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Exalted sucks ass

Started by RPGPundit, February 19, 2009, 10:13:15 AM

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#195
February 26, 2009, 11:33:48 AM
Nope, truthfulness is the very opposite of pretentiousness.

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#196
February 26, 2009, 11:35:45 AM
Quote from: RPGPundit;285934Nope, truthfulness is the very opposite of pretentiousness.

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#197
February 26, 2009, 12:07:57 PM
Quote from: Imperator;285936Comedy gold.

I am still not sure that he doesn't see the pretentiousness of his own statements but has to keep it up to maintain the online persona.
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#198
February 26, 2009, 02:09:52 PM
In the interest of clear credit, Pundit... Justin Achilli is not the one who presided over V:tM during its heyday of pretentiousness.  You're thinking of Rob Hatch.

Say whatever you want about Achilli's online persona as a monumental asshole (sound familiar?), but he's about as goth as you are.  He's also the developer who de-angsted the game in favour of a more gritty approach, making it a lot less about roleplaying-as-art and a lot more about roleplaying-as-game (albeit a game where the crunch more closely matched the fluff, something that didn't seem to concern his predecessors overmuch).  If he's guilty of anything, it's not listening to too much Bauhaus -- it's watching too much WWE and Minnesota Vikings football.

Likewise Geoff Grabowski, whose chief inspiration for Exalted and the way it works wasn't Vampire... it was Feng Shui, hardly a standardbearer of pretentious artsy-fartsydom.

You may fairly dislike these guys and their games (personally I don't rate Exalted very highly at all), but call a spade a spade.

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