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[boiled goose]

The knee.

Feels so good.



meteor smashes/spikes in smash all feel great.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j99P5lgxy8o&feature=related

 

[NinjaBoiX]

Dead Space's melee system is awesome. Best stomp ever.

Also, 007 Blood Stone has some awesome melee attacks. It's pretty good, gets a bad wrap IMO.

 

[Rush2thestart]

Red Steel 2. No equal.

 

[Freezie KO]

Red Steel 2. No equal.

I came in to post this. Can't believe it was one above my post.

For truly satisfying combat, it's Red Steel 2. Whether you're a hardcore crybaby or not, being active actually does have a biochemical reaction to your brain. Combine this with excellent accuracy and an insane array of special and finishing melee moves and you have the most rewarding combat available. Accept no substitutes.

 

[Ra\/en]

nobody posted riddick yet?


the Ulaks in particular are quite brutal and satisfying. This video shows a whole bunch of the attacks. i can't pick one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iEdtWtIEyI

 

[Dr.Hadji]

The knee.

Feels so good.

Surprised it took this long. So true. Also Skyward Sword sword play. And Wario Ware twisted Stabs in the Dark. Twisting that GBA to fend off those evil samurai rocked hard.

 

[WhyMe6]

Super Smash Bros. (64)'s Ness was majorly OP. The sound of that baseball connecting back then, which won me so many matches, was always oh so satisfying!

 

[Bornstellar]

The Batarian heavy melee in multiplayer in Mass Effect 3 is pretty fun to use.

That's cool and all, but... I think the krogan wins.

 

[InfiniDragon]

Not a "melee" attack but too good to resist:

 

[Para bailar La Bomba]

Not a "melee" attack but too good to resist:

Where is this from?

 

[Danne-Danger]

Chopping heads with a single swipe using the Orc Cleaver in Dark Messiah of Might and Magic!

 

[InfiniDragon]

Where is this from?

Saint's Row: The Third.

 

[Ushojax]

I came in to post this. Can't believe it was one above my post.

For truly satisfying combat, it's Red Steel 2. Whether you're a hardcore crybaby or not, being active actually does have a biochemical reaction to your brain. Combine this with excellent accuracy and an insane array of special and finishing melee moves and you have the most rewarding combat available. Accept no substitutes.

Absolutely. The game structure was horribly basic but I got a kick out of the combat every single time. The finishers and special moves all felt so good.

 

[donkey show]

Kinda melee since it does do damage, but doing zero shift then proceeding to pummel the shit out of a mech in Zone of the Enders 2 was amazing.

 

[TUROK]

Halo 1. The animation looks very fluid, it wooshes like it does some damage, and the smack sound you get when you hit an enemy is practically perfect.

Shame all the other Halo's make the melee feel so weak.

 

[akidnamededdy]

This needs more appreciation, haha.

One that's always satisfying for me is landing a double-footed flying kick to the face with Siegfried/Nightmare in the Soul Calibur games.

 

[Santiako]

Dark Souls parry/riposte, it feels amazing.

 

[Spaulding]

Saints Row 3

 

[BradleyUK]

Killzone 3.

 

[Bluefist]

Slamming mooks into the wall as Kratos while climbing.

 

[Lonewolf_92]

MadWorld

This or The Godfather: Blackhand Ed. I especially like the visceral nature of grabbing the customer of a guy I'm trying to shake down and just beating the snot out of them by bashing their head into the register (with the expected "PING!" and money popping out) or threatening to push them into an oven or the like. The motion controls work very well here.

 

[Foliorum Viridum]

Lancer chainsaw in the Gears games.

Maybe not traditional melee but I consider it a melee attack.

 

[donkey show]

Suprised no one's said this yet:

 

[Lethality]

Oh and any hit that causes Zero to die in (U)MvC3

 

[Jenks]

I was pretty satisfing caving in skulls of crack heads in Condemned.

 

[Woorloog]

Thank you, NeoGAF, for this.

 

[Man-is-Obsolete]

The continuous melee combo system in the Batman Arkham games.

Satisfying.

It took 46 posts to get it right.

 

[Glorious_Paradox]

Technically not pure melee, but the Storm Ruler attack in Demons Souls is one of the best attacks ever put in a game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tENmFe09bOE

Otherwise, parry+reposte or backstabbing in Demons/Dark Souls all the way.

 

[Ikon]

Thank you, NeoGAF, for this.

What.. the.. Is that an ostrich? What game is this from?

 

[TranceKuja]

Everytime you punch or kick something in Asura's Wrath. It just looks and feels like it really hurts. I think it's thanks to the instant the screen freezes just a millisecond before impact. Hold your breath, BAM!

 

[Woorloog]

What.. the.. Is that an ostrich? What game is this from?

Red Faction Guerrila screenshots are released.
NeoGAF notices that the hammer looks like an ostrich's head and photoshop the body to the pic.
Volition makes an April Fools joke about RFG having an Ostrich Hammer.
The game has Ostrich Hammer.

The thread: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=240533 Sadly, the pics are dead.
The dev diary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ_XFQqmNxs

 

[The Anti-Monitor]

Plenty of examples from Bayonetta and Vanquish, too. Suplexing a dragon? Bitch please.

 

[xXJonoXx]

While technically not a 'melee' this is the first thing I thought of as a brutal "melee" attack http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRwY1-V4sXs

 

[Akainu]

Suprised no one's said this yet:

Why does he stop when he makes contact?

Some of my favorite attacks are in Yakuza.

 

[AdventureRacing]

Am i the only one who finds these immensely unsatisfying? It's more like watching a cutscene than the immediate gratification you get from a good melee.

There are some great choices in this thread but these aren't imo.

 

[injurai]

Plenty of examples from Bayonetta and Vanquish, too. Suplexing a dragon? Bitch please.

Yup, Falcon Knee and Falcon Punch.

 

[Guerrillas in the Mist]

The first person takedowns in the Goldeneye remake are pretty fun to watch.

 

[2San]

Am i the only one who finds these immensely unsatisfying? It's more like watching a cutscene than the immediate gratification you get from a good melee.

There are some great choices in this thread but these aren't imo.

Can only talk about Vanquish, but it's definitely what turned me off from the game for a while. It's a damn cut scene and the punches have no weight to it.

 

[Nocturnowl]

Reverse Falcon/Warlock Punch in Smash Bros, just when you thought those moves couldn't get any better you can add a little spin to them, turning a miss into a hit or just going for style points.
Also damn near any spike/meteor mash from the series, Ganondorf's down air, Mario's forward air and any DK one in particular.

Speaking of Donkey Kong, any time you face one of the bigger enemies in DK Jungle beat and use bongo bashing (or Waggle) to deliver a flurry of punches.

Monster Hunter is just one big pile of satisfying melee attacks, as a hammer user i'm just going to go for any time you conk a monster right on the noggin and into a dizzy state. Not sure where the Gunlance's Wyvern Fire move falls, being a big blast it's probably not melee but you want to be pretty close for it, but yeah very satisfying.

Clothesline from hell, preferably in WWF No Mercy but other Wrestling games will do, certain striking moves have KO properties, walloping your opponent at high speed and watching them crumple is a joy. And Steel Chairs are always fun.

Another mention for Dark Souls Parry/Riposte combo, I could be here all day, there's nothing quite like satisfying melee.

 

[enzo_gt]

The Batarian heavy melee in multiplayer in Mass Effect 3 is pretty fun to use.

How could I forget this.

Very good recent contender.

 

[Noisepurge]

Punisher PS2:s instakill button So satisfying.

 

[Barry Burton]

Everything in Arkham Asylum/City.

Gears of War chainsaw.

 

[BlackJace]

Award this man an internet.

 

[kiryogi]

Too good.

 

[ThaneKrios]

The chainsaw in Gears of War is so satisfying...

 

[Thoraxes]

Welp, you posted the best answer too early.

There's nothing like "that feel" when you land a 9.

NO OTHER FEELING.

 

[Cornbread78]

This is a thread about Killzone 3.

1st post got it right

 

[Spieler Eins]

I came in to post this. Can't believe it was one above my post.

For truly satisfying combat, it's Red Steel 2. Whether you're a hardcore crybaby or not, being active actually does have a biochemical reaction to your brain. Combine this with excellent accuracy and an insane array of special and finishing melee moves and you have the most rewarding combat available. Accept no substitutes.

Now if only it had more variety in enemy designs... Still pretty fun game.

 

[The Boat]

Smash Bros series is the king when it comes to this and this since the knee and so on have already been mentioned: smash hit with a baseball bat. The sound effect just seals the deal.

 

[U2NUMB]

Red Faction Hammer.. SOOOO GOOD