GraspingVileTerror

per https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/29494-part-1-how-do-you-define-playing-the-game-specific-to-city-of-heroes/?tab=comments#comment-369985:

* Theme and Tone are all over the fucking map, frankly.  Different writers and Devs have given wildly different weight to much of the content in this game.  For example, the Blueside's Police Radio Missions are largely all over-the-top jokes which just pull me out of the experience entirely.  Meanwhile, the likes of Mr. Bocor's Port Oakes missions or Peter Themari's Cap au Diable arcs are far, FAR more impactful and engaging to me.  Of course, then seeing Peter Themari in the Level 30'ish Tip Mission having that tone and consistency twisted in a weird sort of inversion of the intensity and the magnitude of evil is disjointed, to say the least.
To that end, SOMETIMES theme and tone affect my play experience negatively or positively depending on context.  After all, sometimes they have the capacity to actually disrupt my enjoyment of the game due to that wild inconsistency, and I feel it necessary to disregard them.  But that's a criticism for a different (series of) thread(s).