History of .hack//INFECTION | Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
- Have you heard about this new MMO? It’s called “The World” and it’s the latest craze sweeping Japan. It’s not like your other typical MMO’s either. It’s completely open and sand boxed. You can do whatever you want, be whoever you want, and go wherever you want. It’s the ultimate role playing experience. There’s just one issue. There’s these rumors. Rumors of people going into comas or ending up hospitalized. I even heard there’s someone claiming to be trapped in the game and unable to log off. Sounds crazy, right?
This setting is the concept of the 2002 playstation 2 exclusive .hack//INFECTION, the first in a four part series of PS2 games centered around people playing and investigating the mysteries of a fictitious, popular MMO called “The World”.
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TimeStamps:
Intro - 0:00
History - 4:16
Storyline - 10:19
offline//online - 15:31
Optional - 23:50
Outro - 26:00
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Did you like this video? Just like my current monster hunter series, I will be covering all of IMOQ and maybe GU as well. Please look forward to it, and if you like the content, be sure to like, comment, and subscribe!
Its really cool to see people still enjoy this masterpiece of a series in 2020, looking forward to more of your content
@@chosen0S part 2 this Friday :)
@@SuperRADLemon BET! I'll be the first one there
Replaying this series and found your videos! Masterful work dude!
@@ScientificGentlemen thank you! It's a niche, but I'm very passionate about the series :)
Man no matter how many games come out nothing beats late nights in my room as a kid trying to figure out what to do, where to go, what keywords can I put together to get the craziest dungeon and watching the anime discs that came with the games to try and find clues and staying up late to watch //Sign. Such good times
Thank you!
i can feel how precious those memories are 😞 wish i played this when i was younger
Nostalgia wave commenced!
It's rare to find a fellow .hack enthusiast and monster hunter player. You did a great job summarizing the .hack series. Even though I personally never played past outbreak, the series has always been with me through the years.
omg. I love MH for this reason too. we are all the same person lol
@@mariya_tortilla Wilds is coming 😌
"Do what you have to to play this game"
Landlubbers will never understand
Yarrr
oh man when i hear "when i was a kid" and ps2 or gamecube in the same sentence i feel anacient, i still remember sitting in the living room corner with my tiny wooden box tv playing ninja turtles on my NES, ii was so stoked at the time cuz i got my own tv, it wasn't in my room, but it was still a lot of fun lol
Feels like I’ve been waiting 15 years for a video series like this! Can’t wait for the next parts.
Hope you enjoyed it!
What blew my mind about this game was the hidden lore, like wiseman was actually Warren Brock aka Takumi Hino
something i loved about this game, is that when youre in a field, you can run one way infinitely, in a loop. its a really cool way to fake being an infinite expansion
Surely an interesting game, the setting is definitely the most intriguing part to me.
The way they made you feel like you were actually playing an online MMO is a nice touch too, never seen that done before.
Good video, mon ami ;)
Thank you....MON AMIII
I LOVED these games growing up, and .hack//sign too. I never got fully into every single aspect of the mixed-media franchise but there was a lot in there. The lore and story were great. Gonna be fun to revisit
It’s great to see some .hack content like this in 2020, keep it up!
Thanks!
I only played hack GU on the PS2, I knew a little bit of kite's history, but it's nice to know a little more about the game
God, I've been spending the last week rewatching Sign for the tenth time and thinking about dothack as a whole so I was very excited to see a new video on the subject all of a sudden. Perfect timing!
Im glad you enjoyed it!!
idk if The World was a Sandbox MMO, more like a randomly generated Dungeon Crawler. Still this video is great! Love to see more people talking about these games :) It seems you and I had similar experiences with this franchise growing up.
Funny how in the end you pretty much summed up the feelings I developed throughout the video. While the core gameplay doesnt seem particularly ground breaking, all the... Ahem... A E S T H E T I C components that envelop it seem interesting beyond belief. My biggest question now is, how in the world has Thor High Heels never made a video about this series?!
Nonetheless, im happy to finally have a glimpse into this series I only previously knew by name, being too lazy to dig through its wikipedia articles for some reason. Its also one of those things that despite knowing nothing about, its always in the back of your head... in this case mainly due to the name lending itself quite well to any list in alphabetical order... Wich I may or may not have browsed through back when I was a kid in certain totally legal streaming websites hahahaha
My favorite game ever! Blew my mind back in the day
I can't believe I traded this in as a kid, this and Haunting Ground. Thankfully, the former isn't being sold for the price of a second-hand PS5.
I'm playing .hack infection for the first time and this was the perfect video to set the stage for it.
While i was in middle school, this was my favorite game series, I still have both the 4 part game disc's and the dvds that came with them
I’ve watched like every video on RUclips covering this franchise and this is the first I’m hearing about heads of this franchise being involved in some of my favorite anime series. I can totally see people that worked on Ghost In The Shell and Evangelion working on something like .hack that’s so cool.
It is interesting seeing people discovering .hack after 20 years. People thought that these games were easy? lol .
This is some high quality shit ngl
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I always love it when I see people talk or just mention .hack. i love this series so much and lost my mind when Last Recode got announced. Really wish //IMOQ could receive some sort of treatment like that. Maybe some day...
Let's make it happen
@@SuperRADLemon Here's a petition for a remaster! Sign! chng.it/KCNdrZZ2fZ
Hey, thanks for this video. I remember seeing some sort of anime from this series when I was much younger, and between that, the magazine articles on the series and the overall feeling the series has given off it's actually been something I've wanted to really look at for a long time now but never put much of a focus on. Watching this almost felt like a release of sorts, and I'm looking forward to the rest. Thank you. ☺️
Glad you enjoyed it
I really hope you make more of these videos. Looking at your channel it seems that these really underperformed despite all the effort you put in.
I appreciate this, any love for .hack is welcome. I look forward to the others in the series.
Thanks! The more we make and talk about it the sooner we will get an IMOQ remaster
I just wanted to thank you again for making this series as I am here again, after binge watching sign for the nostalgia and having just reacquire the full imoq series on ps2 to replay.
np! I look forward to making part 4
I did what I had to... I spent $400 on all four parts, liminality discs included
Sometimes we see a rare W
How did i only see this now? Amazing work man, hope you cover GU too in the future
Just found you and low key I think I love u and ur vids
YES, FINALLY, at least someone did a review on this game and anime, thank you you are the best!
Dot Hack GOAT! Still waiting on that remaster
I wouldn't call carrying save file from one game to another "novel". It was a thing on PS1 when game size was larger than a single CD could handle. Dot Hack just decided that instead of selling them as one game they'd sell 4 separate games with the extra animes.
Monster Hunter, now .hack? Subscribed.
Thanks :)
The soundtrack alone makes it worth watching. Fake Wings is just incredible. Short, sweet, and so much emotion packed into such a small package. It's easily on par with the other great anime soundtrack, Cowboy Bebop (though I will give an honorable mention to Lain; Boa's "Duvet" is epic).
that reboot commercial has me full send
Personally I actually really enjoy the gameplay! Mostly because it's more a strategy kinda deal with the skill system while G.U. feels a lot more simple and limiting with its combo system and the pause between being able to use skills.
I used to have the first three games. I never could find the fourth one near me. I had let a friend borrow them many years ago. I wish I still had a way to play them. So many fond memories of grinding dungeons with my favorite party members
Yoooooooo .hack is like crack if crack was slightly boring but captures everything cool about the ps2 just like crack
I have held true to my word. I have watched. See you next week superrad, or whenever the next community post is at least.
Thanks for watching dude
@@SuperRADLemon hey superrad, forgive me if this is a little weird to ask, but is it ok if I ask for tips on how to use the longsword? I was planning on learning it in world finally. I guess more accurately I'd like some advice on some good longswords to use. I'm thinking light break, but I don't know longswords as well as I know switch axe since that my main, so I don't know if light break is as excellent for a longsword as the light break switch axe is. Are there any pre- kulve, pre- safi and pre- alatreon longswords that you'd recommend?
@@dorianrobinette9712 Weird video to ask in, but I don't mind offering a few tips
@@SuperRADLemon yeah wasn't sure how to go about it, so I just defaulted to asking on the most recent video.
SAO is first published online in 2002. Around the same time as Dot Hack. I couldn't find the exact month for SAO, but Dot Hack (for Sign) is around April 2002.
Yup! They were released very close to one another
ALTIMIT OS and Pluto's Kiss were created near each other though making me wonder if Pluto's Kiss was made just for the OS to assert dominance.
Someone gets it ;)
@@azneter I once had the first book of Another Birth and the timeline written there make me suspicious.
@@thalaseamyst3934 Can't forget about Pluto Again, which they literally did cause by mucking about with Morganna.
Ahhhhh the timing of this game series seems appropriate given current circumstances.
Spooky
Epic
i've been lacking time to watch these as i fart endlessly
Dot hack was the original grand pappy OG. Way better than sword art. They could have brought it back.
looking forward to the rest of them. i throughly enjoyed .hack. I have the original 4 still.
Same here!
Loooooved these games.
I wished they re released the original games because I really want to know what happened and yeah I can emulate but my laptop isn’t powerful enough to even run it
You can get mcfreeboot on a PS2 memeory card, which is a softmod for PS2. Let's you run disc images from a hard drive.
You need the mcfb card, a hard drive, and the ps2 network/HDD adaptor. And a PS2 fat
There are third party adaptors that don't have the Ethernet plug in back, but have sata input to use a modern hard drive.
Both the adaptors and mcfreeboot cards can be found on ebay for fairly cheap.
Theres plenty of guides to help you set up, but it's pretty straightforward to load up on discs and play.
@@DMKleinArts yeah I remember that! Also there’s a new method to play burned cds/dvd games without any mod
@@art2k179 Ill look into that! But yeah, mcfreeboot is a relatively cheap way to play PS2 games, on original hardware no less. The age of the dualshock 2 shows a bit, and you cant upscale the resolution, but yeah u don't need a gaming rig with a chance the game won't run on the emulator anyway.
Because of how costly Ebay sellers want for Quarantine all 4 games really DO need at PS4/PS5/Switch port the 3 GU games already did that.
One day these will get ported to the SWITCH 😢
Never seen the anime, only played the games, wish I could play the first 4 again
Satellites did shut down after Y2k, they just decided not tell anyone until a decade or so later.
Wait what??
i wish i got sucked into puzzle pirates :[
RuneScape for me
9:44 This is driving me crazy. Let me explain.
I swear there was some piece of lore in game stating that instead of using keywords The World 'originally' was supposed to use runes, and as an example depicted Balmung's character model with a list of runes on the bottom of the player HUD. But I can't for the life of me remember where I can find this (perhaps one of the in-game news sections?)
Does anybody else remember this detail and where to find it?
This was potentially in one of the liminality discs and the runes were at the top of the screen or something. I don't remember exactly and had to get the opinion of my buddy but we aren't sure
Believe it's when they talk about fragment
@@SuperRADLemon Thank you, this has been bugging me for a good while. I did some further research and you're right. On the second Liminality DVD in the Extras section (Labeled 'Data') they talk about and show the Rune system in a piece titled ' "Fragment" and "The World" '.
I want to say there was still a scene somewhere of Balmung using the rune system, but perhaps my imagination is making false memories.
Again, thanks. The idea of the rune teleportation system has stuck in my memory for years, and I was trying to look up any lore about it that I could find as inspiration for creative fantasy writing, But I guess the only thing they really discuss about it is mostly 'fun fact, keywords used to be any 10 character combination of runes' Still, its a bit odd that I havent seen it mentioned in any of the dot hack fan wiki sites.
#GardeniaGang
10:22 STOR YLINE
I see .hack//, I sub
already have 3/4 vids out too
@@SuperRADLemon awesome, the more .hack content the better! I hope the series makes a comeback
Yo where’d you get the info on SAO coming out in 2001? Google says the light novel came out in 2009
Like the light novel publishing dates? You can find them online by googling release info. Their fandom wiki is an alright source as well.
SuperRAD oh wait see now that the author created it on a online website in 2002-2008 and then it published into a light novel in 2009
SuperRAD also love the video and excited to watch the last two parts of the series from ya
@@ChildishCalvino420 thanks!
Man if Oculus pro could you know make this a real game... it'd be phenomenal
You can't level up past a certain level in part 1
gardenia best girl
No one is streaming this game. I might have found my Niche to get into streaming! a world withing a world streaming a world within a world or something like that
It's ironic how some people complain about the slow pacing of,.hack//sign the anime, because without that show, none of the games, spin off anime shows, or even Manga would have been a thing.
Did you hear about this series called .Hack//Sign? The series that came before the game? A true prequel. There's more series before that too. Did you hear any of those? .Hack is one of those annoying series that spans across multiple media to tell a long story, sometimes recycling concepts just to make another addition.
The series gets gradually worse as ideas run dry.
The only aspect that is left in mystery is the very first, the original opening story to this entire thing, which shows in vague detail the Epitaph of Twilight. This is only in Japanese too just to make the series more unfriendly to non-Japanese literate people (not the actual reason but it may as well be).
Did you know there is a sequel that directly takes off from the tetralogy .Hack? Legend of the Twilight Bracelet where the two main characters are "winners" of a competition winning the skins of Kite and Black Rose.
-Geez I'm a weeb.
I do pity Sora being morphed into Skeith by Morganna to pursue Aura to stop her from escaping The World.
Any players of 'The World 2D' in here? Ya know, that piece of garbage made by Joe Stacko we all grew to love?
Weird that next year is the year of dot Hack and no one is really thinking about this series even though AI is exploding right now.
It's THE perfect time for this fandom to rise again.
Digimon managed to do it well enough with Ghost Game and vital bracelets, Bamco can do it here too.
*loudly snorts and presses glasses up on nose* well actually, .hack is not an open world mmo, it is a hub based, instanced mmo, where your main hub is one of several cities which unlock in the games with story progress, but in the show are all unlocked from the start, you then proceed to use GATES to transport from one area to another which are essentially either cities, dungeosn, or singular buildings, which consist of an above ground and then a multi leveled dungeon, which is actually how a lot of free tab targetting mmo worked back then
Yeah that's fair
@@SuperRADLemon i was just being a deuce for the funnies lol, but thanks for reply dude, nice video though
Project .hack 2002 along with .hack//sign the series
Sword Art Online 2009
where did you get 2001 from?
.hack did come before Sword Art Online. You misconstrued .hack to the PS2 games. .hack has more before that.
Project .hack began production in 1999, but the first release was in 2002. I know about the entire series.
@@SuperRADLemon You said in the vid that Sword Art Online is older. Well, you said that the games were released after Sword Art Online, which is true, but when people say .Hack they aren't referring to just the games.
Regardless, both are cool series. The whole stuck on the internet I am sure didn't originate from either (there's just too much from Japan I will never know due to it all never releasing in English)
I remember my obsession for .Hack quite a long while ago, and that wasn't intended as a pun (since the opening song was Obsession from .hack//Sign series XD).
edit: Oh if you like the genre of dealings with computer worlds, have you ever seen Dennō Coil? Not so much an isekai, but does delve into the dual nature of augmented reality and several mysteries I wont spoil.
Right but I was talking about the games? Again the project started in 1999 but nothing was released then