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Battle system associated with Final Fantasy series. First introduced in Final Fantasy IV.
Necromancers are spell casters who specializes in conjuring and controlling the undead.
An atmospheric phenomenon that causes a fantastic natural light display.
A lawyer is someone who can practice law and can be a representative in a court case, usually representing the plaintiff or the defense.
A practitioner of alchemy; the brewing and making of substances with unusual properties.
Projectiles that once fired can be retrieved again, either from the corpse of victims or, more likely, from the environment around it.
Magic or divination involving the dead and departed. One that practices necromancy is generally referred to as a necromancer.
Species of large yellow birds used as transportation in the Final Fantasy series. Chocobos have also starred in their own games.
A term for a humanoid creature with animalistic features which can comprehend everything from slightly feral humans to savage monsters with trace amounts of anthropomorphism.
Spawned from Nanotechnology research and Micro Electro Mechanical Systems technology, nanomachines are mainly centered around Medicine and Biology. "Nanomachine" is the term for nanite machines that use the nanometer (one-billionth of a meter) to measure it's size.
Ubisoft's proprietary engine based on a heavily modified CryEngine. Developed by Ubisoft Montreal.
Killing Two people in a certain amount of time. generally a close time frame. Found in many games but most commonly fps games. Often referred to as Sage-Killing (similair to Sage-Camping) after the player Sage320 who used to play Gunbound and receive many double kills.
Games that feature two teams; one red, one blue.
Items that prove innocence or guilt.
There's a lot of special ops to be done out there. If they aren't in a city or a desert, most likely they're in a jungle.
A future Internet that can do anything from spanning across the universe to being accessed by one's mind. Future internet is anything that can exceed current internet capabilities.
Iconic blaster fodder which appear in any good Star Wars game, having origins with the Republic's Clone troopers. Come in a wide number of different variants.
Toyota has its cars featured in racing games.
This concept is featured in games that have a character wearing a helmet or mask with a skull graphic or picture on it, or else a helmet styled to resemble a skull. This does not pertain to characters who actually have skulls for heads.
Mustaches are often found on the evil villain of cartoons to let the audience know just how evil they are, or used in parody of them.
An event in a video game in which the screen is split up into multiple frames to give the player better overview of everything that's going on.
Games often use letters like X and Z in the title to make their game seem more edgy, blatantly misspelling the title of their game in the process.
Wii games with downloadable content that you have to pay for.
An advanced movement mechanic in fighting games which allows quick and relatively safe grounded movement by either sliding due to momentum from a movement option from the air (like an Air Dodge) or cancelling dashes by crouching.
An iconic Dark Side Force power made famous by Emperor Palpatine that entails generating blasts of lightning from one's fingertips.
Games that prominently employ fictional clothing brands into the game world. Some games utilize such as a gameplay element.
Named after the truck chase scene in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, this is the action of reloading a shotgun with only one hand by flipping the gun while holding the lever.
The act of changing a section of a graphic to a low resolution (i.e. enlarging the pixels) in order to "blur" it. Commonly used to censor an image.
Some versus/multiplayer modes had fighting game elements in non-fighting games.
Various franchises release "versions" of the same game. These games are basically the same, but each one lacks something the other has.
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