Quote Originally Posted by Kraco View Post
I'm not sure what sort of Star Wars games you have been playing if you are under an impression they are useless in SW games, but Governor Tarkin would have commended you.
Well, let's see. X-Wing, TIE Fighter, Dark Forces, Shadows of the Empire, Rogue Squadron, Pod Racer, Bounty Hunter. Games where you do even use Light Sabers.

Or maybe you want to limit it to RPGs and MMOs. Like Knights of the Old Rebublic, Galaxies, or The Old Republic. Where there are as many characters/classes that don't use lightsabers as there are that do, if not more.


Galaxies is a particularly apt comparison, because almost nobody had a light saber early on, 99% of players didn't use light sabers. Was it because they sucked? No, it was because nobody had the skill to use one(because becoming a Jedi was a retarded series of quests instead of a class you chose).

A similar situation could be in play here. Where light sabers are awesome, but only if you have the skills necessary to use one at a high level. And nobody uses one enough to GET those high skills because, as you said, it's a shooting game. But Kirito is entering the game with insane levels of sword skills, so that's not an issue for him.

It's like starting the game with a level 90 character in an insanely niche build that is useless for the first 80 levels. Nobody wants to spend 80 levels getting mowed down to get to the point where it starts getting good.