Mister Mosquito
Blight Club
Game Mess Mornings 05/22/24
GrubbSnax
841: Fair Use Brad Garrett
Giant Bombcast
GB@Nite LIVE! Tickets & Details
The Not-E3 2024 Time Zone Chart
The Community Spotlight 2024.05.18
The Community Spotlight 2024.05.11
The Community Spotlight 2024.05.04
Game » consists of 2 releases. Released Aug 06, 1995
Video game combat in which combat actions are performed in real-time, rather than through a turn-based structure.
Many games feature a story which involves saving the world and its inhabitants, often single handedly.
No point in gathering coins, gold, gil, money, or whatever if you can't buy anything with it.
Quests that aren't necessary for game completion. They typically offer side-stories or specific rewards.
A lead character who never says a word, despite being spoken to.
Enemies who at first appear to be statues, until they surprise the player by moving.
An aesthetic sub-genre of fantasy, focusing on brutal barbarians and arcane wizardly magic.
It's the designer's go-to guy. If they want to steer a player in a given direction they'll lock an in game door and force the player to find a way to either unlock it or find an alternate route.
A game perspective that views the action from above, commonly at a fixed position and/or rotation.
The Undead is an umbrella term describing creatures that do not exhibit the key fundamental attributes that are associated with life, such as respiration, and blood circulation. They are divided into two main categories: Ethereal and Corporeal, depending on whether or not they have a body.
A malevolent character whose goals are evil in nature. While villains are commonly featured as antagonists, not all antagonists are necessarily villains.
These are games that begin with the player waking up. More often than not this occurs in RPGS, but is certainly not exclusive to the genre.
This is a place of special vulnerability. Particularly used in boss fights or when simply fighting Giant Enemy Crabs that cannot be defeated by usual means.
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.
A viewable map that displays the entire game world. The map also usually shows the player's location in the world.
Player characters that are infants, children, or adolescents.
The Zora are a water-dwelling race from the Legend of Zelda series. First appearing as enemies, they were shown to be friendly towards Link in later games.
This edit will also create new pages on Giant Bomb for:
Until you earn 1000 points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Giant Bomb users. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll send you an email once approved.
Use your keyboard!
Log in to comment
Log in to comment