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When the main protagonist is thrusted into a foreign dimension or alien world, usually due to a freak accident. The protagonist must then explore that world while trying to find a way back home.
Sometimes, you just got to scratch that itch.
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!
Some games just weren't meant to be.
Limited editions of games that include extra "perks" like Making of DVDs and a nice and shiny tin with extra box art
Crawling is a form of locomotion in which a person lies down and uses the hands and knees to move around, or by dragging the body along the ground.
Dialogue trees are a feature through which the player selects responses from a list of choices, eliciting reactions from NPCs and determining the path of the conversation and story.
Games that fit this category involve characters that can traverse different dimensions.
These prehistoric behemoths cause chaos amongst many. Unfortunately, they are extinct.
A fictional language and/or script created exclusively for the world in which a game is set, such as Tolkien's Elvish or the language of the Talan in Outcast.
In games, fire can be an obstacle, a tool, a weapon, or a solution. Just don't play with it...unless you really want to.
Cold-blooded aquatic animals that have scales and breathe through gills.
The floppy disk is a symbol for saving data that originated back when floppies were still the dominant format for computer games, but has persisted long after the technology became obsolete.
Footprints are visible marks left behind by a character walking.
Since 1998, an independent group of about forty worldwide media outlets who determine the best games of the Electronic Entertainment Expo.
A digital distribution platform that focuses on providing DRM-free computer games, both old and new.
Any object that holds health, ammo, equipment, money, etc. The container must be opened or destroyed in order to procure the items within.
It's arguably the one move that symbolizes the medium to those outside it. The ability to jump, be it onto a building, a platform, or a skull, is one of the all time most important abilities ever put in a video game.
Krakit are a type of giant spider. They make a very distinct sound allowing you to hear them from afar, and they attack by spewing acid.
When the title of the game does not appear immediately at the beginning of the game, but rather after the first mission or prologue.
A Light Gun controller is used on some arcade games and very few console games. You point it at the screen, pull the trigger, and people die.
The extraction of valuable minerals from the earth.
Animals that can be ridden by players to get around faster.
A science that focuses on atomic and molecular scales.
Special ops branch of the US Navy and former or current employer of many game characters.
Characters controlled by the game for players to interact with, as opposed to player characters which are controlled by whomever is playing the game.
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.
Non-linear level design where the player is able to freely traverse the game world and choose where and when to visit certain areas in the game.
Various effects using "particles" (billboard/sprite planes or full models).
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.
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