Originally posted by holdenhamlet

The first metacritic ratings are up, based on 4 critical reviews.  TERA is averaging 8.3/10.

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/tera

I'd give it 9/10 for a newly released MMO (although it had the advantage of a year out in Korea).  Only reason not a 10/10 is because there's no battlegrounds and more organized pvp.

I agree with the snippet from the guy from GamingXP:

TERA may not offer enough to dethrone World of Warcraft, but it is a wonderful game with a thrilling story and loads of action. Above all else the combat mechanics are a great innovation

Wait a month. The game is just one more huge korean grinfest MMO, if you love AION you gonna love this one. After playing tera, im back leveling an Agent on swtor, i just cant play a game with a strong felling of grind on it.

Originally posted by BeenGaming

Originally posted by Reas43
MMO forum keyboard commandoes seem to believe that if a game doesn't have millions of subs or is number 1 then it's a flop.

I never understood this mentality really. As long as the server I actually play on is populated, I couldn't really care less how many people overall play the game. World of Warcraft has something to the tune of 10 million subscriptions still, but 95% of what those players do when they're in the game can barely be described as playing it. Even of those, less than 5% are doing what could be considered competent or competitive gameplay.

main reason why you should care if your game is populated overall and not just your server is mostly for updates. More overall subscribers=more revenue=more money that can be put towards more content. Not saying low population games won't get updates, even F2P ones get plenty of updates but higher populated ones have the resources to pump out more content.. after that it really just depends on the developers. 

Reviews & haters have never really concerned me, one thing I will say after playing TERA since release I took a day off and logged onto WoW for the first time in a little while.

Let's just say, the combat is laughable is comparison it really is night & day and that's all I care about at the moment. Over time(the next month or so) we'll see if this 'new' feeling continues once the endgame is fully implemented. If so, they'll have my subscription for awhile.

Originally posted by SoulOfRaziel

 

If TERA was a game worth of 10/10 why would it fail in Korea???

Because its no a grindfest

Unlike aion wich is the number one mmo in korea

and btw Tera is number 3 most play mmo in korea so do some research before talking all big or keep it shut if u dont know sh!t

gamespot metacritic 8.5

Originally posted by hikaru77

Originally posted by holdenhamlet

The first metacritic ratings are up, based on 4 critical reviews.  TERA is averaging 8.3/10.

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/tera

I'd give it 9/10 for a newly released MMO (although it had the advantage of a year out in Korea).  Only reason not a 10/10 is because there's no battlegrounds and more organized pvp.

I agree with the snippet from the guy from GamingXP:

TERA may not offer enough to dethrone World of Warcraft, but it is a wonderful game with a thrilling story and loads of action. Above all else the combat mechanics are a great innovation

Wait a month. The game is just one more huge korean grinfest MMO, if you love AION you gonna love this one. After playing tera, im back leveling an Agent on swtor, i just cant play a game with a strong felling of grind on it.

Aion felt grindy right from the start.  SWTOR felt grindy to me too.  TERA is the least grindy-feeling MMO I've ever played.

time to make 50 accounts and vote 0/10

Hellgate London started at around that score for its first few reviews as well. Happens with all MMORPGs.

Fanboys (critics and players) come in and vote hard and early. More reasonable reviews will drop it down to around 7.5, where it belongs.

Originally posted by lellyville

time to make 50 accounts and vote 0/10

 People like you are just sad, hating on a game is no reason to try to cause other people to miss out on a game they might enjoy by ruining the rating. That is if you actually go through with it, which you won't, you'll just rate a 0 on the one account you have.

Regardless, we'll see where it stands in a few more weeks once more people chip in, only 165 on this site and 200 on metacritic.

It would be nice if only people who played it a decent amount left reviews, but I know all those people who have not even tried it and hate on it will be first to throw out votes sometimes. ;)

TERA is nothing like Aion, really...

Originally posted by SoulOfRaziel

WOW.... im not saying that tera isnt good, cause it is and like to play it for now but....

9/10? 10/10? NO WAY tera have lots of down sides not only the lack of a battleground....

If TERA was a game worth of 10/10 why would it fail in Korea???

Its Korea/Asia they have different tastes. I mean how the f... could a MMORPG like AION dominate over there. Aion is such a poor asian version of Wow&L2 mix compared to TERA.

Originally posted by Otomox

Originally posted by SoulOfRaziel

WOW.... im not saying that tera isnt good, cause it is and like to play it for now but....

9/10? 10/10? NO WAY tera have lots of down sides not only the lack of a battleground....

If TERA was a game worth of 10/10 why would it fail in Korea???

Its Korea/Asia they have different tastes. I mean how the f... could a MMORPG like AION dominate over there. Aion is such a poor asian version of Wow&L2 mix compared to TERA.

Aion isn't dominating anymore...

League of Legends has exploded onto the market taking a playerbase away from all the MMORPGS in Korea. Silly LoL.

Why do you care what critics have to say about it if you love the game and are having fun? I personally think it's the same old, same old, gear grind, but if you like it, great. Why do you feel like you need to be validated by "experts" in the press?

I love GW2 and I'll be playing it until the day that I feel bored with it regardless of what a critic says about it.