https://www.anime-planet.com/anime/our-rainy-protocol
It looks like instead of doing the sensible thing like most of the game based anime do and animate the characters properly they managed to do some poorly put together FPS project that looks like it was taken right out of a playstation 1 title. It's ridiculous because the anime itself looks like it has well done characters and everything but they're all acting like this guys some l33t gamer and it's just them running around hip firing at character models on the screen LOL. It's polygon journalist levels of gaming.
There's a lot of good shit dropping and it feels like I'm having an anime buffet this winter but just be warned there's some really bad stuff too. If anyone wants to watch a game based anime that isn't an RPG there are way better options.
Yeah but I'm sick to death of RPG levelling video game animes and they've started heavily infesting the isekai genre as well now. I might give it a watch but the characters have to be compelling enough for me to even try it.
As far as I'm concerned .hack SIGN was one of the original gaming anime that had an interesting plot. There have been other good/decent ones don't get me wrong but you could have completely removed the stupid gaming elements and it would they would have stood fine on their own. I also love how when it comes to gaming anime most of it revolves around JRPG crap ( Yes I am still shitting on the JRPG genre I don't care how many downvotes it gets me ) which means the usual JRPG tropes are endlessly rolled out like dungeon crawling and mazes.
Also .Hack has a great soundtrack so there :P
.Hack did "trapped in the MMO, if you die in the game you die for real" genre way better than many modern contemporaries. Id_Entity is a fun take on that genre (manhwa only, not anime), though, unlike Aura in .hack or Yui in SAO being mostly just a plot element, it goes all-in on the AI character being a major story component, and the FeMC.
I like log's horizon take on trapped in an mmo, kinda got dragged with the later raids.