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[cormack12]

Source: https://www.gematsu.com/2022/04/bandai-namco-trademarks-last-recollection-in-europe-japan

Bandai Namco Entertainment has filed trademarks for “Last Recollection” in Europe and Japan.

In Europe, the trademark for “Last Recollection” was filed on April 1.

In Japan, trademarks for “Last Recollection” in English and Japanese were also trademarked on April 1, but were not published until today.

it is possible the trademark may be for a new .hack collection. Bandai Namco previously bundled the latter four .hack games as part of the collection .hack//G.U. Last Recode for PlayStation 4, Switch, and PC, while the first four games are still only available on PlayStation 2. If that is the case, then a “.hack//Last Recollection” would likely include .hack//Infection, .hack//Mutation, .hack//Outbreak, and .hack//Quarantine.

 

[Deft Beck]

Kinda backwards that they'd start with the second series and then remaster the first one.

 

[Danjin44]

The first games needs more than simple remaster, both visuals and combat did not age well at all.

But most of all PLEASE give me new .hack game…..PLEASE!

 

[March Climber]

The first games needs more than simple remaster, both visuals and combat did not age well at all.

On emulator it looks okay. Nothing crazy but not horrible either.

 

[Danjin44]

On emulator it looks okay. Nothing crazy but not horrible either.

The cutscenes were okay but actual in game models and environments aged very badly.

 

[ranmafan]

It’s perfect timing for a .hack remaster or remake considering the twentieth anniversary is months away. I hope that is what this is. Although I also want a new .hack game sometime in the future as well.

 

[Zambatoh]

At least with Last Recode they were more focused on rebalancing the games for pacing reasons and brought some closure to the story with Episode 4.

But for the original 4 games, they'd have to go pretty deep and re-do every texture and 3D model in the game and re-balance the games for pacing. The first game alone is a 20-30 hour affair on it's own.
The combat system actually doesn't need much in the way of changes. It's basically a point-and-click style arpg. The attack animations just needs to be sped up and/or automated.

 

[TidusYuna]

Hope they bring back more "Tales of " games as well.

 

[Danjin44]

Hope they bring back more "Tales of " games as well.

We already got Tales of Arise but we are waaaaaay overdue for new .hack game.

 

[NanaMiku]

I hope it's true. I prefer the story of the the first ones than G.U.

 

[Graciaus]

We already got Tales of Arise but we are waaaaaay overdue for new .hack game.

Port Graces f first then I'm fine with them doing whatever.

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

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[Danjin44]

Are those games good? I remember hearing about those games back then but never bothered playing them.

I personally like them a lot but currently the gameplay didn’t age that well but I love it’s story and just sense of mystery it has.

 

[Furball]

The first games needs more than simple remaster, both visuals and combat did not age well at all.

But most of all PLEASE give me new .hack game…..PLEASE!

u get more SAO instead . .Hack// is lost cause series

Are those games good? I remember hearing about those games back then but never bothered playing them.

Yes , This series has good lore , story , world building , Atmosphere , soundtrack and average gameplay . Basically what you should expect from Cyberconnect 2 game .

 

[Danjin44]

u get more SAO instead . .Hack// is lost cause series

 

[Fahdis]

Can they give me my fucking Ace Combats from PS2 Era please? For fucks sake!

 

[March Climber]

Are those games good? I remember hearing about those games back then but never bothered playing them.

They're a decent B-game series with very shallow and loose combat(blocking attacks feels okay, but dodging and parrying feel like systems they didn't quite figure out yet because Devil May Cry was still new at the time). It's too easy to over-level if you do side quests and once that happens the game goes into cruise control until you fight any secret bosses.

The story isn't incredible or anything, it's serviceable and has fun moments in it. The main thing unique about this game series was that it simulated an MMO in a single player RPG, had technically 'endless' amounts of dungeons, and had a full media rollout and launched alongside an anime, manga, and novel series. Some of the lore of the MMO is cool but the deeper elements of it ends up being disconnected from the two protagonists' stories of both series. Instead it's more like if you were following the plot of RP players, but their story ends up being some life and death ordeal that spills over into real life.

u get more SAO instead . .Hack// is lost cause series

Funny enough, those SAO games almost feel like spiritual successors to Dot Hack even down to the gameplay. Their issue is that they focus way too much on character relationships, slice of life, and pointless conversations.

 

[Alexios]

Have they fixed the last one on PC? I didn't see it mentioned much but for me after a later return to the game it manifested graphical glitches that appeared like weird shadows and also occasionally hanged. For such long games it wasn't worth putting up with the risk even if it was relatively rare...

Edit: I found my own Steam forum post with more details about the issue and I guess it was worse than I remembered. Obviously I've played a gazillion games since, modern, retro, emulated, or whatever with no issues to think it's hardware based and I'm always up to date software/driver wise

 

[NanaMiku]

Can they give me my fucking Ace Combats from PS2 Era please? For fucks sake!

IIRC they can't do it because of the plane licenses. They can only give Ace Combat 5 as a preorder bonus for Ace Combat 7 because of the license, they cannot sell it.

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

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[Danjin44]

One weird thing is that there were three .hack games released in 2002 alone? How did they pulled that off?

Each series kind of divided by parts. You call it “episodic”.

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

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[Danjin44]

Oooh, so there are different sub-series in the franchise, each with their own set of characters.

Character art is pretty. I think you told me once that the dude from Evangelion worked on those.

Yup the character design was done by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto and I’m personally big fan of his art.

 

[March Climber]

Oooh, so there are different sub-series in the franchise, each with their own set of characters.

Yes, 4 games for Dot Hack and 4 games for Dot Hack G.U. The latter takes place a few years after the original. The original has a better and much more meaningful story, but G.U. arguably has better written characters and better voice acting.

 

[NanaMiku]

Each series kind of divided by parts. You call it “episodic”.

Ah, I remember people used .hack as a meme in beginning of the pandemic.
.hack//Infection, .hack//Mutation, .hack//Outbreak, and .hack//Quarantine

 

[Furball]

Oooh, so there are different sub-series in the franchise, each with their own set of characters.

Character art is pretty. I think you told me once that the dude from Evangelion worked on those.

Yes , the Original and G.U has Evangelion artist work on . Link and later one dont have him .

Each series has different and own set of characters but they share world lore , the later entries set many year after previous series , there will some return characters but play different role . One reason why they can pull of those episodic game like this because all of those game were released pretty closed to each other , only 1-2 month apart unlike FF7 R which take 3-4 years

 

[Rykan]

I remember the second game being extremely difficult to find in Europe. Original copies of the entire series are probably worth a lot now.