I’m happy they’ve announced Darth Revan. However...
The story in hand? Does not make sense. I’ve been reading the Revan Time line came across interesting points and mentions of the characters.
Lets agree to disagree on some things here.
Carth- Carth was rescued by Revan and was incharge of the ship which held un-conscious Revan onboard with thus the Kotor story stars. His part in the Revan legendary event??? Questionable here, back to my agree to disagree with somethings.
Hk-47- I’m fully onboard with this as Revan constructed his own Assassin to take out several Jedi (obviously failed as he needed repairs). In his dark side form programmed him to call Malak a meat bag and all other lifeforms meat bags. (Edited as corrected)
Juhani- rescued by Revan, joined the jedi order. Not much of a mention in Revans story here. Again agree to disagree?
Ordo- ordo was not part of Darth Revans story. Was part of Kotor 1 in defeating Malak. I don’t agree with this move at all purely a scam to try force players to purchase.
Fallen Bastila- same as above, although Fallen Bastila was part of the late Kotor 1 end game, taunted by Malak and brought back to the light by Revan. Another bad move and a scam to try make players purchase. If anything it should be light side Bastila who infact dueled Revan before his memory.
In summery we’re getting a journey to the dark side involving 3 characters not even part of Darth Revan at this current time and 2 of those being light side( i’m pro ordo for being light side even though he was a Mandalore back ground and became a hired gun)
I feel this was a poorly planned execution and Darth Revan shoulda been released later this year when they could or done a proper story involving the proper heroes (MALAK BEING THE BIGGEST PLAYER HERE)
What do you guys think? I think it’s just a poor marketing poor scam to take your money without a consideration with the George Lucas orginal lore. Hey ho, who am i to disagree with the gods ru(i)ning the game.
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You are 100% correct and edited.
The issue i have is its a journey to the dark side. Revan ventured into the dark side once. This was all befor kotor 1 and thus my post.
But this journey will take place after his mind was wiped to a clean slate and he was neutral. In the game it doesn’t matter if you’re light or dark, Carth and Juhani will always be by your side until you side with bastila and go to defeat Malak to take back your mantle as a Sith Lord. So they are relevant to the story since this all takes place during the game.
As mentioned above, Carth and Juhani do not join you on a DS playthrough for the tail end, but we didn't have stages on Manaan or Kashyyk in the first event. They could be needed on those stages. As far as I can tell, these swgoh events are based around the video game knights of the old republic, and that's it. Not novels or other sources of no-longer-canon-canon. I think they've done an awesome job by giving us both end game character versions that you could have chosen.
I think it's awesome that you went back and studied the lore a bit. It's a great story. It's a bit hard to swallow the old graphics and clunky controls at first, but the first KotOR really stands the test of time. I downloaded it through steam and played through a couple times around the time JKR was announced. It's worth a playthrough. I understand how annoying it must be for people who have no idea who Revan is to be told to spend 40 hours on a 15 year old video game just to understand the hype, but I promise it wouldn't be the worst $5 you've ever spent.
The timeline really should be Jedi Knight Revan —> Darth Revan —> neutral Revan (can’t remember if he actually joined the Jedi again or just worked with them against Malak).
Of the characters needed, only HK would match the lore. All others happened after Darth Revan (although maybe you could justify Bastila since the player can choose dark side in the game).
Also, this doesn’t really have anything to do with George Lucas.
If he’s based on the end game version of the character, it basically nullifies most of my statement lol.
Built after the final battle, This was when Revan was a fully pledged Sith. Of-course it does. Anything Starwars had to stamped by George Lucas, you think Disney created StarWars? God no George Lucas built an entire world over 30-40 years including the old republic. Probably helped by third parties to help tell the story like Kotor was published by EA at the time for example.
Disney can now alter the cannon as it does belong to them now. Thought i’d add that in there.
EA has nothing to do with KOTOR! It was BIOWARE, which now belongs to EA.
Getting my own timelines confused. Published by LucasArts. Now rightly owned by EA.
From the Scourge of the Republic post:
"It will be a very difficult task to reclaim the Sith throne"
Reclaim implies Malak took the throne and Darth Revan fell. Revan reclaims the mantle of Dark Lord of the Sith mid to end game of KOTOR 1. I assume the first few battles will have Juhani and Carth teams and then you will use the other 3 to carry out the will of Revan
Lucas rarely paid attention to what was going on in the EU. He would occasionally pop his head in and issue random declarations that would derail storylines that had been years in the making, but day to day he was absentee.
And KOTOR was released many, many years before BioWare was sold to EA.
Yes we will have two characters that mirror each other. Who cares - we have 5 Hans there are no rules.
The text of the newsletter post in game seems to imply we are getting pre-game Darth Revan. It will be interesting to see what the actual journey looks like.
Exactly. Carth was referring to Revan and Alek returning as Darth Revan and Darth Malak who sought to destroy the Republic. The OP is correct. Story doesn’t make sense and is another shameless cash grab from people who can’t control themselves.
Reclaiming the mantle of the Sith refers to the dark side ending of KOTOR1.
Reclaim implies a 2nd time.
The post in my newsletter page says claim, not reclaim.
As to Carth, he was part of the Republic military while Revan was in charge prior to becoming Darth Revan. Juhani was a Jedi. Canderous was one of his enemies. HK was his personally crafted droid. The only one that is actually narratively problematic if they sequence it correctly is Fallen Bastila.