Does anyone like the .hack// games?

[JunoXI]

I've played and own the entire series. The gameplay was pretty straight forward, but i liked the storyline and the music was beautiful. I also read the first book of .hack//legend of the twilight and watched a little bit of .hack//sign

[BlackMageGirl!]

This would actually be better off in the video games section.

But yeah, I did like those games. I have played all 4 of them and I was very impressed with how it was done. And the concept of how "The World" was originally for surprised me actually. I didn't think that they would go so in depth with the whole thing.

[Derfel]

What are the .hack// games? like what genre, because I feel ashamed I have never heard of them I thought I was well versed in the world of games people don't usually play.

[Lost in Time]

.hack// games are an RPG, there are four games. Each is part 1 2 3 4. So if you want to play it, start with Part 1 or else be very hard to start. Pretty fun. Though not worth buy all 4, more like a rent, though you probably won't beat it within the renting time.

[Derfel]

Can I get it for PC? hah I'm just wondering if I could download one off suprnova to see if I like them or not

[JunoXI]

Can I get it for PC? hah I'm just wondering if I could download one off suprnova to see if I like them or not

no you can't download it. it's for the PS2. it consists of four games. it's pretty long

[Psrdirector]

I played it and think it is well worth buying all 4 for. Though i did buy it so i could ride on those big gerbile things.

[BlackMageGirl!]

I believe you mean Grunties, and yeah I like riding those too. The thing that always nagged me was I couldnt' figure out how to get any of the other types! I would feed the damn thing whatever it wanted and I would always end up with Noble! I couldn't participate in any of the races because of that...

[Massacre]

Personally, I love these games. The anime (SIGN and Legend of Twilight/DUSK) didn't really keep my interest much. I saw all the episodes pretty much for "Ahem" background information, but I think they could have been done better.

So basically, I know almost everything about .hack that can be learned. The general appeal that I found in the games, aside from the story, was two very important things. First, it was ironic. You're playing an RPG about playing an RPG. For me, the irony was even greater because I'm an experienced Roleplayer playing this RPG about playing in an RPG. The second thing about it is that it's just addictive. Game magazine reviewers confess to a certain addiction to this game as well.

Now me, my interest in the series was great enough to go ahead and buy all the games and play them through, including all the extra stuff. I won't bore ya with how much time I've devoted, but I will say it was alot. What I've been trying to do ever since I finished the game was create a story situated about two months after the end of the game. The name? ".hack//CODE". I won't say anything more about it because it may be a while before I complete it. I will say that sending it to Bandai has crossed my mind.

Oh, and Grunties? There's plenty of guides online for that. Gamefaqs and such are full of helpful guides to things. Don't feel bad about not being able to get all your Grunties. I have them all and I can't race 'em to save my life.

[Astral Harmony]

Game Genre: Real-Time RPG

You kind of force the diet on the Gruntie to change it into other types of adults. Feeding it what it wants won't make it change to something besides a Noble very often. If I had the guides, I could get you the stats required to get those Grunties as well as what each food does for them.

As for the games themselves, you should only bother with them if you've got your fair share of perseverance. The story is good and the voiceovers are well done but the music doesn't really inspire me and combat is especially tedious, but combat is always tedious in RPGs, particularly if you like to power level your characters like I do.

One great thing is how well it mimics being a MMORPG. My friend asked me about three times "Are you sure this isn't an online game?" before I convinced him that it wasn't, and he's been an EverQuester for at least a few years. I think he realized it when the characters started repeating some of their chats. The major drawback is that the combat is so uninspirational that you might, at some point in the game series, find that you no longer care about the plight of the main character and would rather just get things over with. So, yes, while I do say these games is good, even great, you need to really push yourself to keep from abandoning the series before you complete it.

[JunoXI]

Wow. didn't think many people would respond to this. :)

[chris_wong]

i started playing the first game, but stopped after a while. dungeon-crawling started feeling like a choir, because of the boring combat and utterly retarded leveldesign. i mean... zelda 1 has better dungeons.

[Hunter_Shu]

.Hack is a top notch Dungeon crawler series, IMO. The only real downside was item spam. Once you could afford 99 of the most current healing item, you were invincible. It's very entertaining to go through without using many items though. Games' are decently hard (Unless you spam items), and had good characters.

[Astral Harmony]

It's not so bad for me since dungeon design was exactly as I pretty much expected. With so many areas, what did you expect? Still, it takes some really push to do more than maybe three large dungeons at a time before you doze off.

Also, while shops sell some good stuff, the best stuff you can get comes from the non-shop NPCs running and conversing around. Save your magic scrolls, your high-level but still unwanted weapons, and other things to trade with them for good items, and try to save those good items so you're well prepared for the bigger boss fights.

[JunoXI]

yeah that's true you can't expect to make a differrent dungeon for the god-knows-how-many places you can go. also you get to see characters from .hack//SIGN. and Tsukasa, subaru, and sora are playable characters in the fourth volume.

[Hunter_Shu]

After, not during. You have to beat them all first.

[JunoXI]

oops forgot to add that

[Massacre]

Let us not forget Helba in the player-after-game part there. The hacker is nifty picker-upper in combat.

[JunoXI]

yeah!!! I liked her a lot, especially when she kept calling Lios a pig-head