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This game isn't enjoyable at all! =(

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  • RogueTroopaRogueTroopa Member Posts: 147
    The combat system in Tera is much more refreshing than spending half your PVP time blowing off trinkets, cooldowns to prevent being stunlocked in WSG. WOW became a battle of macros rather than real skill which Tera offers.

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  • rexzshadowrexzshadow Member Posts: 1,428
    Pet class would never work in Tera, whole point of action combat is for you to be invovled in the combat, doing stuff. Any pet class would take no skill because your pet AI is doing all the work.
  • BetaguyBetaguy Member UncommonPosts: 2,629

    Originally posted by Fuggly

    read just because it wasnt a GW2 thread.....................But yeah, Tera is terrable.........only thoise with very little gaming experience seem to like it imho. 

    Not true, us real gamers have good taste....

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  • tharkthark Member UncommonPosts: 1,188

    Originally posted by Painlezz

    Not terribly upset about the wasted 50 bucks... 

     

    But I've been trying to enjoy this game even a little and I can't!

     

    The Asian influence is so beyond huge I almost can't stand it.  The actual class abilities are pretty boring.

    "Ranged" classes aren't really ranged as just about every spell is either melee range or "Does less damage at longer range" and because every ability in game (almost) requires you to stop and wait for animations, melee will be up in your face after 1-2 attacks anyway!

    The melee classes:  "Does damage and swords swing around a ton for a second or two"   next ability... "Does damage and swords swing around and you jump up in air"  

     

    I've always enjoyed playing ranged classes in any RPG and they are flat out terrible in this game =(

     

    In PvE fights against a boss, the two ranged classes end up fighting in almost melee range, stand at what I would consider a resonable RANGE from the boss and you'll likely find your abilities doing less damage or missing due to out of range issues!

     

    Guess I was so beyond bored I figured i'd give it a shot, and I find myself bored and having zero fun right from the start.  At least AION kept my attention for a few days =(

     

    I don't like the Anime art in Tera either, like you I get annoyed by the half naked high heels and evning gown dressed elf females and the Elins(soft porn style), I tried the game at beta weekends out of curiosity...And after playing abit (level 12 or so), I was convinced that Tera could be a very good game...

    As for the artstyle..I try to ignore the half naked tweens running by me once in a while..The other more brute races are rather ok..and the bunnie race is well "cute" even for a man that is 45 :)

    Trust me, the combat in the game is rather good, try some other classes..The Healer for example, the thing is that you wont get certain skills that makes the class shine until about 15-20..I didnt have any healing abilities to heal others until level (10-15?)

    And yeah..The game puts you in lock position when activating abilities..Try thinking about it this way..In the later game when enemies actually does damage to you..It will be a game of "cat and mouse" and time your abilities right, you will just smack your abilities in and run out of danger..The thing is that all the enemies at the island are so "over" easy, it doesnt matter what you do "you wil eventually win anyways.. When understanding that, I took the time to practice my skills for later ..Practice my heals on players etc..and..well Tera is now a very good game..

    Ohh and the level 20 intro ...doesnt really help much at all, because when entering a game with like 20 skills and no clue at all what they are etc..you will just hammer away..The reason why they put it there was to help a player see what was suppose to come..I'd say it has an opposite effect to that..

    Give it a chance..You will be surprised..atleast I did..

  • outfctrloutfctrl Member UncommonPosts: 3,619

    Originally posted by RebelScum99

    Ranged classes don't just get to stand in one spot on the outside and nuke the bosses unmolested like they do in every other game.  They need to move for positioning.   Boss fights in this game are mobile and fluid.  If you are a ranged class and trying to play the game from one spot, you aren't playing your class correctly.  This goes for the healing classes as well.  The combat is about positioning, reaction time, and strategy.  The kind of combat it appears you're looking for you'd be able to find in a game like WoW, where you are allowed to pick a spot on the perimeter and chain nuke the target with little to no repercussions.  

    Sorry you didn't enjoy the game.  



    What he said.   I love the fighting mechanics.  As an Archer, I can actually miss the target if I am not paying attention.  It takes skill to fight in this game not just button pushing.

    Granted, you do have to get kinda close here and there, but you have a jump back move for every class to get out of the way.

    Knowing when to use them is the key to surviving.  It is an FPS/mmorpg which I love.  At first, I had a hard time getting used to the UI, but being able to customize your layout any way you like is a big plus for me.

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  • Reas43Reas43 Member Posts: 297

    I used to have the same opinion about the level 20 intro until I saw it this way - then I thought it was brilliant:

     

    A quick way to sample a class a higher level in what is essentially a 5-10 minute prologue.  I got a taste of the aiming and locking technique for priests, of how different races animate a dodge, etc.  I found it useful for choosing a race/class combo that suited me in terms of animations and types of skill without having to leavel every class to 20.

    Otherwise yeah all those buttons are overwhelming when barely learning to walk.  But the above redeeemed it for me real quick.

    Also, once you do it once you can choose to bypass it altogether on future toons.

  • VaelgardVaelgard Member UncommonPosts: 65
    Why do people even respond to threads like this?  It's clear the OP and a few others are here to troll and poop all over TERA.  "I played for 5 minutes and logged out."  LOL  How absurd is that.  That's like playing WoW at release, killing 10 boars, and saying the game sucks.  The combat in this game is totally unlike any other MMO I have played, and it's more like Skyrim/Witcher/Reckoning style than the typical MMO combat.  I don't want to mention the graphics because everyone knows they are ridiculous, but the PvP, the dungeons, the BAMs, and even some parts of crafting (i.e. enchanting) are really well done.  Loving it so far.
  • jackwu10jackwu10 Member Posts: 127

    Originally posted by Vaelgard

    Why do people even respond to threads like this?  It's clear the OP and a few others are here to troll and poop all over TERA.  "I played for 5 minutes and logged out."  LOL  How absurd is that.  That's like playing WoW at release, killing 10 boars, and saying the game sucks.  The combat in this game is totally unlike any other MMO I have played, and it's more like Skyrim/Witcher/Reckoning style than the typical MMO combat.  I don't want to mention the graphics because everyone knows they are ridiculous, but the PvP, the dungeons, the BAMs, and even some parts of crafting (i.e. enchanting) are really well done.  Loving it so far.

    c'mon now, i actually like the graphic and art style very much :D

    i find it interesting with amount of ppl having issue with "half naked high elf with high heel", nothing wrong with bit of eye candy~ but i still have doubt on elin. i dont mind them, but i wouldnt play them :P

  • LaromussLaromuss Member UncommonPosts: 331

    Originally posted by Painlezz

    Not terribly upset about the wasted 50 bucks... 

     

    But I've been trying to enjoy this game even a little and I can't!

     

    The Asian influence is so beyond huge I almost can't stand it.  The actual class abilities are pretty boring.

    "Ranged" classes aren't really ranged as just about every spell is either melee range or "Does less damage at longer range" and because every ability in game (almost) requires you to stop and wait for animations, melee will be up in your face after 1-2 attacks anyway!

    The melee classes:  "Does damage and swords swing around a ton for a second or two"   next ability... "Does damage and swords swing around and you jump up in air"  

     

    I've always enjoyed playing ranged classes in any RPG and they are flat out terrible in this game =(

     

    In PvE fights against a boss, the two ranged classes end up fighting in almost melee range, stand at what I would consider a resonable RANGE from the boss and you'll likely find your abilities doing less damage or missing due to out of range issues!

     

    Guess I was so beyond bored I figured i'd give it a shot, and I find myself bored and having zero fun right from the start.  At least AION kept my attention for a few days =(

    Troll?  Makes me wonder if you played the game at all and if you did are you sure you weren't playing some other game?  

  • yononanyononan Member Posts: 24

    Originally posted by Crunchy221

    Originally posted by Omali

    Originally posted by Painlezz

    or a homosexual man elf chest 6-pac...

    No one is going to take you seriously when you act like an immature bigoted child.

    I see where your trying to go with that reply and i honestly think your the only one that cares so deeply about an internet opinion.

     

    Regardless...the point was...theres no choice.

     

    I agree with the origional comment, though would word it diffrently.  To each their own but, as is with most asian mmorpgs...theres only one way to go.  I could care less if people made a boyish thin rippling muscle charater with over syled hair...just give me the option to be a grizzled borish out of shape character....you get the point....these games are about picking the character you want, not being forced to pick out of several metro-boyish style characters with near naked armor (which i hate since id never want explosed skin in a fight).

     

     

    Anyway....im semi interested in this game because of "diffrent" combat.  Everything ive heard about the diffrent combat is worded in a manner that completely turns me off from it...however i like to believe that its the diffrent that is throwing people off.

    I dislike the close range sorc....i love this class when its a class that dies in a few hits and your play style is to kill before you get hit...using cc if you have to....being close range while being a magic caster would make me want to go melee for the advantages they bring to close quarter combat...being able to take some punishment....

    The second point ties into the first....i want the options on play style as well, based on class.

     

    Dont take this as a negative non-review...im not interested in warhammer 2.0 (GW2) and the overhype-turned-hater mafia that follows all the over hyped themeparks...ill miss that mess thank you.....im playing aion as a hold over untill TSW which i probably wont pick up untill after launch settles....point is im looking for something....$50 isnt a big deal.... any point of views that may address my concerns?

    Did you even PLAY the game?

    Baraka and Aman class are fat people. Even the "Popori" are pudgy and not "metro"...

     

    3 classes that are FAT or BIG AND BULKY... yet you claim there are ZERO?

     

    Sounds like a fanboi post if I ever saw one. As in... FAKE

  • JuaksJuaks Member UncommonPosts: 271

    Originally posted by Painlezz

    Originally posted by eddieg50

       I get a kick out of all the people who are upset about skimpy clothes the asian characters have on in Tera, the US has such a repressed and prudish society, it really is funny, I also think it is silly to complain about the combat in this game, the combat is simply better than wow or the other typical games, it is on a par with AOC and allowes you to not stand there and be bored.  The thing this game lacks is a coherant story w voice overs but beside that it is a very good PvP game

    No, i'm sorry you are 100% wrong.

     

    If I were to remove all the equipment/clothing from my character I would be perfectly ok with nipples, vag, or big floppy dong swinging around.  But when I put on a suit of ARMOR, I do not want to see a my ass hanging out as I run around.  It's childish to expect people to WANT that.

    Also, someone commented about my "homosexual man elf 6-pack" statement...  I have two gay male friends.  Both of which you would NEVER know were gay unless they told you.  Why?  Because they act like every other human male on the planet (give or take). 

    I'm equally bothered by the Asian male character models as I am about the Female.  I personally hate the art style and the Anime softcore porn.  It's annoying.  I can resepct others may enjoy it, but I do not.

    You know, I had no complaints about AoC boobs and models... I think it comes down to the fact that I HATE Asian anime art.  Every Asian style game that comes out has the same look/feel to the female/elf/male characters and I hate it.

    But you know what, I can move past the art/visuals of a game.  Unfortunately the GAMEplay for Tera is terrible.  I don't enjoy any of it.  I dropped 50 dollars on it, I have nothing else to do this weekend but play games, and I find myself hitting alt+f4 and loading up League of Legends....

    I find silly that if you HATE anime you bought a korean game with asian art disign and then complain. How can someone hate anime art is beyond my mind.

    And gameplay bad? Now you are not making any sense at all....people are strange....

  • RebelScum99RebelScum99 Member Posts: 1,090

    Originally posted by Mardukk

    Originally posted by elocke

    Originally posted by RebelScum99

    Ranged classes don't just get to stand in one spot on the outside and nuke the bosses unmolested like they do in every other game.  They need to move for positioning.   Boss fights in this game are mobile and fluid.  If you are a ranged class and trying to play the game from one spot, you aren't playing your class correctly.  This goes for the healing classes as well.  The combat is about positioning, reaction time, and strategy.  The kind of combat it appears you're looking for you'd be able to find in a game like WoW, where you are allowed to pick a spot on the perimeter and chain nuke the target with little to no repercussions.  

    Sorry you didn't enjoy the game.  

    Positioning would be great and fun IF there wasn't that stupid pause to cast making it a pita.  Seriously, that pause has got to go.

    No kidding.  I logged out and uninstalled after a couple of hours.  How people can tolerate the self rooting when you cast an instant is beyond me....absolutely game breaking.

    Well, your opinion is completely invalid if you didn't give the game more than two hours of your time.  The reasons for a self-root on an instant cast have been explained ad nauseam on this thread, so it really is pointles to go over it again with you, but I'll sum up:  Reaction and Consequences.  

    Take a look at GW2, which has a somewhat similar style of combat and no self-rooting.  The balance in that game is horrendous because of it between ranged and melee.  If this is the type of class imbalance you enjoy, go play GW2.  Oh, and make sure you choose a ranged weapon when playing.

  • BeenGamingBeenGaming Member Posts: 44

    I just registered an account here so I could respond to this thread. Not so much in direct response to the OP, but to a lot of the posts that followed.

     

    For background, I've been gaming for about 25 years now. I've been playing computer-based multiplayer RPG's since real-time action-based text MUDs of the mid and late 90's.

     

    There seems to be the implication in the modern MMO community that it's impossible to enjoy or play more than one game. Every game is compared to each other like we're voting on a high school popularity contest. Perhaps this is a product of games in the MMO genre usually having monthly fees attached to them. It bears mentioning that Guild Wars 2 has no monthly fee associated with it, and that debases a lot of the sentiment that you can only like Guild Wars 2, or only like Tera, or only like Warcraft and so on. Personally, I pre-ordered Guild Wars 2 AND Tera, and I'll be playing them both. If one or the other doesn't suit someone, they can exercise their right as a consumer to simply not buy it. Hopefully they can manage to do so without sounding like a pissy baby on every related internet forum.

     

    To comment directly on Tera, I like the game quite a bit even though I'm not "into" asian art nor anime. In particular, I'd like to point out that the humans in Tera look decidedly Western in their influence, certainly as much as GW2's humans. The other races seem to fit the game's universe and aren't so overwhelmingly Eastern in design that I can't abide them or anything. I think the claim that the game is a walking "anime" or whatever is substantially inflated. To me the game's design on the whole didn't feel a lot different than the GW2 beta over the weekend, but that might be due to my lack of attachment to either game's particular character models. They're all suitable, if somewhat flavored for their respective games.

     

    I understand the comments about certain attacks locking you in animation or rooting you, but I think that has been explained ad nauseum here and everywhere else. It simply provides the necessary risk to make the game's combat play more like a back and forth chess game. Some people love it, some people hate it. Tera's trying to build a foundation on uncommon gameplay and community principles though, and for that I respect them a lot. I appreciate that there is no artificially constructed faction vs faction, because as an old time MUD'er, I remember and appreciate games that let the players develop the server conflicts for themselves.

     

    Similarly I think Guild Wars 2 is looking very promising. I played a bit of the beta over the weekend and although it felt like a beta for which I won't blame it, the game is very fun. I'll probably comment further on the game when it's in a more polished state, so that I don't unjustly accuse it of shortcomings that it won't come to the retail market with at all.

     

    To summarize, I think it would do the MMO community a lot of good to stop trying to compete with each other's preferred titles like rabid dogs. At the very least, Tera and Guild Wars 2 look like competently constructed games and legitimate competition in the MMO scene to WoW as far as soundly devised game mechanics and most importantly fluid character movement. They both bring the visual appeal that Rift had, while refining character movement to the level of WoW which was one shortcoming that ultimately buried Rift for most of its beta testers. For that, MMO gamers should probably collectively applaud both games.

  • Lazarus71Lazarus71 Member UncommonPosts: 1,081

    Originally posted by BeenGaming

    I just registered an account here so I could respond to this thread. Not so much in direct response to the OP, but to a lot of the posts that followed.

     

    For background, I've been gaming for about 25 years now. I've been playing computer-based multiplayer RPG's since real-time action-based text MUDs of the mid and late 90's.

     

    There seems to be the implication in the modern MMO community that it's impossible to enjoy or play more than one game. Every game is compared to each other like we're voting on a high school popularity contest. Perhaps this is a product of games in the MMO genre usually having monthly fees attached to them. It bears mentioning that Guild Wars 2 has no monthly fee associated with it, and that debases a lot of the sentiment that you can only like Guild Wars 2, or only like Tera, or only like Warcraft and so on. Personally, I pre-ordered Guild Wars 2 AND Tera, and I'll be playing them both. If one or the other doesn't suit someone, they can exercise their right as a consumer to simply not buy it. Hopefully they can manage to do so without sounding like a pissy baby on every related internet forum.

     

    To comment directly on Tera, I like the game quite a bit even though I'm not "into" asian art nor anime. In particular, I'd like to point out that the humans in Tera look decidedly Western in their influence, certainly as much as GW2's humans. The other races seem to fit the game's universe and aren't so overwhelmingly Eastern in design that I can't abide them or anything. I think the claim that the game is a walking "anime" or whatever is substantially inflated. To me the game's design on the whole didn't feel a lot different than the GW2 beta over the weekend, but that might be due to my lack of attachment to either game's particular character models. They're all suitable, if somewhat flavored for their respective games.

     

    I understand the comments about certain attacks locking you in animation or rooting you, but I think that has been explained ad nauseum here and everywhere else. It simply provides the necessary risk to make the game's combat play more like a back and forth chess game. Some people love it, some people hate it. Tera's trying to build a foundation on uncommon gameplay and community principles though, and for that I respect them a lot. I appreciate that there is no artificially constructed faction vs faction, because as an old time MUD'er, I remember and appreciate games that let the players develop the server conflicts for themselves.

     

    Similarly I think Guild Wars 2 is looking very promising. I played a bit of the beta over the weekend and although it felt like a beta for which I won't blame it, the game is very fun. I'll probably comment further on the game when it's in a more polished state, so that I don't unjustly accuse it of shortcomings that it won't come to the retail market with at all.

     

    To summarize, I think it would do the MMO community a lot of good to stop trying to compete with each other's preferred titles like rabid dogs. At the very least, Tera and Guild Wars 2 look like competently constructed games and legitimate competition in the MMO scene to WoW as far as soundly devised game mechanics and most importantly fluid character movement. They both bring the visual appeal that Rift had, while refining character movement to the level of WoW which was one shortcoming that ultimately buried Rift for most of its beta testers. For that, MMO gamers should probably collectively applaud both games.

     A very nice first post. You echoed my thoughts exactly on this strange need to be so polarized one way or another in regards to MMOs and games in general. Welcome to the forums!

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  • legendairlegendair Member CommonPosts: 60
    People are seriously delusional, the OP has a right to feel the way they feel.  Tera is not fun, its mechanics are horrible.  Tera and I am going to say it again is an OXY MORON game.  Tera, "Is a TRUE MMORPG, BUT WITH ANIMATION LOCKS."  LOL... it's such a bad game and I noticed its the same people posting defending it... LOL...
  • yononanyononan Member Posts: 24

    Originally posted by legendair

    People are seriously delusional, the OP has a right to feel the way they feel.  Tera is not fun, its mechanics are horrible.  Tera and I am going to say it again is an OXY MORON game.  Tera, "Is a TRUE MMORPG, BUT WITH ANIMATION LOCKS."  LOL... it's such a bad game and I noticed its the same people posting defending it... LOL...

    And you keep forgetting that "ACTION" titles such as SOUL CALIBUR, and NINJA GAIDEN, and STREET FIGHTER, and DMC, and SKYRIM, and DARK SOULS, and MANY MORE ACTION games ALL use...

     

    ANIMATION LOCK!

     

    Wow! Yet Legendair insists this is not an "action" game staple? I wonder...

  • ThorkuneThorkune Member UncommonPosts: 1,969

    Originally posted by eddieg50

       I get a kick out of all the people who are upset about skimpy clothes the asian characters have on in Tera, the US has such a repressed and prudish society, it really is funny,

    It isn't the skimpy clothes that bother me, it is the skimpy clothes on children that I have a problem with. That is wrong on so many levels. I don't care if it is the best MMO ever, I won't play a game that exploits children.

    This is just my honest opinion of course.

  • RebelScum99RebelScum99 Member Posts: 1,090

    Originally posted by legendair

    People are seriously delusional, the OP has a right to feel the way they feel.  Tera is not fun, its mechanics are horrible.  Tera and I am going to say it again is an OXY MORON game.  Tera, "Is a TRUE MMORPG, BUT WITH ANIMATION LOCKS."  LOL... it's such a bad game and I noticed its the same people posting defending it... LOL...

    Then don't play it.  

  • yononanyononan Member Posts: 24

    Originally posted by bigsmiff

    Originally posted by eddieg50

       I get a kick out of all the people who are upset about skimpy clothes the asian characters have on in Tera, the US has such a repressed and prudish society, it really is funny,

    It isn't the skimpy clothes that bother me, it is the skimpy clothes on children that I have a problem with. That is wrong on so many levels. I don't care if it is the best MMO ever, I won't play a game that exploits children.

    This is just my honest opinion of course.

    I think there's a cultural issue here. In Korea (I am Korean) child nudity is not considered "bad". You will see naked little boys and girls running around the beaches in Korea. No one thinks twice about this and no one thinks of the children in a sexual manner... (well maybe a random sicko might but that's not the norm)...

     

    In fact, TMI warning but my mother has many pictures of me running around with my tiny pecker exposed at the beach. It is not considered "child pornography". I think Koreans just don't look at children like that. The ELIN race is more "cute" than "sexy" to this kind of cultural mindset.

  • just1opinionjust1opinion Member UncommonPosts: 4,641

    Originally posted by bigsmiff

    Originally posted by eddieg50

       I get a kick out of all the people who are upset about skimpy clothes the asian characters have on in Tera, the US has such a repressed and prudish society, it really is funny,

    It isn't the skimpy clothes that bother me, it is the skimpy clothes on children that I have a problem with. That is wrong on so many levels. I don't care if it is the best MMO ever, I won't play a game that exploits children.

    This is just my honest opinion of course.



    Listen to them all saying, "Then don't play it."  lol  (They would say that....I don't see anyone actually saying it, but thinking it perhaps.) Well, duh.  We won't.  Pretty simple.  I have only two objections to TERA: The sexualization of children (or childlike looking characters), and the quest system with ! and ? still.  I am sick to death of exclamation marks and question marks.  That just almost makes me want to puke.  I can't tolerate those two things.  If it wasn't for those two things, I think I would actually be playing TERA alongside GW2 eventually.  Sadly....TERA is going to change NEITHER of those two things, so then "don't play it" becomes very very easy to do indeed.

     

    By the way, I LOVE the female clothing on adult females.  Yes, it objectifies them as sex objects, and I'm not crazy about THAT, but that's more to be expected in an M rated game.  It really is the more childlike looking character in skimpy clothes that LOOK like they're meant to be "sexy" that bothers me.  It's just....wrong (to me).

     

    Anyway.....I'm sure TERA is a great game.  Most things about it look fantastic.  I think it will do at LEAST as well as RIFT, probably a lot better.  The graphics look blow-me-away-gorgeous.

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  • Lazarus71Lazarus71 Member UncommonPosts: 1,081

    Originally posted by yononan

    Originally posted by bigsmiff

    Originally posted by eddieg50

       I get a kick out of all the people who are upset about skimpy clothes the asian characters have on in Tera, the US has such a repressed and prudish society, it really is funny,

    It isn't the skimpy clothes that bother me, it is the skimpy clothes on children that I have a problem with. That is wrong on so many levels. I don't care if it is the best MMO ever, I won't play a game that exploits children.

    This is just my honest opinion of course.

    I think there's a cultural issue here. In Korea (I am Korean) child nudity is not considered "bad". You will see naked little boys and girls running around the beaches in Korea. No one thinks twice about this and no one thinks of the children in a sexual manner... (well maybe a random sicko might but that's not the norm)...

     

    In fact, TMI warning but my mother has many pictures of me running around with my tiny pecker exposed at the beach. It is not considered "child pornography". I think Koreans just don't look at children like that. The ELIN race is more "cute" than "sexy" to this kind of cultural mindset.

     I beleive it's all a matter of perception. When I first fired up Tera and saw the Elin race I did not see a skimpily dressed child I saw a cutesy character that would not appeal to me. Perception is a tricky thing.

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  • SovrathSovrath Member LegendaryPosts: 32,976

    Originally posted by yononan

    Originally posted by bigsmiff

    Originally posted by eddieg50

       I get a kick out of all the people who are upset about skimpy clothes the asian characters have on in Tera, the US has such a repressed and prudish society, it really is funny,

    It isn't the skimpy clothes that bother me, it is the skimpy clothes on children that I have a problem with. That is wrong on so many levels. I don't care if it is the best MMO ever, I won't play a game that exploits children.

    This is just my honest opinion of course.

    I think there's a cultural issue here. In Korea (I am Korean) child nudity is not considered "bad". You will see naked little boys and girls running around the beaches in Korea. No one thinks twice about this and no one thinks of the children in a sexual manner... (well maybe a random sicko might but that's not the norm)...

     

    In fact, TMI warning but my mother has many pictures of me running around with my tiny pecker exposed at the beach. It is not considered "child pornography". I think Koreans just don't look at children like that. The ELIN race is more "cute" than "sexy" to this kind of cultural mindset.



    Thanks you Yononan, I've been saying this all along.

    The problem is that westerners seem to have such issues with nudity and sexuality that they can't divorce themselves from their own "mind set".

    Especially the part I highlighted. I can't repeat this enough but for some it's just not possible to understand a paradigm shfit such as this.

     

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  • legendairlegendair Member CommonPosts: 60

    Originally posted by BeenGaming

    I just registered an account here so I could respond to this thread. Not so much in direct response to the OP, but to a lot of the posts that followed.

     

    For background, I've been gaming for about 25 years now. I've been playing computer-based multiplayer RPG's since real-time action-based text MUDs of the mid and late 90's.

     

    There seems to be the implication in the modern MMO community that it's impossible to enjoy or play more than one game. Every game is compared to each other like we're voting on a high school popularity contest. Perhaps this is a product of games in the MMO genre usually having monthly fees attached to them. It bears mentioning that Guild Wars 2 has no monthly fee associated with it, and that debases a lot of the sentiment that you can only like Guild Wars 2, or only like Tera, or only like Warcraft and so on. Personally, I pre-ordered Guild Wars 2 AND Tera, and I'll be playing them both. If one or the other doesn't suit someone, they can exercise their right as a consumer to simply not buy it. Hopefully they can manage to do so without sounding like a pissy baby on every related internet forum.

     

    To comment directly on Tera, I like the game quite a bit even though I'm not "into" asian art nor anime. In particular, I'd like to point out that the humans in Tera look decidedly Western in their influence, certainly as much as GW2's humans. The other races seem to fit the game's universe and aren't so overwhelmingly Eastern in design that I can't abide them or anything. I think the claim that the game is a walking "anime" or whatever is substantially inflated. To me the game's design on the whole didn't feel a lot different than the GW2 beta over the weekend, but that might be due to my lack of attachment to either game's particular character models. They're all suitable, if somewhat flavored for their respective games.

     

    I understand the comments about certain attacks locking you in animation or rooting you, but I think that has been explained ad nauseum here and everywhere else. It simply provides the necessary risk to make the game's combat play more like a back and forth chess game. Some people love it, some people hate it. Tera's trying to build a foundation on uncommon gameplay and community principles though, and for that I respect them a lot. I appreciate that there is no artificially constructed faction vs faction, because as an old time MUD'er, I remember and appreciate games that let the players develop the server conflicts for themselves.

     

    Similarly I think Guild Wars 2 is looking very promising. I played a bit of the beta over the weekend and although it felt like a beta for which I won't blame it, the game is very fun. I'll probably comment further on the game when it's in a more polished state, so that I don't unjustly accuse it of shortcomings that it won't come to the retail market with at all.

     

    To summarize, I think it would do the MMO community a lot of good to stop trying to compete with each other's preferred titles like rabid dogs. At the very least, Tera and Guild Wars 2 look like competently constructed games and legitimate competition in the MMO scene to WoW as far as soundly devised game mechanics and most importantly fluid character movement. They both bring the visual appeal that Rift had, while refining character movement to the level of WoW which was one shortcoming that ultimately buried Rift for most of its beta testers. For that, MMO gamers should probably collectively applaud both games.

    EVERY ANIMATION IS LOCKED... period.  The bottom line they did not have the ingenuity or intelligence to include something more action paced.  Casting a simple fire spell should not take 4 seconds or more especially if it is not a AOE... The spells are horrible...

  • rexzshadowrexzshadow Member Posts: 1,428

    Originally posted by legendair

    People are seriously delusional, the OP has a right to feel the way they feel.  Tera is not fun, its mechanics are horrible.  Tera and I am going to say it again is an OXY MORON game.  Tera, "Is a TRUE MMORPG, BUT WITH ANIMATION LOCKS."  LOL... it's such a bad game and I noticed its the same people posting defending it... LOL...

    Monster hunter and God eater burst make your statment completely invaild

  • legendairlegendair Member CommonPosts: 60

    Originally posted by Sovrath

    Originally posted by yononan

    Originally posted by bigsmiff

    Originally posted by eddieg50

       I get a kick out of all the people who are upset about skimpy clothes the asian characters have on in Tera, the US has such a repressed and prudish society, it really is funny,

    It isn't the skimpy clothes that bother me, it is the skimpy clothes on children that I have a problem with. That is wrong on so many levels. I don't care if it is the best MMO ever, I won't play a game that exploits children.

    This is just my honest opinion of course.

    I think there's a cultural issue here. In Korea (I am Korean) child nudity is not considered "bad". You will see naked little boys and girls running around the beaches in Korea. No one thinks twice about this and no one thinks of the children in a sexual manner... (well maybe a random sicko might but that's not the norm)...

     

    In fact, TMI warning but my mother has many pictures of me running around with my tiny pecker exposed at the beach. It is not considered "child pornography". I think Koreans just don't look at children like that. The ELIN race is more "cute" than "sexy" to this kind of cultural mindset.



    Thanks you Yononan, I've been saying this all along.

    The problem is that westerners seem to have such issues with nudity and sexuality that they can't divorce themselves from their own "mind set".

    Especially the part I highlighted. I can't repeat this enough but for some it's just not possible to understand a paradigm shfit such as this.

     

    You have to be kidding me... there are more pressing issues in the world right now than an animated figures appearence...  This is so retarted I actually took a screen shot... just to laugh.  No offense.... LOL... is all I can say.

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