A COMPLETE History of .hack//IMOQ 

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I *just* finished the entire .Hack story. From Sign to Versus. And honestly? I miss IMOQ. So I’ll be taking any excuse to re-tread this familiar ground.

Seriously though, thank you for spotlighting a large part of my childhood. My brother isn’t here anymore but my memories of playing this game with him will always be in my heart.

Rad... thank you for this. Dot Hack > Sword Art Online FIGHT ME!

Oh I love IMOQ! My favorite part of the Dot Hack series. It's a game that's just oozing with atmosphere, and honestly it can feel pretty spooky at times too. I've been playing Fragment lately, it's pretty fun if grindy.

This is the content I'm subbed for. The deep dive into the underrated and not well known games I personally adore.

I'm playing through the whole series right now, I beat IMOQ and G.U. vol 1 and 2 and am starting vol 3 soon. Honestly, an incredible series that needs to come back

SuperRAD talking about Project .hack let's goooo. Man i really do hope they make another one out of this Franchise, or IMOQ Remake is fine really lol.

This was fantastic. Thank you. I got really into Sign and IMOQ when they were coming out. The mystery hooked me and I loved the idea of having to track it down across different types of media (though my wallet did not.) I really do miss this series and the sense of wonder it held, even in the slower entires. I would love a port, remaster, or a new entry. Thanks for this fun walk down memory lane.

I’m a simple girl. Superrad uploads, I binge watch.

the dot hack lore always felt vast and mysterious to me. like we only get to see a sliver of it. left me wanting more.

Proud to say i got the complete series, PAL version. Which is very very rare since the EU had a limited number of these games for sale. These games changed my way of playing games a lot. Good video my man!

These videos are always so interesting! I’ve never played these games or watched the shows, but it’s very entertaining to kick back and listen to you discuss it.

My favorite series of all time!! Great work!

This was a favorite game when I was a child and it's been so hard to find anything on it thank you so much for doing this video!

Infection has always been my favorite ps2 game I've never beaten it or honestly even gotten that far but there was something about the atmosphere in the game that truly immersed me in the world

My neighbor lent me these games and a bunch of Naruto and Bleach DVDs when I was in middle school and i didn't appreciate it enough. Wish I hadn't given the games back when he offered to let me keep them. Still got those Box sets though, those will be my reminder of him trying to mentor the young weeb I was.

Great upload appreciate the effort put in here

This was an amazing video. I fell in love with .hack after watching sign, and I have watched sign multiple times at this point but never knew much of the game story so this was nice. I would love to see a GU video as well.

I remember watching this as a kid. Glad to see it’s bigger than I thought. Guess I’ll have to dive in myself. Thanks for the video.

Really hoping you’ll dig into the rest of the games, fantastic video!

I started the game with Mutation then went back to 1. I don’t remember if I got very far, but I could never get ahold of a copy of Quarantine. I remember the game being a slog, but I really loved the concept. Thanks for this retrospective.

Never heard of this but wow am I impressed with how much content there is. And the pet grunty things are adorable

Man this was such a good watch. Brought all 4 games and played them for hours. I brought this to my aunts, my grandmas, everywhere I went. Such a deep lore, the gameplay was eh, but the story is what kept you and the many fan services they presented. Sora , bear and the others are real players btw Yes you have to have the cut scene for Sora to unlock sora.

.hack longvid LETS GOOOO

Oh hey I was thinking about playing these games for the story recently, this saves me the hassle

excited to watch this one

Was waiting on this one let's goo

I start G.U and I wanted to know the story before g.u and thanks to you now I get some contacts about setting things in g.u

Yoshiyuki Sadamoto thumbnail LETSFUCKINGGO

Hey superrad. Slight correction. Dot Hack isn't owned by CC2. Its owned by Bandai Namco. A small but important difference that is why we aren't getting more games and such now because bamco isn't interested in the idea of them. CC2 actually really wants to make more. Or at least bring IMOQ to the modern era. Love your work btw

Ive only ever seen one episode of the anim and ive bene hooked evr since

I named the admin accounts at my last job Aura and Tsukasa :P and since it was roaming profiles in XP, they got corrupted a lot and had to be repaired or reset. Lol.

This is such an interesting series. It'd be sick if it got remastered for newer players

Haven’t thought about this in a long time

thank you for another transfem-certified banger, mr gardner

IMHO, I think IMOQ doesn't need a remaster. A remaster would only sell to people who already love the game and who would find "alternative" ways to play it if their copies go missing. IMOQ needs a full remake to grow the community.

How is it that you always cover the most niche games that I played when I was young, it's uncanny.

I played and beat 1 2 and 3 And then found out that quarantine is like 700 fucking dollars by itself… and so I resorted to emulators literally the best experience of my life recently as well. I love sign I love, roots And all of the manga I love the universe and wish the original series got a remaster like GU I still hold out hope but I doubt that will ever come to pass

For those going into IMOQ I highly recommend watching SIGN first and then playing the games. SIGN is basically part 1 of the story with IMOQ being part 2 of it. Liminality is supplemental to the games and each episode is meant to be watched after you beat the corresponding game. Also if they do remake these games I think I'd like them to make it play similar to Xenoblade as I always felt these games played like a very early prototype of what Xenoblade eventually did. I really don't want them to dumb down the combat to what G.U. had though as I felt it was a significant downgrade from IMOQ even if it's more flashy and less clunky. I personally have a lot of fun with IMOQ's combat, but then again I've played through them maybe 20+ times since they came out and know the intricacies and BS these games throw at you by heart. Newcomers would definitely not have a good time with these games though as bosses like Skeith, the first and last fights with Cubia, and Macha are some significant difficulty spikes to overcome and some normal encounters will completely wipe your party if you aren't attentive enough during them, mimics with physical tolerance especially are cruel. Oh and definitely look up how many virus cores you need by the end of each games as the last game throws 4 areas that require a ton of cores from lower level areas. I remember running into that brick wall pretty hard on my first playthrough and I'm glad I didn't just give up and finished the games eventually. I completely agree that you shouldn't do the item completion quest as it will easily double if not triple your playthrough of these games if you try and do it. I've actually done it twice in all of my playthroughs and completely regret doing that. If they incorporate this into a remake have it available from the start and not be a post game thing. Heck G.U. has item completion with it's Ryu books, so it's much better done in those games. I don't exactly have high hopes for Bandai Namco giving .hack another chance, but hopefully CC2 can at the very least convince them to greenlight a remake of IMOQ at some point. In the meantime I highly recommend checking out their latest original IP Fuga Melodies of Steel as it's also an amazing series of games as well. Hopefully their endeavors into self publishing will be successful and we can get more great series like .hack and Little Tail Bronx, which Fuga is a part of, from them instead of them just doing anime games all the time. Heck I'd like to see them take another crack at an Asura's Wrath like game since I think that interactive anime approach would appeal to more people nowadays, although they shouldn't have the ending be DLC.

ooooooh dot hack? Nice! Loved the story but the gameplay aged like MILK compared to the GU titles. Glad to see a video from you on them though!

G.U. History when?!?!?!?

.hack is easily one of the greatest games ever made

I wish this game got a remaster/port to modern consoles and pc as one complete package, like GU.

neeeeeed more .hack content

commenting before I fully watch it to pray for the algorithm to pick it up, bc this shit just did not show up on my homepage

Any excuse to watch these videos again lol, still waiting for a remake

Can you do Sign ? It's the only one I never got to play.

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Dragon Age/Baldurs Gate? 👀

they wanted to but the source code for imoq was lost so it was deemed to costly so they went with gu

Why won't they remake or remaster this series???!!!

i would have really appreciated a warning for the GU spoilers in the Mutation section of the video involving Sora.

Its kinda like what the internet could be if people tried harder

I dont get why would they remaster the sequel series first I need the imoq saga remastered in hd

I know you're trying to justify.hack as an isekai but trapped in a video game is a different genre. hack maybe is one but that is spoilers for other games and at that it is confusing if it really is one. The easy question to test whether or not it is one or is not one is what happens to the person that's trapped in the game if earth blows up. If Earth is destroyed and they die too then they're not another world. They're just on a computer on earth. A major aspect of the genre is culture shock and alternative alien perspective. When you're just trapped in a video game you already know it's not an unfamiliar world.

hope there isn't any problematic straightness/breeder inclinations in this game. that would be... yikes, to say the least

Need a remake with combos like gu and shortcuts like fragment

I love your channel! Super excited to watch this, I only ever played through .hack/g.u., curious to see the differences. Are you considering covering g.u. fully as well?