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Advice to those bored of GW2, try TERA!!!
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In many ways GW2 is better than TERA. However once you start fighting BAMs and running dungeons, TERA is the Better option. Currently I am toying around with both. If GW2 had more social aspects it would be awesome. But the lack of any community at all really blows. Even with other players running around close by it feels like im running around in a solo game those players might as ll be bots with how friendly and social they are. No one talks even in lions arch. I used to say RIFT was awkwardly silent. Well GW2 now definately takes the cake. I play MMOs to play with others.
Give me an example.
And whats in correct or trollish about what he said? the inherent activities in DE"s are the same as any typical quest objectives. Kill, escort, collect, defend and so on.
What more deep knowledge he requires to make his point more convincing about DE's? some of you guys really try way too hard to make GW2 look more complex than it really is.
"The problem is that the hardcore folks always want the same thing: 'We want exactly what you gave us before, but it has to be completely different.'
-Jesse Schell
"Online gamers are the most ludicrously entitled beings since Caligula made his horse a senator, and at least the horse never said anything stupid."
-Luke McKinney
Several classes have dashing, dodging, teleporting skills.
The attack pacing as you described gets more intense as you unlock more skills. There is a global cooldown just like most MMO's.
Hotkeys are in the games you mentioned, so i dont understand your point? I guess you mean they dont have rows of skills, you want to play an MMO that restricts you to 4 skills lol? In TERA you can create chains, so you hotkey one skill then you can keep spamming spacebar to chain skills together.
TERA is playable with a controller. https://tera-support.enmasse.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/180/~/customizing-tera-to-fit-your-play-style
At this point I feel that your a troll or someone who never made it off newbie island.
For me and my girlfriend, TERA has been the second most fun weve had in an MMO. GW2 we got bored of very quickly and we still dont knwo why. We think it has something to do with our characters not feeling powerful.
An example of something that doesn't exist?
Um... well, let me try to explain it better instead. Say, for example, you build a pirate ship in Minecraft. Is there code in Minecraft for that pirate ship? No. There's data that keeps track of what blocks you've placed at what coordinates, that's it. It's up to our minds to interpret what that data visually represents as a pirate ship. Or someone, for example, creates a giant spoon. There's no code in the game for every conceivable spoon, just data for block placements. Yes, I admit it... this was a lede for a "there is no spoon" joke, but I couldn't get one worked out...
Oderint, dum metuant.
No thanks, I tried Tera again now that there isn't a monthly fee, and after ten minutes or so I remember why I quit the first time, the game has some of the most god-awful boring questing I have ever seen.
Uninstalled again. Shame really, because the game is visually outstanding.
This. The game is extremely boring and shallow. Thanks though, OP, now I know that you have some weird tastes and next time I see your name next to a post I can skip it entirely!
In my experience the only 'chat' in TERA was kids ...talking shit. Sooooo, dunno. Also, I chat all the tiem in GW2 (well at least while I am not fighting). You should try it, you know, talking to people, instead of waiting for them to start talkign to you.
Also, it's clear you don't like GW2 but TERA?!? This game is going to fail as F2P as well and for good reasons:it's not a good game.
LOL weird because I was about to say the same of people trying to prove that GW2 isn't a good game. But hey, if it helps you in whatever way you need, it's cool. No one really cares anyway
He must be one of those who complained that GW2 combat was crap and then last week were in general chat asking "How do you dodge??" because now it's part of the daily achievements....
TERA action combat didn't feel very action-y to me. I got to level 50 and was bored by how slow paced combat was. Aiming was more of a chore than any sort of difficult task that could count as skill.
Conversely GW2 combat feels far more fluid and responsive, making for much better PvP, which is the only thing I am really interested in for either game.
I saw someone ask that in LA actually, on an overflow. He got the expected result from the community...
Double-tap the move keys or hit "V".
I was impressed.
Oderint, dum metuant.
I never said I didn't like GW2 so please stop putting words in my mouth. In many ways I think GW2 is the better game. In some area TERA outshines GW2 like BAM fights and dungeons, and overall community, which is nonexistant in GW2.
I have hardly ever seen people being cunts in chat in GW2, the very few times the culprit turned out to be some kid trolling. In many other games, the guy would have been buried in insults (not at all undeserved, IMHO, unless the guy had just started playing)
But the funny thing is all thos wowkiddies saying the combat was crap, because they tried to play it as a wow clone.
Really?!? I thought you were just being a troll. It appears it's just a case of horrible tastes. My apologies
lol - community in TERA? REALLY - where? I all see is people being idiots, talking trash, and generally NOT BEING a community. It is the antithesis of a community - this is my opinion. I mean some of the childish talk that overwhelms the chat is ridiculous in TERA.
Well, maybe that's why OP couldn't find a community in GW2, he was looking for barrens chat?
Was looking for a code block but your explanation made it clear :-)
Thats goes back to my point of component relationship. You create the building blocks and DEFINE how they can be put together and the rules for gathering (i.e. - some items are built from others and cant be gathered directly). You code the structure and allow the player to create what they will. But be aware the creation is actually your imagination as the pirate ship is just a representation (meaning you cant sail on it, place cannons, etc). So again perspective.
With that said, if GW2 had implemented a system like THIS it would be closer to dynamic than what they actually implemented.
Player driven "random" content will always be better than system created "random" content which repeats on a timer.
What I have seen in TERA, this last weekend IS NOT a community - more like childish chaos. People saying that people who play ELin's are child molesters (saw this more than once - many more), people who play popi's are into being Furry's, etc. There was a little help but most if the chat was non-sensical and purile.
In GW2, people ask things, they get a response. Oft times, it may not be what they want, but they get a response. In TERA, what you get is name calling, etc. How can that be a community?
u forgot the best quest design ever. 99% of them are go and kill a trillion mobs...
Well people used to say that WoW had a sense of community..so you know it all depends on what you are looking for.
I rather prefer the community in GW2
Experince like this vary from person to person. Both of you in attempt to defend your precious MMO are trying to generalise entire community of both MMOS.
"The problem is that the hardcore folks always want the same thing: 'We want exactly what you gave us before, but it has to be completely different.'
-Jesse Schell
"Online gamers are the most ludicrously entitled beings since Caligula made his horse a senator, and at least the horse never said anything stupid."
-Luke McKinney
I think the TERA forums could use a "Advice to those Bored of TERA, try GW2!!!" a great deal more than GW2 could use this thread lol...
So far only one of the two games has proven to be a success :P
You are getting confused between DYNAMIC and RANDOM.
Dynamic means the quests do not stay in one spot forever. It means that the quests are caused by other events in the world. This doesn't preclude them from starting at the same point once an event chain finishes, to be started again by actions of NPCs or players. What it does stop them from doing is just sitting there with an exclamation mark above their head. This is exactly what was promised and delivered.
Random on the other hand means there is no pattern to the quests or events. This was never promised, so not sure why anyone expected this?
Personally I blame all the confusion regarding dynamic events on poor education. Obviously people can't understand what things really mean.
Hmmm no, OP made a series of statements, one of these was about TERA community. Most people who replied to that found it either funny or ridiculous, because TERA community in their (and mine) experience was utterly crap. No one is defending anything. i mean, even OP is already feeling ashamed