Here is my review (short and sweet) of Tera. Im a hardcore gamer being that only CERTAIn games appeal to me. Ones that are DIFFICULT challenging and engaging.

I give tera biased 7.5 on my quality scale

Maybe 8 or 8.5 we will see from gamespot / ign.

Why 7.5?
Combat is great regardless of pvp balance.
there are too many quests especially little baby ones. it makes quests feel repetitive. becuase its go there talk to him go back kill that come back go here. (this needs to change) you could also make some of them HARDER to make them different. but people keep saying how bad they are bc its a copy and paste questing method. remember hogger? he was somewhat challenging making the game "fun" makes it feel like questing is different but really its not. catch my drift?
so to make questing more fun get rid of the little stupid baby ones. like go to talk to this guy. next make them harder. i should be worried about aggro like in wow. i dont anymore. too easy removes immersion and makes the game boring. ALAMUR!.

graphics sounds feel is all good.

UI can use some tweaks. quests font is SMALL. TOO SMALL

and DIVERSION everywhere. maybe add an area where people go specifically to duel. or give monsters different attack animations. so easily you can make a RED zone where monsters attack %30 faster. so those trees may ACTUALLY hurt you lol. or a zone where aggro is INSANEly sensitive. catch my drift?

change it up. these are SMALL recommendations that doesn't take much time to implement.

its the little things that count. and from going to 1-10 every zone felt the same every monster was the same every quest was the same. ADD CHALLENGE / ZONE EFFECTED MONSTERS (%attack speed) / Aggro MORE / how bout a zone where there are 50 1 hit kill monsters like litle piggies. CMON THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX.

Quote: Grimmjaw87 on 04/24/2012, 07:58 AM - view

Did you know you can enlarge it? Most of the UI parts can be resized individually in addition to resizing the whole thing, and the quest log is one of those parts. There's a drop down menu in the UI portion of the options menu... just select the part you want to resize and use the slider.

=)

Hardcore bro.


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So your opinion will change based on what IGN or Gamespot says?

Your name gives away that you're not a hardcore gamer.. anyone who uses their birth year... or any number in their alias is a scrub. True story.

You're so hardcore.

It's important that we know what score HARDCORE gamers give things on their personal scoreboards.

And never [filtered] with someone called Grimmjaw.

In short you have two problems with Tera. 1) bad questing and 2) easy mobs.

Mobs get A LOT Harder later one. The 1-10 levels you mentioned are just tutorial, there rest of the game is nothing like that.

Questing is unfortunately terrible. BH and EME should not have cut corners and they should have hired some professional writers.

If I ignore how bad the quests are, then I would give Tera a 9.0. Everything else is pretty great.

Nice story bro.... Needs more dragons. Make sure they r hardcore dragons too.

Quote: Crumplecorn on 04/24/2012, 08:05 AM - view

Dude... Grimmjaw87.... get it right. Clearly born of the year 1987. That's how you know he's hardcore! Been rocking it since 1987.

Um... I think you should retake 5th Grade English before trying to review a game and provide suggestions. Just saying...

LAWL ALAMUR!