gibbing

[Acidr4in]

what does gibbing means?

i got an item which gives mana/life regen. after gibbing a foe. But i dont see any increase, first i thought after hit but dont know
(not my native lang. ) Thanks

[Fuyukai Desu!]

When a monster explode in a bloody mess, it's a random thing I believe.

[Squarebit]

Correct ^ but it happens if you land a crit as a killing blow, or deal very high damage relative to the monster's total health. For example you will gib most bats because they have such low base health ^^

[UnDeaD HoLLoW]

Ahhh, I couldnt even find a translation on dict.cc :D

[Ogmok]

one entry from Urban Dictionary:

Gibbed
v. past-tense, To be killed and to have body explode into multiple pieces.
Holy c**p, did you see him get gibbed when that grenade blew up below his feet?!

(I never heard of it myself before, I'm not a native speaker)

[Astasia]

It's not English, or a real word, it's gaming slang, I'm pretty sure it originated in Unreal (or Quake). It's based off the word "giblet." To explode into giblets, which itself doesn't make sense because giblets in this case is again being used as slang for small chunks of flesh. It's popular in shooters, where you often have a game mode/rule for "instagib" where every shot instantly kills.

[Honey, I Shoryukened The Kids]

this should be explained in the game

[Elixir]

I only know of its meaning because of old school DOOM !

[lorddamien]

Originally posted by Astasia:

It's not English, or a real word, it's gaming slang, I'm pretty sure it originated in Unreal (or Quake). It's based off the word "giblet." To explode into giblets, which itself doesn't make sense because giblets in this case is again being used as slang for small chunks of flesh. It's popular in shooters, where you often have a game mode/rule for "instagib" where every shot instantly kills.

It predates unreal/quake, I remember playing Rise of the Triads (ROTT) on DOS and when I exploded enough dudes the announcer would say "ludicrous gibs!!"
ROTT was definitely before unreal and quake, it was the same pseudo-3d that DOOM used.

[Squarebit]

I will add it to the help index!

Growing up with those games and not being a native english speaker, I just assumed this was the word for that kind of stuff somewhere along the way...

[Astasia]

Originally posted by lorddamien:

It predates unreal/quake, I remember playing Rise of the Triads (ROTT) on DOS and when I exploded enough dudes the announcer would say "ludicrous gibs!!"
ROTT was definitely before unreal and quake, it was the same pseudo-3d that DOOM used.

Ya it was coined in Doom apparently, though I haven't played Doom since it was new, and only briefly, and don't really remember much about it. I didn't get into shooters much until Tribes and "gibbed" was already popular by then, for some reason I was thinking Unreal was much older than it was and I knew the term was used a lot in Quake, but it makes sense id first used the term in Doom before going on to make Quake.