Well, here's a list of best unit death animations in my opinion. - Dragoon: THE BEST. I have always intrigued by the blue goo death animation ever since the first day of playing SC. - Hydralisk: Cool. A Hydralisk when killed looks like a pile of pork, especially when 10+ of them die under storm. And the sound they make (aaaaarrrr). - Ultralisk: Exploded cows with their rib bones visible. (A honorable mention: The Ursadon neutral critter, whose death looks like a pig getting exploded.) - High Templar: yoooooooww sound and blue traces of hallucination.
Not very good death animations: - Mech units + Firebat: Bland, meh. And why does the Firebat explode but not run around incinerated? - Air units except Zerg's: I know the graphics at that time were not good enough to support the "capital ships exploding and their humongous bodies inevitable descending from the sky like fallen titans" animation, but still bland. Zergs are still cool since they explode in a pile of blood.
Dragoons and hydralisks because of the sounds they make, along with their pretty nice animations. Owning those units with siege tanks just feels so satisfying.
The worst is definitely archons/dark archons, especially DA. It looks like a generic death explosion from a crappy game maker program, and no unique death sound either.
what?!? Noone has mentioned the marine?? The sound of the marine dieing was probably a major drawing point of this game for me. In fact, I was so obsessed with the marine's dying animation I would constantly doodle that star-shaped blood trail with the dot in the middle in my notebooks during school, as well as actually physically make that design with some clay in my ceramics class!
Vessels are one of my favourite, but I think I like the sound more than the death animation. I'd have to go with watching Carriers explode, the initial explosion is nice and the interceptors blowing up afterwards is the icing on the cake. I also like watching a bunch a lurkers die after they have been irradiated around the same time.
Oh yeah, and Overlords, bunching them up with my sairs and watching them explode is nice.
I would make a custom game and play micro with my control group of wraiths killing as much of my own vessels and wraithes as they come out
the sound feels satisfying for some reason especially when u hear the rushing sound of the missiles traveling to the target and when they die they make that beeeaammmmmmmfff and doooooooommmmmmfffffff
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