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Bandai Namco's New World RPG App Renamed .hack//New World

This is not the DotHack game that we asked for. Dammit CC2.

I'm just waiting when they'll finally make a new console game/trilogy to return .hack to its former glory.

CC2 have been pumping out these mobile spiritual successors to .hack under different names and re-naming them back to .hack months after release. I suppose they want these games to reach .hack's level of success and popularity - but that will never happen. I'm just waiting when they'll finally make a new console game/trilogy to return .hack to its former glory.

It was odd that it wasn't .hack//::insert title here:: from the beginning consider the close ties. It'd be nice if it came here as well And also, I wouldn't mind a remaster of the original quadrilogy and follow up trilogy as well. Maybe they could just smoosh the 4 & 3 games together and just release two separate single games. GU's in my backlog, but I don't recall there being anything design or story wise keeping the games apart. They flowed together pretty smoothly to the point that I recall wondering why they broke it up in to so many pieces in the first place (other than for more money of course).

Space was the first reason. For some reason, all the places made up by keywords were pre-designated and already programmed in. The way they did it specifically meant that every possible combination for each game took up a little bit of space, ultimately culminating in something too big to fit on one disc with a story and cutscenes and so on. As time went on, the creation of the games fit for marketing tools and they took advantage of the splitting to allow for mid-release transitioning. G.U. did the same thing, though it had bigger discs. Even Link suffered partially from this problem, though Link was particularly simple. I remember when they tried to get the game onto multiple discs, but they didn't want to do it unless they could release it as one release instead of multiple releases. Eventually, they stuck to on disc and simply limited the content and general game itself. No one knows if this is why the game sucked so bad, but it makes logical sense to reason that cutting down the hopeful number of discs could not have been good for the planning stage of the game. There are hints in the game that the story was going to have animated cutscenes (instead of comic-style panel cutscenes) and that the gameplay was going to be more like G.U., but what we got was more like a really... really awful simplification of G.U.'s gameplay style. *sigh*