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Cooperative play in games allows humans to play together as a team to accomplish a task. Instead of playing against a human opponent, the team must defeat an AI. Cooperative Play in some games also means 2 human versus 2 human, this occurs in some Billiards games. (Scotch Doubles / Doubles)
Mainly featured in MMOs, a corpse run is when a the player character dies and the player has to return to the location of the death in order to come back to life and/or reclaim items.
The ultimate pressure feature. Players have to complete the task at hand, be it defeating opponents or cutting the right wire, in the allotted time.
Cows are four-legged ruminant mammals, bred for milk, meat, or leather.
Crabs in all forms and sizes, not just the giant enemy variety.
Crafting allows players to create their own items with the correct ingredients. It is used mainly in MMOs and RPGs.
Create-A modes allows the player to create the skate park of their dreams, their own action hero, or the next champion of wrestling.
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.
An attack that does more damage than usual, usually affected by random chance and some sort of modifier.
An order of large reptiles that encompases the Alligator, Gharial, Caiman and Crocodile families. While dangerous on land, they're pure killing machines in the wet element.
A system allowing players on different gaming platforms to play together.
Crowd control is the art of whittling down large groups of attacking enemies via the constant reassessment of the greatest threat to the player; achieved by constant player movement, and adjusting the aim to the closest threat, then quickly moving on to the next greatest threat, and so forth.
Currency has all forms in video games. It is used to buy characters, vehicles, weapons, and more.
The ability to customize your user interface, through third-party addons or otherwise, primarily in the MMO genre.
Some games let players customize their character (or characters). Degree of customization may vary, with some games simply allowing to choose between different types of clothes, while others provide more detailed tinkering of features such as the distance between a character's eyes or hair color.
A non-interactive sequence within a game most often used for plot advancement.
A specific number that briefly floats above an enemy after an attack which displays the exact amount of damage the attack has done.
DoT effects are most commonly found in Role Playing Games, and it describes the effects of a gameplay mechanic (often a magic spell) that causes incremental damage over a period of time such as a fire spell leaving someone to continually burn.
DPS stands for Damage per Second and represents the average damage a character can cause each second . This is often used in MMORPGs so people can determine how much damage they cause. DPS can also refer to a character or character type that specializes in high DPS
An effect that deals damage to anything that attacks or touches the character.
Dancing is the movement of a body, usually rhythmic and to some kind of music. A lot of times, it happens between two people and may be romantic.
A distinct place within the gameworld that is widely feared by the NPC population, either because of some recent cataclysmic event or because of the bad reputation the place has gotten over time. NPCs will often refuse to enter said area.
Elves who have often been corrupted in some manner, changing their skin tone and leaving them with a predisposition towards evil. Sometimes called "Drow".
Environments cycle between day and night, often with effects on other aspects of the game.
The main line of distinction between victory or failure in video games, death is the process of a biological being ceasing to be alive.
A fallen knightly champion (often a Paladin) who has returned as an undead. Not to be confused with Black Knight (though a character can certainly be both). Most commonly seen in High Fantasy roleplaying settings like Dungeons and Dragons and WarCraft.
A concept common in MMORPGs, a debuff weakens a foes abilities or stats making combat easier.
The concept of decay is best known in video games when an item or a being is of a degrading quality. When the item is degrading, players or the game itself refer to this matter as decay.
A ruminant mammal with antlers and hooves of the family Cervidae.
An objective where players have to ward off enemies for a set duration.
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