This week has seen a lot of news about both of these keenly anticipated titles with TERA's doors officially swinging open and the first widely attended Guild Wars 2 closed beta event taking place just before. We are in a conundrum. Find out why and then let us know what you think in the comments.

Like Luke below (ha, Like Luke!) I’ve wrestled back and forth between Guild Wars 2 and TERA since I’ve been spending time in both betas. The difference, as you’ll see, is that while Luke finds himself underwhelmed by ArenaNet’s sequel, I find myself floored by it. And with TERA launching this week and GW2 presumably just a few months away, we each take time to ponder which game has the edge for our personal tastes.

Read more of Luke Karmali's and Bill Murphy's Guild Wars 2 vs TERA.

You just had to do it, huh? 

I just know that the comments are going to get really ugly, really fast. 

*Grabs Popcorn*

This could be interesting to watch.  Personally TERA doesn't appeal, but I am glad that there are multiple MMOs coming out that are trying to move the genre in different ways.  Diversification is good.  As long as people can finally accept that a game doesn't need 10 million subscribers to be succesful then there may well be games for all of us, regardless of what we look for in a game.

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Originally posted by rammur65
tera just a basic korean grind fest  just alot prettier nothing remotely diffrent from it except the vanarch system which i think they had a similar concept in archlord back in the day people are just naive to see it at least gw2 just feels so much diffrent than most mmos out there.

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Ladies and gentlemen, the first shot has been fired! Activate your flameshields!

Originally posted by Alot

You just had to do it, huh? 

I just know that the comments are going to get really ugly, really fast. 

I agree

I see you re a Tera fan, that s your right, but, everything you talk about gw2, combat, pvp, pve combat, you must have one of these problems (or more than 1): bad pvp player (a tabber never kills anything, gl with that); you lose hp in a perfect fight - you can t setup your skills decently, because you need to kyte, dodge, and switch weapon; you prefer action style pvp - gl with the mass pvp, the correct enemies focus.

Plus, gw2 is so well designed, people that can t afford/ don t have a top pc can still play it, with good quality and decent fps rate. (you just can t do that with Tera).

Originally posted by Alot

You just had to do it, huh? 

I just know that the comments are going to get really ugly, really fast. 

dont forget about the trolls comments..... wont take to much time to start

Originally posted by punkrock
I for one am stuck picking 3 games, TSW,GW2,Tera. This helpd me a little and i will say GW2 is for me hands down, also being a DAOC vet helps to with picking GW2. know do a GW2 vs TSW and i will be glued to see what y'all come up with.

When we can, we will!  ;)

Originally posted by Unlight
Why not just rename the article title, "How to summon trolls in ten words or less?".

u have my vote!

I am just going to say that the advertisements on this site for TERA that say "True. Action. Combat." just crack me up.

True action combat when compared to.... WoW? Sure, I'll give you that.

But a more accurate advertisement would be "TERA - combat is kind of fun? I mean, yes we know how ridiculously repetitive it is and how reliant you are on Tanks/Healers for anything but questing, unless you want to spend 20 minutes soloing a BAM... but hey you can dodge right? And if you are the worst FPS player in history you might miss a few attacks!"

But I imagine that would be far, far too long to fit on a website's banner.