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Post by Jm419 on Jul 8, 2009 19:17:14 GMT -5
He's very good against Jedi. Interesting. He reminds me of Anakin Skywalker, Fallen Jedi from FotR
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Post by bountyhunter9 on Jul 8, 2009 19:22:28 GMT -5
Yeah, they are both quite similar. The Wook article on him even called him a Jedi Hunter, so I thought it would be good to make a representation of him ealry in TFU.
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Post by Jm419 on Jul 8, 2009 19:27:44 GMT -5
Yeah. Or late in TFU, depending on what side you chose at the end.
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Post by bountyhunter9 on Jul 8, 2009 19:40:32 GMT -5
Yeah, that's true. It was fun hunting the Jedi, too, another reason why I made him.
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Post by Jm419 on Jul 8, 2009 21:00:20 GMT -5
Yeah, but the game felt really...short. It was too easy. I had it on PS2, though, not either of the better versions on X360 or the PS3.
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Post by bountyhunter9 on Jul 8, 2009 21:38:29 GMT -5
Lol. I had it on the Wii, which is the same version as the PS2. Yeah, the screenshots and gameplay from the 360/PS3 look epic. I would have loved to have fought PROXY as Darth Maul. But yeah, it was really, really short. I've beaten it 5 or 6 times, and I don't even play it that much.
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Post by Jm419 on Jul 9, 2009 11:01:43 GMT -5
Yeah. It was almost enough motivation to get the PS3, but not quite. It was a fun game, but the only thing about the bosses was that they were harder to hit. The Shadow Guards, for instance. They weren't that good.
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Post by bountyhunter9 on Jul 9, 2009 11:52:41 GMT -5
No, they weren't. Lol. I killed them quickly both times. The only boos fight that was much of a challenge for me is the Emperor at the end.
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Post by Jm419 on Jul 9, 2009 14:26:14 GMT -5
Well, yeah, he's the Emperor. Lol. It was super irritating to have to do the combo fifteen times at the end because I'd press O instead of X. Lol.
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Post by bountyhunter9 on Jul 9, 2009 15:08:36 GMT -5
Lol. On the Wii you only have to push the remote forward or the nunchuk forward. I screwed up the combo so many times when I first fought the AT-ST. It took me 4 or 5 tries.
Yeah, how come we're only getting 60-point Emperors/Sids from WotC? Most of the Emps/Sids are useful, but Palps could be at least in the 70s and pretty easily into the 80s and 90s. He was supposedly the most powerful Sith in history. Oh well.
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Post by Jm419 on Jul 9, 2009 18:57:10 GMT -5
Most powerful? I'd say not, Revan (my favorite...ahem) and Vader were probably both more skilled swordsmen. Palpatine didn't conquer the galaxy by force like Revan tried to do, but instead struck from the inside out. His SA's shouldn't be combat oriented, but they should be based around some of those tactics. He wasn't a battlefield technician, though, and because of that, it'd be hard to represent him properly in SWM. If you think about it, Star Wars could be about Palpatine, not Anakin Skywalker. It's interesting to think that Palpatine commanded both sides of the Clone Wars - which were in fact, a sham. It's possible that Palpatine created the Clone Wars only in order to turn Anakin.
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Post by bountyhunter9 on Jul 9, 2009 19:12:25 GMT -5
Yeah, Revan, Bane, and Palps are probably the top three Sith (in no specific order). They were all exceptional lightsaber combatants, Force users, and tacticians/manipulators.
Remember, Palps did kill three of the top swordsmen very quickly. He stood up to Mace and Yoda, two of the greatest lightsaber duelists in history. And, some say that he may have forseen Anakin coming to save him, and lost to Mace on purpose.
I also found a quote on the Wook that I thought was both very interesting and funny (the way it's worded). Here it is:
Sidious also displayed extreme sadism, taking considerable pleasure in the suffering and deaths of others. He demonstrated this trait when he ordered Vader to execute Galen Marek, breaking into a fit of hysterical laughter as Marek was telekinetically pummeled by Vader, and continuing to chuckle quietly for several moments afterward. In fact, he was known to cultivate life-forms for the sole purpose of eventually killing them.
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Post by Jm419 on Jul 10, 2009 14:22:56 GMT -5
Hmm. I always thought that Fisto, Tiin, and Kolar went out like chumps. They probably did it that way to show how good Palpatine was. He was...just, slow, and his strokes were predictable, at least when he was fighting Windu. Anakin was very fast, he would have been difficult to beat, and the same with Dooku, who had excellent form (of course, he was played by Christopher Lee, who has been swordfighting in movies for decades). I never thought Obi-Wan was that good of a swordsman (yes, I do know it's all choreographed, but still, Anakin has excellent blade control), but Palpatine didn't strike me as a good swordsman.
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Post by bountyhunter9 on Jul 10, 2009 15:32:13 GMT -5
Kolar was a very good swordsman. Tiin and Fisto were quite good as well, but would be no match for a Sith Lord (I would say their probably the same or a little bit less in skill to Qui-Gon). The duel with Sidious doesn't seem to do him justice. They could have made it longer to really show off his power. He could have pushed one out the window, or cornered one and chopped him to pieces with a flurry of lightsaber strikes. That would be cool. The fight was pretty slow, though (compared to Maul/Obi, or Dooku/Yoda, or Obi/Anakin).
You'll see a true Sidious in Rule of Two. And I had to tune him down a bit.
The Wookieepedia article on Palps is really good. Even just reading the "Powers and Abilities" section is good enough to get a good feel for the character. It really helped me out making my Sid.
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Post by Jm419 on Jul 13, 2009 18:01:13 GMT -5
Yeah, the Wook is really cool.
Do you want to help me fix my Emperor in FotR? I don't like him as well as some others.
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