.hack//Infection
 

So after getting hooked on .hack//SIGN, of course I bought the game. At first I thought it would be kinda cheezy, but it turned out to be really great. There are a few differences between The World in the game and The World in the series that I noticed fairly quickly, but as a started to play the game, I quickly forgot about them.

Heh, it was pretty decent.. I'm going to buy the next one in the series once it drops below $50 at Wal-Mart (Mutation, I believe.. isn't it Infection - Mutation - Outbreak - Quarantine?)

My favorite part would be the random news articles and such that you unlock.. it's just good stuff.

I think it's only three parts.

EDIT: It was originally supposed to be three parts but now it's four, and BLueCube was right, it's Quarantine.

There is four parts and it does go: Infection, Mutation, Outbreak and Quarantine.

The camera I found really sucked, especially when ur in combat it does really work with u all the time.

It wasn't my kind of game, since I don't like the series.

Could anyone please explain the plot of the series in 100 words or less?

Just go to the website, it'll explain it better than anyone else can.

could u plz post the link? I really have no clue what game/ series ur all talking about but if u ppl like it, I wanna check it out

There IS a sixth series in the entire .hack world, called dusk. Its fun if you're young/enjoy chibi humor., oh and its short too. I'd like to try the games too, i find it *really* damn interesting a company is going to these measures to release a large game relatively close, probably to keep it intact. (Not like the gaia series enix made, soul breaker (or something), illusion of gaia, and terranigma - there's such a big difference in each of them they dont feel like the same thing)

It was a bit annoying at first, but I quickly got used to it. If you use the config with the camera left and right on the L1 and R1 buttons and the movement on the stick and think of your L1 and R1 buttons as your turn buttons and the stick as your WASD (forward, backward, and strafing motions), you should have little trouble. It's when you're trying to move only with the stick and every-so-often center the camera that you'll have trouble.

For the plot of .hack//SIGN:
The story:

Tsukasa awakens in a strange place. As he gathers his surroundings, he reallizes that he's playing The World, but something is strange. Eventually he comes to reallize that, unlike all the other players, he can't log out -- he is not sitting in front of a computer; his conciousness is in The World. He is befriended by Mimiru and Bear, who try to help him to log out and find out why he is in this condition. He is also befriended by a charactor that never shows herself (I'll reffer to her as "the voice"), but shows Tsukasa a place where he can be alone, where there is a girl lying on a bed; the voice also gives him certain powers. Bear discovers that the person playing Tsukasa is a girl in a coma in a Hospital; Tsukasa denies that he is a girl, so they drop it. There is a legend about a hidden item that trancends the rules of the game -- the "Key of Twilight"; Mimiru and Bear decide to try to find this item as they believe it may help Tsukasa. Other charactors also search for this item, for their own reasons.

The ending (super spoiler):

Eventually, it is discovered that Tsukasa has had the Key of Twilight all along; the girl on the bed, Aura, is the Key. It is found that the voice is trying to use Tsukasa to destroy Aura so they will be free to corrupt The World. A great battle ensues and in the end Aura is awakened and Tsukasa can log out, waking the girl in a coma. One of the other characters looking for the Key upsets the voice, and with the words "I'll give you a fate worse than death", he is transformed and becomes the voice's slave. It is this slave that puts Orca into a coma at the beginning of the game .hack//Infection .

This is, of course, just a summary and leaves out many important events and details; I just focused on the part that may be important to know when playing the .hack games.

I just started playing Outbreak today. They really start out hard this time. You have to do the first dunger (lvl 54, IIRC) completely alone and a really powerful data bug is at the end.

Now, I'm at another solo dungeon where there's a data bug who kills me in one friggin hit. I guess it's scroll time.

EDIT: BTW, I just happened to switch to one of my .hack sigs last night.

Try leveling up some. I found that at the point I am at in .hack//Infection, that taking BlackRose and Mistral with me into a field 4 or 5 levels above my head and fighting the monsters in the field hanging on to dear life raised me 4 levels in less than an hour. All the sudden, the main quests became much easier. The data bugs are quite annoying, though. I've adopted the stratagy of avoiding them untill I can do my most powerful weapon attack (some sort of spinning thing marked as being level 2), then getting in close, performing the attack, and getting out, repeating untill the protect break finally happens.

I'm lvl. 65. Higher than the actual dungeon. Can't bring a part to this one, so I'm alone.

As soon as you data drain the sucker, his attack doubles in strength. I'll kill the bastard off with scrolls.

And, dammit, you lose Mistral for part 3.

I wish I knew about quarantine before I got my virus!

Well, killed the fucker finally. Found some sweet weapons for Kite that can cause death. Were hard to get, though.

And, cripes, you get a new person in this game who starts at level 1 (when everyone else is around 60), but she's worth leveling up. 10 levels behind Kite now and she has more health than him. She does a lot of damage, too.

Does anyone know how I can trade with a grunty that I've raised after I've left town? If I go back to the grunty farm, there's a new kid, and I havn't found any way to trade when you call them in the field.

The damage is mostly dependant on the weapon... After I met Natsume in Infection, I rushed her up to a few levels below me, and she has been quite usefull. I've started hanging on to most weapons and armor that I find above level 5 simply because you never know who you'll find yourself working with and if you havn't worked with them before, they usually have crap equipment despite being lvl15+ sometimes. At the moment, I have quite a stash and I should probably go through it and sell off lower level items from types I have an excess of.
Also, is there a way to prevent yourself from being paralysed by Living Dead? It's quite annoying because no matter how hard I try to keep up with the antidotes, if there are enough of the monsters, my whole party ends up getting paralysed and usually beaten to death...

The Grunty should still be in the town somewhere. They just move.


And Axes have quite high stats. Too bad only two characters in the game use them, and one of them is Piros. :(

The other you get in the third game. She's quite useful, but I still prefer my BlackRose + Wavemaster combination.


Not really. Carry a lot of antidotes and set your party to "First aid". They prioritise healing (including statuses), Might also be a good idea to give them some extra antidotes since they only pick up 5 when you enter a town.