what did she mean by this?
>>733889540zero
>>733889540That Aura is a cuckquean.
>>733890101Z.E.R.O is subverting everything including character dynamics so Aura is the True End this time.
>>733890101Stop bullying. It's because of your online toxicity that our innocent Aura is now corrupted into an evil, slutty goth loli and is going to take NuKite by force. This is your fault! Look at what you've done!
What's with all the Kite clones? I get it, he looks iconic, and in-universe they added him and all the stuff that happened into the lore of R2 or something. But why don't we see more Haseo clones? or Mia clones (not counting that ONE SINGLE time in the movie). It's always Kite, Balmung, Orca, and BlackRose. BlackRose doesn't even have an honorary Azure title like Kite!
>>733889540I'm really excited.I scored a rare PS2 slim for cheap and I'm going to mod it and play IMOQ for the very first time.What are some beginner tips?
>>733891747Does Nyanta from Log Horizon count as a Mia-like?But I think the reason is Kite and Blackrose's character designs are 10/10 and CC2 knows it.
>>733891886Don't burn yourself out doing the Books of Ryu quickly, also watch the OVAs that are paired with each disc and have subtitles on, though I do think they show up with them off too, but plot relevant area codes show up throughout it. And nothing from it spoils game plot until the last one.
>>733892269ARe the Books Of Ryu challenge dungeons?Also do enemies drop items in this game and do they have rare drops? I'm a completionist when it comes to items so I intend to get everything in each game.
>>733892530They're things used for 100% completion, filling them out by what they request gets you bonus content like backgrounds for your PC log out sections, music, or in-game cutscene video. Challenge dungeons are after you finish the story content for the volume/disc.
No Mia no buy
>>733892913Of course she'll be inShe's just gonna die again
Sigh... alright fine guys you win I'll play .hackWhat order do I play this shit in?
>>733892724I have legitimate ADHD so something like that probably won't burn me out. I hyperfocus on even extremely mundane questlines until they're totally done.For reference I have no issue at all having the patience to unlock the Land of Carnage in the very first iteration of Disgaea 2 (it took me 100ish hours).
I started playing dot hack recently. Only ever played Infection since I could never get a hold of the other games as a kid. I keep data draining stuff but my infection image doesn't seem to be changing? Is it an emulation bug or something?
>>733891886Fairy Orbs and Sprite Ocarinas are really good items to have on hand. I usually carry stacks of 99 of them once I have the money for it.The temporary stat buff items, Warrior's Blood, Wizard's Blood, etc, really come in handy too.Some of the NPC's running around towns have good things to trade.Be sure to read the forums!
Is Endrance just plain gay/bi, or is he just super clingy to ANYONE that would show him the slightest amount of attention?
>>733891886Fortune Wires, get a lot of them, carry at least 80-90 since they're cheap. 80% of the chests are all booby trapped (they're blue if booby trapped and the game flat out tells you this in the beginning)
>>733889540>yaoi hands and faceRuined my waifu
>>733894306Never outright stated but implied to be just super clingy as he became a depressed shut-in after the events of IMOQ and latched on to the fake Aida Mia in an instant.
>>733894141It goes down as you kill enemies normallyData draining raises your infection level
>>733894306the latter
>>733895248I've been data draining every battle and as much as possible, and the negative side effects keep on happening, but the infection image doesn't appear to be changing.
>>733895449Because you need to kill enemies normallyDont Data Drain and it goes down
>>733889540Fuck this bitch I need Bordeaux
>>733895493Don't you always have to data drain so you don't miss rare items?
>>733895449Just so you know, nothing "fills up". The little Kite icon here changes color from blue, green, orange, to red. If you get a message saying the braclet is out of control, and get a random buff or debuff, then it is changing color.
>>733891886Always carry extra antidotes and restores. If anyone in your party gets afflicted with confused they will kill you in like 3-4 hits, resurrection pots too. Also make sure to carry at least one extra weapon with different elemental skills because most enemies are tanky as fuck.If you find the pond with the jew asking if you drop a sliver/golden axe say neither and it might give you a better piece of equipement than the one you dropped.Make sure to data drain a few enemies here and there, otherwise you gonna need to farm Virus cores to progress through the story. Using it too much might give you some kind of debuff midbattle so you should only data drain the last enemy. Combat can be really tedious, so be prepared to be opening your menus every 2 seconds
>>733893006First you watch .hack//SIGNThen you play the PS2 games in release order: IMOQ and then GUYou can watch //ROOTS between the two game series if you want the backstory of the second series' protagonist/conflict.
Hot take: Alkaid > BlackRose
>>733896671All the girls in .hack are top tier. Except Shino and Atolis top tier in R/L
>>733896297I know it changes color, but by the time I'm regularly getting EXP downs, I would think it would be any other color BUT the color in the image you posted.
>>733896915Don't worry, once you hit actual Data Bugs as regular enemies, your infection rate is a goddamn pain in the ass to deal with.
>>733896915Does sound like an emulator bug then. Good luck not getting a surprise game over.
Orca if he had taken the cosmetic wings for defeating The One Sin.
>>733897439Color's still the same, but I've got an all caps WARNING symbol under the image now, so I think I can stop data draining everything
>>733890993I want this Aura to step on me
If (You) were in charge of making a real .hack online game, would you rather the skills work more like R:1 where they're tied to equipment, or R:2 where you get them as you level up?
>>733891886>slimyou fucked up
>>733898608R:1, not because it's better. It's clearly worse. But it's more interesting.
I was browsing the dot hack wiki and had this guy's page up when I noticed him in the game. Neat.
>>733893006If you're a newbie play .hack//G.U. first to see if you like it.It has cool summaries of the first games on the title screen if you care about the connections, but they're not necessary to watch if you just wanna jump in ASAP.
>>733899676Skeith original > Skeith avatar 1 > Skeith Avatar 2 > Skeith+Corbenik > Skeith Avatar 3But they're all really damn cool.
>>733899759I dont remember asking you DICK buttriceKiss my fuck
The butt rice joke never gets old
>>733890993What if she's actually Zefie? She was already a fucking brat so this new look kind of fits her.
>>733896915>>733898390Are you playing on an ancient version of pcsx2 or something? I'm emulating the games right now too and my meter works correctly
>>>/vg/
>>733895995Rare items are never worth obsessing over anyway. Whenever I get one, it tends to be about the same or worse than weapons I already have.
Where did the name ".hackers" come from? I can't imagine Kite came up with it.
Balmung?More like Baldung.
>>733903597>Doesn't understand girls/ourguy/
>>733903502He didn't. If I'm recalling correctly, it was never actually clarified where the name came from, but it was implied to have been coined by players on the omega server who witnessed Kite and friends dunking Corbenik.
>Over time, the Descendents of Fiamma are nearly forgotten, with Balmung and Orca eventually reduced to being accessories to Kite.>Kite became known as "Kite of the Azure Flame" despite never having fought The One Sin>The Azure Flame completely overshadowed both Sky and Sealmao
>>733903726My headcanon is that since the battle took place in Net Slum, a random Vagrant AI said something in garbled text like ".ha/>%rS" and this somehow became ".hackers".
>>733903820Aura loves Kite, so Balmung and Orca never stood a chance.
>>733904318Yeah. I feel like Azure Balmung and Orca shouldn't have appeared in G.U.
>>733894491Kino design. But I wasn't aware at the time that they would go on to milk Kite's likeness forever. I genuinely hate it. Make a new fucking character. Did the guy who designed Kite die?
>>733904802There's sort of a lore reason. Basically, Aura has a severe case of oneitis. Shugo, Azure Kite and Sora (movie) were her fault.The only ones she can't get blamed for are Sakuya and the Azure Flame Pursuer. The former's just coincidence, the latter is the Sin Dragon's doing.
>>733904802>Did the guy who designed Kite die?No. The character designer for .hack is Sadamoto, the Evangelion character designer.
>>733890993AI husbandos you!
>>733894491For me, it's Tri-Edge>but but butTRI-EDGE
It's funny how none of these AI Kites ever seem to develop their own will. In The World, random vagrant AIs develop sentience all the time, yet most Kites are just empty, mindless husks.
>>733905685The universe itself knows there's only one true Kite.
>>733905785Yeah, but imagine if a true AI Kite did appear. Aura might be less lonely.
I don't get how Phases and Azure Kite work. Why did Skeith lose to a level 30 Kite? How did Azure Kite completely body Haseo at level 133, but lose to Haseo at level 50? If the Avatar makes up for the difference in stats, why did Haseo nearly lose to Alkaid before unleashing Skeith?
>>733906226dont think about it too hard is the obvious answer but its probably>kite has the braclet of twilight which prevents skeith from doing the data drain instant kill and it has to now play by the rules of the game where its simply strong but not unstoppable>haseo didnt awaken to his avatar before fighting kite so he was functionally a normal player>alkaid was an experienced player and haseo was basically a counter-ganker rather than an actual pvper who fought on equal terms
Were PKKs actually a thing during "the golden age of MMORPGs"? Looking it up, it seems like just a "thing" that happened because of dot hack and not something that inspired dot hack.
>>733907429No. Exclusively targeting PKs is impractical in most MMOs as it would probably require a ton of camping and just waiting for a PK to occur nearby, or actively hunting and stalking known PKs. Within the context of The World R:2, it's still kinda weird since most of the time, you'd just be joining areas at random hoping to run into PKs.
>>733907429runescape has people who do anti-PKing where they either pretend to be a hapless victim before switching to stronger gear and beating the shit out of their attacker, or they simply wander the wilderness looking for PKers doing their own huntingif you want to count "calling friends in to help you after being PKd" then this happened in world of warcraft a lot and frequently escalated into full blown faction wars in random places like tarren mill and southshore
>>733904318>>733904934Do you think Aura let Kite's player move on with his life or does she virtually stalk him?
God I miss classic WoW days
>>733908168No, they definitely existed. It was usually in MMOs that had implementation flaws and bad moderation. Specifically, shit Aeria Games ran in their twilight years. They enabled PvP everywhere in a few games, and not just consensual duel type PvP but just outright ganking permitted.As a result PKs began camping the mid-level towns and killing any players exiting, trading the dropped equipment in for money and using it to get themselves better gear. In a few games, this was basically a death sentence for your account because you could essentially get stuck in the town you were at.In a few instances, angry players ended up hunting those bastards for sport so everybody could actually play the damn game. Didn't stop Aeria Games from going out of business, though.
>>733907429never saw it in ultima online or neocronkind of saw it in graal? if only because when you pk too much in graal you lost invulnerability in safe zones so anyone is free to attack youand like yeah you became vulnerable to them if you attacked them in the safe zone, but only to that guy and your invulnerability to them will come back after the encounter is overnot so much trying to hunt people that pk though, pker's just got the mark to show they're pking
>>733908462I think she probably let him go. Aura's a romanticist but also tends to lack initiative. I think rather than pine for a love that could never be, she's the type to keep his memory alive in other ways, as we clearly see from Shugo, Azure Kite and Sora. She's basically Harald 2.0. Just as Harald kept Emma's memory alive by creating Aura, Aura is basically doing the same thing.
Is the Legend of the Twilight anime worth watching? I'm told it's not canon, but is it at least entertaining? I thought the manga was pretty "meh", like it was nice seeing what happened to some of the characters a few years later, but it could probably have been written out of canon and nothing would change.
>>733908845Not especially. It wasn't terribly memorable.
>>733908727And also got brainwashed by ecoterrorists, but we don't talk about that.
>>733908727Do we even know what happened to Kite's player? It'd be kind of lame if he became a generic salaryman.
>>733908917.hack//Link WILL be HEAVILY referenced, Tokio WILL come back, every WILL suck his dick, the new Kite clone WILL learn about Mama, the main cast WILL bring their avatars into the real world and fight the PCs controlled by Mama agents (who will also have their PCs brought into the real world), and you WILL clap!
>>733909040Just fucking kill me already.
>>733908994He went to an overseas university to study anthropology and foreign languages.
>>733908994He's in Natsume's rape dungeon.
>>733909186Never trust the squinty ones.
Blackrose was my first waifu as a kid and pretty sure the reason I love darker skinned women.
>>733908994>if he became a generic salaryman.Realistically, what could anyone in his situation really do? CC covered everything up, so he can't really leverage what he did. Even if he COULD, what is he going to say? He had an account on a no longer existing game that he could hack but he can't actually hack things because (at least as far as the audience knows) he doesn't have any programming or hacking knowledge, it was just handed to him via a bracelet that did all the work for him? He's friends with the goddess of the internet? What abilities could Kite leverage from The World that could apply to the real world, other than leadership abilities? The best anyone ever got was getting a job at CC and get an admin role in the World or some other desk job. At least Tokio has that dumb "doubleware" bullshit where he can physically enter cyberspace. For all we know, Kite doesn't have that ability, though I could see him actually having it because he's a main character.
>>733909450He's not limited by The World. According to supplementary material, he was bright enough to study overseas.
Is there a way to read the .hack//G.U. novels digitally? I don't mind paying, but no way in hell I'm forking over a thousand bucks.
>>733909540>he was bright enough to study overseas.That's the thing, him being smart has nothing to do with The World or his actions in it. Sure, traveling the world is more exciting than what most people end up doing, but it's still just going back to a type "normalcy". What he's doing is better than being a salaryman, but think about all the OTHER recruitable characters, even the ones that experienced more of the weird stuff probably ended up with much more mundane jobs by the time they became adults.
