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That final line you said literally brought me to tears. They didn't fail. I, too, think about Xenosaga 15 years later with so much love and fondness. Amazing video. So well spoken. So well researched. Just... Bravo.

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Imoq never even got a remaster. I was so butthurt. Been playing GU recode. Ironically in-game the old World R1 source code was lost and mirrors what real world cyber connect has said about IMOQs source code being lost as well.

1:49:13 nice timing

GIVE US A REMASTER YOU COWARDS (i know it wasn't financially viable for Bamco but hopefully Nintendo can step in. I mean fucking Baten Kaitos got one)

This was definitely worth the hour watching. I've always liked .hack's atmosphere such as towns and outfits. It has a mixture of middle eastern and european (Irish?) culture, and it's blended so well together it seems like an original take

I really appreciate how clearly you portray your ambivalence on GU. i was sorta going through the series at the same time as you and you tended to really put to words this sort of . enthralling confusion these games give lol. the framing of an MMO is so captivating and acts as a mask that blurs the lines around intentional MMO bullshit and . genuine problems in the game . . . I continued on into //Link and plan on falling further and further into this conspiracy series

It's hard to not see episode 3 as just one big lame compromise

Every time I watch a Log Horizon or the next Shangri La Frontier I remember what we could have. If not for any other reason, I wish they would reboot it while we have Yuki Kajiura willing.

I am from the future, after xenoblad chronicles future redeemed i am very confindent about xenosaga will be retcon into xenoblade

Just finished Xenosaga III, and I can finally watch this with no spoilers.

i like g.u. but for me, it just doesn't have the atmosphere of the first game. it is a lot more fun to play moment to moment, though. and i wish we could get a direct remake of the original games with the gameplay of g.u.

I HIGHLY disagree about your point bout a remake. It's because they're great games that they deserve _not_ to be remade, instead deserving to be ported over as-is. There is practically a 0% chance of a remake not being absolute garbage - especially since it's a PS2 game, and so much of the feel of those games is due to the limited resolution, bilinear filtering, 3:4 ratio, alpha blending, etc. that is all ignored in remasters/remakes. The other problem is, best case scenario, a remake is just useless and takes potential interest away from the original. even if a remake is a good as it can possibly be, the original will always be the best way to experience the game, _because_ it's the original. A remake can be shinier, but we aren't toddlers here.

47:09 This Video was worthe watching JUST to get to this Joke!

Still prefered the combat in infection cause it felt like an early mmo

Ugh i need the 4th game! but the prices are wild

I'm wayyy late but I wanted to add my cents on the avatars-summon-cubia deal. So, the avatars *were* normal to the system. We're unsure if they were one being, or all 8, or what. It was morganna literally having a whole ass meltdown over all her work outright leaving that even got her to pry skeith out of the box and into her "Internal World" as it were. But Morganna's Gone. R2 Definitely isn't the world 1, and arguably might not even have much of the same source code. A lot of the changes to R2 are probably entirely because Aura put her meddly little hands in and made the knights- and there are backdoors to all data, stuff like that. The phases being essentially backed up and brought from what could be considered windows 7 to windows 10? Oh yeah, that'd be bad if nothing was built for them. And it'd definitely at least a cast a "shadow" (no I agree that's stupid) that could have Cubia show up all "HELLO!? I WOULD LIKE TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT OUR LORD AND SAVIOR MORGANNA MODE GONE"

.Hack was such a unique vibe, and truly a head of its time. Also the first anime I found on my own so I'm a little bias.

Xenosaga is very clearly a prequel to Gears, Fei and Elly are literally introduced in their original bodies as the Wave Existence and Abel in Saga with absolutely zero attempt to cover it up. Abel even gets in a mech and does his characteristic "going apeshit" move.

xenosaga so beautiful

I want to play one of these games

Amazing video. I'm still hoping for a remake of the original 4 games, but after watching the ending theme song credits of .hack//versus I don't think we will get it. (Also watching the ed damn near made me cry lol)

nailed it with "it deserves a chance to tell it right". GU and Persona 4 were my bestfriends growing up. I played the Quadrilogy after GU, got to say, the Quadrilogy deserves that chance.

I watched .hack sign twice, played the first three original .hack games. Watched the video that came with the original games. And played .hack g.u. twice and the remake of it through once and had no idea what the premise of the epitaph of twilight was the entire time lol. Real good video. Thanks man

Holy fuck, I hope you pirated Dot Hack 4. It's super expensive.

Your Xenosaga video was my introduction into your channel and then I watched your first .Hack video and now GU. I am really glad to see someone give all of my favorite low key ps2 games some love! Great work!

I just replayed Mass Effect (Legendary Ed Trilogy) and as I sat watching the credits, feeling that hollow feeling games used to give us when the credits rolled and we didnt know what to do with ourselves after 200 hours of immersion, I thought of Xenosaga. The two series' have a TON of the same themes and ideas. And I thought about how it was the first series that made me feel that. Sitting and watching the credits, just a teenager, sobbing in my bedroom because the endings of each game were so touching and mind bending, and when theyre over and theres no more installments to come, they just leave a void. Xenosaga was my obsession as a teen. I bought the first one on a whim because the Microplay store was out of Kingdom Hearts copies. I was only 12. These games shaped me, gave me early onset existential crisis, and I loved every minute of it and will never forget it. As an artist and also a perfectionist, the idea of failure and self criticism is more than familiar to me, but, its funny, as a consumer, I could never ever call Xenosaga a failure.

Hi!! I found your IMOQ video a long time ago, I played both of these games as a kid. They are so intensely ingrained into my background noise of things I love (The OSTs are always there, I swear...) that I'm glad I saw someone giving these games a genuine analysis <3 The thing that really, truly draws me in about this series is nothing manages to get that mix of mystical, mundane, and almost unknowable digital horror all in one. I'd say my biggest "problem" that isn't really a problem with G.U as an entry in the series is it sometimes seems to forget that these people are playing a game. I think that's on purpose, but that's one thing about the older entries that, sure, can swing the other way sometimes, but was a big draw for me. There's something about this world, and the almost mythological way that the internet seems to work in it, spawning entities of great power that bring, in auras words "salvation or destruction", mysteries hidden behind textures and random bits of code, all of it. IMOQ delivered this alot, //sign delivered it alot, and G.U when it hits it hits it hard. I hope any return we get to it can emphasize the feeling of regular people, the thing G.U does well with its main cast at least, mixed with the horror and mystical theming around IMOQ, the folk tale esque dream logic of a digital realm that's built to cater to you but has something else happening underneath it. If those two elements can come together into a cohesive story, there's...so much.

If I am correct, after Ryou Misaki awoke from his coma, all his memories of The World were wiped out somehow and due to the incident, his parents forbade him from playing the game. Jump to 2017, Ryou is now 17 years old, and from an email chain from one of the greeting cards, you learn that Haseo lives by himself, meaning he must have moved out of his parent's house shortly before a friend of his (either from school or possibly from his part time job) recommended he try out The World

Also, 2 things when it comes to Saku and Bo. 1st is that it implies a few times throughout the games that Saku and Bo actually dont have different character designs like the game has you believe, and that one or the other's design is the only one there is. One of these implications comes from when Haseo first meets Saku, there are plenty of very noticeable changes in Saku and Bo's designs, but Haseo doesnt realize it isnt Bo until he notices that the personality of the person in front of him was entirely different. The 2nd thing is that on one of my many playthroughs (back in the PS2 version) I decided to see what happens if you actually tell Saku to disappear. I was expecting Saku to claim Haseo was actually a jerk and that she couldnt trust Bo to him, so she would decide to stay anyway, but as it turns out, no, she really does disappear, in fact, in one of the later scenes, when everyone shares their power with Haseo, Bo is there and Saku is like a floating Spirit next to him, but tell Saku to disappear and she will not be present in that scene. Next time I play the games, I might tell Saku to disappear again, cuz I want to see what happens to your Party List, since in the PS2 version, Sakubo was only one character slot and it was random whether you would get Saku or Bo in the list, while in Last Recode, both of them are given their own space, so you could choose which one you wanted at any time. I want to see if Saku would become dimmed like when someone is offline or if her contact wouldd just disappear all together

Go to Theta: Galloping Wrath's Blue Cloud. You'll find something cool there. I've played G.U. so much, it's the game(s) I have the largest amount of playtime in between the PS2 versions and Last Recode, and I can easily say I've done EVERYTHING one could possibly do in these games, and I'm just gonna point this out, I think Alkaid was 100% supposed to be Haseo's true love interest, but due to him needing to choose Atoli over Shino at the end of Vol 3, they made her a Lost One because they had no idea how to make that happen if Alkaid was still around the entire time. One of the reasons I feel this is the case is the fact that of all the female characters, plus Endrance, Alkaid has THE most email chains that end with something romantic, this includes the Promise Card Marriage Event, with a total of 4, (all the others having either none or at most 2) one of which being a full-on marriage proposal outside the Promise Card. Another reason is because of all the wedding events, Alkaid is the only one who receives a full loving embrace from Haseo

What do you mean most people have never heard of Final Fantasy 10?

Also this was so great to see i love this video

i liked reading some of the extra data but i never watched online jack. so years later im finding out that sakaki a 10 year old edgelord

No, I want IMOQ to get a simple graphical HD Remaster with the gameplay left alone

Got this game back on relase because the big manga Magazine hyped it to be the first real Anime MMO game for offline play. And to this day not a single game made you feel like you are really playing a MMo like Dot hack. I really loved the random mails from npcs players, the fake forums that discussed things and random players running around. Played till part 3 and then part 4 was not available here in germany and was delayed. Got the 4 Games a year ago for around 200€ (jep it hurts but for someone who plays wow and such this is a fair sum of the hours you can have fun with it) and it was still awesome. I think this series together with the Breath of Fire series is one of the lost childs of JRPGs that do not get a rerelease what so ever

SAO is worthless .hack is the og goat

I just stumbled across this video and had to break it up but it's so phenomenal I wanted to leave some of my own thoughts. I've only ever seen people play GU blind or as mega fans consuming everything .hack has to offer, so it was interesting to see your perspective as someone who played the first games but had little connection with Roots or the all consuming outside media. Atoli has long been one of my favorite characters in this franchise since playing Volume 2 as it came out. I don't think I can as elegantly as you mention my feelings on her. With .hack it blends the line between anime and video game and I think CyberConnect2's body of work shows they love anime so much. So in that spirit I think a lot of part 3 fell on shonen tropes rather than just letting a story be a bittersweet ending. Ryou Misaki's identity as Haseo was something that wasn't well guarded, many of the outside media outright state it and with ReCode's Switch Import also came with GU Begins, which is a supplemental manga that also is just about Ryou Misaki. The games never outright state this and I feel like this was intentionally a decision to make them to a degree standalone. It's why Kuhn, Yata and Endrance all feel like they're missing a huge part of their potential. I'm glad you were able to find it with Yata, but CC2 seemed to want to keep it all behind data books and the multimedia project of it all. .hack//IMOQ was also a multimedia project, but with GU it seemed that they wanted a huge undertaking of making a ton of content for GU and wanted you to have to experience it all for the fullest picture, even if content contradicted itself, much like how GU and Roots have slightly different interpretations of Haseo vs Azure Kite or the final episode of Roots just not caring about spoiling content from the games.

When these games first came out, I quit halfway through the Cubia arc. When the remaster came out, I picked it up, not sure why it was I had never finished it the first time. And then, once again, I quit halfway through the Cubia arc. "Oh yeah," I remembered, "the Cubia arc sucks."

having grown up with the .hack series and GU itself primarily actually keeping me from committing self harm. atoli yes is a top favorite among the fandom. alkaid has a friendly tie since we all love our tsundere.

Best combat system of IMOQ was Fragment, which allowed to link skills and items to certain buttons so you could actually fight without pausing, as the game did not pause for selecting skills or items because it was meant to be online

I don’t know why this video didn’t get more views-it’s very well written and put together!

Heart of the cards. Lmfaooo

Looking back, these games remind me of jrpg hack n slash dungeon crawlers such as diablo or baldurs gate. But 3rd person vs isometric.

I want this either remade and also have a PC port

Wait... Someone on UA-cam that actually gets Shion's betrayal in Ep III? They understand it instead of hurling abuse at a young woman that carries _ALL_ the PTSD? May wonders never cease. Good video.

What probably needs to happen is someone to adapt the .hack games into an anime to bring some populairy. Perfect time for an anime since SAO, videogames, and isekai are popular.

my biggest gripe with GU is them pronouncing Morganna the way they do xD

in all honesty, while it is clunky af, i damn love the combat and i had very little struggle on my first pt getting used to it. I MUCH prefer it to GU and my only fear of a remake is that they'll mess with the combat, which kinda messes with the vibe a bit... i have always called this game a "menu based NON-menu based rpg" because you basically HAVE to menu xD but i really love that, honestly. this isnt a dis towards those who find it a turn off, but i just really hope they nyever change it much i think the best change might be to make it like .hack//FRAGMENT (the mmo that was japanese only), where they made it so the game doesnt pause while in a menu so you can move while menuing.

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