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Corpses disappear immediately or after a short delay. Often done to help maintain game performance, especially when physics are involved.
Water vaporization usually represented in video games as a particle effect.
Tank controls refers to a movement style in third person games where the character, not the camera, is used as the point of reference when choosing which control moves them in a given direction.
These ideas stick to the one or very few gameplay mechanics or appear very barren but usually try to invoke an emotion from the player.
An optical effect formed by beams of light contrasting against areas of shadow in the atmosphere. They are often simulated in video games through volumetric lighting.
A game streaming service.
A person who herds cattle on ranches. Cowboys are emblematic of the early 19th century in the American southwest, and became conflated with gunslinger types in the public imagination.
An alluring female who uses her charms to seduce men with intention of using them to further her own intentions.
Game titles that pose a rhetorical question to the player. Occasionally, these titles are accompanied with an exclamation point to form an interrobang.
The act of repairing damaged items or weapons.
Games set in, or focused primarily around, the years between 1930 and 1939.
Who loves you and who do you love?
Sporting events that are set in the future. These sports are often extremely violent and may feature robots, mechs, or cybernetic implants.
In real life, vehicles rarely explode unless an actual explosive device is involved. Like, it almost never happens. In video games, on the other hand, cars will blow up real good with almost no encouragement.
Zoom Platform, or the Zoom Web Store, is a digital distribution service selling DRM free classic games, updated to work on modern computers. The store was launched on September 9, 2014.
Fog plays an important role in many games. In games like Silent Hill, it's an atmospheric element. In other games, it's artificially added to reduce draw distances to save memory and increase framerate.
When the routine mission goes horribly wrong, and all your so-called "experienced" teammates bite the dust. You, the rookie, survive of course.
The deliberate animation of breasts, meant to titillate as a means to conform to more realistic physics.
Also known as wushu, Kung Fu is a family of martial arts developed in China.
‘S-Rank’ is a term used in games, most commonly awarded at the end of stages with graded missions or side objectives.
Games that want you to press A to start.
Sometimes a game is so great that the developer has to go back after the game's release to add achievements.
Karate is an umbrella term for a wide range of martial arts originating in pre-Japanese Okinawa.
A Dream Match is a game (usually a fighting game) that combines many different characters from various eras of a series, including those who have died or retired, or from alternate continuities. They are almost always non-canon events.
An upgrade, in video games, is a practice in which a new release of a game built on the same engine with the same mechanics is produced, but does not completely qualify for a sequel. However, the content difference is significant enough that it is not considered a re-release, either.
"The gentle way", a martial art focused on grapples and throws.
Whether a character never ages or is invincible, immortality represents the inability to die. Sometimes this is a blessing, sometimes it is a curse. Either way it usually makes for an interesting game mechanic.
Mythical Creature with the face of a man, the body of a lion, sometimes with wings and a tail that can shoot spikes. Other times it has a snake for a tail or a scorpions tail.
The lowest of all the angelic orders, angels are tasked with delivering God's messages to humans in addition to being personal guardians. Angel has also become a generic term for any such kind of heavenly being.
Mythical/Magical creature that has magic power. When a Phoenix dies it burns up into ashes and another rises in its place.
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