#chaos gate

[acquired-stardust]

.hack//G.U. Volume 2//Reminiscence Playstation 2 2007

[notabrobro]

“Nothing personal, heretic”

[legitimatesatanspawn]

So I remember enjoying dot hack IMOQ and to a lesser degree dot hack GU back on the PS2. The difference had less to do with the gameplay and GU being darker but more to do with loving R1 and the dot hack SIGN anime. I remember being utterly furious that dot hack GU got the PS4 remaster job when dot hack IMOQ needed it more due to being released near the start of the PS2's lifespan.

But I got curious about the sheer number of area locations.

(I also am aware I rarely talk about the series in spite of my Balmung of the Azure Sky avatar/pfp but it's mostly because I'd be talking way more about the Phases and Cubia than anything released from GU anime onward.)

Now for those unaware of the series: with the dot hack franchise the games are designed like a fake MMO because the setting itself is an early example of a VRMMO series. It was out long before Sword Art Online, although Log Horizon has dot hack beat in turn (while still being its own unique thing with Log Horizon more of an en-masse Isekai than the objective secret-known-to-few nightmare that The World is). Each area in-setting of dot hack is supposedly designed by the devs or maybe is just generated out of the box by the blackbox code "Morganna" with humans taking credit.

But because this is a real video game too, instead the area codes are used to help generate which specific style, size, element, level, and sort of drops you'll expect to find in a map. There are some areas that you access only for quest/storyline stuff. There are also some that you are blocked from reaching until you get a specific keyword through the fake forums, emails, or in-game interactions with other characters.

The key code system goes Server then a word from each three distinct codeword banks. So like the most famous example in the series is Delta Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground, but accessing it in Theta, Lambda, or Sigma for example would result in a very different map. Holy Ground is one word as some keywords are like "Sea Sand's", "No Face", or "Royal Edict".

dot hack IMOQ are spread across four games. There's a total of 5 listed servers (I forget if Omega is accessible before/after the finale), 101 word A, 103 word B, and 102 word C.

dot hack GU, which is now 3.5 games, has as far as I know 3 servers with a viable Chaos Gate (the teleportation system to reach the dungeon maps) and 150 word A, 91 word B, and 131 word C.

Even just by the basic number of words I already know this is going to be insane. I never even did more than 200 maps in one set of games, goodness... Admittedly I don't remember if any game locked some key codes off for plot reasons but this is insane.

Basic probability used: A times B times and so on, this results in the potential combinations.

IMOQ: 5 times 101 times 103 times 102 = 5305530, or 1061106 per server. That's 1.06 million combinations. Per server.

GU: 3 times 150 times 91 times 131 = 5364450, or 1788150 per server. 1.79 million combinations.

Thankfully you don't need to visit every area to complete or get everything possible but I think I now know why the characters willingly shell out for The World even setting aside it being native to their computers' OS. It's bigger than anyone could feasibly ever beat!

[educationaldm]

Love Warhammer stuff? Here's Tobias Capwell, historian and armour expert, reviewing armor from Warhammer 40k and Fantasy Battle.

[xboxissues]

New Games for February 19th to February 23rd 2024

[djcoutz]

(CHAOS GATE)

[baaldigital]

Doyle W.Donehoo-Warhammer 40.000:Chaos Gate-Daemonhunters--Track 3--The Bloom Grows

[mogwaei]

They were all in the same room so I HAD TO DO THIS

[chaossmith2]

Wyll’s “I wouldn’t recognize a flirtation even if you whacked me over the head with it” comment is actually a lot funnier when you remember 3 out of the 5 other origin characters are canonically attracted to him mdmdmsms

[juckalope]

pov: you ask minthara to stop slaughtering innocent people

bg3 girlies x parks and rec memes (1/3)

[toushindai]

an unfounded thought I've been having--I wouldn't even call it a prediction, quite--is: suppose we get the "save one person per clear" pattern. I think it would be so striking to have Melinoe waver and hesitate--she's supposed to rescue Nyx first, this is strategic, she and Headmistress have planned for this--but in the end she finds herself freeing Zagreus first out of her own curiosity and yearning. And then she goes back to the Crossroads and has to deal with Hecate and Several Nyxkids, who were all expecting one thing from her and got another. I think that would be fraught and very fun.

[lelianasbong]

it's funny to me that wyll's the nominal straight man of the party (as in the character archetype. Sexuality-wise he's a bi king) because he's as completely unhinged as the rest of them

'i'm just gonna stand here in public and narrate mermaid porn. got the best sleep of my life after i was assaulted by a dead white boy in the middle of the night. think i'll blaspheme the gods, invite lae'zel of k'liir to a tea party, maybe ask halsin if he does anything other than meditate and fuck'

[swearingcactus]

can we discuss how the necropolis adds an extra room in the memorial gardens that emmrich comments to be 'possibly a way to shield itself from the chaos in the fade'? but that if you solve the puzzle and open the gates to the room, you'll find that it's empty of any tombs, except a board game that johanna hezenkoss used to play? the same game she begged emmrich to play with her when they were younger? do you think that maybe the necropolis remembers the prickly, ambitious young watcher that used to stalk its halls? the same watcher who did wretched things and stole part of the necropolis for her own misdeeds? do you think the necropolis still has love for her anyway, so much so that when she no longer can harm any fade denizens, it allowed itself to give a tomb of some sort to her memory? hezenkoss may be half lich but that means part of her is half human and that half is dead and is the necropolis not a home for the dead? can we discuss that??

[greseadraws]

also not sure if i ever posted this here but since larian studios isn't planning on making a bg4, future arabella and mol!

[kuruvn]

the VN games that were a 10/10 for me~

for some there is a specific reason, for others not and i just liked the VN that much

[drunkenskunk]

There are 2 Chaos Gate games!

There's this one, where the music came from, which came out in 1998:

And then there's this one, a pseudo-sequel, from 2022:

When was the last time you listened to the Ultramarine soup song?