Bandai America, Incorporated has joined forces with the most renowned anime and game producer talent in the world to create this masterpiece series. Pronounced "dot hack", .hack boasts character designs by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, famous character designer of Evangelion, and an engaging and immersive storyline scripted by the Kazunori Ito, acclaimed writer of "Ghost in the Shell" and "Patlabor". .hack is a first: a perfect fusion of entrancing Action/RPG gameplay, and beautifully produced anime, offered together in one game package!
Exec: What does he want to call it, boy?
Intern: Dot Hack, sir.
Exec: Dot Hack... OK... I couldn't care less, of course. Any problems with that?
Intern: There is a very famous game called netHack, or "Hack" for short, which already exists.
Exec: Fuck. Who's got it? Take Two? Square? Infrogrames? Tell me it's not Infogrames. Goddamn, do I hate the motherfucking french.
Intern: No, it's not Infogrames. It's the name of a game which is in development by individual Unix programmers who exchange code and design specs over the Internet.
Exec: ...
Intern: ...
Exec: What, so a bunch of commie Linux maggots?
Intern: Er, well... something like that.
Exec: Tell Sadamoto-san that the name of his game won't be a problem.
Intern: But -- but --
Exec: Now, now. Run along and fetch the hookers, their tits, and the cocaine.
Intern: I wish I were anybody else but the Video Game Marketing Exec's Intern.
Way to go, Bandai. What are you planning on calling the sequel? Crimsonland?
This is like bitching about a game where you have to finger some chick in the ass until she comes called "Booty Call" being a rip off of "Reboot" the 3d cartoon.
Hey, you know, I do think these things through and do not just ejaculate helter-skelter over the keys and fumble through the clicking of the "submit" button in a half-daze. A better comparison would be if they called your little anus-fingering sim "Tecmo's Deception" or something.
The second I posted it I figured Street Fighter and Shining force may be a better example. You can't call both SF but that is what both are called normally. It really doesn't matter ... it is just a damn name. The designer just tries to give a name that he thinks is good for the game. I just don't see the big stink here.
You got the point about the anus fingering game though so what is the problem if I elbow dropped my keyboard and submitted the results?
Actually it isn't like ANYTHING either of us stated. The game apparently is based on an anime called .hack http://www.anime-stop.com/hacksign/ so it is named after what the story is based on.
