Trivia / .hack

• Defictionalization:
  • .hack//Fragment is an online multiplayer game, essentially bringing The World to the real world.
  • There's also several fan games that attempt to recreate, or pay homage to, the World. The results are with limited success for one reason or another.
  • There are Rainmeter themes that recreate Altimit OS, even to the point of having clickable, animated icons.
• God Does Not Own This World: Much like with its sister series Little Tail Bronx, this is the main reason why CyberConnect2 hasn't done much with the series as it's entirely owned by Bandai Namco Entertainment. The vice president of CyberConnect2 even told fans to contact Bandai Namco to convince them to bring the series back.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Besides Last Recode bringing the G.U. games to modern audiences as a surprise release, the near-entirety of the franchise is stuck in their original formats on their respective consoles, as regular DVDs, mangas or books or light novels, and so forth. Not only did games like Quarantine have a very limited release run which makes it prohibitively expensive, trying to watch the Liminality episodes in their original format is nigh impossible without owning the DVD copies personally, and good luck getting those packed together with their respective games. Combine this with how next to nothing after G.U. came overseas, and it's unreasonably difficult for people to access most of the series without emulation and questionably-legal methods.
• No Export for You: .hack//frägment an online RPG version (not to be confused with an MMO) that allows custom created characters on a playable online server. Also .hack//Link, .hack//Versus.... Pretty much anything released after the G.U. Saga wrapped up never got released outside Japan aside from a couple of OVAs, and a manga adaptation of LINK.
• Technology Marches On:
  • Look at the "Pluto's Kiss" backstory at the main page and laugh at how implausible that is. Even moreso that it is said to be made by a preteen as a prank. Even DataKrash has a far more plausible explanation, being it's written by an expert.
  • ALTIMIT OS is being "designed in such a way that it could avoid being infected by viruses" and thus being mandated to be used for all new computers by the "World Network Commission". Even with the concern of security, a wholly closed-source operating system being mandated for use with computers worldwide is generally unthinkable both then and now, in ethical and financial reasons. Even Windows nowadays has a few but significant portion of its components being open-source and Mac incorporates parts of Unix kernel into its system.
• The Other Darrin: Balmung was voiced by Doug Erholtz in the first game of the original tetralogy. He is voiced by Crispin Freeman from Mutation onwards. This is in cutscenes only, however; Erholtz' voice is still used for battle vocals. Evidently they recorded them before Erholtz was replaced.

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