I just hate the over choreographed style of the prequel fights, with the Darth Maul fight being the exception because I thought that one did the best blending of the idea that these Jedi's are trained and ready to fight with the old OT style fighting. When AOTC and ROTS start getting into the video gamey over choreographed stuff, that just gets stupid. I keep waiting for Yoda to get his head chopped off because all of those stupid flips he keeps doing leave himself so open to an easy death shot.
I mean, for me it just simply makes sense. These are fighters in their prime and heavily connected to the Force. I didn't see the rest of the fights as gamey either, but I guess that's just down to perspective. Perhaps the heavy CG and stuff made it feel like that, but I never had any actual problems with the choreography or energy. Watching Anakin and Kenobi go at it is a treat every time I watch the film.
I also rather love the Anakin and Dooku fights in both AOTC and ROTS. There was definitely more to the former than just flash, especially how Anakin cuts the power, it goes dark and we see the visual implications of light and dark on Anakin's face as the sabers move about.
I've always found the prequel fights to be really boring. No tension, nothing at stake, no weight or heft or impact, and they were all filmed very badly.
I disagree about tension; more often than not someone was hurt or killed. Qui-Gon was ran through, Maul sliced in half, Anakin's arm being cut off, Anakin's limbs being severed and then burning alive... so I had no problems with tension, but at the same time I was into the story and characters while it doesn't seem like you really were, so that probably plays a part
