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Information on the time honored tradition of killing rats. Killing rats is a much cliched first quest for many western RPGs.
A heavily armored soldier in the service of a lord or cause. Typically a champion of good and a defender of the innocent.
A middleware AI engine used in a variety of games. Was bought out by Autodesk and became obsolete sometime after 2011.
NPCs, enemies, loot, and/or quests change according to the level or stats of the player's character.
Collecting objects in a game such as weapons, armor, items, and currency. Loot is often associated with RPG games and MMOs with RPG elements.
The concept of affecting the universe through supernatural methods, breaking the fundamental laws of science.
From Beat-em-ups to fighting games to modern FPS, one dude hitting another has made an enjoyable pastime.
Mythological creatures with the body of the human and the head of a bull. They are often found in video game dungeons, waiting for foolhardy players to stumble upon their lairs. Sometimes they're mindlessly violent, other times they're oddly peaceful and in tune with the world around them.
Animals that can be ridden by players to get around faster.
Many games such as Shin Megami Tensei, God of War, or Too Human base their story off of or utilize elements from the order of the cosmos as perceived by humans both ancient and modern.
Want to make your character grow how YOU want? These games let you develop whatever skills you want at any time, in any order.
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.
Optional Censorship gives one the ability to remove or obscure content that is possibly offensive or objectionable.
Some games include pets you can either ride on, battle with, or simply enjoy spending time with.
PhysX is a realtime physics engine middleware originally developed by Ageia and now maintained by nVidia. It is the only currently available physics engine that supports hardware acceleration.
Developers can't seem to resist filling video game graveyards with interactive tombstones full of witty sayings and inside jokes, particularly in fantasy RPGs.
Radial Menus are menus that appear in a circular pattern to display the options the player has.
Random Loot is a popular concept for dungeon crawler and MMO style games. In essence, monsters or objects drop something that is considered valuable to the player with random qualities.
Video game combat in which combat actions are performed in real-time, rather than through a turn-based structure.
Characters that are designed to be scantily-clad.
A rune is normally an ancient letter or symbol, often carved into a stone or gem, infused with mystical power. In many games they confer new abilities on a character, or add effects to an item.
Scaleform is a software development kit used to integrate Flash based user interfaces with game engines.
Some gear comes in sets of matching pieces. While each piece has its own benefits, the set comes with additional bonuses when all are worn together.
SpeedTree is a software toolkit that generates realistic forests on the fly.
An eight legged arachnid. Some make webs to catch prey and some are poisonous. None have made a web grand enough to be called a parlor, though.
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.
An aesthetic sub-genre of fantasy, focusing on brutal barbarians and arcane wizardly magic.
The Undead is an umbrella term describing creatures that do not exhibit the key fundamental attributes that are associated with life, such as respiration, and blood circulation. They are divided into two main categories: Ethereal and Corporeal, depending on whether or not they have a body.
Items found in video games that serve little or no use to the player, other than to be sold to NPC vendors for money.
Wolves are mammals closely related to dogs and are known for howling in moonlit forests and hunting in packs to pester players in numerous RPG games.
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