Worst MMO Ever? - Tera 

Apparently TERA actually does want you to make Elins because there was a whole article written about how Elins saved the game cause lolicon whales kept pumping money into the game for their Elin waifus. In short: Monetize toward lolicons and you're golden.

I just remember trying this game with a friend, and he made the biggest character model possible and I made the smallest. If I walked up to a standard bed my character would need a step stool to climb up, and I was literally about ankle height on my friend's character. That was my favorite thing about the game, the two of us adventuring together and me looking like his infant child lmao.

Only played TERA for like

As a main healer/support on most mmo games Ive played, I to this day still think Terra's mechanics for healers was one of the most satisfying out there. RIP

He actually did it, he killed tera. They’re shutting down. No wonder he’s a top ranked member of the shadow cabal.

Tera is a weird one. I've given it a shot like.. 5-6 times already, but for some reason it never stuck. The combat and graphics are absolutely great though.

It's heartbreaking to think of the artists who created this world having to see it killed like this

The combat was really so good. To this day I still tell people about how good combat and tanking especially was. Manually blocking with right click being able to time block any attack and being pushed back as you hold your shield and a giant monster charges you. Amazing combat indeed.

When the game first came out it had some lore about how the two continents are actually two giant gods dreaming and forming the whole world. I always justified the stupid outfits as being the gods just having a perpetual wet dream because of that.

" the costumes held no regards in aesthetic, time peiod, or lore whatsoever" my mage character with wolf mask, gothic clothes, angel wings riding a rubber ducky : uhm......

16:35 He also plays general Tullius in Skyrim, Doc Mitchel in Fallout New Vegas and Captain Bailey in Mass Effect. What a Legend.

Come back to watch this again, still saddens me deeply. Tera was such a unique MMO, it scratches every part of my mmo itch. It was the game that I constantly went back to. And it's gone forever with nothing to replace it.

I can't believe you killed Tera.

The people who made Tera really had talent. The mobs were some of the coolest I've seen in an MMO. I still remember to this day a specific mob animation. It was a dwarf mob riding on the shoulders of some giant mob. If you staggered them, they would both fall down. The dwarf would get back on it's feet first; smack the head of the giant to scold him and then get back on his shoulders. so many great moments like that. I could do with the over sexualised females and the elin and stuff. But the cosmetics just spit in the face of all the hard work the artist put in designing Tera's world. Such a shame.

Honestly, I loved Tera purely because of the fights against BAMs. I loved soloing BAMs as a lancer, warrior tank stance or even slayer. Dungeons felt awesome, combat felt super responsive and impactful. The BAMs had awesome design, and learning each of their patterns, when to block and when to attack as a tank was just superb. It's really a shame that Tera died. No other game even to this day managed to top or even come close to its incredible combat.

Got 500 hours of this on steam. I really miss it. One day I was feeling really really low and I sat somewhere in a town just to people watch while I introspected and someone came up and sat with me to chat about stuff and encourage me to keep going in life. Never had a moment like this in any other MMO

I actually paid attention to the plot and lore once. The story was hella generic. Lore was actually interesting with the different factions, cultures, deities and so on. But they never did much with it.

Tera isnt even a ghost of its former self at this point. I used to play it a lot not long after it went F2P and loved it. It used to have a really good crafting and gathering system until they just decided to remove 95% of it for no reason whatsoever. When they did that i knew Tera was gonna be in a downward spiral and seeing what its become now im glad i dropped it when i did. What they did to that poor game is an absolute atrocity.

I used to play TERA a lot, and one of the most charming things about it that I always remember is the janky, inconsistent, often poorly-recorded voice acting that plays every single time you talk to an NPC. They have some really strange and memorable lines that they read in strange and memorable ways. Edit: Man, I had no idea they boosted the EXP from the main story so much. Back when I played it took months to get to endgame and going through all the areas with friends was really enjoyable.

The combat was truly amazing. I remember playing the "gunner" class and encountering two other gunners (of a similar level) on the trail leading back to town. We all stopped dead in our tracks and stared each other down for a tense few seconds before I summoned my mount to make a quick getaway. However, they immediately knocked me off my mount with a well-aimed shot. I was fighting them for a solid 20 minutes, trading blows with them, back and forth. Eventually, I was able to beat both of them because of the excellent action-combat system. I simply outplayed them, despite their numerical advantage. Stats be damned

Played this when guilds could actually hold zones/territories through popular vote, control taxes, even hold player-funded events (Even my guild, Itty Bitty Kitty Committee ran the beginner zone multiple times). It was crazy player-driven and entirely enjoyable.

TERA's story is like a story of many other mmos that appeard on "Worst MMO Ever" series - it's ruined by rash, ill-considered greed.

God I remember taking part in the beta for this back in college, well over a decade ago. It showed such promise, but my friends didn't want to leave WoW and League, so I didn't really take part in it once it actually released, but I remember having a blast with what I did play. Such a shame what it became.

As soon as you said Velika I instantly got nostalgic for that time everyone collectively spammed orbs until we broke Velika and made everyone crash 🤣🤣🤣

This and the Neverwinter one have embodied a change in the tone of this entire series. What started as laughing at baffling games has turned into a stroll through a damn graveyard.

Josh: *Calls a winged horse a unicorn.* MLP and fantasy fans: "Actually, that's a pegasus." Greek mythology fans: "Actually, Pegasus was a specific winged horse and the son of Poseidon."

It's nice to see that other people think that solo dungeons should be a thing in MMOs. I've had to Solo most of the MMOs I've ever played (either friends weren't available, queues were bad, or internet was trash), and I tend to prefer to take things slower so I can soak up visuals or enjoy lore in the games I play (which means I'm everyone's least favorite dungeon companion). MMOs really need an option for dungeons that just lets the average person go in and enjoy them on their own time without requiring to either handhold somebody or be dragged like a comet trail through the instance, just enjoy the content. Also Michael Hogan sounds completely stoned doing these lines for this character.

I know I’m like months late but playing tera we’re some of my best experiences in any mmo. That baby game and climbing a mountain after getting past invisible barriers only to find out you can walk on an invisible platform was great. Making a friend fall to their death after walking past the platform was also great. The dungeons I enjoyed. Tera has a special place in my heart. I’m sad to see it go

After 6000 hours of playing this I can say that it went from good to shit. And I saw it happening in real time. The turning point was when they decided to include mounts with special stats that u could only get in the game shop and even that was rng. After that. The game pretty much dug its own grave.

The most unsettling thing about tera, is how they made quality of life changes, but left the NPC's in the world that use to provide the functions they changed. Before, you had to talk to your class mentor to upgrade and unlock new abilities. So there's a massive building with 1 of each class mentor just standing there. You can now just open the skill menu and unlock skills and upgrade them anywhere. However, these npcs are still in that massive building and you get a prompt to talk to them, but they don't say anything or serve any purpose. The world is filled with npcs that use to do something, now they are just empty vessels that for some reason they still let you "talk" to them. I'm pretty sure there's a repair npc, that when you talk to them they say "you need something repaired? I am your man." Then the dialogue CLOSES and he doesn't repair your gear, because now you just repair your own gear.

Crazy thing about this series is that every time I watch these videos I run back to these MMOs as fast as I can knowing full well how far they've fallen 😅

Josh: “Tera is a dress-up game with some combat sprinkled in.” Me: *playing Warframe*

Re-watching after the announcement TERA is closing since I chose to believe this video solely caused it and you can't change my mind.

Honestly if you took Tera's combat and chucked into an actual fleshed out world that engages you it'd be amazing. The combat and combat animations to this day is still one of the only MMOs that actually felt good to me. You could almost feel each hit and attack as you did it. A few touches needed to make it a little better but overall the best combat feeling I've had from an MMO

As a person that played the game for more than 10 years (i really don't remember how much more) and the game being were i met 3 of the best mans of my weading that are still my friends now a days, i have too much emotions invested in it to hear your words in the vídeo and not note that you really played , explored and loved some of the game, i don't know if you explored the hardest content of the game (which in a combat based game is the most the game can offer) but it really don't matter, you were right about the most parts and even with so much strange game design choices the game changed my life and who i am today, now that the game is just alive in our hearts, i miss even the ridiculous dress up and the empty abandoned areas. R.I.P. Tera. Ps.: About the part you said "you will not remember the story" i really laught a lot because i did full story line with more that 30 characters and i realy couldn't remember the story specific of the place that you were doing the quest (i remember that was about the introduction of the relic weapons but i really could remember the rest) confirming your point! 🤣

Tera veteran who had played for a long period of time on 2 distinct separate occasions, and 1 smaller period of time. I remember back in the REALLY old days where Berserker was actually a tank, and I loved playing Slayer so much because of the gigantic sword you used. I never even got to max level in that time despite how long I had played for, and came back to it when Reaper was released and stuck around for a little while before again quitting. Then I came back when Brawler was released and that was the longest period I had stuck around for because I was a part of a big guild by that point and where I discovered my LOVE for Tanking, especially with the Tera combat system. It was so fun to actually be a part of a guild, but I was also equally devastated seeing how much the game was changing around that time period. So many systems and areas were already being forgotten about at that point. After quitting for that final time, I did come back one last time sometime after Ninja was released and almost immediately stopped playing within the first day. It was at that time I realized Tera was a shell of its former self, and having only just learned a week ago the game officially shut down last year, it only further depresses me. I still have not found an MMO like it, and I'm fearful that I never will again in my life, despite how much I love FFXIV as well, it's just not the same at all.

"A dress-up simulator with a combat system attached" I never expected you to sell me on a game in this series Josh. Almost makes me regret not getting into it back in the day. Then again, given the account wipes, maybe not.

"The MMO equivalent of playing with Barbie's Dreamhouse and trying to recreate scenes from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure" That must be the best description I've heard for a game to play while drunk

TERA is my all time second favorite game after Runescape, I spent many hours on Mt Tyrannas in the guilds Amaterasu, Comfy, and Take It Easy. I was one of the top gunners on the server for multiple patches, played lots of pvp in FWC, 3v3, and and Cs too, and also had maxed alts for all the classes. Endgame was so much fun and I really miss things like Dreadspire and the 20 person raid boss. Lots of good memories with it, haven't been able to touch any other MMO since then.

15:59 Ulfric Stormcloak. Some here in Helgen call you a hero, but a hero doesn't use a power like the voice to kill his king and usurp the throne. You started this war, plunged Skyrim into chaos, and now the Empire is going to put you down, and restore the peace.

Man, listening to what’s happened to such a beautiful game reminds me of that meme that reads “you can easily return to the past but no one is there anymore” It’s like liminal spaces. Everything’s designed to be used by people, but it’s a ghost town. Very, very sad.

saddest truth is that there's much, MUCH more beatiful sights in this game that werent shown in video, probably because you've never visited those locations, game just doesnt want you to. Fastest and most efficient way to level up you character is just doing dungeons over and over, you can fucking speedrun this game within, no joke, 4-5 hours from the point where you appear as a new lvl 1 character, up to lvl 65 (cap is 70 btw) without EVER touching the story line after lvl 10-12 and the only thing you will see in this massive beautiful world is dungeon entrances. Although even some of those look really gorgeous, as was shown in the video

Fun fact: there used to be several more cutscenes in the intro section, there were more quests, npcs were more spread out, and you leveled slower giving you time to learn the fundamentals of your class. All of this was removed to help retain veteran players who were starting new characters, and leaving new players completely in the dust about whats happening and why it all matters. On top of that, the gear you got from quests used to be weaker, but the relic weapons required yout to do a short grind to boost your power for the next few areas. Also the main quests were changed to take a much more confusing and menial path through the game. This change still baffles me. The flying mount used to be reward around level 50 iirc, and many of the empty areas of cities used to house npcs and stations to help you with things like crafting

So this is what killed tera huh

The one thing that has always stood out to me with this game was the combat. One of the most interesting and fun combat mechanics I've experienced. That's about all I remember.

It is so weird seeing these MMOs years after I’ve stopped playing. Just like with Aion this is a completely different game than when I first played. It’s kinda sad. I left Aion for Rift and left Rift for Tera. All three are so different now. Tera was a game changer for me. I couldn’t go back to a tab target system after playing it.

I bought the game on release ON PHYSICAL MEDIA (that tells you how long ago that was) and played for months when it started. I was even part of a guild that had some territory control and we all had the fancy white horse mount. To this day I've not experienced a more satisfying MMO combat experience than with the Lancer class in this game. I loved the aesthetics of the game and the gameplay that felt new and refreshing compared to the auto-attack + skill cd norm of the time. The ability to build your skill combo chains was really fun and everyone had their own playstyle. I also loved how the race and gender you picked for your character was basically a personality test in this game lol I've gone back to the game a few times since then just to play a bit of Lancer since I loved it so much but you definitely felt the game was well past its prime even a few years after release. Usually I'd roam around the poporin town and help random low-level players with mob quests around there since I liked the halloween-y feel of the place.

I first played Tera around 2012, I was hooked. I loved everything about it, sad to see what it’s come to. I did stop playing around 2015/16, but it feels like I was just playing it a couple weeks ago. The dungeon raids and holiday events were so fun, especially the big baby one. Even though I haven’t played in so long, I’m still sad to see it go. Tbh this may be my favorite MMORPG I’ve ever played. While I don’t remember the story, I didn’t care because I really only cared for the cosmetics and combat. Watching this video sent me way back, now I want to hop on and do a couple dungeons lmao, if it was how it used to be back in 2012.

This game was so ahead of it's time when it came out, and it still has one of the best if not the best action combat system in the mmorpg space, but my god have they mutilated it over the years. I can hardly recognize the game I used to play back then. Questlines are gone, enemies are pushovers, zones are empty and rewards are useless. I return to Tera every once in while out of pure nostalgia and each time it gets worse. There is literally nothing to do besides the main quest. The zones are still there, the quests are still there, the loot is still there; but it's all just remnants of a better time with no purpose anymore. The game feels almost post apocalyptic at this point. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I just want it to die. Gameforge is puppeteering around a corpse, dressing it up in ever more ridiculous costumes and mocking it's aimless shambling. They just need to stop and put it to rest.

This was probably the MMO I enjoyed most, shame about uh... A lot of things. Never got the email telling me to migrate my account so I lost everything, probably for the best.

A shame it died, I really enjoyed it. A great looking game with it's own unique pros and cons.

Hearing you explain everything that went wrong with Tera makes me realize that the exact same thing happens to so many mmos... It happened to maplestory which i'm waiting for you to do a video on still and so many other games that offer things like 2x exp items and things such as gear that levels up with you to a certian point making anything else up until end game useless as well as making it so much easier to get EXP now that you out level quests and don't stay in spots for long enough to experience them, making the only locations you actually remember being the endgame ones... People remember mmos fondly back when they first came out BECAUSE it took long to level and you had to grind to get strong or find good gear, which in turn lead you to explore literally every map or part of an mmo. Nowadays these same mmos all have crazy events on constantly that will have you leveling up fast and getting really good gear fairly easily, cutting out all of the grinding until endgame.

it's a shame seeing it die. With how amazing the environments are, and how good the combat is, I kinda really do hope they release this game as just a single player character action RPG. I'd even pay money for it!

I loved Tera when it came out. I got it Physically and everything. Eventually I just stopped following the game and when I looked it up again it had changed devs, so my characters would have been deleted, and it had become a glorified cash shop. The worst fate of any MMO. Existing only to sell things in the Cash shop I can't complain about it being in this series. There are other MMOs I loved that have been in it. Once an MMO only exists to sell it's few remaining players things in a Cash shop there is no coming back sadly

I miss TERA. Was it all cosmetics? Yes. Did I play an Elin with a maid outfit? Of course 4 out of my 5 characters were Elin. Did I make entire spreadsheets to track my progression on the "All My Life" Achievement so I could get the red raptor mount? Hell Yes. Did the tutorial area back in the old days take hours upon hours or even days to grind to completion? Also yes. But I miss the gorgeous landscape visuals, the monsters, riding around on my mounts and exploring, the amazing times I had while playing the Baby Kuma and Corsair's stronghold end-game minigames. I miss sneaking into high level areas to get the tourist trap achievement at a low level so I could get a watermelon pet, and I miss playing this game with my friends.

I love you video serie because it shows me how far those mmos have fallen. I remember playing day on Tera and it was so different. Glad they kept the killing gameplay that was so good

Back in the early days, the BAMs were much harder. I remember specifically when they nerfed them, so they would be easier to solo. what a bad move. Those original BAMs struck fear in us unless we were with solid teams, and were awesome fun to hunt with a group. My guild held the governorship of one of the regions, and hunting BAMs was a way to earn the rulership currency to keep the regional perks up for everyone in it.

I got into Tera just after it initially went free to play, waaaaaaaay back during the Enmasse era. Quit somewhere between Reapers and Gunners. I went back this past week just out of curiosity and nostalgia and... I barely recognize the game I left. I was literally just reminiscing with an old friend of mine who played the game with me back then and how bad it is at present so I'm not surprised to see it here. The original story such as it was has been absolutely gutted from what I hear, with huge swathes of regions and content having been nuked to compensate for the power creep and increasing level caps. A lot of the wonder and adventure we all shared going through our first dungeons, when BAMs were actually threatening and only a few classes (or very skilled players) could take them on alone are just snoozefests. Went to a (at the time) top level area to fight a bam with my undergeared lancer just to see where I stood; I three-shotted it. There's no gear variety. No buildcraft. BIS 'legendary' sets like Visionmaker are a thing of the past. Battlegrounds? Lol. There used to be a robust roleplay community at least on a few of the servers (Celestial Hills xD); it's gone. There are currencies within currencies, vouchers within vouchers, boxes within boxes. I thought GW2 had a currency issue, but my GOD does Tera take the cake. My friend said it best, "It now plays more like a flashy, glorified mobile game". After playing GW2 for the last few years and all the QoL and alt-friendly stuff it has going for it, Tera has a lot of inconveniences that bother me more than they did back in the day. About the most amusement I've gotten from it was looking into fishing... until I learned it is just another giant rng goldsink. It's so sad to see a game I spent so much time with being brought to ruin, but that's how it goes when greed wins out.

Your intro was one of the best, short explanations of Tera....ever.

Was cleaning up my Steam library and got nostalgic. Glad to see someone made a video about this.

Wow, I never realized how beautiful and well developed certain aspects of this game actually are. Really makes me wonder if some original development team had a dream and a vision, and then corporate came in and mucked it all up.

I legit miss Tera. I preordered it had the Founder mark and even bought the big bundle with the physical disk and the Compass. It was marvelous. Seeing it in 2021 really hurt to see what its become.

Jeez I really had to like both this and the Skyforged video because you called me out on looking for the 'jiggly'.

hey, i still have the old tera on my seam library, too! combat was pretty damn fun. i couldn't get too into it so i only have like 60 hours, but those were some great 60 hours for sure!

00:47 i always smile when you show the patreon people, Chris Turner always being the first, even when there are more and more names to put in. Kind of stuff that helps me know when the channel is really good, not only flashy and tied to trending topics/games. You really do filter your "video creation" through the heart, not the trending topics page haha. Thanks for the good time you always give me. In fact, you were the only person to blame for sparking again my will to play, after almost a year afk(game-wise).

The progression and questing is awful, but the combat is really engaging (moreso than any other mmo I've played, which includes most popular ones). That's what kept me in for like 200 hours originally and what's had me revisitting every now and then for years now.

This was one of the best MMORPGs I had ever played when it first released. Playing a Warrior with the Dual Swords yet being an evasion tank but could still do pretty decent damage with the right runes as just so much fun... and then it all went to hell within a year.

Incidentally Michael Hogan also voiced General Tulius in Skyrim.

I remember trying out TERA when I first started looking for an alternative to WoW. I absolutely loved the combat system but sadly the endgame content of holding elections to become governor of a territory and the guild vs guild wars were not enough. I moved on from TERA but to this day, I wished that combat system could be ported into any other game with a stronger story and end game.

Honestly, Ive never played this and probably wont, but I gotta say - the enemy visual designs are surprisingly great.

This game really needed to adopt yoshi p philosophy about content and dungeons. You give the end game players things to do that can be completed in older content. This ensure no content ever goes to waste because even the end game players need stuff from old content still.

Damn, I played this way back when and it was one of my most memorable experiences. I had to stop playing because my laptop broke and seeing the state of the game in this video genuinely breaks my heart.

Josh Strife Hayes: "If the dessert shop suddenly started offering things like salads or selling shoes or art or chips or Chinese, it wouldn't work." Tchibo: "Hold my coffee..."

If every account was transferred appropriately, I think the game would be in a much healthier place in terms of players playing Tera, in my opinion, still holds the best true action combat in any MMO I've ever played

Back when it first released there wasn’t really a game like Tera. The extremely responsive real-time combat, the epic scenery, a giant whale floating in the air for no damned reason at all. In my memories this game was bar none my favorite MMO. I’ve since went back to play it and found it lacking in essentially all the ways mentioned in this video. Time was not good to this game and the development plummeted hard. But -that first year- wow. Shout out to my old guild Advantage.

Years ago the story actually had some general cohesion. They changed the starting area to changes / "spice things up" They made the starting island (island of dawn) smaller and smaller and smaller till they removed it for the current one but then they shorted the new one to the point where you can't even follow the minimal story. The store was at least sorta balenced (never the EU version the NA version was ok)

This was the first MMO I ever played and its combat was so good that it ruined my gameplay expectations of every other MMO out there. It was so much fun back in the day, and running dungeons and exploring the overworld with random friends made while playing was the best. I miss what this game used to be. If they ever released a TERA classic server, I would pay to play it.

I remember TERA was an mmo I tried when I was a teen. Even I thought it was way over-sexualized, but I did think it was nice that for once it had a race that the males wore almost no clothes too, the succu/incubus race. I liked it then just forgot about it completely midway though the forest town.

16:03 General tulius?! what're you doing here don't you have stormcloaks to deal with?!.

Snuck into a media only demo at PAX, played healer it was amazing. Giant circles where your character is facing was incredibly fun.

Man, I remember I dumped so many hours into Tera when it came to console. The combat was so good and so was the...armour designs.

this one is gonna hurt

I actually recognized Michael Hogan as General Tullius from Skyrim. That intro execution monologue is burned into my head.

Also fun tidbit from someone who's started many many new characters. When the first miniboss spawns run underneath it back to the bridge it came across and it can't hit you. You can attack it endlessly and take absolutely no damage until the losing script YEETS you to the dying spot in front of the boss. It's hilarious.

My fondest memory with Tera : I spent 14 hours climbing a moutain by foot (In a pirate-beach map, in the early game if I recall right).

TERA being an example of how important atmosphere and restraint is when designing a game world

11:15 - wait, did your pegasus just achieve full warp-speed?! Also liked and subbed for... reasons..... outlined in the video.....

This video gave me insane nostalgia, used to play this ALL the time with friends. Thanks for making this vid

Played this game on release and let me tell you, this game saw an amazing couple of years, just beautiful. This was an amazing MMO and I'm so happy I played it early, because when the contract happened this game went from being beautifully intricate to a pile of ashes. Everything the developers built along with the community was set ablaze and everything we loved about the game was simplified and removed. I don't even recognize this game anymore, I hope people stop playing it altogether and let it rest in peace. It's really tragic to see how a game who was once on top of the world fell so far and became the garbage that it is now.

By the visuals of TERA in the time it was released, you can tell how immersive all that world was. I remember how I discovered this game right after Aion. No-target mechanic was brand new, open world PVP, massive two continents just like World of Warcraft, and just like WOW this game also felt insanely big. You could literally travel map for hours and hours and always find something new. Of course TERA now doesn't seem that good, compared to the games we have now like souls-games, but back in 2011-2013 this game was a absolutely fantastic experience in its raw version, just like Aion once was..

That mount that was a piggy with a pompadour WAS pretty cute, though. A pig! With a human haircut!

I got to meet Michael Hogan. He was the nicest celebrity I ever met and he seemed genuinely shocked and thankful that I said I was a big fan of voice work.

JSH has now officially killed TERA.

One thing you missed was the extreme amount of resources needed to rank up in the middle end game and beyond. End game is just the start, then your first couple of rank ups for your gear are no big deal. But once you get to the middle rank ups you start failing a lot and then you must grind endlessly to rank up every piece of armor and jewelry as well as your weapon. When you have multiple classes, each one of them makes it even more extreme. hundreds of hours of grinding just to rank all your gear to the next rank.

Starting playing back in 2012 when it went F2P since my friend group recommended to give it a shot after being bored from constant League of Legends salt. Man what an experience, I was honestly captivated by the graphics and the combat style. Back then when Visionmaker was the most hard and dope equips you could craft and leveling up really felt like a journey. Everytime I would go to a new city/area I was mesmerized by the complete change of style that still kept me hyped for what I would discover there. Then I left it, came back a few years later and started a brand new account with another friend - reach max level, grind for a few days then drop it again. And then I started a brand new character again, this time solo and I went hard on it, made an Elin gunner and just bang bang reached the endgame, doing the latest stuff, wrecking the new dungeon and making the most money I ever made in any mmo since I could trade the latest expansion drops. And then I just decided one morning I will do achievements and ohhh boy after weeks I hit that Legend banner and honestly felt proud. Then I didn't drop it but more like put the game on the shelf as I went to real life stuff, work, relationships etc. But I was always proud I reached that level and had my character still there with all the achievements, cosmetics, equips. And then I check the game out randomly and see that it shuts down and the servers were already dead by the time I noticed, everything deleted permanently, game dead. So rest in peace dear TERA, you will always have a place in my heart, even if you weren't the best MMORPG you most surely was my most fun...

The original story set up during beta made a hell of a lot more sense. I appreciate that they TRIED to have an evolving story...but it did not work well.

I remember being in love with Tera back in the day. Got to end game was part of a big guild, did the pvp (fav being the castle capture one)everything. The sad part was just seeing everything you liked about it changing. The game had problems that needed fixed but not the way the ended up doing so. Seeing the difficulty slide down a mountain and die was probably the most painful thing for me. Also seeing the original starting island slowly be abandoned was a weird feeling. On the bright side this was the mmo that started my interest in the I.T field.trying to get the perfect pc upgrade to play this game on the max settings ,and talking to the techs in my local shop ignited a passion. So if nothing else I’ll always remember it for that.

Tera used to be my favorite game, I started playing back when it was run by enmasse. I fell in love with the graphics, I remember spending hours questing and gathering just to explore the different areas on the map, enjoy the different sounds and monsters each area had to offer. I was in it for the visuals and the combat, I never liked the grinding aspect of the game. Once I got to end game and realized it was just pure grinding in dungeons, that was it for me, it became boring. Your video pretty much sums up what it has become, so sad.

I know this is extremely late, but Michael Hogan also voiced Doc Mitchell from Fallout New Vegas. I'm sure out of the nearly 4,800 comments someone mentioned that, but when I listened to the voice I immediately recognized it.

When you asked about Samael's voice (Michael Hogan) all I heard was General Tulius.