Not fun fact. Vol4 was so short due to losing the programmer that made the area Keyword system and dungeon generator... He was a Rockstar type dev so even with the source the system was so foreign and robust no one could reverse engineer it in time for Vol4 to be worth a damn... hence the WEIRD lack of content and over abundance of linear story. and Of course the SAO money holes took a Fton of time away from last recode in general.
@@RengokuGS form what i can tell... IDK. They "lost" him No references to death or passing but no references of him leaving. Gtranslate of twitter posts and blogs only go so far. that and CC2 keeps drama to a minimum(if any) or at least behind closed doors so really only going off of one sentence from a small interview/QA on why vol4 was so short and missing features... and really if you lose a programmer it could be anything like the lost the ability to read their own notes and code to death or just retiring. Doesn't help that Japan likes being vague when it comes to stuff like that and just skips to apologizing. More info is always wanted but not everything is like the nintedo ninjas or the Squar enix Frame jobs and tax write offs that were drakengard and balan wonderland.
With the amount of times companies charge you overpriced DLCs to get "extra content" that should have been included on release, i was hoping they would do either that or an update patch later on to give them time to fix that particular issue (it would have been the only time i'd gladly pay for a 30$ DLC)
You know knowing who Sakai truly is actually elevates every scene with him for me. Because now all I can see him as is a spoiled foul mouth brat in a cod lobby.
Fun fact, there's an item I believe you get from the Gold Goblins that lets you sneak past any enemy. So get those boots and skip the entire Forest of Pain in like 20-30 minutes
I remember these! Demon Safe Shoes, I'm pretty sure an old gamefaqs or whatever probably lost to time guide, one of those ones that started with ASCII art at the beginning, recommended them to me god knows how many years ago. I want to say there was an exploit to win all bike races that made getting them super trivial? What a weird memory to dig up. I wonder if I could still find that guide nowadays...
You can also add the item Cat Whiskers that you can get from the bike missions to your acessory for no encounters, you'd only have to deal with the boss monsters if don't care about the bonus items, pair that up with 99 Speed Charms and you breeze through the forrest
About that even WITH a NO encounters item reaching the 100th Forest of Pain floor at lv 150 in GU Vol 3 STILL took me a MINIMUM of 7 to 10 hours BUT while you COULD teleport FROM floor 1 to floor 50 after kiling the 50th floor boss the teleporters stop working so floors 51 to 100 have to ALL BE done in a SINGLE run because if you warp out like on Floor 99 that means REDOING the ENTIRE dungeon from floor 51 ALL over again.
...I wonder if Piros's line of "The next world is on its way!" is talking about a possibility that, after Reconnection. The staff of Cyber Connect wanted to completely start over the "The World RX"-saga from the beginning, because that is easily the most divisive of the various Dot Hack sagas. ...Of course, I really doubt any of those ideas are even going to be more than just that. Ideas, nothing more.
Having cleared both FoP and Vol 4 earlier this year this is a welcome surprise to close out the year. Also if you decide to do IMOQ. Ill pray for you overcoming that endgame boos fight for infection. Its utterly dreadful and immensely frustrating.
I never caught the Piros bit at the end of Vol.4! That definitely gives me hope for the future of the series, and Last Recode is coming on seven years old. Hopefully we hear something soon.
Well, considering that .hack// didn't end at G.U. I'd assume that the Piros bit was more in reference to the 3rd iteration of The World rather than what's to actually come in the future.
Be me: Clicks the notification bell after watching the series from day 1 * Awaits every part and checks out a few other videos * UA-cam every single time: I'm gonna pretend i didn't see that * Never notified me and i always found out randomly scrolling my subscribed feed *
Aww, thanks for the Christmas present. I'm referring to the dunking on Sakaki's background bit. Been waiting for so long for that and it was worth it. Jokes aside, I'm glad to see the final part and it turned out well. A little surprised to see no mention of the terminal disc, but I assume you didn't cover it since it basically leads with a whole recap of IMOQ and spends a good chunk covering other side material. That said, I'd definitely love to see your takes on IMOQ eventually. Of all the retrospectives I've seen on .hack in general, yours is definitely my fave since you really try to discuss what the creators intended to impart to players. A lot of others I find tend to be a lot more surface level take. It's been refreshing, and I'd love to see that energy with an IMOQ retrospective. Thanks for all the great vids!
If you decide to tackle IMOQ as well I'm look forward to it. I also highly recommend checking out Solatorobo and Fuga from their Little Tail Bronx series. Tail Concerto isn't as important lore wise as a lot of things were retconned, but it's a charming and short experience. There's been vague hints throughout these games that they might be connected to .hack in some form. Fuga in particular is being advertised with .hack's A in C major tone and glitches, and there's been some not so subtle .hack like stuff happening with that series. I also agree that .hack isn't dead and if Bandai says no to continuing the series under them I can definitely see CC2 pulling a Fuga and doing a possibly canon spiritual successor through their self publishing eventually. I do hope that they can convince Bandai to let them remake Tail Concerto, Silent Bomber, Solatorobo, and .hack IMOQ someday though as I think these all deserve remakes. Maybe a remaster for IMOQ if that's all they can get for it, I hope they don't nerf the difficulty as badly as they did with G.U. though. I'm glad CC2 is self publishing now and with how well their anime games are doing it looks like they can pretty much do whatever they want with their original games going forward without Bandai or any other publishers holding them back. I'm hoping once they're done with Fuga and they've got their Osaka studio completely set up that the flood gates on their original games open up. I'm really looking forward to what they're going to do with Tokyo Ogre Gate and Cecile. Also I recommend .hack The Movie/Beyond the World it's a much more competent movie than G.U. Trilogy was and it was a nice endcap to the series, it's pretty standalone too. Unfortunately it was a Japan only release so you're going to have to find a subbed copy somewhere online.
A few things... As funny as it is that Sakaki is a 10 year old in the real world, his story kinda mirrors Haseo's in the previous series The chaotic PKs show up in all 3 volumes, its just relevant in the third one because you get Natsume if you bother to beat them You can use the area word "BBQ Plate" to find the Chim Chim God, if you kick it you get a boost to the party members affection Piros's line in volume 4 isn't forshadowing a new project, its a reference to the PSP sequel .hack//LINK where CC Corp released "The World R:X" about 2 years after the end of R:2, in 2020 Those aside, great conclusion to the review series
1 year later & now you've finally put this to review series to rest! I'm so glad you covered all the side content minus the manga! But yeah I hope your reviews give people the chance to experience this series as I'll be sure to talk about it as much as Xenoblade & The World Ends With You & I hope that ending tease with Piros does imply there's more in store for this series!
YEAH! Been waiting for this finale. Thank you, I look forward to what comes in the next year. My Christmas got off to a decent start where the home no longer froze like it used to. A wonderful video to end my day on as the sun leaves the sky. Sincerely, I hope you are well and that for as challenging as this year was the next year will carry on great opportunities.
Woo! More john to binge through! Sad to see GU off after the time we spent with it. But life must go on... Merry Christmas, John 31:44 fuck me, thought i left my finger on the screen
The movie was made to cover up the fact that Alkaid is Haseo's true love interest! And Im so happy you acknowledged that with the Promise Card! Also, with the Forest of Pain, the best way to deal with things is with the Demon Safe Shoes, to not only boost movement speed (plus by either using Speed Charm or Ap Do, you boost your movement speed even further) but make sneak attacks easier, use only the DGX at farthest range for combo purposes as well as Rengekis, Only have the level 1 Skill Triggers like Gale Blade, and have Atoli and Zelkova, set to Life, in your party because their constant healing (along with Zelkova's infinite items) will allow the Moral Gauge to fill faster, not only that, but give everyone Battle Cosmetics to boost the Morale Guage charge rate. Ultimately, it's best to look up a guide to see the rewards for every floor, because on a few you get Infinite Use items for Health, SP, Fairy Orb, Smokescreen and Return Feathers, as well as some other useful things. But, as John said...the game is over, so there are really no reason to have them outside of 100% completion
Daran Norris voiced in a lotta rando 6th gen console RPGs and anime back in the day. Drakengard, Tales of Symphonia, and Digimon Frontier were very unexpected rando roles.
I did not know about Volume 4; I only know about the OVA, Returner. It continues off the Volume 3 storyline into a different ending from volume 4 where Ovan manages to return on his own as a completely untold and separate story from the OVA itself, which is just a reunion of old and new characters. While the OVA has less agency about Haseo (and you the player) about getting Ovan back, I like how the story is just a revisit on the character dynamics and just having Ovan back is just a nice treat on top of the characters being celebratory and content with what they already have. In comparison, Volume 4 does come off as more self-indulgent, but there is more content, and that new form looks like fun gameplay (after all of that grind).
This retrospective got me considering what these games would've been like if they had been made today instead of on the PS2. Like, would they still have split it into 3 parts, diversified the side quests more, given us more intricate dungeons, had better combat balancing, etc.? It's interesting to think about where they could've taken this had budget and time (and maybe technology) had been better for what they wanted to achieve.
This is a nice conclusion to my viewing of your .hack//GU retrospective. I’m glad that you shared your honest takes on the series and I hope you get the time check out the original IMOQ games. Outside of that, I love your videos and how transparent and fair you are.❤❤❤❤ Merry Christmas and have a wonderful new year.
I can't remember if you mentioned this in a previous video (or this one, as I just started watching it) but is there any chance a .hack (as in not GU) review is on the table? Even if it's not, looking forward to whatevers next 🙂
I remember back when I was young playing the original on PS2. I still have the first 3 vols. The only games alongside the original PS2 series that I had ever 100%. But here I was sitting at home on my old laptop reading up online that Japan got a Vol 4!! But we were never going to get it or it wasn't coming to Canada. I remember being so sad and also so excited trying to think about how amazing Vol 4 must be. All the crazy and cool stuff that must happen in it. How it will probably be even longer than the 3rd volume. Smash cut to with the PS4 remake came out and IT HAS VOL 4 oh my god I'm so excited!!!! I waited since my childhood for this! But before I play it I want to play though the rest of the games and 100% them again. So I did. Then it was time to boot up vol 4.... And I swear... In the length of time it took my wife to have a shower, dry her hair and make coffee for us both... It was over. What was maybe 2 hours at most. I was so disappointed in vol 4 that it actually almost ruined my love for the series. Recently a friend of mine started playing the .hack games and my only response was they are amazing, great story lots of fun. Don't play the last volume.
Even in the manga, the series end with Haseo beating cubia, 4th form or Ovan coma back is just fanfict from CCorp at best. Vol.4 is just "Boruto" of .Hack. To make things worst, cant access any side quest or another area in vol.4 is just make it pointless add on.
I find it funny that literally yesterday I was wondering when we would get this vid. BTW John, if you want any help with the IMOQ series feel free to ask, been deeply invested in the whole dot hack series since Sign first aired on Toonamia over 20 years ago and I started my 4th full playthrough of IMOQ recently so the info will be fresh in my head.
I remember in the forest if pain there was one boss on the top floors I couldnt damage but luckly I had the poison weapons that was given to you from some side boss or side content and with that I was able to kill them otherwise I would have to repeat the 50 something floors
I hope to make a game in the future combining the parts i like the most from my favourite games The look and exploration of The World The gameplay and stylishness of Devil May Cry The team combat and rpg elements of Final Fantasy
And so with G.U. finished we can all start looking forward to the superior story (and unfortunately clunky controls) of IMOQ... Aka the .hack// game series that SHOULD have been remastered in the first place.
Yeaaahhh... we're not touching the Dot Hack Trilogy with a 10 foot pole if it doesn't do it's job to summarise the previous three chapters... except it's Voi. 1. Who thought to call this a Trilogy?
5:35 Hey, if 10 year old can play some really stupid hard video games, surely they know how to read text book and make arts and crafts chemistry project xD (but yeah if nothing else, I think internet has enough proof that ten year old is enough old to write fanfic where their self insert performs Machiavellian emotional manipulation scheme on others even if the schemes themselves aren't convincing or require lot of tell don't show xD So Sakaki's behavior at least fits 10 year old's edgy oc style if nothing else. Just hard to believe that 10 year old would have vocabulary and capacity to do anime villain ideology/philosophy rants.)
.hack// has inspired me a lot, both the world esthetic and the story telling are right up my alley Its such a shame we dont get more characters like Haseo, at first one note but really a more complex and flawed person, and he's not alone in that and he's changed so much that he ultimately ends up more mature than the people that helped him get there
Yknow, I know it wouldn't be too lucrative for views but I'd personally take a run of the Little Tail Bronx series, feels like that's a bit of an untapped market here on YT?
the sakaki is a 10 year old thing stops being so insane when you remember the "plutos kiss incident" thats discussed in imoq's news and board aka the time a random child almost nuked the world by hijacking the us government with a virus- id go into more detail but i feel like thats something you can talk about when you get to IMOQ (the world of dot hack is nuts it starts off by saying in universe it has an os with 100% attach rate)
Not fun fact. Vol4 was so short due to losing the programmer that made the area Keyword system and dungeon generator... He was a Rockstar type dev so even with the source the system was so foreign and robust no one could reverse engineer it in time for Vol4 to be worth a damn... hence the WEIRD lack of content and over abundance of linear story. and Of course the SAO money holes took a Fton of time away from last recode in general.
Did they die?
@@RengokuGS form what i can tell... IDK. They "lost" him No references to death or passing but no references of him leaving. Gtranslate of twitter posts and blogs only go so far. that and CC2 keeps drama to a minimum(if any) or at least behind closed doors so really only going off of one sentence from a small interview/QA on why vol4 was so short and missing features... and really if you lose a programmer it could be anything like the lost the ability to read their own notes and code to death or just retiring. Doesn't help that Japan likes being vague when it comes to stuff like that and just skips to apologizing.
More info is always wanted but not everything is like the nintedo ninjas or the Squar enix Frame jobs and tax write offs that were drakengard and balan wonderland.
With the amount of times companies charge you overpriced DLCs to get "extra content" that should have been included on release, i was hoping they would do either that or an update patch later on to give them time to fix that particular issue (it would have been the only time i'd gladly pay for a 30$ DLC)
@snintendog thanks for clarifying and that's sad either way
Makes me hope they can reverse engineer it for a later installment. I'd love to see the .hack series launch as an mmo again.
As a brazilian dude, I'll try to honor the image of Salvador by living as the same ways as him
Ele é um exemplo para todos
You know knowing who Sakai truly is actually elevates every scene with him for me. Because now all I can see him as is a spoiled foul mouth brat in a cod lobby.
Peak fiction has returned let's us rise up and cheer for it
SKEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIITH!!!!!
"But remember that Alkaid is still objectively the correct choice"
JOHN IS BASED
Fun fact, there's an item I believe you get from the Gold Goblins that lets you sneak past any enemy. So get those boots and skip the entire Forest of Pain in like 20-30 minutes
I remember these! Demon Safe Shoes, I'm pretty sure an old gamefaqs or whatever probably lost to time guide, one of those ones that started with ASCII art at the beginning, recommended them to me god knows how many years ago. I want to say there was an exploit to win all bike races that made getting them super trivial? What a weird memory to dig up.
I wonder if I could still find that guide nowadays...
You can also add the item Cat Whiskers that you can get from the bike missions to your acessory for no encounters, you'd only have to deal with the boss monsters if don't care about the bonus items, pair that up with 99 Speed Charms and you breeze through the forrest
About that even WITH a NO encounters item reaching the 100th Forest of Pain floor at lv 150 in GU Vol 3 STILL took me a MINIMUM of 7 to 10 hours BUT while you COULD teleport FROM floor 1 to floor 50 after kiling the 50th floor boss the teleporters stop working so floors 51 to 100 have to ALL BE done in a SINGLE run because if you warp out like on Floor 99 that means REDOING the ENTIRE dungeon from floor 51 ALL over again.
"Alkaid is the objectively correct choice" I got friends who'd said Bordeaux but THEY AIN'T ME LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO
I'm gonna miss this journey we had in 「The World R:2 」! Thanks for the laughs, John! And Happy Holidays to ya!
And then, at the very last moment of The World R2, a new hero rose up to give fans a glimmer of hope.
Piros really is the hero he said he was.
John, your late December reviews always put a smile on my face.
...I wonder if Piros's line of "The next world is on its way!" is talking about a possibility that, after Reconnection. The staff of Cyber Connect wanted to completely start over the "The World RX"-saga from the beginning, because that is easily the most divisive of the various Dot Hack sagas.
...Of course, I really doubt any of those ideas are even going to be more than just that. Ideas, nothing more.
Thats what i was thinking
@@sdbzfan1 Yeah, the Dot Hack series fell off.
The funniest part about Sakaki's identity is that he is the SECOND small child that CC Corp put on payroll. Who is in charge of this shit?
Only japan you love to see it
Who was the first?
@thomasalvarenga2839 Wiseman from IMOQ
Having cleared both FoP and Vol 4 earlier this year this is a welcome surprise to close out the year.
Also if you decide to do IMOQ. Ill pray for you overcoming that endgame boos fight for infection. Its utterly dreadful and immensely frustrating.
I never caught the Piros bit at the end of Vol.4! That definitely gives me hope for the future of the series, and Last Recode is coming on seven years old. Hopefully we hear something soon.
Well, considering that .hack// didn't end at G.U. I'd assume that the Piros bit was more in reference to the 3rd iteration of The World rather than what's to actually come in the future.
38:23 i REALLY love the reversal here from Ovan welcoming Haseo into the world, to Haseo welcoming him back into the world.
Be me: Clicks the notification bell after watching the series from day 1
* Awaits every part and checks out a few other videos *
UA-cam every single time: I'm gonna pretend i didn't see that * Never notified me and i always found out randomly scrolling my subscribed feed *
You too huh? I only knew cause I scrolled my feed
"Pat Sprigs newest roommates" that broke me. XD
Aww, thanks for the Christmas present.
I'm referring to the dunking on Sakaki's background bit. Been waiting for so long for that and it was worth it.
Jokes aside, I'm glad to see the final part and it turned out well.
A little surprised to see no mention of the terminal disc, but I assume you didn't cover it since it basically leads with a whole recap of IMOQ and spends a good chunk covering other side material.
That said, I'd definitely love to see your takes on IMOQ eventually. Of all the retrospectives I've seen on .hack in general, yours is definitely my fave since you really try to discuss what the creators intended to impart to players. A lot of others I find tend to be a lot more surface level take. It's been refreshing, and I'd love to see that energy with an IMOQ retrospective.
Thanks for all the great vids!
thanks John for this wild ride on Haseo's Journey and happy Holidays
If you decide to tackle IMOQ as well I'm look forward to it. I also highly recommend checking out Solatorobo and Fuga from their Little Tail Bronx series. Tail Concerto isn't as important lore wise as a lot of things were retconned, but it's a charming and short experience. There's been vague hints throughout these games that they might be connected to .hack in some form. Fuga in particular is being advertised with .hack's A in C major tone and glitches, and there's been some not so subtle .hack like stuff happening with that series.
I also agree that .hack isn't dead and if Bandai says no to continuing the series under them I can definitely see CC2 pulling a Fuga and doing a possibly canon spiritual successor through their self publishing eventually. I do hope that they can convince Bandai to let them remake Tail Concerto, Silent Bomber, Solatorobo, and .hack IMOQ someday though as I think these all deserve remakes. Maybe a remaster for IMOQ if that's all they can get for it, I hope they don't nerf the difficulty as badly as they did with G.U. though.
I'm glad CC2 is self publishing now and with how well their anime games are doing it looks like they can pretty much do whatever they want with their original games going forward without Bandai or any other publishers holding them back. I'm hoping once they're done with Fuga and they've got their Osaka studio completely set up that the flood gates on their original games open up. I'm really looking forward to what they're going to do with Tokyo Ogre Gate and Cecile.
Also I recommend .hack The Movie/Beyond the World it's a much more competent movie than G.U. Trilogy was and it was a nice endcap to the series, it's pretty standalone too. Unfortunately it was a Japan only release so you're going to have to find a subbed copy somewhere online.
It was so cool seeing my name in the Patreon credits, keep up the good work brother 💪
However INFECTION to Quarantine still NEVER LEFT the PS2 ERA those 4 still NEED a PS4/PS5/Switch port/remaster.
39:05 As a God Eater once said, “Don’t run away from living!”
Except Lindow isnt going around infecting people with malware that causing eternal slumber and screw up their living hood.
NGL I subbed as soon as I reached the point of the video where you said "this is too much for me, and i used to make linkin park drangonball z amvs!"
Long awaited finale to Peak Fiction? Hell yes.
A few things...
As funny as it is that Sakaki is a 10 year old in the real world, his story kinda mirrors Haseo's in the previous series
The chaotic PKs show up in all 3 volumes, its just relevant in the third one because you get Natsume if you bother to beat them
You can use the area word "BBQ Plate" to find the Chim Chim God, if you kick it you get a boost to the party members affection
Piros's line in volume 4 isn't forshadowing a new project, its a reference to the PSP sequel .hack//LINK where CC Corp released "The World R:X" about 2 years after the end of R:2, in 2020
Those aside, great conclusion to the review series
wow, I literally just re-watched the first three videos LAST WEEK. Very funny that you happened to upload the final part
1 year later & now you've finally put this to review series to rest! I'm so glad you covered all the side content minus the manga! But yeah I hope your reviews give people the chance to experience this series as I'll be sure to talk about it as much as Xenoblade & The World Ends With You & I hope that ending tease with Piros does imply there's more in store for this series!
A Christmas miracle
The original dot hack games next year finally
YEAH! Been waiting for this finale. Thank you, I look forward to what comes in the next year. My Christmas got off to a decent start where the home no longer froze like it used to. A wonderful video to end my day on as the sun leaves the sky. Sincerely, I hope you are well and that for as challenging as this year was the next year will carry on great opportunities.
Those wedding ends were some of my favourite parts of the 3rd and 4th game
And i love how lax and fun they are
Woo! More john to binge through! Sad to see GU off after the time we spent with it. But life must go on...
Merry Christmas, John
31:44 fuck me, thought i left my finger on the screen
I rewatched every .hack of yours literally yesterday just to make sure I was caught up for when you drop this! Can't wait to watch it.
The movie was made to cover up the fact that Alkaid is Haseo's true love interest! And Im so happy you acknowledged that with the Promise Card! Also, with the Forest of Pain, the best way to deal with things is with the Demon Safe Shoes, to not only boost movement speed (plus by either using Speed Charm or Ap Do, you boost your movement speed even further) but make sneak attacks easier, use only the DGX at farthest range for combo purposes as well as Rengekis, Only have the level 1 Skill Triggers like Gale Blade, and have Atoli and Zelkova, set to Life, in your party because their constant healing (along with Zelkova's infinite items) will allow the Moral Gauge to fill faster, not only that, but give everyone Battle Cosmetics to boost the Morale Guage charge rate. Ultimately, it's best to look up a guide to see the rewards for every floor, because on a few you get Infinite Use items for Health, SP, Fairy Orb, Smokescreen and Return Feathers, as well as some other useful things. But, as John said...the game is over, so there are really no reason to have them outside of 100% completion
best xmas gift ever. now the journey has ended...
First video i ever watched of John's was GU part 1. Feels good to finally be here at the end, but sad to know there wont be more.
Piros is voiced by the same guy who does Cosmo from 'The Fairly OddParents'
And i find that entertaining.
And so it ends... For now. Good job John
this is the best Christmas Gift ever!
Pretty sure Online Jack is voiced by Cosmo from The Fairly Odd Parents...? Who was also the janitor from Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide.
Daran Norris voiced in a lotta rando 6th gen console RPGs and anime back in the day. Drakengard, Tales of Symphonia, and Digimon Frontier were very unexpected rando roles.
I did not know about Volume 4; I only know about the OVA, Returner. It continues off the Volume 3 storyline into a different ending from volume 4 where Ovan manages to return on his own as a completely untold and separate story from the OVA itself, which is just a reunion of old and new characters. While the OVA has less agency about Haseo (and you the player) about getting Ovan back, I like how the story is just a revisit on the character dynamics and just having Ovan back is just a nice treat on top of the characters being celebratory and content with what they already have. In comparison, Volume 4 does come off as more self-indulgent, but there is more content, and that new form looks like fun gameplay (after all of that grind).
Awesome video John. Totally worth the wait.
Doing the lord’s work.. Lord Piros
i was expecting everything here, exept Brazil
A great vid to end the year. I do hope one day we see new dot hack games. Who knows maybe 30 years from now we could get The World VR
the music in these games always hits the feels so strong 😭 I need a remake of the original 4 ASAP!
Is it finally done? Time to rewatch from the start, because I forgot everything that happened in the previous videos.
Well done John. Now rest up.
Absolute cinema.
This retrospective got me considering what these games would've been like if they had been made today instead of on the PS2. Like, would they still have split it into 3 parts, diversified the side quests more, given us more intricate dungeons, had better combat balancing, etc.? It's interesting to think about where they could've taken this had budget and time (and maybe technology) had been better for what they wanted to achieve.
XD Its been forever you fiend!
This is a nice conclusion to my viewing of your .hack//GU retrospective. I’m glad that you shared your honest takes on the series and I hope you get the time check out the original IMOQ games. Outside of that, I love your videos and how transparent and fair you are.❤❤❤❤
Merry Christmas and have a wonderful new year.
I can’t remember if this is what I asked you for, now I am forever in stasis of perhaps longing and perhaps satiety
I can't remember if you mentioned this in a previous video (or this one, as I just started watching it) but is there any chance a .hack (as in not GU) review is on the table?
Even if it's not, looking forward to whatevers next 🙂
Back at it
Woot the finale!!
Amazing I liked the video without even watching it after watching it I so wish for more
This took forever to come out wow
damn these chapter got hands
Boutta bing everything now.
I remember back when I was young playing the original on PS2. I still have the first 3 vols. The only games alongside the original PS2 series that I had ever 100%. But here I was sitting at home on my old laptop reading up online that Japan got a Vol 4!! But we were never going to get it or it wasn't coming to Canada.
I remember being so sad and also so excited trying to think about how amazing Vol 4 must be. All the crazy and cool stuff that must happen in it. How it will probably be even longer than the 3rd volume.
Smash cut to with the PS4 remake came out and IT HAS VOL 4 oh my god I'm so excited!!!! I waited since my childhood for this! But before I play it I want to play though the rest of the games and 100% them again. So I did. Then it was time to boot up vol 4.... And I swear... In the length of time it took my wife to have a shower, dry her hair and make coffee for us both... It was over. What was maybe 2 hours at most. I was so disappointed in vol 4 that it actually almost ruined my love for the series.
Recently a friend of mine started playing the .hack games and my only response was they are amazing, great story lots of fun. Don't play the last volume.
apparently there's quite a few reasons its basically a glorified bonus feature.
Even in the manga, the series end with Haseo beating cubia, 4th form or Ovan coma back is just fanfict from CCorp at best. Vol.4 is just "Boruto" of .Hack. To make things worst, cant access any side quest or another area in vol.4 is just make it pointless add on.
WE ARE SO BACK!!
I find it funny that literally yesterday I was wondering when we would get this vid. BTW John, if you want any help with the IMOQ series feel free to ask, been deeply invested in the whole dot hack series since Sign first aired on Toonamia over 20 years ago and I started my 4th full playthrough of IMOQ recently so the info will be fresh in my head.
THANK YOU
Natsume is a character from the first Quadrilogy.
the mad man finished it
imagine not playing through forest of pain 3 times to get duplicates of all the items to make all characters godlike broken
Oh wow almost missed this
Merry Crisis
LET'S GOOOOOO
Also Seasons greetings, John.
ICANT WITH COSMO I FUCKING LOVE THIS!
The GOAT.
Yea 🙌
holly shit, ITS BEEN A YEAR!?
I wouldnt take the Piros comment so literally
Piros works for the ingame CCcorp and after the World R2 is the World RX
WE ARE SO BACK
I remember in the forest if pain there was one boss on the top floors I couldnt damage but luckly I had the poison weapons that was given to you from some side boss or side content and with that I was able to kill them otherwise I would have to repeat the 50 something floors
2:56 That's Bo-BoBo!
I hope to make a game in the future combining the parts i like the most from my favourite games
The look and exploration of The World
The gameplay and stylishness of Devil May Cry
The team combat and rpg elements of Final Fantasy
I’m really hoping Cyber Connect gets to have another chance.
Because world 3, maybe with a bit more self-containment, would be nice.
would be better than being in weeb license hell tbh
So you are saying the Forest of Pain lives up to its' name.
Is the last line of the video only from dothack ragtime? I genuinely have never heard/do not remember whatever that audio is from '-'
It plays after the credits in Volume 4.
it's finalee tim
It's the end of The World.
I am confused who is the red enemy on the top of Mortala? The only boss piece I don’t recognize.
PEAK
NEW PART?, LETS BETTER RE WATCH ALL PREVIOUS ONES FIRST!!
a took my time but now lets watch it and put a nice bow to it, thanks for all your work!
Azure Kite is the best waifu and you know it.
And so with G.U. finished we can all start looking forward to the superior story (and unfortunately clunky controls) of IMOQ... Aka the .hack// game series that SHOULD have been remastered in the first place.
Yeaaahhh... we're not touching the Dot Hack Trilogy with a 10 foot pole if it doesn't do it's job to summarise the previous three chapters... except it's Voi. 1.
Who thought to call this a Trilogy?
Did you tease a .Hack Link retrospective?
5:35 Hey, if 10 year old can play some really stupid hard video games, surely they know how to read text book and make arts and crafts chemistry project xD
(but yeah if nothing else, I think internet has enough proof that ten year old is enough old to write fanfic where their self insert performs Machiavellian emotional manipulation scheme on others even if the schemes themselves aren't convincing or require lot of tell don't show xD So Sakaki's behavior at least fits 10 year old's edgy oc style if nothing else. Just hard to believe that 10 year old would have vocabulary and capacity to do anime villain ideology/philosophy rants.)
.hack// has inspired me a lot, both the world esthetic and the story telling are right up my alley
Its such a shame we dont get more characters like Haseo, at first one note but really a more complex and flawed person, and he's not alone in that and he's changed so much that he ultimately ends up more mature than the people that helped him get there
Yknow, I know it wouldn't be too lucrative for views but I'd personally take a run of the Little Tail Bronx series, feels like that's a bit of an untapped market here on YT?
39:30
Omnimon
They created Omnimon
I mean... at least you were consistent 0:35
Lets GOOOOO!!
the sakaki is a 10 year old thing stops being so insane when you remember the "plutos kiss incident" thats discussed in imoq's news and board aka the time a random child almost nuked the world by hijacking the us government with a virus- id go into more detail but i feel like thats something you can talk about when you get to IMOQ (the world of dot hack is nuts it starts off by saying in universe it has an os with 100% attach rate)
God I forgot how choppy the vol.4 cutscenes are.