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Achievements are extra challenges added into video games that sometimes carry a point value or unlock bonus material, and are sometimes solely for bragging rights.
Items placed oh so close by, yet require traversing half the map and finding secret entrances to find
A chicken is a small, domesticated flightless bird that can be white, yellow, brown or black. A female is a hen, a male a rooster, and a baby a chick.
Contextualized Player Death is when a game includes the player's death in its fiction instead of just treating it as a thing that didn't happen. Mario, for example, doesn't canonically die when the player jumps in a pit, but Destiny's Guardians die and are resurrected constantly, as a core aspect of their identity.
Game titles that make a statement of fact or opinion.
The ability to dodge an attack, making the player untouchable for a brief period.
The twenty-fourth Electronic Entertainment Expo was held June 12-14, 2018 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California.
The feudal period of Japanese history, which was dominated by powerful regional families holding large areas of land (daimyo) and military warlords (shogun), between 1185 and 1603 AD.
Finishing moves are typically moves that end a fight in a traditional fighting game.
Killing the enemy a little more stylishly
A certain amount of frames (or time) where the player cannot be damaged, usually after taking an action such as dodging or rolling
This concept is for games in which at least one of the main characters is male.
When weaponry consumes a player's currency, typically in place of expending regular ammunition.
Some action-oriented games make use of motion capture technology to make character's movements realistic.
Legendary, stealthy assassins from Japan's feudal era, who are well-trained in the art of the sword, and who may or may not have access to magical powers.
Parrying is a specialized block mechanic, often with a tight input window, which prevents the player from taking damage. While some games allow this through a timed directional input towards the opponent, other games tie this to deliberate block inputs as a "Perfect Guard".
A physics system used to procedurally generate body movement similar to rag dolls.
A riposte is a counter-attack immediately following a successful parry.
Samurai, or Bushi (literally, "warriors") were a social class in feudal Japan, equivalent to Western aristocracy, knights.
A sub-genre of Action RPGs named after Fromsoftware's Demons Souls and Dark Souls series. Games focused on grounded Stamina-based combat with methodical dodges few enemies at time, losing souls/items/progress upon death, and important save/checkpoint system.
Using stealth often requires the player to accomplish their objective without being detected by enemies. Methods of detection can vary from game to game, and can be based on an enemy's line of sight, how quiet the player is, or even how the player interacts with the environment.
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.
Not to be confused with just any metal case, SteelBook is a brand of metal packaging for disc-based media.
A beam of light or energy emanating from a swung sword
An unkempt patch of tall grass high enough to completely hide the player from view while acting stealthy
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.
A mod is a user-created patch that alters any part of a game, or adds new content to it. At the extreme, "total conversion" mods can change the game so much that an entirely new experience is created.
Games in which specific enhancements are made when played on an Xbox One X.
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