I normally finish up with a fireball... Enough said....

Finishing Taunts (even if it's taunting one's own hands) aren't really the same thing as Finishing moves now =P. Also you wouldn't happen to be Epikal from minecraftforum.net would you? Same display pic as well...!

I wouldn't mind cutscenes for shout deaths too. If you're familiar with:

That's not a cutscene, that's just you flying.

Nah, don't waste the time on "coolness"; rather, put it into deeper quests, dialogue, and more brain bending. :nod:

The above comment is beyond stupid. "% chance to hit" somehow makes finishing moves possible in programming? Really does any thinking person reason like this? "% chance to hit" does not have some magical property that somehow only a "% chance to hit" can now allow new code to include a cut scene, get real.

Finishing scene for arrows and magic are easy, the fact that those hits are collision based in no way impairs the ability to have a finishing move, to believe otherwise is to show how completely fuggen ignorant you are about programming.

One solution would be to call upon the RNG in the game with a simple subroutine against a set of defined percentages and selected casting parameters like type of spell for magic, or distance verses amount of damage for an arrow shot, then when the random percentage is meet and the other parameters achieved viola routine switches to predetermined video cut-scene just like in melee.

That is just a high level functional description but it gets the point across. The real issue was probably how much more effort was Bethesda willing to put into making the varied cut-scenes, that was more likely a bigger project than the code to allow it. There would have had to been a great deal more custom animation / artwork to support cut-scenes for arrows and magic.

it's a shame they removed "touch" spells as those could have had some awesome finishing movesegb->
deals fire damg on touch finisher :grabs your enemy by the throat then burns the throat away decapitating it!

Back in Oblivion, the Deadly Reflex Mod added finishers for bows (and for blades,ect,) I think there was just a bloodspurt and the struck npc (only worked on humanoid characters) gasped for air and slumped over. It was like they had been hit in the neck. That was a good finisher for the bow, but it did seem silly when it went off after you shot them in the thigh or foot.

I would rather do without any finishing moves at all. Looks like they were pulled right out of a God of War cutscene.

Wait... I bet you're still waiting after you shoot to watch your arrow fly and hit it's target... right? Bwahaha! You can do three other things while your arrow is on it's way. A cutscene would piss me off. I had plans for that time and was working on making more.

Here's what I think...In close range if you are a magic user, you put your hand on the enemy's face, and unleash the spell, burning, electrocuting or freezing the opponent's face, leaving behind burns or a frozen face.

For a bowman, get into close range, you trip them, they fall onto their back and you put your foot on them, and shoot them in the face, neck or where ever.

What do you think?

oh lets see....crit damage with a fire spells... the npc shuold end up liek one of the burnt carcasses....


no thanks TES is not DA

Someone doesn't have an imagination. I bet all your art projects in school were really boring.

Wouldn't it be the opposite though? The once wanting a visual finisher is the ones lacking imagination? Personally I could totally imagine a slow-motion cut scene finishing of my enemies when I use range and magic.

If you don't like the combat cutscenes, it should be pretty simple for Beth to put in a check box. Just because you don't like something is no reason to poo-poo it. People need to learn to think about more than themselves. A simple switch would allow the game to cater to BOTH types of people.

No it is not the opposite, the person is pointing out how little imagination the other person is showing by stating that cut scenes can only work for melee. It has nothing to do with needing cut scenes to improve immersion.

It would be awesome...but I don't see how that world work.....especially with bows and sneaking...

I agree with finishing moves would be nice. Personally I'd like to have the camera follow the last arrow until hits the target through the eye or something. Destruction finishers would also be awesome, kill someone with a fire spell, they scream in pain and run around until they fall. Conjuration spell, the atronach beats the target down. It could be fun but a lot of extra work for Bethesda. They have bugs to fix first.

Did you ever see finishing moves or cut scene kills in Fallout 3 for shots fired outside of VATS?

With bow:

u got a finishing move, becouse the enemy kneels before u when he got a x% of hp left.
so it easy aim, take your time let him crawl up and shoot haha.

wow

anyways magic does have a finisher its called disintegrate

and what kind of bow finisher do you want

you twit

I am a bow&arrow player and I am glad there are no slow motion useless moments of [censored] in my gameplay.

I don't know about a finisher per say, but I would like to see the spell effect last on the corpse just a little longer. I think it would feel much more satisfying after a long battle to look around and see a dozen corpses still burning.

I think that it wouldn't be easy to add finishing moves for bows... When u see finishing moves in Fallout's VATS the game already knows that you are going to kill the enemy because of the % chance... In skyrim when u shoot and arrow, game doesn't know if u are gonna kill the enemy until you actually hit him... Same with magic

And if the enemy's not near a wall? would it hit them and fly their body into the nearest wall?