Uh, you know I've been working my ass off (in more ways than one, eh?) for that title. Thanks for pulling the proverbial rug out from under me, b1tch.
__________________ Major Valerian
A few years back we, teh people of teh forums, considered DE Sidious as the most powerful Sith Lord ever
Nephthys
He still largely is. Nihilus or Traya may be able to defeat him in a fight (may), but only due to their completely broken Drain. That isn't a representation of power. Other than that there really aren't many who legitimately challenge him.
__________________ Major Valerian
A few years back we, teh people of teh forums, considered DE Sidious as the most powerful Sith Lord ever
Nephthys
He still largely is. Nihilus or Traya may be able to defeat him in a fight (may), but only due to their completely broken Drain. That isn't a representation of power. Other than that there really aren't many who legitimately challenge him.
So Lucas is largely retiring from LFL and the new Star Wars uber-game has been announced. It sounds cool.
__________________ Major Valerian
A few years back we, teh people of teh forums, considered DE Sidious as the most powerful Sith Lord ever
Nephthys
He still largely is. Nihilus or Traya may be able to defeat him in a fight (may), but only due to their completely broken Drain. That isn't a representation of power. Other than that there really aren't many who legitimately challenge him.
TFU was fun, TOR was meh. This sounds more like Star Wars meets Splinter Cell or some such.
__________________ Major Valerian
A few years back we, teh people of teh forums, considered DE Sidious as the most powerful Sith Lord ever
Nephthys
He still largely is. Nihilus or Traya may be able to defeat him in a fight (may), but only due to their completely broken Drain. That isn't a representation of power. Other than that there really aren't many who legitimately challenge him.
__________________ Major Valerian
A few years back we, teh people of teh forums, considered DE Sidious as the most powerful Sith Lord ever
Nephthys
He still largely is. Nihilus or Traya may be able to defeat him in a fight (may), but only due to their completely broken Drain. That isn't a representation of power. Other than that there really aren't many who legitimately challenge him.
__________________ Major Valerian
A few years back we, teh people of teh forums, considered DE Sidious as the most powerful Sith Lord ever
Nephthys
He still largely is. Nihilus or Traya may be able to defeat him in a fight (may), but only due to their completely broken Drain. That isn't a representation of power. Other than that there really aren't many who legitimately challenge him.
__________________ Major Valerian
A few years back we, teh people of teh forums, considered DE Sidious as the most powerful Sith Lord ever
Nephthys
He still largely is. Nihilus or Traya may be able to defeat him in a fight (may), but only due to their completely broken Drain. That isn't a representation of power. Other than that there really aren't many who legitimately challenge him.
But N. is such a perfect distillation of what the dark side really is! Think about it this way: In KotOR, being really really evil made you grow horns and cracked skin and rage and shit. Being good to the same degree made your posture better. The light side is simply the action of life forms being the best that they can be. Meanwhile, the Dark side is a corruption/perversion of those life forms; they become cut off and isolated from their fellow beings. N. is the embodiement; the ultimate articulation of the illusion of separation. For a series founded at least partially in the ideas of Buddhism, that is a perfect lesson: To be separate is to kill yourself.
More to the point, N.'s appearanace is so perfectly arranged. He sends a minion to project his power, and then gets tripped up by arrogance. Much like Galactus, he is (meant to be) a force beyond any specific combatant.
U fubd B, ti be nire ubterestubg because he is tied in--"keyed in"--to the universe's metaphysical nature. He is actually part of the cosmology.
__________________ Major Valerian
A few years back we, teh people of teh forums, considered DE Sidious as the most powerful Sith Lord ever
Nephthys
He still largely is. Nihilus or Traya may be able to defeat him in a fight (may), but only due to their completely broken Drain. That isn't a representation of power. Other than that there really aren't many who legitimately challenge him.
Like a modern version of the first Dark Forces almost.
__________________ There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.
- Morihei Ueshiba
Jun 2nd, 2012 02:04 AM
