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The use of everyday objects as weapons of destruction, often combination.
A status of decreased cognition caused by a substance such as alcohol.
Sometimes, players experience an unfortunate event that results in all their weapons and items being taken away from them.
The ability for the player to become unseen, from basic camouflage to fully vanishing from sight.
The maximum capacity for leveling up something in-game (usually a character).
An umbrella term for any sexual orientation or gender identity that is not straight.
Limb Targeting is the ability to target specific limbs on the body with the object being either to disable the limb or kill the target faster. It may also be referred to as the "Limb System" or "Localized Damage".
Sometimes, a key just won't cut it. When you really need to get through a locked door or open a sealed chest, you need a certified master of unlocking, complete with a lock-pick.
Elite force of the Brotherhood of Steel. The Vault 101 Dweller is invited to join before the assault on Project Purity.
This concept is for games in which at least one of the main characters is male.
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!
Moral dilemmas presented to the player that often have a significant effect on the story or other characters.
Multiple endings is a term used to describe different outcomes or conclusions to a game based on the previous actions of the player.
Sometimes we will go a whole game without knowing the true name of a protagonist. Oftentimes, this is remedied by unique references being made towards the protagonist, such as "The Wanderer," "The Kid," or "The Man With no Name."
Radioactive particles in the air released by a nuclear explosion.
The complete or near-annihilation of life on the planet Earth by the means of nuclear weaponry.
Pick Pocketing appears in many games as a way of obtaining information, items, or cash from people.
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.
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.
A physics system used to procedurally generate body movement similar to rag dolls.
Whether you've done some bad things in the past, or inadvertently helped open up a portal that unleashed an army of aliens that would destroy the world, video game heroes have countlessly fought for that one loftiest of goals, redemption.
How non-playable characters or factions perceive the player character based on their actions or choices in the game world.
Retcon, as it is more commonly known, is a change in an existing storyline to accommodate future games in the same fiction.
Two or more factions, either with the same or completely different goals, that constantly try to one-up each other. The player is sometimes forced to pick a side to root or work for during the struggle. Other times the rivalry is only mentioned in the plot.
Romance in video games can either be interactive, in which the player attempts to woo another character, or an unchangeable part of the story of a given game.
Many games feature a story which involves saving the world and its inhabitants, often single handedly.
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.
An intimate physical activity between two or more individuals.
The SPECIAL System was created by Black Isle Studios, for their 1997 role-playing game: Fallout. It is heavily based on the GURPS System (Generic Universal Role-playing System), which they weren't allowed to use in Fallout.
The Great War is the name given to the nuclear war that devastated the planet in the Fallout universe.
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