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Honestly, you could probably skip Dark Forces. Gameplay wise it's probably the most refined in the series, but it also probably has the weakest story, and the single player campaign is a bit short. There is only one level where your lightsaber is taken away, and it's completely optional whether you play it given how the game is structured. Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the last of the series, and is probably the least FPS like of all as you get the lightsaber and force powers right from the get-go. These first levels can be somewhat frustrating as your weapon selection is rather limited, and your primary weapon won't be all that accurate. Be warned the first few levels do play like a somewhat slower paced Quake III due to your character not having the lightsaber and force powers.

Modern resolutions are easily hacked in using console commands which is also nice. Everything won't look horribly blocky, and the gameplay does flow a lot better running on the Quake III arena engine.

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Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast is when the series gets as close to modern as you're going to get. Mysteries of the Sith is a standalone expansion pack for Jedi Knight Dark Forces II, so everything said above more or less applies to that game.

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The game should run fine out of the box with software rendering, but will look a lot worse. It's still not the most refined gameplay wise, and getting 3D acceleration to work on modern machines can be a tad tricky. You do still see a lot of the 90s FPS tropes though like maze-like levels, no regenerating health, rocket jumping being a thing, etc. Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II is when the series does break away from being a standard FPS and introduces the lightsaber and force powers.

It did do some innovative things for the time like having true floor over floor and the ability to look up and down, albeit in a rather janky way, there is no mouse look support without using a source port.

Star Wars: Dark Forces you probably won't be interested in playing, it came out in 1995 and is the closest in the series to being a Doom clone. None of them are really a modern FPS, as the newest game in the series came out in 2003.