Been playing these games again recently. I beat all of them when I was a teenager back in like 2004, but man I'd forgotten how slow the story is.Anyway, let's talk about .hack.
*inhale*How come you never talk about the grunties?
>>3954950Because I hate them and I hate collecting the food
Once you've done the book of 1000 for each game, then we'll talk
>>3955023I'm not doing that again. I 100%'d them all as a teenager because I had free time.
>>3954670I finished GU recently and I have no fucking idea what was going through CC2's minds with how they formatted those games. Why is the mid-game for each volume a tournament and in-between the matches is just a character telling you that we need to go to this grind spot they found to get ready for the matches? Also them throwing the same required side quests at you to unlock all the reward givers instead of just keeping them permanently unlocked after doing them in vol 1.Also an unrelated complaint, but after vol 1 you're never really replying to emails unless they're greeting card emails. Makes offline interactions with party members lamer.
>>3955072Same issue they had with IMOQ - Bandai demanded that the games be split up into multiple volumes for some reason so CC2 filled them with retarded time wasting shit in order to tide people over between releases.Each volume of IMOQ has maybe 10 hours of story content but you were expected to pay $50 for each of them. It's just the classic Bandai squeeze.
>>3955080IMOQ didn't really have much time wasting outside of virus core farming, the story was always going from one place to the next with a sense of urgency. The party member dungeons were all optional except for a Piros and Mia/Elk dungeon here and there if I remember right and the Mia stuff was basically important to the plot anyway because of the Macha connection. It's absolutely nothing like GU making you do grinding sessions or Gaspar emailing you and making you do some dumb quest with him.
>>3954950Literally cancer. If I didn't have savestates from emulating I think i'd rather shove a fork into my balls than deal with grunties.
