Jedi cut 'em down like they're butter.
And they really are pretty useless.
they werent designed to fight lightsabers
99% of fights dont include jedi
>>63475232
They were built as a distraction, not to win
even the super battle droids were useless tho, they were lucas' autistic attempt at comic relief when they were meant to be antagonists. another reason why the prequels seem so half baked when they could have been so good
>>63475232
>Lost a lot of good killbots that day..BUT WE CAN ALWAYS BUILD MORE KILLBOTS!
thats like saying basic infantry is useless because they cant fight navy seals
>>63475370
>what that?
>get back to work, that nuffin
>>63475400
>"infantry" can't fight navy seals
Fuck off kid.
>Roger-Roger
>Roger-Roger
>Roger-Roger
>Roger-Roger
>Roger-Roger
>>63475232
Yeah, they were a homage to the stormtroopers.
>>63475704
Ewoks cut 'em down like they're butter.
And they really can't see anything.
>>63475232
Is there a different metric for violence against robots as opposed to violence against living creatures when it comes to rating systems?
If the antagonists in the prequels fielded armies of human soldiers (clones perhaps?), which were then sliced and diced by the Jedi heroes, would the movies have faced stricter ratings?
>I'm not a robot
>>63475232
Why not just build an army of droidikas?
>>63475775
I know that if you change blood a color other than red you get a lower age rating.
So sounds likely.
The droids are my favorite part of star wars. I thought they were cute.
>>63475775
>I'm not a robot
A likely story...ROBOT
Why did they have to hold their guns?
IT'S GONNA BE GREAT
>>63475986
Cheaper to manufacture that way.
>>63476186
How does that make any sense
>>63476176
When the Soviets filmed War and Peace, the war of 1812 took up an entire film out of a four-part series, and the battle of Borodino in particular was like a 20 minute montage. Thank God we didn't have to suffer that much constant CGI lasers and explosions.
What about the commando bots?
>>63475232
funny because I have just finished watching the Phantom Menace making off.
Roger-Roger
>>63475232
>I'm not a racist, that's what so insane about this, and yet it's said, it comes through, it fires out of me, and even now in the passion that's here as I confront myself.
>>63476218
government contracts bro.
>>63476218
How doesn't it?
>>63478476
roger-roger
>>63478527
It looks like fucking Nick Arcade.
>>63475370
they are children's movies
The whole point of the prequels was to emphasize how powerful the Jedi were
The point of these droids was that they were really easy for jedis to destroy by dozens, without being actual soldiers or that would have been way to gorey for a children movie.
Also they were pretty good in normal battles against soldiers without Jedis
I also think they were a pretty cool robot design
>>63476243
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vlcuvrM1po
Using CGI is the mark of a lazy amateur.
t.
Jaded cynical film viewing veteran.
>>63475370
Yeah, they should have had something about them that made them actually dangerous, like ruthless teamwork or something.
I guess the roly-poly droids were a credible threat, but weren't used much.
>robots are worse soldiers than cloned humans
Why is Lucas such a fucking luddite?
What I don't get about CGi in films, is how does it translate into them? You see some pretty fucking horrible CGI, and just because it's better than the rest of the shit, you just go "well, fuck it, at least I'm not restricted by design and manufacturating complications (even though they've worked great in the past in this particular case). Even if your main purpose is simply world building and making the world you created seem bigger and grandious, it all goes to hell if you can't make it believable by placing horrible imagery on the background of a claustrophobic mechanic acting, nor with ridiculous dialogues and stupid plots.
Lucas created a nice, simple and aesthetic world and fucked it all up with "plots and poetry, everything is so dense", guy thinks like a fucking child, you give him limited resources, good ideas and a good crew, he does great. Give him complete authority, and everyone shitting their pants and complying to his every wish and stupid fucking idea he comes up with out of fear. He does bad.
>>63478778
The battle droids were cheap, easy to produce, stupid and unorganized, while the Clones were trained, intelligent and more resistant
>>63478725
>needing binoculars to see those explosions
>a robot needs binoculars at all
>>63476218
Because they have to preform other tasks than just shoot, and gun arms/arms that transform into guns either get in the way or are more expensive.
>>63478894
picturing a robot with human behavior is classic robot representation, also i think it's quite funny
>why robots have legs
>why vehicles have legs
>>63478894
>a robot piloting a tank
>the tank isn't a robot but the starships are
>>63478883
>unorganized
Why Not Just Copy Better Software From Like An Assassin Robot Tho? You Only Need To Train Battle Bots Once.
>>63478778
Battledroids were so cheap to manufacture, they outnumbered the clones 1000 to 1 and really had the Republic on their toes just by sheer numbers. That the Jedi had to be mobilized against them at all shows how serious a threat they were, despite lacking intelligence. Their non threatening demeanor was also designed that way as too not to overly frightened policed or occupied citizens on Separatists home worlds.
>>63479162
>outnumber1000 to 1
>still lose
confederacy sucked cock
>>63479235
To be fair, they were engineered to loose by a Sith plot that ignited the war in the first place.
>>63479235
The corporate guys though the CIS was going to make them lots of space cash.
>CIS takes out loans with the Banking Clan with high interest.
>Use loans to buy more battle droids from Techno Union, Trade Federation, and others.
>Same guys that sold them shitty droids then had their men lead them into battle.
>Droids get destroyed on mass
>CIS has to take out more loans to buy more droids.
>Also Sheev was feeding both sides into and commands.
>>63475232
Doesn't matter if they're shit. The CIS could build them faster than the Republic could destroy them, even after the fall of Geonosis.
Armament and ability mean little if you can just drop 500 gazillion transports on a planet at the drop of a hat and zerg rush everything
>>63478778
Remember, the robots were controlled by the cloud, not localized computing.
>>63479302
This guy gets it.
People don't understand what's happening because they don't pay attention. Pick up 1 book. 1! set in that timeframe.
The story for the prequels isn't bad, it's just that the execution in the films is abyssmal for the most part. Most other media set in that timeline (books, comics, shows) are pretty ok. Plagueis and Tarkin books were both good.
>>63479411
Initially they were, but after the Naboo debacle the Trade Federation realized it was a fucking terrible idea to make an entire army dependent upon the survival of one starship and made them independently controlled. There were still command units but if those got destroyed the droids under their command would just continue trying to execute their last orders until they succeeded, were destroyed, or a replacement command unit took over
>>63475232
It's so easy to make menacing killer robots but Lucas manages to fuck even that up
Imagine how much better the movies would have been if the robots were more like pic related
>>63475232
The droids are incompetent because they were never supposed to defeat the Republic. Palpatine wanted the Senate to give him unchecked power so he created a droid army for the CIS that was large enough to spook the other senators but not competent enough to actually win.
Maybe I'm giving George too much credit.
>>63479605
It's like pottery
>>63476176
>literally war and peace
>>63479235
They were set up to lose from the start.
Without Sith interference they might have actually broken off from the empire
>>63479286
Why the clone doesn't have a small palpatine in his hand?
>>63475370
SBDs were actually lethal as shit, it was Episode 3 that ruined them. George Lucas loved their portrayal in Republic Commando but by that point it was too late to change the movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhXvRv2Q7nQ
>>63479580
I chose the wrong pic....
>>63478647
Should've been more of these guys.
They go uber-operator in the cartoon.
>>63479463
Honestly even The Clone Wars did well with its overall story.
>Kaminoan senator working with Trade Federation senator in the senate alongside the Banking Clan to de-regulate the banks allowing the Republic to buy millions more clothes
>Umbara is essentially Vietnam
>an alliance of neutral worlds caught in the middle of the war
>proxy wars on Mandalore, Onderon, Mon Calamari etc.
>Malevolence arc is essentially the Hunt for the Bismarck
>The CIS which's full purpose is to serve as a useful tool to pave the way into an authocratic government
>todays white males are the cis
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>>63479848
Yeah, both cartoons are better than the movies.
Clone Wars film was horrible though, not the best ways to launch an otherwise excellent (for the most part) franchise. Hope Rebels will be able to keep up by the time I get to it.
>>63479866
>>todays white males are the cis
Retard.
Cisgender refers to anyone who identifies as the gender they were assigned at birth. That goes for men and women, black or white or any other ethnicity.
>>63479848
You got it! Did you read Plagueis, it ties it all up real neat like.
>>63479866
>66
Yeees, Yeeeeees!
>>63479899
>Clone Wars film was horrible though, not the best ways to launch an otherwise excellent (for the most part) franchise
I've never even seen the film, it looked so awful that it turned me off from watching the series for years. I'm glad I changed my mind eventually though since by Season 3 TCW really started getting into its own.
And yeah the original Clone Wars was pretty great as well, though I wasn't a big fan of the stupid over the top battles.
>>63479908
Like a give a shit.
>>63479949
>frog poster posting in a star wars thread complaining about social justice
Yeah you're exactly the type of retard that deserves to be publicly executed
Probably underage too
>>63479580
>Robot Jews
How frightening.
>>63478758
This is actually great scene
Imagine this but with stormtroopers
>>63479908
Confederation of Independent Systems you troll you.
>>63479929
Yeah, but battles aside (some awesome, some too much), Tartakovsky did way more with way less than Lucas ever did when it came to making us care about these characters and emphasize with them. Despite the short running time, he also had better understanding of allowing us to have quiet, subtle moments to build up tension and emotions, something that got lost in all that "density" during the prequels.
>>63475775
Probably, that's why the Germans like to make video game enemies into robots after all.
>unironically reading Star Wars books
>>63479784
>>63480059
>unironically reading DFW when he was just a garbage delillo-for-plebs
>>63480064
dayum dey niggas cold as ice
>>63480118
/lit/ maymays aside, I actually enjoy his works
>>63479983
>complaining about social justice
Boy are you blind? You think I'm one of those when I don't even know the meaning of cis?
>>63480118
>inb4 "hurr u jus don get it"
>Star Wars 3
>Battle droids are running away in fear at the exploding ship
>they decided to give the battle droids the crippling emotion of fear
Just what a BATTLE droid needs, right George?
>>63479058
Agreed, one of the few gags that worked
>>63475775
100% yeah. Thats why samurai jack killed robots every fucking episode.
>>63480447
Self-preservation =/= fear.
They also ran away from the exploding reactor aboard the Federation ship in Phantom Menace.
Sure it's dumb to make them scaredy-cats but they weren't programmed to be afraid. They were programmed to recognize when they were facing a threat they couldn't fight and retreat from it.
A Jedi is a dangerous threat but the droids seldom run from them because even a Jedi can be taken down by blaster fire. There's no fighting an explosion.
>>63478725
Why the fuck are they shooting in the top half of the shields?
Without the shields those would shots would miss by miles.
Also, droids can't aim for shit, what the fuck?
>>63479908
>genuine retard or bait?
Oh, 4chan ;)
>>63480567
Also opening up with the tanks before the droids are deployed, what if the jarjars zerged them?
Cheap to make and were designed to zerg rush the enemies with lots of numbers
Why not just make an army of Droidekas?
>>63480525
They were fucking SCREAMING, dude. Self-preservation my ass
>>63480525
I would scream too if I was an unarmed pilot droid stuck on a ship that was beingcrashed with no survivors
The ship is out of control and there is literally nothing to do except run aft and try to get to a good bracing spot
>>63480845
Sorry was replying to >>63480771
>>63480845
Stop defending Lucas's shitty choices. You KNOW he was like "Yeah the ship is exploding and it would look weird if they weren't screaming... yeah, make them scream."
George doesn't / didn't care and made them scared cause muh comic relief
>>63479983
>calling an andyposter a frogposter
>>63475370
The introduction to the droids on the control ship and during the Naboo invasion was damn near perfect. They were a truly formidable enemy, like stormtroopers but even colder and more efficient.
And the droidekas started out as a Terminator-level threat. When even the Jedi saw them, they ran.
Then Lucas had to ruin them with that fucking gungan battle. That atrocity was even worse than the ewoks, ffs.
Stupid nigger lizards on dinosaurs with EMP watermelons vs tanks and infantry on an open field, and what should have been Hoth 2.0 turned into a pinnacle shark-jumping moment in a movie that was all about jumping the shark.
And like that, the big baddies of the prequels lost every shred of (halfway-decent) credibility that they had.
>>63480742
Too expensive
One Droideka=1000 000 000 credits
>>63481135
What if take just the droideka, not the mother?
>>63479743
ZUZUZUUZUZUZUZUZU
>>63481390
Megan Calvet of Mad Men pls leave
>>63479743
Oddly enough, Trakovsky ruined them. I loved his Clone Wars series overall, but I hated this segment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF3ocZu4cZo
The tactic was superiority in numbers.
Didn't turn out too well, but its a legit strategy if you have thousands of disposable, easily replaceable troops like America does.
Just throw enough bullets and bodies at something and eventually it'll go away.
>>63479747
>imagining 1000s upon 1000s of seinfelds with coke bottle glasses
THATS GOLD JERRY, GOLD
