It is an MMO, but you don't have to play with other people, and most-if-not-all of the dungeons (they keep expanding the list) that typically require Actual Humans can be filled by your trusty NPC sidekicks.

Mostly competently as well!

--sofaspud
--even if Alisaie *is* a dirty limit-break whore

>--even if Alisaie *is* a dirty limit-break whore

Luckily I main Warrior, so I'm not fighting for the LB bar

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

Anyway, the conceit of .Hack is that there's this hugely popular (Standard mouse and keyboard) MMO called 'The World' that everybody plays, aaaand there's stuff that I decided not to post because they're kinda spoilers and I can't remember the tags to change the text to white as an ad-hoc spoiler tagging system. Anyway, the games soft-simulate an MMO environment with lots of (mostly scripted) interactions with other 'players' because you're a new player to the "The World" as well.

On the PS2, the four games were released separately as chapters/parts, because there was a lot of stuff they simply couldn't fit on one disc - They even cut the entire real world investigation part out of their design brief because it wasn't possible at the time. That's going into the coming remake! - and each chapter got progressively more difficult because you were meant to import your save from the previous part. Some of the other 'players' changed, they got stronger, stopped playing, new ones joined...it was really neat.