your personal opinion on the games

Invisible Egg! · Post by **Invisible Egg!** » Mon Jun 16, 2003 10:49 pm

.hack//Helba wrote:The climax of the four games is in the Third game .hack//OUTBREAK.

Huh?

.hack//Helba · Post by **.hack//Helba** » Mon Jun 16, 2003 11:14 pm

Don't tell me you didn't know!! The climax is in the third game .hack//OUTBREAK! haven't you seen the interviews of the creators of the game??

Invisible Egg! · Post by **Invisible Egg!** » Mon Jun 16, 2003 11:21 pm

climax :The point of greatest intensity or force in an ascending series or progression; a culmination.

If the climax is in OUTBREAK, then WTF is the point of QUARENTINE? Afterthoughts? Epilogue?

.hack//Helba · Post by **.hack//Helba** » Mon Jun 16, 2003 11:26 pm

The climax is the main plot or conflict of a story. .hack//OUTBREAK is that part. The falling action and the resolution are in .hack//QUARENTINE. If you have ever done a plot piramid you will know what am I talking about

Invisible Egg! · Post by **Invisible Egg!** » Mon Jun 16, 2003 11:39 pm

I understand a climax's role in an over-all plot, but what I'm getting at is this:

If the climax is in volume 3, that's too soon.

25% of .hack game = resolution ?

That's a waste of a disc.

I'd prefer to have questions left unanswered, then to pay $50 to be bored.

Duskino · Post by **Duskino** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 12:17 am

I think .hack//Helba's right @_@

It's probably that in Outbreak, you discover the problem, or it just gets worse, or whatever, and in the fourth disk, you kick some arse and fix everything n.n I don't see why it's surprising.

Like Helba said, it's the whole plot pyramid thing o_o

Invisible Egg! · Post by **Invisible Egg!** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 12:28 am

Well, as this thread is about personal opinions, I have stated mine. It seems that the word "climax" is poorly understood by some people.

point of greatest intensity

... from dictionary.com people.

Anyone care to show me the Holy Plot Pyramid? I'm afraid this new-fangled English Class educational device was conceived after I finished school. Is it like Maszlowâ€™s Hierarchy of Needs? Or is it more like The Great Pyramid, 'cuz I used to frikkin' live in Cairo!

Rhyste · Post by **Rhyste** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 4:42 am

The ending of #3 also sucks, so

Obviously, game four can be considered the "resolution." However, there are various points of climax all throughout .hack, I'd say the huge turning point in the story is when Balmung takes his clothes off but that never happens so what I mean is: there is no point of intensity in the plot. It just... "flows" like a river. There's no real dramatic or overly energetic part or overly intense scene I could seriously say ANYONE including the creators wold have the right to call the story's climax. If anything, the "climax" in which everything is revealed is the end of .hack//Absolute Encirclement, and the resolution is within .hack//Udeden; Manga, of course.