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Despite his inexperience, the New Guy has saved the world more times than any veteran.
Given that Hell totally sucks, it's not surprising that Demons are semi-constantly trying to get from there to Earth.
A gameplay plot twist in the form of revealing non-human monsters to battle after fighting more realistic human enemies for the majority of the game.
In some video games one is allowed to scale a fence.
Violence doesn't solve everything - in these games you have the option to arrest perpetrators instead of killing them outright. Often a bonus is attached to taking suspects in alive.
Games which procedurally generate levels or other content based on music tracks, whether they're directly off of CDs or digital files.
The ability to remove the game disc and replace it with a music disc without ever disrupting the active game.
The CP System is a family of arcade system hardware manufactured by Capcom for their arcade games from 1988 to 1999, including the Street Fighter II and Street Fighter III games.
If there's more than two rounds, there's always a final round.
As games become bigger and more technically advanced, games increasingly require users to go through a small initial install before playing.
Adaptation refers to the development of a trait that better enables an individual to thrive in a given environment. In video games, the word is often used to explain radical physiological transformations in characters or the environment.
A type of gameplay where the main goal is to eat or collect a certain amount of stuff. At the same time, enemies will try to eat the player character.
The eighth annual Game Developers Choice Awards celebrated the best games of 2007.
RenderWare is an API and graphics rendering engine made by Criterion Games.
One of the two main factions of the MMOG, APB. These bad guys are the counter part to Enforcers.
Games set in, or focused primarily around, the years between 1970 and 1979.
Water that defies gravity by being suspended in the air.
It's never a good sign when blood begins falling from the sky like rain.
Content already complete and on the disc excluded from the initial game, normally so an "unlock key" can be sold to purchase the content later.
A monetization structure common to mobile games where purchasable in-game currency is spent in exchange for randomized digital rewards, often in the form of collectible characters.
Going barefoot is to go without the assistance of any type of footwear including shoes, boots, socks, wraps, etc.
A common type of bug where players can leave the intended confines of the game world or map. Exploited in many multiplayer games for easy kills.
Games with support for the Wii Motion Plus peripheral.
Tennis is a sport that involves making a ball hit your opponent's side of the court by hitting it with a racket.
Sometimes a character will come up on your HUD to tell you an important piece of information. This usually consists of voice acting, occasionally Full Motion Video, and is pretty useful when you need to learn about things like doing barrel rolls.
Found in games with point-totals in which a single point is added to the tally each time a continue is used.
A familiar design choice for video game consoles in the 1970s.
Rappies are birds who have been featured as enemies in Sega's Phantasy Star games. Because they appear in both the original turn-based games, as well as the newer online titles, they act as a mascot for the series as a whole.
A race of genetically-modified beings who have strong innate photon abilities who appear in the Phantasy Star Online and Phantasy Star Universe series.
The race of androids in the Phantasy Star Online and Phantasy Star Universe series.
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