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When the title of the game does not appear immediately at the beginning of the game, but rather after the first mission or prologue.
Games that incorporate licensed music from popular bands and musicians for their soundtracks.
A stylistic choice of employing small polygon counts for meshes.
A meter measured much like HP that depletes when you use magic, and depending on the game, regenerates over time or can only be regenerated through rest or potions. Mana is usually displayed as a blue bar beneath it's red counterpart, the HP bar.
The ability to influence and control the thoughts of others.
CD or DVD based games that are shipped in a single package with 2 or more discs due to limited storage capacity.
Several different game types like driving, shooting, and platforming in one cohesive game. Compilation releases don't count.
Murder is the act of ending the life of another living thing against its will without the sanction of a higher governmental authority, such as the casualties that result from acts of war. It is generally intentional, at least in a legal meaning, but not necessarily.
A music video is a film that comes with a song. It can be a combination of the music artists performing and/or actors playing scenes and/or other elements. Many games come with a music video related to the game.
Nomads are people with no permanent settlement.
Characters controlled by the game for players to interact with, as opposed to player characters which are controlled by whomever is playing the game.
Nudity is qualified as either exposed buttocks, breasts, or genitalia or general lack of clothing. Video game nudity is largely a rarity outside of the PC market.
Police are paid protectors who enforce the law through legal use of force. They are supposed to help ensure public safety and social order. Their motto is to protect and to serve.
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!
Puzzles may need to be solved before the player can progress to the next section of the game. Often it may not be clear to players exactly what the puzzle is, or whether the an in-game items needs to be attained before it is even possible to solve it.
The concept of being reborn as someone or something else following one's own demise.
If a person is made of metal and has circuitry instead of a circulatory system, then their game belongs on this list.
Romance in video games can either be interactive, in which the player attempts to woo another character, or an unchangeable part of the story of a given game.
Special locations in game that allow the player to manually save their progress.
No point in gathering coins, gold, gil, money, or whatever if you can't buy anything with it.
Souls are the spiritual essence of living things.
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.
NPCs that populate strip club locations in games and often perform exotic dancing routines.
Tank controls refers to a movement style in third person games where the character, not the camera, is used as the point of reference when choosing which control moves them in a given direction.
The player character is seen at a distance from a number of different possible perspective angles. There is generally a movable camera but it can also be in a fixed position. It most commonly refers to a viewpoint behind the player character.
A game mode that allows you to train for combos, moves, etc.
Cutscenes that cannot be interrupted or bypassed through player interaction.
When you gotta go, you gotta go. Urination is found in games for a number of reasons, including comic relief and a quick pathway to sobriety.
Some video games feature characters that play video games themselves, with the player sometimes taking control of the character playing the game-within-a-game. This also includes game characters who explicitly mention that they play video games.
Voice Acting is the art of providing voices for characters in games, television shows, films, radio programs, and other forms of media.
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