ffa15f No.13720464
.Hack//G.U Last Recode is out tomorrow!
So will it do well enough to save .Hack from its "generation 3" mobage hell? or will it just sell like shit and make bamco double down on fucking Sword Art Online trash?
a3638b No.13720480
The whole "pseudo-online video game" genre is full of cancer now. My personal favorite was original quadrology of .hack. I find G.U. more teen friendly and edgy.
d8f581 No.13720504
81436b No.13720514
>>13720464
Im scared of the localization
641a3c No.13720515
>ps4 deesposable weebshit
a3638b No.13720532
>>13720504
The funniest part about SAO is that it was written when author was a fucking underage.
4ed1a4 No.13720534
>>13720504
>what I fall asleep to every weekend
>they put that into a game
441158 No.13720541
>>13720464
game is already confirmed shit
(from the steam discussions)
>These are all the battle related changes that have been applied to Last Recode:
>Unlike the PS2 versions, in which you were returned to the title screen upon defeat in battle, the HD remaster has added a retry feature that lets you restart the battle from the beginning. Internal correction is performed each time you retry, making it easier to defeat the enemy.
>Attack Power Increased >In order to keep the battle tempo efficient and stress-free, the amount of damage the enemy receives has been increased. (Damage received from the enemy has not been changed.)
>Hit Stop Reduction – Hit stops during attacks have been reduced and players can no longer get caught in an operation, which enhances the battle tempo.
>The amount of experience points acquired in battle has increased, allowing players to level at a better pace.
>You can now use the same item consecutively.
>Skeith’s standard shot bullet speed has been increased.
>Balance revisions have been made to enemies’ HP, attack power, charge speed, and the like in Avatar Battles.
>A stun gauge has been added above the enemy in Avatar Battles.
>The rate at which weapon proficiency rises has been increased.
>The level of difficulty for some formidable enemies has been alleviated.
>The amount of damage to the Flight Gauge and Morale Gauge has been increased.
>The probability that an enemy will inflict status ailments such as paralysis or sleep has been lowered. (The probability that the player will inflict these status ailments on enemies has not been changed.)
>The amount of additional damage during Beast Awakenings has been increased.
Probably not even worth a pirate unless modders can go ham with the game balance under the hood, and that's coming from me, the resident .hack autist who's put quadruple digit hours in both the original quadrilogy and G.U.
ffa15f No.13720559
>>13720514
That just means you are still sane.
>>13720541
Thats all changes for the 'games journo mode' they added. The regular mode just has a fast forward.
81436b No.13720563
>>13720541
>QoL changes?
>NOPE! LETS MAKE THE GAME EASIER FOR THE CASUALS!
441158 No.13720572
>>13720559
>games journo mode
Source? As far as I can tell there's no difficulty select and none of these changes are optional. They did add a "cheat mode" that starts you at max level though if those above changes somehow don't make the easiest JRPG ever made easier enough for you.
c62e51 No.13720574
You know, this game really speaks to me, it says yiffe
ffa15f No.13720589
>>13720572
The 'Cheat mode' is literally described by bamco as 'give me a story mode' while normal mode just has the same kind of shit as the FFXII Zodiac Age rerelease. You pick one at new game and can't swap between.
ffa15f No.13720590
>>13720574
KEMONOBROS LEAVE
441158 No.13720595
>>13720589
Yeah, which is why it sets you to max level. The changes I listed above are applied to the game just flat out, seperate from cheat mode.
ffa15f No.13720604
>>13720595
The item descriptions on amazon all list the restart as being easy modo exclusive mang.
c62e51 No.13720609
>>13720590
No, anyone who spouts that shit meme needs to leave.
441158 No.13720641
>>13720604
From the Amazon page
>NEW GAME MODES - Introducing “Cheat Mode”: Begin the game with full stats to simply experience the story, or “Retry Mode” to retry battles without having to return to the title screen.
Nowhere does that say that stuff is ezmode exclusive, nor that there even is an easy mode.
ffa15f No.13720650
>>13720641
technically that sounds like 'retry mode' is a completely separate mode.
66960f No.13720655
I'm looking forward to getting it. My PS4 games list and library are getting really big lately.
c62e51 No.13720665
66960f No.13720671
>>13720665
I want a real copy
829a41 No.13720673
>>13720609
Yiff in hell, furfag.
ffa15f No.13720680
>>13720665
But PC doesnt have Vita remote play for the height of weeb excess.
81068d No.13720689
Any reason G.U. was remastered over the original ps2 vols 1-4? Also, think they will remaster those eventually? My backlog contains them, but perhaps I should hold off until a remaster, because pressing select and menu-ing to switch weapons every encounter wasn't the best gameplay mechanic.
b3ca74 No.13720690
>Not IMOQ
Still mad about that but I'll give it a go. Never did finish vol. 3 due to fighting Ovan and always getting killed.
ffa15f No.13720704
>>13720689
Maybe something to do with the first tetralogy having anime episodes to watch relevant to the story as well? that could be a licensing issue.
I hope they do though, i was lucky to find a soccar mom selling them all for £1 each on gumtree for my greatest act of merchantry but the prices for them online are fucking ridiculous and everyone knows the pre R2 art style was way better.
08961b No.13721157
>>13720671
>Real copy
What does that even mean?
ffa15f No.13721178
>>13721157
99% of pc only gamers havent bought a physical release in ten years. Some people prefer hard media over a service that can go down at any time but not nearly enough.
08961b No.13721194
>>13721178
My HDD full of pirated games isn't going anywhere.
ffa15f No.13721212
>>13721194
Spoken like someone yet to experience a harddrive failure.
441158 No.13721220
>>13721212
>not having backups
85c402 No.13721228
>>13720541
>Unlike the PS2 versions, in which you were returned to the title screen upon defeat in battle, the HD remaster has added a retry feature that lets you restart the battle from the beginning. Internal correction is performed each time you retry, making it easier to defeat the enemy.
>lets you restart the battle from the beginning
>Internal correction is performed each time you retry, making it easier to defeat the enemy.
a42c89 No.13722359
>>13720514
I would assume that for the most part, it's going to use the original scripts from the PS2 entries, with maybe some touch ups to the written text here and there (the originals noticeably use punctuation as text for confused/exclamatory grunts, and in Redemption there's a few lines where the subtitles get fucked and seem to accidentally call to what should be a dummied out translator's note, though the English audio has the proper dialogue). With the fact that there's essentially a part 4 being added though, that's going to require being translated (and dubbed, if they're still including English voicing) for the first time, which leaves some room for unfortunate possibilities, and not just the voice actors "phoning it in". I don't have a PS4 myself, but if I did I'd still be playing the "wait and see" with how it actually turns out before looking into picking it up myself. Even more so since I played G.U. shortly before the remaster was announced. Might be worth mentioning that there's some cases that, assuming the stick with the original English PS2 scripts where possible, can come off as being [CURRENT YEAR]ed, but were in the PS2 versions a decade prior to begin with. Namely in regards to Hiiragi and Endrance.
>>13720689
I would assume because it's taking them less work to do; G.U.'s gameplay holding up better and looking better visually too with the PS2 versions. Remastering IMOQ would likely just be an outright remake, if not just in combat/gameplay mechanics, than graphically as well.
>>13720690
I'd recommend you be at about level 125 or so for that. Honestly, the fights with him are the only parts of G.U.'s main plot that I found myself needing to grind some for, in both Volume 2 and 3.
7ee2da No.13724475
>Start vol 1
>Cutscene where Haseo dies for the first time
>Haseo's mouth moves fine
>Asta and Iyoten's don't move an inch
This is rather jarring. I hope it was because the game wasn't fully installed
077b22 No.13724491
sure is nice they didn't announce a release date and just threw it out there. Every website showed the end of this year, then suddenly Nov. 3.
Hopefully it doesn't get rare for a physical copy because right now I just don't have the money.
84be5d No.13724536
84be5d No.13724658
>>13724579
http://archive.is/OdG5F
>In addition to being able to redo the Marriage Events in Vol. 3: Redemption, you’ll get to do it with all characters that become party members
I checked and yes, you can. Anyone can be done. I will order as soon as it's available on Steam.
940240 No.13725974
>>13724536
>>13724658
There are only two people you should be marrying in GU. Maybe 3 if you want the tsundere tomboy.
84be5d No.13726032
>>13725974
I was joking. Maybe. That girl in the third picture looks necromancer like hell and is blonde, the healeress (?) with flower staff also appeals to me. I think I know whom I will gravitate towards.
84be5d No.13726044
By the game, the way is out already I just realised, got 40%.
66960f No.13726055
>>13721157
something that makes you mad
940240 No.13726067
>>13726032
That design isn't in the game. It's a part of the movie and the design comes from a take on one of the more emotional parts of the game. I don't recommend watching the movie before you play the game as its more of a recap of the game with some better CG and can feel a bit rushed seeing as they are trying to fit 3 games worth of story into an hour and a half.
5b7ed3 No.13726088
>>13726044
Would you like to try that post again?
84be5d No.13726102
>>13726067
You mean the girl who looks like Necromancer from Diablo 2 if he was a girl? Those white hand thingies even look like his bone shield stuff if my memory is right. That's not in the game? I feel as if you just fucked me straight in the ass, I wanted to romance that right fucking now.
>>13726088
I aciddentally put game where way was meant to be. Also nice Hitler dubs.
7f0c39 No.13726117
>PS2 remaster
>38 gigs
but why?
66960f No.13726134
>>13726117
it's 3 games, 3x 8gb dual layer dvd, +compressed install data.
84be5d No.13726139
>>13726117
It's 3 games put together with higher quality assets and sound and more content. That's what the description says, at least. Seems okay to me.
940240 No.13726172
>>13726102
The character is in the games but that form is exclusive to the movie.
She's still a great character though who manages to be pretty endearing and relatable which is quite a feat for a female character in vidya, be it Japanese or Western.
She'll annoy the shit out of you at first tho.
66960f No.13726177
>>13726139
you also need to account for installers. I've never seen people who complain about storage requirements realize that they are downloading the entire game compressed, then unpacking it, and the compressed installer is deleted. You need double the actual installed size for that reason.
7f0c39 No.13726212
>>13726134
>>13726139
The originals were only about 3 gigs each, the new episode is only a few hours long and the "remaster" doesn't seem like it improves much at all. Certainly not enough for this to be bigger than 20 gigs.
66960f No.13726253
>>13726212
then what waits to be seen is the contents of the game install.
90abe2 No.13726266
>>13726117
For once this is not the result of shitty coding. It's a compilation of multi-disc games full of voice acting, and I think it has dual audio (and possibly triple audio, I remember at least one of the games had an alternate gag Japanese voice track cut in the English version to make room for the English track).
84be5d No.13726269
>>13726172
What a shame. I expected something so evil looking would either be a redeemable villain or unplayable, but her actual form doesn't look like must-marry type. I guess I've got to play to find out who's best. She reminds me of Elena from Grandia 2, so she's not that bad anyway but I wanted a female necromancer to fug
>>13726177
It requires to download 33.3GBs, so nope. It needs like 40GBs in description, so it accounts for that in a way. Maybe after unpacking it's way less, hard to say how the gooks programmed this.
7f0c39 No.13726304
>>13726269
>I guess I've got to play to find out who's best
I'll go ahead and save you time
de151b No.13726339
Get over it anon. .hack //GU was a crappy weebshit game anyway, and no one's gonna play it. Go jack off to your miku hatsune plush or whatever.
940240 No.13726359
>>13726269
Yeh, play the games then watch the movie as sort of a companion to them. The movie does a few things better, a few things worse and has some neat designs, but overall it was an excuse to recount the events of the game at a higher resolution.
84be5d No.13726368
>>13726304
>Baiken who's not an amputee
You might be right, I already like her, except for the retarded umbrella handles on her katanas.
90abe2 No.13726383
>>13726266
Wait, none of the games included were multi-disc. Still has a lot of audio.
84be5d No.13726395
>>13726368
That's not the image I chose you kike-site.
>>13726359
Seems like a good idea.
0e5ef2 No.13726683
>>13726067
>I don't recommend watching the movie
There, the essential message without all that fluff.
441158 No.13727060
>>13726172
and then all of her character development is ignored once you hit Vol. 3 because it's a rushed unfinished piece of shit
Whether Namco actually takes this opportunity to fix this shit with Vol. 4 or just goes the lazy route as always is up in the air.
>>13726266
All four games amount to a total of 6GB, with the rest of the space all being poorly-compressed pre-rendered video according to people who already have the game.
I really hope modderfags can fix the shitty game balance this "remaster" brings.
0aefd1 No.13727671
>>13727060
If I remember correctly her character fully developed in vol. 2 and there wasn't much else for them to do with her. Haseo was the same way so by vol. 3 they kind of came across as bland but it's better than in things like Naruto where they devolve over and over again.
0aefd1 No.13727689
>>13726683
It isn't bad. The whole scene with Atoli and Haseo was handled better, the way the virus looked was better, and rage Haseo was cool. Everything else was just a rushed version of the games cutscenes that looked nicer.
60cd8d No.13727762
Original .hack Remaster or Remake when
60cd8d No.13727860
>>13720541
>instead adding those causal features as optional easy mode, they made it vanilla
Disdain for casual
9d4f99 No.13727869
>>13721212
If you actually gave a flying fuck about preserving shit you'd invest in backups.
60cd8d No.13727881
>>13721212
>he couldn't afford $200 to recover the 1tb of prons from old dead HDD
9d4f99 No.13727892
>>13727881
You know damn well there's other mediums that exist besides HDDs.
a42c89 No.13728161
>>13726266
The JP versions of IMOQ had a dual audio of sorts, in that they had the standard JP dub, and then a JP gag dub. The JP gag dub was trimmed from the western release and replaced with an English dub (while retaining the JP dub and thus having dual audio). Meanwhile, for whatever reason, G.U. on the PS2 was English audio only.
>>13726383
The English version of Rebirth even had more audio than the JP one did, leading to the Japanese fanbase getting asspained and the subsequent English releases of Reminisce and Redemption being barred from having extra audio.
b44d59 No.13728667
>>13720514
Can confirm, localization not only butchers the game, it fucks with the plot, the finesse. Holy shit, it is pure crash grab.
441158 No.13728704
>>13728161
NamcoJP went the extra step in being petty faglords for Last Recode. They retroactively deleted the extra English VA from Vol. 1 this time around.
>>13727671
the problem is in Vol. 3 she acted the same as Vol. 1 just without the suicidal masochism, because they ignored all of the interactions between her and Haseo in the latter bits of Vol. 2
which makes Haseo running off to waifu her even more jarring because it comes out of nowhere as a result
Alkaid is the best girl anyway
3b73ea No.13728756
Ignoring the money component, what does this remake collection offer that puts it above the originals?
0aefd1 No.13729083
>>13728704
I'll have to play it again, because I remember her just becoming more supportive but staying a little weird and annoying which is fine considering that was part of her character that she couldn't help but came to accept.
7ee2da No.13729153
>>13726269
>I guess I've got to play to find out who's best
I'll go ahead and save you time
8c1aab No.13731278
Do I have to read or click all those emails/forums in the .hack or will I not miss anything? I wouldn't mind if not for the fact you have to click on a response, leave, click on another, leave it, click on another, all that ad fucking infinitum.
4e2a4b No.13731440
>>13731278
If memory serves, G.U. does allow for viewing forum threads as a chain, rather than post by post.
8c1aab No.13731867
>>13731440
Yes, I just didn't notice. Disregard that post, I suck dicks
43393b No.13731981
4b23d2 No.13732299
>>13731981
It's a servicable hack n' slash with very light RPG elements. You're mostly there for the story, characters, OST, and atmosphere but the gameplay is definitely servicable.
d172ae No.13732322
>>13727689
>rage Haseo was cool
29b34a No.13732384
Where are the Gundam PC ports Bamco?
298f46 No.13732416
>>13721178
>He thinks discs are more reliable than data storage
8c1aab No.13732537
Why does Haseo look like Van Darkholme mixed with a Dark Eldar anyway?
4b23d2 No.13732542
>>13732322
he was edgy as hell, but that whole scene where he broke into Ovan's domain was really cool. It looked like he was actually fucking up the game.
I think that's a big thing the movie did better. External forces to "the World" actually felt external. For instance, the AIDA virus in the movie actually looked "alien" when Atoli saw it for the first time. It didn't look like a glitch, or something that was using the World's assets to show itself, it was just some organism that found a way inside the game.
4baf0c No.13732660
So has game been causalized or is that only in some alternative difficulty mode?
264422 No.13733948
>>13732660
Casualized out the asshole, read my post near the beginning of the thread. Only alternative mode is the ability to start at max level, all the listed changes are baseline.
264422 No.13733951
>>13732660
>>13733948
Well shit, my ID changed for some reason, I'm talking about >>13720541
91a299 No.13734110
>>13729153
Im calling the police
61fdcc No.13735094
>got broadsword
>you can attack into guard to remove the 5 years of animation after
Is there any reason to use the dual blades anymore?
264422 No.13735101
>>13735094
Until vol. 2, no.
30d396 No.13735114
So how is it? Is the port/localization/gameplay ok?
61fdcc No.13735156
>>13735101
Yeah, figured so. The only downside is the purple rengekis are hard to do because shit dies super fast, and that means I can't really get affection through normal encounters.
>>13735114
Graphic/FPS wise all's good for me, but the keyboard controls… Not only does it show console controller prompts no matter what you do, trap chests are super hard as the result of that, the keybindings are retarded because it refuses to use mouse properly. It automatically uses LMB as X, the other as Y (or was it A and B) but you can't operate the camera with the mouse. No, it's some retarded buttons like oijlk,m that are set for that instead. Goddamn gooks better patch it in the future, keyboard prompts + camera being operated by the mouse seem like simple enough solution and they'd make it okay.
264422 No.13735430
>>13735156
shit only dies super fast because Last Recode is a casualized dogshit babby release
>>13735114
port is ok if you have a controller, localization is identical to original though nobody's said anything about the new stuff, and gameplay is >>13720541
30d396 No.13735504
>>13735430
So it's just easier across the board?
dc1b3c No.13735548
Have been playing it for a while now as it was released in Europe on the first rather than the third, and a friend of mine would not shut up on how amazing .hack was. Had not tried the series before. I find it to be laughable how seriously everyone takes PK'ing. Of course, being PK'ed by Tri-Edge sends you in a coma or reverts you to level 1 which is a thing but normal PK? Haseo is a gigantic edgelord because he got PK'd on his first day, but you lose a little gold and experience, and that's the end of it, I think. So they just ham it up with maximum teen edge for some stupid reason. It's definitely showing it's age but I do think it's enjoyable for what it is. Game's quite short though. I hope IMOQ gets the same treatment, if only to crash street value for online hoarders. G.U was never released in Europe so that's also part of the reason I wanted to try it out.
4b23d2 No.13735559
>>13735548
Just a heads up if you aren't liking Haseo:
he quickly leaves his edgelord nonsense behind in part 2 and never goes back to it.
dc1b3c No.13735589
>>13735559
That's good to know. I'm at the arena bit right now where they introduced Endrance. Is there any use for the bike? It controls like dogshit and isn't even that much faster than walking.
423858 No.13735609
.Hack Quantum was alright but that was 10 years ago now. This franchise is dead.
4e2a4b No.13735614
>>13735548
>Haseo is a gigantic edgelord because he got PK'd on his first day
That is not why. .hack//Roots shows nine month time period between that first day and when .hack//G.U. actually starts, and showing more of how he relates with Shino, Ovan, and Tabby, and why he should care about them. It also shows Haseo's subsequent descent into being "The Terror of Death", as well as better showing it for what it is: A coping mechanism and a means for possible answers. As he himself has no power to actually help Shino after the incident, he strives to grow strong enough to kill the one who PKed her, and since PKers would likely know information about other PKers, hunting them is a way to potentially get information. Still gets to be a rather edgy anime after the first handful of episodes, runs a bit longer than it might have needed to, and eventually runs into spoiler territory for the games, but it does provide more background on the characters. And yes, players in R:2 seem to take PVP extremely seriously, to a point it becomes humorous.
>>13735589
Vol 2 introduced a faster default bike speed and upgradable parts to adjust things like speed, acceleration, turning, etc. Also bike related time trials as a side quest.
423858 No.13735624
>>13720541
Sounds like they finally made the games fun. Maybe they can patch in a special "autism" mode for the reactionary crowd.
4e2a4b No.13735653
>>13735614
Oh, and if you time things right, you can use the bike to get a jump on groups of enemies by ramming into them (which if memory serves also counts towards building the Book of 1000 record pertaining to the bike).
4b23d2 No.13735817
>>13735609
>This franchise is dead.
if the current year has taught me anything, it's that the things we liked are better off dead.
b3373f No.13735828
>>13720541
>no archive link
i need a source, you fake news!
ce74c5 No.13735945
>>13735828
>I'm too retarded to use google
446787 No.13736046
>modern console game
>nu .hack
>bandai namco
Do you really need to ask?
As long as we're asking stupid questions how much does the $2.50 can of coke cost?
c1e992 No.13736172
>>13734110
For some reason Bo doesn't respond to my messages anymore? At least Saku's still around
4b23d2 No.13736313
>>13736172
That was pretty good
aed0ef No.13736400
>>13720464
Oh shit.
I thought this was coming out next year.
I really liked the originals and thought G.U. was good, be it a lot more anime than I like.
All 3 parts of G.U. bundled into one and has quite a big appeal to me.
Trading cards and steam achievements because I'm a whore
Probably going to buy it a week from now.
cc0ddd No.13736422
I bought it to burn something for the weekend and it's my only steam game that crashes on start up. Oh well, so much for that.
485ade No.13737547
After 10 years I finally get to play this in a non-emulated environment! What's everyone's favourite box-art? Mines Part 1!
dc1b3c No.13741393
I want to get more words but apart from forums, whats a good way to unlock 'em?
4e2a4b No.13741527
>>13741393
If memory serves you can also learn new keywords as rewards for clearing fields.
7d808c No.13741572
>>13720464
>>13737547
Yes fellow anon poster! I too am excited to buy .hack®//G.U.™ Vol.1//Rebirth™ for the PlayStation® 4! It's going to be epic for the win! I am not a paid promoter here to influence the fine posters on this Japanese Imageboard known as InfiniteChan™.com!
30d396 No.13741707
>>13741572
Where do you retards come from?
926318 No.13741949
>>13735609
>This franchise is dead.
So its just ready to have its corpse raped, OPs prediction is closer to reality.
7d808c No.13742282
>>13741707
Whatever do you mean, anonymous poster 30d396? I am a genuine and enthusiastic customer of the Bandai Namco™ .hack®//G.U.™ series of video games, here to share my excitement for the re-release available for only $49.99 USD!
a75115 No.13743074
>>13720541
man thank god im on vol2 and only have vol 2 and 3 on hand.
I still need to finish it
485ade No.13743230
>>13742282
>>13741572
M8, just let me enjoy something I've waited so long to play non-emulated. I'm not saying it's the best thing in the world, but damn, it's fun for what it is. I don't think anyone outside of hardcore .hackers would be buying this anyway so it's pointless trying to dissuade people.
4e2a4b No.13743553
>>13743527
I remember someone calling that a long time back, that if .hack ever made a return, SAOfags call it the rip off.
f4d47f No.13743554
>>13743527
Quality shitposting.
b5a696 No.13744969
>>13720480
>quadrology
Tetraology* :^)
>>13720541
>Internal correction is performed each time you retry, making it easier to defeat the enemy.
This is the main thing I have a problem with. I don't much mind the rest as I recall these games were grindy as all hell back then to make up for the fact that they weren't actually that long. Though most of my experience is from IMOQ which I recently replayed with emulation, since I only vaguely recall GU. Either way, there should be an option to use the original balancing in the settings.
>>13720609
This. The only anon I've seen using that term is the same furag trying to stir shit.
e7fec9 No.13745021
Why the hell would you want bamco to revive the hack series? They're worse than Capcom at this point and for the past decade gave any CyberConnect2 outside of naruto an extremely low budget
b5a696 No.13745104
>>13724658
Wait, I never got into GU. Does marriage have unique dialogue, cutscenes, voice acting, etc? Did they add all this for the gay? If they did, are some or all the gay played for gags?
b5a696 No.13745219
>>13728704
>NamcoJP went the extra step in being petty faglords for Last Recode. They retroactively deleted the extra English VA from Vol. 1 this time around.
What? What exactly was cut? Image 1 related.
>>13735548
>Hercule Mr. Satan for ants
>>13735609
Why is there an r63 Kite with giant hair in what looks like a frame from an official anime adaptation? Image 2 related.
>>13743527
Nice shoop :^)
313dae No.13745306
>>13720464
I only ever watched sign, how does this game relate story wise?
32fbb7 No.13745394
Is it worth getting the remaster over the original?
5ec5b5 No.13745709
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>>13745104
The gay is very definitely played for gags, ypu can even marry tri-edge, also yes there is unique dialogues, cutscenes, and voice acting for each marriage.
>>13745306
The MC is future sora, also lots of main characters where present in sign, although they are using different accounts.
>>13745394
If you don't mind the download size and an easier battle system then sure, especially since it comes with the terminal stuff and part 4.
264422 No.13745728
>>13745219
All voice acting that plays when you highlight somebody and talk to them outside of story sequences.
To answer your second question, shitty waifubait nostalgiabait anime that bombed hard alongside //Link, which is what actually killed the franchise.
>>13745306
If you've only watched //SIGN, you're better off playing the originals (Infection, Mutation, Outbreak, Quarantine) and probably on emulator because physical copies cost an arm and leg. //G.U. is a sequel to those and even has its own anime (//Roots) to lead in. Like another poster said, whether you should watch //Roots before or after playing the games is up to you because it fleshes out the characters a lot but also contains some spoilers for the game and introduces characters that the game ignores completely.
>>13745394
Are you too lazy to emulate the original? Outside of the new content that you can just launch directly, the originals play way better because they aren't completely babbified.
4e2a4b No.13748212
>>13745219
The English release of Rebirth had additional voice work done for lines left unvoiced in the Japanese original. Something about the VAs having finished their work early but having already been paid for X hours, so did more work to earn their keep. The Japanese fanbase was apparently angry to hear that the western release had more voicing, so rather than Namco JP step up their game and do the equivalent line work for the Japanese versions of Volume 2 and 3, they just told Namco US that they were ONLY allowed to do voicing for lines that were voiced in the Japanese originals for those games. Anyhow, from the sound of things, that rule now applies retroactively to Rebirth in Last Recode.
>>13745104
.hack knows to play it as humor. Endrance himself is an odd case, being more of the "single target waifufag" than a just plain fag. Main thing being that with his object of worship having changed, he goes from being a waifufag to a husbandofag. His player's also had his head and heart fucked with some in the past during R:1, as well as the events leading up to R:2, so he's got some psychological issues stemming from that.
>>13745306
.hack//Sign is a prequel to IMOQ, which takes place in the same version of The World, later called Revision 1 (R:1). G.U. takes place in R:2, as does .hack//Roots (it's anime prequel), while .hack//Link is in R:X if memory serves.
8ba32f No.13752416
Does the marriage have any impact whatsoever on the new content from vol 4 anyway, or is it never mentioned?
0e9c1a No.13752477
>download the codex release because poorfag who can't buy this until the 15th
>tfw ctd as soon as I boot it
Is this common or is this a case of "Works on MY machine :^)"?
b3373f No.13752490
>>13728704
>They retroactively deleted the extra English VA from Vol. 1 this time around.
so in the end of the day, the best way to play it is emulation?
5ec5b5 No.13752541
>>13752490
In fairness the extra VA is extremely minor and regardless the JP voices which don't have the negligible extra are superior in terms of better presenting the story.
Emulation is better for combat difficulty though, although as a warning if you actually care about combat difficulty look up arena battle levels since they're the best indicator of recommended level, even going a few levels over can make story fights a cakewalk, honestly it's nigh impossible without a guide to go through all the games without being over levelled a few times, not that it usually impacts too much unless you autistically grind to max from the start.
>>13752477
Fine for me although there's some issues with full screen with multiple monitors i've found
f4d47f No.13752620
>>13752541
> and regardless the JP voices which don't have the negligible extra are superior in terms of better presenting the story.
Cute way to say the english dub is shit.
5ec5b5 No.13752697
>>13752620
Relative to most english dubs it's actually pretty good, still shit though, especially the MC, he sound like a petulant whiny child in english which is where the whole "edgy MC" comes from whereas in the original he comes off as just frustrated and impatient.
It's one of the reasons i'm happy for the remaster since it includes JP voices as most are too lazy too get the undub for the original
0e9c1a No.13752752
>>13752541
>uninstall and reinstall it
>still ctd
Well fuck me. I have a goystation 4 so if it comes down to it I will still play it.
>tfw I just wanted to try before I buy
d20702 No.13752928
>Stun gauge was added to avatar battles
fucking why
4e2a4b No.13753173
>>13752697
Do have to ask; with the game having dual audio natively now, does the text for names that were changed for the English dub revert to original names if playing on Japanese audio or anything? Just asking since it strikes me that it would be annoying to hear the audio say one name while the text script says another. And did they subtitle the pre/post-arena commentary properly this time, given that from what I remember that was audio only on the PS2 (and thus understanding would likely be lost if playing the PS2 versions with the undub patches)?
6d2ec8 No.13755171
I just want this sell exceptionally well so CC2 can have more money to work on another Little Tail Bronx game tbqh
8570f3 No.13755232
8ba32f No.13758505
Lore question. I'm enjoying the game so far, but is it gay to marry Azure Kite ?
b5a696 No.13758731
>>13758505
Only if the balls touch, haha :^).
d172ae No.13761473
>>13745709
>ypu can even marry tri-edge
We're not arabs, getting raped is not the same as marriage.
afd82f No.13763533
>>13761473
This is a game you play with controllers, Haseo's player felt nothing even if what was implied did happen. It's not rape, even though Haseo deserves rape.
Why would he send a marriage card to a messed-up AI with powers that aren't fully explored when he knows in this world things can pull your very mind inside the game,change your behavior and it's not really a game? Kite might feel encouraged to use his Aura-given powers to try pulling Haseo's consciousness inside the game only to data drain him from behind, getting a defenseless lvl 1 sex slave as a result. If he smartly did it before the servers close in vol4 or soon after vol3, nobody would be able to stop him from fucking Haseo for an eternity, especially since the faggot's friends mostly stopped playing. Maybe with his conscious inside Haseo'd feel it and it'd really be rape, who knows.
fc4352 No.13764017
>>13753173
>does the text for names that were changed for the English dub revert to original names if playing on Japanese audio?
Unfortunately they don't, it seems the subtitles are just the English lines. It was jarring at first because the first person you meet with a different name is Zelkova, which up until that point all characters kept their Japanese name. I had forgotten some characters had a name change when crossing into English.
What's also interesting is seeing how certain lines said in Japanese are translated differently by the localization team. For example, there's a cutscene where Haseo says "Get out of my way, otherwise I'll eat you alive!" which was edgelordasfuck but also my favorite line as a kid. But after watching it in Japanese it seems that what he actually says is more like "Get out of my way or I'll kill you!"
Then there's a few changes here or there like a character says "Naruhodo" but the English subtitle is just "…", or a character is talking to someone and in the English version will say their name within the sentence while the Japanese line has no trace of them saying their name.
So far it's not a terrible localization job, but I'm still on Volume 1.
>And did they subtitle the pre/post-arena commentary properly this time?
I wasn't aware of this issue in the PS2 version, but from what I've played it seems they're there. I've only encountered 1 instance so far where there was no subtitle dialogue and coincidentally it was for the Arena announcer. There's a cutscene where the protagonists are talking and you can vaguely hear the announcer in the background, but there's no translation for it. However, it's so quiet that it's not essential to the story.
f4d47f No.13764167
>>13752697
>especially the MC, he sound like a petulant whiny child in english which is where the whole "edgy MC" comes from whereas in the original he comes off as just frustrated and impatient.
He's voiced by Yuri Lowenthal who is a whiny jew.
4e2a4b No.13764397
>>13764017
>So far it's not a terrible localization job, but I'm still on Volume 1.
Yeah, on the PS2 it didn't come off as feeling out of place with the vibe the games had on the whole, to the point my main complaints with it was just the written text quality (starting a line with ? or ! to indicate a reaction and then following up with actual dialogue is honestly rather lazy). But gratuitous name changes for the western release are also an issue if one's going to include dual audio (or in the case of, say, Tales of Hearts R, ONLY Japanese audio), assuming the game has voicing to begin with.
And yeah, it was particularly the arena announcer and his guest-of-the-match that I was referring to as not having any subtitles in the PS2 version, leaving them audio only. Still, even if they're not exactly important to the plot itself in a number of cases, I think it still adds something to the game having them be understandable, and the announcer himself has a running gag of his guests leaving before they ought to throughout the games, resulting in one case later on of him hamming out a "Why do all my guests up and leave?" or something after it happens one-too-many a time for his liking. You're right though, whether he and his guest are at the forefront of dialogue or not depends on if Haseo's party or the enemy group's had any lines since warping in, and once they do commentary becomes background chatter, but before/afterward, it's the sort of thing that could have still benefitted from being subbed (perhaps have regular subtitling until the competitors have any lines, and then cut to small text between parenthesis to represent lesser importance at that point, or something?), as the fact they aren't sticks out and I'm not sure why they weren't subtitled anyhow.