Tera vs. Guild Wars 2

[Scow2]

Oh dear, a thread with "Tera" in the title... please don't be about...
*reads half of the first page*
Shit.

Come on people. Every time Tera is brought up, people will start endless discussions about that whole Elin nonsense. Stop it. Just... stop it, please?

OT: Guild Wars 2 is far more interesting to me. Sure, Tera looks neat, but subscription fees are evil. I've also already pre-purchased the collector's edition for GW2.

I've had the chance to play a bit of GW2 at a friend's place last beta weekend, since my copy wasn't here yet. I can say I love it, a lot. It has its flaws, but what's there, is great.

Sadly, I haven't had the chance to play Tera yet, because they don't offer free trials, and I don't intend to just buy the game and pay for a sub.

They should not even be there to begin with then. I was curious and took a look at the tera races from their main page and found this little gem when I looked at Elin

http://tera.enmasse.com/game-guide/races/elin

To even look at that kind of makes my stomach squirm, as it was way worse then I expected. It basically looks like a 5 year old girl with cat ears ... It's quite disturbing, and if that is the first impression they want of the race to be I'll pass because I just don't want to ever have to be subject to that while spending free time. And thats a shame too, because the monsters do look quite good.

I don't see how using the argument that they probably only make up 10% of the tera population as an excuse, they should not even look like that to begin with. The only issue I have with trying the game is only that race and that's their problem not mine as they are the ones who created the problem to begin with.

I'm really not sure what's so offensive about them. They aren't quite kids, and while they don't wear much, they carry a more "natural" and "graceful" beauty to them than a "sexual" one. Also, they look pretty kickass in action as well.

 

[Jaden Kazega]

Honestly, the impression I got from TERA Online (or at least the 20 minutes I got to play on my friend's computer) was as a korean attempted rip-off of Rift which tried to copy Guild Wars 2's combat system, albeit fairly unsuccessfully. I mean, this is obviously a somewhat blunt (and perhaps unfair?) comparison, but it is honestly the impression I got from the near-half hour of gameplay I allotted.

Guild Wars 2, on the other hand, seems to be trying new things and going in new directions, at least with the things which matter. The 'Golden Trinity' is no longer holding players back from having fun, you no longer have to grind or 'farm the best gear' just to be on-par with everyone else in PvP, and you don't have to wait half an hour to start a dungeon just because you're lacking a 'priest' class or a 'tank' class. I will admit I am biased, though, since I did already pre-purchase the game and was in the last weekend beta event (and it was awesome lol).

For me, Guild Wars 2 wins by default, just because they got rid of the necessity for the 'big three', and replaced them with three of their own. The difference is, any class and fill in any role, be it support, control, or damage.

Plus, Free-To-Play compared to a subscription is a really sweet bargaining chip, as well. lol

 

[nu1mlock]

Tera has a $15(month)-$9(year) (prices shown by monthly cost) subscription fee on top of $40 game. So the game +3 months (I'm assuming are free) is $40. GW2 is $60. Every month after makes Tera cost closer to $12-$9 dollars. So 1 year +3 free months cost minimum $147-$159. GW2 for box and expansion (assuming within a year) $120.

most MMOs only give the first 30 days free (not sure if this is the case here), so more like $70 for the first 3 months.

A new copy of Tera includes 30 days of game time.

 

[LilithSlave]

I'm thinking that the battle system of Tera is better.
But that the political system of Guild Wars 2 is vastly superior to that of Tera.

The Elin don't really bother me. If paedophiles could just look at stuff like the Elin or young looking adults and be happy with that, we'd live in a world free of child rape. Seriously, people can like what they like. If they aren't harming children I have no say in it.

 

[nu1mlock]

I'm thinking that the battle system of Tera is better.
But that the political system of Guild Wars 2 is vastly superior to that of Tera.

You mean that the combat in Guild Wars 2 is better but the political system of Tera is vastly superior to that of Guild Wars 2, right?

 

[demotion1]

Tera has interesting combat. The game design though looks very Korean-MMO generic. Some races just don't wear clothes and it is irritating.

I know i will not pay any money to play Tera because i can play similar games for free (e.g. Atlantica Online has a more interesting combat for me). I will probably try GW2 at some point but i will wait until it gets cheap first, because i play SWTOR and i will def not stop playing anytime soon.

Last thing i would like to say, why all the conflict? Why do some people feel the need to attack games they do not play? They can both be good and succesfull you know.

 

[Elate]

I play Tera for the PvP..
GW2 for the storyline..

Since when did gaming have to be "YOU MUST ONLY LIKE ONE, AND ONLY ONE, YOU MUST BE A FANBOY!"

 

[LilithSlave]

You mean that the combat in Guild Wars 2 is better but the political system of Tera is vastly superior to that of Guild Wars 2, right?

Oh, why would that be?

 

[Rastien]

I have played neither.

Tera has too many scantily clad prepubescent girls.

GW 2, doesn't.

GW 2 wins.

I would be ashamed to be playing tera if my friends popped in for a mug of tea.

I would not be ashamed to be playing guild wars 2.

Guild wars 2 it is.

Side note: FUCKING BEARS WITH SWORDS. that is all.

 

[Rastien]

Spoiler

It doesn't have pedophilia. The worst you see are shorts. That is a loooooong way from pedophilia.

It's just ignorance on your part. I'm trying to clear it up.

Oh heavens no, you're right. There's nothing remotely discomfiting about that. I'm well accustomed to seeing short shorts on 8 year olds.

The creepy part is when you think: "Right, I just know, that someone, somewhere, at some time is jerking it to this..."

welcome to the internet.

 

[Sandjube]

So I see a lot of people don't seem to actually have any gripes with Tera, EXCEPT for Elin. So you have to automatically hate the game because they used a design choice you don't like? I won't begin to comprehend that. I mean really. The one that someone linked in the thread (the Elin character page on the website) looks scary because someone dun goofed with the character generator or something (seen some scary people lol).

ANYWAY, if you were already steering clear of Tera, more power to you, but to steer clear SOLELY because of Elin is like me not playing LoL because of Annie. Or not playing Chantelise/Recettear. It's ridiculous.

 

[nu1mlock]

You mean that the combat in Guild Wars 2 is better but the political system of Tera is vastly superior to that of Guild Wars 2, right?

Oh, why would that be?

Since we're apparently only asking questions and "someone" refuse to answer;

What, exactly, would you call a political system in Guild Wars 2?

 

[LilithSlave]

Elin-folks: This game is unplayable without loli pantsu!
Anti-Elin-folks: This game is unplayable with loli pantsu! Or lolis at all!

And thus began the greatest war of our era.

Edit: Oh hey, and don't forget the...
Anti-Elin-folks: You wouldn't play the game if there weren't any lolis. You're all shallow... and paedophiles!
Elin-folks: You wouldn't play the game if there were loli pantsu. You're all shallow... and prudes!

lolololol, why does this whole thing seem so silly and amuse me so?

What, exactly, would you call a political system in Guild Wars 2?

I dunno. I just heard that the political system in Guild Wars 2 was better.

I heard that they were going to make permanent in game changes based upon political decisions.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

Anti-Elin-folks: You wouldn't play the game if there weren't any lolis. You're all shallow... and paedophiles!

Now now. Tera has a lot of embarrassing crap in it besides just the lolis. The lolis just ratchet the squick level up to the point where you can barely see the game through all the grease on the screen.

I dunno. I just heard that the political system in Guild Wars 2 was better.

I heard that they were going to make permanent in game changes based upon political decisions.

There is no political system whatsoever in Guild Wars 2. I seem to recall hearing there was one in Tera.

 

[nu1mlock]

I dunno. I just heard that the political system in Guild Wars 2 was better.

I heard that they were going to make permanent in game changes based upon political decisions.

Yeah, what you heard was probably about Tera. They have a political system where you vote for specific users to rule parts of the world. They can set taxes and a couple of other things which I can't remember.

Guild Wars 2, on the other hand, has no political system at all, which is why I thought you meant the combat was better in GW2 and the political system was better in Tera.

The combat is fairly similar in both games, although I prefer the combat from GW2 over Tera.

 

[Rastien]

So I see a lot of people don't seem to actually have any gripes with Tera, EXCEPT for Elin. So you have to automatically hate the game because they used a design choice you don't like? I won't begin to comprehend that. I mean really. The one that someone linked in the thread (the Elin character page on the website) looks scary because someone dun goofed with the character generator or something (seen some scary people lol).

ANYWAY, if you were already steering clear of Tera, more power to you, but to steer clear SOLELY because of Elin is like me not playing LoL because of Annie. Or not playing Chantelise/Recettear. It's ridiculous.

Alot of people won't touch JRPG's solely based on the fact they have an anime style, or realistic war games as they don't like the fact it looks the way it does.

If you don't like something be it the way something looks or even sounds you don't like it and you shouldn't have to feel guilty for not playing a game based on those choices .

I'm sure i would like TERAs combat world etc, i just dislike the aesthetics and what is imho the hypersexualisation of pre-pubecant girls, i can't see a need for it to be there thats all.

 

[Sandjube]

So I see a lot of people don't seem to actually have any gripes with Tera, EXCEPT for Elin. So you have to automatically hate the game because they used a design choice you don't like? I won't begin to comprehend that. I mean really. The one that someone linked in the thread (the Elin character page on the website) looks scary because someone dun goofed with the character generator or something (seen some scary people lol).

ANYWAY, if you were already steering clear of Tera, more power to you, but to steer clear SOLELY because of Elin is like me not playing LoL because of Annie. Or not playing Chantelise/Recettear. It's ridiculous.

Alot of people won't touch JRPG's solely based on the fact they have an anime style, or realistic war games as they don't like the fact it looks the way it does.

If you don't like something be it the way something looks or even sounds you don't like it and you shouldn't have to feel guilty for not playing a game based on those choices .

I'm sure i would like TERAs combat world etc, i just dislike the aesthetics and what is imho the hypersexualisation of pre-pubecant girls, i can't see a need for it to be there thats all.

I will never understand people letting go of a game because of one tiny thing, but I'll drop it.

 

[Rastien]

Unfortuntley alot of people do trying to convince people to play awesome jrpgs when they love the mechanics of say heroes of might and magic, trying to convince them to play say disgaea or fftactics is a nightmare.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

I will never understand people letting go of a game because of one tiny thing, but I'll drop it.

Whoa whoa. The topic isn't "Name one reason not to play AMAZING GAME TERA". It's "Which do you prefer between these two prominent new MMOs". As they by all accounts both have reasonable play mechanics, why is it a crime to discriminate between them based on the art style? One has a fairly staid if slightly anime influenced high fantasy flavor. The other features lolis and ambulatory tits and anthropomorphic raccoons and seems to be aimed at the crowd that goes to the drug store at 3AM to buy Penthouse Letters.

Besides which, since when did the art and marketing of a game combine to form "one tiny thing"? This isn't Bastion or To The Moon or some other odd looking but inexpensive and critically adored title we're talking about. There's no REASON to fight back distaste for the art assets. This is a fucking MMO, which shares 75% of its feature set with all the other fucking MMOs. A lot of the time it boils down to a "few tiny things" as to whether you're an Orc in Azeroth or a Super Hero in Liberty City or a Jedi Knight on Tatooine. That I'd want to put a copy of Tera into a paper bag so no one I knew would see me with it is reason enough to play one of its numerous competitors instead. No one is saying it's a terrible game. They're just saying "not for me".

Actually that's not entirely true, a friend of mine tried the beta and said it was a terrible game, but he's notoriously hard to please.

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

Overall I'd say Guild Wars 2 will be the better game. I am loving TERA but all it really as going for it is the great combat system and beautiful visuals, other than that it's like any other MMO with the grinding and the 'go here and collect 10 centaur testicles and bring them to me' type quests.

Also I have to post this.