magical deaths

Post » Thu Jul 15, 2010 4:33 am

in morrowind a lot of daedra (and vampires) turned into ash piles on death...

in oblivion this did not happen, although ghosts turned to ectoplasm.


so i was thinking... now that we have the technology to have decent ashification... should it come back in game? what should happen to them on death.. or even when wounded?

if you cut a dremora's ribs then what does he bleed? red blood? ash? black blood?
when he dies what happens to him? does he die like a person? does he turn into a statue that crumbles straight away? does he fall to the ground to turn into a crumbling statue or does he fall to the ground whilst transforming into ash? does his blood splattered all over the place turn to dust? how fast is the transformation? what else happens?!?!?!

this goes for vampires too...

and what happens with ghosts? should they bleed ectoplasm when you cut them or bleed nothing until death when they turn into a glowing pile?




and with spells... does anyone hope for more... power?

for instance... should damage spells show damage? would it be interesting if a very powerful spell rid something of all its flesh and left only the skeleton,apparel and items behind? or perhaps gruesomely burning off the skin of an enemy?

when you use a drain spell (health)... would it not be more amazing/scary if it had an effect like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1TEF1-i5iA (ignore the fact that its harry potter, just look at how things blur into the mouths, it looks awesome ) (and dementors would be cool in skyrim hehe) but perhaps another effect could be used on victims drained to death? perhaps they could go pale or suddenly appear old on death (like how its done in stargate:atlantis)

and should hitting people with fire attacks burn their flesh and possibly burn off a lot more flesh when lethal?(fire magic would also char bones) perhaps paralyze could have different magnitudes and possibly result in death? electrocution should cause spasms that may hit other people :)
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Post » Thu Jul 15, 2010 5:45 pm

I agree.
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Post » Thu Jul 15, 2010 7:14 pm

Considering that dragons skeletonize when you kill them, I'd say it's a safe bet that we will finally get vampires that crumble into ash when they die. Dremorae disintegrated in Morrowind as well, so it's likely they'll get on the train to dust town when they get an axe wedged into their Daedric skulls as well.
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Post » Thu Jul 15, 2010 12:37 pm

I'd like it if magic induced deaths worked kind of like energy weapons kills in fall out where the person might turn to ash or goo,that kind of thing.
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Post » Thu Jul 15, 2010 9:54 am

Or when you loot a Dremora's heart...it looks like you ripped out the heart out of his chest (if there will be Dremora in Skyrim).
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Post » Thu Jul 15, 2010 2:40 pm

I'd be content with kills like the ones in the Deadly Reflex mod for Oblivion. Enemies killed with a critical fire attack turn into charred corpses, lightning kills do the same and also weld the enemy's armor to their flesh, and frost kills turn the enemy into an icy statue that you can shatter with a power attack.
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Post » Thu Jul 15, 2010 5:38 am

Seems all a bit advanced...but possible.
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Post » Thu Jul 15, 2010 7:36 pm

and maybe hwn you "loot" a minotaurs horn (if there are any) or clannfears claw(which is his hand) (if there are any again) it would remove the bodypart from the body
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Post » Thu Jul 15, 2010 6:41 pm

I hope they will use the idea like in fallout, If you burn someone with a spell he will turn in a ash-pile or if you freeze someone and hit him with your mace he will break up in 1000 pieces.
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Post » Thu Jul 15, 2010 6:32 am

i really hope this is in
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Post » Thu Jul 15, 2010 11:49 am

Yeah, sounds good enough for Skyrim. :lol:
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Post » Thu Jul 15, 2010 4:49 am

and maybe hwn you "loot" a minotaurs horn (if there are any) or clannfears claw(which is his hand) (if there are any again) it would remove the bodypart from the body

They included that in Fallout New Vegas like when you took a Giant Mantis Foreleg from its corpse the leg ripped off
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Post » Thu Jul 15, 2010 2:11 pm

I'd like it if magic induced deaths worked kind of like energy weapons kills in fall out where the person might turn to ash or goo,that kind of thing.


This.

But I'd prefer it if t wouldn't always be the case, just the chance of it like in Fallout.
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Post » Thu Jul 15, 2010 10:16 am

I agree, and I am quite sure they would have developed the death animations for Skyrim.
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Post » Thu Jul 15, 2010 4:59 am

Hem hem
he summons a fairly large and very aggressive Frost Atronach, who hits really hard right up until the point that a fire spell melts him into a puddle.
http://www.gamesradar.com/pc/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim/preview/skyrim-preview-abandon-all-hope-ye-who-expect-to-have-a-life-once-this-dragon-born-epic-arrives/a-20110417182154399032/g-20100727104613977084/p-3
Indication of cool death anims? I think so.
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Post » Thu Jul 15, 2010 6:41 pm

Magical finishing moves.
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Post » Thu Jul 15, 2010 1:21 pm

http://www.gamesradar.com/pc/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim/preview/skyrim-preview-abandon-all-hope-ye-who-expect-to-have-a-life-once-this-dragon-born-epic-arrives/a-20110417182154399032/g-20100727104613977084/p-3
Indication of cool death anims? I think so.

Maybe an indication of cool death anims.. maybe the writer was just getting a bit carried away with exaggeration. It's happened before.
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Post » Thu Jul 15, 2010 9:17 am

Maybe an indication of cool death anims.. maybe the writer was just getting a bit carried away with exaggeration. It's happened before.

That's why I said indication and not proof. But that seems a tad overboard for exaggeration imo.
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