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>>15095748

Well she's best girl so yeah

>>15095772

Make sure you complete all the side quests in each volume of GU or you want get the item needed to do it. Also, the secret final boss in each volume is pretty neat so you wouldn’t want to skip them.

>>15095781

I finished the first 1 100% then lost my save

>>15095797

That suuucks, but now’s a good time to start it over now that the Last Recode is out.

How's the gameplay anyway? I wanna give it a shot but I'm not really into JRPGs.

>>15095835

The first 3 games are a bland hack n’ slash rpg. You really are playing them for everything but the gameplay, but it’s just serviceable enough. GU is more of an action game with a lot more mechanics to make it fun, and really beats up when you unlock Haseo’s final form and can switch between three four differenct gameplay styles.

>>15095843

Alright thanks anon. I was interested in GU anyway.

>>15095858

Yeh, sorry for the messy post. My attention is split at the moment. Also, if you end up liking GU try Link at some point as it sort of continues the story and gives all the previous characters new forms.

>>15095879

meant for >>15095748

>>15095800

I read they made it easier so I'll emulate PS2 thanks.

>>15095879

That's a catgirl you fuccboi not a furshit creature.

To believe that this series took inspiration from the original Phantasy Star Online. .hack// is far better than SAO.

>>15095887

For a second there I thought you were talking about Shino who is absolute worst girl.

>>15095904

>shino

what a trash character, we are in full agreement here.

>>15095673

I played .hack without ever having seen Roots and it didn't stop me from enjoying the game.

I think the best way to experience it is just to play it. You should take breaks in between chapters, the games weren't designed to be played back to back and you'll get burnt out easily trying to rush it.

What about Link and the other animes ?

people still play .hack//fragment online

All of the files you need:

Each set of files has its own folder within this GDrive folder

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1C-xZBhZfBHB6oH4ug3hhs7TeYWy0XW1S?usp=sharing

http://www.dothack.org/files/file/71-fragment-compatible-emu/

Fragment setup info: http://fragment.dothackers.org/

Server status: http://fragment.dothackers.org/status/

Related forums: http://bbs.dothackers.org/ and http://www.dothack.org/forum/15-hackfr%C3%A4gment/

>>15095673

>R1

In order accessible, preferably if you ask me. However, .hack//Sign isn't for everyone, namely due to being fairly low on action and high on dialogue and character interaction (thus actually understanding a lot of what happens of interest in MMOs is communication). It does do a good job of showing the sorts of people attracted to MMOs, and has a great OST. At the same time, it's worth considering that Sign is in effect background and world building for IMOQ. One can play IMOQ without necessarily needing to watch Sign. But one who watches Sign without playing the games will have a lot of the questions raised go unanswered.

>R2

Roots does serve as background and base characterization, namely for Haseo's drive and how he knows certain characters in the G.U. games. It does have the issue for some though that it goes too hard and too long on the EDGE (despite his hunting of PKers being a coping mechanism since at that point he actually can't do shit himself to help the situation), and in late parts has spoilers for Volume 2 stuff before it even happens. Again, not absolutely required to watch, but it again provides world building and prologue, some events of which the games both gloss over or assume the player has watched. And watching the anime without playing the games results in a kind of depressing outcome where nothing done really had any benefit (which the games continue from). Did like seeing how much Phyllo's real life death devastated Haseo in the last episode or so, being so focused on revenge he didn't even know the guy had died, nor realized just how much he'd come to like the old man's advice.

>>15095973

Link has a fan-translation that's nearly done, at least last I checked. Haven't especially seen positive reception towards the game from anons though, but again, it not being patched yet limits the western player base, so perhaps those that dislike it are more vocal.

>>15095959

I played them back to back just fine. I just didn't try to 100% each volume (which are handled in such a way to kill time when it was months between volumes being released, whereas now one can have access to all the games and just continue the story without delay). But yes, I'd wager going for competition back to back would be very tiresome.

>>15097779

heres a video from when we discovered that the one sin is in the game.

the game's area server program has not been fully reverse engineered yet and most of fragment's "development" has been focused on translating menu text so we still occasionally discover unseen content. the area server is still mostly vanilla and unlocks new content, including story content, as players play on servers and level them up. it takes a lot of gameplay for a server to level up and attempts to modify server levels have been buggy so we've been playing it properly and taking notes of any unseen content and how we think it might have been triggered.

>>15095906

But he's right

Reminder that, although not specifically stated anywhere in game, Haseo is Sora from sign. Devs confirmed this.

>>15095673

SIGN 1-27

original 4 games with Liminality OVA's for each game after/midway through each

SIGN 28 (epilogue)

SIGN 29 (optional)

Legend of Twilight's Bracelet (optional)

now the hard part:

Roots occurs before G.U. and basically acts as episode 0 to G.U. 1-3

however, Roots spoils some mysteries later in G.U.