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Archers are marksman that practice the arts of archery. Archers specialize in picking enemies off from a distance one by one. using bows and arrows to deliver precise shots to unsuspecting opponents. it's a class base or a unit for a strategy game, archers are lightly armored and have less hitponits. but has moderate speed, longer range and highest damage of them all.
Assassins are people who are tasked with the action of violence against peoples, though their general aims are to be discreet and as minimally violent as possible in order to remain discreet if necessary.
A multiplayer mode that pits a large number of players (typically 100) in a winner-takes-all, last-person-standing battle as they scavenge and fight for survival. These games typically take place in a shrinking play zone.
In Norse literature, berserkers are described as intense warriors who fought in a wild and uncontrollable fury. Many game have based characters or classes on the concept of these rage-driven warriors.
Character Creation refers to characters created by players themselves, rather than developers.
The act of preparing food by applying heat, often cooking in games produces items which yield some kind of benefit towards your character.
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.
Farming is the act of growing plants and raising animals for food.
A gaming genre of its own, but also frequently featured as a mini-game in other titles, especially RPGs.
Free to Play titles allow a user to play a version of the game without paying an initial purchase fee, but generally require the purchase of microtransactions to access additional content.
A guild is a group of people who are expert at a skill or task and have banded together for ease of employment. In games guilds take many forms, from massive societies of real people in MMOs, to simple places to level up and receive quests in most RPG's
A character class in Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard. Marksmen that employ different bullets and techniques to hurt their enemy, from the safety of the back line.
A parallel projection technique used in 2D sprite-based games to fake the appearance of 3D depth.
A heavily armored soldier in the service of a lord or cause. Typically a champion of good and a defender of the innocent.
Small payments made with actual money which result in an in-game bonus, such as an extra item, character, etc...
The extraction of valuable minerals from the earth.
Animals that can be ridden by players to get around faster.
The fifteenth PAX West took place August 31-September 3, 2018 at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, Washington.
Some games include pets you can either ride on, battle with, or simply enjoy spending time with.
These games include musical instruments where the player has the freedom to play a melody of their choosing.
In some games, total immersion is helped along by allowing players to purchase and customize their own housing.
Player versus Player, commonly abbreviated as PvP, is a gaming term that originated in MMOs to refer to gameplay in which players fight against other player controlled characters.
Who needs 2D when we've got 3D? 3D, or 3 dimensions, is what we're used to seeing in almost every game these days, letting us do all sorts of awesome stuff like run in circles!
A master of ceremonies who performs religious duties. A common character class in RPGs.
A playable class in many roleplaying games. Rogues are also sometimes known as Thieves. The class in almost all these games center around their stealth capabilities.
Slimes are a common "starter enemy" in RPGs, and serve as a mascot for the Dragon Quest series.
Smithing is a trade skill used to craft and shape metal. Steel, iron, gold, silver, pewter, tin, copper, and other metals can be used to craft armor, blades, guns, coins, arrowheads, locks, and a myriad of other objects.
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.
An art style prevalent in anime in which a character or other item is rendered in smaller proportions in order to make it small, cute, and cuddly.
Being learned scholars and masters of the arcane arts, wizards wield great power by manipulating magical energy for the forces of good and evil.
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