.hack/g.u.
<div class="IPBDescription">.hack game coming in 2006</div> There is a new .hack game for whoever likes the .hack series coming out in 2006 I think. Here is a <a href='http://www.dothackers.net/gu.php' target='_blank'>site</a>. Also the trailer <a href='http://d5t.dreamhost.com/media/%5Bwww.dothackers.net%5Dgutrailer_high1.wmv' target='_blank'>Right Click</a>. <a href='http://www.dothack.com' target='_blank'>Offical Site</a> and some <a href='http://dothack.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3078' target='_blank'>forums</a> about it.
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...that it was worse than I'd actually imagined. I watched the anime that came with it (pretty good) then returned the package in disgust of how bland and repetitive the gameplay was XD
Don't get me wrong... MMOs <b>are</b> repetitive but at least the real thing has people to chat to in order to help distract you from that fact :3
So would AIM <i>The Game</i> but just as good as an MMORPG?
.hack//G.U. is also longer than all 4 .hack games combined (no more, buy this for $30 X 4, each worth 20 hours of game play), the game play may be better than the repeating gameplay in the other .hack games.
The story seems really nice, although I may not get this game if the game play is as dull as the other 4 .hack games.
<b>"</b>Now that the trailer's out, and now that .hack//G.U.'s been seen by the general public, let's see what we can take apart from the trailer. Granted, spoilers, but abosolutly nothing's solid right now..
Trailer Starts...we see a young man fall to the ground in what seems to be an area similar yet much larger than Delta Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground. "When 'It' was born, the first thing it saw was a 'PK'." PK=Player Killer (dur) Then the word "Aida" appears. We hear the Liminality ping (the note A) and then the title ".hack//G.U." appears. The title does a glitch effect away, and an eye is seen for a very breif time. Cut to a desert field, where the silver-haired player is standing above a circle of players. The screen flickers to a green screen for a few short seconds, where we can see what G.U. might stand for...Genesis of Ultima, Generation of Unison, Guide to an Uprising, Gate of Urobosos, and Gulity Universe. The screen returns to the desert, and we see the players on the ground making attacks on the center players.
The silver haired player walks down to them. The other players seem shocked, and we are shown a breif flash-back to Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground, where the sliver haired player is held at weapon point, and them presumably killed. He smiles, and begins his attack on them all. He draws a Twin Blade weapon from behind him, which seems to have a "motor" function. After striking down a few of them, he returns to the center, and in one smooth motion replaces his Twin Blades and pulls out a Long Arm weapon, sending out a shockwave when he does. A player goes up to attack him, but he uses some sort of spell that launches the player clear into the distance. Vak Don comes to mind, but its more of a Hadouken...A Heavy Axeman sneaks up from behind, and is about to strike when the silver haired player jumps out of the way.
Once he's clear, he puts his weapon away and pulls out a Heavy Blade weapon. (I'm assuming by its size and his handling of it that it's a Heavy Blade, and not a Blademaster) It resembles a chainsaw, with its "motor" function. Several quick cuts of the camera, and everyone's dead.
Now we are introduced to the human phases. The Terror of Death, Haseo. The Mirage of Deceit, Atoli. The Propagation, Kuhn. The Prophet, Yata. The Machinator, Sakubo. The Temptress, Endrance. The Avenger, Pai. The Rebirth, Ovan. Some clips are very breifly shown, although you can see some of the Human Phases in them. We see the sliver haired player, and the words AIDA appear infront of him. Beneath them it says "Artificially Intelligent Data Anomaly."
The Silver Haired player returns to Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground, and flashes back to when he was previously there, with Atoli, the Mirage of Deceit. He hears the Liminality Ping (The note A) and snaps back to reality. He looks around the church, and while his back is turned, a blue-ish purple orb descendes from where Aura's statue previously was. The orb explodes, knocking the player back a few pews. From where the orb was emerges Kite. However, he looks different, as if sewn together. His eye (his other eye is not visible) is a pale grey. Kite draws a Twin Blade weapon, which appears to be rare (since it has that "trailing" effect) He pulls them in, and "unlocks" them. The red A looking sybol appears, and sinks into the blades. The silver haired player draws his blades as well, and the words "Artificially Intelligent Data Anomally" appear again in the background.
He attacks Kite, but every strike he makes is deflected by Kite, literally single-handedly. Not even the motor function seems to help place an attack on Kite. He flips backwards, and draws out the Heavy Blade weapon. Running as though he had Ap Do cast upon him, he goes to attack Kite. Kite once again stops the attack with one blade, and sends the player flying backwards with the other. Kite walks foward, and places his left hand towards the sky in a familiar pose. The player is slowly rising, but too late...Kite's hand points foward, and a red version of the Data Drain collects around his wrist. Then it is launched with yellow "Drain Arrows." They reach their mark, and hit silver haired dead on. The title ".hack//G.U." flashes yet again. We see the player on the ground again, just like in the opening of the trailer. Ovan, The Rebirth, approaches silver's player on the floor. He extends his hand and says "Welcome to 'The World.'" Several shots are shown between company logos, and the trailer ends.
Conclusions?
-Most likely, you play as the Silver-Haired Player. If he is the Aida or not, we do not know. The reason why I'm not applying it to him is because during .hack//SIGN the words "key of the twilight" were flashed over many people, yet none of them were the key.
-The Green Eye in the opening is not possessed by Kite or Silver.
-I'm more interested in the "Gate of Urbosos" meaning of G.U... the Urbosos is the image of a serpent swallowing its tail (http://info.uibk.ac.at/c/cb/cb26/resch/weltbilder_paranormologie/bilder/alchemie/uroboros.gif) It's supposed to carry a meaning of infinity and the such. However, to take a Liminality approach to it, it seperates what is on the outside, and what is on the inside.
-My best guess is that Silver-Haired is a player killer. He seems to also possess an all-inclusive class that permits him to use weapons from the Twin Blade, Long Arm, and Heavy Blade classes.
-The intent of the Human Phases isn't quite clear right now. Silver-Haired seems to have something for Pai and Atoli.
-The new Kite....let's call him Dark Kite for now, despite his true intentions not currently known. From his appearance, I'd say that he was the result of several junk data copies of the original Kite. However, due to the bracelet's protection, he shouldn't have been able to be copied. Neither should his data be able to be modified. Yet, this Kite possesses a Red Data Drain. He is also quite powerful, and has something to do with the red symbol. <b>"</b>
lol
I'm so lost with the latest things these days. I'm going back under my rock.
But then again, I haven't watched much of the .hack series.
Seconded. If they would just make one...
Oh dear god, that's funny but evil.
WARCRAFT!!!!!!!
Yeah I mean all popular/sucessfully games have giant robots.
The Kite look-alike in the trailer appears to be named Tri-Edge (according to several sites...), like the weapon he uses.