Development idea - Choose your death emote!

While playing my main (Electriic x3 blaster) and battling Praetorian Clockworks a awesome idea formed in my mind. Wouldn't it be cool if my defeat emote was the same as theirs. Which lead me to something that could lead to being interesting in the game.

How about the ability to choose our defeat emotes. There are several out there to choose from already. And making new ones is possible, although probably time consuming.

You could have basic ones like our standard defeat emote, or something more in line with your characters powersets A fire defeat emote where flames shoot out all over while you faceplant, or a ice one where your character shatters into a million pieces.

And you could unlock or even sell special death emotes. Explosive ones where you damage all the baddies around as you faceplant, or even leave a nasty secondary effect like a slow if your a ice type toon, or drained end if your a electrical based toon. It would just add another level of customization to a game that is already well known for having a huge plethora of things that you can customize.

I wouldn't want ones that affected the enemies, but the idea is sound and interesting. Have it linked to costume, so if you're defeated in Costume Slot 0 you break down via sparks and collapse stiffly and if you're defeated in Costume Slot 3 you instead smoke and collapse forwards in a particular way.

Having all the ending positions identical to our current death position would be ideal, and the only thing we change is how we got there. That way rez powers and the such wouldn't have to go through any awkward repositioning of your corpse while working (that Awaken twisting you from your back to have you get up normally, or making you suddenly whole again and just standing up).

It would be so cool to have the Ancestral Spirit death emote. It has got a real Highway to Heaven vibe.

I'd just like for the ragdoll physics take over when I'm defeated. Nothing quite like a twisted up "I'm dancing the Limbo" position.

Come to think of it... I'd like a simple "Fall Down" emote as well. Can't tell you how many times someone has typed something so remarkably buffoonish in the game that I wish I could just have my character fall down as if he were bowled over by the comment.

I think the abillity to choose things like death emote, flypose and costume change emote on a persistent basis without having to use binds would be a small but definite QOL change.

Love this idea. Not that I faceplant all that often... <.<. .>.>

It would have to be Mario Death. Randomly jump upwards and fall off screen on a two-dimensional plane.

With the Mario death music, of course.

The only other options would be the "hit the camera" death in Super Smash Brothers or the Street Fighter II slow-mo moaning defeat (ooo-ahh...oo-ah...oo-ahhh...)

I'll be the first to say it. I want PeeWee Herman's death scene as my defeat emote.

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT2syd-_HVU&NR=1


Best vampire death scene evah!

Also need the 'waaay overdramatic Thespian death' emote. The PeeWee death is not bad, but still too short.

For the M+/space-horror crowd, we could have the 'Alien' Ash/'Aliens' Bishop death emotes.

Godfather death emote when the Family gets you.

Other suggestions should be forthcoming...

a classic death scene @ 2.57 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttoC1...eature=related

can haz?

edited to include missing link

I'd love to see the Kheldian PPD death emotes, but colorable. Example: My Dark/Dark/Soul brute faceplants, but starts smoldering with nether tendrils. Then, Soul Transfer.