
Lorehound takes a look at the upcoming action MMORPG TERA, which is currently in closed beta, and give their first impressions of the game so far.
Long-running MMORPG Tera will be closing on June 30 and Gameforge and Krafton have published a video that serves as a farewell.

No fan wants to see Tera shutting down, but unfortunately, developer Bluehole is closing the game's servers (on PC, anyway) to work on other projects.
Good, this game was great when it launched, but it's been turned into a nightmare of a product since.

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WoW is a mess and it will continue to be a mess. Still, the less-developed MMOs are going to have trouble gaining a fan base because they lack content right now. Even if people do flock to FF14 or BDO, they'll go back to WoW if they fix enough features or give players a shred of hope.
Gorgeous indeed. Upgrade worthy.
The game was pretty, combat was kind of interesting, although the fact that there was no physical body customization was very off putting, since you'd have pretty boy faces with huge muscular bodies. It's just weird.
However...the questing. Oh man the questing. Simply put, it's terribad. It's as generic of a grinder as you can get. I got up to lvl 17 and just didn't want any more of it. The "cutscenes" were also kind of awkward, kind of like the ones found in Aion.
Really, I think the only reason why people are hyped for this is the combat and the fact that all they've been showing off is how much work they put into the character models...not so much the environments though.