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A transitional move in 3rd person action games when the character squeezes through a narrow passageway and the camera follows over their shoulder.
Non-linear level design where the player is able to freely traverse the game world and choose where and when to visit certain areas in the game.
A system in which the player is allowed to control multiple characters. Most commonly seen in role playing games. Can also be used to describe party systems in the MMORPG genre, which brings a group of players together to accomplish various tasks.
The sixteenth annual PAX West took place August 30-September 2, 2019 at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, Washington.
Third-party developers and publishers occasionally engage in the practice of releasing a title or piece of DLC on only one platform for any number of reasons. Sometimes these are permanent while others are only platform exclusive for a certain window of time.
PlayStation Plus is a premium PlayStation Network subscription service.
Trophies are an incentive-based system for the completion of various objective in PS3, Vita, and PS4 titles.
Downloadable Content that is only obtainable through outside promotions (i.e. not from game retailers or pre-order bonuses).
Video game combat in which combat actions are performed in real-time, rather than through a turn-based structure.
A broad spectrum of games can be described as remakes, from straightforward graphical overhauls to extensive revision of gameplay and story elements. In the most basic sense, a remake keeps the original's core gameplay and plot but makes significant changes to peripheral aspects.
These are scripted sequences in a game where the player is running toward the screen, sometimes while being chased.
Many games feature a story which involves saving the world and its inhabitants, often single handedly.
Male characters who are depicted in an overtly sexual manner.
A hairstyle, sans hair.
Shinra is a ruthless mega-corporation who harvest Mako, the life force of the planet Gaia, and transforms it into electricity to power the city of Midgar and its surrounding area. Famous for the Jenova Project which resulted in the creation of Sephiroth.
Quests that aren't necessary for game completion. They typically offer side-stories or specific rewards.
A gameplay mechanic in many RPGs and action RPGs today is the idea of silencing a foe or being silenced. Usually shown as a debuff, this causes the subject to be unable to cast spells for a period of time.
When a character grabs a ladder and slides down it instead of climbing down.
The phenomenon of time, or at least a character's perception of it, moving more slowly. Bullet time is an enhanced version of slow-mo.
Activating certain menus like weapon selection slow down gameplay but do not fully pause, incentivizing the player to hurry up their choice
SpeedTree is a software toolkit that generates realistic forests on the fly.
A digital distribution service owned by Valve Corporation. Originally created to distribute Valve's own games, Steam has since become the de facto standard for digital distribution of PC games.
Valve's counterpart to Microsoft's popular achievement system.
Steam Cloud is a built in feature in some Steam games, it synchronizes game saves, settings and other data to the internet for access from any computer that has Steam installed.
Games officially verified by Valve to be fully playable on Steam Deck.
Steam Trading Cards is a built in feature in the Steam client. It lets users collect cards from certain games and trade them and receive rewards for complete sets.
Summoning involves bringing a distant ally into battle to either perform a single, devastating attack or to fight on the behalf of the summoner.
An aesthetic sub-genre of fantasy, focusing on brutal barbarians and arcane wizardly magic.
The Turks are an elite organization that perform covert operations for the Shinra Electric Power Company that first appear in Final Fantasy VII.
The annual Tokyo Game Show expo returns for 2019.
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