IT'S OVER ANAKIN, I HAVE THE HIGH GROU... *ACK*
IT'S OVER ANAKIN, I HAVE THE HIGH GROU... *ACK*
Great game. Good movies.
i member playing jedi academy and the dark path was the kinoest ending
This is unironically the best ending possible for the galaxy
Full Strength Anakin goes on to topple the Emperor after gaining enough power/experience/loyalty
Anakin rules as Benevolent Dictator, the Empire is both stable, orderly, and prosperous
take dark side path in a star wars game
wtf why am i killing everyone in the cutscenes?????
dark side balance fags seething eternally.
The dark side is like the one ring from LOTR. You don't get to use it and not become a self destructive tyrant.
His entire fall to the dark side was him being easily manipulated by Palpatine. Dude's an unhinged whacko. Padme would probably stay alive simply to protect Luke and Leia from Anakin's influence over them.
Is Padme also suriving in this scenario?
Right. The tragedy of Anakin is that he never had any more agency than when he was a slaveboy on tatooine until he decided to chuck sheev down the well.
Go back to plebbit
I don't get why Anakin would suddenly give a shit about taking over the galaxy when he was fighting Obi-Wan because of Padme just a moment ago.
Who cares? His dick didn't burn away. He literally can get any bitch in the galaxy.
I just want a happy ending for them
Yeah but obiwan turned her against him so he got big mad
So now he would have taken over the galaxy had he defeated Obi-Wan? It just seems like quite a stretch.
all his best friends are scheming duplicitous politicians including his wife
raised as a soldier in wartime, becomes a war hero for the republic by curbstomping secessionists
falls to the dark side, which turns anyone who uses it into a monster obsessed with domination of everything and everyone.
It's also the most satisfying ending.
Rosh fucking deserved it.
Sith lust for power extends to the whole galaxy
based
crazy how good this game looked considering it was on ps2
Are you sure? There are some grey users. Count Dooku for instance. And Vader himself manages to snap back out of it. Whether Lucas intended it or not, he seems to strongly imply that there is a way to use both in a balanced manner and lean into your full humanity (both spectrums) rather than dogmatically isolating yourself into this or that box.
The tragedy of Anakin is that he never had any more agency than when he was a slaveboy on tatooine until he decided to chuck sheev down the well.
Leaving the Jedi would've been the best thing for him. Bro was a slave his whole life.
What? Dude straight up said to Padme in Episode 2 he thinks the galaxy should be ruled by a dictator(without saying it) because he sees the Senate as being too ineffective to govern the galaxy and it needs a person who can "cut through the red tape" and get things done. That whole meme of him and Padme with her first thinking he's joking about what he said and then being actually concerned comes from that conversation. And this was before his mother died and the war starts so the guy's always had issues with the government since his teens. Seeing where the seed got planted in Anakin's that a singular ruler is the "best" option for the galaxy would be an interesting story because he wouldn't get it from the Jedi as that kind of thinking is not "Light Side friendly."
lol
This is not possible Obi-Wan has special high ground training.
Could we use AI to make this live action and then make a fanedit of ROTS and make this the ending instead?
Didn't Anakin still think he was doing the right thing at that point, as in trusting Palpatine? Doesn't make sense for him to kill him.
Because his desires for power came from just/righteous reasons. To protect people, to maintain order, to stop wars. He says that plenty of times in Ep 2 and 3. He is driven by his desire to save and protect those he loves and the places he loves.
We don't know how that would manifest after engaging with the dark side but it is objectively true that his foundational reasons for doing so were better than the other Sith. Even in the OT, he conducts himself in a mission oriented way. He doesn't enjoy pain or suffering and he isn't a masochistic dom or anything like that. Part of Vader's whole appeal is that he's a "lawful evil" kind of guy.
I don't get why Anakin would suddenly give a shit about taking over the galaxy
This is the same guy who advocated for authoritarian governments all the way back in AotC. Why believe in democracy when said democracy looks the other way with slavery?
Actually there was this one Lord of the Sith who was just an organized crime boss that had no desire to rule anything other than run his crime empire. He wasn't even killed by an apprentice, but rather died of old age. He was the "nicest" of all the Sith by comparison.
he said that it will be HIS empire before the fight
Well right Luke was the improvement of the Jedi by recognizing redemption as a possibility. Before him all Yoda had to say about it was that "Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny." This was one of the many flaws of the old Jedi.
I like Dooku and he was 100% correct about the Republic and his whole double-traitor plan was better than nothing but dabbling in the Dark Side was ultimately his undoing. That and having his head cut off.
Doesn't make sense for him to kill him.
Sith Apprentices kill their Masters all the time. Thats the entire point of the Rule of 2. Anakin got stronger than Sidious so he had to go. Afterwards, he'll find an apprentice of his own. Probably one of his own kids.
Because if you rule the galaxy no one can tell you that you can't have a girlfriend
Anakin was always in his element when it came to the military stuff. Jedi shit was never for him, but being a general was. Its why he was so chill during the war.
It does seem to be overlooked that Yoda is not correct. He was just as dogmatic and one sided as the Emperor, and it's one reason he lost Anakin, and nearly lost Luke as well. By tapping into their emotions they ultimately won.
first post worst post
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the starwars games in that era were absolute bangers.
Yeah. Chief among their flaws was becoming stooges to the senate. Qui-Gon was right. They should be motivated by the will of the living force, not Obi-Wan's beloved Democracy. Democracy that, over the course of the last 10 years, co-signed the extermination of entire species over taxes of all things and only after they had a free mercenary army land on their lap to spare them the civilian cost of war and a draft.
Their whole selfless jesuit monk thing did serve a purpose though. It was all about eliminating Dark Side vectors. And that seemed to work pretty well up until Palpatine came along. I have my doubts that Luke's academy would be nearly as successful without incorporating some of the old ways.
Nah he needed their guidance so he wouldn't fall to the Dark Side cause his powers left unchecked would make him become extremely arrogant which Obi Wan had mentioned several times. The issue was the Jedi themselves were being poorly run to a comedic level, but that's just down to Lucas being a bad writer. Anyone with half a brain would sense all the turmoil going on in Anakin and would have done something serious about it. These guys are all about working to keep the Force in "balance" by their viewpoint and here you have this superpowered Jedi with deep emotional issues going on and they're just gonna ignore it because Lucas wrote it as such. I mean in Episode 3 when Anakin is sweating and freaking out over Padme possibly dying Yoda's all "Chill dude. If she dies she become part of the Force and that's great! Now stop thinking about it." That's the last thing you'd say to the guy who from the day you met as a 9 year old is shrouded in the Dark Side and is right now an emotional wreck.
This and mace getting rekt by anakin needed to be in the film
Back when big movies were released alongside promotional vidya adaptations. Kino era.
Same, the dark side ending of kotor 1 was also much better than the light side ending, too bad none of those are canon
the Jedi themselves were being poorly run to a comedic level, but that's just down to Lucas being a bad writer
You OTdweebs can't help yourselves can't you.
Rounding out your Light Side force use with a pinch of Dark Side shit is like balancing your Anon Babble exercise routine with a pinch of crystal meth to round it out.
The ROTS novelization is full of ol Sheevy using tons of bullshit like pic related or telling Anakin that Darth Sidious is probably a nonexistent scapegoat the Jedi are using to justify looking into him because he dares to suggest a separation of church and state.
the dark side ending of kotor 1 was also much better than the light side ending, too bad none of those are canon
Dark Side ending might be canon to TCW.
Anakin
benevolent dictator
He wouldn't even have lived long enough to become a monstrous tyrant because he was a >50 IQ retard with zero impulse control or political tact who would have lasted a year or two at most before getting couped and replaced with a run-of-the-mill military junta.
Is Padme also suriving in this scenario?
Fuck no. She would still have died (either from the choking or the broken heart) and Anakin would presumably have chimped out on Palpatine in response.
I just want a happy ending for them
Well you're in luck because about 10 years ago, the desire to get the cinematic sewage known as The Force Awakens out of my mind (and copious amounts of drugs and alcohol) compelled me to scour through fanfiction.net for a straight week to see if I could find any works that were better written than the Sequel Trilogy. Now don't me wrong, most of them were total ass and made me laugh at how stupid they were, but there were a couple of half-decent gems.
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but that's just down to Lucas being a bad writer.
He was very clearly painting a picture of a decaying republic and a Jedi Order that had long since lost their way. Yoda talks about arrogance being very common among the Jedi of the time. I'd say that this includes the council which was full of members who said ridiculous shit like "Dooku couldn't be responsible for assassination attempts since he's a good boy political idealist."
By the time Anakin's issues started hitting the fan, the Jedi council was so immersed in the war that they couldn't even regularly have full council sessions without a handful of their members having to patch into a zoom call from the front lines. Yoda was so useless that he was only able to give the "posterboy" of the republic war effort the most basic guidance for his concerns. The war and the Jedi's inability to adapt left plenty of room for Palpatine to swoop in and give much, much worse advice to Anakin.