Your opinion on Vitiate

Vitiate was interesting until I learned his motivation...Perform a ritual and consume all life in the galaxy so he can have 'silence'? Seriously? That's like a Marvel Comics villain. That, and he's basically what Sidious and Nihilus put together would be like: Terrifying, but not that interesting. And no, my opinion has nothing to do with the Revan novel. The combination of Sidious and Nihilus SHOULD be able to beat Revan, so it did not surprise me, but it was still funny that Karpyshin did that to his own character.

Originally posted by The Merchant
Tenebrae is too close to Tenebrous, maybe that's why they changed it?

IIRC Tenebrous's name was based on Tenebrae, so I doubt it's that.

Originally posted by NewGuy01
IIRC Tenebrous's name was based on Tenebrae, so I doubt it's that.

S66
Emo Sidious.

The_Merchant
He's basically what Sidious would have been like if Dark Empire was written post-ROTS. I could totally see say Lucas look at all the EU before making the series and pretty much topping everything in the EU that's a force character. That's what Bioware did to Vitiate, although I honestly see Lucas doing a much better job since Bioware kind of failed.

carthage
Vitiate is diet Sidious without the great writing behind his character.

Darth_Sadow1
That, and he's basically what Sidious and Nihilus put together would be like: Terrifying, but not that interesting.

More or less, Viti represents arguably the biggest missed opportunity in the non-film franchise. The Big Bad of an expansive and heretofore untouched storyline, he ends up being a shameless, one-dimensional knockoff of the mythology's foremost villain.

All Viti does is tacitly remind audiences that Palpatine is the pinnacle of Star Wars villainy and most of the writers aren't up to the task of creating something relatively new and original.

To be fair, what do you think would have been better? How many character types really fit the SW Emperor role?

"I want to eat everyone, because I want to do it again."

Originally posted by NewGuy01
To be fair, what do you think would have been better? How many character types really fit the SW Emperor role?

I think it would have been best for the Sith Emperor to basically be an Orwellian Big Brother figure perpetuated by the Dark Council. We already have a Sith Emperor archetype in Palpatine, no reason to ape him.

But then I couldn't saberfight him at the end.

You could saberfight whoever's the biggest badass on the Dark Council.

laem