(like it's established that the WLF all rotate through torture duty on POWs, and the Seraphites are, well, Seraphites. And the semi-twist final faction are, well, completely unambiguous evil)
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I mean I should point out that even the old Jedi Knight games did this with the stormtroopers Because the original Star Wars also did this with the stormtroopers, it's a classic source of pulpy black humor to have the guards chatting with each other
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Right. I've mentioned before that when I was a kid and in a Star Wars webring, one of the pages was a "Memorial to TK421, who should never have left his post" TK421, who our heroes implicitly stealth kill
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The running gag between Ep IV and Ep VII "Have you seen the new VT-16?"
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Which in Rogue One becomes "Hey, did you hear the rumors? The T-15s have been marked obsolete" and in TFA becomes "Have you seen the new T-17s? They don't really hold up"
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Right and then Mandalorian has an entire five minute sequence between the two stormtroopers at the opening of the final episode
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TBF, the Mandalorian one is also deliberately so parodic that it robs the troopers' deaths of any real impact, given that their response to their own comrades being casually slaughtered by their boss is "welp, we'd better stay away for a bit til he cools down."
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Like, these are not people for whom lives seem to matter very much, so there's no real sense of "oh no, loss!" when they're abruptly gunned down next. that's why the TLOU example is so dissonant; they ACT like stormtroopers indifferent to their lives, but *talk* like buddies.
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morale is something i don't think i've ever seen modeled in a shooter the fact that after a certain point of catastrophe, soldiers just say "fuck this shit," throw down their weapons, and run nothing makes goon npcs more nonhuman than their utter lack of self-preservation
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The mooks' behavior doesn't reflect it of course but I love how in Battlefront if you play a hero the mooks start screaming "It's him! No! No! What do we do now?!" Vader showing up on the Tantive IV in Rogue One
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