Quote: EdgeTO on 05/27/2012, 01:34 PM

You can accuse him of not having a lot of faith in Tera based on his experiences with it, but to accuse him of being a fanboy of other MMOs? You're reaching so hard there you're in danger of dislocating a shoulder.

It seems to me that you're reaching quite hard to justify him.

1: A game reviewer with any work ethics will review a game for what it is, avoiding comparison to other games unless strictly necessary. The final jab with the ame dropping of other games is easily transliterated to "don't play this game, go play those other games that are better, or wait for those other two games that will be better". Especially the second part is laughable, considering that TSW is in a state of absolute disrepair, and no game reviewer worth his salt would ever deem a game as far in the future as GW2 (on which there's still a *lot* of work to be done and that still has a lot to prove) as a superior alternative until it's much nearer to its release.
It's simply not done, and any writer that does it instantly loses any credibility and semblance of professionalism.

2: his overdramatic, hyperbolic, almost mocking tone (in laughable sentences like "Bluehole's MMO debut occasionally makes desperate, clawing grasps at greatness") clearly shows that he's either trying to intentionally make the game looks worse than it is, or he simply is a very bad writer.

A simple rule of any kind of journalism is that if you can't express a concept without hyperbole, you should be a novelist, and you probably won't be a good one anyway.

Can't agree. You can over-analyze his comment and attempt to spin it however you see fit, but it seems more likely that this is just a case of one journalist trying to smear another because he (perhaps) happens to work for the competition.

Quote: EdgeTO on 05/27/2012, 06:52 PM

Can't agree. You can over-analyze his comment and attempt to spin it however you see fit, but it seems more likely that this is just a case of one journalist trying to smear another because he (perhaps) happens to work for the competition.

You seem quite mad because someone analyzed (there's no "over") your little favorite tera-bashing review and pointed out its extremely weak foundations.

A reviewer's job is to criticize, but this doesn't mean he's immune to criticism. Once in a while a taste of one's own medicine is a good lesson in humility.

Quote: DaisukeReborn on 05/25/2012, 03:24 PM

I'm a member on IGN but any site that gives that atrocity that can't even be called a game Diablo a 9.5 but gives Tera a poor review will no longer be visited by me.

I'm an old man. :)

I played the first Diablo and the second one.

I'm playing the third one now, and find it very enjoyable, very reminiscent of the second one, with more of the creepiness of the first one. I happen to love the 'tree-less' skill system. Play with friends, think we were disconnected maybe once? Don't really have any lag problems to speak of, certainly cleaner than the lagging and stuttering we used to get w/ the first two in the series (and don't get me started about Kali and IPX/SPX games).

So...what was so disasterous for you? Did you ever play the other games? Did you not know what it was going to be? It seems to me it's exactly what it should be and was done well.

They gave SWTOR a higher rating on graphics and gameplay. Tera absolutely destroys SWTOR on gameplay and graphics, it's not even arguable. IGN is pretty much are a [filtered] joke when it comes to rating MMOs.

Quote: Draemos on 06/03/2012, 01:45 AM

They gave SWTOR a higher rating on graphics and gameplay. Tera absolutely destroys SWTOR on gameplay and graphics, it's not even arguable. IGN is pretty much are a [filtered] joke when it comes to rating MMOs.

I'd say SWTOR and TERA deserve roughly the same score on gameplay. Both felt fresh when I tried them out. The only reason to rate them low is if you personally didn't like it.