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Game » consists of 8 releases. Released Dec 21, 1998
Optional Censorship gives one the ability to remove or obscure content that is possibly offensive or objectionable.
Games that have had an Original Soundtrack album released.
A system in which the player is allowed to control multiple characters. Most commonly seen in role playing games. Can also be used to describe party systems in the MMORPG genre, which brings a group of players together to accomplish various tasks.
Combat that takes place in real time, but that can be paused to give commands to certain characters.
The tenth annual PAX East took place March 28-31, 2019 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center in Boston, Massachusetts. It was the second PAX East to span four days.
Pick Pocketing appears in many games as a way of obtaining information, items, or cash from people.
Games that used 3D polygonal renders of CGI characters/objects for it's sprites and graphics.
Many games allow you to add characters to your playable group upon fulfilling certain conditions. This is a central mechanic of many RPG franchises, including Fire Emblem and Suikoden. These can be NPCs or even enemy characters that the player persuades to join their cause, through sidequests or dialogue options.
How non-playable characters or factions perceive the player character based on their actions or choices in the game world.
Instead of having the loot spew out of the corpse it-self, this concept is based on having to interact with the corpse to obtain the loot.
Whether it's to restore your health, save your game, just for the hell of it, or all of the above, sleeping in games has numerous uses.
An aesthetic sub-genre of fantasy, focusing on brutal barbarians and arcane wizardly magic.
A young woman or girl who is charmingly naive or unsophisticated, and generally very innocent and pure-hearted. How long she lasts and how well she holds onto her innocence are generally good ways of gauging how dark or cynical a work is.
Many games that feature a theft mechanic also include a some form of risk or punishment. Other games just let players steal things as if it's a perfectly normal thing to do.
Unit Formations are pre-set ways of laying out a group(s) of units in strategy games.
Variable and dynamic simulation of weather conditions can be used to add variety, atmosphere (a rainy day in an RPG) and/or challenge (rain on the racetrack in a driving game) to a game.
A viewable map that displays the entire game world. The map also usually shows the player's location in the world.
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