Poodlestrike
Banned
Dammit, Starkiler would've been dope as hell in Rebels.
Ah well.
Ah well.
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The Force Unleashed's Absurd Protagonist Almost Returned for Star Wars: Rebels
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DoctorFling
Member
If he was canon would that mean they named Starkiller Base after him? How silly
Someone already beat me to helicopterlightsaber.gif, so I'd probably add that making the games canon is inevitably going to screw with canon. Already Battlefront has all these weapons and technologies that don't really exist in the greater universe simply because the developers want to give players a bunch of cool toys to play with.
Between all the novels and ongoing comic books, this will become disheveled and busted as well. Maybe never as absurd as the EU, but those were always sub-canon anyway so they had a license to do crazy shit.
ryutaro's mama
Member
Think about this:
Starkiller got what Kylo fantasizes about. He got to actually be Vader's apprentice.
WadiumArcadium
Member
Starkiller was Luke's original surname. That inspired Starkiller Base's name.
Edit: Ah yeah, I see what you mean. Another reason not to include him.
Didn't Luke destroy the Death Star during his first ever flight in an X-Wing?
There's nothing comparable to Starkiller displayed by either of them really.
Wolfe
Member
I honestly haven't seen much of Rebels outside of a few clips, unfortunately for my own preferences it comes off as quite a bit more aimed squarely at children than Clone Wars was. It may not be great reasoning but I don't deny that that reason plus things like that clip of the chopter blades don't really get me all that interested in checking it out.
I definitely will at some point, likely after it's finished and available on streaming in full (such as how I watched CW), but it's still a bit of a turnoff for me for the reasons above.
Also he looks like this in the DLC
Truly an OC worth not-stealing
Jesus christ
It's like a Nomura-redesigned Darth Vader
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
This isn't true at all, though I can maybe see why you would think this before watching it. It can get just as real as Clone Wars, and doesn't have any of the tiresome Jar Jar/R2D2/C3PO episodes either.
Also those blade copters are blown way outta proportion. They were used twice in one episode and haven't been seen since.
ryutaro's mama
Member
That's why the idea of canon is stupid, IMO. I get why Disney did it but whatever. Most of the SW stories I really like aren't considered post buyout canon.
Nope.
Seductivpancakes
Member
There is this:
But my impression is that it's been pretty solid.
This is just as bad as the EU armor with tiny lightsabers attached to the joints.
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
Star Wars is aimed at everyone.
Exploratory
Banned
Same. He was more than just edge. He had a reason to be angry too.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Yeah he's kind of right, doing starkiller without making him overpowered and borderline super saiyan is basically pointless.
My extremely unpopular and highly inflammatory opinion is that I wish that Filoni and his squad had full control over star wars. Honestly The Clone Wars show and Rebels were all the things I love about star wars and given nearly complete control over how they were done was refreshing.
I would love to get the entire prequel trilogy remade by Filoni at the very least but that'll never happen.
My extremely unpopular and highly inflammatory opinion is that I wish that Filoni and his squad had full control over star wars. Honestly The Clone Wars show and Rebels were all the things I love about star wars and given nearly complete control over how they were done was refreshing.
I would love to get the entire prequel trilogy remade by Filoni at the very least but that'll never happen.
KeyBladerXIII
Member
Also he looks like this in the DLC
Truly an OC worth not-stealing
Remove those stupid finger blades and lightsaber belt and it could work.
Daddy issues: the edgiest of motivations
Glass Rebel
Member
What about Darth Icky tho?
SofNasciment-
Member
The Commandos are canon as a type of clone troopers, but I'm not sure if any of the character from the game are. The game is not though.
ryutaro's mama
Member
I still don't get why people want the PT remade rather than new shit, set in different time eras, not focused on the Kardashians of the Galaxy, the Skywalkers.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Well mostly because the clone wars show had a lot of really great characters and a lot of great storylines that don't get used properly in the prequel movies but they easily could have been explored. And perhaps even able to cement other characters earlier would have been great. But that's just me.
Yeah I believe they are canon because they were included in an episode of the clone wars but more as a cameo.
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
Sort of, they were brought back in the Clone Wars. So there is a Delta Squad but none of the events of the game are canon.
There is this:
But my impression is that it's been pretty solid.
It does look silly. But fwiw it's not the spinning blades that make it fly. They have repulsorlift tech in them and the blades have to be ignited for it to work... supposedly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob90p0SoMpY&feature=youtu.be&t=4m44s
At least it's a better explanation than what appears to be happening just by looking at the gif. Still, yeah.
Wolfe
Member
Don't be fucking dense, it's clearly aimed at all ages when you look at the OT and the majority of content since then.
Don't get me wrong as I suspect this to be the case, I just mean the visual design of the show coupled with things like the inquisitors goofy looking sabers don't do it any justice to it for me before seeing it. I get that it's dumb reasoning.
Evil Monkey DTT
Banned
Starkiller was a neat character in the first game, I wouldn't mind him returning.
I never played 2
Dash_Riprock
Member
That you, Lucas?
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
First one is explained by her involuntarily using the force. Similarly, right at the beginning of Rebels Ezra was able to detect this and react accordingly for the same reason despite it being impossible to know that he was about to get shot:
She certainly wasn't a master either. Second is due to the following:
Mentally weakened due to this:
Physically weakened by this:
If Kylo was anywhere near 100% it would've been an easy win since Rey spent the majority of the fight running away.
but as it stands, the guy who did this earlier in the film:
was so weakened that he couldn't even pull a lightsaber out of snow:
Show don't tell.
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
I can see why you would think that, but you should really give it a go. In season 3 it became a better show than Clone Wars for me.
It's not as bad as people make out, and it actually fixed a number of control issues from the first game, but it's so short and uneventful.
SofNasciment-
Member
I think this gif gives the show a bad impression, and it doesn't deserve it, I'm a fan of David Filoni and his hat. But the gif is so funny...
All of this, plus the fact that when he's locked sabers with her and is face to face he decides to offer his training to her instead of finishing her off (dat Dark Side hubris)
SofNasciment-
Member
I think it wasn't that. My interpretation is that the lightsaber didn't want to go to him.
Never said it was a bad thing, I think it's really entertaining.
Seductivpancakes
Member
but as it stands, the guy who did this earlier in the film:
Amazing body acting by Daisy Ridley. I'm completely sold that she's being frozen by the Force.
WadiumArcadium
Member
Yep, they were in The Clone Wars.
It was a small cameo but a nice little nod to the games/books.
ryutaro's mama
Member
That prologue on Kashyyk tho...I was so hyped when I originally played that.
Yup, Ren was hurting by this point. Mentally he wasn't in the game, physically he was likely ready to drop. You see his blood on the ground, he hits himself try and feel something else.
Earlier when a stormtrooper got hit by Chewie's weapon he was blasted and tossed into a flip before crashing. Getting hit in the side by would drop most people and leave them thrashing in pain if they were lucky.
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
Still my favourite opening to a game ever. How have we not had a Vader game yet...........
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
In addition to the fact that the movie specifically shows the power of the Bowcaster repeatedly (it's depicted as literally being able to throw Stormtroopers back several feet), so the fact that he's even standing, let alone fighting through this shows just how powerful Kylo is.
PLUS, there's the fact that Kylo does not want to harm Rey (he wants to recruit her, and Snoke wants to use her) or the lightsaber (which is one of his greatest desires). Meanwhile, Rey outright wants to kill him. And she only turned the tide of the battle when she caught him off-guard and suddenly started attacking far more aggressively, almost out of no where.
IT'S ALL RIGHT THERE IN THE FUCKING MOVIE.
SofNasciment-
Member
Yep, they were in The Clone Wars.
It was a small cameo but a nice little nod to the games/books.
Plus there is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tFw8uDuGgE
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
That DLC wasn't canon. It was a "What if?" scenario.Also he looks like this in the DLC
Truly an OC worth not-stealing
His fighting style is basically walk slowly toward someone while force choking them
I don't think it would hold up for a full game.
A level here and there sure, but a full game would be slow.