History Main / EmoteAnimation

* ''{{Mabinogi}}'' added emotes for greeting, laughing, crying, and being angry, among others, around its 1-year anniversary in North America. As of mid-August 2010, further animations for salutes, formal greetings, and dancing were added.

* ''VideoGame/FableI'' has a wide variety emote animations. Despite it being a single-player game, they're actually useful: you use them for romancing women, frightening villagers, flipping off guards and farting to make children giggle. They're really quite useful in getting a wife, and for showing off trophies for extra renown.

* ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'' and its various sequels and {{Spiritual Successor}}s have a variety of pre-animated animations (including the highly memetic "Praise the Sun" gesture made famous in ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'') that, along with mad-libs style messages ([Fill in the Blank] Ahead, Beware of [Whatever], Use [Thing], etc.), are the only means of non {{PVP}} player interaction.

* The Wii ''VideoGame/ABoyAndHisBlob'' features a "hug Blob" button. Which is just plain ''[[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming adorable]]'' to watch.

* ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'''s co-op features gestures.

Using an EmoteCommand in some games (especially {{MMORPG}}s) will trigger Emote Animations. Sometimes, these are also used as [[IdleAnimation Idle Animations]], or [[GoingThroughTheMotions recycled by the devteam for cutscenes]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Fable I}}'' has a wide variety emote animations. Despite it being a single-player game, they're actually useful: you use them for romancing women, frightening villagers, flipping off guards and farting to make children giggle. They're really quite useful in getting a wife, and for showing off trophies for extra renown.
** ''VideoGame/{{Fable II}}'' allows the player to "extend" certain emotes for better results with the caveat that, the longer the emote is extended, the greater the chance to fail. Failure can be funnier than success: failing the fart emote results in the player ''soiling themselves''.

* ''{{Mabinogi}}'' added emotes for greeting, laughing, crying, and being angry, among others, around it's 1-year anniversary in North America. As of mid-August 2010, further animations for salutes, formal greetings, and dancing were added.

* ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'''s co-op, features gestures.

* These are the only way players can directly communicate in ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' and its sequels, besides buying and finding a certain kind of item in Oolacile that plays a pre-recorded message when used ("{{Hello}}", "Very good!", "Help me!", "Thank you" and "I'm sorry".) It's common for invaders to bow to their opponent so each other can prepare for a duel, and some gestures are purely made for humiliating their opponents.

* ''VideoGame/TorchlightII'' has these available in multiplayer and it overlaps with EmoteCommand by using a forward slash in the chat window. These included mostly humorous ones like /jump "[Player] [[LampshadeHanging tries to jump but can't]]." to /secret "[Player] [[CreatorInJoke is trolling Justin]]!"

* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', the {{slash command}} "/dance" triggers a different dancing animation depending on the race and gender of your character. For example, male dwarfs will perform a "Cossack" dance, while female dwarfs will perform some ''Riverdance''-esque Irish step-dancing. There are other animations as well. /rude, /train /roar, being a few examples.

* ''SecondLife'', since all of the content is user-made, has literally ''thousands'' of emote animations and gestures.

* Bored ''{{Everquest}}'' players proved that it's possible to make any character dance the macarena with stock emotes.

* In VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends there is a few animations accessed by typing certain things into the chat. There is /d which makes your champion dance, /t which makes your champion taunt, and /j which has your champion tell the summoner a joke.

* {{Mabinogi}} added emotes for greeting, laughing, crying, and being angry, among others, around it's 1-year anniversary in North America. As of mid-August 2010, further animations for salutes, formal greetings, and dancing were added.

* ArmyOfTwo includes "Bromance" type stuff where you can high five your co-op team-mate, or shake hands or whatever.
** Or smack them. This will usually completely derail a mission for several minutes as players continually smack each other.

* ''{{Flyff}}'' has quite a few of these.
* VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'s co-op, features gestures.

* GoldenSunDarkDawn replaces standard Yes and No answers to questions with 4 emote actions so Matthew can respond angrily or happily, etc.

* In ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'', gestures are used to interact with other player characters, it is common for invaders to bow to their opponent so each other can prepare for a duel, and some gestures are purely made for humiliating their opponents.

* These are the only way players can directly communicate in ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'', besides buying and finding a certain kind of item in Oolacile that plays a pre-recorded message when used ("{{Hello}}", "Very good!", "Help me!", "Thank you" and "I'm sorry".)

* In VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends has a few animations accessed by typing certain things into the chat. There is /d which makes your champion dance, /t which makes your champion taunt, and /j which has your champion tell the summoner a joke.

* {{League of Legends}} features a joke, taunt, dance and laughing emote for each champ, most of which come with its own animation.

* ''[[AsheronsCall Asheron's Call]] 2'' has, amongst its more generic emotes, the "gokart" emote, which would cause a player to remain in a sitting position while moving.

* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', the {{slash command}} "/dance" triggers a different dancing animation depending on the race and gender of your character. For example, male dwarfs will perform a "Cossack" dance, while female dwarfs will perform some ''Riverdance''-esque Irish step-dancing. There are other animations as well. /rude, /train /roar, being a few examples

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* These are the only ways players can directly communicate in ''VideoGame/DarkSouls''.

* ''DragonQuestIX'' has "Party Tricks", many of which are given out as rewards as you complete quests. They were most likely added because of the game's increased focus on multiplayer.