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i mean the child of hack is Sao series, i bought the remaster version cause as a kid i dont know how i missed it and once i started playing it was like wait a moment that looks super familiar,but yes i totaly agree a remake would be insane

i still own the complete series of the games =D i would to see the remake i still remember how exicted i was when i bought the final game of the series the game was way ahead of its time

them need to remake this in to a actual MMO game

This game was so ahead of it's time. The design team really killed it. The lore for this series is astounding.

I have all 4 games and I completely agree.They need a all in one remaster

Fun fact : after Sora from sigh got turned into skeith and put to a coma, he lost his memories and turned into Haseo 8 years later

every time I watch a video like this, it always blows me away on the prices. I can only be so grateful that I still have all of my original copies from when I was growing up. I still even have my hacked PSP to play the portable dot hack the only one that I haven’t actually got to play is dothack versus.

Japan should make an official MMORPG with The World.

I got 4 .hack games on my old ps2, never played them. They worth a try?

I hunted those vile 7 copies back in the day, rn im playing frägment offline 😂

In my opinion this game was far beyond it's time and is even better than gu if the updated the graphics and rereleased this identical game I'd buy it in a heart beat

it needs a all new set of multimedia support, not only a game, but also an anime a TCG, LN, VN, manga, etc...

.hack was very influential at the time because MMORPG's weren't really a thing until Sign came out. I still remember first logging on Ragnarok online and really feeling like I was playing the World. 2 decades later and now the magic of MMORPGs have been completely shattered by money hungry corporations and bots/hackers... It was a magical time while it lasted.

I love, love, love the games. Still have my original copies [I'm old.] of everything. And I'll say the unpopular: I want a remaster, NOT a remake. They are high fidelity blends of VN and JRPG, and the LAST thing I want is them getting "modern audience"-ed, censored, adding in pronouns, or worst of all - turned into action games, instead of keeping the turn-based action system.

They could do so many stories involving AI in the .hack universe and it would work well. .hack//AI Buster and .hack//CELL already have some interesting ideas in this vein that could be re-used and expanded. Between both we have tales of vagrant AI and AIs spawned from humans and helping them survive at the cost of the AI doppelganger's existence (though it could also be seen as integration). .hack//QUANTUM has some interesting ideas too that could be told without going to the same game-wide affecting disaster level such as the concept of using the brains of convicts for a super computer, storing the consciousness of criminals in a computer simulation, and the exposure of private user information to "The World" for the right kind of hackers to peruse and search for people with specific qualities. Between Liminality, GU, and Quantum we have multiple cases of things that occur to characters in the game world having real world affects, which is also a major area to explore.

what the point when you know, nobody will play it more than 1 hour.

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.

A friend like Torb…

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