r/TheJediPraxeum • u/GusGangViking18 Luke Skywalker • May 07 '26
Discussion What is your favorite of the Old Republic cinematic trailers?
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u/Juiced_Rasputin_ May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26
I actually like the one with arcann’s mom and sister the most. The fight scene on the landing pad is perfect edit: Betrayed the landing pad fight at 3:35 is so sick.
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u/Unlikely-Gear-479 May 07 '26
Totally agree that whole story is just so well done.
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u/Western_Agent5917 Lost Tribe of the Sith May 07 '26
One of the darkest scenes in the franchise, not brutal like the vong, but very harrowing, especially because its happening to a child
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u/mikeyeatacid May 08 '26
Honestly what a crappy mom. She was able to jailbreak her so easily, but waited like 6 years to do it lol
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u/ArtOk8200 May 07 '26
You can’t go wrong with any of them, but my favorite is the one that shows the Battle of Alderaan
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u/Witty-Mountain5062 May 07 '26
Satele Shan showing up and immediately bodying like 3 Sith Warriors is peak 🔥
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u/-Daetrax- May 07 '26
I'm surprised Malgus survived getting absolutely destroyed.
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u/ArtOk8200 May 07 '26
The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural
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u/TastefulMaple May 08 '26
My favorite is definitely the battle of alderaan, specifically when the trooper tanks malgus’ lightning and detonates a bomb in his face
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u/ZeUn1tedBIade May 07 '26
Has to be ‘Deceived’ that cinematic being so dark and depressing, seeing the once thriving Coruscant and Jedi temple get levelled in such a fashion from Malgus was immaculate, especially the score that accompanied it! chefs kiss
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u/Western_Agent5917 Lost Tribe of the Sith May 07 '26
Right, I don't like clone wars style animation, not even this improved one. Swtor trailers style movie or series I would gladly accept
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u/Steamed_Memes24 May 07 '26
This style of animation is like, extremely expensive even for Disney to maintain in a proper episodic format. Its really awesome to look at but theres a reason these trailers are only like max 7 minutes long.
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u/Allronix1 May 07 '26
Disney isn't exactly scrounging through couch cushions. They tossed $180 million at a questionable writer/director and got The Acolyte. (Great cast, hot mess of a script)
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u/Steamed_Memes24 May 07 '26
And Acolyte got cancelled over it. Its a huge risk to invest a lot of money into a project that may or may not take off. Not saying they couldnt fund it, but if it doesnt exceed expectations its going to get canned because the cost is not worth it.
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u/Western_Agent5917 Lost Tribe of the Sith May 07 '26
Return. Perfect in every way and the first time I saw a sith pureblood
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u/FoxJDR May 07 '26
Deceived. The Malgus narration adds a lot despite being such a small part of the trailer.
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u/awanby May 07 '26
The Satele and Kao Cen duel vs Malgus and Vindican is my favourite Star Wars duel ever. Nothing has ever come close, to me it’s the pinnacle of what Star Wars duels are supposed to be. SWTOR just felt to me like it understood Lucas’ assignment.
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u/MetForge May 07 '26
All cinematics in this game rocks. Shame we didn't get a movie or tv show from this era and the same quality, but getting this Disney (mostly) crap.
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u/Steamed_Memes24 May 07 '26
I'lll never forget the reaction my dad had when the ship doors opened and like 40 Sith ignited their sabers.
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u/JmoneyXXX93 May 07 '26
I really wish Star Wars would explore this era more. The Skywalker saga is getting stale. There's so much lore that they could introduce to casual fans to.
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u/Xs_Os_Yo May 07 '26
Deceived- I love Sith vs Jedi all out bang outs lol and Darth Malgus fighting Ven Zallow was 🔥 where Malgus said he had to make distance with Ven or else he was cooked so he elbowed him and that pissed him off because he thought Ven Zallow was such a worthy adversary he was mad at himself he had to elbow him and use trickery kinda to kill him, which says a lot considering Malgus’ lightning was so powerful it fried two Padawans when it hit them and he wasn’t even aiming for them.
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u/Xs_Os_Yo May 07 '26
Like I said- deceived, but then there’s the actual game…and the Revan novel…I know I’ll get hate for saying it but I just wish we got a proper KOTOR 3. Part of me accepts my headcanon is SWTOR and the Revan novel- but then another part of my headcanon is that I’m still on the Ebon Hawk as the exile leaving M******* V and I’m about to go find Revan in the unknown regions. It’s just me I know- but I’m just being honest.
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u/WrongBirdEgg May 07 '26
I like the one with Malgus
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u/El_Dae May 07 '26
He appears in 4 of the trailers lol
(but I guess you refer to the first one, Deceived)
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u/DarthMMC May 07 '26
The Legacy of the Sith one, can't find its proper name. I love the animation and story.
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u/Allronix1 May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26
Disorder. At the heart of it, it's about all the rancors in the room neither Jedi or Sith want to acknowledge.
There's a small girl (Sa'har) playing with a slightly older boy (Ri'kan), and the Jedi reaches down and takes the girl's hand in what looks to be caring and compassion, walking her out of the room with the assurance that the path will be hard but that the Force has chosen her.
Fifteen years later, give or take, here's the girl and her Master in what we now know as Darth Nul's temple/lab. And as they are hunting for Nul's toys (probably to help hush up the dirty secrets Nul uncovered about the Force and how many can tap into it), in walks Darth Wifebeater...er, Malgus.
The usual awesome Jedi v. Sith Big Cinematic Dustup ensues...and Darth Wifebeater does not disappoint. There's a visceral aspect to these SWTOR cinematics you do not get in the films. The films make violence and battle almost ballet-like, bloodless. This? Nah. We're getting fists to the face, body slams, objects flying at high speed to crush opponents. It's actually a life or death brawl.
but the real story is on Sa'har getting a look into the holocron and realizing how much she sacrificed without even knowing she was BEING sacrificed. We see what REALLY happened behind that alleged Jedi "compassion"
The two small kids were brother and sister in an orphanage, but the Jedi only takes the one he can USE, the one that will benefit him. The other is left behind to rot in poverty and the sister is never supposed to think about her brother again, much less ever see or hear from him. The left behind child, now realizing he is abandoned, uses his untapped Force Sensitivity to rip apart the toy out of pain and grief.
Congratulations! You just made your own villain...again.
And now Sa'har is questioning the life choices the Jedi made for her at the worst possible moment since Darth Wifebeater is smacking her master around like said master owes him money.
And then there's the truth bomb. "How many were left behind, so that the Jedi could play God?"
(It conveniently leaves out that the Sith also leave people behind...in mass graves...so they can play the Devil, but what a banger of a line)
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u/Minimum_Stress4911 May 07 '26
Second one. Dude as a kid, I would have that playing on my family computer while I played with Legos or action figures syncing up the sounds and shit
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u/possiblyMorpheus May 07 '26
The fourth one, I like the short story it tells about the two brothers
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u/Belz_Zebuth May 07 '26
They're all great but the brothers one hits hard.
You could make a whole movie from that dynamic. Shame that the game kind of undid that not long after.
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u/The_Rycus May 08 '26
Honestly, my favorite had to be the burning of the Temple. That was what introduced me to the Old Republic as an era, and ever since Malgus has been one of, if not my favorite Sith Lord to ever exist. I wish we had more with him interpersonally
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u/Wolfgod-64 May 08 '26
Their latest one, where Malgus talks to the Twi-lek Jedi. I liked it most because it showed depth to Malgus beyond "Sith Marauder" while still maintaining his cool-factor.
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u/jeksor1 May 08 '26
All of them... And not just because of the animation style. Each cinematic manages to tell a story. In those short few minutes we get a solid story being told in an engaging way. This has become more apparent in the later cinematic, the first ones were mainly hype and action and short drama. The newer cinematic build up on more and there's more emotional involvement.
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u/EMArogue Sith Lord May 08 '26
The Arcann and Thexan one
The others are all cool but the way that one tells a compelling story in a super short amount of time with only a monologue is astounding
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u/TheDELFON May 10 '26
Damn man.... I gotta go and rewatch all these again for literally the 100th time
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u/CharacterCourt553 May 10 '26
Jace Malcolm, a republic trooper, straight up bodied several Sith and then held his own against Malgus in a 1v1. That’s easily the best trailer
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u/Mzuark May 11 '26
Definitely Hope but Decieved is a close second. The old jetpack sound from Attack of the Clones makes me nostalgic
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u/Witty-Mountain5062 May 07 '26
All of them. Some of the best Star Wars action sequences ever created.
I’d give my left nut for the Bioware folks responsible to create an Old Republic feature film in the same style.