Suddenly realize, 15 years late, that I never bought quarantine

>GU got the HD port but not the original series.

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?

>I only bought GU in hopes of the original series getting HD
FUCK!

They had video games in 1885 man...i mean come on...

What made this dude so cool?

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new .hack game when

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Never or in another 5-10 years

Don't know shit about .hack, can i play GU without the original?

Still have all 4 sitting in my closet with the rest of my PS2 games.

Yes

my neighbor has all the ps2 dothack games evidently along their spines you get a collective picture.

we grind weed and roll joints on the cases and take pictures for nerds to flip out on lol

Considering you don't even care about the series yes i can see why there mad. I don't give a fuck make a video and burn them faggot LOMFAO!

Is .hack a good series?
I just got fired from my job and I'm thinking to have my own time for about 2-3 weeks while waiting for a call for a job interview.
Assuming I play about 6-8 hours a day, would it be enough to complete all the 4 games?

I didn't either. Mostly because I started with G.U.
By the time I wanted the original games, they were impossible to find at a decent price.
I'll still pick them up some day though.

>so broke right now that im contemplating selling my copy of quarantine for like $150

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Twin daggers and not some big stupid sword.
Being voiced by Digimon's Izzy helped too.

no. I had the first two as a kid and never beat them. now I have three of them and still haven't got past 2

Each game is about 20-25 hours if I remember right. You could do it in that amount of time if you wanted. Probably faster really. Depends on how much you like to take your time or binge it.

Not really, it has lots of flaw. But it sure is memorable.

message me on ebay and ill buy

Also the G.U. line are objectively better games as far as graphics and gameplay loop go.
If you like the world/story its worth playing in my opinion though.
.hack is a quality series overall imo.

What you need money for, user?

I'd really hate to be in a situation where I was forced to sell my things. But I'm a materialistic collector. So fuck me I guess.

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Don't sell it, you'll regret it later on

I like it. Not sure how well the original games hold up though. It was a novel idea at the time.

G.U. is OK.

Well time to boot up pcsx2

>2003
>wow how futuristic
>play the IMOQ series again in 2014
>haha I wonder how much farther in the future this takes place in
>the events of Quarantine had happened 4 years ago

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The original games look like ass. But it has a nostalgic charm to it.

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Like your mom

Looks way better on a Trinitron

>your friends will never fall into comas from playing a video game

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Is there a .hack MMO so we all can just fucking play The World like it was meant to be played?

Tech isn't where the creator of .hack wants it to be to create a "The World" MMO.
Hes probably looking for literal .hack levels of VR tech or SAO style shit to want to actually make it.

That said, when "full dive" tech (for lack of a better term) becomes reality, I'm pretty sure I'll just fucking die once I run out of money from wasting away on there.

pretty sure they tried and failed

Yeah, it's a bit of a hassle to get set up these days. Also not sure how active it is anymore. Was Japan-only but there's translations available.

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A pity. I'd like to play something like it.

if the game doesn't literally have rogue AI putting children into comas what is the point?

HOW COME I MUST KNOW

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fragment.dothackers.org/

Get some friends to join you. Servers are still up, just typically empty.

If you die in the game you die in real life.

So how did the G.U. port sell?

Still have all 4 of mine to day, manuals and dvs as well. Still havent gotten past Outbreak

>sword art online keeps getting games
>dot hack doesn't get shit

i fucking hate this

.hack also had a new anime in years, user.
SAO has.

WHERE OBSESSION NEEDS TO~ GO?

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Blame Bamco.

私はアウラ・・・
アウラは私・・・
でも・・・
みんな・・・
みんな・・・

Now that we have VR, where the fuck are my dot hack VR games?

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Not quite there yet. Thing with The World is that it's supposed to be so realistic that you almost forget you're playing a game. Though it's helped by a magic black box that essentially hypnotizes your brain into liking it more than you should

>actually have copies of these games
>it was during a time where I didn't know basic maintenance so all the discs are scratched up
Fuck, how did these games become so rare?

So I'm guessing Last Recode didn't do well?

Yeah I felt like it was a bit of a rip off even when they were knew and I was like 14. Could have been one or maybe even 2 games. 4 is absurd.

Dattebayo

were they secretly a girl in the games as well? that made me feel things

Games have not aged well at all. Phantasy Star Online on the other hand....

but i have heaps of chinese friends

I have MASSIVE nostalgia for the original 4 .hack games, godamn. Looking back now, the gameplays was ass, but the setting, story and presentation was great.

can you imagine the professional reviews

I replayed it recently. It's actually pretty straightforward once you know what you're doing. Good for grinding with a podcast on.

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The entire .hack franchise had much better music than it had any right to.

Kite's a dude.

>but the fourth one is like 150 dollars now.
>Tfw randomly bought the fourth one brand new, realized it was a series, then never touched it because I figured I'd look for the others first
>Literally still in its wrapper when I gave it away, along with my entire PS2 collection
Never knew people actually cared about this series.

I've only played IMOQ but the mechanics are too simple for an MMO. Though that could be to it's benefit, easy to jump in and dungeon crawl, but there's really not much there for people who want to play more than an hour a day and keep playing for months.

Imagine a .hack game with persona elements. Spend time in the real world, hang out with in game friends and try to uncover CCcorp shit. Get a job and use money to buy better hardware to enjoy the world better, fuck go full meta and you can buy micro transaction with money you earn or pay a subscription. Friends in a coma and dies because youre a poor ass nigga that didnt pay the bills because you bought 100s of loot boxes

The fuck are you talking about?

Imagine if in one of the e-mails, you get the option to say that you're a girl, and this seemingly innocuous answer causes the games to always treat you as a girl playing a boy character.

Didn't they say the last chapter of G.U.'s remaster was supposed to be a prologue to the next game?
It shouldn't be a long way to go

Wasn't some rendition of this game coming out on PS4? Did that ever happen?

>Old series that's extremely niche versus successful and contemporary multimedia franchise that makes buckets of money.

I actually kindof liked how the each series will only show what's going on in-game or only show what is going on IRL. Gives it more of a mystery.

>never finished the first boss
wish for a remake, especially now where sao is so stupidly famous.

They were probably confusing Kite with Tsukasa.

i know sao is popular but i dont think i've ever hated a character as much as i hate kirito and i went into it without know much about it too

Wait a second, there is no Nobel prize for economics. Mr Nobel knew that branch of "science" is a retarded scam.

first series is rather mediocre and only has the novelty of the concept (for its times) and atmosphere going for it
second series (G.U.) is objectively way better in nearly every aspect (gameplay especially), its only downside is the number of available locations

Jesus Christ, what the fuck were they thinking with that abomination?

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Dot Hack was a huge project. There are books, TV shows, and the games. Shame it never got as popular. I'm sure people only remember SIGN. What did SAO have that Dot Hack didn't?

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a very unlikable mary sue main character

>anime
>muh edgy protagonist, I am the beta black whatever
>waifu
>waifu pandering
>waifu harem pandering with even her little sister
>dude is op as fuck
>you die when you die ingame
Also some fights ( I guess only the one at the beginning) was cool.

it matched nicely

SAO is very straightforward about pandering to its audience.

I guess for me i just dislike how sometimes you gotta log out to read an email so you can log back in to advance the plot. Its like no time passes. But i guess its implied you probably log off for the night

HIDDEN
FORBIDDEN
HOLY GROUND

.hack was the best, why does no one talk about it anymore? So much better than the ripoff SAO

Not sure if any of you tuned in but on 31st december of 2018 the dev made a special stream called "The last day of the world" (Since on .hack.gu//reconnection the series canonically end, and the world closes on 31st december)

The devs literally said they will only get funds if many people request it to bandai; they are busy making SAO games and they wont fund more .hack games, the dev team (CC2) is currently working on a dragon ball arpg title so we wont see any .hack info in a long time

>they are busy making SAO games

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Reread the original post you fucking retard.

>durrrr I make "funny" joke but can't even be bothered to comprehend the original post my "joke" relies on to even make sense

Well dot hack has anime, Black Rose/Mimiru, I think some of the characters are edgy, and there's always GIFT if you want some pandering. Maybe how people slip into comas was too mysterious.

I dont speak japanase but some random weeb translated it to us, this is the stream:
youtube.com/watch?v=x0hHs90E9X0

SIGN was all talk and atmosphere. SIGN is fundamentally flawed and tinally dissonant. It couldn'’t decide whether it wanted to be a cyberpunk, a suspense/mystery, or a psychological drama. SAO knew what it wanted to be upon conception: harems and shonen action.

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No fuck you I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that. Fucking SAO.

personally i would love a dot hack series that focused on playing the game maybe you can have the cast explore important areas in the game only to miss everything near minutes after it already happened

The third game series (forgot it's name) killed the entire series.

>see Infection for sale on a reasonable price
>aight whatever I heard good things, I'll just get rest of them later

>couple months later
>check price for Quarantine

What was I thinking.

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I only know of the 4 part game and Haseo .hack games. There was a third set?

they weren't doing that in the ps2 games?

It's a PSP game, and the plot is pretty stupid and lazy since they forced the story to bring back all previous characters to team up with the new protagonist, complete with generic anime plot with the "mysterious heroine" giving the MC unique powers and an evil organization to fight the MC.
>The story takes place in the year 2020. Tokio Kuryuu is a normal middle-school student who loves to play games. One day, a transfer student named Saika Amagi approaches Tokio and takes him to the school rooftop where she sends Tokio directly into The World R:X. There, he finds Kite, the legendary hero and leader of Twilight Knight dedicated to protect The World fighting against Flügel, the leader of a mysterious group called Schicksal. During their battle, Kite protected Tokio from Flügel's attack, resulting Kite's PC to be frozen but not before he asked Tokio to save them. Tokio is then transported to Saika's hideout, Grand Whale, and forcefully makes him her slave to find four items called Chrono Cores that are necessary to fully control the Akashic Record, a god-like power that holds over the system of The World and enables them to travel to the past data of The World. Using the Akashic Record, Tokio and Saika travels throughout the past timelines of .hack series to find the Chrono Cores and restored the frozen data of all members of Twilight Knights, gaining new allies in the process.