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A person who captures or kills fugitives for money.
In the Fallout series a bunch of Brahman made their way to the United States before the bombs fell. Afterwards they mutated and gained an extra head and four more stomachs.
Games that let you choose the path you take through the story-line.
In video games, breaking the fourth wall occurs when a game becomes aware of its nature as a game, or when a character directly acknowledges the player.
This shows you how long you have until you start wishing you had gills. When your breath runs out, you may take damage, or you may expire right there, depending on how sadistic the game designers were!
A bribe is the act of offering money or gifts to a person to gain influence or alter a decision.
An organization consisting entirely of ghouls and one human. Their goal is to partake on the Great Journey that will free them from the bigotry of humans.
Sometimes when accepting a quest or mission of killing someone a request is made for evidence that the target (or targets) is dead in the form of the objectives head being brought back to the quest giver.
A military organization who see themselves as the technological saviors of The Wasteland. They are the descendants of the scientists and soldiers who managed to take refuge during the Great War, the conflict that caused the world to descend into an apocalyptic wasteland.
In Fallout 3, the Brotherhood Outcasts are former Brotherhood of Steel members who have left the organization after an irreconcilable disagreement with chapter leader Elder Lyons.
A Concept mostly in MMORPGs. A Buff allows the player to increase their stats for a short period of time.
Bullet time is a gameplay mechanic that allows players to slow down time. Depending on the game itself, the player often slows down along with the world around them, however occasionally the player can simply move at normal speed while the game world continues to slow.
Enemies that arrive at the surface from underground. Often this is used as a method of taking the player by surprise.
A butler is a domestic servant who is in charge of meal service and wines, and oversees all other servants in the household. However, in modern times the word is often used to describe any male servant wearing a suit.
Caesar's Legion is an organization of slavers found within the Fallout universe
When characters largely go by code names or call signs to protect their identities during their missions. They are also adopted for conveniences sake.
A page for the Camera Following Projectile concept of when the player fires a projectile (bullet, arrow, cannon ball), time slows down and the camera will follow the projectile to its target (can be controllable with sixaxis such as in Heavenly Sword).
Often used as a catch-all term for any game's main story-driven mode of play, campaign mode usually refers to a linear sequence of levels with a continuous story and a definite conclusion, playable single-player and sometimes co-operatively.
Some games just weren't meant to be.
Cannibalism occurs when a creature eats the flesh of a member of its own species. Cannibalism is frowned upon in organized societies, and has made several appearances in video games as listed below.
A capital city is the center of trade, commerce, and government for a nation. Capital cities can be found in many strategy games.
Caravan is a card game in Fallout: New Vegas.
There's nothing cooler than planting a bomb, turning the camera around, and walking away nonchalantly as it blows up behind you. As everyone knows, true heroes don't look at explosions.
Cazadores are insect creatures found in the Mojave Wasteland during Fallout: New Vegas and its DLC Honest Hearts and Old World Blues.
Videogames with extreme or controversial content will often be altered for release in certain countries, usually to comply with local laws or prevent cultural misunderstandings.
A creature in the Fallout universe that is made up of a random mix of certain species mutated with the Forced Evolutionary Virus.
Somehow, one of the characters has changed their race.
Whether it's a hero's turn to the dark side or a villain becoming a hero, it's usually unexpected and will bring a whole new moral dimension to the story. Sometimes, they change they sides more than once.
Character Creation refers to characters created by players themselves, rather than developers.
When a character introduced in a previous game reappears with the same name, but a significantly different appearance. This is usually not mentioned or explained within the game, often because the storyline has been reset as well.
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