TERA

I read an article this week; I’m not going to bother to link it because it’s not worth your time, in which the author asserted that the MMO is a dying breed. Nobody’s playing them, he said, and nobody’s playing them because every game that comes out is a World of Warcraft clone. Let’s ignore, for a second, that the MMO world is far from under-populated and that there are plenty of games worth playing on the market today that were only released over the last 12 months. What annoyed me more than these rather loose opinions were the range of games he used as examples. The most shocking was his inclusion of TERA, a game that is about as far from a WoW Clone as is possible.

It was time to leave the Island of Dawn, I’d done everything I possibly could here and, after performing a little bit of a clean-up, I knew it was time to go. There were still many mysteries from my time on the Island: where was Elleon, the commander of the first wave of soldiers on the island? Why were the demons, usually so mercenary in their attitude, so hell-bent on attacking us? This week, at long last, I was finally time to start getting answers. But it wouldn’t be as easy as all that. I’d need to kill Kugai, explore my way into Karascha’s layer and struggle against him until he lay defeated and, finally, hop a life on a Pegasus on my way through to the grand city of Velika. It was going to be a busy, action-packed week, a staunch difference after the grind that was last week.