Coolest Melee combat animations

[guitarsniper]

I'm just wondering what you all think are some of the coolest melee animations in games. Not most accurate, but just coolest. I'm just gonna list a few to get started

Assassin's Creed series, esp. the fisticuffs counter from 2 that's gut-punch followed by palm-strike to the throat

Arkham Asylum/Arkham city

Skyrim, specifically the power attack flurry thing with double daggers

Dragon Age 2: pretty stylized animations, but especially the double-daggers ones.

Jade Empire. Just Jade Empire.

 

[White Lightning]

I always liked the Prince of Persia melee combat.

 

[hazabaza1]

Just watch the first 15 seconds or so.
It looks cooler with a bigger sword like a Rapier or something, but even with the dagger it's still pretty beast.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

You haven't seen the coolest combat until you've seen the Sons of Sparda in action


It's sped up a little, but that is some insane stuff combo wise.

 

[skywolfblue]

Assassin's Creed: Dagger animations. Stick, twist, lift ouch that's got to hurt.

Dragon Age 2: Staff twirling. It made casting extremely awesome visually.

Skyrim: The new Archery kill animations.

 

[sextus the crazy]

the GBA fire emblem games had great, over the top animations, especially for the critical hits.

 

[OldDirtyCrusty]

Killzone 3 has great melee kill animations for an fps.
Saints Row 2 - three different fighting styles with different combos.
Saints Row 3 - the nut punches and combat with the awesome button.
Dead to rights retribution features cool (but sadly pointless) combo moves.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Assassin's Creed series, esp. the fisticuffs counter from 2 that's gut-punch followed by palm-strike to the throat

Yeah, I like 'em, too. The slow-mo stuff from AC:R is very gimmicky, but it makes the kill animations a little cooler, especially with the stomping. -_-

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Here's a good gem that everyone missed.


Real good game, just a bit too short. It's around $15, last I checked.

 

[Nouw]

Space Marine has some pretty fine animations. It has even better executions too. Nothing beats chainsawing an Ork Nob's throat .

 

[him over there]

the GBA fire emblem games had great, over the top animations, especially for the critical hits.

H-how the hell do they make them seems so visceral? They just feel so painful and real. I think I'm going to have to take note of that. That one at 4:34 was especially painful, as well as all of Lyn's.

 

[G-Force]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYIkqVviXTM

Def Jam Fight for NY. A game that made me stare at the screen in disbelief with each blazing move

 

[Dr Pussymagnet]

Kingdom Hearts 2 had some pretty damn cool combat animations, definitely a step up from the first one.

 

[sextus the crazy]

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H-how the hell do they make them seems so visceral? They just feel so painful and real. I think I'm going to have to take note of that. That one at 4:34 was especially painful, as well as all of Lyn's.

The reason the crits seem powerful is because the weapons are treated as though they actually have weight, so hits seem like they have force.

Personally my favorites are the warrior animations.

 

[Cry Wolf]

What, no Human Revoloution love?


So badass!

 

[him over there]

the GBA fire emblem games had great, over the top animations, especially for the critical hits.

H-how the hell do they make them seems so visceral? They just feel so painful and real. I think I'm going to have to take note of that. That one at 4:34 was especially painful, as well as all of Lyn's.

Personally my favorites are the warrior animations.

Oh man I completely missed that one! I think most of the oomph! comes from the way they just totally full stop upon hitting the enemy. The way they leave a freeze frame for half a second and the huge screen quake is probably part of it too. everything just goes slow then fast then slow and it works brilliantly.

OT: I think that some of the batman games' animations are pretty great, they feel really great to pull off when you do actually flowing timed attacks rather than button mashing. Also the third Katana in No More Heroes has amazingly cool finishers:

Spoiler: incase you plan on playing NMH

 

[Imre Csete]

Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. Gotta love them dual daggers.

 

[saintdane05]

I actually love the punching in Duke Nukem Forever. His oversized fists slam right into an alien, and then the (broken) physics engine takes over. We get to see people fly back twenty feet before hitting a wall or skidding to a stop. Its fun.

To bad the rest of the game couldn't be that cool.

 

[Razoack]

I was always a fan of the weapon trails in games such as Soul Calibur. Made watching the fights a pretty sight

 

[Black Arrow Officer]

Deus Ex Human Revolution destroys all of the other posts in this thread.


My clubbing is augmented.