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Characters who speak Hiberno-English.
These games feature a world map largely comprised of islands and other landmasses separated by vast bodies of water that must be crossed on ship.
The 1998 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) took place at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia on May 28-30.
The inclusion of a feature that recaps either recent plot events or the events of the entire plot of a game in a reviewable log of some form. It can serve as a useful tool for those that need a reminder on earlier story events or the current objective.
QSound is a recording/mixing process used in many audio recordings based on a processing algorithm and used to make sound appear to be in 3D whilst using only 2 speakers.
Taunts that may cause damage to people or property.
A hub for quests.
First appearing in Final Fantasy XII, the ADB system is a cross between the ATB (Active Time Battle) system used in offline Final Fantasy games and the RTB (Real-Time Battle) system used in the online Final Fantasy XI.
A grassroots movement organized in 2011 to campaign for the North American release of three Wii titles thought to remain as Japanese/European exclusives.
A Stance may grant player characters access to unique abilities and attributes.
Sometimes a character will come up on your HUD to tell you an important piece of information. This usually consists of voice acting, occasionally Full Motion Video, and is pretty useful when you need to learn about things like doing barrel rolls.
Sometimes there are robotic characters that are programmed to think they are humans or have forgotten they are robots. Other times robots are meant to blend in with humans while knowing that they are robots. Either way they are eventually revealed to be robots as a dramatic plot twist.
Affinity is a gameplay concept centered around social links in the Xenoblade games. Completing quests affects the bonds between characters, regions and the player characters.
The Nopon are a friendly race of merchants in Xenoblade Chronicles.
By and large, a hick is an uncultivated person living rurally. Hicks are known to shoot at livestock-abducting aliens, produce moonshine, and marry their cousins.
Text profiles that summarize a character's history and their role in a story. Often paired with concept or CG art.
Taking an established control scheme and changing it, often to the games detriment, in order to fit a game on a console.
A physics simulation or manual animation of a character's stomach
A style of play in multiplayer gaming with the purpose of annoying, irritating and angering other players.
The player must restore color to a monochromatic game world by overcoming certain tasks or enemies.
Some cooperative games let the players pick up and toss each other around. Sometimes this serves a purpose, like killing an enemy or leap over a gap but most of the time it just serves as an aspiration to great assholery.
Also known as Othello, this strategic board game uses round pieces with a different color on either side. When pieces of one color form a straight line between two pieces of the other color, the middle pieces are flipped over.
Only 7 to 10 percent of the worlds population is left handed.
Why is my Wii Remote speaking to me?
Reindeer are a type of deer that live in extreme cold climates.
Characters that harbor their past even though it may be revealed later. They are commonly uncovered in a number of video games.
"Dear Diary, this entry is addressed to myself, given that soon I will likely suffer a bump to the head, drink a mysterious substance, be attacked by a psychic, or do one of many other things that can cause me to forget about what it is I'm writing right now."
Rings that your character can fly through. Usually used for mini missions and extra playtime (filling)
An implementation of lore that is meant to flesh out the game world, without becoming a hindrance to the overall pacing of the game itself.
Camels are often used as transport in order to easily traverse sandy environments.
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