The original movies were inspired by Kurosawa, so the ANH fights were very much based on kendo. It also makes sense if you think of a lightsaber as a "super-sharp" weapon like a katana that can easy kill with one slash. Fights are more about one single moment rather than acrobatics. But I still love the acrobatics. Check out one of the duels in Seven Samurai - one of the (many) inspirations for the original Star Wars: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fbWXmKSXlrKWeZ8.html

Change the music and sound effect and this will be ace!

Show it to Disney

We already had realistic duels, In Jedi Outcast.

Funnily enough, it looks a lot like the very first lightsaber duel we ever see, between Obi-Wan and Vader in A New Hope.

you have to replace the audio bro

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I’ve always said the duel in A New Hope is more realistic than people think

Ok but this game is trying to beat la la lalalala lala la la from the witcher 3 combat music

Sorry, but a real lightsaber duel would be a spastic jerky affair. The hilt is the only weight in it, so imagine how fast you would swing a flashlight around if the beam could do damage. Yeah.

This is precisely why media sword fights aren't realistic, because if they were, the fights would be unwatchable.

This game has a lot of cool things goin for it. But in a lot of exchanges the characters just look clumsy and goofy

no it wouldnt, just as it isnt in any of the SW movies. because, lightsaber blade has no weight, therefore can not be used like a regular sword that uses blade weight for most of the maneuvers.

This is a light saber duel played by men who do not know the force.

Even the spinning lightsabers are realistic

Dang, the clothes physics are so good. I almost thought it was real just by seeing the thumbnail.

It wound so gory you can show it

We have “realistic” lightsaber fighting. They have tournaments for this. It’s simply tag with light poles. And that’s all you would need to do with a weapon like this.

Same mistake as usual. No one would use long, pointy laser sticks as cutting weapon. Why anyone want to reduce their weapon reach in half, if ANY part of the weapon is deadly? It would definitely be rapier-like combat, or even some weird force-centered style, main focus of wich would be to extend your reach beyond opponet capabilities :)

Unfortunately we can see these are longswords with substantial weight behind them. We have to remember that the dangerous part of a lightsaber has zero weight, so fighting with hilts would be awfully strange.

Basically like ep 4 lol

What is the name of the music played here please?

Depends on the sith. An intelligent, disciplined sith would use force push, force throw and/or lightning in an effort to overwhelm the jedi from a distance. Don't bring a sword to a gunfight.

I personally find the lighting really harsh, aggressive, and ugly so it's a bit hard for me ro watch. My recommended lighting mods besides the stuff in the Viva New Vegas Guide are the Yellow Goodbye, Lumen, Simple Interior Lighting Overhaul if you would be interested to try any of those out. Mutant Mods has a video on graphical remastering the game that isn't outdated or washed out looking, it just enhances the game to look less ugly but still have the vanilla vibe and overall look.

Always a fail seeing “realistic” lightsaber duels, seeing as the lightsaber itself wasn’t what made the combat what it was. It was the physical capability of the warriors of that universe that made the battles that way. The super human flips, strength, speed, that came from the force. At one point, yeah they probably did first duel like that back in the day, except for with actual swords. The Jedi and Sith originally used swords however, and even back then they had the force, which meant only average people likely fought like that, versus those who were empowered by the force, and could literally move so much quicker and even could predict an enemies movement through the force before they even thought to commit to it, with a practice called Force Precognition. Which meant when force users finally going against one another in combat, they had to make entire stances and combat styles that were complex, intricate, and at same points random in tact, because it took that kind of edge to fight an enemy that could use the force to preemptively know what you were about to do. Once you figure that out, you realize the way lightsaber combat was done in the movies and shows WAS realistic, for that universe. I don’t expect space knights with scientifically studied and backed Magic powers and burning swords are going to fight like thethe knights of contemporary history on Earth. I expect them to not be human like we are, lol.

So the original trilogy before we had back flips and triple flips and 1 ounce lightsabers that swung 20 times a second?

These Jedi are shit, it doesn’t look like they practiced their choreography at all before the fight.

This redeems Episode 4 quite a bit. Sir Alec Guinness fenced similarly in that film. Sword out, keeping distance.

Real lightsabers would be insanely dangerous. In obscure lore it’s sometimes mentioned that those who are not force sensitive struggle to fight with a light saber even if they are trained with blades. It’s unlike any other weapon and one wrong movement can cost you an arm or a leg.

Youre ignoring that they have the force

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I prefer the original ben vs vader samurai fight. The rest is mtv

I see, I really was very quiet. I'll move the microphone closer next time, lol.

Light sabor is the most stupid and useless scifi weapon ive ever heard of, why didnt they just make light sabor work like a laser pointer, it'd be a very good weapon then

the way of the Sith never prevails....

Okay first, Lightsabers don’t make clashing metal sounds. Second, at more than one point one of the dude’s blades went through the other’s wrist, which would have cut their hand. Three, I’m pretty sure I saw one guy get stabbed in the chest and not react to it. And finally, a lightsaber cauterizes a wound it makes because it’s producing so much heat and energy, so there would have been no blood. And that’s probably as close to real world physics as a frikking laser sword is going to get, so no, this wasn’t a ‘realistic’ lightsaber duel

It's definitely "bulking season" for these Jedi!

Honestly, I think space wizards that can use their metaphyiscal powers to amplify their acrobatics and strength are gonna be doing flips and shit and look real flashy like in Episode III....

People always seem to gloss over the fact that Force sensitives have insanely quick reflexes and frankly absurd physical capabilities. I agree that the flashy moves from the prequels are over the top, but the swordplay of a Jedi would be on an absolutely new level, unachievable to the average man. Acrobatic leaps, vertical movement, no wasted energy... You ever see a cat dodge a cobra strike? That kind of thing. Unfortunately not something we can emulate well in physical choreography. (Edit: could you imagine a swordplay style designed by someone with those kinds of abilities? What would that even look like? Could a modern human even come close to designing something like that?)

Reminds me of bushito blade

The Sith should have looked for the high ground.

Qui-Gon finally won against a sith

Hahahahahahaha he won but he’s hurt lol

You under estimate my P O W E R *dies instantly*

Sometimes less flash means more slice. Like samurai duels were like quick draw gun fights. Over within seconds. The faster the fight ends, the more time to kill another opponent.

Not really because you know light sabers They should not be swinging that slow

I prefer this style of fighting to the acrobatic-style that got so popular in later Star Wars titles.

This is intensely goofy looking. Like, extremely

Tell me the ost name

the most ligical fighting stiyle for lightsabers would be that akin to fencing but in the movie they wield them like katanas