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Many males, and some females, experience pattern baldness, a gradual loss of hair.
When the player's actions cause enemies to say specific lines of dialog, such as "He's here!" or "Who turned out the lights?"
Lock On is a game mechanic that allows the player to automatically center the character's aim on a target, usually done with a toggle or a press of a button.
Whether with a button press or menu, taunts destroy friendships and can even make the computer go crazy.
Decapitation is the removal of the head of a person or animal.
A lead character who never says a word, despite being spoken to.
Electricity is commonly used as a damage-introducing element causing inanimate objects to become harmful (electrified water, floors, cables, etc). It can also refer to a power wielded by characters that generates sparks, is conductive to metal surfaces, forks or branches, and is often blue in color.
Immersing the player using sound directed from 5 speakers and a sub-woofer, surround sound is the way of choice to hear game audio.
When a character from an existing media franchise makes a brief appearance in a video game, sometimes without even openly acknowledging their origins.
Darkness is used in games to restrict access, increase tension, or just to set a mood. Often the player has access to a light source that can mitigate its effect.
Ranking Systems tally the player's current progress and relative skill, by tracking raw numbers of multiple statistics (like score and time) during a session of gameplay. This results in a competitive meta-game where the goal is usually to reach the top position.
It's all in the family.
A feature on Xbox Series consoles that allows backwards compatible games to run at a higher framerate than on the original consoles.
Games that let you choose the path you take through the story-line.
The most prestigious awards in the British videogame calender, the BAFTA Video Game Award honour the achievements of the best game developers and their games.
The ability to stop or reduce the damage from an oncoming attack.
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.
This is a concept in fighting or other action games of attacking an enemy in order to keep the enemy in the air, unable to fight back. This is also a tactic in tower defense games of keeping the enemy on the battlefield longer by manipulating towers.
Wii and Wii U games that can be played using the Classic Controller (Pro).
Games that feature characters whose hair movement is governed by a physics engine.
Sure, these days have almost every game sporting the newfangled 3D, but way back when, everyone had to live with plain old 2D. 2D, or two dimensions, limit the game to scrolling backgrounds, but some games even now make use of this basic concept.
The ability of a player to interact with items or geometry in the game world, whether for story or gameplay reasons or simply for immersion.
An numeral indication of how much damage a character can sustain. The loss of all hit points results in the death of the character or another penalty.
See? The exploiting, soulless people who run the video game industry DO care about their fans!
An Easter Egg is an intentionally hidden cheat or hidden content in a video game, also known as a "secret".
Some television shows are ripe for interactive adaptations. Like Grey's Anatomy, or The Young Ones.
Whether it be cigarettes, cigars or pipes, tobacco or otherwise, everyone knows that smoking is bad for you - and that it makes you look undeniably cool.
In some action oriented videogames, the player is able to launch enemies into the air, and can sometimes proceed with follow-up attacks.
Video games that are based on comic books, manga and graphic novels.
Video game controversy revolves mostly around the psychological effects that games with graphic violence or sexual content in them can have on players. Other sources of controversy can range from racism, sexism, politics, or religion.
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