Worst MMO Ever? - Tera

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Oh Tera, how the mighty have fallen.
Tera, or The Exiled Realm of Arboren, is an eastern MMO with a fantastic combat system and an excessive cosmetic shop.
It is the absolute epitome of style over substance, a flashy eye catching action game with no real lore or story or reason to exist beyond 'go kill big stuff'.
Killing the big stuff is incredibly fun though.
Thanks as usual to the Patrein supporters and Twitch subs who keep the channel going :)

[@trevorweisberg8470]

When the game first came out it had some lore about how the two continents are actually two giant gods dreaming and forming the whole world. I always justified the stupid outfits as being the gods just having a perpetual wet dream because of that.

[@dankmemes8254]

Forgot if gods can bleed CAN GODS SIMP?

[@pixelcatcher123]

A loremaster we have here, I got the titel for doing all yellow quests haha

[@Biouke]

Ah, that's the intro I remember. Then you saw your character arrive on a pegasus with his/her squad mates to investigate what's going on on the island.

[@rakadahosaka4207]

Well actually they were titans that created/dreamed up the gods, The two titans, Arun and Shara are the creators of Arborea, who basically fled their old home/universe, made their own place. Their tears formed the seas and their bodies became the continents. Their breath created the winds and their minds dreamed up all manner of creatures and plants(the 1st creatures being the 12 original gods) and the 12 gods are the ones who made the races you play today. sadly ironically enough Tera has a-lot of lore and store (even have background lore about multiple past wars) it just most people just seem to really not care about the lore at all. the people playing and the people not playing

[@pixelcatcher123]

I just say at the beginning there was no real end content nexus was lagging asf even on a good pc and the political system the praised as new revolutionary get out of the game with no lore why it happened or anything, thats the reason why old ( i mean the ppl who played since it was p2p from frogster or however the publisher was back then) see noo muscle memorys being in the game anymore anywhere. And then they changed completely to a end content based fashion simulator how Josh is telling us. They is soooo much potential in Tera but with no motivated devs it will never changed to the game we learned how it was

[@Toriichii]

Only played TERA for like

[@chocolatemilko]

Anime girls with Chinese dress not bad ngl

[@argus1568]

Ah yes, “ dance girl dance”

[@PrinceSheogorath]

I seen something similar in Skyforge. Cept the dude was intentionally acting like a girl for free shit

[@RedlineA2Y145]

@@PrinceSheogorathI did that in WoW, whoring myself out for Gold 😅 good times man

[@bl8388]

Imagine if you catfished, and became a millionaire's long-distance girlfriend, who really wasn't a gal, and made out like a bandit without ever meeting the guy. Someone should make a movie about that. E-Glam Catfish-man.

[@chequilin]

As a main healer/support on most mmo games Ive played, I to this day still think Terra's mechanics for healers was one of the most satisfying out there. RIP

[@Ethercloud]

Yea mystic was my main, without a doubt was my favorite healer in any mmorpg.

[@trepstechs5119]

Salute to you all gigachads for picking healers as the main go to class/job.

[@iPeanutJelly]

yes it was. its was extremely fun playing as a support in tera

[@leafchief]

Absolutely love mystic the most, so satisfying

[@romboloyo]

I lo e playing this game. Main was mystic. I miss is very much

[@wandrin2925]

It's heartbreaking to think of the artists who created this world having to see it killed like this

[@rosalindcormier4384]

Yeah I’m a writer and an artist and seeing so much work being killed and ignored like this hurts.

[@fisharepeopletoo9653]

I just remember trying this game with a friend, and he made the biggest character model possible and I made the smallest. If I walked up to a standard bed my character would need a step stool to climb up, and I was literally about ankle height on my friend's character. That was my favorite thing about the game, the two of us adventuring together and me looking like his infant child lmao.

[@ifoundhisjams4075]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@cheyenne108]

that's my sister and I in any new game XD we always make our characters outrageously strange so that if the game sucks at least we had a laugh

[@shanewilson7994]

if I'm remembering right, my favorite part of the game was one of the classes just said Beaver Dam when casting.

[@velvetfont_]

hahahahahahahha i need to see this

[@Meowvela]

This is kinda my default duo setup in a lot of games. I'm either the really big or the really smol character. Gnomes and Tauren, Lalafell and Elezen, etc. Also I play the really big survivors in DbD because I like their designs. I guess that sorta counts :P

[@MoonTiger88]

Tera is a weird one. I've given it a shot like.. 5-6 times already, but for some reason it never stuck. The combat and graphics are absolutely great though.

[@MacMc691]

Same here. I was even there shortly after launch. I've tried it many times again over the years, but could never get back into it. Maybe Hayes will have some insight as to why, because I've always been curious. Maybe it's as simple as the action combat they have v the standard tab targeting, I don't know. I loved ESO's action combat more than TERA's though. No idea... lol

[@Extremyoshi]

Same. I played almost all classes and had fun leveling them. I always quittet it when I reached the endgame

[@brettjones3074]

I played it while on leave back in 2013, as you needed a Korean ID in order to play over there if I remember correct. I always found it fun, got a few characters up to 30ish and it was fairly rewarding. I've played 7 hours over yesterday and today, and have decided I probably won't be playing again. The combat is fun, the graphics are great, but there's just so much lacking in substance. Not to mention the leftover player base just seems to stand around the main town all day. Literally, every time I went back to that town everyone was still there. Just sort of idling in a dying game.

[@Blayne06]

I hear you, and I'm a dood who's been playing the Console ports, which are usually a few updates behind. I remember the old storyline having you take out the Argons, and then explore the "Lost Continent"... now you go to said continent before finishing off the Argons. Gameplay is wonderful. I took both a Gunner and Valkyrie to endgame, and even dipped into Brawler territory at least once. Sadly, it's once you hit endgame and have to traverse the same dungeons over and over for that slim chance to get the needed materials for upgrades where Tera really becomes a slog. The flying missions are pretty fun to do the first few times around, as are the other related repeatable missions, but after a while it becomes a chore.

[@Trizzle2Jernts]

You're one of the lucky ones. They're definitely catching a few flounders in their net.

[@AvodatGaming]

The combat was really so good. To this day I still tell people about how good combat and tanking especially was. Manually blocking with right click being able to time block any attack and being pushed back as you hold your shield and a giant monster charges you. Amazing combat indeed.

[@Lusterredux]

Haha, same. Manual shield toggling just feels soooo good. It's a shame that outside of the combat, there was nothing there. I really wanted to love Tera.

[@astralaris8712]

Game made me fall in love with tanking in action combat MMOs, played Warrior, it felt soooo good.

[@Homyak555]

I was healer and could meet one tank whom i wouldnt heal at all and another tank who refused to blocking and always complaining how bad at healing I am....

[@picklestheomnipotent4535]

amazing combat, zero consistency and no worthwhile story or anything else.... wait its just adventure quest worlds but 3d and real tim- oh shit the corporate ninjas are after me

[@bl8388]

I tried out 6 mmos the year I played Tera. It was the best combat mechanic experience I had that year.

[@joshmartling]

16:35 He also plays general Tullius in Skyrim, Doc Mitchel in Fallout New Vegas and Captain Bailey in Mass Effect. What a Legend.

[@TheLoopyTiger]

Thank you. I recognised the voice from Mass Effect but I couldn't place who it belonged to.

[@GothamiteYT]

Im blaming the lack of proper direction from the devs regarding voice acting cause he just didnt fit the role here. And he's a great voice too

[@yetanother9127]

Hearing Tullius' voice coming out of this weird over-designed anime man was definitely startling.

[@pilsplease7561]

Him as Bailey is his best role, honestly

[@Scott-wc6mp]

@@pilsplease7561 Whenever I hear his voice I think of the gamerpoop where he's thirsting fiercely over shepard xD

[@soundwaffles3092]

I can't believe you killed Tera.

[@DirgeTV]

After looking this up, it appears only the PC versions of the game and servers have been shut down with the consoles seemingly still going at the moment. No telling when that will happen but just for the sake of experiencing this beautiful disaster, I might give it a go while I still have time. I mean I only had 3 months with Bless Unleashed on console before it shut down (PS4 here) so might as well see how far I can go with this.

[@lipayy9852]

​@@DirgeTV My fiance used to play this game many years ago, she was a healer class but played solo and would spend all day doing a 5 man dungeon solo and kiting around, SUCCESFULLY

[@BatsBats38]

No offense but are you the guy from the stream

[@ethanmendiola3070]

​@@lipayy9852...haven't played so, Healer? Solo? HOW?

[@strigon012]

Nooo he killed John Tera, the tetiular character starring in the game Tera 😭😭😭

[@Apudurangdinya]

" the costumes held no regards in aesthetic, time peiod, or lore whatsoever" my mage character with wolf mask, gothic clothes, angel wings riding a rubber ducky : uhm......

[@ihatescammers2477]

Lol that’s wat u complain about its call skins for a reason to make things different

[@kingjoe3rd]

@@ihatescammers2477 and they teach you Quebeckers English too yet you barely understand the nuances of it. I am guessing you are French Canadian because I stalked you and there is no way a native English speaker could think this post was "complaining" so its obvious that you are either a small child or bad at the language.

[@Wortigon2000]

reminds me of a friiend of mine, who used a high elf sorcerer. Let's just say that his sorc wasn't just a high elf, it was "very high". With pink swimming trunks, and a pink struthio mount, while we went 3 vs 20 in corsairs, and lasted long enough for the rest of our team to get there... good old times.

[@optamis1989]

My High Elf Lancer in a Racoon costume with a giant head, carrot lance riding a gold Harley pig. Yea seems about right.

[@LostApotheosis]

@@kingjoe3rd dude, that's weird. Don't be weird.

[@MrRight0930]

Come back to watch this again, still saddens me deeply. Tera was such a unique MMO, it scratches every part of my mmo itch. It was the game that I constantly went back to. And it's gone forever with nothing to replace it.

[@KappaEatCucumber]

You can still play it on private servers

[@jock4551]

that's not true, you have private servers of tera with at least one being very much active

[@baalfgames5318]

Isn't it still playable on consoles?

[@Metrikon9000]

Same. When TERA first dropped, I had an absolute blast playing it. I've tried other "action MMOs" throughout the years like Blade & Soul and Black Desert Online, and none of them grabbed me like TERA did. I think that is because TERA didn't remove the holy trinity, so doing a dungeon felt both familiar and unique at the same time. Playing a Lancer tank versus a Warrior tank was entirely different playstyles (damage mitigation versus evasion) and I absolutely loved both of those characters. There are 3 MMOs that I would sell my soul to have back in their original format (launch day fresh, no cash shops, no boosted leveling, and no power creep), and those are Star Wars Galaxies, Wildstar, and TERA, in no particular order. TERA was a gem when it first came out, and it is a damn shame that it was run completely into the ground.

[@its_amarysso]

Guild wars 2?

[@Nico78Not]

Honestly, I loved Tera purely because of the fights against BAMs. I loved soloing BAMs as a lancer, warrior tank stance or even slayer. Dungeons felt awesome, combat felt super responsive and impactful. The BAMs had awesome design, and learning each of their patterns, when to block and when to attack as a tank was just superb. It's really a shame that Tera died. No other game even to this day managed to top or even come close to its incredible combat.

[@LordDTwigo]

Truest comment ever. I played Tera for years back when it was pay to play. Before they got bought out and the new company changed the entire story. The story was a main part of the game and was AMAZING imo. Warrior was my favourite class. I remember in an end game dungeon both tanks died, our primary DPS died, it was me and the healer. I switched to tank stance held the boss for everyone to get resurrected. Everyone died again. Just me no healer. I managed to use a resurrection scroll on the healer held boss again till everyone was up. Once again....just me. Boss is at 1.5% I decided to just go for it, I got hit with a confused, dodge right when I wanted to dodge left. 1 shot me. We were in that dungeon for 45mins. I almost carried it all the way. Big fucking sad. I love warrior because if you use your I frames and dodging perfectly you can do insane shit.

[@TeoITA]

Personally i was in love with the multiple grab, especially in PVP.

[@terrible1fi]

How did this “die” if you can still play it?

[@BunnyTheOverlord]

Apparently TERA actually does want you to make Elins because there was a whole article written about how Elins saved the game cause lolicon whales kept pumping money into the game for their Elin waifus. In short: Monetize toward lolicons and you're golden.

[@username172]

I started the game, chose a high elf, saw like 7 elins running around for some reason and out of nowhere after 10 missions i got an item that boosted me to level 65, i just didnt know wtf was going on so after insta leveling i decided id beaten the game and went back to trying to make sense of outward instead

[@ok_listen]

How sad.

[@Bassibasukki]

are people pedophiles then?

[@ExValeFor]

@@Bassibasukki yes

[@Elmithian]

@@ExValeFor Seriously though, Elins faces remind me more of toddler's faces while at the same time giving me the uncanny valley feeling.

[@nintenx1235]

He actually did it, he killed tera. They’re shutting down. No wonder he’s a top ranked member of the shadow cabal.

[@neiloch]

Josh Strife Slayes

[@A350Airways]

Is it sad to you that TERA is closing (on PC anyway) or not?

[@LoFi_Punk]

I thought he wasn't included in the shadow cabal yet? Like he was specifically ignored when they formed

[@LoFi_Punk]

@YEP aww damn. I've just been catching up from being absent the past few months

[@benlev3375]

It is still on console.

[@Zanador]

I used to play TERA a lot, and one of the most charming things about it that I always remember is the janky, inconsistent, often poorly-recorded voice acting that plays every single time you talk to an NPC. They have some really strange and memorable lines that they read in strange and memorable ways. Edit: Man, I had no idea they boosted the EXP from the main story so much. Back when I played it took months to get to endgame and going through all the areas with friends was really enjoyable.

[@GoshujinGlass]

Got 500 hours of this on steam. I really miss it. One day I was feeling really really low and I sat somewhere in a town just to people watch while I introspected and someone came up and sat with me to chat about stuff and encourage me to keep going in life. Never had a moment like this in any other MMO

[@The__Creeper]

Tera was really one of the only MMOs where people actually had conversations.

[@gadgaurd3139]

I actually paid attention to the plot and lore once. The story was hella generic. Lore was actually interesting with the different factions, cultures, deities and so on. But they never did much with it.

[@SageRuffin]

For a very brief moment, there were hints that the world might be exploring a sort of industrial revolution with the RK-9 Kennel dungeon. I remember a guildmate squealing at the thought. Oh, the story is resolved _within that dungeon_ and nothing similar has been seen since.

[@Feeluck]

yeah the story is a bit dull. but the lore and the bigger picture that isn't told actually is quite nice

[@CelesteOnYoutube]

The people who made Tera really had talent. The mobs were some of the coolest I've seen in an MMO. I still remember to this day a specific mob animation. It was a dwarf mob riding on the shoulders of some giant mob. If you staggered them, they would both fall down. The dwarf would get back on it's feet first; smack the head of the giant to scold him and then get back on his shoulders. so many great moments like that. I could do with the over sexualised females and the elin and stuff. But the cosmetics just spit in the face of all the hard work the artist put in designing Tera's world. Such a shame.

[@mr_ekshun]

I assume you meant *without the over-sexualised females, but yes I absolutely agree with that and your other points

[@jamaluddinkhalifa8371]

​@@mr_ekshun i think the "with" is intentional; that they mean that they *can* stand the over-sexualisation but what they can't stand are the cosmetics.

[@mr_ekshun]

@@jamaluddinkhalifa8371 ahh you know what, coming back and reading it a different way, I realize you might be right.

[@Bloodwest]

beautiful (aka "oversexualised") female characters is the primary reason dudes playing them fyi

[@daisy-td9qs]

@@Bloodwest bro just watch a hentai at that point, why waste your time on a combat game

[@Rallosz]

The combat was truly amazing. I remember playing the "gunner" class and encountering two other gunners (of a similar level) on the trail leading back to town. We all stopped dead in our tracks and stared each other down for a tense few seconds before I summoned my mount to make a quick getaway. However, they immediately knocked me off my mount with a well-aimed shot. I was fighting them for a solid 20 minutes, trading blows with them, back and forth. Eventually, I was able to beat both of them because of the excellent action-combat system. I simply outplayed them, despite their numerical advantage. Stats be damned

[@kerianhalcyon2769]

It's nice to see that other people think that solo dungeons should be a thing in MMOs. I've had to Solo most of the MMOs I've ever played (either friends weren't available, queues were bad, or internet was trash), and I tend to prefer to take things slower so I can soak up visuals or enjoy lore in the games I play (which means I'm everyone's least favorite dungeon companion). MMOs really need an option for dungeons that just lets the average person go in and enjoy them on their own time without requiring to either handhold somebody or be dragged like a comet trail through the instance, just enjoy the content. Also Michael Hogan sounds completely stoned doing these lines for this character.

[@mewmeister8650]

This and the Neverwinter one have embodied a change in the tone of this entire series. What started as laughing at baffling games has turned into a stroll through a damn graveyard.

[@senritsujumpsuit6021]

Take me back to ripping apart some dating sim game please

[@whydidyoutubeaddthis]

I miss the actual neverwinter games when it was an RPG and not whatever it is now. lol

[@SolarityVision]

@@whydidyoutubeaddthis oh man just seeing the word neverwinter makes my heart hurt

[@decidueyezealot8611]

@@whydidyoutubeaddthis Make it sound like it evolved/mutated into some kind of abomination 😂

[@samusx2175]

@@decidueyezealot8611 From what I've seen, it has.

[@Hekk.]

TERA's story is like a story of many other mmos that appeard on "Worst MMO Ever" series - it's ruined by rash, ill-considered greed.

[@stonearchitect116]

Minus Warframe, which was just a little too confusing towards new players. Like, do you really need over 10 different damage and status types?

[@solitaryangel722]

Basically any Gameforge game then.

[@1buszybudy13]

Cept they were never that big. It was an attempt at something beyond a small niche

[@xKinjax]

@Beaverish Buck Teeth except this wasn't a f2p game on release. You had to buy and it had a monthly sub. It just failed pretty fast, despite people like Totalbiscuit and Jesse Cox liking it and giving it a lot of free advertisement back in the day. It's been a long time but i'm pretty sure TB actually thought it had a shot at being a legit competitor for WoW when it came out.

[@myself2noone]

@@stonearchitect116 the only ones you need to care about are viral and slash.

[@MrSyltphademus]

God I remember taking part in the beta for this back in college, well over a decade ago. It showed such promise, but my friends didn't want to leave WoW and League, so I didn't really take part in it once it actually released, but I remember having a blast with what I did play. Such a shame what it became.

[@Sithmaster0]

Sounds like you dodged an MMO bullet. Nothing worse than seeing your favorite game become a pile of garbage.

[@yvechapman9342]

As soon as you said Velika I instantly got nostalgic for that time everyone collectively spammed orbs until we broke Velika and made everyone crash 🤣🤣🤣

[@Ncaruthersx1]

Played this when guilds could actually hold zones/territories through popular vote, control taxes, even hold player-funded events (Even my guild, Itty Bitty Kitty Committee ran the beginner zone multiple times). It was crazy player-driven and entirely enjoyable.

[@DaroriDerEinzige]

Yeah but in Europe at least, the Publisher killed it with his ItemStuff, now real Forums, etc. pp.

[@TailsThewolfcat]

I remember that guild, it was EVERYWHERE back when I played

[@Unoriginal0n3]

I was on the PvP server with the Goon guild way back when. For a while we were in charge of a higher level area, but due to politics that I never paid attention to we ended up with the newbie zone. Turns out, one of the things a guild could do was turn PvP off. The tears were delicious.

[@celtia6131]

I remember seeing yall around a lot when I played. Wish the devs actually cared about the game so it didnt have to go down this route.

[@ProgRiot]

i remember this too, awesome pvp stuff and endgame content, sad to see its turned a fashion show

[@omegacloud222]

Tera isnt even a ghost of its former self at this point. I used to play it a lot not long after it went F2P and loved it. It used to have a really good crafting and gathering system until they just decided to remove 95% of it for no reason whatsoever. When they did that i knew Tera was gonna be in a downward spiral and seeing what its become now im glad i dropped it when i did. What they did to that poor game is an absolute atrocity.

[@DeadThePainter]

Same my Friend ..... Alliance Wars and back when you had to decide if you want a PvP Weapon or a PvE one ..... damn i miss the Combat System. One of the best i have ever played

[@sciohermetikum3902]

I also played before the "Here, have overpowered gear" era. When you had to do most quest. Fighting the first big monsters was scary back then. I tried it recently and those (Were they basilisks?) Just didnt faze me. Back then we got groups with tanks and healers together to put them down, now you can solo them.

[@NoveltyNova]

Anyone remember Lubetown? Really wish TERA could go back to those days. Gotta be the most fun time I ever had in a game thus far.

[@Alaska_Eshmadai]

Same as Aion. A perfect an hard crafting system that took a lot to level up, removed all and placed a stupid new system which let you craft EVERYTHING 😒

[@ravenseptimus3108]

@@Alaska_Eshmadai I remember the old Aion crafting system. It only let you master a single craft and then it only let you build a single mastercrafted item, after which the crafting recipe would just lock up. This would make crafting legendary gear much more rewarding as each piece was basically unique and valuable. But then they introduced mythic gear and so on and so forth... and power creep after power creep, crafting slowly became less and less rewarding right up until the point where you'd just grind ap for pvp gear and call it a day. And then they just decided to delete 80% of the game because who the fck doesn't, amirite? Gameforge devs are r3tarded.

[@eduardoflavio6494]

As a person that played the game for more than 10 years (i really don't remember how much more) and the game being were i met 3 of the best mans of my weading that are still my friends now a days, i have too much emotions invested in it to hear your words in the vídeo and not note that you really played , explored and loved some of the game, i don't know if you explored the hardest content of the game (which in a combat based game is the most the game can offer) but it really don't matter, you were right about the most parts and even with so much strange game design choices the game changed my life and who i am today, now that the game is just alive in our hearts, i miss even the ridiculous dress up and the empty abandoned areas. R.I.P. Tera. Ps.: About the part you said "you will not remember the story" i really laught a lot because i did full story line with more that 30 characters and i realy couldn't remember the story specific of the place that you were doing the quest (i remember that was about the introduction of the relic weapons but i really could remember the rest) confirming your point! 🤣

[@sharkgirl8456]

I know I’m like months late but playing tera we’re some of my best experiences in any mmo. That baby game and climbing a mountain after getting past invisible barriers only to find out you can walk on an invisible platform was great. Making a friend fall to their death after walking past the platform was also great. The dungeons I enjoyed. Tera has a special place in my heart. I’m sad to see it go

[@MrPhyxsyus]

After 6000 hours of playing this I can say that it went from good to shit. And I saw it happening in real time. The turning point was when they decided to include mounts with special stats that u could only get in the game shop and even that was rng. After that. The game pretty much dug its own grave.

[@youtube-kit9450]

6000 hours, holy hell. I think even my most played games only are 1xxx hours.

[@Bullminator]

True true. I kinda want Wildstar back....

[@_Snarky]

I quit when they decided "screw immersion" & added trash that had nothing to do with the in-game lore in the cash shop, stuff like the car mount. Completely ruined it for me.

[@erlandir9121]

@@youtube-kit9450 Myself I'm hitting close to 9000 hours on FF14. Never was thinking that I will spend that much time on single game lol

[@metagen77]

It takes roughly 10 000 hours to become a master at a craft. Think about that.

[@balthierg]

The most unsettling thing about tera, is how they made quality of life changes, but left the NPC's in the world that use to provide the functions they changed. Before, you had to talk to your class mentor to upgrade and unlock new abilities. So there's a massive building with 1 of each class mentor just standing there. You can now just open the skill menu and unlock skills and upgrade them anywhere. However, these npcs are still in that massive building and you get a prompt to talk to them, but they don't say anything or serve any purpose. The world is filled with npcs that use to do something, now they are just empty vessels that for some reason they still let you "talk" to them. I'm pretty sure there's a repair npc, that when you talk to them they say "you need something repaired? I am your man." Then the dialogue CLOSES and he doesn't repair your gear, because now you just repair your own gear.

[@cyberpunk4560]

whenever i need somethin fixed, i go to said smithy n then open the menu 4 rp purpose

[@sarkaztik3228]

To be fair, this is something that has happened to MOST MMOs because... I guess the target audience went stupid and complained too much? This happened to WoW back in the day too. There were class trainers you would have to go to to level up skills and quests that each class would have to do to gain new skills at certain points in the game. All of it removed and just spoonfed to you because people are lazy. Takes a lot of the immersion and RP elements out of the game and makes it feel half-baked.

[@rarepepe4849]

wow does the same tbh

[@joesteadman343]

This is the least unsettling thing in TERA, and they do the same thing in a bunch of other MMOs. Maybe even most MMOs but I have no solid proof of that.

[@jclinton4473]

Don't play this game friend i played ... wish i didn't . scripts,macros yes they exist and no you dont get banned even if you send them video proof of people using them . i mean if you want to shell out money to game forge go ahead and play, i play vindictus now ( laugh at me but hey i can play free, yes free ) never played a better mmo imo ( yes there is bots but i block them and the devs block them also from what I've seen .

[@alexwashington8785]

Crazy thing about this series is that every time I watch these videos I run back to these MMOs as fast as I can knowing full well how far they've fallen 😅

[@fups1]

TERA is my all time second favorite game after Runescape, I spent many hours on Mt Tyrannas in the guilds Amaterasu, Comfy, and Take It Easy. I was one of the top gunners on the server for multiple patches, played lots of pvp in FWC, 3v3, and and Cs too, and also had maxed alts for all the classes. Endgame was so much fun and I really miss things like Dreadspire and the 20 person raid boss. Lots of good memories with it, haven't been able to touch any other MMO since then.

[@r8gg]

Damn that's really sad to hear and I wasn't even there

[@EluneAnzu]

Re-watching after the announcement TERA is closing since I chose to believe this video solely caused it and you can't change my mind.

[@insensitive919]

F

[@Spiderqueen69]

Yeah not cause ya know 400 people online xD

[@SereneAncalime]

Honestly if you took Tera's combat and chucked into an actual fleshed out world that engages you it'd be amazing. The combat and combat animations to this day is still one of the only MMOs that actually felt good to me. You could almost feel each hit and attack as you did it. A few touches needed to make it a little better but overall the best combat feeling I've had from an MMO

[@studiesinflux1304]

Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis might get there if Sega doesn't cut the project.

[@zaed11295]

@@studiesinflux1304 ugh, I had such high hopes for NGS. I played it for roughly 60 hours on release, only 10 of which were story/quest, the rest was grinding for min/max gear. I eventually uninstalled when it went nearly a year with no content updates besides cosmetics.

[@ThoA45]

Tera combat + Final fantasy XIV world building and focus on the story would be amazing to me.

[@unafflictedgaming]

@@studiesinflux1304 games a basic lobby mmo almost. Tiny zoned areas. Not to mention the characters are so cringey looking lol

[@rvrside10291]

Sad thing is, the world is/was pretty fleshed out, it just doesn't matter anymore :(

[@Fankine78]

I love you video serie because it shows me how far those mmos have fallen. I remember playing day on Tera and it was so different. Glad they kept the killing gameplay that was so good

[@elitebelt]

Tera veteran who had played for a long period of time on 2 distinct separate occasions, and 1 smaller period of time. I remember back in the REALLY old days where Berserker was actually a tank, and I loved playing Slayer so much because of the gigantic sword you used. I never even got to max level in that time despite how long I had played for, and came back to it when Reaper was released and stuck around for a little while before again quitting. Then I came back when Brawler was released and that was the longest period I had stuck around for because I was a part of a big guild by that point and where I discovered my LOVE for Tanking, especially with the Tera combat system. It was so fun to actually be a part of a guild, but I was also equally devastated seeing how much the game was changing around that time period. So many systems and areas were already being forgotten about at that point. After quitting for that final time, I did come back one last time sometime after Ninja was released and almost immediately stopped playing within the first day. It was at that time I realized Tera was a shell of its former self, and having only just learned a week ago the game officially shut down last year, it only further depresses me. I still have not found an MMO like it, and I'm fearful that I never will again in my life, despite how much I love FFXIV as well, it's just not the same at all.

[@Otakumanu]

"A dress-up simulator with a combat system attached" I never expected you to sell me on a game in this series Josh. Almost makes me regret not getting into it back in the day. Then again, given the account wipes, maybe not.

[@mahuk.]

Don't try it. I quit it when they deleted accounts and back then queue times were horrendous. Being f2p was terrible because the game almost forces you to pay for gear progress unless you no-life it, but even if you pay that won't fix the long queues because the game is dead. If you want combat just go play bdo, wait for lost ark early next year, or just play a non mmo combat game.

[@Rakka5]

I'd highly recommend ff14 for you then.

[@Screm]

They had a way to transfer characters when the company transfer happened, but if you missed that period your character got wiped ye

[@Otakumanu]

@@mahuk. Tbh, a singleplayer or Guild Wars-esque version is more my cup of tea.

[@manajunkies]

It's a really good game for what he said - combat. No game has managed to come close to how fun of true action combat it is. The fashion is still fun & out there compared to a lot of games with more subdued designs. They only deleted accounts in NA because the publisher here went under, you had the opportunity to transfer your account to the new publisher taking it over - which they tried to tell people about every way possible (In-game, emails, social media posts, etc.).

[@grizzlythresher7140]

"The MMO equivalent of playing with Barbie's Dreamhouse and trying to recreate scenes from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure" That must be the best description I've heard for a game to play while drunk

[@mafiousbj]

Or high...I mean you only press space bar to chain skills...it's perfect

[@AaronX442]

He had me at Barbie Dreamhouse, got 4 days until PoE new season launch installing now. Barbie's.. nice.

[@lidsss]

I first played Tera around 2012, I was hooked. I loved everything about it, sad to see what it’s come to. I did stop playing around 2015/16, but it feels like I was just playing it a couple weeks ago. The dungeon raids and holiday events were so fun, especially the big baby one. Even though I haven’t played in so long, I’m still sad to see it go. Tbh this may be my favorite MMORPG I’ve ever played. While I don’t remember the story, I didn’t care because I really only cared for the cosmetics and combat. Watching this video sent me way back, now I want to hop on and do a couple dungeons lmao, if it was how it used to be back in 2012.

[@snazzydrew]

Jeez I really had to like both this and the Skyforged video because you called me out on looking for the 'jiggly'.

[@rhawkas2637]

Josh: *Calls a winged horse a unicorn.* MLP and fantasy fans: "Actually, that's a pegasus." Greek mythology fans: "Actually, Pegasus was a specific winged horse and the son of Poseidon."

[@amadour2549]

Black Desert players: "AyO BrO NiCe dReAm hOrSe !"

[@Crayven95]

Makes me think of dnd gorgons being metal bulls instead of snake hair ladies

[@aheahe7943]

Atheists' fans: Actually Poseidon never existed so neither did his horse son.

[@aethon0563]

RPG enthusiasts: Actually, Poseidon was only part of our world's lore, not the game's, so that definition doesn't matter.

[@seratope]

hhhehh.... hhhhhehh.... hehh.... sss...ss sSUS.... SSSSUS.... ssUSSSY....

[@Mellypepper]

It is so weird seeing these MMOs years after I’ve stopped playing. Just like with Aion this is a completely different game than when I first played. It’s kinda sad. I left Aion for Rift and left Rift for Tera. All three are so different now. Tera was a game changer for me. I couldn’t go back to a tab target system after playing it.

[@makaronmadownahihi]

Same. But i found private servers and dude i can tell u - nostalgia is back.

[@mahuk.]

Had the same issue. Tera ruined tab target for me. Landed on FFXIV 2 years ago, I hated it at the start but eventually got used and I love the game now. The issue is I mainly did pvp in tera and pvp in ffxiv is horrendous. I only do pve in ffxiv but the game is not a full time job so I have free time to get pvp from other games while still enjoying the mmo experience with ffxiv. Tera did me a favor by deleting my acc when they switched companies.

[@Deadsnake989]

@@mahuk. Man PvP in FF14 is the most fun I've had in an MMO. Normally I hate MMO PvP because it's just a matter of what team has the best geared people. FF14 puts everyone at an even playing field so it's all about strategies. Originally I only gave frontlines a shot because I wanted to buy one of the cosmetic armor sets. But now my White Mage is level 86 and I haven't even finished Stormblood's post game story.

[@coolexe7359]

@@makaronmadownahihi where did you find private servers?

[@JamesPascazio]

@@makaronmadownahihi Can you link some? Is it using the new engine or is it the old tera?

[@SeraphimKnight]

I bought the game on release ON PHYSICAL MEDIA (that tells you how long ago that was) and played for months when it started. I was even part of a guild that had some territory control and we all had the fancy white horse mount. To this day I've not experienced a more satisfying MMO combat experience than with the Lancer class in this game. I loved the aesthetics of the game and the gameplay that felt new and refreshing compared to the auto-attack + skill cd norm of the time. The ability to build your skill combo chains was really fun and everyone had their own playstyle. I also loved how the race and gender you picked for your character was basically a personality test in this game lol I've gone back to the game a few times since then just to play a bit of Lancer since I loved it so much but you definitely felt the game was well past its prime even a few years after release. Usually I'd roam around the poporin town and help random low-level players with mob quests around there since I liked the halloween-y feel of the place.

[@Blackread]

15:59 Ulfric Stormcloak. Some here in Helgen call you a hero, but a hero doesn't use a power like the voice to kill his king and usurp the throne. You started this war, plunged Skyrim into chaos, and now the Empire is going to put you down, and restore the peace.

[@JeyDB]

The one thing that has always stood out to me with this game was the combat. One of the most interesting and fun combat mechanics I've experienced. That's about all I remember.

[@xxhowisuxx]

That's about all there is lol.

[@inc0mingr0flc0pter]

Man, listening to what’s happened to such a beautiful game reminds me of that meme that reads “you can easily return to the past but no one is there anymore” It’s like liminal spaces. Everything’s designed to be used by people, but it’s a ghost town. Very, very sad.

[@insensitive919]

You mean "you cant go home again"?

[@M4ttNet]

A shame it died, I really enjoyed it. A great looking game with it's own unique pros and cons.

[@fancydan1262]

Josh: “Tera is a dress-up game with some combat sprinkled in.” Me: *playing Warframe*

[@femthingevelyn]

to be perfectly fair, Warframe is a dress-up game with farming sprinkled in, the plants you're cutting down just happen to be one of various different ancient slave races

[@leonardor.p.7928]

00:47 i always smile when you show the patreon people, Chris Turner always being the first, even when there are more and more names to put in. Kind of stuff that helps me know when the channel is really good, not only flashy and tied to trending topics/games. You really do filter your "video creation" through the heart, not the trending topics page haha. Thanks for the good time you always give me. In fact, you were the only person to blame for sparking again my will to play, after almost a year afk(game-wise).

[@ALEX-db6rr]

saddest truth is that there's much, MUCH more beatiful sights in this game that werent shown in video, probably because you've never visited those locations, game just doesnt want you to. Fastest and most efficient way to level up you character is just doing dungeons over and over, you can fucking speedrun this game within, no joke, 4-5 hours from the point where you appear as a new lvl 1 character, up to lvl 65 (cap is 70 btw) without EVER touching the story line after lvl 10-12 and the only thing you will see in this massive beautiful world is dungeon entrances. Although even some of those look really gorgeous, as was shown in the video

[@benjaminparent4115]

Worse than that they even cut content, nowaday entire zone have been remove from the main quest line, the secondary quest still exist but the game doesn't encourage you to go their. At least that how it was few years ago maybe they fixed that.

[@avak2101]

don't know how it looks nowadays but last time i played i ignored any and all leveling purely to wander around and i can tell you that back then, once i got lost i didn't give a singular fuck where the questline was anymore, cause the map was so fun to explore yes most people just leveled and did quests, but those that didn't, they were the ones having real fun

[@cidolfusorlandeau7978]

@@avak2101 DATS gonna be me in a few

[@AlysTheUnicorn]

@@avak2101 I used to do annual LAN parties where I'd bring my friends around for a 3 day sleepover and we all played TERA together. The goal was always to reach endgame, but we would always have so much fun finding places to explore or odd side quests not worth their exp that not once did we hit the level cap. I think we spent almost 2 hours climbing a mountain my little brother discovered wasn't blocked by an invisible wall and it's one of my most treasure memories

[@zilverheart]

How does this compare to grim dawn. Im a fan for loot grind in gd or d2

[@thinkingwithrice749]

hey, i still have the old tera on my seam library, too! combat was pretty damn fun. i couldn't get too into it so i only have like 60 hours, but those were some great 60 hours for sure!

[@Mysticfateee]

Hearing you explain everything that went wrong with Tera makes me realize that the exact same thing happens to so many mmos... It happened to maplestory which i'm waiting for you to do a video on still and so many other games that offer things like 2x exp items and things such as gear that levels up with you to a certian point making anything else up until end game useless as well as making it so much easier to get EXP now that you out level quests and don't stay in spots for long enough to experience them, making the only locations you actually remember being the endgame ones... People remember mmos fondly back when they first came out BECAUSE it took long to level and you had to grind to get strong or find good gear, which in turn lead you to explore literally every map or part of an mmo. Nowadays these same mmos all have crazy events on constantly that will have you leveling up fast and getting really good gear fairly easily, cutting out all of the grinding until endgame.

[@Caitmonster]

I got into Tera just after it initially went free to play, waaaaaaaay back during the Enmasse era. Quit somewhere between Reapers and Gunners. I went back this past week just out of curiosity and nostalgia and... I barely recognize the game I left. I was literally just reminiscing with an old friend of mine who played the game with me back then and how bad it is at present so I'm not surprised to see it here. The original story such as it was has been absolutely gutted from what I hear, with huge swathes of regions and content having been nuked to compensate for the power creep and increasing level caps. A lot of the wonder and adventure we all shared going through our first dungeons, when BAMs were actually threatening and only a few classes (or very skilled players) could take them on alone are just snoozefests. Went to a (at the time) top level area to fight a bam with my undergeared lancer just to see where I stood; I three-shotted it. There's no gear variety. No buildcraft. BIS 'legendary' sets like Visionmaker are a thing of the past. Battlegrounds? Lol. There used to be a robust roleplay community at least on a few of the servers (Celestial Hills xD); it's gone. There are currencies within currencies, vouchers within vouchers, boxes within boxes. I thought GW2 had a currency issue, but my GOD does Tera take the cake. My friend said it best, "It now plays more like a flashy, glorified mobile game". After playing GW2 for the last few years and all the QoL and alt-friendly stuff it has going for it, Tera has a lot of inconveniences that bother me more than they did back in the day. About the most amusement I've gotten from it was looking into fishing... until I learned it is just another giant rng goldsink. It's so sad to see a game I spent so much time with being brought to ruin, but that's how it goes when greed wins out.

[@loomingdeath1758]

I agree except i love when gunner was added it was fun back then but now.... it just wont die

[@jamesnugget7886]

Wish I could seen it when it had rp still

[@LilAngelPrincess95]

I stopped playing not long after I soloed Gunner all the way through KN and Manya's Core and those 2 were the only real challenge. KN took 6 attempts to solo. I remember before they nerfed the shit out of BAMs I managed to solo a lvl 15 Baskilisk at level on a warrior and it took me ten minutes. I really miss the orginal Tera. I think it was really because of a new dungeon that was released. First day was a challenge and was really fun. The very next day people had figured out how to bum rush it and it was completely brain dead. Killed what ever erge to play I had.

[@dosbilliam]

Yeah, it's changed a lot since then. I mained Slayer for a while and I remember the second area kicking my ass when I thought I could solo a BAM that wasn't a Basilisk. All you need to really do is look at the quest log to see how much got removed; instead of being level 20 and having 5 different main quest chains you could work on, you've got one that's only relevant to get the leveling done and making the sidequests useless. That's why the last time I was playing it I got bored after running a solo version of the first dungeon and seeing that the stuff I'd been either deconstructing or literally just throwing away was the same crap I was picking up in the dungeon instead of the Rare items that were the entire point of running dungeons; I'd hate to log in and see what the inventory of my level 65 Slayer looks like. Even without talking about monetization it's a shell of its former self; anything I found interesting is dead and buried at this point.

[@otozm92]

I remember the guides on how to get the Visionmaker set… and all that stuff is trash now

[@Slaanash]

This was probably the MMO I enjoyed most, shame about uh... A lot of things. Never got the email telling me to migrate my account so I lost everything, probably for the best.

[@planescaped]

Star Wars Galaxies was mine.

[@edenluxury3378]

I got the email but after playing for years and having my friends all move over to WoW or FF14 I felt it was my time to move on as well. The good ol' days.

[@Zarathustra_infinite]

@@edenluxury3378 you lucky you have devices to play all I have is a switch and a phone so I'm playing roblox mmo

[@wruzzer]

@@Zarathustra_infinite poor guy. i can't even imagine playing switch/phone only. and currently is a pretty bad time to get another console or a pc.. :/

[@chiisuigintou]

Sad to hear, :( but myeah, kinda pointless now. :/ Tera is shutting down worldwide on 30 June 2022. Okay, there's always Menma's, but that's not the same. 🤕

[@anonanon6332]

Your intro was one of the best, short explanations of Tera....ever.

[@FuIIDiveVR]

It's really a shame most people misunderstand this game and dismiss it on such a shallow level. Skill based combat, no p2w, amazing server design, open world pvp, it literally had it all. Only game this comes close to this combat are Dragon Nest and PSO2 base imo.

[@coops1992]

World of Warcraft.

[@butthurttaco8636]

@coops1992 sadly you got to pay loads just to play all content of wow

[@RexZShadow]

Sadly built in a terrible engine with worse devs =\

[@Arrusoh]

I loved Tera when it came out. I got it Physically and everything. Eventually I just stopped following the game and when I looked it up again it had changed devs, so my characters would have been deleted, and it had become a glorified cash shop. The worst fate of any MMO. Existing only to sell things in the Cash shop I can't complain about it being in this series. There are other MMOs I loved that have been in it. Once an MMO only exists to sell it's few remaining players things in a Cash shop there is no coming back sadly

[@Totemion]

it was great when it came out, fights with BAMs and dungeons were challenging even the first ones and it felt great to dominate a BAM solo through the fantastic combat system, but now... i tried a while ago with a friend that also played the old tera and its barely the same game, you get showered in power so much that you will oneshot everything even bosses, they patched all the fun out of the game

[@viysnjor4811]

I read that they weren't actually deleted, you just have to link your old account to an account made for the new owners or something, but I don't think it's really even worth the effort to do that tbh, unless you just want to run around on your old characters for a bit for nostalgia

[@x54xHantamachine]

The progression and questing is awful, but the combat is really engaging (moreso than any other mmo I've played, which includes most popular ones). That's what kept me in for like 200 hours originally and what's had me revisitting every now and then for years now.

[@LaPrincesseLointaine]

Yes. Even though IMO it was much better when progression was not so streamlined, so you could just create a character and have fun gradually exploring even lower-level locations and dungeons, since monsters were hard enough and engaging from the beginning, and you didn't jump through 10 levels a second.

[@TailsThewolfcat]

completely agree. i miss the game bc of how fun the combat was

[@Sakuya_GG]

Honestly, no MMO has yet to contest how good TERA's combat system is, or at least that's what I think. It's kinda why I'm playing Lost Ark right now because it's the closest I can get.

[@xKumei]

I would revisit too...until they deleted my priest from the move.

[@Nekoszowa]

I miss action combats like that in MMOs, the closest we get to it now is Genshin but it's still not as good as TERA's

[@kend.9189]

Snuck into a media only demo at PAX, played healer it was amazing. Giant circles where your character is facing was incredibly fun.

[@d_camara]

So this is what killed tera huh

[@Healthpotion]

This game was so ahead of it's time when it came out, and it still has one of the best if not the best action combat system in the mmorpg space, but my god have they mutilated it over the years. I can hardly recognize the game I used to play back then. Questlines are gone, enemies are pushovers, zones are empty and rewards are useless. I return to Tera every once in while out of pure nostalgia and each time it gets worse. There is literally nothing to do besides the main quest. The zones are still there, the quests are still there, the loot is still there; but it's all just remnants of a better time with no purpose anymore. The game feels almost post apocalyptic at this point. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I just want it to die. Gameforge is puppeteering around a corpse, dressing it up in ever more ridiculous costumes and mocking it's aimless shambling. They just need to stop and put it to rest.

[@whodistoodis]

It really is a shame what's been done to TERA, ain't it. I had played it for years in its prime, even put some money into the cash shop for dressing up my army of Elin (yes, I was part of the problem), and I always had a blast. Came back after En Masse took the L, as it caught my attention, and cried a single metaphorical tear for the burnt-out husk the game had been reduced to.

[@ThoA45]

questlines were already bad in the beginning, and it was already preparing itself to becoming a stupid cashshop F2p game with the kind of stupid system they had. I loved that game because of its in incredible gameplay, but even i just left because other than that, the game was souless. Now, they could have improve it ,but insteadn they chosed the easy and lazy way to take a great foundation and ruin it. It sucks but i'm not even surprised anymore by korean mmos.

[@foxdavion6865]

I remember how Tera used to have terrifying Notorious Monsters where you basically were facing a Monster Hunter style fight all the time and players used to make solo farm compilations of taking them on. Now mobs are a joke and bosses are soloable.

[@Razielphongthan]

I joined TERA after aion and because of tera, i had to buy a mmo mouse cuz my first class was the archer and she has charged skills that u have to actually aim! it was a mind blown moment for me then lol

[@hagenisse]

I was in complete disbelief when I tried the "official" TERA again, it's nothing like it used to be. I found a private server that seemingly was more like the original and even that felt really padded.

[@dyadica7151]

Back in the early days, the BAMs were much harder. I remember specifically when they nerfed them, so they would be easier to solo. what a bad move. Those original BAMs struck fear in us unless we were with solid teams, and were awesome fun to hunt with a group. My guild held the governorship of one of the regions, and hunting BAMs was a way to earn the rulership currency to keep the regional perks up for everyone in it.

[@Ubersicht]

Yeah, old BAMs were great. I always tried to solo them at least once with my berserker, it took many tries and it was a long fight but it could be done, and it felt almost like beating a Dark Souls boss.

[@tubadude-2269]

kinda hope this version of tera dies so a private server with an older version pops up 👀

[@a.dykeman1980]

One particularly comical note about the story of TERA: The plot of the first area (after the tutorial) is actually one of the *only* stories that matters at endgame, because in the plot if the expansions, it’s revealed that all of the events of the main story were orchestrated by that one god who was worshipped by the cult from the first area

[@MissZerglot]

I miss TERA. Was it all cosmetics? Yes. Did I play an Elin with a maid outfit? Of course 4 out of my 5 characters were Elin. Did I make entire spreadsheets to track my progression on the "All My Life" Achievement so I could get the red raptor mount? Hell Yes. Did the tutorial area back in the old days take hours upon hours or even days to grind to completion? Also yes. But I miss the gorgeous landscape visuals, the monsters, riding around on my mounts and exploring, the amazing times I had while playing the Baby Kuma and Corsair's stronghold end-game minigames. I miss sneaking into high level areas to get the tourist trap achievement at a low level so I could get a watermelon pet, and I miss playing this game with my friends.

[@r8gg]

😢

[@WhereNightingaleSing]

it's a shame seeing it die. With how amazing the environments are, and how good the combat is, I kinda really do hope they release this game as just a single player character action RPG. I'd even pay money for it!

[@NightcoreDemon]

servers are shutting down 30th of June 2022 for good. It's a sad day.

[@A350Airways]

I never played TERA when it was actually good, but Elyon feels like a TERA 2, or otherwise a single-player open-world ARPG. That said Elyon's endgame feels more PvP-oriented than TERA does, which made me play that game as a single-player game.

[@MarkDeSade100]

@@NightcoreDemon Damn, I just watched this video on July 10 and thought I'd like to try the game. Sucks to hear it shut down less than 2 weeks ago after existing for many years.

[@samueld8574]

there are private servers that you can still play the game on, even alone. And you can actually get all the things you could get in the game before for money now for free in game currency that you gain by doing dungeons i believe

[@iDaRkkO]

I legit miss Tera. I preordered it had the Founder mark and even bought the big bundle with the physical disk and the Compass. It was marvelous. Seeing it in 2021 really hurt to see what its become.

[@PinxPer17]

I feel like the only thing that could bring me back to Tera today would be my old founders account, unfortunately it was deleted by gameforge though. The white lion mount that came with the founders edition was badass!

[@iDaRkkO]

@@PinxPer17 yep that's the reason I can't go back. I still have tons of screenshots... My account is just a memory now 😭😭

[@Kamil-dh5qs]

There is still a small community with active players that do hardmode runs. But its pretty closed. They don't really care about any of the topics of the video too, as long as combat stays the same.

[@Dvarable]

Incidentally Michael Hogan also voiced General Tulius in Skyrim.

[@tengkualiff]

Was cleaning up my Steam library and got nostalgic. Glad to see someone made a video about this.

[@elijahhmarshall]

Wow, I never realized how beautiful and well developed certain aspects of this game actually are. Really makes me wonder if some original development team had a dream and a vision, and then corporate came in and mucked it all up.

[@manajunkies]

There was an original amazing story, there was an interview with the story director at Enmasse for the NA version after they went under. It was a pretty cool look at what TERA could have been & where it may have went wrong. Also they talked about an old zone that was never added but accessible through glitching; well they finally released it after all these years a few months ago with their latest patch.

[@SageRuffin]

@@manajunkies And then you realize that there's still a good 25% of the map still not completed after almost 10 goddamn years.

[@manajunkies]

@@SageRuffin Yeah you can't look at games for what they didn't or don't do, you have to enjoy the things they do right or you'll never enjoy any game since none of them are perfect. ): Plus the same can be said for GW2, FFXIV, & ESO lack of fully exploring their map.

[@SageRuffin]

@@manajunkies Those other games are constantly adding stuff though, like new areas, dungeons, and whatnot. The last major world expansion for TERA was in _2014_ with the baraka homeland and hasn't seen another region added since (I'm not including the floating island since that's more of an invading force, nor am I counting Baldera since it was already in the game).

[@4gn0st1x]

I remember trying out TERA when I first started looking for an alternative to WoW. I absolutely loved the combat system but sadly the endgame content of holding elections to become governor of a territory and the guild vs guild wars were not enough. I moved on from TERA but to this day, I wished that combat system could be ported into any other game with a stronger story and end game.

[@kyokoyumi]

Try BDO. It's like someone saw TERA and said "how can we make this better?" and then did it. You don't get to fly but you do get to do ship combat in an open ocean so there's that.

[@PinxPer17]

@@kyokoyumi Respectfully disagree, I think BDO combat is quite amazing and looks pretty but is way too fast paced, which makes combat look like a blur. I suppose it feels as if it is not rewarding as you are taking out mobs. Tera managed to hit a sweet spot with combat where as when hits register you get the feeling that you are doing considerable damage but if you are not evading accordingly you could take a lot of damage yourself, sort of like dark souls. As well as a medium pace of combat which allows you to plan out better strategies or combos. BDO is still pretty worthy though!

[@fennfae1924]

@@PinxPer17 I would recommend Lost Ark then, love the combat, super satisfying, dngs are awesome and end game raids etc are so challenging, lots of mechanics.

[@troll5262]

This've been my wish since the BAMs got super nerfed and TERA went F2P. The combat was just so incredibly fun against them. A very deliberate, reactionary combat system like this is exceedingly rare not just for MMOs, but basically any Online game at all. And I have to chime in a little with Pogo that BDO isn't at all the same in 'feel' as TERA. Lost Ark isn't either, but it is a little closer to it than BDO.

[@edwardelric4975]

They removed the faction pvp, and didn't replace it with anything. The game seriously devolved from what it once was. Update after update major content was just removed for no reason. Even the awe inspiring guild housing sky castles were taken out.

[@Volkaer]

11:15 - wait, did your pegasus just achieve full warp-speed?! Also liked and subbed for... reasons..... outlined in the video.....

[@operationallyopaque1257]

Fun fact: there used to be several more cutscenes in the intro section, there were more quests, npcs were more spread out, and you leveled slower giving you time to learn the fundamentals of your class. All of this was removed to help retain veteran players who were starting new characters, and leaving new players completely in the dust about whats happening and why it all matters. On top of that, the gear you got from quests used to be weaker, but the relic weapons required yout to do a short grind to boost your power for the next few areas. Also the main quests were changed to take a much more confusing and menial path through the game. This change still baffles me. The flying mount used to be reward around level 50 iirc, and many of the empty areas of cities used to house npcs and stations to help you with things like crafting

[@casadycawlfield1019]

does this still exist?

[@Willowo98]

this one is gonna hurt

[@ParavantStudio]

For sure... game has been in such a sad state since EME closed.

[@voilvelev6775]

Honestly, Ive never played this and probably wont, but I gotta say - the enemy visual designs are surprisingly great.

[@Mapijs]

@Beaverish Buck Teeth the way combat works is great too. healers having to aim at who they want to heal with their crosshairs for certain healing spells makes the fight way more fluid and dynamic. The lancer, who can block with his shield, creates a pocket behind him where allies take less damage. The combat system was amazing, so sad the rest has gotten aweful...

[@anykasokun2801]

I love your opening sentence to this video lmao!

[@Tattle-by-Tale]

16:36 I know him from voicing Doc Mitchell in New Vegas and General Tullius in Skyrim. Oh, and he also voiced Captain Baily in Mass Effect 2&3.

[@lukaslicek7837]

Josh Strife Hayes: "If the dessert shop suddenly started offering things like salads or selling shoes or art or chips or Chinese, it wouldn't work." Tchibo: "Hold my coffee..."

[@VeryProfessionalGamer]

Spiffing Brit would say: Well, yes, they sell coffee, what did you expect?

[@KublaiKhanous]

Hold my coffee, shoes, and phone charger

[@RiseInAfterlife]

Tchibo's dead and gone though

[@Cherucha]

I remember being in love with Tera back in the day. Got to end game was part of a big guild, did the pvp (fav being the castle capture one)everything. The sad part was just seeing everything you liked about it changing. The game had problems that needed fixed but not the way the ended up doing so. Seeing the difficulty slide down a mountain and die was probably the most painful thing for me. Also seeing the original starting island slowly be abandoned was a weird feeling. On the bright side this was the mmo that started my interest in the I.T field.trying to get the perfect pc upgrade to play this game on the max settings ,and talking to the techs in my local shop ignited a passion. So if nothing else I’ll always remember it for that.

[@ionfalcom1]

16:03 General tulius?! what're you doing here don't you have stormcloaks to deal with?!.

[@AustinParkerKillulotz14]

Years ago the story actually had some general cohesion. They changed the starting area to changes / "spice things up" They made the starting island (island of dawn) smaller and smaller and smaller till they removed it for the current one but then they shorted the new one to the point where you can't even follow the minimal story. The store was at least sorta balenced (never the EU version the NA version was ok)

[@GoddamnBatman1]

JSH has now officially killed TERA.

[@chiisuigintou]

Shiozu will die a second time, that's something I tbh can't handle.,.

[@virtuallyindestructable568]

By the visuals of TERA in the time it was released, you can tell how immersive all that world was. I remember how I discovered this game right after Aion. No-target mechanic was brand new, open world PVP, massive two continents just like World of Warcraft, and just like WOW this game also felt insanely big. You could literally travel map for hours and hours and always find something new. Of course TERA now doesn't seem that good, compared to the games we have now like souls-games, but back in 2011-2013 this game was a absolutely fantastic experience in its raw version, just like Aion once was..

[@Sunari]

Huh, guess they changed the beginning just like Outspark Fiesta was changed cause again I don't recognize some of that beginning. I do remember starter island, but it seemed more like an exploration and I don't recall seer children, but it's also been many years so I might have things wrong. However I do not recall being given a flying horse at the beginning, just a regular one. I do remember those super "chest out, butts out" poses though.

[@stephenlyon2967]

I actually recognized Michael Hogan as General Tullius from Skyrim. That intro execution monologue is burned into my head.

[@desplanchesstevan1418]

My fondest memory with Tera : I spent 14 hours climbing a moutain by foot (In a pirate-beach map, in the early game if I recall right).

[@kellmalleus5825]

Cutthroat Harbor is a fantastic place to go at any point in the game, honestly.

[@desplanchesstevan1418]

@@kellmalleus5825 I don't know if you mean it from a gameplay or a visual standpoint.. I honestly don't have any memory of the areas, expect from the visuals. So what did I do ? why ? No idea. Apart for this and the gameplay, the game feels shallow, but I had a great time. First and last time of my life where I engaged with a community of any sort, even a little.

[@vanettaloncke8228]

Tera used to be my favorite game, I started playing back when it was run by enmasse. I fell in love with the graphics, I remember spending hours questing and gathering just to explore the different areas on the map, enjoy the different sounds and monsters each area had to offer. I was in it for the visuals and the combat, I never liked the grinding aspect of the game. Once I got to end game and realized it was just pure grinding in dungeons, that was it for me, it became boring. Your video pretty much sums up what it has become, so sad.

[@Robocopnik]

That mount that was a piggy with a pompadour WAS pretty cute, though. A pig! With a human haircut!

[@ilikeduckies123]

This video gave me insane nostalgia, used to play this ALL the time with friends. Thanks for making this vid

[@zaed11295]

This was the first MMO I ever played and its combat was so good that it ruined my gameplay expectations of every other MMO out there. It was so much fun back in the day, and running dungeons and exploring the overworld with random friends made while playing was the best. I miss what this game used to be. If they ever released a TERA classic server, I would pay to play it.

[@olishonick]

Remember when you had to actually be good to solo Bams?! Now they just fall over without a fight.

[@zaed11295]

@@olishonick oh I remember, and how dodging and positioning for classes like berserker actually really mattered. Dungeon bosses could actually kill you!

[@olishonick]

@@zaed11295 RIP warrior tanking

[@GeorgeMonet]

I always hated the combat in Tera. It was too dependent on having good reflexes which I absolutely do not have and do not want to have video games depend on. I want to win because my character is STRONGER, not because I have inhuman reflexes (which I don't so I die). Games should be a POWER FANTASY, not a test of reflexes.

[@zaed11295]

@@GeorgeMonet And that's cool to have that opinion. Others, like me, get bored of power fantasies and instead enjoy the challenge and engaging gameplay of real time action combat. The best part about reflex based combat is that if you're really good, you can be under leveled and still beat a nasty boss, such a great feeling.

[@R.-.W]

I remember TERA was an mmo I tried when I was a teen. Even I thought it was way over-sexualized, but I did think it was nice that for once it had a race that the males wore almost no clothes too, the succu/incubus race. I liked it then just forgot about it completely midway though the forest town.

[@eminempreg]

We need more games that objectify men too! Equality

[@Nekoszowa]

Yeah, male characters in MMOs always seem to wear bulky armour, and here's TERA with its high elves and castanics with their chests full on the front, it was new and probbaly the only game I actually wanted to play as a male character of those two races

[@MashupsByMandy]

In the voice actor bit you went for Battlestar Galactica thing and I went for Doc Mitchell in Fallout New Vegas.

[@pridewall]

Back when it first released there wasn’t really a game like Tera. The extremely responsive real-time combat, the epic scenery, a giant whale floating in the air for no damned reason at all. In my memories this game was bar none my favorite MMO. I’ve since went back to play it and found it lacking in essentially all the ways mentioned in this video. Time was not good to this game and the development plummeted hard. But -that first year- wow. Shout out to my old guild Advantage.

[@0uttaS1TE]

Man, I remember I dumped so many hours into Tera when it came to console. The combat was so good and so was the...armour designs.

[@juliet4093]

Gross.

[@0uttaS1TE]

@@juliet4093 Sorry, I played a castanic male. It was premium cheesy at the best of times.

[@kyotheman69]

that was basically it when you relies how shallow and empty the game is, the story is a joke, quests are a joke, outside of combat its mediocre game i spent time in this game, but its only for combat, the grind and everything else sucked

[@Biouke]

@@juliet4093 Why? I like plausible outfits but I also don't mind high fashion skimpy outfits once in a while. And TERA's outfits are just that. Not just standard ole D&D bikini armor, it's the fashion week version of that and I like it :p

[@Acueil]

@@juliet4093 The fact that Tera Armors was so popular it got converted to Skyrim and other mod-able game just prove that you are the weird one.

[@weaver270]

One thing you missed was the extreme amount of resources needed to rank up in the middle end game and beyond. End game is just the start, then your first couple of rank ups for your gear are no big deal. But once you get to the middle rank ups you start failing a lot and then you must grind endlessly to rank up every piece of armor and jewelry as well as your weapon. When you have multiple classes, each one of them makes it even more extreme. hundreds of hours of grinding just to rank all your gear to the next rank.

[@ShadesApeDJansu]

【Sunglasses Finnish Pirates】"Jalka" means "Leg" in finnish haha 9:01 Oh i too recognized the voice, knew it was from Mass Effect and that one named particular C-Sec officer Captain Bailey (Had to look the name up, remembered only "captain") but yes he has a recognizeable voice! Nice for you to throw One Piece Anime protagonist Monkey D. Luffy at the end :) My favorite show

[@R4d1o4ct1v3_]

You got me. Liked and subbed. Also the "anime and underwear model convention" sounds awesome. Sign me up.

[@necrostorm3194]

Played this game on release and let me tell you, this game saw an amazing couple of years, just beautiful. This was an amazing MMO and I'm so happy I played it early, because when the contract happened this game went from being beautifully intricate to a pile of ashes. Everything the developers built along with the community was set ablaze and everything we loved about the game was simplified and removed. I don't even recognize this game anymore, I hope people stop playing it altogether and let it rest in peace. It's really tragic to see how a game who was once on top of the world fell so far and became the garbage that it is now.

[@Nedula007]

Looks likes it's coming to an end in 2 months. I'm debating creating an account but idk. Looks almost fun

[@beetheimmortal]

It seems GameForge killed it, as they have done to others.

[@theapexsurvivor9538]

@@Nedula007 it was in the past, the lvl65 expansion was basically the end of the fun period imo. Not worth playing now, the og starting area was removed, the late game has become more like the mid game (lvl35-55 are so shit that they're constantly finding ways to get you to skip past them, which started with Reapers and I think now is just an item that jumps you to max level). The minigames have gotten worse (corsair's used to be fun). Just let it stay dead till the source code gets used to bring back the good version in a decade or two.

[@bakatsugu]

if it dies at least we might eventually get a private server of the og version

[@bartalamao6192]

I agree it is a dun game get to meet new people sure the characters may look a little wrong u should know what I mean but it's fun if your bored and pluss there's coming out with new stuff like battle passes and it's making it even more fun for players to

[@yidi5471]

If every account was transferred appropriately, I think the game would be in a much healthier place in terms of players playing Tera, in my opinion, still holds the best true action combat in any MMO I've ever played

[@manajunkies]

Yeah I don't know how one goes about making that transfer smooth honestly; they tried to do what they could to advertise to transfer your account. ):

[@somnion5816]

DFO

[@loko7496]

Man the endgame dungeons for tera are really fun to play and learn, the problem was upgrading your gear to even be able to do those dungeons is a pain in the fucking ass and takes wayyyy too long (and also it's rng based because fuck you players who spends months playing). Not to mention having multiple characters to upgrade your gears and having a daily limit to how many times you can do a dungeon which makes the dungeon queues take longer.

[@ootdega]

I tried to get back into the game only to find out that my Founder's account and everything on it is gone forever. I was not exactly happy. So yeah. I guarantee you that was a _massive_ hit to the game. Not to mention the GameForge client doesn't fucking work anyway. NEVER got the game to start. It's a mess.

[@HyPNoTiKx]

16:32 - I recognized him as Doc Mitchell's voice actor from Fallout New Vegas immediately lol

[@orangenasa]

I laughed so hard when you showed the whole iconic Samael thing. When I played Tera for the first time I played it in German and you can't even imagine how f****** funny and different it is in german. I cracked up so hard, thank you