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The strategy of demonstrating how awesome something is by putting the word "super" in its title. Incredibly popular among developers making games for the Super Nintendo, which itself counts as an example.
Foxes are wolf-like mammals, many having red fur. They are thought of as tricksters, underdogs, or for women, if you're foxy, then you're sexy.
The cutscenes are nothing but the pages of a comic book. Audio is usually dubbed over to give them a little more life.
A character that appears in many games, often unrelated. For an example, Cid from the Final Fantasy series.
A variation on the comic cutscene, motion comic is used as a more streamlined narrative medium reaching an effective balance between static comic panels and full blown CG.
A personality archetype with a name that arose from Japanese Otaku fandom. It describes women with friendly, kind exteriors that deep down inside are actually rather cruel or possessive.
The word "voxel" is a portmanteau of "volumetric" and "pixel" (which in turn is a portmanteau of "picture" and "element"). Essentially a three-dimensional cube, they are used to build objects in a virtual space, especially terrain.
Games which have nothing to do with each other, but have the same title.
Distinct from a battle between good and evil, the struggle between the natures of order and chaos carries greater complexity in which neither side is purely right or wrong.
Games where players can choose to talk their way out fighting, which is often an option in RPGs.
The second annual PAX East took place at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center in Boston, Massachusetts on March 11-13, 2011.
The 2006 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California on May 10-12.
Werewolves are humans that can shapeshift into wolves or wolf-like creatures. They often have strength and senses that surpasses those of both humans and wolves.
When the player, compared to the adversary he/she is supposed to defeat, looks like a tiny inchworm.
New Purchase Incentives is a business strategy established by publishers to encourage consumers to buy games new. It is also primarily used as a means of profiting from used game sales where they otherwise could not.
Insects of the order Diptera, Flies (sing. Fly) are common household pests. The Housefly is considered one of the most widely distributed insects.
Also called Diablo-esque or Dungeon Crawler ARPGs, this sub-genre was very popular in the 2000s and 2010s and spawned many successful franchises. Usually played from an isometric perspective focused on dungeon exploration, killing hordes of enemies, complex loot systems and creating different character builds.
A blob consisting of some icky substance, the slime monster is one of the most used RPG monster clichés besides rats.
Orcs/Orks/Orques are a fictional race of tough humanlike creatures, often with green or black skin, originally coming from the Saxon word for the Normans during the invasion, meaning demon or foreigner.
A recurring type of B.O.W. (Bio-Organic Weapon) that is fought throughout the Resident Evil franchise.
When a developer creates a game that could be perceived as a new instalment in an existing franchise that they've worked on before, but doesn't share the same name due to licensing issues or other reasons, it's called a spiritual successor.
Games that feature characters that are known for a highly distinctive and unusual manner of speech.
A sacrifice is the act of offering something (item, health, creature, blood, etc.) to a higher power or a greater good. In games, this often guarantees some sort of favor in return.
A character working for an agency or organization who is, in reality, working in secret against the organization for a rival agency.
Cutscenes involving real actors on a set or in front of a chroma key screen.
Crows are familiar over much of the world: large, intelligent, all-black birds with hoarse, cawing voices.
Popularized by the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time trilogy, wall running is a concept employed in platforming games. The move is often executed when needing to traverse a gap with only a wall in place. Also includes running straight up walls.
Puzzles where light beams must be manipulated in certain ways, usually with a series of mirrors. Popular in action-adventure games.
You were pretty cool, once. Rich. Powerful. Royalty, even. But that's done with now, because it says "Chapter One" instead of "Prologue" in the mission order.
Clouds that, for some reason, can be stood on without falling through.
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