Suggestion: Commander falls to his knees when he dies

...and then explodes.

Some don't even have knees.

Not to mention, there's an entire faction that doesn't even have legs.

Well they could fall on their face then? Or perhaps grab their head as if it is about to explode. These are merely small complications of an otherwise brilliant bit of polish!

We did this for the Basilisk and Goliath in BlackOps, it's the kind of thing that no matter what else is going on, you just don't want to look away.

Mike

Does it even have a chance to do that when it is hit by a nuke?

That would look really silly.

It's like we've got a forum full of critiques or something.

Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not. But if you aren't:

Yes we are all critics.

that made me lol

To answer your original comment, yes it would look silly for some commanders. It adds diversity (think Clone Wars boss villains meeting their just ends)

Edit: Come to think of it, the whole idea of a commander falling to his knees is supposed to be kind-of funny.

No thanks.

I knew I shouldn't have mentioned Clone Wars.

I was thinking of a burst death animation that would show the commander's chest cracking open with blue light rays spitting out from inside... and then explodes.

What do you think of that?

That's the point.

To sell a game, ESPECIALLY a full price game, it needs "character" and lots of it. It seems the thing that sells most in terms of "character" is silly stuff. Look at TF2 and LoL for what I am talking about there. I'm tempted to point at classic Blizzard games too.

Doesn't mean every game should look silly. Silly just gives you a large degree of freedom, Look at Journey or Shadow of the Colossus. Neither are silly but both have character.

Yeah the voice responses from untis in Warcraft if you keep clicking on them for example...

"Stop rocking the boat..." "your making me seasick!"...

Seriously though a nice death animation would be awesome- doesn't have to be 'silly', and might need to be done on a per commander basis.

Might be cool, but I wouldn't count it as any more of a death animation than what we have now, only a more epic-looking explosion. Adds epic-ness, not personality.

Edit: changed character to personality

I like this idea, it would also mean the death-nuke would be delayed by a couple seconds though (which could be both good & bad, depending on your point of view)

If only the death-nukes were the size of the original Supreme Commander...

Nah remember there's a rig for each type, one animation for each rig should work well enough.