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  1. Personally I do not see why not. If you read the book you can clearly se why the fight went the way it did. Kolar and Tiin steps up to opposite sides to arrest Sidious and when Sidious tells Tiin to read his mind they lower their blades. So sidious lets his camoflauge go and takes their heads while their guard is down. Then he goes for the other two, and no matter how good fisto is he is as stated only a master of form 1 which is only designed for fighting several opponents (and manyarmed opponents like grievous) and is extremely weak against Makashi which Sidious happened to be a master of. The fight betwwen Mace and Sidious is another story. Mace created Vapaad and is its only living master alongside Voss at the time so Sidious has no idea how to counter it (for reference look at the fight between Ka'sim VS Bane or Dooku VS Anakin/Obi-Wan and see what happens when you go up against a force user with an unfamiliar fighting style) and throughout the fight stays right on top of Sidious so the Dark Lord has no opportunity to let loose a force strom without getting his hand chopped off (bear in mind that during the fight they move at teleportation speed). Add the fact that Vapaad gets stronger the stronger the opposing dark sider is when used by a master (Voss VS Sora Bulq had a similar outcome) there is no reason to assume that Sidious was faking anything. Finally Mace wins when he breaks the window forcing Sidious to give up a little strength to keep himself from getting blown of the building, slowing him down just enough to get his lightsaber cut in half. Movie version is another story. Sidious starts of with a force scream which the jedi has no experience or protection from so three gets cut down before they can recover. Then Mace starts hammering down on Sidious and wins more details then that is nowhere to be found.
  2. I have to go with the Prequels. While neither Anaking Jar Jar or Padme are where interesting the rest is pretty good in my opinion. It not only expands the universe showing new worlds it also shows in a quite elegant manner just how the Republic fell and how it could be that a democracy could turn into a militaristic dictatorship. Obi-wan is also considirably well developed and I you can really see the guy that would turn into old Ben in 20 years. Yoda is also a good develpment wise as he is he displays all the flaws rhat made the Jedi order fail in the end. Same with Mace Windu a great character as well. The setting, tone, special effects and the LIGHTSABER FIGHTS are also where good and makes for awesome entertainment. ITs by no means perfect but I never really saw the problems that many other people saw with it, its a question of taste I guess. The new trilogy has no real bright spots for me. TFA was a good movie yes and when I saw it I thought that they made a finall tip of the hat to the olt stuff and aimed for expanding the new but that does not happen. TLJ is really a waste of time. Under a few days tey jump around doing dodging blaster bolts, throw in a forced romance and maybee throw in a few moral lessons. They kill of a villain they never bothered making interesting and then makes Kylo the same whiner he was in the beginning of TFA. The new trilogy could have been a great film if they had just dared to go into unexplored waters but they did not do thatm and so in my opnion they failed to add anything to the saga. New or recreated old.
  3. The Dread Masters are stated to only wield a fraction of Vititates power during the dread war. Could be just game hype and personally I would like to think that the Champions of either faction could have taken the Dread Masters. it makes no sence that they would come together without satbing eachother in the back. Palpatine is said to be the strongest Sith of all time but if you take a closer look at his performance there are some cracks in the plot armor. he gets cut of by Luke and Leia from the force by a technique they invent on the fly, (before that sort of thing is ever heard of in the star wars media) Galen Marek is able to compete with him at the age of 17 and to put it mildly all he has ever done is simply to fuel his ego so he has a serious overconfidence that can easily be exploited. On top of that he has never fought anyone who has mastered sith sorcery on a high level and Vitiate is one of the greatest sorcerers of all time. I'm not saying that that Vititate has no weak spots either but Palpatine has simply displayed more of them to my mind. To my mind it would spell out something like this. They start out with trading lightning and blasts since neither of them favour lightsaber battles when they where in their prime. Whatever building they fight in would be rubble by the time they are through. And when they start to realise that they are evenly matched in raw power (nothing they have showed me suggest otherwise) they turn to sorcery or Force/life drain. I do not know if Palpatine has ever displayed that power but since Luke and Leia stripped him so easily when he unleashed his force strom I would say that he has no knowledge on how to defend effectivly against it. Based on knowledge and consistency in powerlevel i would say Vitiate i the victor but that is just my opinion. Plapatine has to much inconsistency in his displayes, has never seen to wield any combat-related sorcery in any media I have read (please post me a source if I am wrong on that point) and is just flat out to ego-bosted to even consider that he might loose. Vitiate has been beaten a few times (every time he was weakenedor held back) so he knows that he is not immortal, hence he is more cautious and he has 1300 years of experience that should count for something in terms of eperience. That is my reasoning and I do not accept the because GL said so argument. he Said it but to many authors has added to the universe for his voice to be anything but one of many.
  4. I think you have summed up the subjects quite nicely.
  5. Ok so in the last sceen of TLJ people is sitting around trying to rebuild the Resistance so that they can beat the First order and restore the Republic, but is that even possible anymore? And do the people of the galaxy even want the Republic back? During the last decades of the Republic there was almost complete corruption and chaos, which is why the Seperatists broke loose (most of them anyway) and why Palpatine could take power, so those are the memories most people who remember the Republic will have, Chaos corrution and greedy bureaucrats/business men sucking planets dry of resources. Why would any individuall systems with any power to speak of want that back, especially since the New Republic seemingly let the First Order run rampant over the Rim Systems. The Republic and the very idea of a galaxy-spanning government has also taken a heavy beating, first we have the disfunctional Republic then we have the genocidal and planet wreeking Empire, the New Republic did not seem to do any better. And the New Republic is now gone, its entire government and appearantly central command and all its representatives is wiped out. Also since the NR imploded FO has invaded and probably bombarded pretty much every important system so if FO is defeated any system-spanning infrastructure will go away. In summary the Galaxy far far away has not been this broken since before the Republic was founded so how will rebuilding the Republic be even possible? Infrastructure is gone, any motivation to join the great failed governments is probably reduced heavily and I bet crime/piracy will go through the roof. So how do you think that the writers of Episode 9 will fix this little dilema? To me it seems like an impossible task, our heroes would be forced to conquer every system that don't sign up and rebuild every system that has been wrekked by 60 years of war, poverty/economic oppression and lawlessenes to me it seems that any dreams of order and peace is somewhere far away.
  6. The expansions really need some class.custmization to fit every class. I would not mind some personal storylines for every class either. The class stories ends about 1 year into the galactic war so in the 5 more years that the war is fought there had to be something the grand heroes did other than Flashpoint. I could easily imagine the Wrath taking control over Darth Ekkage's assassin army and combining it with Pierce's black ops group and then proceding with plan zere, killing every republic leader that dared show his/her face. I know that this would never happen but it would tie up a lot of loose ends and make the war so much more interesting in its storytelling. In one moment you are scoring a great victory for the empire on Illum the next is two tears later at the start of RotHC and you are loosing the war.
  7. Here is somethings that confuses me in two of the class stories that I would like some explanation on. In the SW act 2 you travel to Taris in order to destroy the War Trust. During that process they redeploy all the republics forces on the planet to their defence forcing you destroy them all. But during the same time Darth Gravus is on Taris to destroy the republics efforts there and for some reason he is not mentioned in the class story. He is in the planetary arc yet you do all the work and destroy the enemy and in the Annihilation novel he gets all the credit. Another big thing that bothers immensley ib KoTFE is the SI aproach to the problem. Sure assemble a power base once again and take on a new enemy makes sence. But you get clobbered around by the guy you are supposed to beat reguraly so why do you not use the same trick that deadeated Thanaton? Sith Ghosts are rare but if you put people on it you could find them, heck there was a whole bunch of them on Dromund Kass dark temple why not bring them ou to play? And if Darth Marr was so desparate to save the Empire why not offer to take his strenght or force him to comply with the force walk, with enough ghosts and force power you could take on Arcann as easily as you did Thanaton. The SI could handle atleast 5 ghosts at the same time and no matter if you released them or no you must have researched on how to bind even more should a crisis show up.
  8. Can you two give it a rest this is a forum devoted to star wars discussions and a tread devoted to a movie. if you please keep to the subject. If you can not do that I suggest that you exhange phone numbers and take you bickering someplace else.
  9. I agree with you there wholeheartedly. Lucas started a great mythos but the latest movie gave me the impression that he was someting of a one trick pony (please don't blast me). I like what Bioware and some writers has given to the star wars saga more simply because they had better and more interesting stories to tell (in my opinion) and they had a more deeply layerd way of telling it so my heart is still with the old content which the origianl creater ironicly never had anything to do with. My opinion only and I did like the LAst Jedi to a degree it just did not have the feel that I have come to exprerience with better (in my opinion) star wars media.
  10. Another thing I would like to see is a main character who actually knows what he/she is doing an do not need to be told who they are. Part of what I liked the most about the SW BH IA class stories was that wherever you go you scream competence and power. We know what the force is by now please show us what the people who used it without restraint could do. They do not need to be force users at all. Just show us someone who could save the day with skill and intelligence instead of plotarmor and bad writting.
  11. The Last Jedi to me was a close but no cigar kind of film but let's just think for a moment that The Old Republic would get a movie out on the big screen. How would we like it to look?. No matter what kind of story I would personaly like it if the makers put bigger focus on the Force and its users. In very few scenes of the movies does the force actually get the attention it deserves, sure they always say use the force and you will be alright but its mostly newbies tossing rocks as far as i'm concerned. It would be nice to see force sight/precognition/awereness etc getting some real screen time plus seeing sith sorcery onscreen would be awesome. I also would like to see some better choreography if it was live action. Sure the latest movies is exused because al the masters were dead and their arts mostly forgotten but if we go to the old republic I want to see people like the Wrath, Hero of Tython, Nox or Tulak Hord who took on entire armies by themselves. Story-wise I would also like it to be much more serious and gray. What I liked the least about the latest movies is the typical stereotype slappstick humour that seems to appear in every great action movie nowadays. The fate aóf the world/galaxy is at stake can we please keep i serious and accept that we are grownups who are trying to save it. It was fun the first few times now its just painfull and anoying the get bad jokes in the middle of soul-shattering dramatic scenes. And finally keep the story on track, no more unnecessary detours. The Last Jedi could have been a great film if they had decoted more screentime developing the plot and not made that silly side-plot on the casino world there had to be another way to get Finn some screentime. We have seen so many planets already we know their out there you do not need a new unnecessary planet every movie. Wow the post turned up to be just as much a critic agaist the Last Jedi as it was sticking to the topic, my bad:rolleyes:. Its alright I guess this way people might notice my opinion i'm shallow that way:D
  12. 1: Never encountered a sith miraluka that I am aware of. 2: I have one Miraluka sorcerer, I thought that was the most appropriate to the story. 3: SI easy the SW is so hyped up to be old sith blood that I simply can't justify anything else other than PB or human.
  13. In the movie era all forms except Niman has someone who is regarded as THE master of the form and the list is something like this if I have my facts right. Shii-Cho: Kit Fisto easy. Makashi: Dooku obviosly but according to Obi-Wan Shaak Ti is a close second. Soresu: Obi-Wan has the best feats of pure mastery of the form in the entire media even if some people could move faster and as such defend better in some cases I don't think Obi could replicate Banes feat of standing in a rain storm for 10 minutes and remain dry. Ataru: Yoda no question. Djem So/ Shien: Anakin is the best in that department. Juyo/Vapaad: Mace Windu was the master of Vapaad but I seem to recall that Sidious prefered Juyo above the others. But nowhere is a true Niman master to be found or at least mentioned, I always wondered why but then a saw a VS video on youtube Exar Kun VS Dooku and then it hit me. Niman is called the diplomats form easily learned so that you can focus on other skills but in order to master it Cin Dralig claims it requires 10 years of dedicated training. What does that tell us? That there is a lot more to Niman than meets the eyes. The forms bladework is described as lazy but both Exar Kun and Darth Krayt was Niman specialists and thy were regarded as among the best duelist of their era. I can only draw the conclution that none of the jedi had chosen to embrace Niman as a true fighting style instead theu used it as a crutch to help them while they talked themsevles out of whatever violent situation they had ended up in. We never see Niman onscreen but it is described as a mixed martial arts-like form supported by force based attacks, whuch seems like a very handy form to know. Sure the bladework of the form was not that advanced with simple moves bit it incouraged creativity and versitility making it handy no matter the situation if you took it seriously. I would really like to see it onscreen as it is described. Maybee the user is wielding two sabers constantly guiding one of them in a continous saber throw while deflecting blaster bolt with his primary saber. Then he faces of against a couple of other force-users. He starts of with a simple exhange of blows then he gets creative. He breaks the Djem So stylists footing bu stomping a force blast right between his feat knocking of balance then throws one saber toward the Ataru-guys legs as the man finishes his fancy flipp and then takes his head of while his guard is lowered. He continues to keep the Djem SO man off-balance with stoomps to the ground that prevents him to use the bodyweight-behind-the-blade that Djem So requires and then goes in for the kill. That is just my opinion of how Niman could work but from what i have read it seems like an accurate interpritation of the styles aproach to fighting. So the sum of it all is that it seems like the Jedi had started to regard Niman as a form that you didn't study to hard because it required a warriors mind to use effectevly, with constant adaptation and force based attacksand the Jedi of that era hardly ever used to force to attack. It was just a lazy mans form despite what Exar Kun and later Darth Krayt proved so clearly. That is just my thought that I wanted to get out there. Anyone else have any thoughts on the subject?
  14. Regarding the statement that only Luke could beat Palpatine. Palpatine had mastered the 7 forms of lightsaber combat, but in his own words he only did that to humiliate the jedi so no matter how good he might have been in hos prime he had no reason countinue practising between RoTS and Dark Empire. Most people forgett that in order to stay a master in any martial art you have to practise any Palpatine had years if not decades without practising his skills reguraly. And in the Bane trilogy we are informed how lightsaber combat works in detail so how can Luke have gotten the training he needed in the short weeks or months at most to counter a master of the 7 forms? He didn't because an ordinary person has to train years to master a form and even a prodiy has to train for months. And no he could not have used his reflexve learning to do it because his mind would have bben flooded with every possible option that Palpatine could have used like when Bane fought Ka'sim keep in mind that if you discuss Legends you are going to have to take everything from every novel game and comic into account, Which explains how Luke could beat him the second time around. Paplatines skills had simply atrophied to the point where he had to relly only on his force speed and strength. Luke was overwhelmed the forst time but was ready during the rematch and the litteraly disarmed Palpatine. That argument is to inform all people that Palpatine is not perfect. In the end it was his own ego that took him down. For years he was the top dog and no one could beat him ad then when he was throwing his force strom around he an heir to all the knowledge and wisdom of the rule of two was cut of from the force by someone with months of training at most. PS to whoever tries the Lucas said so argument, in the Legends George Lucas has no say whatsoever anymore. He may be the creator of the canon universe but for years he left other writers build the universe and everything in it he had nothing to do with the writing of Dark Empire for one. So basicly every great feat that Palpatine achives on Legends has nothing to do with Lucas so Lucas does not have a say in Legends anymore anymore than I do.
  15. It is a pretty common story line that the great hero w disappears for a time everything goes to hell and then he/she has to fix it with a smaller number of companions. If you had not been frozen and instead awoken and escaped you could probably have ended the Eternal empire with a couple of flashpoint missions. Assemble a solid strike team kill Arcann, kill Vaylin and watch that boring sideplot of an empire crumble. As powerfull as Arcann and Vaylin is they would not have been able to beat the heroes of either faction if the heroes had been supported by their powerbases and allies. So to make the story into an expansion instead of an Op they had to put you on ice and getting rid of the rest of the classes in giant plotholes instead of doing something good. Like make it mandatory to finnish all the class-stories in order to start the new expansion and then import the other characters you have played and the choices they made ti make the galaxy even bigger and then continue into a new story arc. It worked for both Mass Effect and Dragon Age so why not here. That is just my preference but in my opinion it would have been better than what we got.
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