After vol 3 what will the next dot hack be like ?

[Dengar]

That's what you get when a Japanese person who doesn't know how to spell English words, tries to spell "The World".

[AuraTwilight]

No matter what happens, .hack should not leave The World. I mean, The World is what defines .hack. It wouldn't feel right if the next .hack revolved around something else. Also, I don't see a reason not to have people fall into comas next time. To me it seems like a pretty solid plot device that doesn't get old.

Well, I would say the things that happen in Za Warudo is what defines .hack. As the presence of AIDA explained, though, A.I. is no longer going to be exclusive to Za Warudo, so it's worth exploring.

Anyway, AIDA still exists. Something could cause it to go berserk again. While this may seem like a lame and overused plot, I think if they just spend some effort on that 'something', it could still become an awesome story.

I don't really think they will. The AIDA declared, via Atoli, that "Hate was a meaningless, dead end emotion." So they're not going to adopt it again if they can help it.

Though it would be cool if something was forcing the AIDA to go ballistic, and not only did the heroes have to save the players, but also the lives of the AIDA.

Finally, the first series seemed to be around players forming relationships and making friends. The second series seemed to be about the whole 'free PvP' problem. I think a valid theme for the next series could be the problem of "Elitism", where the leaders of large groups are dicks and get away with it because normal players NEED to be part of large groups in order to enjoy the game. And where people who are with the 'best' groups and have the 'best' equipment look down on 'normal people'. You know, those are problems people deal with a lot in games like WoW.

Hm. I don't really see how you can get much of a storyline out of that though. The PKing thing was more of a backround detail to support Haseo's story, and "Elitist Asshole" Doesn't work as well as "The Terror of Death." The idea of using some other MMORPG social issue is a good one, though.

[darkhaseo1016]

I think the next .hack will be,,....... finding OVAN( shino and haseo say) thats what the RESSURECTION means to say,, and pls.. next .hack game cc2 do the battel icons small or improve to make us player see Haseo do his MMMMMMOOOOOOOOOOOVVES!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dengar]

But Ovan is already found...

[twinbladePker]

Yeah he was found in the OVA storyline im still not sure
but game wise it could still be in R:2 with an "expansion" better grahics updated combat, more weps diffrent classes, old but new areas, but still the same cities Log in screen

[svmx123]

I f the next game will be a continuation from the previous one.I hope that there will be job extensions for the other jobs/characters like A Tribal Grappler job extension for Pi or Harvest Cleric job extension for Atoli and Shino and etc. I don't mind if it's going to be a part of the storyline or not, in my personal opinion Haseo is already an "over exposed" character hehehehehe. I also hope that Aina will be a playable character.

[Dengar]

A job extension for other classes? That would COMPLETELY defeat the purpose of the Adept Rogue, whose main FEATURE is the job extension.

[Azure crow]

I'd like to see not a different conspiracy, but the Black Box infecting other games, like an AI travelling to other MMO's and shizzle.

Honestly, I'm thinking about Herald himself.
He's in there, immortal, and an intigrated part of the box and game, now. If he continues to be broken, then there's a chance that he could take his search for Aura to a whole new level, and cause something to happen.
Apart from that, I'd like to see the main character as an AI that beleives it's real. Much like Mia did, for a while. I've heard comments about Cubia or Skeith taking this role, but I don't support either. Cubia has been over used(as well as may be permanantly broken) and he would cause the series to be amazingly liniar due to having to anti-exist something(unless him being broken have him some sort of tangeble body via a glitche, but that'd be horrible in so many ways...although, it'd be odd to see) and Skeith as an AI would be just...well...he's really got nothing to accomplish. Once a character knows as much as Skeith does, it's not interesting to play as them, like alot of games where the main character guesses against pretty much everythign without evidense, and gets it all right. It gets boring.

If another game happens, I only want a few things:

Aura stays gone, or an anti-Aura becomes existant( which would tie back into Cubia....bah)

The Avatars keep there damned noses out of it, perhaps one or two showing up as PC's near then end(likely Macha or Skeith...mabye Innis...) and they pull an Aura otherwise.

Haseo, in his "best gamer in the world" status, stays gone.

They don't have another "broken" looking version of old characters appear as an enemy. I'd like to see The Azure Knights return though, mabye getting fixed part way through( I'd vouche for the original heros coming back at some point, and the Azure Knights releasing their characters and going to sleep like Aura to give them bodies/PCs)


That's really about it. No Sakaki either. Ovan..mabye...depending on the time change, perhaps even having Aina come back would be good. Hell, mabye as the heroine, who developes amnesia like Sora did, from the extensive coma time.

On that note: A female main character. After two games with a male as the main character, I think it'd be a nice change.

[Good_haseo009]

well i wish they continue with haseo still an i think they will im not sure if they r though

[Dengar]

The problem is you'd have to make him level one AGAIN, for various reasons.

[k-su]

As much as I love The Greatest Gamer in the World, I think we need to move on.
New characters, new yatta yatta yatta...

I like alot of stuff that AT said. I think that moving the setting to another MMO would be pretty interesting as an outlook. I think they could also expand from one main character to multiple characters, like in games where you play thru individual storylines. The character's stories however would have to be seperateable enough that you arent just playing the game over but with different characters, but have enough of a link to the others for a cohesive canon story.
that idea isnt completely worked out yet, tho...

Also, imagine this: In light of everything CC Corp has done (covering up the truth, allowing The World to continue to rampage, etc), less and less people play The World and CC Corp's other products arent selling well. In short, CC isnt making money. In the year 2022, another company lauches a merger(hostle takeover) of CC Corp. The new CC Corp discontinues The World, but they continue to use the Harold system and implement it into a new game (not called The World). As to what this bodes for the new characters, I dont know, yet.

Another idea, which is really a stretch, but I think would be interesting: Pull a M.U.G.E.N.
The idea: years later( and I mean many years later) after The World has been discontinued, the black box ends up on the internet, like the Mugen engine, and the few people who actually can come close to phathoming it, begin making their own homebrewed game with the black box. The game becomes incredibly popular, to the point that some company (probably CC Corp if it survives or its successor) buys and publishes the game or hackers get ahold of it and use the blackbox to do something netrelated. We may have two or more factions harnessing the power of the black box, wrecking havock on the net. With Aura out of the picture (acting as the system itself), it'd be like man playing with the power of God. I'm sure Harold (AI) would have something to say about the abuse of his system and would become either a seperate faction or apart of one of the factions quarreling, but Harold wouldnt have to necesarily be a big part of this, but be more of a silent voice in the blackbox that warns them. I'm sure at some point, things would get so bad, that those in posession of the black box would trigger a failsafe and then there'd be some real trouble.

That idea isnt fully cooked yet, either. As I said before, that would have to be a long stretch as I have no idea how these factions would battle over the net unless something like a netspace was created from the power of the blackbox in combination w/ the neurogoggles next gen design, which would not only be used in MMOs but to virtualize one's self on the internet itself (which could also add to the ingame connection w/ others surfing the net as some moron gets lost while on the net, due to the blackbox, and you may have to search for/save them)

Um, I kinda just spit all these out as they came to me, so, yeah...not completely thought out.

[AuraTwilight]

Also, imagine this: In light of everything CC Corp has done (covering up the truth, allowing The World to continue to rampage, etc), less and less people play The World and CC Corp's other products arent selling well. In short, CC isnt making money. In the year 2022, another company lauches a merger(hostle takeover) of CC Corp. The new CC Corp discontinues The World, but they continue to use the Harold system and implement it into a new game (not called The World). As to what this bodes for the new characters, I dont know, yet.

Right, that was one idea I was thinking. That, or introduce a new set of AI phenomena 100% unrelated to the Black Box like the AIDA were.

Another idea, which is really a stretch, but I think would be interesting: Pull a M.U.G.E.N.
The idea: years later( and I mean many years later) after The World has been discontinued, the black box ends up on the internet, like the Mugen engine, and the few people who actually can come close to phathoming it, begin making their own homebrewed game with the black box. The game becomes incredibly popular, to the point that some company (probably CC Corp if it survives or its successor) buys and publishes the game or hackers get ahold of it and use the blackbox to do something netrelated. We may have two or more factions harnessing the power of the black box, wrecking havock on the net. With Aura out of the picture (acting as the system itself), it'd be like man playing with the power of God. I'm sure Harold (AI) would have something to say about the abuse of his system and would become either a seperate faction or apart of one of the factions quarreling, but Harold wouldnt have to necesarily be a big part of this, but be more of a silent voice in the blackbox that warns them. I'm sure at some point, things would get so bad, that those in posession of the black box would trigger a failsafe and then there'd be some real trouble.

I'm not sure about factions, but the rest of the idea is cool enough to make or break the system. I'd rather Aura wasn't so much out of the picture but captured, and was forcibly used in a measure that gave her physical pain, and the heroes set her free by returning all copies of the Black Box to her and letting her retreat into obscurity. That, or Technological Singularity pwnz the Human Race.

That idea isnt fully cooked yet, either. As I said before, that would have to be a long stretch as I have no idea how these factions would battle over the net unless something like a netspace was created from the power of the blackbox in combination w/ the neurogoggles next gen design, which would not only be used in MMOs but to virtualize one's self on the internet itself (which could also add to the ingame connection w/ others surfing the net as some moron gets lost while on the net, due to the blackbox, and you may have to search for/save them)

Ew, virtualizing. No.

[zaseo]

Thier are so many plots that Dot Hack has .Who knows what can happen after the last Roots Ova Returner [Go to Youtube to see this] .

[k-su]

Ew, virtualizing. No.

I dont mean literal virtualization, but like what the neuro goggles allows as far as immersement in The World, but applied on the net. Kinda like it would make the net more accessible, supposedly to people. The idea about people getting lost on the net stems from some effect of the blackbox, much like how when people are pk'd and go comatose, they believe they are really dead. Havent so much commited to this idea as we'd have to be pretty far ahead of the tech in GU for this to even be possible, plus we run risk of running into Megaman/Digimon territory, though I think stepping into the Lain element would be pretty interesting. Yeah,there we go. mix some Lain into the .hack formula, tho I'm not quite sure how we make that work yet.

What we dont need is .hack//COPS, MEGAMAN, DIGIMON

What I'd really like to see is more revelation pertaining to the blackbox (doesnt mean the blackbox has to be the central focus) and also see AI advancement/evolution. Also what would happen if AIs begin to gro closer to Ult. AI status (mutliple AIs w/ Aura status) That'd be pretty scary, depending on their motives. I also wonder what Aura would think of something like that. She could embrace them, unless they were hostile. The only problem w/ that would be how to contain so many of them in the system, when Aura already encompasses the whole thing.

[AuraTwilight]

I dont mean literal virtualization, but like what the neuro goggles allows as far as immersement in The World, but applied on the net. Kinda like it would make the net more accessible, supposedly to people.

I know, and I still don't want it. True virtual reality in a setting like .hack is just dumb.

Yeah,there we go. mix some Lain into the .hack formula, tho I'm not quite sure how we make that work yet.

"Lain" has been in the .hack formula since it's conception. How do you think those coma's and AI's are actually working without needing 30th century technology or terabytes of data storage?

What I'd really like to see is more revelation pertaining to the blackbox (doesnt mean the blackbox has to be the central focus) and also see AI advancement/evolution.

Amen.

Also what would happen if AIs begin to gro closer to Ult. AI status (mutliple AIs w/ Aura status) That'd be pretty scary, depending on their motives. I also wonder what Aura would think of something like that. She could embrace them, unless they were hostile. The only problem w/ that would be how to contain so many of them in the system, when Aura already encompasses the whole thing.

Hm. That could easily ruin the series. I think we should just do one other UAI at most and see where that goes first. *Throwback to those old Aina theories.*

[zaseo]

The number of players went down in R2 . I Wonder wher the next World would be . WorldR3

[zaseo]

Trying to play the World as if it was Reality .

[Kay]

i remember a while back on the official gu site their was this poll they had that asked what we thought shold be the title of the next .hack game and if they were to reuse a character who we would like to see. So im pretty sure therell be another .hack game. As for what itll be like, who knows. but if their listening to their fans and advancing as much as they did for gu im certain it should turn out great.

[sorry if someone else mentioned this, i didnt feel like scrolling thro 2 hrs of game debate so i skipped a few pages ]

[haseo1250]

The number of players went down in R2 . I Wonder wher the next World would be . WorldR3

they beter not make the world R:3 it would be to weird that would meen new story line,new charectures, new battle system basicly new every thing and they need to make it where u can choose between a guy or a girl charecture that would make it better and i my opion they NEED to bring back Aura and Harold the were the main cause for the world and every thing that happend the commatose ppl they should keep cuz thats the whole sory that has happned to the world also i think they need to bring Kite Black Rose and all them back even though there like 20 sum now but they need to comeback and be like "wat the hell has happned to the World" that would be so cool and yah Mirreals daughter or son can play her charecture or sum thing like u know mix it up combine the games R:1 R:2 and if there is and R:3 put them all together to make one big .hack i know that may sound cheesey but that is my dream .hack will become and it better be for PS2 cuz PS3 SUCK!!!!!!!

[zaseo]

The number of players went down in R2 . I Wonder wher the next World would be . WorldR3

they beter not make the world R:3 it would be to weird that would meen new story line,new charectures, new battle system basicly new every thing and they need to make it where u can choose between a guy or a girl charecture that would make it better and i my opion they NEED to bring back Aura and Harold the were the main cause for the world and every thing that happend the commatose ppl they should keep cuz thats the whole sory that has happned to the world also i think they need to bring Kite Black Rose and all them back even though there like 20 sum now but they need to comeback and be like "wat the hell has happned to the World" that would be so cool and yah Mirreals daughter or son can play her charecture or sum thing like u know mix it up combine the games R:1 R:2 and if there is and R:3 put them all together to make one big .hack i know that may sound cheesey but that is my dream .hack will become and it better be for PS2 cuz PS3 SUCK!!!!!!!

In The World R1 do they ever says Kite name on the game ? Making your own person is a good idea as long as they say your name or at least talk . Some game are like that their is only text .