HK-47 needs more love on /m/, lets have a thread for star wars robots.

They're called droids in star wars, jackass.

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To be completely frank I'd say Star Wars has some of the strongest western /m/ designs. Unique, recognizable, and usually aesthetically pleasing whilst still looking functional and not resorting to excessive greebling or unnecessary surface divisions.

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>>13702530
There is some really ugly, blocky, and bland designs too. Almost all of them are part of the EU.

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>>13702539
>EU

Let's get full stupid

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>>13702577
EU is like a gift exchange, most of it is stupid or not that interesting and every once in a while someone gets a laptop. C3PX is the pair of Minions socks you receive from your boss.

>>13702525
Whatever meatbag.

>>13702530

I liked how in the commentary for ANH, Lucas talks about how he wanted to make it very clear that SW is a universe that people live in. He thought the Enterprise was always too clean for a ship people are always walking around in.

So the technical crew kept cleaning the floors on the Falcon set, and he was like, "why are you cleaning it? If Han and Chewie are always walking on the floor, why is it so clean? The floors should be dirty."

>>13703122
A shame he threw that philosophy out the window with the cold sterile CG of the prequel trilogy.

>>13703165

He is a lazy man

>>13703165
in the past anakin hated sand and dirt, but after he turned to the dark side there was more of it

its like pottery

>>13702577
>C3PX
I just looked this dude up; what the fuck am I even reading. Even Vader's new evil 3-PO seems like a better take on the idea.

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>>13703219
At least it is not as bad as Luuke or Luuuke.

>>13703165
It makes sense though. The prequels were a much more prosperous time for the galaxy at large, and our central story is about high up people on the social hierarchy.

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GONK!

>>13704229
What you say makes sense for Ep1 and most of EP2, but the end of EP2 and the whole of Ep3 take place during a war, which are never clean.

>>13704229
I've heard of Luuke but really? Luuuke? Did Spaarti really make a clone of a clone?

so are the droids alive or just following complex programs or the fucks the story

>>13705170
>alive or just following complex programs
pick one. you're automatically picking the other.

>>13705211

alive implies a certain degree of free will.

>>13705326
>tell that to a tree. OH wait, nope, guess you can't.

>>13702542
This design looks like pure sex. What comic is this, since I'm guessing it's from one.

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>>13704285

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frimmin on the frim fram
frimmin on the fram

>>13705357
Star Wars Galaxies game.

>>13705654
Damn, R1 to R2 was a hell of a jump

>>13704392

No the second one was something Zahn came up with, and unlike Luuke, Luuuke was perfectly sane and was a good clone.

>>13702577
Every time C3PX is mentioned I imagine C3P0 walking around in that waddling manner he does trying to shoot people and it never fails to make me laugh.

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>>13706159
reminded me of this pic

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7XCe2XorcY

>>13704285

What the hell do Gonk Droids even do?

I always liked this thing
the prequels were pretty terrible films but some very talented people worked on them and produced some really interesting designs. I thought the force awakens felt pretty lacking in that regard, even compared to the original trilogy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIj7gIDFDe4

I mean he's a cyborg but still.

>>13708722
I think they're batteries

>>13708995
Holy shit that spin attack he uses at the start is just plain retarded. That and his silly voice.

>>13709034
>Holy shit that spin attack he uses at the start is just plain retarded

It worked didn't it?

>>13709433
>i'll try spinning, thats a good trick!
inb4 any combination of votoms or sheev episode 3

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Can anyone guess Lando's favourite movie?

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>>13709839

YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE TRUE POWER OF SPINNING

>>13709873
My favorite part is how they talk with the smooth voice of Billy D yelling out YOURE GOD A SHIT as a battle cry

>>13708722
They're batteries/generators
They can also be improved or modified to carry out different functions such as maintenance, repairs, etc.

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>>13708722
GONK

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GONK

https://mega.nz/#!MdFSWBIA!9_U2gGrWW5rIf8cnIwLGH3ni4eV0eDLjxhCqWLKzmGo

>>13712797
If Gonk had some wheels on the legs it could maneuver around better. But I bet the most modern mobile generators are more advanced that a Gonk anyway.

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>>13712808
PLONK?

>>13708995
Why is it that they always seem to be able to throw random debris around easily enough but they always seem to struggle to pull tiny lightsabers back to them when using the force?

>>13712841
>somebody trapped their dog in this

>>13708995
I loved Genndy Wars.

>>13712808
Why did it has legs instead of wheels in the first place?

>>13712916
Easier to shove a guy in the a shitty costume. It didn't even get a noteworthy scene, so it didn't deserve it.

A lotta sci-fi movies were pretty budgeted back then. I mean, the blasters were basically WWII prop guns from older movies with crap slapped on them to make them space guns.

>>13704392

Luuuke was an April Fool's Joke.

But HK is shit. He's the worst gunner in both games because he's specced for rifles when they're strictly worse than duel pistols and combat droids don't get enough feats.

>>13713983

Revan is so broken it doesn't matter anyway. You keep HK around for the dialog.

>>13713983
>go dual melee
>get oj and cyan sabers
>solo Malek
Yeah.

>>13706159
that picture doesn't even convey the size difference of the R1

>>13704356
Star Destroyers and Imperial equipment were always clean though in th OT, so it makes sense that the Republic stuff would be clean, as would the Confederacy, being made up of a bunch of rich assholes.

Hell, even in the OT, ROTJ's flagships were pretty damn clean.

>>13716925

In fairness, that might be to emphasize even more the idea of the unflinching order of the Empire vs the ragtag nature of the rebels.

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>>13720619
Droidekas are my favorite. I love how their blasters sound.

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Mini probe droids are cute.

>>13721205
Droidekas are OP as fuck.

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These things scared the hell outta me.

>>13702577
To be fair, his debut appearance was a comedy-adventure comic. It's not his fault people took him seriously for some reason.

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GONK

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>>13712797
Show me your face when you realize that they probably hired a dwarf actor to wear that thing.

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I love Ig-88. There is something ingriguing about an independent droid working as an assasain for money in the OT.
I wonder if the "four bodies one consciciouness" and the droid revolution plan were always part of his (toy) bio or made for the EU.
I hope he shows up in another movie, and the idea of a droid revolution is fascinating and different and it could adress that droids are often treated like shit despite being clearly sentient.

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>>13724616
GONK

>>13727063
Although much of the EU has been marked as non-canon now, apparently all of the IG-88 units were killed.

robot

>>13705654
I never understood this about Star Wars, Luke refers to R2-D2 as just "R2" even though that seems like calling your dog just "dog".

Not to mention that "R2-D2" seems like a very short number for a mass produced Astromech.

>>13704195
The entire concept with clone Luke/Luuke was great, you faggot. It was Zahn satiring that whole shtick in sci-fi in general.

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GONK

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>>13709877
Death blossom? PAAAAAAAAAAAH

>>13707848
>P1...MUST...KILL

>>13713514
which is why it weirds me out that people make replicas of hans blaster and shit. They're just garbage slapped onto garbage guns

>>13702530
Bionicle will always be my favorite

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As bad as TOR is, at least we got SCORPIO out of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJbUX4BSf1o

>>13735918
>As generic as TOR is

ftfy. Let's be entirely fair, what we got wasn't that different from any other MMO.

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>>13735918
Also gave us more HK's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgpYQI_Lxik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDqMkRL2dO8

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>>13739264
Admittedly, I am a bit of a fan of the Vulture Droids.

>>13739303
They make more sense than the TIE series does, IMO. I wish we had seen variants of the vulture droids like a bomber and interceptor variant.

>>13733319
>They're just garbage slapped onto garbage guns
>implying the C96 is not a work of art

castrate yourself

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>>13739879
There are bombers.

I think the Tri-Fighter fills the CIS interceptor role.

>>13739929
>The bomber variant just has an extra head

I really should have seen that one coming.

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The tactical droids from later seasons of TCW were ballin'.

>>13743313
That's Star Trek dude.

>>13702577
>I'M ALREADY A DEMON, R2.

>>13747260
>>13748361
I liked their design too,I really wish the normal battle droids were more than just comic relief.

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>>13748660
>C3PO leads a band of Ewok mercenaries

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>>13748683
The commando droids were a nice remedy to that, rare as they were.

>>13748361

Such a glorious dick of a robot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oblLwxbtP_4

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>>13748782

>>13702525
They're still robots.

Star wars borrowed HEAVILY from Asimov, using his robots and blasters and hyperdrive jumps pretty much verbatim.

>>13705473

LOL. Never seen probe-droid-speak written out phonetically before.

>>13750384

Yet another example of the lack of imagination which pervaded the prequels.

>>13749937
Not really. From a functional perspective, the mechanics governing all three are quite different from Asimov's. Star Wars did recycle the terms "blaster" and "hyperspace," but below that superficial level they're really only pulling from Asimov to the extent that all modern sci-fi tends to.

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>>13750588
To be fair there were more interesting designs than that as the show went on. Like Huyang, an ancient droid that instructs younglings on building lightsabers.

>>13750606
And the city-planet

But yeah Star Wars probably borrowed more from Dune than from Asimov.

>>13702530
I really like the battle droids and like that there are so many variants, like a mass produced robot would. Even at first glance the B2s look like a B1 with a tone of armor slapped on.

>>13702577
I looked this guy up and he went through a few mind wipes. I have to wonder what the point of that was. I mean might as well kill him off and use a new character. Unless there's stories about him somehow regaining his memories that the wiki doesn't mention.

>>13712860
I would assume focusing on just one small spot and then pulling something to you at high speed without smacking yourself in the face with it takes a degree of finesse and focus.

The guards that Grevious used were IG-100s, but IG-88 who came years later was more advanced. So why does IG-88 have a lower number?

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>>13728839
I'm pretty sure R2 being the name of the line of droids was never stated in any of the movies, it's EU stuff.

>>13750907
You're making assumptions about nomenclature. If the writers give a single fuck, it's more than likely, that it's the 8 series and the 10 series. So, IG-100s are the first 10 class variants while 88s are the 8th or 9th iteration of the 8 series.

Or it's just Star Wars and they chucklefuck their way through their own lore.

>>13750907
100

Generation 1, model 0, revision 0

88

Generation 8, model 8, no revisions because fuck you IG88 IS PERFECTION

>>13750936
>no revisions

IG-88A, IG-88B, IG-88C, IG-88D.

>>13750942
Siblings of same line. Letters only denote revisions for spaceships durr.

>>13733155
>Lv 1
>Lv 16
>Lv 32

>>13750606

Bullshit. The way blasters and hyperspace work, at least in A New Hope, is exactly as described by Asimov.

The robots less so, because of the lack of humaniform bots and the lack of the three laws, but just the same it is what you would expect of a galaxy that had Asimovian robots for thousands of years and didn't approve of robots passing themselves as human.

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>>13727063
IG-88 is one of the best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6GuyKmibR8

>>13703219
>ven Vader's new evil 3-PO
eh?

>>13705170
They have free will. Fine examples are R2, a sadistic bastard who was programed only to repair, and Chopper who's a dick just because he can be.

>>13704392

Aunt Beru knew about him. She was calling for him in ANH

>>13708722
They Gonk.

>>13703219
>C3PX
>C3P0
>X
>0
>TIC-TAC-TOE

>>13708722
In the Star Wars: Battlefront games they refill your ammo i think.

>>13709910
clip please

>>13750917

They explicitly refer to him as an "R2 Unit"

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Does Guri count?

>>13753680
"Uncle Owen...this R2 Unit has a bad motivator, look."
-Luke Skywalker, right after R5-D4 blew his top

Could just be one of those "all photocopiers are Xerox machines" kind of things, though.

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>>13753706
Guri's pretty bangin', but Bettybots are built for clangin'.

>>13750917
vatican droid?

>>13702530

The prequels have some really cool robot designs, They're one of the few genuinely great things that came out of the prequels.

>>13735959
He sounds different. Probably intentional. But I don't know how I feel about that. It's like he's inferior.

>>13702521
This is /m/ but I have to wonder, have any of you guys ever thought KOTOR 3 would have been better than what Obsidian planned if instead of playing as Exile again, the player was actually HK-47?

I mean just think about the customization and dialogue options. Also makes it cheaper since you don't need to hire two voice actors for the role. It even works with the shitty FO4 dialogue system cause you can just do Query/Answer/etc/etc.

>>13728839
maybe it's like the numbers on guns.
Also, the designs from R3 to R9 can't seem to tell if the third foot should stay or not.

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>>13764023
The extra foot's always been retractable.

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IG-88 was one of my favorite droid designs growing up. I especially loved his cameo in Episode IV.

>>13753657
Underrated post.

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>>13769890
Wow I never noticed, also 2-1B has a old mic as a mouth.

>>13750588
Isn't that the point of the battle droids? cheaply mass produce one type of droid with different AI for specialization

They keep making more and more HK units in the EU, it's getting ridiculous.

First we had 47 the original. Then the sequel had an army of 50s at the droid factory and the squad of 51s (and you get a 51 in TOR).

And now we have the gold 55, which I don't know what to think of him because it almost feels like he was purposely programmed to be overly impulsive and a gun-jumper as a joke.

Still, seeing a character keep mistaking your 51 for 55 was funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rjex503O0M

>>13772975
55 is dead.

>>13773008

I haven't gotten there yet, but that doesn't surprise me at all.

>>13751847
agreed. i love how thin he is.

>>13753719

The Rogers were intended for one thing, cost.

The majority of their production run didn't even have a full feature processor, relying on squad level or theatre level C3 systems, making them dumb as bricks.

They're the exact right kind of bot you'd want if you want for disaster relief however; They can operate any humanoid construction, excavation or emergency response equipment, they're amazingly "disciplined" and they're highly expendable.

The irony is that the true "lack of creativity" is that you didn't see them fucking everywhere in every damn role. Whole platoons were "orphaned" during the clone wars; They'd be the honda Civic of droids,

>>13779359

Shit, Meant to link to

>>13750384

Although for that matter, it's less of a Kleenex than a AK-47 issue. The R2 was the first practical astromech in the canister form factor, so everyone misidentifies newer models as the original.

Since this seems to be the SW thread up, I figured I'd ask here instead of making a new thread for something that isn't entirely /m/-related

Say you have a kid and you want to introduce them to SW, show them all of it. Do you show them the movies as 4-6 then 1-3 then 7-9, or just 1-9? It got me thinking, if a kid watches the prequels first it does affect how they see Anakin as a character. If you see the orignals first then in the prequels he's just whiny and stupid, but if you watch the prequels first then in the OT he comes across as a tragic character (tragic in the classical literary "this character's downfall is brought about by traits that make the person who they are but also makes them fatally flawed" sense). Plus from a viewing standpoint, do you really want to go from the OT to the boringness of the prequels, instead of 1-6 where each film (with the exception of 1-2 and 5-6) is better than the last?

>>13733311
and now I'm imagining one of those robots with ak-47 rifle and just walking slowly and purposefully down a hallway with the programmed need to kill Sarah Connor.

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>>13779788
Show them The Clone Wars between Episode II and III. It's a very fun show and turns Anakin into a genuinely likable character (making his fall in III feel even more tragic).

>>13779788
http://moviepilot.com/posts/3388680

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>>13753646

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>>13783491
wait, that's just regular R2, though, right?

>>13783506
That is BT-1, an assassin droid who murdered his creators.