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Yep games used to have genres since everybody used to have different taste in gaming that wasn't just the same 5 tired old genres. Used to be the best days of gaming.

Bamco need to do Project X Zone 3 just so this time we can finally get that damn Bayo and Dante team up we were cucked out of last time.

xenosaga bundle

Did you guys know there was an actual online version of this game and there now exists an English translation and private servers?

What the fuck is even the order to play these games?
Don't you need to play/read/watch a bunch of different media to know the full story?

cope

>captures the feel of MMOs better than actual MMOs
>how'd they do it? It seriously feels like a breathing world
its basically phantasy star online but with randomized dungeons and random npcs running around.
only the story cinemas felt unrealistic. the rest of the game legit is like a real mmo.

>zooms getting filtered
many such cases

I liked the mystery with the story. It always felt like something bigger was going on.

I once saw someone post a flowchart of the timeline for the dot hack universe. Still never made sense to me. I just watched //sign and played these games, and was able to more or less piece together what happened. Haven't played GU yet, but it's next on my list

Requesting this flowchart if anyone got it

>What MMOs could be like
>Vs how they actually are

The business model was made to waste your time as much as possible while Hack Slash was about what could be possible.

I would say you should watch the anime that came with it for better context but that's really it. The rest is gravy

uh, is there anything i need to know before i play this?

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The fighting system is pretty damn horrible for starters.

Tried to find it on internet for you, but I think it was this one.

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Jesus Christ

Never played these games but I remember it seemed when I was a teen that they were just pumping these out yearly. I always assumed they had a dedicated fanbase of fans and that the series probably stopped when PS3, 360 and western gaming in general just took over everything it seemed by like 2007.

le multimedia project le face

yeah, shit's fucking confusing. I'd say just watch sign (since it's actually a fun show and without any spoilers, it applies to the tetralogy), play through the games, even if they are dated, and then maybe watch the anime that come with them? Though I never did. I'm sure there's anons who can give better recommendations than I can

the ost to these games were great

it doesnt have a single one of these things. did you reply to the wrong thread?

uh... for these games, you start with the one that says 1, and end with the one that says 4.

What about the anime? What about the OVA? What about the manga? What about the Drama CDs? What about the Light Novels?

SIGN leads into these games. the anime that comes in the box with these games takes place concurrently with it. Nothing else actually matters.

.hack was such a cool concept. Really open they bring the original to PC someday

Dub or sub for this game? I have the collection in my Steam library

What's the order for the whole franchise? I've been really enjoying Sign.

So what's the story? And why does the MC turn evil in the sequel

.hack was pretty popular but the 2000s were the heyday of 'multimedia franchises' in Japan so a ton of the story is split across different mediums and in the west different localizers leading to a ton of inconsistency.

Also the original series should have really just been two games. There's only like 10-20 hours of story in each entry anyway. So you'd end up paying $100 in 2000s money for like 80 hours of story content.

/Sign -> first 4 games, /Roots -> GU games. Theres a bunch of other shit that is in universe but not closely related to the plot of the games.

he doesnt, its not the player, its just the character data. or some shit like that.

What

The story is about designing an MMO as a data dragnet to create the ultimate AI. Eventually the system develops self-awareness as part of its refinements to create the ultimate AI and starts trying to destroy the game, kill people, and ruin industrial society in order to prevent the ultimate AI from being born.

There's more to it than that, eventually dragging in Jungian psychology and philosophy of the mind while also being fairly critical Japanese management culture. It's a pretty good post-cyberpunk story overall.

just want to say bravo to this user, since I've never once been able to capture the story of this series as concisely as this

its a character that resembles the avatar of the MC of the original games. its not the same character.

Why couldn't they just be normal and go in a simple linear path

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The MC of the first series made such a strong impression of the ultimate AI/God of the MMO world that she created an internal protection program that looked like him. Kite (original MC) isn't really in GU at all

not that user but that sucks
I like Kite

What happened to the original character then did they stop playing the mmo. I remember watching the anime and apparently some people can have the same avatars?

The game everyone is playing in GU is a sequel to the original. He presumably is doing something with his life other than playing MMOs.

>just read the wiki that this is the same thing as the AI projections of Tsukasa, Mimiru, Bear, Subaru, and Sora.
This fucking series man. I never even knew that tidbit

>turn base

CDRomance. Thou shalt find it there easiest.

Because they feel like old MMOs of a group of friends working toward a goal together where MMOs now are randoms or giant guilds in either case your group will be a bunch of dick waffles. The internet was better in a lot of ways when it was only for nerds.

It's strange how online gaming made the best gaming experiences ever, while also destroying it over time.

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actually had none of this which is what made it fun. it played like ff12. it was a real time action role playing game.

yeah fragment. i remember being 12 and finding out that japan had their own servers, and a special ps2 that went along with it.

I think you're supposed to do the following:
> Watch .hack//Sign
> play 1 game, then watch 1 episode of .hack//Liminality (it came with the original run of games), it covers events as they occur outside of the game.
> Watch .hack//Roots
> Play .hack//GU
there are some novels/mangas, they're probably sprinkled in there somewhere too but I haven't bothered with them.

This is correct, everything else is just supplemental

I seems to remember some of the novels and manga actually being decent too. Some of it was short stories but nice. Not sure if the one that confirmed the two dating after .hack//Sign ever got an english version. I know it didn't at the time but I'm sure somebody translated it by now.