That's what I thought. I'll expand the question then: what games out there have good melee sword-fighting systems that somehow resemble SW lightsaber combat? i.e., close-quarters weapon-to-weapon combat that involves a lot of striking and parrying but not much running or jumping around. Games in which you run up to an enemy, slice him down and keep running (like JK) don't interest me.

Many types of games could fit into this category - for example, I like how fighting games allow you pull off various precise consectutie movies without even moving. And I like how the original 2D 4-color Prince of Persia forces you to anticipate the enemy's strike so you can parry and strike back before he has time to resume a defensive stance.

There was also this Star Wars arcade game, where you could fight Vader in the second Death Star. It had a force feedback joystick, which was really nice. But the combat worked in the way, that you had to point the joystick in the direction some arrows on the screen indicated.

Yoda Stories...

<.<
>.>

Did anyone play that star wars fighting game? I think it came out for the original playstation. It was Masters of Terry-something.

Masters of Teras Kasi was NOT a good fighting game.. Luke was the only one with a lightsaber, and it was basically a cheap Mortal Kombat/Tekken style game, but not as good.

There a mods to JA to make sabering less "running and hacking".

Such as? Got any names?

I'll check into Thief (if demos are still available). I heard someone say that Star Wars LEGO has a fun saber system, as silly as it sounds. Did any one try that out?

...and how about Jedi Power Battles?

Sword Play
This game did make a fairly innovative sword combat system called VSIM. VSIM allows you to use the number pad to swing the sword in whatever direction you want. This allows you to hit any vital parts of any creature as well as design your own moves. Sound cool? Well... it is cool if your patient enough. I found that this system takes a lot of time consuming practice. You do not, however, have to use VSIM, which is good. I don't really like the VSIM system too much so I use the arcade system, as they call it, which only allows two different slashing techniques.

The motions are pretty choppy as well. It could take you a little while to get used to the walking motions as well as the slashing. The thing that really sucks about the slashing is that the character slashes way too slow. In the time it could take you to slash once, an enemy could have hit you a few times, and some hits, depending on where they hit, can be pretty devastating. One thing good about the motions is that depending on the direction you slash in, you can lop off different limbs and use the limbs as weapons (yes, you can even cut off heads and use the heads as well).

The first two Thief games were also nice in terms of sword fighting. It felt fairly realistic. The downside of that was that you were practically dead when you had to use the sword because then you almost always had to face more than one guard.

Much as I adore the Thief games, swordfighting in the games is weak once you realize how the AI fights. If you keep sidesteping in the same direction while looking at whoever you're fighting, you can literally walk circles around the guy whiel beating him in the head. The enemies react to slow to get around fast enough, and even if they did they still stop turning after a good whack. I can beat the first mission on hard by attacking the front gate and then running around murdering every gaurd in the level. I haven't tried the other ones, but it should be similar.

It did seem pretty cool until I figured any of that out though.

Hmmm, as far as I remember you weren't allowed to kill anyone on hard. I never used the sword anyway. Much more fun to render them unconcious and pile them on top of each other in gay ways, so that they will be very embarrassed, when they wake up.

I want to see a game with "Badass mother****er" as a difficulty setting

Maybe if a game is made in Samuel L. Jackson's likeness...

Thief's sword combat is very simple but very correct. When you aim to the left of an enemy, you strike his left side. When you aim from the right, you strike his right side. You can hold down the fire key to do an overhead slash.

I would use the same concept, but expand it. Include high and low hits, key modifiers and completely map all regions of the body. As many as is feasible anyway. Perhaps when the crosshair is aimed at the enemy's center torso, a stab could be executed. As an example.