.hack//G.U. Last Recode

Welcome to another .hack thread, Sup Forums

But first:

>Do I need to play the...

No, you don't need the play the original games (Infection, Mutation, Outbreak and Quarantine) in order to play .hack//G.U. Last Recode comes with the 'Terminal Disc', a series of videos that helps you understand what happened in those games. So if you buy this remaster you are good to go.

>How do I get into this series.

If you really, REALLY, want to give this series a chance, here is the timeline that you need to follow.

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GasTARD 4 lyfe

ADEPT ROGUE A SHIT!

Even though Adapt Rogue is canonically shit, I will still use it if 'The World' R:2 was a thing.

>Just finished vol 1 and credits roll
>"Slow Doberman" Performed by Yasutaka Anzai, Lyrics by Chikayo Fukuda
>Chorus : Piroshi Matsuyama
Jesus Christ what a fanboy. He must love this franchise desu.

Reposting from last thread.

Media Create Sales:

Software Sales.

> [PS4] .hack//G.U. Last Recode (Limited Edition Included) (Bandai Namco, 11/02/17) – 61,816 (New)

Bear in mind that this contemplate both, the game and the limited edition.

Guess I'll log out and check my email or something.

We’re basically literally a general now with an OP post

Ouch
Is this Japan only?

Should I watch the anime? Kind of hoping to wait for a sale on this one anyway?

It is basically Vanilla WoW Druid, but honestly i think the board is a bit too biased against it in that thread and it should be taken with grain of salt.

I mean, it is a MMO so there are a TON of players parroting shit they have no idea about when it comes to class viability and buying into stereotypes (see: "It is a ego thing").

That's what media create is

Yes. We don't know how many copies it sold in the west.

I don't think I can fully understand how much the franchise must mean to CC2 because they seem to have poured everything into the franchise and it actually became a world-wide success after their two previous commercial failures.
I imagine the years of doing anime-licensed games must feel pretty suffocating as creators which is why CC2 wants to do a new .Hack game.

Japanese physical only. I think the game probably broke 100k between the Western release and digital sales which isn't bad for a remaster of a somewhat niche 10 year old RPG.

Hmm, I heard there’s a bug in Δ Screaming Idling Princess in volume 1.

I think it will sell more eventually too. I plan on buying it 100%, just probably not for full price and not right now because I'm really busy

Also from the last thread: the PC sales

.hack basically saved CC2 from bankruptcy, so it came as no surprise that they are trying to make another game after all this time, just to give the series another chance.

>If you want to play this series you MUST play it like this
>N-no wait why are you leaving? P-please play the games....
lol

>only 5 days have passed

When are you retards going to learn?

>Ouch
Those sales are really good for a 10 year old re-release that costs the same as CoD (and also launched the same day) and Assassin's Creed. Of course nobody knows how much revenue or sales Bamco wants to continue the franchise, but those numbers on their own are very strong for what GULR is.

Steamspy usually needs more than a couple of days to become accurate.

I'm upset that they're releasing .hack//G.U. before the original 4 part games. They set the mood if you were a fan of the anime. You really felt like the world had something more to it than was on the outside as you investigated it deeper.
But then G.U. picks up after that, with characters from the first games and takes away from the little complexity the story has.

Just finished vol 2 credits and the vol 2 piros song is done by him and "precocious .hackers"

Time to 100% again, I'm going to kill myself on bikman again

Still, I doubt Bandai will give the green light to a new .hack game, just for 100k potential buyers.

Honestly only SIGN,IMOQ and GU "matters" and each is perfectly enjoyable on its own nowhere near mandatory "musts".

SIGN was my first TALKAN ANIME though so im biased, but you have to admit, they did capture that MMOs are like 90% standing around talking about stupid shit.

Just checked this out on Steam, is the 4th new episode an actual new game or is it just some videos or something? The only thing they showed of that episode in the trailer was some shitty low fps videos which is a red flag to me.

>I’m upset
Lmao crybaby

Honestly, 60k ps4 units sold in the east, since its one of the top 3 on steam (and steamspy is notoriously inaccurateish) id say roughly 20k. If it even sold half of what it did in the east on ps4 here in the west, thats over 100k for a port job with little to no marketing.

Thats fucking amazing numbers for a niche ps2 port job with no marketing.

Don’t you only need to do Bikman once for 100%?

Its a game. Its not super long, like 4-10 hours, but since the game was planned all those years ago but scrapped due to budgets, im happy I get to finish it. They could have just ignored it and did the first 3, but im happy they finished up the 4th game.

Alkaid is perfection. Easily the series' best female.

It’s a very short “game”. Like 5 hours apparently.

Yes and no, for achievements sake yes. But vol 2 onward he gives a 5 star accessory that is required for ryu book

Well games that break 100-200k in Japan are typically considered a success since Japanese developers don't go overboard with their budget like their Western counterparts.

I imagine that CC2 will get the okay for a game, but the issue is that CC2 likely wants to do a full multimedia sequel which means manga, anime and games which will likely require Last Recode to break anything between 500k to a million.

The Internet disagree with you.


- Top 10 Female (human)
1482 | Atoli
1254 | Alkaid
0779 | Mistral
0761 | Shino
0350 | Aura
0312 | BlackRose
0264 | Subaru
0239 | Klarinette
0219 | Gardenia
0215 | Carl

>Shino came 5th place

Why is she even on the list after what she does in the ending? I'm shocked she even had a place considering how little she appeared and the massively misleading influence she had on Haseo's private life as a sort of shadow antagonist in the end.

2nd place with like 1/20 of the screentime

>Atoli #1
The internet has shit taste

Alkaid is the best girl, no doubt. Atoli was too desperate while Alkaid was a girl who made you feel like shit for cheating...you know when.

>but the issue is that CC2 likely wants to do a full multimedia sequel which means manga, anime and games

That would be great, if it wasn't for the fact that they probably won't bother to release it outside of japan. Well, the novels and manga at least. There is a huge precedent already:

>Epitaph of Twilight
>Bullet
>(SORA) Beyond the World
>Quantum Introduction, Quantum +, and Quantum Twin Hearts
>New Testament Novel .hack

>No Tsukasa

Guess Japan doesn't care for reverse traps.

Oh, Tsukasa was listed as a male character (her avatar)


- Top 10 Male (human)
3325 | Haseo
3078 | Endrance
2030 | Tsukasa
1577 | Kite
0430 | Albireo
0395 | Ovan
0361 | Tri-Edge
0352 | Sora
0287 | Elk
0283 | Zelkova

I'm afraid to rewatch the anime because of how fucked up I would compare Tsukasa to my current self.

>Why is she even on the list after what she does in the ending?

It's even worse in the manga.

Wait so
I can just skip him in vol 1 then since his reward is worthless garbage
And do him in vol 2?

No, YOU have shit taste

>not wanting a dedicated cute sweet gf that wants nothing but to please you and hug you and be loved by you

Reminder to Atolifags.
youtube.com/watch?v=HXEiBbOJGGY

Just do it scrub
Gaze into that black mirror
A little introspection never hurt anyone

I completely forgot about that, but seems like they kept it the same as it was before. You can still get Healing Potions (typo fixed) and Fairy Drops from them. I doubt they touched any of the glitched fields people found.

I hope the moment you meet again Haseo is fucking Ovan right in front of you, fucking bitch, worst girl.

I heard the PC version was shitty and crashed a lot, how common are these problems?

>I doubt they touched any of the glitched fields people found.
I'd hate it if they did that, i'd go against the spirit of the games desu.

People back then had really shit taste, uh.

where the FUCK is pi

Extremely uncommon
I’m convinced the people having issues are actual computer-illiterates

In the trash where she belongs.

How long are these games exactly?
I played the first one and most of the second one when I was younger, and I put some decent time into it, but I was young and shit at bideo games.

for me 1 crash in 25h so far

How can one man be so wrong

At least 20ish hours if you don't 100% them.

>caring about old hags

Taking a drive down a cliff in her car that smells of cat piss.

Well, delta Fattening/Ruined/Fast Horse still has rooms overlapping at the beast statue.

Not bad. I've got other games on the go, too. Should be able to manage. Thanks!

fuck you, cc2. you know what you did

Question.
Is it worth the trouble in vol2 to get the adlers keys for the weapons if vol3 just gives em to you? Because that seems like a lot of worthless grinding that I can skip if they just hand em out

Here is a better version.

Not really but they do take up room in item book so if you want your ryu books at 6 before you transfer you'll get them. desu though they take all of 20 minutes to get all 6 of them

where did ya farm em?

Same, I'll buy it when I'm done with persona 5 and Ys VIII.

Here's hoping vol 4. is a proper volume and not a half assed 2 hour excuse for "new content"

I wonder if they added further interaction with the one you chose to marriage in Vol 4. Of course they didn't but seeing more happen after the marriage with Alkaid would be amazing

its a sidequest

How does it run on pc? Is it decent?

The thing is it was also extremely clever doing G.U. because the game takes place in alternate-timeline 2017. G.U. is happening RIGHT NOW.

I'm having problems finding some items, and I suck at trading. What's the best way to fill out my list?

Im about 40 hours in and not a single problem or crash.

>proper volume
>not a half assed 2 hour excuse for "new content"

lol. you might as well just stop where youre at right now then if youre playing the games leading up to vol 4.

thanks

These should last me enough to Vol 3 right

BUHI-
DEKA BUHIIIIII

Not him but at this point all I'm hoping for from Vol 4 is that it lets me carry over my data from 3.

lol

whats the importance of these anyways and why is it a good idea to grind for them or whatever?
i saw someone mention about them as well in another thread.

Do we have a guide on Lucky Animals yet? Where to go farm them? I need to get a handful more for 100% completion. I also need to find the Doppelganger.

They're for levelling up weapon skills. I remember the grind for the higher levels taking a really long time. The books give you half a level of a weapon skill so you don't have to grind later on.

Skills up your weapon proficiency.
Which volume are you on?

Xenosaga is next, r-right Namco?

ah gotcha. are the books easy to get? im still in vol 1 and just did that Arena story event. is it still too early to farm those where im at right now?

I'm trying to 100% volume 1. I just finished Bikman and the mecha grunty. I got a few more bounties to go and I did the abyss quest.

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Question why is .hack legend of the Twilight bracelet Manga is cannon but not anime. What does the Manga do differently from the anime.

There’s a guide for lucky animals, which I found by doing a google search. As for the Doppleganger, go to a field (not a dungeon) and afk for about 5 to 10 minutes. It should spawn somewhere on the map. Don’t fight enemies or they might despawn the Doppelganger or cause his spawn to be longer.

I grinded those after the main story. The problem is you can only farm them in Vol 1 and you have to trade NPCs for it. You have to farm high level areas to get equipment/modifications to trade. The texts aren't too bad but the books need more stuff to get them to trade. Since they made it so you can stack items to 99 now you can just go for 99 text and store them in the grunty storage and go for another 99 giving you 198 total.

tons of filler.

Vol 1 is so painfully mediocre besides maybe the last 1/5th of it. Especially Gaspard being the worst motherfucker on the planet. After replaying Vol 2 after so many years it really escalates quickly and I didn't remember Sakaki being as good of a villain as he was.

Pretty sure i'm right before Sakaki then Ovan and then onto 3.

I've just been hearing some concerning rumors about not being able to do so, and I'm gonna hope they're nothing more than just rumors.

Bamco was interested in doing it but not without Monolith, and Monolith wants nothing to do with Namco after how fucked up Xenosaga's development was.

Pi is a shit!

Fuck that. Atoli is confirmed THICC in real life and thirsts for Haseos dick so hard when Alkaid tries to I love it. Plus she actually grows and grows on Haseo where as Alkaid literally hops on Haseos dick after 1 fucking quest.

Xenogears randomly got figures announced a few months ago, they might be doing something.

I'll be getting this up today, can't wait to fall in love with Alkaid all over again.