Tera: a belated first look

[loquat]

So, I finally got around to trying Tera. That's the MMORPG with the ridiculously scanty costumes, if the name doesn't ring a bell. You have almost certainly seen the promo pictures featuring a devil-girl wearing thigh boots, long gloves, and very little else. So the first thing that surprised me was that many of the men are also scantily clad. The devil-boys look like they're on their way to a gay fetish modeling competition, the draconic males frequently insist on showing off their scaly abs, and, most disturbingly, both the draconics and the all-male living statues have several outfits that wholly lack groinal coverage. To be sure, neither race possesses external genitalia; the living statues are carved stone and don't need it, while the draconics have scales covering the area and can be presumed to be doing the retractable-penis thing. In short, if you want to guarantee that your Tera character will never ever show skin, you're pretty much limited to human males.

For the sake of the sheer awesome that is the draconic females, I would overlook all of this - were it not for the lamentable* decision to make all but the most ludicrously expensive armor dyes wear off after 1 to 7 days. Tera has this whole complex dye system where you can gather dye components and blend them together to make exactly the color you want and then do it again every time it wears off. For this alone, I may never play the game again.

When it comes to MMOs, I am a petty, petty individual.


*Yes, I know it's an F2P cash grab. That doesn't make it fun.