kite in teh news stream thingy

[AuraTwilight]

But It's NOT a screenshot from Fragment. There's a big different between claiming something's a screenshot from a game and just saying that it uses the same basic engine. That's just grade A moronic.

[Ravaan]

Yeah. It's not like the producers of .hack had the magical ability to insert a screenshot from a game that wasn't even been made yet into it.

That's just silly.

[Samuel]

Its similar to whats in fragment.

All it is a PC similar to Kites. Think Orca/Bear, BlackRose/Mimiru, etc.

And you could create a The World PC similar to Kites in fragment.

While its not actually in fragment it might as well be.

Besides I never said it was Daichi who said it in the first place.

[AuraTwilight]

Then don't support their arguement, or it's the same thing as saying they have.

And OF COURSE it's "like Fragment." The entire f*cking game is. Any non-storyline shot of IMOQ can be written off as a Fragment screenshot.

[Balmung2]

still why was it made like the play staion game it kinda feels like a big rip off if u ask me

It is not a rip off, it uses the same engine, because it is trying to portray "The World". If they changed it, it would not be R:1. And they are the SAME game, one is not a rip off of the other. Fragment is the world as it should be (...sort of) and IMOQ tells the story of the .hackers and Aura, Morganna, etc.
Anyways, yeah, they weren't being lazy either, nearly every MMO uses the same character models repeatedly, with different colors/accessories. The news post was showing the character creation process. Did you not notice the bazillions of different colored Heavy Axemen, or Twin blades, or wavemasters? Heck, in the root towns, half of the wavemasters have the same model as Elk. And Mimiru/Tsukasa/Subaru/etc are also examples.

Basically, what AT said.