I am liking the features of this game and am thinking of preordering it and trying it out.  My only hesitation is that it reminds me so much of AION!  Linear, cheesy (IMO) art and armour designs (chainlink mini skirts anyone?).  Can anyone that did Beta tell me its not like AION please?

Thanks.

I'd avoid it for if were you. Sounds like you don't like Asian themed games.

It's an Asian themed game.

No problem with not liking it , but it's not your cup of tea sounds like.

Personally I prefer the art style and themes/sounds from Lineage/Aion etc style games , so enjoying TERA immensely.

Playwise isn't it so much like AION but art wise is it worse. I dunno if there is a single female armor that don't let you see the panties under when you run. And some monster looks a lot Nintendoish.

It is a pretty good game otherwise but if you can't handle stuff like that stay clear.

Originally posted by Broomy

I am liking the features of this game and am thinking of preordering it and trying it out.  My only hesitation is that it reminds me so much of AION!  Linear, cheesy (IMO) art and armour designs (chainlink mini skirts anyone?).  Can anyone that did Beta tell me its not like AION please?

 

Thanks.

It is an AKG (Another Korean Grinder).  So yes, it is like Aion.  The good news is I haven't noticed any major latency issues that plagued Aion... But I have yet to try major population events like PvP war or anything.  The art style is very similar to Aion which is what gives it that feeling.  The chain system is similar to Aion, but the entire combat system is very different.  I would get a buddy key from someone and give it a try Broomy.   It seems to taken many things that were good in Aion and left out most bad.  There are some big cons as there is with everygame, but it is inevitably best up to you to decide.

Originally posted by SuperXero89
Overall, I will say that the art style is more "grounded" than Aion.  Aion was probably one of the most unimersive MMORPGs I've ever played as all the zones looked like decorations at a Disney themepark ride.  TERA is much closer to traditional fantasy, except for with ancient elvish creatures that look like 12 year olds with no pants.

And giant mushrooms out of Super Mario...

The artstyle is kinda mixed between brilliant and pathetic, some stuff really looks awesome but the theme of the game is somewhat unclear at times.

Art style it builds on aion and lineage. But consider it like the ipad, lineage is ipad 1, aion is ipad 2 and tera is the new ipad, they are developed in different genertaions. The combat system is nothing like aion, aion combat feels more restrictive than wow, aion combat is a cross between lineage and wow. All the questing is very generic in tera but it doesnt feel that way, thanks to the fun combat system. 

Originally posted by XiThRyL
Thing is, it seems at this point when the excitment wears off of the new "True action combat" we wont care to much to talk about this, Tera

Perhaps it will if the market gets flooded with "true action combat " like it is now with "true tab-targeting combat",  Until then I would expect it to remain fresh and unique.

Originally posted by elocke
It is like Aion in every way except combat.  To me.  Hence, why I'm not liking it.  

Absolutely incorrect.  

Originally posted by XiThRyL
Thing is, it seems at this point when the excitment wears off of the new "True action combat" we wont care to much to talk about this, Tera

maybe not, but im at that point where i cant really enjoy older mmos combat systems, after trying tera. Yes, the rest of the game is pretty... generic (?) but arent all other games since wow, some indies aside, quite generic too?

 its quests, instances, etc are quite like all other mmos around, but open world, pvp with means, quite hectic combat (wont let you watch tv at the same time, for most of the time, unlike alt-tab mmos :p) are what makes it soooo much different. 

And for gods sake, will people ever stop talking about one mmo combat as it was some small, almost irrelevant thing? You spend 90% of your time doing it, and people are trying to marginalize it, saying like 'omg all it offers is different combat, everything else is copy paste'. and yet those people were defending a 200m+ project which spent 90% of that money on making cutscenes, as its main, and only selling point :o)

@op with all that said.. if you dont like Aions art style, you probably wont like this one either :/

Originally posted by Deron_Barak
If your only reason for playing TERA is the combat then it's just logic that if combat "wears off" you wouldn't like TERA anymore. It's great there's more to TERA than just combat and as far as I know combat plays a role throughout.

Pointless argument is pointless I guess.

i never said theres no more to tera :P theres lots more, but im at that point where open world pvp + so freaking awesome combat is something i couldnt resist :) Im so tired of 110% instanced games with no world pvp whatsoever, where only reason to finish Dungeon of Awesomeness tier 4 is to be able to do tier 5 of that thing (: