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Enemy in Doom games, also known as Former Commando or Chaingunner.
These are less powerful versions of Barons of Hell. They have half as much HP and are more common.
All dogs go to heaven? Nobody told these.
Humans are bipedal, sapient primates capable of abstract reasoning, language, and emotions.
A page dedicated to the graphics engine that has powered games such as Doom 3, Quake 4 and Wolfenstein.
Imps are either fairy-like or lesser demonic creatures and are commonly encountered enemies in games. In Doom, they shoot fireballs at the player.
Incubi are demons who have sexual intercourse with women as they sleep. The female equivalent to an incubus is the more well-known succubus.
Items that are generated by a permutation of characteristics. By using a permutation, a great number of items are generated by adjusting a small number of variables. Each variable increases the total item count exponentially.
A ghost or cryptid in Japanese folkore that takes on the appearance of a fuzzy (usually white) ball. Appears frequently in the Castlevania games, where it is known as "Fuzz Buster" in the western versions.
A common type of stage based around the fire and/or lava element. Often platforming heavy and inhabited by fire-based enemies.
The Los Angeles Lakers are a professional basketball team that competes in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the NBA. They currently have 16 NBA Championships, the second most in the league, 32 Conference titles, the most in the league, and 23 Division titles. Notable Lakers include Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Wilt Chamberlain, Shaquille O'Neal, and Kobe Bryant.
Lost Souls are annoying enemies in the Doom series that float around and charge at the player.
A corpulent demon capable of firing copious fireballs from its colossal arm cannons.
Mythological creatures with the body of the human and the head of a bull. They are often found in video game dungeons, waiting for foolhardy players to stumble upon their lairs. Sometimes they're mindlessly violent, other times they're oddly peaceful and in tune with the world around them.
Misanthropy is the hatred and fear of human beings and humanity in general.
When monsters in a game can turn on each other after an accidental injury and fight to the death instead of focusing on the player, or when some of the player's enemies also hate each other, and will attack each other on sight.
People that make games are crazy, that's been evident since the 70s. Like a lot of crazy people they look at too much H.R Giger and realize that the human body is a truly disturbing thing.
A circumstance in video games where the player will defeat large numbers of enemies without any assistance from AI or other players. This may occur for part of a game or the entirety of it.
A title only given to the most evil and corrupted of rulers.
These are found in Doom II. They are similar to Cacodemons, except they shoot Lost Souls instead of ball lightning at the player. They are sometimes called Cacodads.
The graphical engine developed by People Can Fly for their Painkiller games
A higher ranking demon in the doom series. It's considered a "Sergeant" demon.
Many games feature the concept of alternate dimensions. These can include the Physical, Astral, Elemental, and Ethereal among others depending on the theology. RPG's sometimes utilize these planes as the realms of gods.
A portal is a hole in reality connected to another hole in reality, whether magical or scientific in nature, that allows a person to instantly travel incredibly vast distances simply by walking through one.
A group of powerful demons that control the Burning Hells. Diablo, Mephisto, and Baal make up the Prime Evils
Prinnies are a fictional race of peguin-like creatures in Nippon Ichi's Disgaea turn based strategy RPGs. They aren't especially bright, have a tendency to explode, and universally refer to everyone as "dood".
This multiplayer game type has become a multiplayer mode of choice amongst hardcore fans of rhythm games. Two players play a song on the same difficulty in a battle for score supremacy.
Pyromania is a mental disorder in which someone starts fires and receives pleasure from doing so. Pyromaniacs do not start fires for any monetary gain and they often like to watch the fire burn and its aftermath.
A gathering of people who believe in the same higher power(s), and follow the rules laid out by the mortals chosen to be their prophets. Video games generally try to shy away from negatively portraying real religions to avoid controversy, however they make ample use of fictional in-game religions.
The player never really dies, but is revived or respawned with little to no penalty.
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