It was this anime about an MMORPG. If anyone has, I'm looking for a game like that.

If anyone hasn't, basically I'm looking for a game set in a pretty fantasy world, decent PVP, nice PVE, with guild housing of some sort (Bases, cities, etc. etc.) Good range of classes. Not too much grind. Don't care about whether it's free or expensive.

Thanks in advance

You are in luck if you live in North America or Oceania. Mabinogi has a great community. It has a Celtic Fantasy theme, much like .hack and has an awesome Mainstream plot. I recommend joining us there on the Ruairi server. My IGN on there is Ratix, and I'm the guild owner of the Twilight Brigade .

The game features match what you said. Decent PvP (soon to be awesome PvP), the Housing update is to come within a couple weeks or so in which the Guild purchases land, builds a castle, can sell off land for people to build houses. The guild owning the castle I believe has exclusive entry to the Castle Dungeon which the boss is Incubus. Later updates (Likely this year) will be a new continent, and 2 more races. which eventually will be at war with each other and the new race PvP system will take place.

The game is built on more of a tactical skill based style of gameplay which makes you watch what the enemy is doing and react accordingly to what it does. I will stop there and let you try it out first. Be sure to join the Ruairi server and add me to your friends list if you want to try it. There is no one class, is open-ended with minimal grinding. You get to choose your path of play. It is free to play but getting premium services allows you to do the mainstream story quests Generation 1(advent of the goddess) 2(paladin, which you get the paladin transformation) and 3(Dark Knight  which is the most current generation. You get a choice to leave the path of light behind or take the path of darkness and the Dark Knight Transformation)

For more information check out http://mabinogi.nexon.net to get started and learn more. Valuable information and news can be seen here  http://www.mabinogiworld.com. They also have an extensive wiki. Check them out!

It is nice meeting  you and I'm glad I can help.

Have you watched the other .hack series?  First one released was .Hack//Sign, which I find to be the best one by far.

And I'll definately check Mabinogi as well, see if it's any fun.

mabinogi is a great game, at first. its a major grind after a while, and unless your willing to pay for it there is no endgame content whatsoever.

in all honesty there really isnt a game like the .hack series, trust me if there was i wouldnt be here, id be playing it.

any similar suggestions for people not living in the US? Mabinogi won't allow EU players.

.hack//Sign was really weird but I miss it :) It really captured the feeling of loneliness you would get if you faced some of the quests on mmos completely alone lol