Laplasakos
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.hack//G.U. Last Recode (HD remaster, PS4 and PC) coming out
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QuackkAttack
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Yesssssssss. It's going to be a good day when that comes out.
Hearing Yuri Lowenthal yell Rengeki is etched into my mind like no other video game line.
Not really. I kinda liked it
Pandora012
Member
Wonder if it will be released outside of JP in 2017 or if it will be a 2018 thing.
That said....
Gimmie Xenosaga next, please please!!!
Puck Beaverton
Banned
Rengeki Demon Blade will be on my tombstone.
Pandora012
Member
Yup
Rising_Hei
Member
It's a lovely game, really deep in story with awesome characters. I hope it does so well that they start a new saga xD
AlexFlame116
Member
Yes! Now all we need is an ESRB or something for USA.
sackboy2197
Member
Well, I don't need it ;P
Infernostew
Member
Is it recommended to watch Roots before playing this one?
LifeBrandRobot
Member
Wonderful!
sackboy2197
Member
I'd say it is, yeah. It is pretty much a prologue of some sort, and it introduces you to many of the characters. And it's pretty good as far as I remember (especially if you're playing the games later).
Puck Beaverton
Banned
I don't think it's necessary, and I don't remember it being good, so...
Recommended but not really necessary in my opinion
You can also just watch the terminal disc that comes with this if you want. It's a summary of the first four games, you should be good to go with that.
BewilderedDragoon
Member
All they need to do now is add some form of VR support and we will have true gameception.
I can't remember exactly, did the original version of GU let you do a first person free look ? That could look nice in VR.
Infernostew
Member
I've played all 4 of the 1st games already. I've been pretty interested in watching Roots anyway so I might as well.
QuackkAttack
Member
Most definitely. Man, thinking about this game makes me want this yesterday.
Hippopuncher12
Member
I only played the original .hack Infection? or whatever, and thought it was okay, I just had too much other shit to play to go through them all. Not unlike now, but I will buy this anyway and hopefully actually play this one.
Hades Hotgun
Banned
I watched the .hack//sign anime back in the day and it left off with a cliffhanger that I assume got resolved in the original 4 games, which I did not play.
So the timeline here is...
Sign anime
original games (recapped with Terminal disc?)
Roots anime
Then this collection?
Is that all I need or am I missing something else?
So the timeline here is...
Sign anime
original games (recapped with Terminal disc?)
Roots anime
Then this collection?
Is that all I need or am I missing something else?
HABBEDING
Cornbread78
Member
Looks like it streams on Funimation, so once we have a release date for it, we could do a group watch (1 episode a day) until it releases.
http://www.funimation.com/shows/hackroots/
Nice!
Hopefully this sells well on PC in the west so Bamco can start porting the SAO games too.
sensui-tomo
Member
Its dot hack sign,the quad games , sign's 2 odd last episodes (one relating to a character in the game and mimiru(past) and the reunion episode which happens with the both casts after the game though I think its non canon due to gu) which were dvd/br released (not on TV), roots then GU trilogy(this HD remaster)
BewilderedDragoon
Member
Yeah those should be enough to get the overall story. There was also a special episode that takes place after the events of the GU games but I haven't seen it. That might be worth checking out after you get through the rest of that list.
Localization is a go.
It goes without saying but everyone please support this release. We really have no excuse if we don't get anything .Hack related if this performs poorly, or rather performs poorly by whatever crazy expectations Bandai Namco has for this collection to sell. Getting left behind by Japan was awfully painful, and I don't want to relive that. Lets make this a success so we can get the other games! WHAT SAY YOU MY FELLOWS?!?!?! (
And then maybe we'll see a XenoSaga Collection on Switch someday!
Hades Hotgun
Banned
EvilRedEye
Member
Streams on Viewster in the UK and possibly other countries as well for those that are region locked out of the Funimation site.
I think G.U. in general is more marketable, on the top of being better in general (Gameplay-wise), it's wayyy more refined and of course it also has "modern" otaku pandering.
Also given the original games' quality, they wanted to relaunch the series, not tank it a second time.
Challenge to anyone that thinks Link gets to ridiculous/dumb:
Rewatch Online Jack ep.6
Then come back here an explain that shit lol.
Speaking of Online Jack, surely that was originally animated in HD? If not uh... it may end up looking kinda ugly x.x;
Really hope this leads to a BD release of Roots. It was aired/animated in HD in Japan but alls we ever got were DVDs.
Rewatch Online Jack ep.6
Then come back here an explain that shit lol.
Speaking of Online Jack, surely that was originally animated in HD? If not uh... it may end up looking kinda ugly x.x;
You say this but G.U. are the .hack games with the marriage/friendship event at the end and no less than 3 characters vying for the MC for a large chunk of the story!
The first 14 episodes kick off the plot an driving goal behind Haseo's actions. Everything after is character/world building for things that'll show up later in the games. Ep.24 is when the story catches up to the beginning of Vol.1. The final two eps have some heavy late game Vol.2 spoilers. But you'll prolly have worked those things out for yourself, especially if you're watching the show and playing the games sorta side-by-side so watching 'em before the end of Vol.2's no big deal.
Really hope this leads to a BD release of Roots. It was aired/animated in HD in Japan but alls we ever got were DVDs.
Bleh. It was trash. Worthless. Would have been the death knell of the series ending with that
Hitlersaurus Christ
Banned
I didn't think it was too bad. It felt kind of like a retelling of the original story and didn't really explain much in the context of the rest of the series, but on its own it was a nice little thing to watch.
30/35/25 for a regular non-100% playthrough of each.
45/52/62 for a 100% playthrough in which ya know what you're doin'.
05/08/11 for a skip all story only do mandatory stuff playthrough.
Those are my stats anyway >.>
Anyone who thought Link was to long/repetitve are in for the same experience now that these're compiled into 1 game!
So I wonder what this was about?
Someone said that Blackrose from IMOQ was originally set to appear in Volume 3 of G.U. but ultimately cut. Any truth to that rumor? Could CC2 be attempting to restore cut content to the games in the remaster?
EDIT: fixed the link
Someone said that Blackrose from IMOQ was originally set to appear in Volume 3 of G.U. but ultimately cut. Any truth to that rumor? Could CC2 be attempting to restore cut content to the games in the remaster?
EDIT: fixed the link
Hitlersaurus Christ
Banned
I don't know if they're gonna put her in the remaster, but there is indeed GU concept art of her.
The Last Wizard
Member
What? IMOQ's art direction is what makes it great imo, the root towns, fields and dungeons were great.
Give me a speacial edition bamco, I wanna give you as much money as possible.
Damn. I never played the GU games. I played the first 3 and just never got around to playing the 4th.
I remember the anime that came on Cartoon Network. One of my favorites. That was 2002. 15 years ago. I was 13 lol.
But yea I can't to try this out. Hopefully they bring over the first 4 games as well.
I remember the anime that came on Cartoon Network. One of my favorites. That was 2002. 15 years ago. I was 13 lol.
But yea I can't to try this out. Hopefully they bring over the first 4 games as well.
Well, all my worries are gone. We'll soon be able to enter the World once more.
I think i'll read the G.U novels again to celebrate.
Ah, I remember the original .hack games. Wish they were bundling those with this.
Very interesting and strange concept at the time of a sort of single player MMO with you being able to recieve emails and such.
Only played the first two entries of the original series but always wanted to go back and do everything I missed.
Very interesting and strange concept at the time of a sort of single player MMO with you being able to recieve emails and such.
Only played the first two entries of the original series but always wanted to go back and do everything I missed.
Yea. I really loved that concept and thought it was executed well. You just had to buy 4 games to get the whole story lol.
Would be nice in the future if we got a MMO that resembles .hack. Hopefully when VR has advanced.
Carlos Lima
Member
10 years after playing G.U., when the internet wasn't so accessible in my country yet, I now realize there was a fictional version of NeoGAF in the game, haha.
But seriously, does anybody know in what forum they based the virtual ingame forums?
But seriously, does anybody know in what forum they based the virtual ingame forums?
Link has THE MAIN CHARACTER BEING SUCKED INTO THE GAME. His literal physical body. Not his mind, but his actual real self.
That is BEYOND stupider anything else the series has done.
It makes the series jump from Soft Sci-Fi to straight up Fantasy.
Goddamn Link is dumb.
Really hope they de-canonize it.
EVA UNIT 01
Member
Nah
All about that Rengeki Tiger Blitz lyfe
All about that Rengeki Tiger Blitz lyfe
This was in play from the start of G.U. Terminal Disc doesn't outright say it of course but it works looking back on it. Heck, ya could argue this is what happened to Harald.
Stupider than
Half a dozen children vanishing from plain sight (did you consider perhaps they to physically entered the game world at that time)? Giving somebody an electric shock? Being mind controlled by someone infected by some AI anomaly?
G.U.'s whole Avatar activation things always been way dumb btw. Also Cell's AI evolving from some persons blood sample... yeah. That sure was a thing wasn't it?