TERA class trailer available on YouTube

The game is essentially Lineage III in spirit, but it is under a different and hopefully better developer than NCsoft (They look to be better based of the fact that they are really listening to the testing groups and changing stuff that they are not happy with).

However, if the game will succeed in the West is very Dependant on how much the game's code is open to En Masse to change, if BlueHole gives them full access I have no doubt that it will be a good game.

There still are a lot of flaws in the game at this point, but the developers are very involved and intertwined in the forums. A lot has changed based off of feedback.

As we discussed this in the IRC, another person had mentioned that;
"Korean Developers need to realize that westernization is more than just translating text.".

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Yeah I felt the whole deja vu.

Agreed, malahide. For a game that isn't going to see the light of day until Q1 2011, these trailers are absurd for a wide variety of reasons.

In every interview where any TERA developer is asked a very specific question about detailed mechanics, the audience is told it is a work in progress, and there is no information they can share. Re-using the same vidcap sequences over and over in these pointless trailers does nothing for me. Guess what? We noticed!

Yeah, you, the TERA marketing sales droid sitting alone somewhere desperately counting your pennies? Yeah, we noticed. We don't need another recap of the classes, they're on your web site. What we need now are official skills lists, complete with range, number of targets, refresh timers, and power cost. Not this same eye candy drivel we've seen 10 times before.

You've said the stats and numbers currently on the official forums for each class are going to be subject to massive changes between now and launch. Oh goody, well, it's good then that you're testing with values that are subject to massive changes. What could go wrong?

btw, the whole concept of non instant-cast abilities? Or calling one second casting time "instant" instead of actually making it instant? yeah, we noticed that too. (hint: instant cast means there's no casting time. As in zero seconds) Making a melee class spend more than 2.5 seconds using an ability? Fail. Not having sane refresh timers on overpowered abilities? Fail. Not having immunity timers on CC abilities? Fail.

Finally, when all the abilities of all the melee classes are identical for the first 30 out of 60 levels, but you continue to avoid the question of how these classes are unique, you're not helping yourself. You're just not. Tell us, or remove half the classes. Better now than later.

Uh, you mean like the action-based combat?

Seriously, I am stoked for TERA. The number of people who are is only growing with time, and as it currently has a bigger development price tag than any MMO created to date, it has all the potential to be amazing. Some players will no doubt WANT to stick with their WoW style click a target and keybind random 1-5 until dead "combat". but for a lot of us, this game has the potential to be amazing, and as is always the case, none of you will know shite about how good it's going to be until it's actually out. For those of you new to MMOs, that's how it always goes. They're a complicated game to create, with many layers of gameplay that need to be taken into consideration and fleshed out, to avoid making it all feel disjointed and mediocre or 1-dimensional.

Same here - TERA just looks and sounds like lots of other MMOs that I'm not interested in.

Looks like the Asian MMO scene has a bigger problem with formulaic MMOs than the West does with WoW-clones tbh.