Games with the best ragdoll.

[LewsTherin]

Half-Life 2.

Picking Overwatch off rooftops with the crossbow and watching them fall head over heels....right into a pile of explosive barrels I made.

Priceless.

 

[KapnKerfuffle]

Best/Worst.

Thief: Deadly Shadows. You would knock someone out and they would fall in these funny yoga poses. Like, on their knees head bend completely backwards. Some very flexible citizens. Looked rather painful to me.

Hitman 1. The knock back from weapons was completely ridiculous on that one. A physics teacher's nightmare.

EDIT - Oblivion. Let's not forget the Stretch Armstrong physics of when a body gets caught in a door.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9iOBtmsWWrc

 

[Unknower]

What's all this about the German government?

German laws don't allow ragdolls. There's also other restrictions, but I know only a handful of them. Gore is a no-no.

 

[LisaB1138]

Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness had some very . . . interesting rag doll deaths.

 

[Daedalus_UK]

I think the ragdoll effects in the original Flatout were brilliant. They weren't very realistic but it's entertaining when you fling your driver through the front window

 

[Theo Samaritan]

What's all this about the German government?

German laws don't allow ragdolls. There's also other restrictions, but I know only a handful of them. Gore is a no-no.

You better be kidding O_O

 

[klarax]

all ragdoll are the same. once somet5hings dead, the physics engine kicks in. so basically this is a best physics engine thread

 

[Stagger P]

I loved the Ragdoll physics in Saints Row.

On the Insurance fraud missions get a decent hit from a speeding car and watch your body fly. One of the better parts of that game.

 

[BallPtPenTheif]

GTAIV

watching a pedestrian hang from your driver side door as you speed down the road, only to fling him into a light post... his body bends in half wrapping around it and spinning off towards the floor.

 

[boardman1000]

saints row had some of the best ragdoll. but i have to say GTA 4 has some pretty good ragdoll especially when you speed down the main drag on algonquin and smash into...something and then go flying only to be hit by oncoming traffic. hilarious. SR2 needs motorcycles and jet planes, and space ships, and helicopter, and crazy flying platforms like the silver surfer.. hur hur hur.... yatzee would label me a blithering cuntbag or something for saying that. hehe

 

[Kroker]

Grand Theft Auto IV, I once went drinking with Roman. We then set off on a motorbike. I hit this wall on the edge of a cliff. I flew off and hit the wall while he casually somersaulted over it and plummeted down. Then a message came up at the bottom of the screen to inform me that he had been injured. Somehow I'd already gathered that.

Saints Row, the ragdoll physics are just so over the top and funny.

Half Life 2, that has realistic physics that are still impressive today.

 

[T360]

id deffentlly say GTA 4 if your drive and go into the cinamatic camrea and go into slow mo and hit someone it looks so damn correct. also love the phyics when u knock someone off a bike when you drive into them.

 

[Unknower]

What's all this about the German government?

German laws don't allow ragdolls. There's also other restrictions, but I know only a handful of them. Gore is a no-no.

You better be kidding O_O

Nope. Some politicians even tried banning video games. Failed, fortunately.

 

[Cyclomega]

^Ahh, no. "Ragdoll" only applies to PEOPLE. Physics is EVERYTHING ELSE.

My vote goes to Soldat. Target practice with a severed head and body mutilation never get old.

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Although I'd probably say something else if my computer could run anything 3d.

But the physics powers everything, 'Ragdoll' was just a name given to humanoid objects because when they tend to die or fall over they look like one. This thread should have really been titled best physics really.

The problem with naming the thread best physics was the fact that i don't find a barrel tipping over too entertaining and really didn't want to hear any stories about it. You said it yourself right here, "'Ragdoll' was just a name given to humanoid objects". Well, all i wanted was to compare ragdoll so i used that as the thread title.

Dude, you can have serious fun with barrels.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG5qDeWHNmk

Wow, this video is fukken awesome Oo
I will go for the originality by praising Painkiller for it's ragdoll, and Crackdown has some very good effects too, Postal 2's were way too over-the-top to be "good", even if kicking a dead body around was surprisingly fun.

 

[Cyclomega]

What's all this about the German government?

German laws don't allow ragdolls. There's also other restrictions, but I know only a handful of them. Gore is a no-no.

You better be kidding O_O

Nope. Some politicians even tried banning video games. Failed, fortunately.

Even though I loved every second of the time I spent during my travels in Germany, I must say I will always feel sorry for the Germans whe I think back of all laws on censorship on films and video games (some movies I rented had scenes cut -a sex scene, a shootout and a torture scene, and you had to find an import copy to get the full movie; btw. this was a midly PG-15 movie, and as such nothing was exactly graphically explicit), yet you have non-stop explicit porn-o-phone ads on DSF (Deutsche Sport Fernseher -a sports channel) from midnight on instead of any programme at all...
As a tiny example...

 

[ElArabDeMagnifico]

I have a feeling once The Force Unleashed comes out it'll also be on this list.

I guess euphoria [http://www.naturalmotion.com/euphoria.htm] is just that good.

Now if only they could license their engine to more people.

 

[Goenitz]

The Force Unleashed looks pretty damn rediculous.

http://www.lucasarts.com/games/theforceunleashed/

 

[forgetaboutme]

Anything that has the Source engine, especially Half Life 2. GTA4 does an amazing job as well.

 

[War_Dyn27]

Obviously GTA IV. One time I was flying in a helicopter higher than the tallest building thats near nico bellic's (or niko) home, jumped off the helicopter, flopped around, headbanged to a building wall, landed under a bridge alive. I honestly thought that I lived because of a glitch or a bug, but seriously, jumping from a building thats like 30 floors tall (I mean building floors), and living. GTA IV has the best ragdoll physics. In my opinion.

Your powers of necromancy are strong, the last post was in 2008