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Balmungs death? perhaps? ending of .hack//undeden
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:57 pm
by cloud811
kk I'm confused here, we all know the new .Hack//G.U game is coming out about the PKers called "Tri edge" who has teh crazy data drain braclets right? and he can data drain people...etc, moving onto the point. At the end of the .Hack//DUSK manga is showers somebody who looks like Balmung defeated...which im SURE it's Balmung. Feathers on the ground....same armor....hair....etc. Since only Balmung should have Wings like that from One Sin anyways i doubt its a look alike. He's defeated by a man who looks like Kite, but he relizes its not. After all you see if this evil looking eye from the kite look alike and says "Data Drain" and according to Hack//G.U they can no longer re-enter the game thoughs who have been deafeted. Does that mean our Hero Balmung is gone?! defeated!? deleted!? NOOOOOO SOMEBODY CLEAR IT UP
Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 3:35 am
by SnowManZero
we don't know yet. as far as anyone know's that was a small little teaser to set the reader's up for G.U. and tri-edge.
also, it's not a good idea to say that people are dead. i for one don't like that, and will need subsquent proof before i can believe it.
and as far as his charicter data, it's a new world with new avatar's and apparently an entirely new cast, so don't get your hope's up for balmung.
you know i didn't even realise what that was until i came to this site. i honestly was unaware of what the heck was going on.
and beside's balmung has been in about every thing up until know, so i say give us a new person, only not as noble or lame as balmung. 
and i'm only answering your question so i'm sorry if your offended by this post.
Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 7:01 pm
by rhyste
Those were joke/side/omake scribbles by Izumi Rei. When the GU stuff was announced, someone made a comment like "Rei, your joke is becoming reality!"
Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 9:00 pm
by SnowManZero
we all got a huge laugh out of it,eh!
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 5:02 pm
by Kaoshima
It wasn't by Rei Izumi, it doesn't even look like her style, they're teasers for .hack//G.U. drawn by Piroshi Matsuyama, the CEO of CyberConnect 2. he even sticks in stuff like "thanks for the hard work Izumi-san!" at bottom of them.
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 7:54 pm
by Aera
It's not by Rei Izumi.
No one knows for sure if Balmung died. As of now, he's living. But in personal opinion, it looks like a definite GU Teaser. Because if you go to the site and watch the trailer for .hack//GU, the bit where Kite comes out at the Church all badass, he looks similar to the image of Badass-Kite-In-Back-Of-Manga
Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 12:55 am
by Apple
i just think it was a joke-come true =)
Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 2:26 am
by SnowManZero
Apple wrote:imo, i dont think it was for G.U since why would you think about a new project after u JUST finished a previous one?!?!
*sound's of slapping*dumb qoute.
you have to think about the future if this is one of your main buisnesses.
it's like school thinking about what they're going to do for the next subject
*continue's to slap*
Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 2:44 am
by Apple
SnowManZero wrote:Apple wrote:imo, i dont think it was for G.U since why would you think about a new project after u JUST finished a previous one?!?!
*sound's of slapping*dumb qoute.
you have to think about the future if this is one of your main buisnesses.
it's like school thinking about what they're going to do for the next subject
*continue's to slap*
mhm thats what you think and thats what i think ^_^
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:42 pm
by Kaoshima
Some game companies start planning for the next project before their current one is even finished...
Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:28 am
by SnowManZero
seriously, why would you not think about the future. i mean project wise what's going to happen after you leave a job? you have to find work or have something set up.
it would be stupid to not do this.
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:37 pm
by Aera
SnowManZero wrote:seriously, why would you not think about the future. i mean project wise what's going to happen after you leave a job? you have to find work or have something set up.
it would be stupid to not do this.
Not to mention Quarantine had a Data Flag which possibly implied that there was a continuence. Not that I know for sure.
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 1:48 pm
by AuraTwilight
The Quarantine data flag goes back to Infection to unlock a parody mode in the Japanese version and some lame sound test in the North American version.
Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 11:18 am
by Kay
If you guys pay a little more attention to manga 3 Then you'll notice it said they were "passing on the baton" as in they were going to make more .hack they were planning it already obviously. There was also something in there about future generations, and with a interview with the guy in charge of .hack he said that GU of .Hack//GU means Growing Up. Future generations? Growing Up? seems kinda funny to me.
Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:18 am
by Icarus
.HACK has always been planned as a massive multimedia project that would continue to have linking projects, (including Legend of the Twilight), and that they would all have purpose within the continuous storyline. Just because Kite saved the day in the games doesn't discredit or make Shugo into nothing but a throw away character. They aren't just trying to bring you into the world of the game, but also into the entire connected world that the characters live in. It's not another Microsoft (keep regurgitating it while it's hot) project made specifically to make money. It is like a series of novels, it has always had an ending and we (the fans) are merely making our way page by page, chapter by chapter. If you discredit or pass on any part of it then you'll never get the true experience. Here's a nice little quote to wrap up my ranting. ^_^
"Like a finger pointing away to the moon, DON'T concentrate on the finger, or you'll miss all that heavenly beauty."- Bruce Lee
Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 4:22 pm
by Kite_2000
Well, G.U. can mean anything.
As the trailers imply:
Graceless Unison
Gathering of the Unwilling
Genesis of Unity
Gate of Uroboros
Guardians to an Uprising
Geek's Utopia (wtf 0_o)
Gatherers of the Unknown
So hey, Ive proved a point here.
Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 10:42 pm
by SnowManZero
no you haven't!
you've just become microsoft(read Icarus post).
if you told us what you meant by the name's and how it refer's to G.U. as a future project, then we would understand you.
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 4:56 am
by Kite_2000
Aw man, leave it to you to stuff up all my points that I try my hardest to clarify
Sheesh, are you proud? You have won aainst an 11 year old...
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 11:45 am
by Kay
Kite_2000 wrote:Aw man, leave it to you to stuff up all my points that I try my hardest to clarify
Sheesh, are you proud? You have won aainst an 11 year old...
Well i'm 17 and my information gathering skills aren't as advanced as they can be and all i did was read an interview with some Japanese guy in charge of .hack (Don't remember the name) in a gaming magazine and he said that G.U. = Growing Up. I know someone would try to prove me wrong but i got my facts from the source not just a geuss. Sorry if this seems rude by the way.
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 4:57 pm
by Kite_2000
Personally, I think 'growing up' is a kind of...Light titile. In my opinion, I think it should be something more...Sophisticated >.>