I love how "The Rule of Two" is now known to most Star Wars fans and seeing casual fans react to the armies of Sith from the Old Republic. This just proves how successful an Old Republic Trilogy or show could be. The Old Republic era isn't just for the hardcore fans anymore, even casual fans know Sith like Darth Malgus now. So awesome.

The lightsaber choreography in these is just out of this world and something people really want to see them transfer to live action.

When she catches the lightsaber blade she's basically using the force to absorb the energy from it to stop it cutting her. It's basically the same power Yoda uses to absorb Dooku and Palpatine's lightining, just even more impressive. She's the only Jedi known to be able to do it as far as I know, you can tell it's using up all of her concentration

Swtor is basically a single player game that you can play with friends. The whole game is story driven you would probably really enjoy playing the game for that alone.

The Deceived cinematic using the Sacking of Coruscant as a backdrop is one of my favorite bits of Star Wars content. The implications are so crazy, it's so good.

When the trailers are better then the sequels

So this is the Old Republic Era and it takes place roughly 3600 years before the movies that we have now. Yoda is 900 years old when he dies so it is way before his time. The rule of two has also been around for roughly 1000 years before the movies we have so its way before then. It's a cool time period and there is so much rich lore, cool sith and awesome jedi in the form of books games and comics. I wish that Disney developed storylines about this. I loved your reaction video :) You should definitely try the games they changed the way I viewed Star Wars. I recommend starting with Knights of the Old Republic and then Knights of the Old Republic 2 Sith Lords. Then play the online game the old republic which is online and still very active to this day. I believe they are all available on steam.

The trailers actually showcase the 30 years war between the Republic and the Empire, when the Empire returned to the galaxy in force after building their strength for a thousand years under the Sith Emperor. Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO takes place after these events (mainly the Sacking of Coruscant, the third trailer), during the times of a peace treaty between the two. Personally, the Old Republic era is my favorite Star Wars lore. It's so rich and bountiful in everything we love about Star Wars. It's basically Star Wars on crack. This time period showcases two of my favorite Sith in Star Wars, the Sith Emperor and Darth Malgus. Darth Malgus is the definition of a Sith, and the Sith Emperor is the end-goal any Sith would want to become, so much so that not even Palpatine was able to accomplish what he did. And Darth Malgus... As a medieval enthusiast, I absolutely love everything about these trailers when it comes to Malgus. He shows a great, realistic balance of grounded combat and the type of combat a superhuman would be capable of, and this is only elevated by the fact of what Malgus is capable of. He's a very large man, and the more scary part is that he is unnaturally agile for his size. His swings are so powerful that he can off-balance his opponents, and as we've seen in these trailers he's a very cunning fighter, willing to apply unorthodox tactics mid-fight to gain an edge over his opponents. In the Expanded Universe, it was even said that Emperor Palpatine had Darth Vader study manuscripts written by Darth Malgus himself to help train him. Loved your reactions to these trailers, if you haven't yet, the order you would want to play the Old Republic era games would be Knights of the Old Republic, Knights of the Old Republic II, then Star Wars: The Old Republic. The first two take place a few hundred years prior to Star Wars: The Old Republic, and as others have mentioned in the comments, Star Wars: The Old Republic may be an MMO, but it's probably the most story-focused, single-player MMO out there. You basically don't even have to grind for levels to continue the story, and everything in the game is voice acted, which is lovely.

Literally everybody when Malgus returned: "Not this guy again, how is he still not defeated?" Me: "It was actually quite simple."

That red guy is actually a Sith Pureblood from the planet Korriban. They were the original inhabitants of the planet, but during the time of the Clone Wars they were extinct and the planet become a pilgrimage to Dark Side users

It's for any PC (older ones need to set to lower graphic, my mediocre 2 years old PC runs it fine), MMO so others players present when you play it, the game graphic is still good enough to convey the environment, the vibe for all places. Insanly good stories, ideas, music, settings, world. FREE to play (the first 100-200+ hours!!!!!!), then a few bucks for the expansions. Each of the 8 class have own storyline and quests, the game is pure lore. Every quest, every enemy, every location shows a new thing. Just pure Star Wars. Each quest shows a new ambient, side of this world, each creature, character or location you meet gets a Codex entry to read........ Not to mention that 4 classes are for Imperial side, this world this time period is shown from both perspective, and played by you as well. Sidenote: the 4th and 5th videos are the introduction to a new mysterious empire that attacks both Republic (Jedi) and Empire (Siths) with an unknown powerful being ruling it. The twins and the girl are his sons/daughter, the female knight is his wife.... and the 6th for the newest expansion introduced a few days ago, it seems Malgus might look for those rejected by Sith and by the Jedi... I intentionally didn't said anything too precise, you will find out ingame.

The game is for sure worth it, if you do the 8 main stories and the expansion on one light/dark side character each that is 500 hours at least, realistically more like 800 without doing any side missions at all. The old republic universe is very expansive too, lots of jedi, lots of sith, lots of characters in general on a lot of planets with long, interconnected stories. After spending some time in that universe the “current” time Star Wars just feels small and limited, a small world with only very few characters and stories that get regurgitated over and over again. The game was made by many of the same people that did KOTOR and ME1&2, a lot of the team was moved to SWTOR by Bioware after ME2 which screwed ME3 a bit, but means that SWTORs writing, storytelling and world creation is great. Main storylines are Jedi Knight and Sith Warrior, would start with one of those. Dark side is definitely more fun in the game though

We've been saying this since these were released 10+ yrs ago. Instead they make all the animated stuff targeted for teens.

You are right. This is simply before the rule of 2. Back then there was armies on each side fighting for the light or the dark.

"That guy was a sith the whole time?..." Me: Oh, my dude, if only you knew...

I still don't trust Disney enough to let them do anything with the old republic, leave it alone.

These trailers weren't released in order. Deceived was released in 2009, Hope in 2010, etc. The MMO plays through these stories in a way. Most of these set up a expansion for the MMO.

These were basically about a million dollars a minute to make back when the SWTOR mmo game was being made.

Finally.... I someone as enthusiastic as I am for the whole old republic Era.... there is material for at least two trilogies even three ....

2:32 now that's how you do a proper spin move lol Book of Boba take notes please XD

Iirc, the Twins in the Sacrifice trailer and the girl in the Betrayed trailer aren't from either Sith or Jedi. They are a third faction, thus the Yellow lightsaber. They tap into all that is Force, be it good, bad, and the between. They were such a menace that both Jedi and Sith had to have a temporary truce to fight against them.

I love that the Sith Emperor, the Palpatine equivalent in the Rebellion era, and Malgus, the Vader equivalent, are not exactly on the same side even if they're both villains. The galaxy would have been screwed if they were together.

I cannot agree more! The storytelling in these short videos is next level .

So the MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic is still going yet to this day and is Free to Play on PC. Since I didn't see anyone answer your questions here you go: 1) SW:TOR is set 3640 years before the Battle of Yavin (The first Death Star blowing up), or 3599 years before Anakin Skywalker (Darth Vader) was born 2) The Sith Brotherhood is a religion so simply using the Dark side of the force does not make someone Sith. There are Dark Jedi (Jedi who 'fell from the light') who use the Dark Side but don't follow the teaching of the Sith. There are Dark Force Users (people who were not trained as Jedi or Sith) like the Night Sisters of Dathomire, the Inquisitors, Starkiller, and The Emperor's Hand (Mara Jade). There are Gray Jedi who use both the light and dark side but do not commit to either side. 3) The Jedi Order are also a religion, so simply using the light side of the force does not make one a Jedi. There are Lightside or Shining Sith, who discovered the light side can be more powerful than the dark and changed to the light. There are lightside force users like the Witches of Dathomire. And as mentioned before, Gray Jedi. 4) The "Rule of Two" was established by the Sith 1000 years before the Battle of Yavin. There is a whole history of who suggested it, who implimented it and how it pretty much lead to the downfall of the Sith. So, the Jedi used to allow their members to get married and have kids to other Jedi but that practice was stopped 4000 years before the Battle of Yavin or 1360 years before SW:TOR. Too many Jedi had fallen to the dark side or were manipulated by people who had captured or killed their families so it was decided attachment can lead one to passion and the dark side. Sith, however, encouraged their members to produce children as over time, they were producing stronger and stronger force users. Finally, the Dark Side is easier to fall into and easier to grow more powerful, more quickly, than light side users. The feed back loop of negative emotions causes this. The angrier you are, the more hate and fear you feel, the more powerful your control of the dark side of the force is. But there is a price to pay and that is that your body is slowly damaged by the dark side power to the point that you have to maintain this rage or fear all the time just to maintain your life. This also causes mental health issues (obviously) and soon, your dark feelings and control of the force is no longer enough to keep your body functioning. The Emperor was in the last stages of his life at the time of the Battle of Endor and was hoping cloning could be used to keep himself alive (transfering his 'soul' or 'force ghost' into the clone). It was mentioned in books and comics and we saw it in the last SWs movie.

The red headed mandalorian is Shea Vizla Mandalore the Avenger and one of my favorite mandalorians in all of star wars.

Grew up watching these and wish disney would stop messing around and do something like this

The Republic soldiers aren't actually clones! They are elite soldiers trained to fight Siths, but they are normal people aside from that.

Finally a reactor that watches the original awesome voice overs on Hope and Deceived. The newer versions are nowhere near as epic.

@ 10:22 Tutaminis (Light side ability) is essentially a focused Force barrier.

For real... Sacrifice told a more engrossing story in four minutes than all three sequels put together.

timeline: this was long before the rule of 2: around 4000 years before the phantom menace. The apprentice is Darth Malgus--see SW the complete Legends history for the complete timeline--they mention Malgus somewhere in it.

I liked that you actually reacted and didn’t just watch

Play the SWTOR mmo if you want the full story behind these. While it's an mmo you can definitely enjoy it as a single player rpg with really solid in-game story telling.

The old republic era is so cool. I love reading the books about what happened long before the movies. Highly recommend checking out some old republic books. As you see there were tons of Jedi and Sith at actual war. It was not until the Darth Bane trilogy that the Sith went underground. Also the audiobooks are so good. Check out the Darth bane trilogy if you want a great read and some Star Wars content.

Great video man. I really enjoyed the game when I played it. Was amazed at the quality of the graphics when these trailers dropped. But that last one, I was watching it for the first time as well.

This is way before the rule of 2 around 1000 years before the rule of 2. And a few thousand years before the battle of yavin.

This is the cinematics for the MMO on PC, its free to play, but much better if you subscribe lol

"Evil Red Guy" was Darth Vindikan, a Sith Pure Blood, master to the BEAST DARTH MALGUS.

Evil Red Guy is actually a member of the Sith race, founders of the first Sith Empire 1000 years before what happens here in Old Republic.

When a ten minute cinematic trailer tells more story than 6 hours of a sequel trilogy ya.

Yes, this is Darth Malgus the evil bald Sith. I agree this is a great representation of a true Sith. Great video. Never visited this channel before but nice stuff.

Highly recommend SW The Old Republic- the story lines for each class are really great

These cinematics are better than episode 7-9

Thank you for your reaction

Fun Fact For Malgus: He is stronger than Bane, better saber dueling, force power, and connection to the Dark side, Malgus also killed his love interest to be a stronger sith.

I know I'm almost a year late, and some people commented below on times, but Revan is an important figure in the Old Republic times (referenced heavily in Knights of the Old Republic RPG game), and this is 300 years after Revan. Revan was a Jedi, and was the Supreme Commander of the Galactic Republic in the Mandalorian War in 3960 BBY. So this game is around 3660, BBY. The Rule of Two was set in place by Darth Bane in 1000 BBY. To be honest, I'm not sure how Yoda would know there would be only two Sith at any given time, as the galaxy assumed all the Sith had been wiped out at the conclusion of the New Sith Wars. And this was the first confirmed sighting of a Sith that didn't result in all witnesses disappearing. (lightsabers leave distinctive burn patterns. A Jedi would recognize them) Edit: Sith are not, by nature, evil. Sith are simply diametrically opposed to the Jedi in how they access The Force. The Sith Code, learned by all Sith (Empire Force Users) in this game: Peace is a lie, there is only Passion. Through passion, I gain strength. Through strength, I gain power. Through power, I gain victory. Through victory, my chains are broken. The Force shall free me. The Jedi believe true connection with the Force comes through peace and serenity in ones mind and spirit. The Sith believe that true connection comes through feeling powerful emotion. This, however, leads to why many Sith are evil. Negative emotions are far easier to hold onto than positive ones. It's so much easier to hold onto anger, hatred, rage, and the like (and to instill fear in others), than it is to hold onto joy, compassion, and love. And many Sith fall down the Power trap. They feel power, and they want more. It's the crippling downside of the Dark Side Darth Bane recognized, and why he set the Rule of Two in place. Sith will constantly fight each other in a neverending struggle for more power, while Jedi work to support those around them. Bane recognized that several weaker Sith could take down a rival none of them could best alone, but then they'd fight amongst themselves until only one remains, far weaker than their predecessor. Thus, the Rule of Two. Only the stronger Sith would hold the power. If that proves to be the apprentice, then they deserve the title of Sith Lord more than their former master.

i will say i loved that you used the old voiced trailers the redone trailers they redubbed felt off. also Darth Malgus ftw! Malgus was in the first 3 trailers you see him young in return middle aged in hope and then older and more battle worn in deceived. and ultra battle worn in the final trailer

The Old Republic is available on steam of you don't want to go through their official websight.

not just the animation but it's motion capture

These cinematic films your watching are after KOTOR after Revan before the Star Wars Films

the rule of 2 wasn't referring to the amount of sith allowed by their society, it was bound to the master apprentice rules ...no they're not clones, they're regular soldiers. this is over 3000 years before then

Jedi, with double light sabers are in the clone wars animated series, and the second and third movie there in the big battle scenes just some people in the background and the Temple guards

These cinematics are over a decade old, how can you be a Star Wars fans and not know about SWTOR?

"They've been releasing these for a couple months now???" Lol... no my man, Bioware had been releasing them for over a decade.

You definitely do not need to play this game to appreciate that these videos are some of the best Star Wars content to ever be created. The directors who make the movies should hire these people to help them choreograph a fight. Live action is obviously more limited, but here is the starting point.

Malgus is such a beast

Hopefully someone told him that he needs a PC, not an XBox before he bought one, to play this game.

This is about 3700 years before the movies and about 300 years after Knights of the Old Republic

If I remember correctly, Oday was like 900 years old. He was born right at the end of this conflict. I could be wrong though.

Very different level of talent between Bioware writers and Lucasfilm. Theres a major misconception that game writing is of lesser quality than that of TV or Cinema. Another misconception is that animation costs more and takes longer to produce. Consider that the Clone wars TV show averaged about $1 mil per episode and Rebels 500k. Blur (The studio that created the first 5 trailers) would produce each trailer at an average of say $600k+. Mandalorian and Kenobi were $15mil PER EPISODE. With say an average episode length of 30mins you are looking at $500k per minute for current Disney live action. Where as Blur produced these cinematics at $150k+ per minute. I can not speak for Blur's average production time on projects but I do 3D artwork myself and in that experience can tell you there is a lot of flexibility in 3D you simply cannot get in live action. It's just the Stigma of animation that keeps these kinds of projects and medium underfunded.

If you like darth malgus then he has a book called deceived such a good read

"Get a new Xbox and play these games" I cant

Part of why the story of Old Republic looks so innovative and better is because they don't try to depict the Sith as just your run-of-the-mill cartoon evil, and they show a bit of the two sides of the coin. This is much more pronounced in-game, because the Empire is playable too, so they had to give Empire players also something to feel good about, whereas in the movies, the Sith are simply the evil antagonist and nothing more. In the game, arguably the Imperial storylines are even better than the Republic ones.

Please stop asking for Disney to make movies out of the Old Republic. This is the last bit of Star Wars that diehard fans have that isn't ruined by the mouse.

Sith feed off their passions

I prefer these cinematics more than the sequels by far, true sequels needed more lightsaber fights

What kind of Star Wars Fan doesn't know how old Yoda is?

epic game

4:39 Ahhhhh yes the famous Marvel character EVIL RED GUY lmao

In these cinematic, you see two battlemasters of the Jedi order be killed

Way before the Rule of 2

This is one of the things that I wish lucas made a film on like an old republic show or movie made by lucasfilms would have been fanominal

I'll explain, the cinematics of the last 2 expansions alone have more sense and action than the last 6 Disney Star Wars movies combined. Not to mention that they are much better made. The game SWTOR is so big and so rich on history and content, it really shows how mighty Sith was. Sadly you need 72 years of play to see everything inside, every single frame i mean. I play 12 years non-stop and i have seen only 25% of the game. The good thing is that is not for childrens. It need THINKING to play it. Its not like other games just press buttons. Mechanics are really dificult to master in advanced level of play. I'm PvP player and i enjoy every second of the game.

Watching these trailers really makes you wonder what went wrong in all the new movies

The rule of two was invented by Darth Bane what? 2500 years after the first trailer? The game is set about 3500 BBY. BBY being "Before the Battle of Yavin". To make that descriptor easier to understand to a layman. The Battle of Yavin was when the first Death Star was destroyed. So this game happenes three and a half thousand years before the Death Star is destroyed. The rule of two was designed by Bane as an answer to the weakening of the Sith. Even in the first trailer you see Darth Malgus cut down his already weakened master. This was common among the Sith of the old republic who formed entire armies of Sith. The specific goal of the rule of two was to encourage power by preventing weak Sith from being able to group up against their masters. There would be one to have the power and only one to challenge them for it. No help. No. The clones of the clone army were invented by the Kaminoans during the time of the prequels. Before the Clone Wars no such case of mass produced clones had ever been seen by the galaxy. If you were to make a clone it would be one at a time and of one person at a time. They were very rare. Having beaten every playable storyline in SWTOR I can personally only remember one clone in the entire game and it wasn't even alive. It was a body double a smuggler planned to use to fake his death. These men, and specifically the one you see save Satele in the first two trailers, are Republic soldiers. Just conscripts and willing applicants alike. The one who speaks during the second trailer is Jace Malcom, Supreme Commander of the Republic military. The Jedi who confronts Malgus in the second trailer is Satele Shan. She was the Jedi Padawan in the first trailer. When you see Satele Shan catch Malgus's lightsaber with her bare hands she is using a Force technique named Tutaminis. This technique absorbs all the energy from the blade, which is why it crackles and grows pale where she's touching it. This technique is very dangerous for use like this, so you rarely saw Jedi using it for catching large amounts of energy. Notably, we also see Yoda use Tutaminis to catch Sidious's lightning during their duel. These are the same technique. When later we see Satele Shan stand up and use the Force to throw Malgus through a mountain she is accomplishing that with the residual energy of Tutaminis. Tutaminis absorbs energy, but unless a Jedi releases it quickly the energy will build to a point they can't control and blow up like it did for Yoda. So effectively Satele Shan absorbed a frightening amount of energy from Malgus's lightsaber then used it to throw him through a mountain. Sith technically do feed off of 'pain' and 'suffering'. But that is only one small expression of the Dark Side. The Dark Side is not pain. It is raw emotion. Passion. We see in the Sith mantra no mention of pain outside of an individual Sith's. Through passion, I gain strength. Through strength, I gain power. Through power, I gain victory. Through victory, my chains are broken. Sith could more easily feed on their own pain than the pain of others. At least typically. But any powerful emotion could fuel a Sith's power. Even love. Yoda is 900 years old by the time he dies. The game starts from 3,643 BBY. Yoda was born in 900 BBY. BBY is counted backwards. The closer we get to the Death Star's destruction the smaller the number. Yoda would not be born for 2700 years after the game.

The game is kind of meh now. But then I've played through it like a dozen times too. Its insanely easy now compared to its launch they really are pushing the group and expansion stuff so they want you to hit max level and endgame content ASAP. Also Satele catching the Lightsaber with her hand is basically what Yoda did with Palpatine's force lightning in RoTS, absorbing energy with your hands, and a Lightsaber is an energy weapon

KOTOR you can play on xbox, but SWTOR is PC only i believe.

Have you played the game yet?

Malgus is the biggest sith chad in star wars. Killed the woman he loved because his feelings made him weak. The Old Republic MMO, which these are for, while the stories are great is sadly just your run of the mill, generic MMO. Play it for the stories but don't expect to be blown away by the game itself. The KOTOR duology are great games with some of the best Star Wars story outside the original movies but are pretty dated by now. The Old Republic timeline is a goldmine. I'll take Legends over Disney any day.

These CGI Video's are What the Sequels SHOULD and COULD Have been with better writers..My God no Question.

So Matt did you every play the game?

Also, making a whole movie out of this is way too expensive to produce.

I'm late to the party, but as to why they don't make an entire film like this, each one of those 4-5 minute videos takes 3 years to produce.

are these the 4k versions?

I know I'm 8 months late to this discussion at this time, but there are 100-1,284 hours of gameplay and content in SWTOR alone. They don't have to make movies, they did BETTER than that. Ah Bioware, how we miss you. Also, these animation projects take 1-2 years on average for a handful of minutes of footage. A movie would take a generation to produce in this style.

This is what Star Wars was before Disney, now look at what happened to it @AnotherStarWarsPodcast play the old games like Dark Forces Trilogy / Knights of the Old Republic Trilogy and read the old Canon Books, Disney calls them “legends” nowadays.

sequels? he mean the disney fan fiction, the non star wars? star wars is episode 1-6 and disney trashed lucas "scripts" for 7, 8, 9, that came with the sale, so it is just pure fan fiction after 1-6

SWTOR is the last section of the franchise that stays true to George Lucas and the canon (not the Disney BS) they include sequel stuff and costumes into the game, but Disney on the other hand has no influence on the game. Lets pray it stays this way, They would ruin the character of the game or butcher its content. The moment EA sells the rights to Disney, i quit the game, and i play since BETA, i also still have my first ever character, a female sith, and i play her for over 10 years by now. For us, the story was insane, because you had to wait for new content. Back in the days, there where companions and one mission you lost them ... we had to wait 5,5 years !!!! real time to finally see them again. It was a mission like any other and you asked an npc, were he got that information and you hear that voice " How about... two old friends" That was a moment and we where like "5 years... we started this game and this moment took us 5 years!"

Shocked you knew nothing about TOR....

Ok goin to shorten the history lesson The Red skins are the True Siths Darth Malgus with his Twi'lek wife n Mandalorian woman was at th Sacking of Corusant etc

"stories that should be developed" - definitely, but definitely NOT by Disney...

Why buy an Xbox??? This is a mmo on pc ( did they do a console portability ?) Even the « prequel » of the mmo are two games on pc kotor 1 and 2 ( knight of the old republic) who are freaking good even if a bit old now. What you just watched was 5000 years before the movies ( and have been made non canon along with everything in Star Wars legend ( which is freaking huge btw) thx to Disney…pffft) and kotor was 300 to 500 years before the old republic. So you already know the outcome of the numerous wars in swtor since it will lead to the rule of 2 for the sith and later on the ruusan reformation which limits the political power of the Jedi in the republic…among other things such as using armor and modifying the Jedi code a bit. Anyway the mmo is really good, every npc have voice actor and the story is frankly great especially since every classes has its own story ( first mmo ever where I did every class just to see their story).

The comparison to the sequels is simple: This right here, this lives and breathes Star Wars. The sequels are space trash with clear pandering to hopeful audiences to make a quick buck and nothing behind it.

i know that the Sith are evil. but the Jedi opress their emotions and separate children from their families if they are Force sensitive.

Disney has absolutely nothing on these with their crap.

Yeah the old republic timeline is millions of times better than the george lucas timeline

The movies aren’t better than these video games when it comes to Star Wars as of now.

The force users from the original trilogy were only special in power because of the times they live in. In the old republic era even vader would have only been above average in power. Darth Vitiate alone wiped out a 3rd of the galaxy and consumed their force essence. .Also dont play anything in teh old republica era expecting the gameplay to be anything like this. You will be super disappointed.

Dude,why keep name of the game over such a small screen,it's almost unwatchable. Nobody does that. Well they DO put annoyingly small screens. Smaller perhaps in some cases.

You consider yourself a star wars fan, but dont know the old republic and call yoda 9000 years old then call the sequels.... "safe" i often wonder why every star wars fanatic i see lately is a casual with 0 idea about anything