Ragdoll physics {Can I have it?}

[Impulse]

* It'd add a neat game mechanic to battles. For example, the headbutt ability aldgoats have would send you flying and landing in a heap!
* It'd add some more realism to the game

Being knocked over, possibly into a clumped up mess and getting up moments later as if your arm/legs/head never bent 170 degrees in the wrong direction isn't very realistic.
Almost, if not every every game I've seen with this mechanic can get a bit weird with them as well. I can't count how many times I've seen arms/legs/heads/whole bodies twitching and in some rarer cases rolling in one spot over and over due to uneven geography or the slightest obstacle in the way. We all know this game has plenty of that.

Ragdoll physics may work for some games which were created with them in mind, but not FFXIV. Maybe down the road more situational animations could be implemented and used randomly per-situation in order to add variation, but ragdoll physics are just a lazy way to do things.

[Nephera]

Ragdolls can be very sophisticated these days and be constrained to only react in certain ways to make them look more realistic, and would also lower the risk of horrible terrain clipping or your limbs going crazy angles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTMpsR6XI_s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzjRGs3QKzc

however, they do generally seem to be something you want to decide on putting in rather early in the game.

I have seen ragdolls in mmos and loved them, but I think i'd settle for more death animations. (everyone in a group wiping and laying in the same pose looks real dumb)

edit: also euphoria is pretty difficult to get ahold of.
http://www.moddb.com/games/overgrowt...using-euphoria

double edit: hey neat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovmqc66afeU