Star Wars The Old Republic Dark Side Corruption
Realistically, corruption shouldn't show physcially at all, beyond stance or attitude. And if it's enough to turn one's eyes red, you'd think it'd also do something else. That said.Before the 'new' SW movies, a lot of people assumed that Mr Supreme Evil Sidious looked the way he did because of years of DS corruption.And then suddenly, now it's because of having (most likely) voluntarily let his own lightning be reflected back at him so he could truly corrupt Anakin.Yeah, that was kind of disappointing for me. Lucas always trying to explain/change something.midiclhorians or however-you-spell-it, bah. The whole zombie look is just how the game was made, strictly for the game there is no definition of why they look as they do when they have fallen to the dark side.' For the hell of it.'
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Maybe visual distinctions are based on the nature of the Dark Side in which the individual adheres to. Darth Tyranus was a smart individual when it came to the Force. His dark side is more subtle and less concerned with performing acts of pure evil, but rather attempting true mastery in all aspects of the Force that the Jedi Order denies to Jedi. This attitude is, what I believe, very similar to Revan's train of thought as compared to Malak's. Finesse of the Force as a whole vs use of the Force as pure strength to dominate.In the games you can control how evil you will act, but regardless your dark side will still look the same. The issue of how DS corruption should look is a bit iffy IMO.I have to agree with Darth Hades on this, but I also agree that the DS courrution did make the characters seem a bit too zombie-ish with the exception of Bao-Dur (and perhaps Mira.
Use a cheat to give DS points while she is in your party, and she'll turn into a goth chick )So lets think about this:- KOTOR games: corruption shows clearly (which I'm guessing is down to how you use the DS of the force; which was basically for thug-like acts).- Movies: Corruption is less clear unless some sort of unmitigated disaster damages your physical look. At most in EpIII, Anakin got yellow eyes for a brief moment, then got lavafied; and Sidious got stung by lightning - they were, to some degree, more subtle in there use of the DS. Tyranus is best expample of subtle use of the DS).How should DS corruption show? I have no idea. ButI do prefer more subtle showings of courrption rather than the blatant stuff in K1+K2. I personally hate the way Lucas screwed up Sidious DS characteristics.
I always thought he looked that way due to long-term corruption.The whole lightning thing with Mace Windu was idiotic at best, I mean why in the world didn't Sidious just use Force Push to shove Windu out the window? Or simply stop using lightning, being the Dark Lord of the Sith he must be able to think of something else.Anyway, on the case of the KOTOR games I have to agree that they look like zombies or even worse clowns with too much make-up. I much prefer the plain simple look with the deep-yellow eyes that Anakin showed when he turned to face the camera (one of the best parts of EPIII).That I think should be the characteristic of the darkside, not the damn zombie-look.