yah that would be enough, ice shatter, lightning turns enemy to ash, fire burns him to a crisp, magic missile turns them blue (like drowned) ...etc simple stuff.

I'll be exclusively using magic if the finishing moves are too disgustingly graphic, so I'll be disappointed if they make finishing moves for both if that's the case.

The developers at Bethesda have specifically stated in interviews that the levels of gore in TES games and Fallout are not, have never been and will never be similar.

In Fallout games, gore and dismemberment are a part of the feel that was intended with the game.
In TES games, there is some gore, but it is more to create an atmosphere of forboding prescence (I remember seeing a charred corpse being roasted over a fire in a house inhabited by Ogres - I put two and two together and imediately felt like I needed to avenge this poor burnt corpse [it also put a slight feeling of dread into me]; I proceeded to slaughter the myriade of Ogres upstairs in the most painful way I could come up with ).

In relation to this topic, magic finishing moves like burning a victim to death, or turning their skin icy blue from freezing all their blood would work - however I would doubt dismemberment is to be a major feature (apart from maybe the occasional beheading, but even then...).
Oblivion had charred corpses, so I don't see an issue with Skyrim using some similar representations for magically murdered victims - and in this case, the most gore you will see in a TES game is on a decayed zombie corpse level (and the rotten heads on spikes in the planes of Oblivion).

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I'd love to do a move where you've been fighting, then you grab them and deliver a blast of destruction magic to their chest (fire/shock?) firing them into the air!

I'm just really looking forward to having a fight with a mage, at the moment in Oblivion I'm playing a mage that only ever uses weapons as a last resort, relying mostly on destruction on target and on touch when they get close. I mean from the gameplay video I'd love to be running through a forest blasting spells back at someone who is chasing me

sorry to break it to you but the game is probably 18+ or M rated soooooooo, yah except advlt stuff like realistic violence, death, and suffering.

It would be awesome if you could torch enemies until their bodies are charred to death, or freeze them into human popsicles

how about a pg 13 variant?
Fire incinerates the target, leaves a burning corpse.
ice kills by completely freezing the target. shattering is optional, but imagine the pure creepiness of a field of frozen statues.
Shock completely incinerates them.

hmm.. not really PG 13, huh.

Alter someones armor into an iron maidan.
Rip people into pieces with telekinesis.
Push someone to kill them self.
Push someone to believe there was no air around them.
Make force field around oppenent face, cutting off their air.
Make a force field inside opponents skull, then expand it.
Slam opponents into the ground.
Banish my oppenent to oblivion (reverse conjuration)

All things that I wonder why I can't do. Alteration, illusion, and conjuration could be much better schools if BGS though out side the box.

[censored] destruction....

I want to freeze an enemy with my Icemage and push him over and watch him shatter on the ground.

You are my favorite :wub:

Some badass ideas. Using telekinesis to hold someone over a fire pit while they screamed in agony would be win.
I'd also love to grab an enemy by the throat, lift them into the air for dramatic effect, and then "force push" them off the side of a cliff and crashing through some poor nord family's roof.

take a hand full of fire and in-blaze them into peaces of dust.

I want the finishing move for 2 handed lightning to look like Palpatine's force lightning pose. (maybe it could eb an easter egg)

I was hoping for some necromatic action so I would like the option of a finishing move like Avada Kedavra! so that the body will be intact.

TELIKNESIS!!!!!! kill somebody with a destruction spell then throw his weapon, shield at another enemy impaling him.
just being able to pick enemies up with teliknesis and throw them around would be goof enough for me.

FALCON PUUUUUUUUUUUUNCHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

magic finishing moves would be interesting but a tad tough to implement

I don't get it. Why do people completed unrelated to Bethesda and game development come on here to post that every idea would be too hard/not worth implementing?

So what would the finishing move be with a Cure Disease spell?

You turn into Dr. Mario and throw a pill at the enemy, who then dies.

What's the general opinion on magic finishing moves?


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Fatality!

so a seperate finisher for 80 some odd spells some of which dont deal damage would work?
also i said it would be tough not impossible

It's easy to have magic 'finishers' just implement a spell critical death like in Deadly Reflex. when a spell hits and the enemy has a certain amount of health then you use the critical kill effect. Actualy, it works a fair bit like the Fallout 3 critical hits.

The coolest was shock spells fry your enemy, plus shoot them out of their boots >=D

Deadly Reflex 5 for Oblivion had the right idea for this. Critical fire kills could tujrn enemies into charred corpses, lightning would fuse an enemy's armor to their skin, and frost would freeze them, after which you could shatter them with a weapon.

sixy

you even get cured from Life! and turn into a huge single cell organism and melt away