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Over time, it's common for publishers to stop supporting the online components of old or unpopular games. In addition to saving money, this also serves to boost sales of newer games in the same series or genre.
Sometimes you want a challenge, sometimes you wanna coast.
The concept of purchasing media and having it delivered over the internet. No physical representation of this content is given, and although the content resides on the user's hard drive they are typically granted a license to the product, rather than ownership of it.
Killing Two people in a certain amount of time. generally a close time frame. Found in many games but most commonly fps games. Often referred to as Sage-Killing (similair to Sage-Camping) after the player Sage320 who used to play Gunbound and receive many double kills.
Downloadable Content adds new features and content to already-distributed video games via the Internet. Examples include new maps for FPS games, new songs for rhythm games, and new cars for racing games.
In the Halo series, flying insect creatures who fight alongside the Covenant.
The concept of using two weapons at once, often for more damage at the cost of accuracy, the use of a shield, grenades, or other similar accessories.
An Easter Egg is an intentionally hidden cheat or hidden content in a video game, also known as a "secret".
An enemy that uses a spell or a skill to multiply and add another enemy to fight
A feature where enemies shout out the name of a person the player just killed, with the intent to humanize the opponents.
When the player's actions cause enemies to say specific lines of dialog, such as "He's here!" or "Who turned out the lights?"
A creative way to prevent the player from accessing a certain area, or from leaving the map by swimming or running too far.
A level/mission/chapter that shares a name with the game itself.
Everything you need isn't always spelled out for you on the map. Sometimes even the map is not there till you go explore it.
Either through a concealing helmet, keeping the whole game in first person, or using clever camera work, the player character is kept faceless throughout an entire game.
See? The exploiting, soulless people who run the video game industry DO care about their fans!
The last boss you face in a game, usually representing the final climax of the game.
In games, fire can be an obstacle, a tool, a weapon, or a solution. Just don't play with it...unless you really want to.
First Person Editing occurs when a player can edit the world geometry from a first-person point of view. A game which features First Person Editing as a core mechanic could be termed a First Person Editor, or FPE. Earliest examples of FPEs are Avoyd and Cube, followed by Infiniminer, Minecraft and many voxel games. The world editing properties should extend to the entire game environment, and optionally to avatars. A good test to identify an FPE is if players can write in-game by carving or building.
The Fleet of Retribution is a Covenant Separatist naval battle group commanded by Ship Master Rtas 'Vadum
Forge is a mode in Halo 3, Halo: Reach, and Halo 4, which allows players to alter their favorite multiplayer maps and easily share them with friends and the Halo community.
It takes four head shots from a Battle Rifle, featured in Halo 2 and 3, to kill an opposing player with full shields, or three body shots, followed up with one to the head. Nailing all of them is known as a Four Shot.
FreeLC is free downloadable content. It is a sub-category of DLC which encompasses only free downloadable content.
Women in Refrigerators (or "Fridging" for short) is an unfortunately popular plot device in storytelling where female characters are killed off or brutally harmed for the sole purpose of having an impact on a male character. The term was coined by comic book writer Gail Simone.
Full Body Awareness in games allows players to see their character's body, particularly legs, during gameplay, enhancing immersion. This feature includes visible limbs, realistic movements, and environmental interactions, all tied to player input, including cutscenes.
The concept of a game referencing another game through mockery, parody or even directly. A game reference to the same franchise does not count.
October 16th, 2013.
An in-house engine created and used by Bungie to develop the Halo games.
Havok Physics (Havok) is a physics API developed by Irish company Havok and released in 2000. It is used in video games as a physics engine, allowing for realistic interactions between in-game entities.
HD Remaster is a term to a single game that has been updated to conform with the HD standards on that console.
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