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<blockquote data-quote="GreatLemur" data-source="post: 2026509" data-attributes="member: 28553">I think we're using different definitions of &quot;obnoxious,&quot; here.&nbsp; I'm not morally offended by Aldea, I'm aesthetically irritated by it.It's certainly nice to see settings that aren't relentlessly, retardedly darkity-dark-dark, but when major concepts in a setting are named things like &quot;the Golden Hart&quot; and &quot;the Blue Rose Scepter,&quot; and the words &quot;Light&quot; and &quot;Shadow&quot; are explicitly given moral implications, and then the goddamned psychic cats show up . . . well, at about that point I start rolling my eyes so badly that I can no longer see.I love Steve Kenson's work, but the Blue Rose fluff makes me want to use quite a few uncharitable words in addition to obnoxious, such as &quot;pandering,&quot; &quot;insulting,&quot; &quot;hackneyed,&quot; and others.&nbsp; It makes my teeth ache.Sorry to rant.&nbsp; I really do wish the game well, and will probably buy it myself.&nbsp; It's just that the designers set out to work in an idiom that I already cannot stand, and managed to exaggerate that idiom to near-parody levels in the process.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GreatLemur, post: 2026509, member: 28553"] I think we're using different definitions of "obnoxious," here. I'm not morally offended by Aldea, I'm aesthetically irritated by it. It's certainly nice to see settings that aren't relentlessly, retardedly darkity-dark-dark, but when major concepts in a setting are named things like "the Golden Hart" and "the Blue Rose Scepter," and the words "Light" and "Shadow" are explicitly given moral implications, and then the goddamned [i]psychic cats[/i] show up . . . well, at about that point I start rolling my eyes so badly that I can no longer see. I love Steve Kenson's work, but the Blue Rose fluff makes me want to use quite a few uncharitable words in addition to obnoxious, such as "pandering," "insulting," "hackneyed," and others. It [i]makes my teeth ache[/i]. Sorry to rant. I really do wish the game well, and will probably buy it myself. It's just that the designers set out to work in an idiom that I already cannot stand, and managed to exaggerate that idiom to near-parody levels in the process. [/QUOTE]

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