Anyone noticed this...?

[raveharu]

For the last part of the gameplay movie, the big nasty boss actually grab the barbarian and chewed and rip him into pieces. OMG?????
Is this some unique feature viable only for the preview, or does monsters in D3 actually do that...

PS: I just noticed it after watching the video like 5 times :jig:

[Cwicseolfor]

I'm thinking it might be made due to some precalculation that determined the next attack would kill that character, so the eating animation occurred.

[CYBERPUNK]

yes definitely one of the positives so far, the death animations are awesome (I'm still on the fence on some other issues though)

[mjharper]

(first post, after literally years of lurking!)

Yup, that was the point in the video that I fell off my chair. Absolutely awesome.

[Omikron8]

hell yes we need fatalities for players and for monsters

decapitation
incineration
electrocution
frost + shatter
something relating to poison
etc.

[Taliesin-DS]

Some monsters have unique finishing moves and special deaths (elemental damages, critical hit deaths) will have different animations too.

[stillman]

The grab and bite was a bit poorly animated though and it happened a little too fast. I didn't quite understand what happened the first time I watched it either. It's the same problem you see in movies where something the size of an elephant moves as though it were an air balloon violently banged around. I like the concept, but for me, animation is everything. Watching things move on the screen constitutes an incredible portion of our gameplay.

[Arioch]

I doubt it was a special attack, but rather a death animation.

[superdave]

it might make it a little hard to loot your character if there is only a blood spatter left.

[prion]

it can't be purely a death animation as it requires the interaction of the monster.
keeping in mind also that we were still watching from the witch doctor's perpective.
so it's something that involves 2 actors and is visible to all other players.

now it could be that the barb was already dead when the monster picked him up.
The grab and bite was a bit poorly animated though and it happened a little too fast. I didn't quite understand what happened the first time I watched it either.
when it happens to you there won't be any doubt :D

[Arioch]

Obviously it's a death animation specific to the boss, but that's what I mean... I think the barbarian was probably dead before the boss picked him up.

[Lcypher]

I believe there are actually two "fatalitites" in the gameplay vid. Notice, 4 charas start, only 2 left in the end. The first one is grabbed by the boss, fried by dragon-breath-kinda-thing and then the corpse is shmashed on the ground by the boss, the second one is the barb chest-bite. In any case, this looks awsome:)