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[SnakeXs]

I was just thinking of Wind Waker and I recalled how great Link's idle animations were.

So, the quest begins. What idle animations have stood out to you for one reason or another?

 

[Jonnyram]

Sonic

 

[goldenpp72]

conker, pdz (gun animations while idling) and sonic genesis series

 

[Y2Kev]

Jak and Daxter. Or Conker maybe.

 

[Barry Lightning]

i think the first one i ever saw was alf on sega master system

 

[biok]

A trickle of pee goes down Jack Bauer's leg whenever he's not moving in 24

 

[Reilly]

Breath of Fire 3
Mario 64

I don't know.

 

[CosmicGroinPull]

metroid prime

death by degrees

 

[Kabuki Waq]

Bubsy Knocking on the screen was the best part of the game.


Also Aladdin the Genesis game had some great animation as well.

 

[ant1532]

Super Mario 64 by far.

And Diddy Kong stomping his hat.

 

[HomerSimpson-Man]

The greatly animated Earthworm Jim games, he had loads of them.

 

[crankypants]

Quite possibly the first to have idle animations:

Major Havoc.

 

[jgkspsx]

Commander Keen (best platformer series ever) had the best. The Temple of the Moons in Keen 4: Goodbye Galaxy, especially.

 

[drohne]

the original sonic foot tap was genius. though hey, looks like it was presaged by this major havok thing.

i could watch spiral's idle animation from capcom's x-men fighter all day.

 

[Core407]

Supaplex

 

[arter_2]

Commander Keen (best platformer series ever) had the best. The Temple of the Moons in Keen 4: Goodbye Galaxy, especially.

agrees whole heartily this man knows whats up

 

[Emotions]

Chibi-Robo .

 

[ant1532]

for some reason Lan's "Jack in!" animation from MM:BN always stick out to me also.
1-3 were beyond awesome.

 

[sprsk]

yellow ace has a pretty sweet idle animation.

 

[the year 20XX]

Both Jet Set Radios have great idle animations.

 

[Kangu]

Don't know if it qualifies but Yorda's idle animation was pretty amazing. I think Gek from enter the Enter the Gekko might have had some good animations.

 

[Speevy]

I don't see how any game can take this honor over Dragon Quest 8. I mean, the sheer number of characters and the quality of their animation. Wow.

 

[Tarazet]

The greatly animated Earthworm Jim games, he had loads of them.

YES. You took the words right out of my mouth. I remember years ago (as in back when 16-bit was king), EGM did a top-10 best idle animations bit. I actually bought at least one game because of that list, and EWJ may have been one of them. :lol

 

[Gigglepoo]

I don't see how any game can take this honor over Dragon Quest 8. I mean, the sheer number of characters and the quality of their animation. Wow.

When do idle animations occur in an RPG?

This is a real question, by the way, I'm not mocking or anything. Seriously.

 

[sprsk]

When do idle animations occur in an RPG?

This is a real question, by the way, I'm not mocking or anything. Seriously.

overworld i believe.

 

[bjork]

Animal Crossing. You gotta love everyone's impression of Will Ferrell doing an impression of Haray Caray.

 

[Nozi]

Conkers takes this easily

 

[skyfinch]

Cammy

 

[PuppetSlave]

Shadow Warrior!

Can't remember exaktly what he said with the chopsticks though...

 

[sportzhead]

Animal Crossing. You gotta love everyone's impression of Will Ferrell doing an impression of Haray Caray.

:lol :lol :lol

Animated gifs would make this thead so much better.

 

[AgentOtaku]

Only ones I could immediately think of.....sure I'm missing alot though

 

[Red Scarlet]

When do idle animations occur in an RPG?

This is a real question, by the way, I'm not mocking or anything. Seriously.

When you stand still in a town/dungeon/on the overworld.

The Hero crosses his arms and looks around, I think Kukule/Angelo does it too. Yangus picks his nose and flicks a booger from his finger, and Jessica stretches her arms.

I like Maria's "I gotta pee!" one.

 

[Speevy]

When I said DQ8, I meant the enemy and character animation during battle when everyone's not fighting or anything.

 

[Jive Turkey]

Like several others I cam into this thread thinking the original Sonic. I was blown away by his foot tapping animation while idle and his attempting to balance animation while too close to a edge.

 

[Red Scarlet]

When I said DQ8, I meant the enemy and character animation during battle when everyone's not fighting or anything.

 

[MutFox]

F-Zero GX... (The newscast.)
Actually no, that's the worst one.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

in World Runner for NES the main characte sits down and smokes a cigarette.

 

[Jive Turkey]

F-Zero GX... (The newscast.)
Actually no, that's the worst one.

Do they actually do something if you don't answer right away or do you just mean the shitty bouncing they do while standing there?

 

[MutFox]

do you just mean the shitty bouncing they do while standing there?

Yes.

 

[adelante]

This thread is so.......cute!:lol

 

[bjork]

:lol :lol :lol

Animated gifs would make this thead so much better.

how's that

 

[Jive Turkey]

Yes.

:lol You shouldn't have answered so soon. I almost fired up the GC just to let them stand there for 10 minutes while waiting in anticipation.

 

[MutFox]

:lol You shouldn't have answered so soon. I almost fired up the GC just to let them stand there for 10 minutes while waiting in anticipation.

:lol :lol :lol

Man, I suck.
Actually, I've never tried just watching them...
Hmmmmmmm...

 

[jamesinclair]

 

[NotWii]

Conker: "Hey! What are you doing?! No, stop that! You're gonna go blind!"
:lol

 

[Skilotonn]

Definetely Conker... especially since you could rotate the camera while he's messing around, and how he'd properly put things away/throw them into stuff when you move him again... definetely the best out there...

The "Hello, hello, is he dead?!!" line when he knocks on your screen cracked me up everytime too..

And yeah, I always thought the Sonic ones were cool back then, because it wasn't expected...

 

[sportzhead]

how's that

Good one. :lol

 

[DDayton]

I don't remember Metroid Prime's idle animations... now I want to see 'em.

I wonder what the first game with idle animations was? I don't think it was Major Havoc... for some reason, I think it was an Atari 800/XL/XE game. I could be wrong, of course.

 

[xir]

Shantae

 

[BlackSalad]

metroid prime 1/2
Half Life 2
Counter-strike Source (not so much idle animation as just the animation of the hands and guns)