Tenzhi

I won't inconvenience you with my schedule, but if possible I might actually want to get in on this on Virtue with the character that I get my forum name from, so please let us know when you have a time set.

I keep forgetting that this game is in the works...

Is there more than just that one instance? Because one instance isn't necessarily indicative of a "policy".

Mind you, I don't expect any of these revival attempts to be successful. But there's no harm in trying, and it's kind of nice to witness these efforts born from the effusive positivity this game and its community have fostered in a fair number of people.

Personally, I was looking for the Tank Dalek (or "Special Weapons Dalek", I think it might be called). Alas, if it was there I missed it.

My issues with it have nothing to do with the community, and everything to do with its user-unfriendliness. Among other things, I just tried to log in from work and it wanted me to verify the device via email that I can only access from home.

City of Heroes is the only MMO I've ever felt comfortable falling into PUGs, so the teaming in TERA isn't much of an issue for me. I have a few real-life friends that I have been regularly playing with, and I've found the team combat to be fun (and occasionally necessary) with a few exceptions.

Dungeons can be rough. To put them into CoH perspective, it's basically like an instance where you fight numerous groups of 2-4 fairly tough Elite Bosses (often spawned rather closely to other groups), occasionally some groups of 5-30 Lieutenants, and often some AV or GM fights with crazy attacks that can almost instantly wipe the entire 5-person party some of whom continually spawn those large groups of Lieutenants. Oh, and you have no mez protection so when the dragon stuns everybody and you try to get close enough to un-mez your tank your priest ends up stunned as well and that's why you shouldn't meddle in the affairs of dragons. Yet, despite these hardships (and anyone familiar with my tendencies around here knows how much I loathe difficulty) I still enjoy the game.

However, I'm concerned that TERA may not be a viable choice for much longer. Apparently, they're merging servers on September 18th. Mind you, I was uncertain how long I'd be playing the game for anyway - it's fun, but it can't keep stringing me along for several years via gratuitous variety that feeds into my altitis (nor keep me engaged with forums) so I imagine I'd be playing it for a few months at most anyway.

I'm generally disgusted by corporate greed, myself. I see the effects of it regularly even within the small corporation I work for. But I also see odd decisions get made that, at best, pay lip service to financial motivation but which really seem to be rooted in petty social concerns - corporate politics, I would call it. And that's what this whole fiasco seems like to me.

It fails to make them scary, however, and rather makes them into pepperpot Borg. With the Doctor now being potentially set up as Locutus.

Action/Beat-em-ups with RPG elements is probably my favourite game type overall. It's certainly the direction I'd prefer a Superhero game to go in, but the other two Superhero games tried to go in that direction and didn't implement it very well. And it's probably part of why I'm enjoying TERA so much.

The more a game disregards PvP, the happier I am. The best I can generally hope for is segregated PvE servers.

Yeah, they really nailed the city environments... in scale and impressive architecture if nothing else. None of the three Superhero games nailed the Superheroes, IMO, though CoH came closest for me (and yet was always so far away). DCUO missed the mark the most, though, which made me sad as I flew/ran/climbed around Gotham and Metropolis.

Unless those Dalek nanites fixed her up and made a Dalek factory out of her womb.

I blame Guild Wars 2. And reverse psychology.

I don't recall when exactly it was, though it was some time after it had come out. It felt like I was playing a piss poor attempt at trying to make an MMO knockoff of the ******* child of Diablo and Baldur's Gate. The game was boring but tolerable through the beginning area, and then at the first city it seemed like I was pretty much going to have to grind the few enemies right outside the gate over and over for hours unless I wanted to team up with one of the jerks running around - there were NPCs to hire of course, but upon doing so I found them to be a nigh-useless waste of money. Given that on top of all that disappointing experience the only thing people seemed to be touting for it were PVP-based features, the game got mentally placed in the Absolute Waste bin. I think I'd place it in my top 3 worst experiences trying an MMO right behind Eve Online and Aion, respectively.

Not even if.

The first one was such a boring, bland, click-n-grind that I couldn't be bothered to even look at the sequel. Not even if they added some playable non-human characters.

I preferred Dalek Sec, personally. He was cheesy, but not as much as the Dalek-unicorn-humans.

The combat in TERA is pretty fun in my opinion. I've been playing it for over a month now, and in some ways despite being a fantasy game I'd say it does many things better in action-MMO combat than Champions Online. Were it ramped up and expanded upon it could be superheroic combat. I'm not sure how long it will hold my attention, but I've already done more in it than I've ever managed to do in any other fantasy MMO I've played.

It certainly has its share of flaws, though. I'm not saying it's a shining example of perfection, but I've been enjoying it.