Maestia: Rise of Keledus: Are Beautiful Graphics Enough?
There are two English language versions of Maestia. We have been putting the US version to the test to see how it stacks up against other MMOs. See how Maestia fared in our latest review!
Character creation options in Maestia are somewhat lacking and all we get are a limited selection of faces and hairstyles. There are also no facial attributes to adjust and no character voices to choose from. The choices here are definitely a lot skimpier than what you get in the big name MMORPGs like Rift or Tera. However, as if to make up for these shortcomings, the game lets you pick any colour you want for your character's skin and hair. And when I say any colour, it really is ANY colour. Feel like rolling a blue-skinned Pandoran who looks like he/she just escaped from Avatar? Go right ahead.
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nope. Graphics alone are not enough.
Tera is a prime example. Tera is a fantasticly looking game, but sadly the extreme Asian quirckiness, the art style, and the very shallow endgame content just keeps it in obscurity.
AoC was also incredibly beautiful and yet the combat mechanics, very heavy instancing, and very high computer requirements, not to mention the shaky launch, really limited it's popularity.
i still believe that WoW's succes was due mainly because of how inredibly responsive and easy to control your character is ( have yet to find that kind of responsivness in any mmo) and just how well the game runs on just about any machine. Graphics had nothing to do with it.
Oddly, I liked Maestia and plan to dabble in it from time to time. Nevertheless, your observations were spot-on (I didn't try out PvP yet though).
I think I've just played a lot worse...
Not even close, Runes of Magic is a decent game and has far more depth than many Sub games...I guess thats how the game managed to make so much money it funded two other games including Tera and the upcoming RaiderZ even though its F2P.
This game does look reasonable, but standard cloned systems inlcuding questing. (for all you developers out there its time to ditch QUEST HUBS its 2012 folks srsly now)
No innovation and no creativity so this game will likely be recevied poorly like most other asian Free2pays.(Btw Auto Potion is the norm in these kind of games and is not innovative)
There will be another one of these games in about 10 minutes *looks at watch*
It definately did not fund either of those games. Maybe helped them get publishing rights to them in the specific region?