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Achievements are extra challenges added into video games that sometimes carry a point value or unlock bonus material, and are sometimes solely for bragging rights.
The act of a married person engaging in a sexual relationship with someone other than his or her own spouse. The adulterous relationship may or may not include feelings of true love.
There are good agents, like Elite Beat Agents and bad agents, like Agent Smith.
Winged, usually flying creatures, many of which enjoy perching on branches and defecating on unfortunate victims below.
Bison, also called Buffalo in America are large bovids with shaggy manes and short horns.
The most prestigious awards in the British videogame calender, the BAFTA Video Game Award honour the achievements of the best game developers and their games.
A sight placed on the HUD used to aim and provide a point of reference to the player when looking and interacting with the game world. Although they often aim weapons, they have a variety of uses and have appeared in many games in many different forms.
The concept of purchasing media and having it delivered over the internet. No physical representation of this content is given, and although the content resides on the user's hard drive they are typically granted a license to the product, rather than ownership of it.
Whether it's a section of a game, a mission prelude or just a scary premonition; dreams are a common occurrence within video games.
The usage of drugs by the protagonist or NPCs.
When the player's actions trigger a change in the game's soundtrack. This adds a cinematic quality to the gameplay.
The national investigative arm of the American government, the FBI (as commonly abbreviated) is tasked with upholding and enforcing the criminal laws of the United States, and to providing leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners.
This concept is for games where at least one of the main characters is female.
First-Person is a vantage point that attempts to simulate looking through a game character's eyes. It is most commonly found in first-person shooters, racing games, and visual novels, and to a lesser extent in other genres, such as RPGs, 3D platformers, and adventure games.
The First-Person Regain Consciousness is regularly seen in First-Person-Shooters.
Some first-person games that wish to immerse the player in the experience more will go as far as to include full body awareness, or the ability to see the player character's body when looking down.
A listing of games that have functional mirrors inside the game. An in-game mirror must display the character as they move in order to qualify.
A digital distribution platform that focuses on providing DRM-free computer games, both old and new.
Humans are bipedal, sapient primates capable of abstract reasoning, language, and emotions.
The action of inverting the controls for looking and aiming (i.e., instead of pushing up on the analog stick to look up, you push down.)
A game that utilizes a letterbox frame when it is already running in a widescreen resolution.
A stylistic choice of employing small polygon counts for meshes.
When an achievement is only attainable at a single point in a game, it is considered a missable achievement. If a player has missed such an achievement, then he must replay the entire game in order to get it.
Any game that does not have any written or spoken dialogue in it, regardless if it has characters or not. This includes any text or recorded dialogue that is spoken by a character or narrator, but not text such as "Press Start".
While most games feature achievements with gamerscore values in multiples of five, not all games do so.
Characters controlled by the game for players to interact with, as opposed to player characters which are controlled by whomever is playing the game.
A subscription service from EA for the PC. Similar to EA Access, users pay a monthly fee to gain access to a range of titles published with additional incentives.
Any character you can control in a game is a Player Character (PC), as opposed to a non-player character (NPC), which is a character that can only be controlled by the game.
Trophies are an incentive-based system for the completion of various objective in PS3, Vita, and PS4 titles.
Who needs 2D when we've got 3D? 3D, or 3 dimensions, is what we're used to seeing in almost every game these days, letting us do all sorts of awesome stuff like run in circles!
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