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Everyone else can keel over as much as necessary, but if the party leader falls, it's game over. Sometimes this makes logical sense, like with perma-death battle systems. But more often then not the main character is one Phoenix Down away from a game over.
Players compete against the clock to secure the fastest time possible. This is often added to racing games for extra replay value and typically requires a higher degree of skill.
Traffic courses are racetracks in which drivers have to race each other whilst avoiding oncoming traffic. Most commonly associated with illegal street racing.
Games that have art on the inside of the game case, to double the decoration.
The annual European games convention held in Cologne, Germany. It took place on the 18-22 of August.
The Spike Video Game Awards recognized the best games of 2010.
The ability to change the color of a character's clothing/armor or even a vehicle's paint with or without the use of an in-game item to do so.
An increasingly popular feature in games that notifies you of how well your friends are doing compared to your own progress.
Autolog is a social feature in Electronic Arts' racing games that actively challenges players based on their own friends' performance in the same game.
A banker is the owner, operator, and/or teller at a bank.
Released games which have versions or DLCs that became lost media. Sometimes the entire game became lost.
Chipmunk Physics is a 2D physics library created by Howling Moon Software.
Graphic Filters are removable filters that change the look of the graphics in a game. They can range from making a game look like an old film, to smoothing the pixellated graphics of an old game.
This is an in-game time dilation effect brought about when the player is about to collide with a deadly obstacle. The slowdown allows the player time to recover from the situation.
The player never really dies, but is revived or respawned with little to no penalty.
The hunter is a popular class archetype. The usually travel light and excell best at range combat with either guns or bows. Often pets are associated with hunters as they are known to tame wild beasts.
Treants (Ents) are walking, talking trees. Typically they move and speak extremely slowly relative to most other creatures.
A familiar design choice for video game consoles in the 1970s.
Written words that are used to describe sounds, sometimes used in comic book—inspired games, like XIII.
Games that contain levels/missions/chapters where the player starts off in immediate danger.
An API feature built in to Steam that allows developers to support and customize multiple controller types on any device using Steam.
A game that has holiday themes was either initially designed as a game for a holiday, or one that has holiday elements in a level, or as an additional unlockable feature, either through the use of the system clock, or an additional download.
The Female Red Bird is the female counterpart to Red Bird.
Many games and most systems contain warnings such as "May Cause Seizures". This page will highlight that warning, and the games which have had a history health problems associated with them.
Games that numerically track the player's progress towards completion of a specific goal, single level, or the entire game.
Sony's game streaming service for PS4 and PC.
A Secret area is a place hidden that few will find unless they know where to look.
When the player's actions trigger a change in the game's soundtrack. This adds a cinematic quality to the gameplay.
Be it an “unopenable” door, a sprawling fence, a sudden outcropping of land, an ocean, a cliff (often a deadly ocean/cliff combo,) a broken-down car, an “invisible wall,” or large trees; barriers in video games manifest themselves in a variety of forms (physical and otherwise).
When a normal jump isn't enough and when a double jump just wont cut it, there is the triple jump. Just like a normal jump and a double jump, with the extra third jump in the end. Few games utilize this, and the more common double jump is often instead.
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