Also, about the whole abortion thing. While I generally don’t think killing people is a good idea, it isn’t always a bad one. People who adamantly stay on the “abortion is wrong” bandwagon need to get a clue.

There is no good in bringing a kid in to this world when a dumbass couple of teens who are barely old enough to understand their place in the world and are still very immature have a kid, and then RUIN that kids life because they have NO CLUE WHAT THEY ARE DOING. Most parents have their kids way too early and ruin many potentially good lives simply because “Oh, life is so precious no matter what so it must live NO MATTER WHAT.”

Um…..no. If you are 18, still in college, can barely support you self etc etc
and you accidentally get yourself/your girl pregnant…ABORT.

Do not use some stupid ass excuse to bring the kid into the world when you are going to do a terrible job raising it. Get your own life together, figure your own shit out, THEN have the kid. If you are young and are confident you can raise a kid, that’s proof enough you aren’t ready. People really don’t seem to understand the responsibility of raising another life.

Anyone who thinks life is so sacred that it should live in misery because of a big mistake is a complete dumbass. The amount of abortions we have is a shame, but I’d rather see that then all the extra misery that would inevitably occur when these idiots decide to raise kids when they can barely pay rent.

Also, lumping Americans all into one ignorant lump simply makes YOU look like the ignorant dumbass. And yes, Koreans do ALL the things that Americans do. No place in the world is free from ignorance, stupidity, materialism, you name it. The sooner you figure that out, the better for us all.

Stop spewing hate, smoke a bowl, and see the world around you.

And that’s why you’re a free-lance writer, Jason Winter.

I remember when hoards of SWTOR/WoW fanboys hogged this game up and kicked all the people who liked asian games out basicually…now look at it, most have left except some of  the blow-hards on Closed Beta that kept trying to strip all the stuff out the game and companies wowizing Tera Online. An 18+ Korean game turned into a little kiddyfied-friendly “M+17″ but really TEEN rating game. I’ve seen more on Saints Row 3 or Age of Conan. Seriously, MMO players can’t handle CRAP and it shows poorly on the ‘games r fur kids!’ junk talk still lingering in the gaming industry. That’s like saying all movies r for kids! Obliviously not true.

The publishers were greedy and stripped this game so bad and the community was a bunch of jerks it actually pissed me off. I had NEVER had such horrible experiences while playing Tera Online from such a pigheaded rotten biased community. Ever. And i’ve seen my trolls and had my gaming since Windows 3.1. I get MORE gameplay and variety in GW2, than in Tera. That is sad a B2P game passes a supposed “P2P” game.

En-Masse and Frogster are pathetic…I would not support any titles under such biased companies especially in handling a manwah pop-style game… I hope both of these companies shut their doors and close down. They should not be in the business of MMOs or gaming.

And the community is really rotten it’s a bloody shame American people act this way on something so trivial like video-games…why koreans won’t just release their games like Kabold Online did with international servers and english support I don’t know.

It would be far easier to handle 18+ Korean games like what was done with Kabold than giving them the “mainstream” crap treatment. There were plenty of fans and groups that would have supported Tera. But after the bias treatment and generalization i’ve seen from both companies and some “Western Only” players I felt truly, truly, disgusted as a actual gamer, and a real-life minority. I’ve seen much racism and downright bullying of some players because of a class on Tera.

Tons of Korean bashing, korean-art bashing, bashing fans of korean art, ect. It’s like these losers never ventured outside their comfort zones and actually ever spoken or had korean friends before! So they bash anything associated with it. ESPECIALLY the artwork because it doesn’t look like WoW or the characters aren’t covered up to their eyeballs.

And yet, all these ding-dongs hovered over this game for nothing. I’ve seen this gameplay on consoles and played it for years. Nothing new. Tera was just really a manwha-styled Monster Hunter 3 on the PC with a mix of Aion (including some grind which is nothing compared to older mmos).

Tera has become nothing more than waste of time and money. I will be playing Blade and Soul since the publisher actually seems interested in keeping the FLAVOR of the themes and artwork of the game. Which means my money not wasted. And pay the same price instead of pay same price and get less game content.

And America, stop saying one thing yet supporting killing of ACTUAL children through abortion which is harm and death of a human being. It is disgustingly foul how americans can be overly prudent worried about the pixel clothes on a polygon character in a video-game probably no one will care about in 10 years, yet pardon people who do cause actual harm by abortion as a “right”.

It’s filthy and hypocritical. Koreans do not do this what American people do, yet americans have labeled koreans as filthy because art-styles in video-games which are only meant for entertainment and game-play! This stems from misunderstanding of korean culture and probably racism as shown through history of U.S and their regard towards minorities. Koreans do not harm actual and living children with abortions like America does, they are against it. America is too worried about clothes in video-games and think games are real-life. Korea separates reality from fiction and do love and care for children. Korean culture just do not view video-game characters as real-life people just fun and play only which is why they rate the mature games 18+ for a reason.

My main game, however, is Dungeons and Dragons Online. I am going to be getting to that in a moment, but it is noteworthy that I mention it now.

So, I started playing Tera a little over a week ago. My wife and I always play together, no matter the game. We made some characters on the free trial, made some more, finally found the classes we liked (as someone else mentioned, LOVE the fact that I get to run as a level 20 for a few minutes to see if I like the class or not…) and started playing.

Immediately, I was hit by my most hated MMO standard….pick 5 of these berries, kill 7 pigs, chop some firewood, deliver this message to the person standing beside me….you know what I’m talking about. Most games I listed up there had something similar, but let me talk about what I DID like about Tera, and what made me buy it, before I start comparing it to other games…
Aside from the aforementioned boredom, I was enjoying the combat system. Surprisingly, it felt a little slow to me, as in DDO, it is a similar combat system, but I can move while shooting arrows, casting spells, swinging weapons, etc. I’m not really sure I am seeing this fast-paced action combat most other people are seeing. That being said, it is still fun, and the attacks are glorious looking. I’m currently playing a warrior, but have already made one of each class and got all of them up to level 5 by the time I am in my second day of my free trial. 

The graphics are amazing. I’m not one to really judge a game based on this fact, but seriously, that first pegasus ride off the island is just breathtaking. I like the fact that I can take some seriously good looking screenshots for new desktop backgrounds, a nice video to make my friends feel inadequate. Finally, at level 20, I get to something I had been missing, my favorite thing in a game….a dungeon! Bastion of Lok, at level 20, my warrior, my wife’s level 20 archer, and two people we can’t talk to (a level 22 sorcerer and a level 24 mystic) take over two hours to make our way through a dungeon, with two incredible boss fights with larger than life enemies.

Here is where I talk a bit about my main game, DDO. The reason I love this aging game so much is twofold: immense character customization, and large, sprawling dungeons that require tactics.

DDO offers me the choice of 13 different classes, of which I can mix and match those to my whim. I can make an axe-wielding wizard, a monk who uses a bow, a fighter that can heal a whole party…the possibilities are almost limitless. I can also make a fighter with low HP, but a ton of dexterity and strength, or a wizard with so much CON I can tank a raid boss. 

The other big thing I like are the dungeons. City of Heroes and a similar system, where most every quest was done in an instanced dungeon (you still had to go take care of thugs in the alleys, but the meat and potatoes of the game where those dungeons.) In DDO, EVERYTHING is instanced. You have your large, sprawling areas crawling with enemies (Wilderness instances) and your instanced dungeons (every fricken quest in the game). I like that the quests I have in DDO don’t require me to have to wait until there are less than 40 people in that field so I can kill some things, or that whole “wait with 20 other people for a boss to respawn” thing. Those dungeons and puzzles to solve, traps to disable or find a way around, platform-game-like jumping areas, a LOT to do.

The other big thing I like about DDO that isn’t present in any other game, is how you begin your journey. In most games, Tera included, it’s all about building up to the fun. Collecting, killing  delivering, cooking, whatever. There is nothing that makes you feel special, your just an errand boy (or girl!) taking care of the low down stuff while the high ups have all the killing fun.

In DDO, you start off on a beach, your ship having just been attacked by a dragon. You’re very first quest line, the one that starts you off, is trying to rid an island village of an evil from another dimension, one that is corrupting the area, the people and the creatures. This isn’t just some beginner story, you have an actual large scale storyline that last’s THE ENTIRE GAME right from the get go. Yeah, other games have a storyline that starts with you, but you do other things before you really get to it. DDO has you face to face with a large white dragon within two hours of playing.

That being said, I still am not sure why anyone thinks Tera is revolutionary. It’s combat system is slow, the game doesn’t require much in the way of tactics (in fact, the aforemention chatless run of Bastion of Lok was a breeze for my wife and I, and the other two who COULD talk, kept mentioning how we made it look so easy…). However, there is one thing I have to say about it.

It’s just plain fun. I love being able to hop on my lion (I found a copy of the collectors edition on clearance at Best Buy for only $39.99,) and find the biggest, baddest egg-spider hybrid thing I can find and tearing it to peices. I like being able to dodge a spell as it comes near me. I love the fact that on my sorcerer, I can release an armageddon at someones feet, jump backwards and freeze everyone who was just attacking me, turn around to blow up the guy behind me, get knocked down, rise off the ground screaming as a burst of pure arcane energy flies off me, obliterating everything around me. Yeah….it is fun.

It provides a nice distraction when no guildies are online in DDO, or if their servers are patching. Is it a replacement? A new MMO for me sink all my time and energy into? No…

Does it have crappy normal quests interspersed by the all-too-rare-yet-amazingly-awesome dungeons? Yes…but at least there aren’t “professions” and fishing. 

Not impressed with this game. Not impressed with the defensive nerd-attitudes about this game, not impressed with the company, not impressed with the amount and trolling and harassment in this game either. Anyone who owns a console is doing the same exact thing with less problems, and less idiots.

Shadow of Colossus, MH3.