Just wanted to give a heads up to this excellent review of Tera from the folks at RPGFan dot com.

http://www.rpgfan.com/reviews/Tera/index.html

Later all.

who ever wrote that must be a loser

tl;dr

92%, ohoho... let's hope the author got paid well xD

Clearly this is written by a funboyz. The reviewer gave Tera an 85% for Story? Seriously?

He also said he didnt mind the repetative questing, which is clearly a lie (i dont care who you are, by the time you are 40 you cannot say that questing in Tera is not god-awful with a straight face).

I thought it was fair review. While some of us may disgree with one point or another (which is no different than any review you'll ever read throughout your entire life) he clearly highlighted the major acheivements of Tera and outlined some areas of improvement. I don't see where the previous posters (nay-sayers) are getting the impression that the author is a "fan-boy" or was "bribed" to write the review.

Perhaps you should've read his review with the objectivity with which the review was written....

I think that was a rather honest review. Sure the questing/storying telling isn't as great as SWTOR. However that method of questing has been used for years and is a tried and true method. People are now seeing that SWTOR's method is what players want. The era of MMOs is finally changing, thanks to a select few that broke out of the norm. Tera is one of them that has set the bar. The reviewer did an excite job of retelling the story of Tera, ashame so few actually read it.

You can't argue that everything else they rated was spot on. Graphics, sounds, gameplay, control, was all rated 90% and up. They were honested about the crappy crafting system and did tell you how bad some of the cinema voice acting actually is compare to the witty remarks that the NPCs make.

So to me it was a rather honest review. At least better than the [filtered] that IGN cooked up.

Quote: Drahka on 06/02/2012, 04:49 AM - view

It's cause everyone know IGN's review is the only one that matters, since it is 100% accurate and unbiased...

/sarcasm

I didn't read through the whole review, but I can easily see rating Tera in the low 90s. If you actually read the story quest (I know reading quests is hard for some, but trust me sometimes it's worth it) the story is actually pretty good. There were some changes that I wish they hadn't done, like the Pora Elinu story but it is what it is. The combat is still the huge selling point of this game and I think they did a great job with that.

Funny how when it's IGN you get posts like "oh they are paid" "Reviewer doesn't even like MMO's" and "GW2 fanboy" and then some rush to defend it

Then when it's like this you get "oh they are paid" "Tera Fanboy" and "Reviewer doesn't even know what good mmo's are" etc and some rush to defend it.

Reviews are subjective. God forbid someone that writes reviews actually likes the game just because you don't. I can tell you for sure, this game far exceeded my personal expectations and I have a lot of fun playing and will continue till such a time as I am no longer having fun.

I don't see why that concept is so hard for people to grasp.

Since Tera gets a lot of backlash on story and questing, I am really, really curious as to what current MMO gets a 10 on story and questing.
I am not saying Tera does not get repetitive quests but in all honesty, if Tera has such horrible story and quest system, what current MMO is played because it has great storyline and questing?
What is the standard we are using to measure MMO grinding?

Quote: Pharys on 06/02/2012, 06:03 AM - view

People on the forum just love to complain. A lot of the people who bash Tera so adamantly don't even play it, or played in CBT/OBT and are judging the game on the first 20 levels.

The questing system isn't really rich with a lot of variety but... it's a questing system. Used to be almost no quests in games and it would take months (if not years) to hit cap level and people complained and complained till devs lowered the leveling curve and implemented quests. Now players complain about the already very fast leveling not because it's necessarily that terrible but because they have seen it before in other games and for some reason expect new games to be totally different from the ground up.

People complain about the story in Tera because they never bother to actually pay any attention to it. It's like watching a movie on mute so you really don't know what is going on and then writing about how awful the story was, People complain about the questing and call the game an unbearable grind even tho it's wholly possible to get to cap level in 5 days (and before you retort I can give you the IGN of at least 4 players I know personally who got to cap in 5 days solo, and geared out in full enigmatic T12's within 2-3 days of that)

To me I just see a bunch of people who want to be able to tear through content in a few days of casual gaming but also have enough content to last for months and... well it just makes no sense to me. Older games used to take so much longer to level so the dev team could actually have a chance to put out more new content before the bulk of the player base ran out of stuff to do. Now Devs try to cater to the "I want it now" attitude and players not only complain about how it takes too long, but also how there is nothing to do. I really can't explain it.