The Reason for the Data Flag Revealed + .hack's newest game!

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The Reason for the Data Flag Revealed + .hack's newest game!

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After the end of .hack//Quarantine, fans of BanDai and CyberConnect2's .hack were left wondering if there would ever be another video game incarnation of the project. .hack has appeared in forms of anime, manga, and games--just about every entertainment medium available. Recently, BanDai let out some information pertaining to a fifth RPG in the series, entitled .hack//Another Birth.

Story details are scarce, but the major twist has been revealed; players will not be controlling Kite this time around. Instead, Another Birth puts Black Rose in the spotlight, placing Kite as a supporting character. This story is said to be a video game version of a manga of the same title, so far only released in Japan. Looking at this image, the story looks to be a lot more personal in this round.

Veterans of the first four .hack titles will likely remember the feature allowing them to carry their save data from game to game. Since this will be on PlayStation 2, a degree of this is possible once again. With the switch of main characters, a complete data transfer from Quarantine to Another Birth would be impossible, but all non-equipment items in the player's inventory can be moved. This is because the "Item Completetion" quest will be continued from Quarantine, with over 200 more items set to be added to the list of things to collect. All party members on the player's contact list can also be imported, and no new characters have been unveiled. Whether or not Another Birth will allow recruiting of characters the player missed in the previous four games has not been specified.

The press release containing this information did not reveal much gameplay infomation, other than the fact that CyberConnect2 plans on increasing the size of the towns and adding, in CC2 Marketing Manager Jay McKee's own words, "more MMORPG-like content," and all talk of such things ended there. No comments regarding the battles system or anything else were made, presumably because the game is still in early production.

"I'm excited to be working with everyoneagain," said Masumi Asano, Japanese voice of Black Rose. "It will be neat to be voicing the lead character. Black Rose's part was already a big one before, but now I have a lot more work to do. I can't wait to start recording!"

The game has been announced for Japanese release some time near the end of the year, with a North American localization to follow in early 2006. Whether or not Atari will step in and release the game in Europe as it did the other games in the series is not known. RPGamer will continue to post updated information as it becomes available. In the meantime, take a look at the game's earliest pieces of official artwork.
Im 90% sure that this is the game there gona release before GU, and you can convert your data flag for items and junk...[/quote][/img]
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O_O AWESOME!! Way to go! Now we can shut down all these stupid threads about it! ^_^ the Item Quest was fun! Got me some quality time with Mistral.
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:D Wow thats really cool
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:| ummmm....this info was an April Fools Joke on rpgamer.....they already admitted that it wasn't true
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well now thats just cruel :cry:
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Post by xeno »

tasigin wrote:well now thats just cruel :cry:
I agree that was really bad a prank is fine but that,that is awful
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Are you serious?! :shock: :shock: :shock:

Thats stupid.....
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Scroll down to "Another disappointed gullion".

http://www.rpgamer.com/ask/cast/Q2-2005/aa040205.html
Incidentally, you are three times fooled, for that new .hack is as bogus as Sakaguchi's sudden acquisition
All April Fools day pranks.
http://www.rpgamer.com/event/af-2005/af2005.html

The best prank ever.
http://www.rpgamer.com/news/Q2-2005/040105c.html
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Post by dothacker_terriermon04 »

since it was all a prank this thread should be locked........
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Post by xeno »

not to either A annoy anyone with my disbelif or 2.to be a nut about this but this crossed mymind because this has happened to me a couple times.
If this was a prank, then why does it have so many links to extra stuff? is it to make it seem more official?, or is the prank it being a prank?
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yeah...it does suck that it was a prank. We've been waiting with bated breath about a new .hack game, and when this came out, I beleved it. At least we were saved a month later by G.U.!!! Anyway, does Quarintine leave a data flag? If it does, you may be able to use it with the first G.U. Maybe.
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Xalioniaf wrote:yeah...it does suck that it was a prank. We've been waiting with bated breath about a new .hack game, and when this came out, I beleved it. At least we were saved a month later by G.U.!!! Anyway, does Quarintine leave a data flag? If it does, you may be able to use it with the first G.U. Maybe.
yeah it does have a data-flag I dont know if that was a spoiler or not
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Are you guys SUREEEE?
This looks PRETTY offical to me.....
http://www.cyberconnect2.jp/hack/frame.html
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FlameSage wrote:Are you guys SUREEEE?
This looks PRETTY offical to me.....
http://www.cyberconnect2.jp/hack/frame.html
.hack//AB is real, thats what the whole discussion/flame here was about
http://forums.dothackers.net/viewtopic.php?t=1907

Its just not imported yet as RPGamer was pranking.
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Ah! I thought they were implying that there wasn't even a game.....

I would assume that AB is goign to come out before GU.....
Since then it would sort of go in order, it wouldn't make any sense to do GU and then AU

GASP! They have almost the name innitals, A SIGN I TELL YOU!
GASP! .hack//SIGN! IT'S ANOTHER SIGN!
GASP! ANOTHER REBIRTH!
GASP! *repeats*
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FlameSage wrote:it wouldn't make any sense to do GU and then AU

GASP! They have almost the name innitals, A SIGN I TELL YOU!
Where the hell did AU come from?
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Post by FlameSage »

Er..... AB.....
I'm such a retard. :oops:
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Post by Shinsou Wotan »

FlameSage wrote:Are you guys SUREEEE?
This looks PRETTY offical to me.....
http://www.cyberconnect2.jp/hack/frame.html
The pictures are indeed genuine. Genuine promotional images for the books.
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Shinsou Wotan wrote:
FlameSage wrote:Are you guys SUREEEE?
This looks PRETTY offical to me.....
http://www.cyberconnect2.jp/hack/frame.html
The pictures are indeed genuine. Genuine promotional images for the books.
exactly...Another Birth is a book series based on the games in Blackrose's point of view it is NOT a game
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Post by streed »

they were joking about it being a game its a book series
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