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The single most important thing in the world, love is a powerful story telling element that can connect characters or drive a story. There are many video game characters who have fallen in love with someone or something.
They may be good or evil, but mad scientists are always performing experiments that are on the outer fringes of science. Ever since Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, they've been in the scene.
Games that feature an antagonist--someone who opposes the game's protagonist--that is a man.
This concept is for games in which at least one of the main characters is male.
Martial arts are a popular set of skills that many video game characters possess. Martial arts are the cornerstone of any fighting game, and have influenced many platforming and adventure games.
These are often a departure from the conventional gameplay of a game. There have also been compilations; games including only minigames. The Mario Party series has a lot of minigames, too!
Characters that transport themselves via missiles.
Some action-oriented games make use of motion capture technology to make character's movements realistic.
Capcom's proprietary engine developed for PC, Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii.
A Multi-Phase Boss is a boss that undergoes a significant and instantaneous change in abilities, attack speed, and/or attack pattern during the fight. These bosses do not fully regain health between forms and appearance changes are usually minimal, if at all.
Sometimes one playable character just isn't enough.
Music in a game that can hurt enemies and/or the player. Note that causing damage with a musical instrument via physical means, such as by bashing an enemy over the head with a guitar, does not apply.
Start doesn't mean "A". Start means "start", son. Kids these days...
A device by which a character's motivations or expectations are influenced by a suspiciously absent family member.
The offspring of an angel and a human.
A mode that allows a game to be replayed after a first completion, carrying over items, experience, weapons, and other elements from the first playthrough.
No HUD games are ones that either lack a Heads Up Display, or find a way to integrate it into the game environment. Many games do this to add a sense of immersion or artistic quality to their games, or to reduce screen clutter.
In some games, the differences between the difficulty settings are more significant than tweaked health, damage and currency. This could be new or changed enemies, boss battles, mechanics or items
Games in which, instead of playing on "Easy" or "Hard", players play on "Marine" or "Way of the Samurai".
Characters that are initially portrayed as evil, but eventually turn out to be good or not as serious of a threat. This also includes villains who remain evil the entire game, but contain some sense of moral goodness or ambiguity.
Nudity is qualified as either exposed buttocks, breasts, or genitalia or general lack of clothing. Video game nudity is largely a rarity outside of the PC market.
In many games such as Devil May Cry and God of War, Orbs, or "Souls", if you will, spawn out of the enemies you destroy and provide you with either sweet life or power. Many times these "Orbs" can also be used as a currency of sorts to upgrade.
Games that have had an Original Soundtrack album released.
The odd way characters move in games developed (though not exclusively) in Japan.
Many games and stories involve a character usually the main protagonist having to kill their fathers. This device is used most frequently in RPGs
The third annual PAX East took place from April 6-8, 2012 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center in Boston, Massachusetts.
The ninth annual PAX Prime took place between August 31-September 2, 2012 at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, Washington.
Bonuses that players can equip to their characters to give special abilities or buffs. They are often progressively unlocked by earning experience points.
Third-party developers and publishers occasionally engage in the practice of releasing a title or piece of DLC on only one platform for any number of reasons. Sometimes these are permanent while others are only platform exclusive for a certain window of time.
When a character that the player fights as a boss is playable elsewhere.
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