the coolest phase and I'm tired of pretending otherwise.
HOW COME I MUST KNOWWHERE OBSESSION NEEDS TO GOHOW COME I MUST KNOWTHE DIRECTION OF RELIEVING
>>733342187I'm partial to Fidchell myself. I was not happy hearing it speak.>"All will be flayed alive by my electric fury."
>Realizing Endrance chose Blade Brandier as his class because Mia's class was a Blademaster in R:1
>>733342318DEEP IN THE NIIIIIIGHTFAR OF THE LIIIGHTMISSING MU HEADACHEEEE
>>733342383>Get a cat AI GF>She gets destroyed because it was needed to save everyone>She comes back but she lost her memories>She deleted once the game shuts down>She actually survived and was reconstructed, but you have no way of even knowing that>Fall into despair and turn into a recluse anti-social NEET>Play the new version of that game>Think you finally found her after all these years, >She threatens to with leaving you constantly>Find out it wasn't even her, but a new type of AI feeding on your memories>Despair againElk, had a hard life.
>>733342187It was always Skeith but Macha, Tarvos, Magus, and Innis are all really fucking solid.
>>733342383A lot of them were kinda like that.>Yata chose Macabre Dancer because it's actually the closest to how Wavemasters played in R:1. Wavemasters were masters of both offensive, supportive and healing magic, but these roles were split across different classes in R:2. Macabre Dancer is a support class, but it was better than Shadow Warlocks at healing and better than Harvest Clerics at damage.>Out of all the classes in R:2, Adept Rogues are actually the closest to Twin Blades in R:1. In R:1, Twin Blade was a jack-of-all-trades class, being equally good at both physical attacks and magic. Twin Blades in R:2 are just speedy, but aren't particularly good at magic. Adept Rogues were worse at magic at the dedicated mage classes, but better than every other class.
>>733342919Being in love with furries is suffering.
Did Hilda ever come back in future .hack works after this? I know the game got destroyed/rebooted once or twice, and even Aura sort of just wandered off one day.
>>733340461What did she do after sign?
new Chadtsuyama interview https://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/interview/2086491.html>There were many attempts to make more .hack games after Link apart from the mobile games that people know about but none of them got off the ground>This mainly happened because Daisuke Uchiyama who he originally created the series with made his way up the ladder at Namco and backed him when he came to them with this 30th anniversary plan (like how Yosuke Saito backing Yoko Taro at Square got Nier Automata created)>Usually Matsuyama has 0 support from inside the publisher when he goes to negotiate which is why he called Uchiyama out by name >he sees Z.E.R.O like being able to go from Persona 3 to 4 to 5 without playing any of the prior ones (as a reminder Matsuyama is friends with Katsura Hashino outside work)>Confirmed there will be a new multimedia campaign>made a joke about .hack zero vs. Z.E.R.O
>>733340772It is a really sweet song.
>>733343045Adept Rogue was OP because of the weapon swapping. They tried to "balance" it by denying Adept Rogues specialized growth and the "ultimate" moves of other classes but that ultimately did just make them better than everyone else.Their supposed balanced stat line ultimately made them dish out more damage that something that's weak but fast and tank more hits than something that's fragile but does lots of damage.Thankfully, this was balanced in G.U. by the fact that this only applied to Haseo and the Adept Rogue companions we got were just objectively weaker and had less skills to work with because they would literally never swap classes.
>>733342919She doesnt get deleted because of R:1 shutting downCCorp tracks her down and kills her after Quarantine for her Phase dataThen her leftover data fragments persist and fuse to Endrance's Player Character in R:2
>>733343419swap weapons*
>>733343419Nah, there were a few silly oversights. In terms of how G.U. balanced characters, Haseo as an Adept Rogue was just objectively better than Twin Blades. There were no differences in basic animation speed, so Haseo moved just as fast as a Twin Blade character while also hitting harder and being tankier and being better at magic. Also, starting from Vol.2, Haseo got updated animations for Twin Blades, but the actual Twin Blade characters like Alkaid just kept using Vol.1 animations.
>>733339175Man nothing in the series or the new entry will ever top I'M NOT GIVING UP
>>733342569Always wondered who is this chick supposed to be. Tsukasa's IRL player? A representation of that chick Harald had a crush on? IRL Helba?
>>733343678Haseo summoning Skeith for the first time?
>>733343542Haseo is the most OP character by far for sure but that's partly because he's the playable character.
I finished GU but never these games as a kid. Worth going back and playing them?
>>733343289our guy
>>733339391>rammed Vol 1 and 2 into the same movie and wrap the entire narrative up while keeping only Ovan's sister from Vol 3, cut Cubia, cut everything that basically isn't Atoli's story >make turbokino anyway because the game composer did the entire soundtrack
>>733343821Adept Rogues were unironically the objectively best PvE class, even if you ignore G.U.'s Haseo-centric balancing. Every enemy was weak against a certain type of weapon. Armored enemies were weak to Edge Punisher, flying enemies were weak to Twin Blade. Adept Rogue was the ONLY class that could take advantage of every enemy weakness. Even if lorewise they were worse at PvP, it's impossible for them to be anything but the absolute best at PvE based on how enemies were balanced.
>>733343753https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn2nqr7ax6AGOD IT'S SO FUCKING GOODI've gotta replay these games. Bought Last Recode for PC so I could do that right now. Shame my PS4 is fucked.
>>733343828You guys never doubted Piros' words, right?
>>733343931Irrelevant when it's a party based game.
>>733343931Yeah, Adept Rogues were definitely unbalanced. I agree with you. If you read my post, I was echoing your sentiments by expanding on them and saying that they're ONLY bad as the partner characters in the console releases.We're agreeing that the in-canon statements of Haseo being an outlier is bullshit and the writers didn't know what they were talking about.
I want to play the original games but they’re too expensive and my computer is a piece of shit that can’t emulate them. Why the fuck have they not put them on anything else despite the games being so expensive and hard to find? I’m actually so pissed off at this. How am I supposed to catch up before the new game now?
>>733343753That one was pretty good, but my favorite part of GU was Atolis awakening and the fight with Innis
>>733344107>Have two friends>They BOTH choose Harvest>Have to pick Adept because your friends are retards
>>733344179>my computer is a piece of shit that can’t emulate themIs your computer like 20 years old or something? How can you not run a PS2 game at native resolution on PCSX2?
>>733338793i miss .hack, that game lives on in my memories along with early 90's and 2000's mmo culture.i miss the type of gamers that used to play them, the quiet slow burn nerd types.now it's all fucking insufferable sweats and meta toads
>>733344040>The reveals of Atoli and Bo being able to see Avatars>Haseo fucking IMMEDIATELY drunk off his newfound power>The genuine panic in Kuhn's and Atoli's voices>"He's the second coming of Endrance!">"OVAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!!!!">"I'm Gabi! :D" right afterwardsI fucking love GU so much man
https://x.com/PIROSHI_CC2/status/2024320145926344760bro wants to spend the next decade focusing on their original content instead of licensed arena fighter slop JJK schizos BTFO eternally
>win tournament>get "rare swords">they're common weapons you can pick up in any high level area of the Delta Server>immediately become obsolete in the next server.
>>733344357I this any way for a pregnant woman to act?
>>733344040>and then she developed a corruption fetish, and then she went into a coma and it was all ultimately his fault, and then when she woke up they got married
>>733344052>ApologizeI kneel...
>>733344040>>733344358>dubCringe.
>>733338793I think I only got to play the first one like 15 years ago. One day I'll play the rest.
Just gonna make a quick guide to get into IMOQ for newcomers:>Infection is the hardest game to get into due to the weapons not having many abilities yet>Kite will mainly play the role of healer in infection>prioritize weapons with elemental skills>atk power and physical attacks>try and spread out different elemental attacks among party members so that you're more likely to be prepared for dungeons>STOCK UP ON ANTIDOTES!!! Mimics can kill your run in the most frustrating way if you are unprepared >get comfortable in menus and learn to give your party members commands as early as possible. This plays, in a way, similar to FFXII than a standard ARPG. Your goal is to kill enemies as fast as possible with the right skills via your various party members>learn type weaknesses asap>READ THE CORE GUIDE unless you don't mind progress being locked behind rng drops. some people don't mind this, a majority of people I've talked to do>embrace trading and learn it early. Trading is broken and you can usually start later entries with end game or close to end game gear>test dungeons. go in, see the types, then back out, warp out, re-equip with the type weaknesses, and go back inposted it a couple times, but here's an audio on my breakdown of the series as well as some tips if you are interested. It's a series that I'm always glad I played through, but it's not necessarily fun:https://files.catbox.moe/gap3qd.mp3>>733343289That is one heck of a face. Really hoping they can make the miracle happen.
>>733343827Not really. Having to pause combat and use menus to use any ability slowed down the game. The later volumes get grindy for data cores where you have to look up which keywords spawns small enemies so you can get the right data core. Using data drain too much can cause a game over based on chance.Each game is pretty short if you get the level and equipment grinding out of the way. There was no reason to sell you the game four times, they could have fit everything on one disc. No, selling you a short 15 minute anime didn't make up for it.I can sort of excuse GU since there are actual cutscenes, three games versus four, and there's a modern port to play now.
>>733344602Shut up, turbo weeb. Nobody cares.
>>733344641I always find it funny how .hack fans have a weird love for the series yet it may be the only fanbase of any series that acknowledges how bad it is.
>>733344469how do you think she got pregnant in the first place! :)
>>733339110https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiQ2gTJQSIUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E3lSb8Vm3ghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2q0k-fF9J8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erNGrVvNd2c
>>733344641I really do hope they don't do Episodic with this game. Put out a 60 to 80 hour game and call it, if the game does well then do a full sequel.Don't try to sell me the game divided into 20-30 hour chunks because that shit just don't fly now. They could do episodic DLC I guess but even that will just fucking kill the game.They probably fucking will though because even Asura Wrath sold the true ending as DLC and Fuuga was 3 damn parts and ended on a cliffhanger.
>>733344719I played the games and watched the two associated shows with it and they're all average at best..hack//Sign was so boring and Roots had QUALITY problems.
>>733344357>>733344469>I'm sorry I disappeared for so long. Now, I'm a mom! It's a girl!Me in the left.
>>733344758Whoa *_* 8=====D
>>733344797the music is .hack was god tier, pre SAO this genre was king shit
>>733344357Same VA
>>733344991i love them both so that makes sense also flonne > etna
>>733344634also, depending on your ability to handle loss and progress, quicksave in emulators before heading into boss rooms (you'll know em when you see them). These games are brutal in their willingness to waste 30 minutes to an hour of dungeon crawling and progress. If you're an autistic purist like me, disregard.>>733344884Same. It's just funny because almost every other fandom across the internet will excuse any bit of mediocrity in their poison of choice as "peak", meanwhile, even on /vg/ people are quick not to recommend these games even though they love them (I'm in the same boat mind you). It's such an odd phenomenon considering our generation.
>>733344797I got so sick of this first song lmao There was definitely some sense of relief in finishing a dungeon in IMOQ though, probably because of how oppressive the environments were. I also really liked the roaming dungeons that would appear in the sky on each server even if you couldn't get to them until super late game. I do wish the flying giant corpse on Delta Server had you spend more time on the outside instead of it being yet another crawl through the innards dungeongetting to the beast statue in GU PS2 offered the same at times but not for the same reasons
>>733344991back when female dub actors could actually act and had personality.>>733345059pure taste
>>733344313Gaming back then>Experimenting with fun and different builds depending on your play style>Who gives a shit if half your armor has stats you don't use>Just use abilities/spells who gives a shit about the rotationGaming now:>ONLY ONE BUILD ALLOWED>MUST HAVE BEST IN SLOT ARMOR AND WEAPONS>MUST FOLLOW ROTATION TO A T AND MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOUR FUCKING SOUL IF YOU LAG AND HAVE A DPS DROP
>>733345131>back when female dub actors could actually act and had personality.LOL
>>733345278better than the lethargic way they read off scripts now filled with all their girl growls.
>>733344884Roots bored me to death, but the music was Kino.Opening by FictionJunction and ED and some OSTs by Ali Project. Can't ask for more.
>>>/vg/
>>733344641Despite the clunkiness of the games I still very much enjoy replaying them. It's a very immersive experience and enjoyable to try different characters I didn't really use previously.
>>733345098>I got so sick of this first songIt's alright, my personal favorite will always be this field theme.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aziiJJ9TAto
>>733345098I just wish GU didn't hit the brakes on the difficulty. Trying to figure out the quickest way to beat and encounter in IMOQ was one of the major good things about those games and it always felt satisfying when several characters attacks lined up with a big enemies weakness. In GU the moment you learn about guard or dash cancelling, you are going to be juggling every encounter till the end of the game and, even though you can access your party memebers attacks, there are 0 reasons to use them... I mean, hell, give me a double rengeki so there's at least a reason to interact with controlling your party members.
>>733345380ywnbaj
>>733344179Do you have a fat PS2? If so you can softmod with FreeMCBoot and run the games from a hard drive with the proper adapter.
>>733336467i said i wasn't going to come here anymore but i just finished SIGN this instant and i wasn't expecting that ending, now i want to eviscerate this "enemy"
>>733345452Eh I only stopped getting shredded by GU bosses in Vol. 3, and nude Haseo Cubia still took awhile even then Ovan at the end of Vol. 2 I think was the single hardest fight of the whole thing
>>733345560>now i want to eviscerate this "enemy"Have fun, anon. That's the whole point of IMOQ.
>>733343841CGI from 2008 has soul.https://youtu.be/c5ENJEPqQI4?si=Nw1tclCuvuuT-dC-
>>733338793Stop crying it will do you no good.
>>733345608i just hope i can save sora when i inevitably have to fight skeith, the guy was an asshole but a lovable one
>>733345592did you know how to cancel your attacks when you initially played it? I had very little difficulty with GU to the point of painful monotony, but I'm also a try hard
>>733345768You kinda do. But not immediately.
Muyu
>>733344040Gabi asking "is it over already?" means he didn't even watch the fucking fight lmfao
>>733345452>Trying to figure out the quickest way to beat and encounter in IMOQ was one of the major good things about those gamesThat shit is basic gameplay in every JRPG dude.
>>733345297>reboot/spiritual successorI'd say I'm saddened by this, but I really would be fine with just references and call backs at this point since its been so long.
>>733345876Gabi is fucking insane lolHigh end college professor IRL and one of the top Guildmasters online and just doesnt give a fuck
>>733345818i'm not reading that but thanks
>>733345876Non Epitaph users cant see Epitaphs thoughThey probably saw Haseo do a regular ingame attack
>pc port crashes exactly after an hour of play time :'(((
>>733345965when the moment happens, you do get rewarded the 2nd best weapon in the game and it's Sora's own blades
>>733338793Many are saying this
>>733345139>sorry pal we need to beat 20 year old content faster and make artificial competions out of this
>>733346012i'm not reading that spoiler either but i think i know which weapon i'm going to get, hope i'm right because that would be sick,now i need to listen to this audiologhttps://files.catbox.moe/gap3qd.mp3
I LOVE BROWN GIRLS WITH BIG SWORDS
>>733346296Am I supposed to know who this is?
>>733346371AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Man I forgot how hyper seriously they took PKing in these games. They treat it like only psychos and hyper sadists do it and REALLY tried to insist there were "proper" ways to PK and that PKKing was a thing lmao
>>733346296lol, posted that this thread and the last one as it's just easier to share than a novel, but I try and do tl;dr. I don't think it has any spoilers and hopefully it doesn't dissuade you from playing, but I feel like people will have a better chance getting into IMOQ if they know what they are getting into.
>>733346405just some anon who beat the games during the coof
>>733338793The new game will 100% play like FF7R since CC2 were the ones originally making that game before Squeenix took it back due to them being too faithful to the original.
>>733346486>They treat it like only psychos and hyper sadists do it Back in the days with MMOs like Ultima Online was no shit to laugh being PKed.Even in recent years the venezuelan's hunt from Runescape was wild serious shit.
>>733346665>Tfw you're a venezuelan running from PKs trying to steal your daily farm that is literally what will give to feed your family.
>>733345994data drained...
>>733346486To be fair, you do have to be a bit of a psycho to enjoy camping low level quest hubs as a max level player and 1 shotting any noob that passes by.
>>733346665Yeah but they went REALLY overboard and it was REALLY funny.Also I just remembered how fucking confused I was initially when seeing Kite's appearance being used by another character. God I love this game.
>>733346486>They treat it like only psychos and hyper sadists do itand they're right. just look at ark raiders.
>>733346665In Ultima Online added rewards for being a PKK, even a PK's wanted list because the PKs were registered.It didn't go well because the PKs and PKKs started to share the rewards between them.
>>733347245I can tell you got ganked a lot lol
If Bandai was smart they'd put Last Recode on sale to take advantage of the .hack hype. There are going to be a lot of people trying them just out of curiosity
>>733346296yeah, listening to this again there are really no spoilers. Whelp... time to play Link and then Fragment in that order. Figure if Link is as bad as they say at least Fragment will be a familiar kind of bad that's still enjoyable. >>733346486That was one of the things that bothered me going from IMOQ to GU. They overdramatized so much of the MMO aspects where in IMOQ it feels relatively grounded, but Sign sorta did that too so it's sort of hard to fault it for that completely. Still, it's hard to take the whole pker/pkker element too seriously. if you read the external posts in the forums about it, I have a feeling most of us would be mocking the anti-pk crowd ruthlessly.
>>733347361If Bandai was smart they'd do a lot of things.
>>733347245back in the first mmo days camping somebody was a grave offense, you'd call for 6 goons to come stomp their neck till they logged off if it got done, and usually turned itno random guild wars in the open fields
>>733346486>They treat it like only psychos and hyper sadistsThey aren't wrong. PKing is psychologically pretty similar to torturing animals unironically.
>>733347361>that jarring jump between cutscene styles from part 1-3 to 4
I've never played any of these games but I would like to someday. I've got a working PS2, anyone know where I can find some copies? Also the cat rabbit thing lady is hot.
so old bros...what was your f2p .hack like mmo?
>>733347385I would ABSOLUTELY be mocking the anti-pk crowd ruthlessly. I remember playing on a PVP server as a noob in WoW when a bunch of alliance PKers rolled into town slaughtering everything.I remember cowering in fear, my character crouched down behind a flipped over table, watching the massacre from what little my camera would allow me to see out the nearby door.I remember whispering to another player while it was going down when suddenly an alliance guy walked in, looking for people in the small little house. Thankfully, our character were tightly packed behind the flipped up table and he couldn't see us. Dude was max level and I was like level 20 or something. He ran out after a quick look to join his friends.It was super intense and made a really fond memory of emergent gameplay and experiences.That was my first experience with PK and it was TONS of fun, even as the hunted.
>>733347587>anyone know where I can find some copies?haha... HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAHHA!!!!Hope you have a big wallet to fit all that cash you're about to spend. Real talk though, just emulate them. They aren't worth the asking price and you'd be mad at yourself for spending all that money by the time you got to the last game.
>>733345297>real world gameplayThis is going to be interesting. Basically, playable Liminality.
>>733347505>and usually turned into random guild wars in the open fieldsRunescape had organized a war against venezuelan players for economic crisis.
>>733347505>Ending up on some guild's kill-on-sight list
>>733347698I dont remember giving you permission to post in this thread, dickrice
>>733339110https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgJ-YljvzR0
>>733347612This reminds me the NA versions of IMOQ, had parody mode removed.
>>733347774what are you gunna do about it? HUH? Also the name is OHM RICE, get it right!
>>733347698butt rice
>>733347612bro doesn't deserve Pi and was way better in IMOQ. Haseo should beat him up.>>733347613What's funny is the forum posts in GU sound almost exactly like the kind of posts you see places like reset era or reddit making today begging for easy or pve only modes (including the down to earth people entering and telling people they don't understand how that would ruin the experience). One thing CC2 always was good at was calling the near future and making very believable internet conversations.Also, that's a wild story. Always sad I didn't have the money to play WoW back in the day. I desperately wanted to, but I was on a toaster and I couldn't keep up with the monthly fee. Years later I finally gave it a try, but that was after nu-blizzard had done their damage and the game was all but empty.
>>733347698>Buttrice has arrived.PRAISED AND SAVED THREAD
GU's biggest fucking hater here, gonna try to play it for the 6th time. Hopefully i have a decent perspective finally.
>>733347816.......... there's a parody mode in the japanese copies.... no anon... don't activate my completionist autism... I can not go back to that hell....
>>733347912Have fun bro.
>>733347912eh... where as IMOQ there's some tips I could share to make it fun, with GU it's just to not learn how to cancel attacks. The moment you do any semblance of difficulty for the rest of the game goes out the window and it becomes an okay VN/Anime Movie with long stretches of "press x to win"The tacked on card game is sorta fun tho.
>>733347654I'll take your word for it and go that route then.
the .hack earliest games are time capsules for how we used to speak on the internet when it was all geeks
>>733347829Where's my Haso army?
>>733338793>REPTH....HAH
>>733347994also, if you are playing the pc remaster, see if there's any difficulty mods to make the enemies more aggressive. >>733348035That's a wise decision. Here are some quick tips before you jump in: >>733344634if you like very basic old school dungeon crawlers and PSO, you should have an alright time.
going to play G.U. for the first time. should i just emulate the ps2 games? i heard the remaster is too easy, and from what i have seen there isn't a mod that truly restores the difficulty to that of the original game's. it would be nice playing with the enhanced graphics and QoL improvements, but i hate when games are mind numbingly easy.
>>733347891I've PKed myself in various games but it's never been my passion. Player vs Player doesn't hold the same appeal to me as fighting giant monsters, gods, dragons, and the like. That event though really showed me the appeals of PK. Grabbing some friends and raining hell down on unsuspecting victims, sneaking around, hell trying to SURVIVE has its own appeals.The part I left out about that story was the best part too. I totally forgot. The person hiding with me had no idea I was behind the table and was looking for a spot to hide. I told them to get down so they could hide but their dumb ass didn't even know how to use emotes so I had to quickly whisper to them how to use /sit.The PKer came rushing over just as they managed to sit down behind the table. It was so stressful dude.I was so worried this player would get me caught or the pker would use an AoE attack/spell to try to flush anybody hidden out.PKing is a great mechanic and absolutely deserves to be in MMOs.
Alright goodnight fellas and fellettes.
so will there be an imoq remaster?
>>733348219gnite omurice
>>733348231no lolyou get the reboot
OLD MENREPORT INON YOUR HAIRLINE
>>733348219G'night.
>>733348120>Here are some quick tips before you jump inThanks, I'll keep those in mind.>if you like very basic old school dungeon crawlers and PSO, you should have an alright time.I like the first thing, never played PSO.
>>733347816>the .faqqer boardsI talked on these when I was a self-conscious thirteen-year-old and remember feeling vaguely uncomfortable that the entire community seemed so much older and more sophisticated than I.
>>733348261gay shit
>>733348264not looking good chief
>>733348264I still have it but the greys are no longer able to be ignored.
>>733348067probably. I know more than once when reading through the forums did some old online speak make me nostalgic. >>733348219>that tripL O L>>733348146Man, I really missed out, but I'll just be happy I was able to be there for some old arena shooters and CS 1.6. It's wild how different online conversations used to be on those. Still, with experiences like that I can see why people are so desperate to hold onto the game even though it's no doubt a pale imitation now. >>733348231I wonder if they've lost the assets and code for it. >>733348269Ah, it's just a very basic arpg format that easily fit into an mmo. The game took notes from that one.
>>73334826431 with pair of blue cubias cause' of Morganna/evil Aura, reporting.
>>73334826433 reporting in
>>733348409>it's no doubt a pale imitation now.You can say that again.Anyway, I really hope they keep some of the campiness from the old games but also incorporate some normal people as PKers to act as the straight men to the DERANGED lunatics.It'd be really funny having normal people react to the slavering lunatics with "Dude, relax. It's just a game." only for them to get all huffy about it lol
>>733346486You lose all your items and EXP that you get on the field when you get PKed since even though The World is an MMO it still operates with a save point system with no auto saves.Also there's no reward for PKing another player other than personal satisfaction, so you come off as a psycho for doing it.
>>73334826435Hairline is good but tops thinning out a bit.
So what happened to the player character Kite? Did he just get a job irl and drop The World or what?I'm not going to play GU.
>>73334826434 here, hair is fine.
>>733348613He's Cristiano Ronaldo now.
>>733348613Pretty much that. There's tidbits about him and Black Rose being an item outside of the World but nothing concrete. He works at CCCorp with Piros.
>>73334826435. I had a Vegeta tier hairline at like 14, there was never any hope for me. On the plus side it got me to work out since everyone thought I had cancer after I shaved it since I was a pale skinny faggot.
>>733348613Wage slaving as a salaryman
>>733348676Fellow 35 and /fit/ bro.Though I'm more /out/ and skateboarding myself, but it beats the fat shut in I was in my 20's.
>>733348552You still get EXP for it and it's a great chance to be opportunistic. When a player is in a battle, there's a giant blue circle screaming "I'm in a battle and thus vulnerable!" so I can see why PKers would go after them.I'm also not sure there's much in the way of lore on PKing in general since it was used as a convenient "These are bad people!!!" sticker
>>73334826439I have to cut my hair often otherwise I start to look like picrel.My dad still had all his hair in his 70s, so I'm not worried about it.
>>733348676Good job, Anon. Now tan your skin to be like Yata.
>>733348675>>733348684Seems like an appropriate end for him. He was mainly just playing to help his dumb friend.
>>733348754I'm not the oldest one here... thank God. I'm the oldest of my brothers, oldest of my friend group, and sometimes I feel like I'm becoming one of the oldest on here.
>>733348684He really liked soccer tho. Too Bad.
>>733348774Eyup. As an aside, I really liked the motivation Kite had. As a kid whose friend just got coma'd in a video game, I feel like most of us that age would have done the exact same thing. It's an oddly believable setup wether they meant it to be or not.
>>733348820>One of us
>>733348992>that picOh the ironing.
>>733348992Don't ever die, anon.I don't want to be the oldest.
>>733348992>WisemanBut he was like 10 years old
>>733348675>>733348684I thought he became an archeology teacher
>>733349070Nah, I'm joking. I'm the 31 one lol :^)
>>733349118His email chain was one of my favorite in the game. The way you slowly piece together who he is irl was fun.>>733349123There's so much additional material that retcons others, it's really hard to say. Haseo's is almost as bad as there's a whole radio drama that was canon for years, then part 4 happens and doesn't seem to take it much into consideration but doesn't outright conflict with it. >>733349198No... NO!!
>>733343289>creates game series with his nigga>his nigga grows inside the company and he doesn't>corpos don't give a shit about him>his nigga backed him up instead of just ignoring him tooDamn I could fucking CRY with this.
>>733348264luckshitted hair geneticsunluckshitted being ugly and unmarried
>>73334826435Hair is fine but wish it was better. Somewhere between a norwood II and III. Might get back on my micro-needling routine.
>everyone is always circle jerking the quirky bunny or furbait >nobody talks about the best most autistic girlIt's okay Gardenia. I'll always accept your one word messages.
So after browsing these last .hack threads... Do you guys hate G.U. or something? Is there some Dark Souls 1/3 vs 2 thing going on? IMOQ gets talked about a lot or maybe I'm the one focusing to much on it, I don't know.
If it doesn't have Anno's art then it ain't dot hack. Sorry but I'll pass on this.
>>733348675>him and Black Rose being an item outside of the WorldLucky boy
>>733338793GUESS WHO'S BACK.HACK IS BACK
>>733350010I love her too, anon. She’s definitely underrated.
Ugly ass design
>>733350054I love the entire series, as do a lot of .hack fans... but it's just... well, you can write an essay on every entry and all the things wrong each one does.G.U. has its good points for sure. The graphics at the time were really nice, the ost is great, and generally speaking, the story was a step up from IMOQ which can be a bit too cryptic for its own good and a lot of the party characters were bland and had little reason to be there. Problem is, if you read my previous posts, it left the "real" feeling of sort of stumbling into an internet urban legends behind and super dumbed down the gameplay and dungeon crawling. In IMOQ the dungeon crawling was already monotonous, but in GU it's monotonous and painfully simple and easy (which is why I recommend people not learn how to cancel their attacks as it basically becomes "press x to win".).hack is just one of those super flawed series that for some reason a lot of us have an odd love for. Could just be as simple as nostalgia, but I think the art direction, ost, and concept are a big reason even though the execution is almost always horribly flawed.
>>733350181Nah Pi is sexyHer Avatar is fucking terrible though
>>733350059It's Sadamoto's art tho.Too bad he was cancelled.
>>733350181>>733350260Haseo lived with her for several months while dating Atoli.
>>733350302I dont blame himBeing around Atoli must be like a combo of vertigo and getting punched in the balls
>>733350340She basically becomes Chichi in part 4... so yeah.
>>733350181She'd be so much better without the twintails. >>733350260There's only so much you can do with a crucified snake>>733350054IMOQ is infinitely more interesting than GU even if it is objectively a worse game.
>>733350010She's my fav IMOQ girl, hope we see her in the new game.>>733350301Really? Qrd?
>>733350010>>733350116
>>733350260So... you agree the design is ugly?
>>733350054I don’t think people hate G.U. but there’s definitely a difference in the vibe between the two series. I think a lot of posters in these threads are old school fans that started with SIGN and/or IMOQ and are going to prefer talking about those in their hype for the new game.
>>733350382Atoli was and is always an annoying cuntGlad Haseo dumps her for Pi
>>733350010>>733350116>>733350502>maxed her affection first>get the "I want to see you." Email>even though I try and he nice to Piros keep getting his email answers wrong>he's my lowest affinity character>get the "you don't like me very much, do you?" Email from him at the same time I get Gardenia'sIt was bitter sweet.
>>733350561He doesn't dump her.He's just secretly living with an older woman who may or may not have feelings for him and they know eachother on a first name basis..........
>sudden wave of dothack threadswhat happened?
>>733350626New game got announced. Its got people talking. Old people reminiscing about the goods and bads, new people interested in maybe giving the old games a go.
>>733350431>Really? Qrd?Some Anon said here yesterday he has a fervient WW2 Japan's war crimes negationism causing a bad public image for him.Something like that.
New game announced. The world rejoiced.
>>733350502Which manga is this from?
:^)
"Hark, he of fair eyes!"
>>733350737.Hack//XXXXShe only appear in this drawing below the dustcover, sadly.
>>733350431He got cancelled for calling out subversive “art” installations made by chinks and koreans for what they were, which was deliberately anti-japanese in nature.
>>733350302>Dating AtoliDamn, he got bad ended?
>>733350824>did you see my uber-secret super attack?
>>733350606
>>733350606>living with an older woman who may or may not have feelings for him and they know eachother on a first name basis..........GIWTWM...
>>733350992Canonically, he did get with Atoli and by part 4 she is nagging and assertive. Still, they are both good for eachother.Kuhn on the other hand... whoever came back to write part 4 HATED him. You wanna talk about a bad ending...
>>733343289Why is no one in the thread talking about this?
anybody got the rip for this from the pc port? there's gotta be a higher res version.
>>733350816
>>733351038>awaken Avatar>only promise to join GU if Pi is sent to live with you>Yata is a gaywad who would send her to do it>she would do it cuz Yata asked>you get hot bitchy mature wife>???>profit
>>733343289>Usually Matsuyama has 0 support from inside the publisher when he goes to negotiate which is why he called Uchiyama out by nameNot shocking at all since everyone guessed it, but still, fuck Bamco with a rusty drill, holy shit. How did the G.U. collection even happened?
>>733351091Are you sure that's not variable? Because it'd kind of invalidate the wedding endings.
>>733350874>She only appear in this drawing below the dustcover, sadlyDamn, that's lame
>>733351139Now I want to masturbate. Fuck you.
>>733351180Nah, the canon radio drama has them getting together post game and whatnot.The non-canon manga also does this. The only contention is that part 4 doesn't really call attention to what happened in the radio drama. Also, Japan and their weird canon radio dramas they love so much....
>>733350054IMOQ focuses more on the mystery of the game and how creepy it is, while GU focuses more on character drama which is more boring in comparison, so there's really not much to talk about.
>>733348138Emulate them, or better yet you can play them on a softmodded PS2 if you have one.
>>733351139I fapped with this fucking 19 years ago.
>>733343289The irl segment is 100% going to play like persona, bros.
>>733351032
>>733343730Not Tsukasa, cuz we know what she looks like.Most people just settled for assuming it's Helba, but I like that idea of it being the dead chick harald was simping for.
>>733351336>The irl segment is 100% going to play like persona, brosI'm okay with thisI would even be cool with a calendar system and needing to manage time
>>733351275>Radio drama>MangaSo they went with default girl and it has no relevance to the games? Part 4 ignores the radio drama completely? Awesome. I thought you were talking part 4 bullshit. I wouldn't consider that canon at all if they don't do anything in game with it.Honestly, I don't get their obsession with Atoli but as long as they don't force her on me in game I don't really care. Alkaid's the winner in my books. They tried REALLY hard to ignore how popular Alkaid was and gave her(and everyone else) extremely limited screen time with the other stuff so I'm not surprised they'd do it for some random radio drama.
>>733343730I always assumed it was Helba
>>733350606>>733351032>>733351421
>>733351336They need to go full autism kino with the Internet navigation system.
>>733351467Well, and the trilogy movie in which they fleshed out their relationship even more. If I'm not mistaken part 4 has a call back to the radio drama in it, although it is a small one. Canon wise, Haseo and Atoli are an item. Player wise though, you can choose whoever you want which is why they gave you the marriage options. Best not to get too hung up on it.
>>733350302>Lived with the chick who harasses him nonstop & used admin privileges to create an alt that could kill him instantlyThe overwhelming amount of shit that Pi somehow gets away with is staggering, and yet the story somehow manages to get even more ridiculous.People throw the term "mary sue" at every goddamn character in this series, but Pi is easily the goddamn definition of the term. This is fucking Shurelia-tier.
>>733351516If they did that... I mean, that would be a true next gen .hack right there.
>>733351639Yeah I really don't care about any of that or consider any of it canon considering none of it gets referenced in the games where it matters.
>>733351421>that fucking Mia
>>733351713Well, I suppose don't look up "Innocent call" then as apparently part 4 references it more than I thought.
>>733351726>"what Mia, I don-... L O L"
>>733351642I mean, she was a bitch but I don't know if I'd call her a Mary Sue. Kuhn puts her in her place at one point if I'm remembering right, and Haseo beats the hell out of her. She eventually gets humbled.
>>733351792Okay. Like I said, it doesn't matter and I don't consider it canon. References or not, doesn't matter.
>>733350626https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcjZq9RWAH8Bamco gave full reign to do what they want with their own money
>>733350606This reads like he's cheating on Atoli. Are they even confirmed to be a thing or is it just "they've been hanging out" type of deal that fans take as confirmation?Because you don't live with another woman if you're dating someone else lol
>>733350181I haven't played GU yet but this is my favorite design out of all I've seen from it so far.
>>733351516We better get a reprise of this trackhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aFqjEuicUY
>>733351964People do that.
>>733351642>Uses smurf account to join one of the highest-ranked guilds>Does horribly illegal shit while representing guild>Gets guild taken down & guildmaster bannedThis is more upsetting than any of the shit she did to Haseo.
>>733351964As of Innocent Call they are indeed a thing with call backs to the audio drama in part 4. He does absolutely live with Pi though for various reasons (closer to CCCorp which he got a job in/they are both working around the clock to save Ovan before the World shuts down). Still, it was a wild way to reintroduce the character.
>>733352013This smells like cope lmaoPeople don't do this. Especially not in japan where a man and woman living together unwed would be highly suspicious.>>733352058What confirms they're a "thing"?
Just started //infection, anyone got any tips? So far I've heard>trade with players in town, best way to get gear>death is insanely OP on weaponsdo I want to try to hit all elements on everyone or as many as I can? Also what a fuckweird element system>fire>water>earth>wood>lightning>darkness
>>733352098They go on several dates (with them referring to them as such) and have long, heartfelt phone calls with one another. There might be more but it has been a while since I read the transcripts. You can look it up for yourself if you want tho.
>>733352104See >>733344634
>>733352140I'll keep a look out for any references to dating but considering you can marry ovan in part 4 I don't think the radio drama is canon lol
>>733344634Do you also have a guide for emulation similar to the one that gets posted about Silent Hill?
>>733352225The joke ending?I think you are putting to much weight on the marriage endings and self inserting a bit too much into an established character. Kite was more of a blank slate, Haseo has more agency and direction to him. don't be like that one autist that hates Amy Rose, bro.
>>733343289
>>733351421Is this piece really by Sadamoto? It looks like his art, but the text says>Ever since Sadamoto was confirmed to be doing the .hack designs, I've been fantasizing about something like this nonstop... My bad!>Culprit: nog.Maybe I'm missing something here.
>>733352256It shouldn't be hard to emulate with PCSX2. I think there's one rendering setting you may need to mess with id the character models are turned inside out, other then that you should be good to go. There is a SUPER useful fansite for the games though that I'll try and find before I hit the hay tho.
>>733352327You keep talking about the radio drama but if all it gets is references but can't even commit to Atoli, then it doesn't really matter.You're acting like I care too much but you're really insistent on trying to convince me to care about the radio drama.
>>733352408I mean, it's canon. You don't gotta believe it if you don't want to. It's a bit odd, but you do you.
>>733352384We might be missing context here. It looks like it's out of a magazine or something. Wouldn't be surprised if it was a crossover request that Sadamoto drew real quick for fun.
>>733351642>>733351964>Be Ryou Misaki>One day you're 10yo, next 17 because a coma.>Being groomed by Shino>8 months pass>Being groomed by Pi>Being trauma-dumped by Atoli.>Girlsaregross.jpg>I just want to play videogames and do some pvp.
>>733352256>>733352404https://lindz.dothack.org/Found it! Miserable site to search for but it's an absolutely invaluable resource to learn to use for a playthrough. With that, I'm off to bed. Stayed up way too late enjoying the thread.
>>733352571Yeah, that could be as well.
>>733352612Don't forget >being cyberstalked by some dude obsessed with you online who doesn't eat if you got too long without talking to him
