They could do it like Fallout's critical hits animations.

 

Think about it:

 

Random Sith Soldier : 50 hp

You (high level character perhaps) hit him for 70 hp, basically insta-killing him

 

Since you're attack was overkill they could show some kind of cool death animation where his body falls in half or his arm falls off. It wouldn't really have an affect on the gameplay but it would show that he was pretty much outclassed and decimated.

You probably won't be fighting enemies that you greatly outclass, or at least not often. Its better than random dismemberment, but I think the dev's time would be better spent elsewhere.

Who cares!!!!!!!

They could do it like Fallout's critical hits animations. 

 

Think about it:

 

Random Sith Soldier : 50 hp

You (high level character perhaps) hit him for 70 hp, basically insta-killing him

 

Since you're attack was overkill they could show some kind of cool death animation where his body falls in half or his arm falls off.  It wouldn't really have an affect on the gameplay but it would show that he was pretty much outclassed and decimated.

You probably won't be fighting enemies that you greatly outclass, or at least not often. Its better than random dismemberment, but I think the dev's time would be better spent elsewhere.

I'm not really to keen on dismemberment myself, I was just thinking of a way to implement it for the people who want it without having to drastically change the code. Also, if the enemies are anything like they were in the original then we will be fighting many enemies lower than us that we outclass. By the end of the first game I found myself insta-killing maybe 1 out of 3 enemies. But, hopefully they'll fix that so the game is possibly *GASP* challenging.

Yeah, but picture all the horrible dialog too...

 

I don't think it could have been any worse.

Yeah, plus there would have been katanas!

Oh, you mean like this:

No, i mean like in Kill Bill...

Will I be able to cut-off limbs?

 

No. At least, not as a function of the combat in the game.

 

-Akari

They could do it like Fallout's critical hits animations. 

 

Think about it:

 

Random Sith Soldier : 50 hp

You (high level character perhaps) hit him for 70 hp, basically insta-killing him

 

Since you're attack was overkill they could show some kind of cool death animation where his body falls in half or his arm falls off.  It wouldn't really have an affect on the gameplay but it would show that he was pretty much outclassed and decimated.

You probably won't be fighting enemies that you greatly outclass, or at least not often. Its better than random dismemberment, but I think the dev's time would be better spent elsewhere.

I'm not really to keen on dismemberment myself, I was just thinking of a way to implement it for the people who want it without having to drastically change the code. Also, if the enemies are anything like they were in the original then we will be fighting many enemies lower than us that we outclass. By the end of the first game I found myself insta-killing maybe 1 out of 3 enemies. But, hopefully they'll fix that so the game is possibly *GASP* challenging.

Well, I'd think it'd only happen, if at all, during the middle of the game. In KOTOR, in the beginning, the enemies were about par with you. By the second or third planet I'd be in my teens, level-wise. And some enemies were fairly easy. Though that was probably more dependant on what order you did the planets. That sort've changed by the end, with the miniature Rancors, and the endless waves of Dark Jedi and troopers on the Star Forge.

 

It might be useful, but not terribly.