>>121920821>.hack is just a buncha autists crying over people killing their avatar in game.The original central premise was an AI running a popular MMO didn't want to be replaced and so she was trying to sabotage her successor AI in a convoluted plot involving trapping a player with severe emotional issues due to a shitty home life and no GF in the game to corrupt her while said player was sent into a coma (and also she got amnesia). Meanwhile a few dozen other players also ended up in coma, generally through running into minion AIs of the big bad one, but unlike the prior player they were trapped in their bodies only thinking they were playing the game. While this was going on, she'd also escaped the confines of the game and was also fucking with people investigating her in the real world using anything with an internet connection. Also while all of that was going on, the company behind the MMO was trying to get shit back under control and not have shit come out even if they had to break a few legs or send a few extra players into a coma to do it because they didn't want to be sued into oblivion.
It's less a hostage situation like SAO and more the fight to stop the birth of Skynet while dodging corporate goons.
Frankly that works a lot better than SAO in my fucking opinion cause brain microwaves are fucking stupid. Admittedly literally no one of the heroes in .hack actually had a full idea of what the actual fuck was going on but Helba so some of them were legitimately just sad about avatars, but on the other hand, finding out you were almost turned into a vegetable and helped save the world after you already did it is fucking hilarious.
