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>>14706815

you can marry any girl

and an underage boy with a split personality disorder..

…and Endurance.

>>14706834

>>14706691

>You can marry a catgirl

>>14706838

>>14706834

You have me half sold on this game already. Tell me more and seal the deal.

>>14706834

>>14706899

It's got a neat atmosphere, great OST, and characters that have a lot of growth. Atoli is one of the most feelsy female characters I've ever seen.

Gameplay is solid but gets real good in Volume 3 when you unlock all the weapons. About the only thing that might not have aged well is Haseo's character in volume 1. Dude is edge personified but he grows quite a bit and by volume 2 he has all but matured.

>>14706925

also, it has a really addictive little card game to play on the side.

>>14706945

actual spoilers:

no, but Elk is.

He did not take Mia disappearing very well at all.

>>14706959

The only thing that's even making me consider this "remaster" is that supposedly they added in an entirely new volume. Whether or not it was needed or even fits in with what was established in the original trilogy, I have no clue, but the fact that they basically created a "new" PS2 game and gave you all the other ones in the same package is not disagreeable to me. What's stopped me from getting it already is that it's still $50 (because even Jews will lower the price to make a sale years before a nip would consider it), and I'm not sure if I even have the time or motivation to really sit down and marathon four JRPGs back to back.

I mean, I still have to finish up the final game in the original .//hack series, so make that five JRPGs back to back.

>>14706691

It's more of a send off, and a tease for an upcoming title. As children we looked up to Ovan, he seemed to control everything from the shadows and know something that we don't. But as adults, we pity him. Ovan was creating his own hell.

Haseo has grown past his edgy teenager phase and has become a man. To exemplify this, he reaches out to Ovan at the end, welcoming him to the world. The stark opposite of how the story began. It seems to realize the fans of the series are older now and treats you as such.

>>14706815

You were able to do that in volume 3, before Last Recode. I married Alkaid.

>>14706691

Oh, and something to keep in mind for new players, this game is a continuation of where the anime left off. The game explains what's happened though.

And this is some deep lore, but Haseo is actually a character from .hack//SIGN who lost his memories and made a new character. He was Sora.

>>14707303

>Oh, and something to keep in mind for new players, this game is a continuation of where the anime left off.

Might want to state you mean .hack//SIGN, but really G.U. is a continuation of R:1's continuity at times (given the series working as a chronology with some players still sticking around, albeit with new characters), though I wouldn't say going through those is an outright requirement. Does add a LOT to the world and character building though, with Sign and Roots acting as prequels their respective game subseries, though those admittedly aren't for everyone (Sign being much more focused on dialogue and interaction than combat or action, and Roots getting rather edgy as Haseo tries to cope with loss). Also still don't get why they thought having outright Vol 1 and 2 spoilers within the latter episodes of Roots itself was a good idea, even if the the games, or at least volume 1, was out in Japan by that point.

I still haven't watched episode 27 of .hack//Roots, namely because I've had a lot of trouble finding it and apparently it was never even released in the west either.

>>14706691

P4

Its a pretty good final piece storywise that wraps everything up in a neat package.

Gameplay wise it robs the player of many previous freedoms and alters fighting methods to a more unorthodox fight style. Also the level cap is still kept to 150 so in the 4th game you cannot go past this.

New animation style is 10/10 although its not consistent to part 1-3 and gives me hope they would make .hack a new game one day using this animation style alone.

Its good' not great, just good.

>>14707400

It saw a fair few threads last year, even before Last Recode got announced (which in turn prompted some anons to speculate preemptive shilling after the compilation came to light). I'd hardly say no one ever talks about it.

Testing this mp4 as last time I tried making one for the song I could never get it below the (lower at the time) max filesize with an actual image as a background.

>>14707423

>16.6MB on my machine.

>Site registers it as 15.88MB and lets it through anyhow.

I still don't get what the discrepancy is, not that I'm complaining.

Last Recode is a fucking spit in the face to fans.

>casualizing what was already arguably the easiest JRPG on the PS2, to the point where you are now physically incapable of having any challenge whatsoever

>retroactively removing the extra VA from Vol. 1 out of sheer pettiness

>lazy upres with a blue filter over everything that somehow makes a 2018 rerelease look worse than the PS2 original

>new volume is absolute fucking dogshit, with only 2-4 hours of story

>new volume removes ALL of Haseo's old weapons and forces you to only use the new "we want the SAO audience" Kirito sword

>shitty PC port with performance issues and crash bugs

>I have to just state again that they somehow made a 2018 rerelease look uglier than the original PS2 game

>60fps is poorly implemented and causes chipmunk speed animations and battle voice clipping

>zero improvements to the first three volumes, meaning Vol. 3 is still a painful rushjob with extremely poor pacing and numerous character development reversions

It's not even worth a pirate. Maybe someday if someone releases a full difficulty overhaul mod it'll be worth 0$, but until then it's just flat inferior to the PS2 originals. t. .hack autist who has an embarassing playtime across all the games except //Link, fuck //Link

Also FYI there are now fully functional private servers for .hack//Fragment and it works on PCSX2

What are the odds of the first 4 games getting a remaster/re-release? I only ever played the first game and neglected to grab the next 3 when they came out, and well.. now the scalpers and collectorfags have made it impossible to get a reasonably priced copy to complete the set.

Image ain't mine. Just wanted to post a picture of the spine art.

>>14707748

>the game looks worse than the ps2 version

You're supposed to wear your glasses when you play games and not squint at the screen.

>they boosted exp gains

It's unfortunate but I understand. New players usually despise grindy single player games, and returning players want to relive the story.

>you can kill 1 in every 3 monsters and one shot each boss

No. That's incorrect. Now you're being autistic.

>pc port has bugs and crashes

It works on my machine. (I had no issues, so I dunno about this one.)

>chipmunk animation

Again, you're supposed to wear your glasses and pause between your fits of autism. You're making shit up.

>vol 4 sucks and is short

Your first decent opinion. It was short. For returning players it was just a trip down memory lane and a teaser for an upcoming title. Newer players may have expected more content considering the last 3 were decent chunks.

>volume 4 is shit because they give you a weapon and lock out old weapons

Every single volume has a massive combat overhaul. And this overhaul only lasts for the final hour of the already short volume 4. If you want to use the old weapon system, upload volume 3 and do the forest of pain quest.

>vol 3 is still badly paced

Fair enough. But did you really think they'd risk changing a story without fans screeching autistically?

Tldr why did you even come into this thread

>>14707276

>married Alkaid

This man has impeccable taste.

>>14707795

I didn't mention those things because they were already problems in the PS2 version, retard.

>>14709325

>You're supposed to wear your glasses when you play games and not squint at the screen.

A huge part of the game's graphical fidelity came from the post-processing trickery to hide the lackluster models and lack of lipflapping in unimportant cutscenes. Last Recode just uses a lazy blue filter that washes shit out.

>It's unfortunate but I understand. New players usually despise grindy single player games, and returning players want to relive the story.

You could already do that in the original, it was a very, very, very easy game. Now it's physically impossible to be challenged because your level is the only important stat and you are always overleveled, even if you're running from fights.

>you can kill 1 in every 3 monsters and one shot each boss

What is this sentence? I didn't even say that. Since you bring it up, though, yes, you can one-shot everything because at 8 levels beyond you'll start hitting the damage cap passively, and overleveling that hard is very easy in Last Recode

>It works on my machine.

Same, actually, but everyone I know who's tried the game has had crashes, horrible stuttering, or both.

>Again, you're supposed to wear your glasses and pause between your fits of autism. You're making shit up.

Did you even play the PS2 original? The very first thing you should notice right from the start is that Haseo's running animation is at double speed, his twin-blade attacks are sped up, and the skill trigger animation is too fast and clips Haseo's voice lines (in both languages, before you start on that shit)

They doubled the framerate in a game that ties the physics to that framerate, and didn't give a shit to clean everything up.

>Every single volume has a massive combat overhaul.

Going from 1 to 2 adds the multi-trigger and completely changes Haseo's twin-blade combo string, which I suppose you could call an overhaul. 2 to 3 only adds a new weapon type, nothing about the core gameplay changes. 4 then throws everything in the garbage so that Haseo can become Kirito-lite. If I want to use the old weapon system I can just forcibly revert Haseo to Xth form because I've hacked the shit out of the PS2 games and I still know how everything works. Doesn't make it less shit.

>But did you really think they'd risk changing a story without fans screeching autistically?

Considering Vol. 3 was poorly recieved for being a rushed mess? I didn't expect them to change it because Namco are lazy kikes, but I wanted them to.

>Tldr why did you even come into this thread

What part of .hack autist do you not understand.

Last Recode desperately needs a full difficulty rebalance mod

>Reverse every single balance change the remaster made except for the chim chim cap

>Remove character level from the damage calculation

>Remove character level breakpoints on attack stagger, because being 4 levels above someone shouldn't let you fucking ignore their attacks

>Increase the weight of the other stats in the damage calculation, so that gear and buffs actually do something

>Give Alkaid the revamped twin-blade combo string, she deserves it

>>14706825

no

>>14710144

I want to kiss Lupu-chan!

Being able to romance and marry girl of your choise in non-VN game is of course cool shit, but is the game any good?

Does it have a lot of optional content? Post-game content?

Shit to grind to the max so I can disintegrate the last boss in one hit?

>>14710581

>>14707423

Fuck, that was pretty fucking good. Almost Ar Tonelico good. I wish there was more music like this. Pic unrelated.

>>14710935

.hack//Sign's OST is something special; while the series itself is rather love it or hate it, I doubt anyone out there hates the music. The games have good OSTs as well, but don't share the same composer as Sign. Victor Entertainment is pretty purge happy of OST uploads in more public places, but you can still find both sets of it if you know where to look.

Still needing to give Ar Tonelico/Surge Concerto a go myself.

>>14714458

Hack GU is only grindy if you want it to be. You can ignore those sidequests.

Game was made for autistic Japanese teens and young adults with lots of free time.

>>14707795

>by Yuri Cuckenthal and friends.

You know IDGAF either way usually because I'm just playing with the JPN audio. But in this case the English dub really was in the wrong, they voiced stuff going against the script.

Xseed did it too but at least they asked permission first.