Extended Vacation Doesn’t Mean I Died

Posted on May 03, 2012

Hey Lore Hounds! I’ve missed you all! As the title and Agent K says: No, I’m not dead. I just went home. In the second week of February, I had a hard drive failure that took up until now to get completely fixed replaced and all working. I was unable to post things (had about 5 ideas

TERA Launches with New Trailer

Posted on May 01, 2012

It’s launch day for En Masse’s TERA and with it comes a new trailer showing off some of the games BAMs, cinematics and of course action combat. For those players who pre-purchased the game, En Masse’s is giving out even more gifts today, in the form of cosmetic weapon skins for every class. Simply log into your account and go to

TERA Live Today! LoreHound Has You Covered.

Posted on May 01, 2012

We Lore Hounds have been following TERA closely. It’s not a pet project or personal interest, it’s the community and a handful of writers that have been following the conversion of the hardcore action-oriented MMORPG from its Korean launch to the western audience. For years, we have been sniffing out various tidbits of information, challenging

Combat: Guild Wars 2 vs TERA

Posted on Apr 30, 2012

Over the weekend I had the chance to try out Guild Wars 2 during the game’s first beta weekend, as well as put in some time with TERA as its head-start began on Saturday. Jumping between the two games I was really able to get a feel for each games combat system and if I had to pick a

Guild Wars 2 Today; TERA Tomorrow

Posted on Apr 27, 2012

I wasn’t planning on participating in any of the Guild Wars 2 beta weekend events, not because I didn’t want to, but because it started at the same time TERA launched. Luckily for me, TERA’s head-start doesn’t start for North American players until tomorrow afternoon, so that gives me today to try out Guild Wars 2. The GW2 download was a

Why I’m Excited For TERA

Posted on Apr 26, 2012

Having played through some of the closed beta phases and last week’s open beta/unofficial head-start, I’m still very much excited for the game. While a bit of reality has set in that TERA won’t be the game that breaks the WoW mold, it is doing some very interesting things that I can’t wait to try out. I

I Don’t Get It: Open PvP and Theme-park MMORPGs

Posted on Apr 23, 2012

Sometimes I just don’t understand why things are the way they are. Today, after a bit of playing through the TERA open beta, I came to the realization that I just don’t understand why a theme-park game like this would even bother with allowing open PvP. Not that I don’t enjoy PvP, because I do, but when

LoreHound Crier: The Week at a Glance

Posted on Apr 20, 2012

It’s been another great week here at LoreHound. More PAX interviews have appeared, we’ve had a few exclusives, and there’s even been some game industry mudslinging. I was terribly excited to see news about Torchlight 2, and I’m sure there’s even more excitement about Diablo 3. I won’t be playing either game as I’ve got

TERA Interview – Action Combat, BAMs, PvP and more

Posted on Apr 19, 2012

We’re back with another interview, this time with Stefan Ramirez of En Masse, who’s the Associate Producer of TERA.  iTZKooPA talks to Stefan about “true action” combat, Argon creatures, BAMs, the upcoming open beta and much more. During the interview, we learned that TERA does utilize the “Holy Trinity” of healing, tanking and DPS, but puts a little spin on it by

Bluehole Studio calls NCsoft a “corporate bully”

Posted on Apr 19, 2012

On Tuesday, it was reported that ex-NCsoft employees were found guilty of leaking Lineage 3 information and coding to a rival and were sentenced to jail time. It was reported generally by media outlets as a win for NCsoft and implied by some that Bluehole Studio, the makers of TERA, were guilty because of the verdict. Yesterday Bluehole