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Though a somewhat less common archetype than black knights, red-armored knights still show up now and again in Fantasy works and elsewhere. Like Black Knights, they are often (though not always), portrayed as malevolent.
The act of killing a monarch. Generally characters involved are portrayed as traitors or revolutionaries.
A riposte is a counter-attack immediately following a successful parry.
Romance in video games can either be interactive, in which the player attempts to woo another character, or an unchangeable part of the story of a given game.
Games that have an open gameplay structure that allow players to interact with the world as they choose.
Instead of having the loot spew out of the corpse it-self, this concept is based on having to interact with the corpse to obtain the loot.
A sequel (also called a follow-up) is a game that carries forward the gameplay concepts, and often the story, of a previous game to which it is officially linked.
An intimate physical activity between two or more individuals.
Quests that aren't necessary for game completion. They typically offer side-stories or specific rewards.
A 3D optimization middleware.
These games are designed to be played by one person, and one person only.
A set of skills and abilities displayed in a branching path. Skills in the tree open up after completing required prerequisites.
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.
SpeedTree is a software toolkit that generates realistic forests on the fly.
Any practitioner of magic (wizard, sorcerer, mage, necromancer, etc.) who casts spells. Even unlearned scholars can throw a mean magic missile every now and then.
Valve's counterpart to Microsoft's popular achievement system.
Games officially verified by Valve to be fully playable on Steam Deck.
Steam Trading Cards is a built in feature in the Steam client. It lets users collect cards from certain games and trade them and receive rewards for complete sets.
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The player character is seen at a distance from a number of different possible perspective angles. There is generally a movable camera but it can also be in a fixed position. It most commonly refers to a viewpoint behind the player character.
Unexpectedly changing from one character to another during the plot.
A mod is a user-created patch that alters any part of a game, or adds new content to it. At the extreme, "total conversion" mods can change the game so much that an entirely new experience is created.
Variable and dynamic simulation of weather conditions can be used to add variety, atmosphere (a rainy day in an RPG) and/or challenge (rain on the racetrack in a driving game) to a game.
Professional monster slayers given advanced strength and reflexes through mutation. Believed to be devoid of emotion.
A subscription service from Microsoft on Xbox platforms and Windows 10. Described as "Netflix for video games", users pay a monthly fee to gain access to a range of titles or buy to own them at a discount price.
Games in which specific enhancements are made when played on an Xbox One X.
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