Best example of limb snapping/breaking in games

[Spring-Loaded]

The Arkham games have some good arm and leg snapping, with some good celery foley work being done. This animation has been around since the first game iirc:



What's better out there?

 

[sixteen-bit]

all those MK games 9 onward had those brutal x-ray moves

 

[zMiiChy-]

From a Mario game

 

[Nocturnowl]

Absolutely barbaric
(does a tentacle count as a limb?)

 

[Blue_Toad507]

From a Mario game

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Good lord this terrified me as a kid.

Also, HUNK's Neck Snap from Resident Evil 4 Mercenaries.

 

[KDC720]

Was going to come in and say Arkham and MK lol.

Sleeping Dogs had some pretty nasty takedowns iirc. Also I've been playing Dying Light again recently and sometimes if you land a particularly gnarly hit on a enemy you get a little X-ray bone break effect like MK.

 

[Dark Knight]

Fire Giant in Elden Ring was pretty excruciating lol

 

[sora87]

There's a pretty gnarly one in Elden Ring late on

Spoiler

when fire giant falls down

 

[Tremorah]

From a Mario game

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Jesus fuck

Miyamoto had a bad fucking day

 

[DECK’ARD]

Aoi in Virtua Fighter was a limb-breaking machine.

 

[DPB]

Tanimura's combat style was good for this in Yakuza 4, a lot of his heat actions seemed to result in someone's arm getting broken.

 

[Deleted member 2595]

When you do a vanilla stealth kill on a zombie in The Last of Us Part II as Abby it ends in an extremely grim neck dislocation.

 

[carlsojo]

That hammer scene in TLOU2 always makes me cringe out of my skin.

 

[Vonocourt]

"Hey Wei, practice this new move on my students."

That hammer scene in TLOU2 always makes me cringe out of my skin.

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Yep, it's a rough sequence for sure.

 

[Tremorah]

"Hey Wei, practice this new move on my students."


Yep, it's a rough sequence for sure.

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This is the GOAT really

 

[Griselbrand]

The neck snap sound in Metal Gear Solid is seared into my brain. So is the one from Tenchu. In fact, I think Rikimaru had a stealth kill animation in Tenchu 2 that was multiple limb snaps in a row.

 

[Bucca]

I would love to go behind the scenes of the foley department for MK since they added X-ray moves and shit

 

[Faceless_Caesar]

That hammer scene in TLOU2 always makes me cringe out of my skin.

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The fact that that scene stands out in terms of how violent it is given how violent the rest of the game is is quite the feat.

 

[jtmmachine]

DOOM 2016 and Eternal have you covered

 

[Masterspeed]

This is a fucked up thread. I'm in.

 

[Dice]

Using a WHIP to de-limb a Zelda SS boss, then attacking it with its own blade.

 

[CaveGhostPurp]

Sadly I can't find a gif of it, but I think this legless spider says it all

(Limbo)

 

[Ralemont]

Metal Gear Solid 1 neck snapping.

UH UH UH UH UH UH UH UH UGGGGHHHH

 

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[Siggy-P]

Far be it for me to advocate a Quantic Dream game but it was pretty effective making the player swing the controler downwards in heavy rain to snap the finger off.