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Achievements are extra challenges added into video games that sometimes carry a point value or unlock bonus material, and are sometimes solely for bragging rights.
Some television shows are ripe for interactive adaptations. Like Grey's Anatomy, or The Young Ones.
An often used plot device where the main character wakes up and has lost all their memories. The game usually centers around getting your memory back or uncovering the events that lead to your confusion.
Characters that have an Australian accent.
Dating back 5,000 years, this game of skill and chance has featured in many video games.
Be it an “unopenable” door, a sprawling fence, a sudden outcropping of land, an ocean, a cliff (often a deadly ocean/cliff combo,) a broken-down car, an “invisible wall,” or large trees; barriers in video games manifest themselves in a variety of forms (physical and otherwise).
Bats are small, very social flying mammals. They may frequent caves or haunted houses.
A proprietary video codec (.bik/bk2 extension) developed by RAD Game Tools and used in a very large number of video games.
A character who gets washed ashore on some island or other remote place.
Sometimes, rather than building a character model from scratch, a developer will sometimes use a real person as a template and use his or her physical attributes to create a similar character model to be used in their video game. In some cases that real reason will appear as themselves in games.
Video games that pick up the story where a movie, book or comic left off.
Games involving any form of vehicular crash landing or emergency landing.
A non-interactive sequence within a game most often used for plot advancement.
Games that have been removed from sale from various digital store fronts.
Digital distribution method for PC games. Direct2Drive is maintained and owned by Gamefly Digital Inc.
Scarring over the eye. Used by game developers to make a character appear more rugged and 'badass'.
An industry game design convention that's appeared in many games over the years. The fetch quest involves sending the player out to collect a certain number of items, and return them to complete the quest. A staple of the RPG and Adventure game genre.
Flashbacks take a player into a flashback sequence. Often playable, but not always.
Games based on TV shows, which includes live-action and cartoons.
Sometimes, players experience an unfortunate event that results in all their weapons and items being taken away from them.
These games are based off of established licenses, such as movies, comics, or TV shows. Examples are the James Bond 007 and Spider-Man franchises.
Two or more characters are featured on the game's box art.
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.
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!
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.
Games that used to be available on Steam, but have since been removed.
Games on Xbox Live that are no longer available for purchase on the Xbox Games Store.
Game mechanics traditionally found in role-playing games that are incorporated into a non-RPG title.
These games are designed to be played by one person, and one person only.
A digital distribution service owned by Valve Corporation. Originally created to distribute Valve's own games, Steam has since become the de facto standard for digital distribution of PC games.
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