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A set of questions posed to the player, commonly at the beginning of a game, that may affect certain aspects of the game.
Whether it's taking pictures of things for points or as part of a journal, photography is playing an ever increasing role in many of today's video games.
Pick Pocketing appears in many games as a way of obtaining information, items, or cash from people.
While all games on PlayStation 3 (2009 onwards) and later consoles have trophies, only games deemed large enough get to have the coveted Platinum Trophy for earning every Trophy in the base game.
Any character you can control in a game is a Player Character (PC), as opposed to a non-player character (NPC), which is a character that can only be controlled by the game.
As well as the Presidential Suite at the Lucky 38 that is automatically awarded to the Courier for progressing the story the player can also get rooms across Nevada by becoming liked by the locals or winning big in a casino. The Lucky 38 Presidential Suite can also be upgraded with extra boxes for a small fee.
Trophies are an incentive-based system for the completion of various objective in PS3, Vita, and PS4 titles.
The point in an otherwise nonlinear game where the player can do little else but to progress. Such points are most commonly found just before endgame content.
Sometimes you make a choice in a game that blocks an achievement down the line. Not a story based choice (be a good guy or bad guy), something that you may do by accident.
Simulating the effects of a great variety of poisons, toxins, venoms and nerve agents can lead to many unique and interesting mechanics. A classic trope in games, Poison usually deals small amounts of damage to health over time.
Who needs 2D when we've got 3D? 3D, or 3 dimensions, is what we're used to seeing in almost every game these days, letting us do all sorts of awesome stuff like run in circles!
Referencing a TV show, celebrity, song, trend, historical event, etc. is one of the easiest ways to get a laugh. This can be either a throw-away gag, like the name of an achievement, or the main subject of the game.
A lack of basic needs like clothes, clean water, shelter, and food.
The Powder Gangers are a gang of escaped convicts that cause trouble for the towns of Primm and Goodsprings in the Mojave Wasteland. They are one of the first factions that The Courier encounters in the Mojave Wasteland.
Where a video game comes with something "exclusive" only when you Pre-Order it, sometimes from a specific location. This can be a piece of DLC or it can be something not in-game or even "exclusive" or early access to demo or beta.
Swearing, cursing, call it what you want. It is an expression of anger or frustration, in most cases.
A way of attempting to control a population via media.
A person who digs for gold or other valuable minerals.
A man or woman working the world's oldest profession. He/she might provide you a cutscene, health, or be a background NPC for an urban setting.
Prostitution is the exchange of money, drugs, favours, or other incentives for the performance of sexual acts.
In a game that presents multiple options of how to proceed, Pseudo Non-Linear is when all options must be completed in order to proceed further. In other words it gives you to illusion of choice but there will ultimately be a set path.
Puzzles may need to be solved before the player can progress to the next section of the game. Often it may not be clear to players exactly what the puzzle is, or whether the an in-game items needs to be attained before it is even possible to solve it.
Quest tracking is a common theme in RPGs and open-world adventure games, whereby the game monitors, records, and occasionally directs the player as to his next mission.
QuickLoad allows the player to rapidly load their progress in a video game, generally is most seen in computer games.
Quicksave allows the player to save their progress in record time at the push of a button. It is more commonly found in PC games than in console games.
A weighty real-world issue that some games comment on, often through allegory. Unfortunately, other games can offend players in their depiction of different ethnicities, whether intentionally or not, thus becoming part of the issue themselves.
Radial Menus are menus that appear in a circular pattern to display the options the player has.
Bethesda's proprietary AI system that provides NPCs with procedurally generated scripts to complete their tasks in-game.
Radiation is energy in the form of waves or moving subatomic particles emitted by an atom or other body. Radiation in videogames is typically represented as a field, inside of which units will take damage.
Radroaches are very weak enemies that appear in the Fallout series.
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